Registration

How do I get on the waitlist for a class?
  1. Log into Buzzport
  2. On the Home tab, locate the “REGISTRATION AND STUDENT SERVICES “ channel
  3. Select the “Registration – OSCAR” link
  4. Select “Student Services & Financial Aid"
  5. Select “Registration”
  6. Select “Look Up Classes”
  7. Perform a search for the course in which you are interested
  8. Once the results are returned, you may identify course sections using waitlist by the “WL” columns
  9. Take note of the Course Registration Number (CRN)
  10. Select “Add to Worksheet”
  11. Enter the course section CRN and Submit Changes
  12. Review your changes before exiting

 

How do I get overloads for ISyE courses?

ISyE does not grant overload requests. Please use the Waitlist function for all ISyE courses that are full. This will enforce a first come first served priority scheme. Degree candidates are given priority on the waitlist system.

How do I get permits for Senior Design, Graduate Courses, ISYE 4803, or Major Restrictions?
  • Senior Design Permits
    • Senior Design permits will be issued at the beginning of Phase II Registration, after your pre-proposal has been approved by the senior design coordinator.
    • No permits will be issued before the start of Phase II.
    • Senior Design Time Conflicts cannot be resolved. You cannot take courses that overlap with senior design times.
  • Graduate course permit - Undergraduate students are considered based on the following criteria: 
    • Students who intend to use graduate credits toward both the bachelor's and master's degrees in the same discipline at Georgia Tech may use up to 6 credit hours of graduate-level coursework in the major discipline. To qualify for this option, students must complete the undergraduate degree with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher and complete the master's degree within a two-year period from the award date of the bachelor's degree.
    • If the credits are not to be used towards the master degree, there is a minimum GPA requirement of 3.0.
    • Request for Approval for an Undergraduate to Register For Graduate Courses
  • ISYE 4803
    • If you get the error "DUPL CRSE WITH SEC-XXXXX" then you may be trying to register for two sections of ISYE 4803 Special Topics courses in the same semester. This is OK except that the system does not recognize that they are different classes. In this case you need to contact your advisor to give you the duplicate course override. Please do this before registration begins to prevent delay.

  • Major Restriction Permit
    • Beginning the last Wednesday of phase II registration, ISyE major restrictions are lifted for 2000 and most 3000 level courses. At this point, students outside ISyE will have the opportunity to register or join the waitlist. For all other ISyE courses, please check OSCAR for information regarding registration. No overload requests will be granted.
How do I get permits into non-ISyE courses?

ISyE personnel cannot grant permits for non-ISyE courses; each school controls permits and overloads for its courses.

  • Please be considerate of the workload pressures of the Academic Advisors in other departments when dealing with emails, walk-ins, and phone calls. They are doing all they can to accommodate students. 
  • Permits and Overload Departmental list
How do I register when an ISyE class is full?
  • ISyE students: Join the waitlist if a course is full/closed.
  • Non-ISyE students: Major restrictions will be lifted from the majority of the ISyE courses at noon on the last Wednesday of Phase II. Join the waitlist if a class you would like to sign up for is full/closed.
I have a hold on my account, how can I register?
  • Use the Instructions for Viewing Holds to view any holds before registration begins.
  • Students cannot register until all holds are removed. There are no exceptions to this.
  • Holds can only be removed by the department who placed the hold. Ex. if the Bursar's office placed the hold, ISyE cannot remove the hold for you. Only the Bursar's office can remove the hold.
  • Any holds issued through ISyE will NOT be removed over the phone. You must meet with an advisor to have the hold removed (in the office or virtually, under the COVID-19 situation).
What if I have a senior design conflict?

Senior Design Time Conflicts cannot be resolved. You cannot take courses that overlap with senior design times.

What is the thirty-six hour rule?

The final thirty-six hours earned for a degree must be taken in residence at Georgia Tech. Study Abroad experiences organized through Ga Tech's Office of International Education (OIE) do count as "in residence."

When can I start registering?

Time Tickets are determined by the Georgia Tech Registrar.

Check your Time Ticket information here.

Special Topics

 

Select a semester to view approved special topics courses

 

Engineering Electives

Important Notes - 2016-2017 Catalog or Later

  • You must take at least one of the following (3 credits each):
    Course Description Credit
    ECE 2020 Digital System Design 3
    ECE 2026 Intro Signal Processing 3
    ECE 3710 and ECE 3741 Circuits & Electronics & Instrum & Electronic Lab 3
     
  • The remaining 6 credits must satisfy the following:
    • Take at least 2 additional credits from Group 1
    • All Special Topics courses (4801/4803/4823, etc.) MUST be approved by your advisor. No SEMINARS may be used
    • YOU MUST MEET THE PRE-REQUISITE REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH COURSE
    • Some departments may only allow you to register during Phase II.
    • To satisfy Group 2 Engineering Elective credit, all Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) courses must be approved by the ISyE Associate Undergraduate Chair each semester, and at least three but no more than four credits of VIP coursework must be taken (typically, with the same project).
      • For a list of projects already approved or denied, please see the "Group 2 VIP Courses" tab on the left
      • Upon completion of at least 3 credit hours of VIP with the same project, please contact your assigned academic advisor to have the credits moved to Engineering Electives Group 2.
    • It is very rare for any research (within ISyE or otherwise) to be approved as an Engineering Elective.
    • PHYS 2021 (Solar System) will not be accepted for any Engineering Elective credit after Fall 2020.

Group 1

Course Description Credit
AE 2020 Low-Speed Aerodynamics 3
AE 2220 Dynamics 3
AE 3450 Thermodynamics & Comp Flow 3
BMED 2210 or BMED 2110 Conservation Principles in BME 3
BMED 3100 Systems Physiology 3
CEE 2040

Dynamics

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

2
CEE 2300

Environmental Engineering Principles 

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 3010

Geomatics 

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 4100

Construction Engr & Mgt 

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 4300

Environmental Engineering Systems

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 4600

Transportation Planning & Design 

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
ChBE 2100 Chemical Process Principles 3
ChBE 2130 (was 2110) Chemical Engineering Therodynamics I 3
ChBE 4803 Biofuels, Bleaching and Paper making 3
ChBE 4763 / ME 4763 Pulping and Chemical Recovery 3
ChBE 4764 / ME 4764 Bleaching and Papermaking 3
COE 2001 Statics 2
COE 3001 Deformable Bodies 3
CS 2110 Computer Organization and Programming 4
CS 4641 Machine Learning 3
CS 3750 / PSYC 3750 or CS 3873 /  CS 3751

User Interface Design

Title must be "Human-Computer Interaction" (for CS 3873)

3
CX 4010 Computational Problem Solving for Sci & Engr. 3
CX 4240 Computing for Data Analysis 3
CX 4242 Data and Visual Analytics 3
ECE 2020 Digital System Design 3
ECE 2026 Introduction to Signal Processing 3
ECE 2040 Circuit Analysis 3
ECE 3035 Mechanisms for Computing Systems 4
ECE 3076 Computer Communications 3
ECE 3710 Circuits and Electronics 2
ECE 3741 Instrumentation and Electronic Lab 1
ECE 4606 Wireless Communication 3
ME 2202 Dynamics of Rigid Bodies 3
ME 3015 System Dynamics & Control 4
ME 3322 Thermodynamics 3
ME 3720 Introduction to Fluid and Thermal Engineering3 3
MSE 2001 Principles & Applications of Engineering Materials 3
MSE 3012 Thermal & Transport Props 3
MSE 3015 Elc, Optical&Magnet Properties 3
MSE 4020 Design with Materials I 1
NRE 3301 Radiation Physics 3
PTFE 2200 Structure and Properties of Fibers and Polymers 3
PTFE 3200 Yarn and Fabric Formation 3

Group 2

Course Description Credit
AE 2801 Special Topics w/ COE 2001* 1
AE 3310 Introduction to Aerospace Vehicle Performance 3
AE 4701 Wind Engineering 3
AE 4370 Life Cycle Cost, Schrage 3
ARCH 6271 Healthcare Design of the Future 3
BIOS 2400 Mathematical Models in Biology 3
BIOS 4755 / MATH 4755 Mathematical Biology 3
BMED 3400 Intro to Biomechanics 4
BMED 2300 / BMED 2310 Introduction to BME Design 3
BME 4803 Global Health Engineering 3
BMED 4751 / MSE 4751 Introduction to Biomaterials 3
CEE 4225

Coastal Engineering

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 4330

Air Pollution Control Eng

{only students who have applied to graduate will be considered for a permit; contact your ISyE advisor}

3
CEE 4803 Freight Transportation Systems and Airport Plan 3
CEE 4803 Transportation Policy & Analysis 3
ChBE 4751 / MSE 4751 Intro to Biomaterials 3
COE 2701 / CS 2701 / MGT 4803 Startup Lab: Introduction to Technology Ventures 3
COE 3002 Intro to Microelec & Nano Revolution 3
CP 2233 Sustainable Urban Development 3
CP 4020 Introduction to Urban Regional Planning 3
CP 4105 Land Conservation 3
CP 4310 Urban Transportation 3
CP 4510 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 3
CS 2801 Digital Design Lab for CS 1
ECE 2803 Grand Achievements and Grand Challenges 3
ECE 2811

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2
ECE 3811

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2
ECE 3812

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2
ECE 4811

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2
ECE 4812

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2
ECE 2031 Digital Design laboratory 2
ECE 4755 / MSE 4755 Substrate Fabrication 3
ECE 2893 / ME 2803   1 towards Engineering Elective
ISYE 4740 / ME 4740 / BIOL 4740 / PTFE 4740 Bioinspired Design 3
ISYE 4803 Model Based Systems Engineering 3
ME 2110 Creative Design & Decision Making 3
ME 2813 - GLE Engineering & International Development 3
ME 3057 Experimental Methodology 3
ME 4803 Energy Systems Engineering 3
AE 4793 / ME 4793 / MSE 4793 / PTFE 4793 Composite Mtl Pros 3
MSE 2021 Characterization of Materials 3
MSE 2803 Historical Development of Engineering Materials 3
MSE 3300 Mat Sci & Eng of Sports 3
MSE 3801   1
MSE 3803 Optics and Soft Materials 3
MSE 4751 / BIOM 4751 Intro to Biomaterials 3
MSE 4801 Materials Entrepreneurship 1
MSE 4803 Soft Nano Materials 3
MSE 4803 / MSE 8803 Fundamentals of Nanomaterials & Energy 3
PHYS 4803 Nanoscale Physical Properties and Characterization 3
PHYS 2021 Solar Systems (* will not be accepted for Eng Elective credit after Fall 2020) 3
PTFE 3720 / MSE 3720 Introduction to Fiber Enterprise 3
PTFE 4043 Safety & Ethics 1
PTFE 4801 Title may vary each semester 1
VIP 2601 / VIP 3601 / VIP 3602 / VIP 4601 / VIP 4602 / VIP 4603

Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program

{See the Important Notes regarding VIP courses}

1 or 2 or 3

Group 2 Vertically-Integrated Projects

Please see below for a list of approved and denied VIP projects. If the project in which you are interested is not on this list, please submit the Course Substitution Form to request that we review it for consideration as a Group 2 Engineering Elective.

To satisfy Group 2 Engineering Elective credit:

  • At least three but no more than four credits of VIP coursework must be taken with the same project over 2 consecutive semesters (with exceptions for summer and co-op/internship semesters).
    • View list below for a list of projects already approved or denied
    • Upon completion of at least 3 credit hours of VIP with the same project and in 2 consecutive semesters (with exceptions for summer and co-op/internship semesters), please contact your assigned academic advisor to have the credits moved to Engineering Electives Group 2.
    • VIP counts for free elective if not used for Engineering Elective.
VIP Project Status
ACT Driving Simulator Approved
Agile Communication Architecture Approved
AI-based Discovery and Innovation Approved
Art + AI Approved
Automated Algorithm Design Approved
Bits of Good Approved
Diabetes and Chronic Disease Systems Approved
eStadium Approved
Getting to know U. Approved
GT Mobile STEM Lab Approved
Health Informatics Approved
HumaniTech Approved
Intelligent Transportation Approved
M.A.R.S Marsian Adv Approved
Reinventing Mobility in Atlanta Approved
Smart and Connected Bioelectronics Approved
Smart City Infrastructure Approved
Spatiotemporal Modeling:  COVID-19 Approved
Stadium-IoP Approved
Century Global Atlanta Denied
Design Bloc Denied
Engineering for Social Innovation Denied
Global Social Entrepreneurship Denied
IoT in Health Denied
Sports Performance Intelligence Platforms Denied
Wellbeing and Mental health Denied

Environmental Requirements

ISyE requires that a BSIE student have one course that deals with the environment. Accordingly, the following list provides a sample of acceptable courses that satisfy the environmental requirement.

4-HOUR LAB SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

  • BIOS 1107 (was BIOL 1510) - Biological Principles
  • BIOS 1220 - Biology of Sex and Death
  • EAS 1600 - Introduction to Environmental Science
  • EAS 1601 - Habitable Plant
  • EAS 2600 - Earth Processes

SOCIAL SCIENCE ELECTIVES:

  • ECON 4440 - Economics of Environment

ENGINEERING ELECTIVES:

  • CEE 2300 - Environmental Engineering Principles
  • CEE 4300 - Environmental Engineering Systems
  • CP 2233 - Sustainable Urban Development

FREE ELECTIVES (Courses listed above may be used as free elective as well):

  • BIOS 2300 - Ecology
  • BIOL 2335 - General Ecology
  • EAS 2750 - Physics of the Weather
  • EAS 3110 - Energy, Environ, Society
  • EAS 4480 - Environ Data Analysis
  • ISyE 4501 - Energy, Efficiency, and Sustainability (Offered in Fall Semester, starting in Fall 2018 - replaces ISyE 4803 below)
  • (ISyE 4803 - Energy and Environmental Analysis (replaced by ISyE 4501, but will still be accepted))
  • PHYS 2750 - Physics of the Weather
  • SLS 3120 - Foundations of Sustainable Systems

There are other courses offered at Tech from time to time that will meet this requirement.  If you find a course that you wish to take and feel that the content qualifies, please contact your academic advisor for approval prior to enrolling.

Matching Courses to Concentrations

To determine your Catalog Year, you will need to access your DegreeWorks (via Buzzport) and then look for the BSIE - Degree Requirements row.  At the end of that row, your Catalog Year is listed above your GPA.

choosing catalog year

2019-2020 (and later) Catalog year

The table lists how the various concentration courses can be used to satisfy each concentration's requirements (please refer to the curriculum pages for the other rules that still must be observed):

Breadth or blank - Course can satisfy as a Breadth course if labeled as a Depth or Reqd for another concentration

Course Analytics and Data Science Economic and Financial Systems Operations Research Advanced Studies in Operations Research and Statistics * Quality and Statistics Supply Chain Engineering
ISYE 3039         Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
 
ISYE 3103           Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
ISYE 3104           Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
ISYE 3106 (was 3803) Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4034 Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
      Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
ISYE 4045 Depth (A)
3 or 6 hours are required from this group
  Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
     
ISYE 4111           Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
ISYE 4133 Depth (A)
3 or 6 hours are required from this group
  Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
Depth *
see the curriculum page for The Advanced Studies in OR and Statistics concentration course requirements
   
ISYE 4134 Depth (A)
3 or 6 hours are required from this group
  Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
     
ISYE 4232 Depth (A)
3 or 6 hours are required from this group
  Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
Depth *
see the curriculum page for The Advanced Studies in OR and Statistics concentration course requirements
   
ISYE 4301   Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
       
ISYE 4311   Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
       
ISYE 4501 Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Reliability Engineering
        Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
ISYE 4803
Online Learn & Dec Making
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
      Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
ISYE 4803
Intro to Machine Learning
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
      Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
ISYE 4803
Systems Design for IEs
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Adv Manufacturing
          Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
ISYE 4803
Facility Layout and Warehousing
          Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
ISYE 4803
Financial Data Analysis
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
    Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
ISYE 4803
Decision Analysis & Risk Mgt
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Design of  Experiments
        Reqd
Course must be passed for that concentration
 
ISYE 4803
Health Systems Engineering
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Linear & Convex Optimization
    Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
     
ISYE 4803
Energy and Green Economy
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Fdns and Apps Machine Learning
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
         
ISYE 4803
Foundations of Modern Data Science
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
         
ISYE 4803
Network Science and Analysis
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
         
ISYE 4803
Proj Eval-People, Planet, and Profit
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Tools for Data Analytics
Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
         
ISYE 4803
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
ISYE 4803
Nonlinear Opt Applic to ML&Eng
Depth (A)
3 or 6 hours are required from this group; replaces ISYE 4134
  Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration; replaces ISYE 4133 or ISYE 4134
     
ISYE 4803
Public Health Systems
Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth Breadth
 
ECON 3150   Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
       
ECON 4340   Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
       
ECON 4350   Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
       
MGT 3078   Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
       
CS 4641 Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
      Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
CX 4240 Depth (B)
6 or 9 hours are required from this group
      Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
CX 4242         Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 
MATH 4262         Depth
You must take at least one Depth course from within that concentration
 

 

Note that under the 2019-2020 Catalog, the General concentration consists of any five concentration classes (prior approval by the ISyE Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies is required in order to include more than one Special Topics course (ISYE 3803 or ISYE 4803) that is not a depth/required course for the other concentrations).

BSIE Courses That Cannot Both be Taken for Credit

**For information on major restrictions, please view the OSCAR Schedule of Classes.**

The following pairs of courses have significant overlap in content. These courses cannot both be taken for credit.

* Courses are part of the core ISyE curriculum

  • APPH 1040 * & HPS 1040 *
  • APPH 1050 * & HPS 1040 *
  • ECE 2020 * & ECE 2030
  • ECON 2100 * & ECON 2101 *
  • ECON 2100 * & ECON 2105 *
  • ECON 2100 * & ECON 2106 *
  • ECON 2101 * & ECON 2105 *
  • ECON 2101 * & ECON 2106 *
  • INTA 1200 * & POL 1101 *
  • MATH 2406 & MATH 2803 HEH
  • MATH 4803 MOR (Spr13) & MATH 3803 MOR (Spr15)
  • MGT 3000 * & ACCT 2101 *
  • MGT 3000 * & ACCT 2102
  • MGT 3062 & MGT 3078 *
  • MGT 3076 & MGT 3078 *
  • MGT 3101 & MGT 3150 *
  • MGT 3607 & MGT 4803 (Business Ethics)
  • MGT 4043 & MGT 4803 (Advanced Financial Reporting)
  • MGT 4106 & MGT 4803 (Teamwork in Organizations)
  • MGT 4116 & MGT 4803 (Gender & Ethnicity in US & Global Org)
  • MGT 4194 & MGT 4803 (Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise).
  • MGT 4308 & MGT 4803 (Advertising & Promotions)
  • MGT 4309 & MGT 4803 (Services Marketing)
  • MGT 4311 & MGT 4803 (Digital Marketing)
  • MGT 4341 & MGT 4803 (Management of Healthcare Operation)
  • MGT 4367 & MGT 4803 (Revenue Analytics)

Find your Academic Advisor below based on the first letter of your last name

James Turneur
Academic Advisor
Last names: A-F
Frances Buser
Academic Advisor
Last names: G-L
Sudie Pennebaker Davis
Academic Advisor
Last names: M-R
Jon Lowe
Academic Advisor
Last names: S-Z