1002 Industrial Engineering Fundamentals (3) Design;
introduction to computers; description of the profession.
Syllabus
2060 Introduction to the Use of Computers (3) Prereq.:
eligibility to take MATH 1550 or equivalent ; and credit
or registration in IE 1002. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab.
Principles of digital programming; application of
subroutines; application of electronic computers to typical engineering problems; OS operation, M icrosoft Office, and
Groupware.
Syllabus
3201 Principles of Engineering Economy (3) Planning
economy studies for decision making, including considerations
of rate of return, cost and yield studies, depreciation
and tax relationships, increment costs, replacement, and
introduction to multivariate alternative studies.
Syllabus
3302 Engineering Statistics (3) Prereq.: Grade of C or
better in MATH 1552 and PHYS 2102. Probability,
discrete and continuous distributions, functions of random
variables, estimation theory, tests of hypotheses including
goodness-of-fit and independence.
Syllabus
3520 Supply Chain Logistics I (3) Prereq.: IE 1002,
MATH 2090, and grade of C or better in IE 3302.
Introduction to Supply Chains and Production Systems.
Optimization and modeling in logistics systems;
Fundamentals of production control in supply
chains–forecasting, capacity planning, and inventory control.
Syllabus
4362 Advanced Engineering Statistics (3) Prereq.:
Grade of C or better in IE 3302. Linear regression and
correlation, curvilinear regression, analysis of variance,
and factorial experiments.
Syllabus
4425 Information Systems Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE
2060. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Analysis and design of
information systems; projects relating comprehensive
computer systems to typical industrial and service
applications; ethics and professionalism.
Syllabus
4426 Distributed Information Systems Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4425 or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab.
Interfacing programs to databases; analysis and
development of client-server applications in industrial and
business settings; interfacing databases and industrial
applications to the Internet; analysis, design, and
implementation of industrial and business networks.
Syllabus
4453 Quality Control & Six Sigma (3) Prereq.: Grade of
C or better in IE 3302. Principles and practice of quality
assurance and control; theory of statistical sampling and
control and related economic analysis; Quality Systems;
Six Sigma principles and practice.
Syllabus
4461 Human Factors Engineering (3) Prereq.: senior
standing. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Human performance in
human-machine systems, including information processing,
display and control design, workplace design, and environmental
effects on worker performance.
Syllabus
4462 Safety Engineering (3) Occupational safety and health and accident prevention management; design and
implementation of safety programs; cost analysis; control
of hazardous physical and environmental conditions.
Syllabus
4463 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene Engineering
(3) Prereq.: senior standing. Basic principles of chemical
hazards, air contamination, ionizing and nonionizing radiation,
sound and vibration, and thermal stresses; theoretical
foundation and application of theory in the control of
occupational health hazards.
Syllabus
4465 Biomechanics for Engineers (3) Also offered asBE 4323.
Mechanical behavior of the human musculoskeletal system
and component tissue when physical work is performed;
engineering mechanics applied to the activities;
fundamental knowledge of human anatomy and
physiology; workplace design.
Syllabus
4466 Human Computer Interaction (3) Prereq.: IE 2060
or equivalent. Systems approach to the identification, design,
analysis, and development of human-operated information
processing systems; applications to practical
problems in industry, military, health systems, and
education.
Syllabus
4470 Knowledge-Based Systems in Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4425 or equivalent computer experience. 2
hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Tools and techniques of
knowledge-based expert systems as applied to engineering
problems; expert systems theory; systems building tools;
state-of-the-art engineering expert systems.
Syllabus
4480 Manufacturing Automation (3) Prereq.: IE 3201
and ME 3633. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Application of
computer-based control system techniques to
manufacturing automation; programming of numerically
controlled machine tools using Compact II and APT;
robotics with multidegree of freedom linkages; NC
programming using CAD/CAM; computer-automated part
programming.
Syllabus
4485 Systems Integration in Manufacturing (3) Prereq.:
IE 2060, ME 3633; EE 2950. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab.
Principles and application of information technologies to
monitoring, control, and integration of manufacturing
operations at all levels w ithin the organization.
Syllabus
4490 Engineering M aintenance M anagement (3) Prereq.: IE 1002, 3302, and credit or registration in IE
4425. Design, operation, and monitoring of a system to
efficiently control maintenance costs; maintenance organization
and systems, preventive maintenance, maintenance
planning and scheduling, maintenance work measurement,
labor performance measures, and spare parts.
Syllabus
4516 Plant and Systems Design (3) Prereq.: IE 3201,
3520; grade of C or better in IE 3520; CM 2141; and
senior standing in College of Engineering. Machine
loading, assembly balancing techniques, design of
physical-manufacturing systems, integrating materialshandling
systems into the plant, design of plant service
systems, site and plant location, and projects involving
plant design using optimization techniques; ethics and
professionalism.
Syllabus
4520 Supply Chain Logistics II (3) Prereq.: G rade of C
or better in IE 3520. Supply chain management; supply
chain modeling and design; distribution systems;
transportation systems; supply chain information
technologies.
Syllabus
4530 Lean M anufacturing Systems (3) Prereq.: IE 2060,
3520 and credit or registration in IE 4362. 2 hrs. lecture;
3 hrs. lab. Principles of Lean Manufacturing Systems;
Queuing Theory and Analysis; M easurement and
Assessment-Industrial Process Mapping, Workflow
Analysis; Improvement Activities-Process and Operational
Variability Reduction, Resource Reduction, Work-in-
Process Reduction, W aste Reduction, Zero Inventory and
Just-in-time Production Systems; Design for Lean
Manufacturing; Material and Shop Floor Flow Control;
Simulation Modeling and Analysis of Lean Systems.
Syllabus
4540 Reliability Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 3302. Reliability
in design; reliability models; reliability assessment
during pre-production development and testing; and special
problems in maintenance, spare parts, and Markov
processes.
Syllabus
4599 Industrial Engineering Senior Design Project (3) Prereq.: IE 4425, 4453, 4516, 4520, 4530 and ME 3633.
Must be taken during the last semester of the
undergraduate program. For December graduates, must
be taken in fall semester immediately prior to graduation;
for spring or summer graduates, must be taken in the
spring semester immediately prior to graduation. Student
not meeting this requirement will be dropped from the
course. Application of previous industrial engineering
courses in a comprehensive design project; preparation for
the FE exam in industrial engineering.
Syllabus
4785 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering (1-3) Prereq.: senior standing. May be taken for a max. of 6
hrs. of credit when topics vary. Two sections may be taken
concurrently if topics vary. Topics in industrial
engineering not sufficiently covered in other undergraduate
courses.
7201 Advanced Engineering Economy (3) Prereq.: IE 3201 or equivalent. Engineering economic analysis, multiple projects and constraints, utility in project selection, preference ordering theory, and capital equipment pricing theory.
7211 Project Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 3201 or equivalent. Large-scale engineering construction or development projects from schematic to online condition.
7382 Probability Theory in Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4362 or equivalent. Random variables and their functions; transformation of random variables; sets of random variables and random sequences; expectation, special distributions, random processes, discrete and continuous
Markov processes, birth and death processes, and waiting line theory.
7408 Industrial Systems Simulation (3) Prereq.: IE 4530 or equivalent. Design and analysis of simulation models for industrial systems including advanced techniques for random number generation, random variate generation, design and analysis of simulation experiments, and
variance reduction techniques.
7425 Advanced Information Systems Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4425 or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Advanced concepts of information systems engineering with emphasis on middleware architectures/technologies for integrating databases; design issues and methodology
for developing and implementing distributed information systems; and design and implementation of datawarehouses and online analytical precessing (OLAP) systems.
7453 Advanced Quality Control (3) Prereq.: IE 4453 or equivalent. Advanced procedures of statistical quality control, statistical analysis of quality control data, economic aspects of quality assurance, human element in quality control, and relationship of quality control to productivity and to ability of American products to compete in world markets.
7461 Ergonomics in Work Design (3) Prereq.: IE 4461 or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Introduction to anthropometry, functional anatomy and physiology, and their application in work design and task assessment.
7463 Industrial Hygiene Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4463 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Evaluation and control of industrial environments; noise and vibration, industrial illumination, radiation, thermal stresses, air quality and contamination; design of ventilation systems.
7464 Work Physiology (3) Prereq.: IE 4461 or equivalent. Study of worker's physiological responses (cardiovascular, pulmonary, muscular) to work applicable to task design and evaluation, employee selection and placement, and work-rest scheduling.
7465 Occupational Biomechanics (3) Prereq.: IE 4461 or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Principles of biomechanics applied to human movement; applications to work systems such as manual materials handling and tool design.
7466 Human Interaction with Computers (3) Prereq.: IE 4461 or IE 4466 or equivalent. Ergonomics of the use of interactive computer systems; general characteristics and requirements of people-oriented computer systems from the perspective of different disciplines and tasks, e.g., text editing.
7470 Artificial Intelligence M anufacturing Systems (3) Prereq.: IE 4425 or equivalent. Application of artificial intelligence tools and techniques to computer integrated manufacturing systems including maintenance, product design, process planning, factory scheduling and control, robotics, and intelligent warehouse systems.
7480 Automation and Computer-Aided M anufacturing (3) Prereq.: IE 3201 and MATH 1552; or equivalent. Automated flow-line production, numerical control, industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing, process monitoring and control, group technology, flexible manufacturing systems, and material requirements planning.
7485 Advanced M icrocomputer Applications (3) Prereq.: IE 4485 or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Advanced topics in microprocessors/microcomputer control in manufacturing; input/output design; interfacing; hardware and software considerations.
7490 Advanced M aintenance M anagement (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 and 4490 or equivalent. Statistical and operations research applied to maintenance management.
7540 Advanced Reliability Engineering (3) Prereq.: IE 4540 or equivalent. Analysis of reliability, maintainability, and availability of large production facilities; applications to a variety of manufacturing environments.
7541 Linear Programming Algorithms (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or equivalent. Optimization of linear objective functions subject to linear constraints; vector spaces, convex analysis, polyhedral sets; matrix versions of simplex, revised simplex, bounded variables; duality theory and primal-dual simplex algorithms; postoptimal and parametric analysis; decomposition, and cutting plane
algorithms.
7551 Queuing Theory (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or equivalent. Fundamentals of queuing processes, transient and limiting behavior, measures of effectiveness; birth and death processes, single and multi-server queues, priorities, balking, batch arrivals, and services; matrix representation of certain queuing systems; applications, statistical inference, design and control of queues.
7561 Programming M ethods in Operations Research (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or equivalent. Aspects of advanced programming methods for unconstrained and constrained problems; development of goal, zero-one, gert, and multiple objective programming with application to industrial processes and planning.
7571 Network M odeling and Optimization (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or equivalent. Network analysis; shortest path algorithms, minimal cost network flows, transportation and
assignment problems, transshipment problems, optimal network flows, out-of-kilter algorithm, maximal flow algorithms, single and multi-commodity flows; applications to manufacturing and service industries.
7640 Equipment Failure Analysis and Prevention (3) Prereq.: credit or registration in IE 4540 or equivalent. Analysis, monitoring, and prevention of failures in mechanical equipment; failure mechanisms; mechanical failure analysis techniques; Weibull failure analysis techniques;
and failure management.
7642 Administration of Engineering and Technical Personnel (3) Prereq.: consent of instructor. Also offered as CHE 7302. Problems encountered by engineering personnel in administering other engineers and/or technical personnel; human relations; engineer as leader, supervisor, and administrator; wage and salary administration.
7645 M anagement of Technology (3) Cross-listed with MGT 7001. Importance of technology management to state, region, nation, company, industry; management of R&D and product/process development; preparation of business plans; differences between invention, innovation, and role of entrepreneur.
7720, 7721 Industrial Engineering Problems (1-3,1-3) May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. Special topic courses or independent study based on student interest in specialized industrial engineering areas such as design and analysis of complex production and supply-chain control, maintenance, quality control, and reliability; ergonomics and human-computer interaction, and information systems.
7761 Production Planning and Control (3) Prereq.: IE 4520 or 3520 or equivalent. Deterministic and probabilistic inventory models, static and dynamic models for production planning; multi-stage, multi-echelon production systems; sequencing and scheduling; line balancing and workforce scheduling.
7762 Supply Chain Systems (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or 4520, or equivalent. Components in supply chain systems; product life-cycle modeling, rotational production and supply, integrated component supply systems, multi-source supplier and buyer systems, just-in-time supply chain systems, warehousing and distribution systems, supply transportation system, and information technology for supply chain systems.
7765 Lean Production Systems (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or 4520, or equivalent. Principles and components of lean production systems; industrial process mapping, workflow analysis; resource reduction; market characterization, logistics information and error propagation; reduction of work-in-process, waster reduction, zero inventory and justin- time production systems; material flow control; process and operational variability reduction; role of buffers and
process stabilization.
7768 Sequencing and Scheduling (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or 4520 or equivalent. Measures of scheduling; deterministic models for single and parallel machines, job shops, flow shops, and open shops; stochastic scheduling models for machines, job shops, flow shops, and open shops;
computational complexity and industrial applications.
7771 Design of M anufacturing Systems (3) Prereq.: IE 3520 or 4520 or equivalent. Principles in modeling, analysis, design, and operations; mass production, cellular manufacturing, machine location and layout, job routing and loading strategy; material handling and storage/retrieval systems.
7899 Seminar (1) All industrial engineering graduate students are expected to enroll every semester. Only 1 sem. hr. of credit allowed toward degree. Pass-fail grading.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) “S”/“U” grading.
