What is the difference between the Manufacturing minor and the Semester in Strategic Operations (SSO) concentration?
Students in the Manufacturing Minor come from the M.Eng. programs of other engineering disciplines as well as ORIE. Students in the Semester in Strategic Operations (SSO) are in the MBA program at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and in the M.Eng. program in ORIE. The Manufacturing Minor tends to have more technical engineering content, the Semester in Strategic Operations more business content. Manufacturing Minor projects are more extensive than projects in the Semester in Strategic Operations. It is usually not possible to begin the Manufacturing Minor in the spring semester. It is possible to begin the Semester in Strategic Operations in the spring semester, but students lacking the Stochastic Processes course must take it during the summer since Semester in Strategic Operations students must devote the entire spring semester to this single course. The Manufacturing Minor may impose a heavy course load on students who have not previously taken any of the required ORIE cour
