IE at Northeastern 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 IE coursework.

• IE 3412Engineering Probability and Statisticsopens 12 courses (11 directly)
• MATH 3081Probability and Statisticsopens 11 courses (10 directly)
• IE 4515Operations Researchopens 6 courses (5 directly)
• IE 9990Dissertation Term 1opens 2 courses (1 directly)
• IE 5200Mathematics for Machine Learningopens 1 course (1 directly)
• IE 7275Data Mining in Engineeringopens 1 course (1 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 IE 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 58 IE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 32 more IE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 4 courses deep, ending at IE 7300

  1. MATH 1342Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering
  2. IE 3412Engineering Probability and Statistics
  3. IE 5200Mathematics for Machine Learning
  4. IE 7300Statistical Learning for Engineering

• 4 courses deep, ending at IE 9996

  1. IE 9000PhD Candidacy Achieved
  2. IE 9990Dissertation Term 1
  3. IE 9991Dissertation Term 2

• 3 courses deep, ending at IE 5400

  1. MATH 2341Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering
  2. IE 4515Operations Research
  3. IE 5400Healthcare Systems Modeling and Analysis

• 3 courses deep, ending at IE 7615

  1. CS 5800Algorithms
  2. IE 7275Data Mining in Engineering
  3. IE 7615Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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