At the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), many of the courses offered are related to Transportation and Logistics (T&L). They span several departments, including Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Business Administration, and cover topics such as supply chain management, freight transportation, distribution logistics, traffic and highway engineering, and optimization. Below is a full list of these courses, with their descriptions and credit hours.
Transportation & Logistic Related Programs
| Course Code | Course Title | Description | Credit Hours |
| GEIN 6005 | Physical Distribution and Logistics | Study of physical distribution systems; an examination of the costs involved in physically moving and storing the product from its production point to the point it is purchased; an analysis of the efforts to coordinate physical distribution and materials management in order to reduce costs and improve services. Prerequisites: N/A. | 3 |
| GERE 4036 | Assurance Sciences | Study of techniques for monitoring and improving the quality, maintainability, reliability, and safety of products and processes. Discussion of issues of health, ethics, and social responsibility. A team research project in an organization is required. Prerequisites: GERE 4046. | 3 |
| GERE 4110 | Transportation & Logistics in the Supply Chain | This course offers comprehensive coverage of transportation and logistics trends at both the national and global levels, from a managerial perspective. It presents logistics in the context of its integration within a company’s supply chain strategy and operations. Prerequisites: None. | 3 |
| GERE 4335 | Purchasing Management | Analysis of the purchasing function and its relation to production, marketing, finance, and engineering. Emphasis on the policies and the organization of a purchasing system considering the necessary legal aspects and strategies to create an efficient system. Prerequisites: GERE 4046. | 3 |
| INCI 4026 | Highway Engineering | Classification, planning and administration of highway systems. Geometric design; traffic engineering; subgrade structure; flexible and rigid pavement design. Prerequisites: INCI 4137 and INCI 4007. | 3 |
| INCI 4137 | Introduction to Transportation Engineering | Basic concepts in transportation: demand, service and equilibrium; transportation planning process and economics; components, operation and design of transportation systems. Prerequisites: INCI 4136. | 3 |
| INCI 4140 | Freight Transportation Systems | Discussion of the main freight transportation stakeholders and their objectives. Freight distribution structures for different geographic scales and transportation modes. Factors that generate freight demand and explain the decision-making of freight agents. Aggregate and disaggregate models of agent behavior. Application of systems analysis to forecast freight movement demand and quantify socioeconomic impacts. Methods and tools to evaluate the performance of freight transportation systems. Planning and policies to ensure sustainable freight transportation. Prerequisites: (MATE 3049 or MATE 3031) and GERE 4110. | 3 |
| INCI 5029 | Principles of Urban Planning | The scope of and legislative bases for planning, organization of planning agencies, basic studies for planning, public utilities and related service facilities, transit and transportation systems, recreation and public spaces, land use planning, zoning, land subdivision regulations, economic and social aspects of planning, local, regional and national levels of planning. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| INCI 6045 | Pavement Design (I) | Traffic loads, climatic effects, stresses in pavements, flexible pavement design, rigid pavement design, skid resistance, construction practices and maintenance. | 3 |
| INCI 6046 | Urban Transportation Planning (II) | Urban travel characteristics and trends; basic urban transportation studies, including origin, destination surveys, inventory, use studies, parking studies, and transit surveys; application of transportation, economic, land use data in estimating future travel; planning arterial street and expressway systems, off street parking, and transit systems; coordination of city planning and transportation engineering; metropolitan transportation administration and finance. | 3 |
| INCI 6047 | Traffic Engineering (I) | City and highway traffic surveys and designs; accidents, congestion, delay, speed, volume density, parking, channelization, lighting, traffic control and routing, signs, signals and markings, urban traffic consideration in city planning; driver reactions and habit patterns. | 3 |
| INCI 6048 | Transportation Systems Analysis (II) | Principles and techniques of systems analysis and mathematical programming are presented and applied to economic, physical planning, and the evaluation and operation of transportation facilities. Mathematical models are used to examine problems related to optimum efficiency of transportation systems and modes. Operations research methods of linear programming, non-linear programming, network analysis, queueing theory, and simulation are studied. | 3 |
| INCI 6049 | Transportation Systems Evaluation (II) | The course is designed to provide graduate students with knowledge of evaluation studies and methods employed in planning the proper function and character of transportation facilities, and of the broad administrative policies such as transportation needs, finance, and economics that affect the planning, design, and programming of transportation systems. The course contents give attention to the application of basic techniques in engineering economic evaluation and the assessment of user and non-user impacts of transportation improvements. | 3 |
| INCI 6050 | Advanced Transportation Systems Analysis | Advanced topics in transportation and demand analysis; transportation economy; resource models; techniques for the design and generation of alternatives in transportation systems. | 3 |
| INCI 6068 | Pavement Management | Development of systematic methods to evaluate and administer existing pavements for highways and airports. Analysis of existing pavement defects, structural capacity, safety, and geometry. Development and application of statistical models, optimization techniques, and analysis of rehabilitation techniques for existing pavements. Field project required. | 3 |
| INCI 6090 | Geometric Design of Highways | Study of geometric design concepts and policies used to design highways and streets, at-grade intersections, grade separations, interchanges, and other ground transportation facilities. Application of design control and criteria and consideration of the safety and operational effects of the roadway and roadside elements, the sight distance, the horizontal and vertical alignment, and other elements of the design of roads of different functional classification. | 3 |
| INCI 6108 | Road Safety Analysis | Study of the analytical methods used to estimate and analyze the safety effects and the relationships between different elements and characteristics of drivers, vehicles, traffic flow, and highway design. Analysis of crash, traffic and roadway inventory databases, the consideration of human factors and driver responses to risk perception. Application of conventional safety modeling techniques and methods for identifying hazardous locations, and recognize causes for different crash types. | 3 |
| INCI 6119 | Data Analysis and Modeling of Transportation Systems | Study of the variety of analytical tools that are regularly applied to data collected for transportation research studies. Emphasis on the use of model estimation methods as well as software packages helpful in the analysis of data for improving research in transportation engineering. | 3 |
| INCI 6995 | Special Problems (I, II) | Research and special problems in Civil Engineering. | 1 – 6 |
| ININ 4555 | Decision Science in Transportation and Logistics | This course explores the role of optimization models, simulation, and analytical tools in decision-making for the supply chain, transportation, and logistics systems. Students will learn to interpret, evaluate, and support decisions related to transportation and logistics systems. Prerequisites: (INGE 3016 or CIIC 3015 or ADMI 3010) and (ININ 4155 or GERE 4009 or GERE 4110). | 3 |
| ININ 5005 | Modern Optimization Methods | Advanced undergraduate course addressed to Industrial Engineering students to studies the most common heuristic search methods. Topics such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, tabu search, and combinatorial and continuous optimization problems are discussed. The main techniques and their variations presented and are critically discussed. Key papers from the literature, including applications, are discussed. Prerequisites: ININ 4021 or ININ 4150 or authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 5006 | Systems Engineering and Analysis | Introduction to the design of systems considering their lifecycle from conceptualization until disposal, including the basic theory of systems lifecycle management. Study of techniques to evaluate the design of systems that could be industrial, mechanical, electronic, or organizational, with application to multiple disciplines. Prerequisites: ININ 4015 or ININ 4007 or INCI 4055 or INCI 4026 or authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 5200 | Introduction to Engineering Management | Study and application of the fundamentals of management concepts applied to multidisciplinary engineering teams. Prerequisites: ININ 4015 or ININ 4007. | 3 |
| ININ 5555 | Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization and Neural Networks | Optimization techniques in the context of problems with or without restrictions in industrial engineering. Multivariate search methods with or without derivatives. Description of artificial neural networks as a nonlinear optimization technique. Analysis and design of artificial neural networks, using supervised and unsupervised algorithms. Applications of nonlinear optimization and neural networks in the field of industrial engineering. Prerequisites: (MATE 3063 and (INGE 3016 or CIIC 3011 or CIIC 3015 or COMP 3010)) or authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 5575 | Sequencing and Scheduling of Resources | Conceptual and practical aspects involved in the scheduling of resources. Examples and applications drawn from areas such as manpower, computer, and transportation. Prerequisites: ININ 4021 or ININ 4150 or authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 5595 | Design and Management of Services Processes | Industrial engineering techniques and models to design and manage the operations of service organizations or services processes in manufacturing enterprises. Development, evaluation, and implementation of alternative solutions to the operational problems of service organizations. Use of models and techniques in marketing, quality assurance and management, work measurement and design, operations research, production planning and control, engineering economics, human resources, management information systems, and facilities layout. Prerequisites: ININ 4009 and (ININ 4039 or ININ 4155 or authorization of the Director of the Department). | 3 |
| ININ 5997 | Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering | Discussion of selected topics in Industrial Engineering or related fields. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6008 | Network Flows and Graphs in Management Science | Principles of network flows and graphs theory and their applications in management science. Classical network flow problem formulations including maximal flow-minimal cut, assignment, transportation and others. Representation of optimization problems as network formulations, and the use of the out of kilter algorithm for their solution. Single versus multi-commodity flow, as well as the relation of graphs and networks to combination problems. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6019 | Advanced Production Control | Advanced topics in forecasting, inventory and applied stochastic processes as they relate to production control systems. Integration of these topics in the production planning process using mathematical optimization techniques and case studies. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6025 | Linear and Discrete Optimization | Basic theory and development of the simplex method for solving linear programming problems with discrete variables. Dual problems and sensitivity analysis. Formulation of problems with discrete variables. Developments of implicit enumeration and related methods for integer problems. Application of linear and discrete optimization methods to problems of industry and government. Use of computer programs. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6045 | Material Handling Systems | Fundamentals of material handling systems including types of equipment and their applications, relationship between material handling and design of facilities, computer control, and automation. A project will be required. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6048 | Knowledge Discovery in Engineering Multivariate Data | Development of empirical linear and non-linear model building skills using a variety of tools from multivariate statistics and data mining. Development of skills to identify the model that best represents the natural relationship between a numerical and/or categorical response, and a high-dimensional set of explanatory variables. Special attention is given to data pre-processing, missing value imputation, outlier detection, feature extraction/selection, and model validation. Introduction to unsupervised learning and modeling techniques for multiple response variables. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |
| ININ 6055 | Mathematical Models in Distribution Logistics | Study on the logistics involved in transporting finished goods from manufacturers to customers. Particular emphasis is given to the design and operation of container terminals, cross-docks, and distribution centers, as well as the management of freight transportation modes. Emphasis will be given on mathematical models for the optimization of distribution systems and their implementation. Prerequisites: authorization of the Director of the Department. | 3 |