Health Systems | Human Systems
The Health and Human Systems concentration prepares engineers to improve the systems, processes, and environments that impact people.
Last Updated: 07/06/2026 | All information is accurate and still up-to-date
Health Systems
The Health Systems concentration prepares you for the growing demand for professionals in this field. You’ll ensure your organization has the resources for diverse healthcare needs.
With courses from top faculty in Engineering and Textiles, you’ll learn about data science in healthcare, stochastic models, and medical decision-making. This will give you a strong foundation in health systems from an engineering perspective.
By choosing the Master of Engineering Management with a Health Systems Concentration, you are selecting an exciting career path. You’ll have the opportunity to impact the lives of patients, families, and communities in meaningful ways. Your work will contribute to improving healthcare systems and enhancing the quality of care.
Human Systems
The Human Systems concentration targets professionals like you, ensuring organizations meet diverse human systems needs.
Top faculty from the Colleges of Engineering and Textiles teach the courses. You’ll learn about lean Six Sigma quality, biomechanics, and occupational safety. This focus builds a strong technical foundation in human systems.
Opting for the Master of Engineering Management with a Human Systems Concentration opens exciting career paths. You can work in industries like aviation, consumer products, healthcare, and cybersecurity.
By merging these concentration areas, you gain the skills needed to lead in industries that prioritize worker safety. This comprehensive training prepares you to tackle complex challenges. You’ll be ready to implement effective solutions and improve organizational performance.
Why Health and Human Systems?
This concentration is ideal for engineers who want to use engineering and management principles to improve systems that directly impact people.
Students learn how to:
- Improve healthcare systems and processes
- Use data to support decision-making
- Improve workplace safety
- Analyze human performance and biomechanics
- Identify and reduce operational risks
- Apply Lean Six Sigma and process improvement
- Solve complex systems problems
- Develop solutions that improve organizational performance
Career Outcomes
Graduates can apply the skills from this concentration to roles such as:
- Healthcare Operations Manager
- Health Systems Engineer
- Healthcare Data Analyst
- Process Improvement Manager
- Quality Improvement Specialist
- Safety Engineer
- Human Factors Engineer
- Operations Manager
- Engineering Project Manager
- Systems Engineer
Industries include:
- Healthcare and health systems
- Aviation
- Manufacturing
- Consumer products
- Technology
- Cybersecurity
- Government
- Consulting
Curriculum
| CONCENTRATION: Health and Human Systems | Credits |
|---|---|
| CORE Subtotal | 15 |
| Take four courses: | |
| EM/ISE 538 Practical Machine Learning for Engineering Analytics | 3 |
| ISE 511 Supply Chain Economics and Decision Making | 3 |
| ISE 520 Health Systems Performance Improvement I * * ISE 520 is a prerequisite for ISE 521 | 3 |
| ISE 525 Medical Decision Making | 3 |
| ISE 533 Service Systems Engineering | 3 |
| ISE 541 Occupational Safety Engineering | 3 |
| ISE 544 Occupational Biomechanics | 3 |
| ISE 547 Applications of Data Science in Healthcare | 3 |
| ISE 560 Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering | 3 |
| ISE 562 Simulation Modeling | 3 |
| TE 533 Lean Six Sigma Quality | 3 |
| Required: | |
| ISE 521 Health Systems Performance Improvement II * (or substitute practicum with approval) * ISE 520 is a prerequisite for ISE 521 | 3 |
What Does Health and Human Systems Engineering Look Like?
Students may work on projects involving:
- Improving healthcare processes
- Analyzing healthcare data
- Improving workplace safety
- Evaluating physical tasks
- Applying Lean Six Sigma to real-world problems
- Using simulation and data to make decisions
- Identifying ways to improve human performance
- Designing solutions around the needs of people and organizations
What You Will Learn
Health Systems
- Healthcare systems improvement
- Medical decision-making
- Healthcare data science
- Service systems
Human Systems
- Occupational safety
- Biomechanics
- Human performance
- Workplace systems
Data & Decision Making
- Machine learning
- Stochastic models
- Simulation
- Data-driven decision making
Process Improvement
- Lean Six Sigma
- Quality improvement
- Systems optimization
Who Should Choose This Concentration?
This concentration is ideal for engineers who want to:
- Improve healthcare systems
- Work with healthcare or human-centered data
- Improve workplace safety
- Apply engineering to problems involving people
- Work in healthcare, safety, or human factors
- Use data to improve organizational decisions
- Lead process improvement initiatives
- Combine technical engineering skills with management