Facilities of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS)
College of Engineering and Computer Science students use the local area network of over two hundred Pentium PCs and Unix computers as well as the large Sun workstation network and the computer-aided design laboratories. Students have remote access to selected computer facilities 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Additional laboratories used by students as part of their undergraduate CECS course work include the manufacturing process laboratory and the facilities design, human factors/ergonomics, materials testing, metrology, robotics, and rapid prototyping laboratories.

The facilities of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Laboratory Building include the computer vision, computer automation, and 3-D imaging laboratories; the manufacturing simulation center; and the computer-integrated manufacturing system. These labs are also used in appropriate upper-level classes and for research.

Faculty of the IMSE Department
The program is taught primarily by Ph.D. faculty dedicated to teaching and research. Some courses are taught by experts from local industry. The active research interests of the industrial and manufacturing systems engineering faculty include, integrated product design and ergonomics; intelligent manufacturing, simulation modeling; quality engineering;  information and health care systems.

Engineering students are eligible to participate in the College of Engineering and Computer Science's Cooperative Education Program. During co-op placements engineering juniors or seniors alternate semesters of full-time classes with semesters of full-time paid engineering work in a company or organization they have applied for. Co-op students gain valuable professional work experience in engineering before they graduate; they earn a salary and also establish contacts useful for later employment. Co-op students in industrial and systems engineering have found recent co-op placements in such companies as the Automobile Association of America, Brass Craft Manufacturing, EDS, Ford, Masco Corporation, St. John's Hospital, and United Parcel Service.