I want a MS. in IE, what kind of math courses should I take in MATH B.S.?

<p>What math courses look attractive to grad schools for someone who wants a M.S. in I.E. I decided that I can't go through this ME or CE track any longer. It's just not me, nor am I good at the physical sciences (what a late discovery :(). I always wanted to do Industrial Engineering, but listening to people's advice as a senior in highschool and just being immature made me make some bad decisions.</p>

<p>Well, I'm at Duke, and my adviser is no help at all. He doesn't even know what I.E. is and everytime I try to contact him is usually futile. So, my plan for this term is to drop my EGR( ME) class, and keep my other, more general, EGR class so I can still stay in the Engineering school. I am planning to transfer this year to a school that has I.E., so I think my being in Pratt Engineering is a plus, so I don't want to drop out of the program just yet. </p>

<p>But, that leaves me with one more class to take. I feel like I'm sort of alone in this endeavour, because no one really knows how to help me. I'm currently in Math 103 MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS. Should I take a math statistics course for my last course? Also, in case I don't get in any transfer schools due to my low grade in Physics 2nd term(which sucked since I tried my hardest and was on deans list first term), what should my math courses concentrate on? I feel like I wasted my time first year taking Prereq EGR courses and Chemistry, when I could have been focusing on obtaining a math major and getting a now impossible marketing and management certificate. Sigh.</p>

<p>My courses right now look like.
Math 103, Physics, EGR, ???</p>

<p>Look at the other schools you are interested and see what is in their IE curriculum. Probablility and statistics are are good bet. Just make sure you take the right level/kind. Where I went we took a more mathematical version for IE then was offered by some other departments.</p>

<p>1) Probability (The 100% Probability course…not the Probability & Stats combined course)
2) Mathematical Statistics (The 100% Statistics course…not the Probability & Stats combined course)
3) Operations Research (may also be called Optimization or Mathematical Programming or Linear Programming)</p>

<p>Optionally…</p>

<p>4) Numerical Linear Algebra</p>