Industrial Engineering

IE 204 Engineering Economics (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: M 117 and CS 107 or equivalent. A quantitative analysis of applied economics in engineering design; the economy study for comparing alternatives; interest formulae; quantitative methods of comparing alternatives; intangible considerations; selection and replacement economy for machines and structures; break-even and minimum cost points; depreciation; effect of income taxes on the economy study; review of current industrial practices. Promotes logical decisions through the consideration of alternative courses of action. 3 credit hours.

IE 243 Work Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Sophomore status. Introductory course in the design and evaluation of efficient work methods and working environments. Techniques useful in problem definition, design of alternative work methods, and evaluation of alternative designs, including process charting, operation analysis, and principles of motion economy. Emphasis placed on human factors and safety implications of alternative work method designs. Equitable time standards are developed for work method designs through the use of time study procedures including stopwatch time study, computerized predetermined-time systems, and work sampling. 3 credit hours.

IE 302 Ergonomics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Covers basic terminology and application of ergonomic principles to the workplace. Topics include repetitive motion injuries, cumulative trauma disorders, carpal tunnel syndrome, anthropometry, human error analysis, channel capacity, reaction time, human-machine interaction, and current ergonomics news and applications. 3 credit hours.

IE 303 Cost Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Junior status and M 118. Basic analysis of cost control techniques. Designed to give members of the management team the underlying rudiments of cost estimating and control systems. Theory of standard costs, flexible budgeting, and overhead handling techniques emphasized by analytical problem solving. Life-cycle costing; value engineering. 3 credit hours.

IE 304 Production Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 243, M 118. The basic principles that govern the design of production control systems in an industrial plant. The principles used in solving problems of procuring and controlling materials-planning, routing, scheduling, and dispatching, are considered. Familiarizes the student with existing and new methods used in this field including MRP, JIT, computer-aided process planning, and group technology. 3 credit hours.

IE 311 Quality Assurance (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Junior status. Quality considerations in product design and manufacturing; product inspection and process control; total quality management principles as applied to process design, control, and improvement; product safety and liability issues. 3 credit hours.

IE 344 Human Factors Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 347. Covers psychological and physiological aspects of people at work, including work physiology, information processing, motor skills and movement control, signal detection theory, and anthropometry with the aim of improvements in workplace design. 3 credit hours.

IE 346 Probability Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: M 203. Develops the theory of probability and related applications. Covers combinations and permutations, probability space, law of large numbers, random variables, conditional probability. Bayes’ Theorem, Markov chains, and stochastic processes. 3 credit hours.

IE 347 Statistical Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 346 and CS 107 or equivalent. Provides an introduction to the application of statistical techniques to engineering problems. Measures of central tendency and dispersion, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, elementary analysis of variance. 3 credit hours.

IE 348 Manufacturing Processes (back to previous page)
Corequisite: IE 304. Provides a basic understanding of manufacturing processes as applied to conventional manufacturing. Properties of material; machining fundamentals; tool geometry; surface finish; forces; material removal processes; casting, forging, and extrusion processes; measurement and inspection; process capability and quality control; ferrous and nonferrous metals; chip/type machining processes; machining economics in turning, milling, and drilling. 3 credit hours.

IE 402 Operations Research (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 346 and CS 107 or equivalent. The operations research area is oriented to various mathematical methods for solving certain kinds of industrial problems. Topics include linear programming (including simplex method), transportation and assignment problems, queuing, dynamic programming, and simulation. 3 credit hours.

IE 403 Operations Research II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 402 or equivalent. Advanced coverage of Bayesian statistics, utility and game theory, logistics and distribution, scheduling theory, graph theory, and stochastic processes, with applications in manufacturing and service industries. 3 credit hours.

IE 407 Reliability and Maintainability (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 346 or equivalent. Reliability measures: hazard models and product life, reliability function, static reliability models, inference theory and reliability computation, dynamic reliability models, reliability design examples. 3 credit hours.

IE 408 Systems Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Senior status and IE 347 . Presents the analytical and conceptual techniques upon which systems analysis and development are based as applications to business and industrial fields. Development of case studies and their applications oriented to improved designs. 3 credit hours.

IE 414 Engineering Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Senior status. Provides insight into the elements of the managerial process and develops a rational approach to the problems of managing productive processes and the engineering function. Focusing largely on complex problems of top and middle-level management, students will investigate the modern tools that managers use under given circumstances, stressing the ongoing activities of management as part of an integrated, continuous process. 3 credit hours.

IE 435 Simulation and Applications (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 346, CS 107 or equivalent. Corequisite: IE 402. Techniques for modeling of a system (business or scientific/engineering) using computer simulation. Simulation principles will be emphasized. Student exercises and design projects will be run using a modern simulation package. 3 credit hours.

IE 436 Quality Control (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 347. Economics of quality control; modern methods used by industry to achieve quality of product; preventing defects; organizing for quality; locating chronic sources of trouble; coordinating specifications, manufacturing and inspection; measuring process capability; using inspection data to regulate manufacturing processes; statistical methods; control charts, selection of modern sampling plans. 3 credit hours.

IE 437 Metrology and Inspection in Manufacturing (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 436. The study of metrology and inspection practices in manufacturing. Emphasis on the design and development of different types of gauging for inspection in manufacturing. 3 credit hours.

IE 440 Synchronous Manufacturing (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 204, IE 304. Group technology in design and manufacturing; manufacturing environment, resources, products, constraints, and decisions; synchronized manufacturing operations and process improvement. 3 credit hours.

IE 443 Facilities Planning (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Senior IE status and IE 243 , IE 304. Factors in plant location, design, and equipment layout. Techniques for obtaining information essential to the development and evaluation of alternative facility layout designs are presented with an emphasis on environmental and safety considerations. Design of departmental areas, resource allocation and flow, materials handling, storage, and the economic implications of alternative designs are discussed. Students work in small groups on the design of a manufacturing facility to produce an actual consumer product. Project culminates in both a written report and oral presentation of the proposed facility design. CAD techniques are used extensively in the development of the final facility layout. 3 credit hours.

IE 448 Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Operations (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: ME 200, IE 348. A course for understanding machining economics and the basic principles of the theory of metal cutting and metal working to improve manufacturing engineering operations. Course emphasizes design and operation of better tooling for different types of manufacturing operations. Experimental investigation of metal cutting and metal working methodologies stressed. 3 credit hours.

IE 450-459 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Selected topics of current interest in the field of industrial engineering. 3 credit hours.

IE 460 Computer-Aided Manufacturing (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 348, CS 107 or equivalent. Topics covered include Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Numerical Control (NC), industrial robot applications, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Group Technology (GT), integration of CAD/CAM, Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP), and applications software for manufacturing. 3 credit hours.

IE 465 Robotics in Manufacturing (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 460. Topics covered include applications of robotics in manufacturing, robot classification, introduction to a high-level robot language, task planning, and laboratory projects with industrial robots. 3 credit hours.

IE 498 Internship (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Consent of faculty supervisor and approval of department chair. Supervised project-work related to industrial engineering with local industries. 3 credit hours.

IE 504 Senior Project (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Senior status and permission of department. The student, in conjunction with a faculty adviser, selects and works on a project. Work is presented at a seminar at the end of the semester. 3 credit hours.

IE 599 Independent Study (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Junior status. A planned program of individual study under the supervision of a faculty member. 3 credit hours.

Industrial Engineering - Graduate Courses

IE 601 Introduction to Operations Research/Management Science (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 607. Introduction to the techniques and philosophies of management science and operations research. Includes linear programming, inventory analysis, queueing theory, dynamic programming, decision analysis, and other modeling techniques.

IE 604 Management Systems (back to previous page)
Techniques of industrial and governmental systems management, including general systems and organizational theory.

IE 607 Probability Theory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of differential calculus..  Probability of events, definition of  random variables,  and introduction to basic probability distributions.  Use of probability in stochastic processes pertaining to queues, forecasting, birth-death processes, and human behavior.

IE 609 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 607 or equivalent. Inferential statistical designs, including basic statistical tests and analysis of variance. Statistical theories and application of correlation analysis, multiple linear regression, nonlinear regression and analysis of covariance.

IE 611 Decisions in Operations Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: MG 637 or equivalent, QA 604 or equivalent. Study of organizations as systems producing goods and services. Review of concepts, functions and basic techniques as applied to operations management. Examination of new trends and developments such as just-in-time, synchronous manufacturing, quality management, cycle-time reduction and concurrent engineering. Emphasis on interrelations of different operational decisions on the final product and competitive position of the organization.

IE 612 Managerial Interactions I (back to previous page)
An interdisciplinary systems approach to human behavior in organizations with emphasis on the impact of industrial engineering methods on organizational performance. Deals with individual motivation and face-to-face interaction in managerial roles.

IE 613 Managerial Interactions II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 612. Continuation of IE 612. Organizational development, job enrichment and modern work attitudes.

IE 614 Data Information Systems (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Any one of CS 604 through CS 610 or equivalent, IE 604. Introduction to automated information systems planning and operations and their impact on management decision-making, control functions, and communication capabilities. An overview of concepts and procedures with applications in urban environments, large organizations and governmental agencies. Techniques presented include PERT/CPM, Gantt charting, cost-benefit analysis.

IE 615 Transportation and Distribution (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or equivalent. Introduction to transportation science with emphasis on physical distribution problems. Survey of operations research models and optimization strategies and their roles in transportation systems management.

IE 621 Linear Programming (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or equivalent. Thorough coverage of the techniques and applications of linear programming. Special simplex forms and optimality conditions, duality, and sensitivity are covered. Applications to network flow problems.

IE 622 Queueing Theory (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or equivalent. Elements of queueing theory including finite and infinite cases. Single server and multiple server parallel channels/series queues and special cases are analyzed.

IE 623 Decision Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 609 or equivalent. Decision theory; game theory; benefit-cost analyses under uncertainty; advanced engineering economic analysis.

IE 624 Quality Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 609 or equivalent. Concepts of quality and statistical quality analysis. Sampling techniques and decision processes.

IE 625 Advanced Mathematical Programming (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: CS 606 or equivalent, IE 621. Advanced mathematical programming techniques. Integer programming, goal programming, and multiple objective linear programming techniques will be covered. Computer applications will be demonstrated.

IE 643 Reliability and Maintainability (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 609 or equivalent. The basic theory and methodology of reliability and maintainability, including application of discrete and continuous distributions and statistical designs. Reliability, estimation, structure models and growth models.

IE 651 Human Engineering I (back to previous page)
An introduction to the design of machines, jobs and environments with consideration of ergonomic principles. Coverage of behavioral, anatomical, physiological, and organizational factors affecting performance, comfort and safety.

IE 652 Human Engineering II (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 651 or equivalent. Continuation of IE 651. In-depth analysis of selected topics in ergonomics including work physiology, anthropometry and signal detection theory. Laboratory experiments and reports included.

IE 655 Manufacturing Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Undergraduate courses in manufacturing or manufacturing work experience and consent of instructor. The principles of the theory of metal cutting and metal working for improving the manufacturing operations involving metal machining and metal working. An opportunity for students to thoroughly understand the experimental approaches used in manufacturing.

IE 661 Facility Infrastructure (back to previous page)
An overview of facilities planning and design considerations, with an emphasis on service and non-manufacturing facilities. Includes facilities planning approaches and procedures, ergonomic considerations, access and accommodation issues, flow of people and materials, facility services, and facility flexibility and adaptibility.

IE 671 Current Topics in Operations Research (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or permission of instructor. An examination of new developments or current practices in operations research. A topic will be selected for thorough study. Possible subject areas include nonlinear programming, network theory, scheduling techniques, specialized techniques, and specialized applications. Content may vary from trimester to trimester.

IE 672 Current Topics in Industrial Engineering (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or permission of the instructor. An examination of new developments or current practices in industrial engineering. A topic will be selected for thorough study. Possible subject areas include reliability, production engineering, human factors, and specialized applications. Content may vary from trimester to trimester.

IE 681 System Simulation (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 601, CS 606 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Methods of modeling and simulating man-machine systems. Thorough coverage of discrete event simulation. Random number generators and variate generations discussed. Use of a simulation package and several projects will be required.

IE 682 Advanced System Simulation (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 681 or equivalent. Emphasis will be on model-building and on design and analysis of simulation experiments for service and manufacturing systems. Student projects in real environments are required.

IE 683 Systems Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 601, IE 609 or equivalent, IE 614. Techniques and philosophies defining the concept of systems analysis are presented in detail, illustrated with large-scale case studies. Diverse systems are analyzed covering the social, urban, industrial and military spheres. Techniques include utility theory, decision analysis, and technological forecasting.

IE 685 Theory of Optimization (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 601, CS 606 or equivalent. Methods of nonlinear optimization and programming. Search methods including golden section and dichotomous; constrained and unconstrained optimization include Rosenbrocks and Fletcher-Powell algorithms. Penalty and barrier function methods.

IE 686 Production and Inventory Analysis (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: IE 601, IE 607 or equivalent. Inventory theory and models and their applications to production and operations. Methods of production including Kanban systems, JIT, MRP and their relations to fundamental inventory techniques with computer applications.

IE 687 Stochastic Processes (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 601 or equivalent. The theory and application of discrete and continuous-time stochastic processes. Areas of application include queueing, inventory, maintenance and probabilistic dynamic programming models.

IE 688 Design of Experiments (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: IE 609 or equivalent. Principles of modern statistical experimentation and practice use in basic designs for scientific and industrial experiments; single-factor experiments; randomized blocks; Latin squares; factorial and fractional factorial experiments; surface-fitting designs.

IE 690 Research Project (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours and permission of the program coordinator. Independent study under the guidance of an adviser into an area of mutual interest, study terminating in a technical report of academic merit. Research may constitute a survey of a technical area in industrial engineering or operations research, or  involve the solution of an actual or hypothetical technical problem.

IE 695 Independent Study I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of the program coordinator. Independent study under the guidance of an adviser in an area designated by the program coordinator.

IE 696 Independent Study II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Independent Study I.

IE 698 Thesis I (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours. Periodic meetings and discussions of the individual student's progress in the preparation of a thesis.

IE 699 Thesis II (back to previous page)
A continuation of Thesis I.