ORIE at Cornell University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ORIE coursework.

• ENGRD 2700Basic Engineering Probability and Statisticsopens 44 courses (12 directly)
• ORIE 3500Engineering Probability and Statistics IIopens 31 courses (23 directly)
• ORIE 3300Optimization Iopens 23 courses (20 directly)
• ORIE 3510Introduction to Engineering Stochastic Processes Iopens 13 courses (11 directly)
• ORIE 3310Optimization IIopens 9 courses (9 directly)
• ORIE 5300Optimization Iopens 6 courses (5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ORIE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 122 ORIE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 88 more ORIE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ORIE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ORIE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ORIE 5610

  1. MATH 2940Linear Algebra for Engineers
  2. ENGRD 2700Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
  3. ORIE 3500Engineering Probability and Statistics II
  4. ORIE 3510Introduction to Engineering Stochastic Processes I
  5. ORIE 5600Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus I
  6. ORIE 5610Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus II

• 6 courses deep, ending at ORIE 5640

  1. MATH 2940Linear Algebra for Engineers
  2. ENGRD 2700Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
  3. ORIE 3500Engineering Probability and Statistics II

• 5 courses deep, ending at ORIE 4742

  1. MATH 2940Linear Algebra for Engineers
  2. ENGRD 2700Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
  3. ORIE 3500Engineering Probability and Statistics II

• 4 courses deep, ending at ORIE 4390

  1. MATH 2210Linear Algebra
  2. ORIE 3300Optimization I
  3. ORIE 3310Optimization II

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ORIE sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Adrian Lewis
• Andrea Lodi
• Andreea MINCA
• Andrew Chin
• Brenda Dietrich
• Christina Yu
• David Schneider
• Dhagash Mehta
• Edward Tom
• Eric Gentsch
• Eric Wang
• Giuseppe Nuti
• Huseyin Topaloglu
• Jamol Pender
• Jessica Leeker
• Jim Dai
• John Richard Callister
• Kathryn Zhao
• Kyra Gan
• Linwei Xin
• Marcos Lopez De Prado
• Martin Wells
• Nikhil Garg
• Nikita Doikov
• Omar El Housni
• Paul Golz
• Peter Frazier
• Rafael Pass
• Shane Henderson
• Shoham Sabach
• Sid Banerjee
• Soroosh Shafiee
• Sreyoshi Das
• Victoria Averbukh
• Yuchen Wu
• Ziv Scully

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ORIE yet.

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Department events

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