Graduate Programs & Certificates

Descriptions for Graduate Courses

Note: A few courses are not available to graduate students (IME 524, IME 554, IME 556, IME 565, IME 590, IME 625, IME 676, and IME 690). Depending on your major and concentration, you may be allowed to take limited number of courses from other departments too (subject to program policy and written approval from ISME graduate program coordinator and/or department chair).

Sample Syllabi

• IME 724 - Statistical Methods for Engineers
• IME 734 - Introduction to Data Mining and Analytics
• IME 754 - Reliability and Maintainability Engineering
• IME 780AL - Energy Analytics & Management
• IME 780AN - Big Data Analytics in Engineering
• IME 783 - Supply Chain Management
• IME 960F - Statistical Process Control

Levels of Admission (Full Standing, Conditional Status, and Probationary Status)

It is recommended to start looking for apartments and reserve your room well before your arrival (if possible).

Off-Campus Housing - On-Campus Housing

You can satisfy the IME 255 pre-requisite by one of the following:

• Pay a $75 fee, take an exit test, and pass with at least 80% points (topic details can be seen at IME 255 Engineering Economy).
  • Scheduled on the last Thursday/Friday before start of Fall and Spring semester or during the first two weeks of those semesters. Please check with me or ISME administrative assistant at least 2 weeks before the start of Fall or Spring semester to schedule quizouts. The fee must be paid at least one week prior to the exam date (exact cash - contact me or ISME administrative assistant for the payment and receipt).
  • Recommended textbook as study material: "Engineering Economy" by Leland Blank and Anthony Tarquin.
  • Recommended video material: Cosmo Learning  
• Take IME 255 course at WSU and pass with a “B” or better grade (3.000 or better GPA on a scale of 4.000).
• Take IME 255 equivalent course at one of the other institutions in the US that have already been evaluated by us and pass with a “B” or better grade (3.000 or better GPA on a scale of 4.000).

Basic Costs for Graduate Studies

Tuition and Fees

Tuition payment

• Students are required to pay the full semester tuition and fees before end of the second week of classes unless they have set-up a payment plan (requires an additional fee of $130). See payment plan details.
• Total tuition and fees with 9 credit hours of registration (including health insurance cost) is approximately $11,000 per semester for international students (as of Spring 2025).

• Global Select Scholarships (GSS) for eligible international students
  
  • Eligible international students are automatically awarded this scholarship and those students receive an email confirming the same.
  • If you were awarded the GSS (as of Fall 2024), you need to provide funding information for remaining ~$25,500 (compared to $30,800 for others). GSS value of ~$5,600 is based on an enrollment of a total of 18 credit hours (9 in Spring and 9 in Fall semester).
• Graduate assistantships
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) and Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) opportunities through our department are limited and competitive.
  • You may want to visit with individual professors after your arrival at WSU and discuss how you can add value to their research project. You may also contact them through email with your resume (and other documents as applicable). See a list of faculty members or view IME Faculty research interests
  • Other units (e.g. library, graduate school, and other administrative offices) may also have limited adminstrative graduate assistant (GA) positions. You are welcome to explore available positions by contacting them on your own (typically in-person once you are here on-campus). 
• Other work opportunities:
  • NIAR Careers 
  • International Office 
  • Graduate School
  • List of academic and non-academic units' on-campus jobs  (NOTE: Academic departments also recruit limited number of student graders but that decision is generally made right before the start of the semester.)
  • Tutoring centers and labs (e.g. Chemistry, Math, and Physics), library, dining hall, parking services, physical plant, residence halls, Rhatigan Student Center (RSC), Heskett Center, etc. 
  • Graduate School Financial Aid and Scholarships
  • Graduate School Assistantships (check for GSA on that page)

• Follow the link in Step #4 of our application process website, create your account, and complete application form with personal and academic details
• Submit and pay application fee
• Go back to your application portal and upload at least your transcripts from all college level degrees e.g. diploma, bachelor's, master's, PhD as applicable. You should upload transcripts for each semester (including repeated courses, if any) as well as consolidated, as applicable.
• Once you submit your transcripts, our department starts the review process and sends departmental recommendation to WSU Graduate School.
• WSU Graduate School will review departmental recommendation and other documents, and send our final decision through email. Please add wsugradschool@wichita.edu as trusted sender. If you are using Gmail, it may end up in your "Promotions" folder. 
• If you already uploaded all required documents (see below) and qualified for an admission, Graduate School will prepare your I-20 and send it to you via email address registered in the application portal.
• If you have not already submitted all the documents required for your admission (including official English proficiency scores meeting the minimum requirements, financial documents (e.g. bank statements/loan documents), and signed certificate of financial support), please do so as soon as possible. WSU cannot finalize your admission without these documents. Please note that our Graduate School issues I-20 forms as soon as possible. However, it may take 1-3 weeks for final review and issuance of your I-20 after all your documents are uploaded through the admission application portal (not through email) and receipt of final admission confirmation through the Graduate School. You can review the list of missing documents through your portal. Please wait for I-20 forms to be issued since requesting them to be expedited will not help it.

• Transcripts
• Copy of passport
• Copy of English Proficiency Test Score - IELTS/TOEFL/DUOLINGO/PTE (Details on the Graduate English Proficiency page 
• Certification of Financial Support (CFS)
  • Please note that the printed CFS form must be hand-signed by the person whose name is on the funding/bank document
  • If you were awarded the GSS (as of Fall 2024), you need to provide funding information for remaining ~$26,000 (compared to $32,000 for others). GSS value of ~$5,800 is based on an enrollment of a total of 18 credit hours (9 in Spring and 9 in Fall semester). Please list WSU and other sponsor (as applicable) to reflect your WSU funding on the CFS form (Certification of Financial Support).
  • If you are awarded GA, GRA, or GTA funding, you need to provide funding information for remaining amount (if any) communicated to you via email through the Graduate School. Please list WSU and other sponsor (as applicable) to reflect your WSU funding on the CFS form. 
• Financial Support Documents (see approved sources of funding below)

  • Checking Account

  • Savings Account

  • Money Market Account

  • Certificates of Deposit

  • Current Account

  • Fixed Term Deposits

  • Loan (Bank Letter must list maximum amount of loan)

  • Graduate Assistantship

• Degree Certificate
  Note: If you are yet to complete your degree (or completed it recently) and do not have your degree certificate, you can be admitted tentatively. Please inform the Graduate School accordingly by sending an email to wsugradschool@wichita.edu.

Pre-departure information (Though this link is intended for undergraduate students, it has useful information for graduate students too. You will also get an email with additional details for graduate students through Graduate School and/or WSU International Office.)

We create a WhatsApp group for each semester. Once you are admitted, you will be informed about the details. If you didn't get one, please send an email to deepak.gupta@wichita.edu with your myWSU ID and request the WhatsApp link.Whats App Group

If you have friends/relatives in or near places such as California, Colorado (Denver), Florida (e.g. Orlando and Miami), Illinois (Chicago),  Missouri or Kansas (Kansas City), New York, Texas (e.g. Dallas and Houston,) Washington (Seattle), or Washington-DC, you may be able to find a better/cheaper international flight to those locations and book a domestic flight after a day or two from your arrival date in the US. Similarly, you can explore other airports in your country that may have better options than your current location. You could use a travel agent in your home country and/or use websites such as Google flights, Kayak, and Skyscanner.

Airport pick-up (from Wichita, Kansas airport - airport code: ICT) and temporary accommodation

• You may want to connect with respective international student organization. They may be able to help you with airport pick-up from Wichita, Kansas airport (airport code: ICT) or arrange temporary accommodation.
• WSU's International Office can also help with airport pick-up from ICT

Once you have arrived at WSU, you must complete international student check-in and TB testing process (details are sent via email 1-2 months before start of the semester). You will then attend one of the advising meetings with ISME Graduate Coordinator to register in your classes and/or ask other questions related to your studies at WSU.

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Sample list of organizations that worked with ISME international students on Curricular Practical Training (CPT) between Summer 2024 and Spring 2024:

• Aerosapien Technologies LLC - Daytona Beach, Florida (Remote work from Wichita, KS)
• Bunting Magnetics Co - Newton, KS
• BG Products, Inc. - Wichita, KS
• Bombardier Aerospace - Wichita, KS
• CECO, Inc. - Wichita, KS
• Challenge Manufacturing Holdings - Kansas City, MO
• Etezazi Industries - Wichita, KS
• Fagron Sterile Services - Wichita, KS
• Great Plains Manufacturing - Salina, KS
• Greenfield Robotics - Cheney, KS
• Harlan Global Manufacturing, LLC - Kansas City, KS
• Johnson Controls Inc - Wichita, KS
• Kaleidoscope Innovation - Wichita, KS
• MASE Insights - Kinston, NC
• Memorial Hermann Health System - Houston, TX
• MSI Automation Inc. - Wichita, KS
• Nile Automotive Group TN LLC - Tracy City, TN
• Randstad - Wichita, KS
• Siri InfoSolutions Inc. - Wichita, KS 
• Staska Pharmaceuticals Inc., Bennet, NE
• Synerlution, Inc. - Wichita, KS
• Tesla - Sparks, NV
• Velocity Engineering LLC - Wichita, KS

Sample list of organizations where recent ISME graduates are working:

• Agco Corp.
• Airbus
• Allied
• Bobcat Company
• Bright Mind Enrichment & Schooling
• Buckley Industries
• Bunting Magnetics
• Cargill
• Centene Corporation
• CRST The Transportation Solution, Inc.
• Ergonomic Solutions, Inc.
• GE Aerospace
• Great Plains Industries, Inc.
• Heraeus Conamic North America
• Infosys
• JT Logistics
• King Khalid University
• Marion Tool & Die, Inc. dba Marion Manufacturing
• National Institute for Aviation Research
• PQE Group
• Savannah Tank and Equipment Corporation
• SGS - Saudi Ground Services
• Siemens Gamesa
• Spirit AeroSystems
• Target
• Tesla
• Textron Aviation
• The University of Texas at Dallas
• Tsinghua University
• Ultium Cells LLC
• Viega LLC

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• Business Analyst
• Continuous Improvement Engineer
• Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) Engineer
• Data Engineer
• Design Engineer
• Environmental Aerospace Test Engineer
• Global Supplier Quality- Advanced Product Quality Planning
• Incoming Quality Engineer
• Industrial Engineer
• Industrial Engineer - Technology Analyst
• Lead Industrial Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineer
• Manufacturing Process Engineer
• Mechanical Design Engineer - Interiors
• Operations Engineer
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Production Engineer
• Project Design Engineer
• Project Engineer
• Project Lead
• Project Manager
• Quality Engineer
• Quality Engineer / Lead Auditor
• Research Engineer
• Safety Quality and Security Representative
• Senior Flight Test Pilot 
• Senior Industrial Engineer
• Sr. Research Engineer | Team Supervisor
• Solutions Engineer
• Structural Analysis Engineer
• Utility Operations Leader