| Course |
Course Title |
Course Description |
| IE 1911 |
Intro to IE (Fall) |
Three hours laboratory. Concepts of industrial engineering, emphasizing the total systems approach. Introduction to analysis and design of general and industrial systems. |
| IE 3121 |
Industrial Ergonomics Laboratory (Fall) |
(Undergraduate Student Co-requisites: IE 4613, IE 3123; Graduate Student co-requisite: IE 4613). Three hours laboratory. Application of human factors/ergonomics concepts in structured assignments involving data collection, analysis, and report generation. Hands-on experience with sophisticated testing equipment. |
| IE 3123 |
Industrial Ergonomics (Fall) |
(Undergraduate Student Co-requisties: IE 4613, IE 3121; Graduate Student Co-requisite: IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Analysis of work tasks; ergonomic design principles for manual work design, workplace design, and work environment design; work measurements; and design of wage payment plans. |
| IE 3323 |
Manufacturing Processes |
(Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in IE 3913, Co-requisite: CHE 3413). Two hours lecture. Three hours laboratory. Manufacturing processes and materials; interrelationship of product design, material properties, and processing methods; robotics and CAM systems; economic factors in material, process, and equipment selection. |
| IE 3913 |
Engineering Economy I |
(Prerequisite: MA 1713). Three hours lecture. Principles of evaluating alternative engineering proposals. Economic measures of effectiveness, costs and cost estimates, basic comparative models, break even and replacement analysis. |
| IE 3913 |
Engineering Economy I (Maymester) |
(Prerequisite: MA 1713). Three hours lecture. Principles of evaluating alternative engineering proposals. Economic measures of effectiveness, costs and cost estimates, basic comparative models, break even and replacement analysis. |
| IE 4113/6113 |
Human Factors Engineering |
(Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering). Two hours lecture. Three hours laboratory. Human capabilities and limitations affecting communications and responses in man-machine systems. Emphasis on physiological and psychological fundamentals. |
| IE 4123/6123 |
Psychology of Human Computer Interaction |
(Prerequisites:PSY 3713 or CSE 4663/6663 or IE 4113/6113 or consent of the instructor) Two hours lecture. Two hours laboratory. Exploration of psychological factors that interact with computer interface usability. Interface design techniques and usability evaluation methods are emphasized. (Same as CS 4673/6673 and PSY 4743/6743). |
| IE 4173/6173 |
Occupational Safety Engineering |
(Prerequisite: Junior standing). Three hours lecture. Causes and prevention of industrial accidents. Analysis of hazardous processes and materials. Design of occupational safety systems and programs. (aggregate planning, inventory management) |
| IE 4193/6193 |
Automotive Engineering |
Three hours lecture. Fundamentals of automotive engineering, including power units, mechanical systems, electrical systems, and industrial and systems engineering aspects. (Same as CHE/ECE/ME 4193/6193). |
| IE 4333/6333 |
Production Control Systems I (Summer) |
(Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Principles, analysis, and design of production and inventory planning and control. Demand for forecasting, aggregated planning, inventory management, production scheduling, and control systems. |
| IE 4333/6333 |
Production Control Systems I (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Principles, analysis, and design of production and inventory planning and control. Demand for forecasting, aggregated planning, inventory management, production scheduling, and control systems. |
| IE 4353/6353 |
Material Handling |
(Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing). Three hours lecture. Analysis and design of material handling systems and components. Introduction to facilities design. |
| IE 4373/6373 |
Automation |
Two hours lecture. Three hours laboratory. Introduction to the various technologies used in both design and manufacturing automation. |
| IE 4513/6513 |
Engineering Administration (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: Junior or graduate standing in engineering). Three hours lecture. Study of problems confronting the engineering manager. Includes: Organization and communication theory, internal and external relationships and responsibilities, and designing and implementing managerial systems. |
| IE 4513/6513 |
Engineering Adminstration (Summer) |
(Prerequisite: Junior or graduate standing in engineering). Three hours lecture. Study of problems confronting the engineering manager. Includes: Organization and communication theory, internal and external relationships and responsibilities, and designing and implementing managerial systems. |
| IE 4533/6533 |
Project Management |
(Prerequisites: Grade or C or better in IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Use of CPM, PERT, and GERT for planning, managing and controlling projects. Computer procedures for complex networks. |
| IE 4543/6543 |
Logistics Engineering (Spring) |
(Prerequisite: IE 4613 or Senior or Graduate standing. Co-requsite: IE 4733 or MA 4733). Three hours lecture. Analysis of complex logistics networks. Integration of supply, production, inventory, transportation, and distribution. Strategies for reducing logistics costs and lead times. Customer-supplier partnerships. |
| IE 4553/6553 |
Engineering Law and Ethics |
(Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering). Three hours lecture. The engineer and his relations to the law, to the public, and the ethics of his profession. Includes contracts, patents, copyrights, sales agreements, engineering specifications. |
| IE 4573/6573 |
Process Improvement Engineering |
Three hours lecture. Introduction to quality and productivity improvement methodologies and tools. The design and implementation of continuous improvement systems in organizations. |
| IE 4613/6613 |
Engineering Statistics I (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: MA 1723). Three hours lecture. Introduction to statistical analysis. Topics include: probability, probability distributions, data analysis, parameter estimation, statistical intervals, and statistical inferences. |
| IE 4613/6613 |
Engineering Statistics I (Maymester) |
(Prerequisite: MA 1723). Three hours lecture. Introduction to statistical analysis. Topics include: probability, probability distributions, data analysis, parameter estimation, statistical intervals, and statistical inferences. |
| IE 4623/6623 |
Engineering Statistics II |
(Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Continuation of IE 4613/6613. Introduction to engineering applications of regression, experimental design and analysis, and nonparametric methods. |
| IE 4653/6653 |
Industrial Quality Control I (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: IE 4613). Three hours lecture. The theory and application of statistical quality control: statistical process control and statistical acceptance sampling. |
| IE 4673/6673 |
Reliability Engineering |
(Prerequisites: IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Probability functions and statistical methods for component life testing and system reliability prediction. System availability and maintainability. Redundancy in time-dependent and time-independent situations. |
| IE 4713/6713 |
Operation Research I |
(Prerequisite: IE 4613). Mathematical techniques of decision making, queuing, networks, simulation and dynamic programming. |
| IE 4733/6733 |
Linear Programming I (Spring) |
(Prerequisites: MA 3113). Three hours lecture. Theory and application of linear programming; simplex algorithm, revised simplex algorithm, duality, and sensitivity analysis, transportation and assignment problem algorithms, integer and goal programming. (Same as MA 4733/6733). |
| IE 4733/6733 |
Linear Programming I (Summer) |
(Prerequisites: MA 3113). Three hours lecture. Theory and application of linear programming; simplex algorithm, revised simplex algorithm, duality, and sensitivity analysis, transportation and assignment problem algorithms, integer and goal programming. (Same as MA 4733/6733). |
| IE 4743/6743 |
Engineering Design Optimization |
(Prerequisites: Consent of instructor). Three hours lecture. Introduction to optimality criteria and optimization techniques for solving constrained or unconstrained optimization problems. Sensitivity analysis and approximation. Computer application in optimization. Introduction to MDO. (Same as ASE 4553/6553 and EM 4143/6143) |
| IE 4753/6753 |
Systems Engineering and Analysis (Summer) |
(Prerequisite: IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Systems concepts, methodologies, models, and tools for analyzing, designing, and improving new and existing human-made systems. |
| IE 4753/6753 |
Systems Engineering & Analysis (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Systems concepts, methodologies, models, and tools for analyzing, designing, and improving new and existing human-made systems. |
| IE 4773/6773 |
Systems Simulation I |
(Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in IE 4613 and in IE 4934 or equivalent programming course). Three hours lecture. The principles of simulating stochastic systems with an emphasis on the statistics of simulation and the use of discreet-event simulation languages. |
| IE 4915 |
Design Of Industrial Systems |
(Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in the following courses : IE 3123, IE 3121, IE 3323, IE 4333) Two hour lecture. Eight hour laboratory. The fundamental procedures and techniques in design of operational systems. Emphasis on both sub-systems and total systems. |
| IE 4923/6923 |
Six Sigma Project |
(Prerequisites:IE 4623/6623 and IE 4653/6653). One hour lecture Four hours laboratory. Introduction of six sigma and problem solving methodologies. Application of learned methodologies in selecting, performing, and completing a process involvement project. |
| IE 4934/6934 |
Information Systems for Industrial Engineering |
(Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in IE 1911 or consent of instructor). Three hours lecture. Three hour laboratory. An introduction to the design and development of information systems for use in industrial engineering applications. |
| IE 8143 |
Applied Ergonomics Methods |
Three hours lecture. Provide practical usage and theoretical background of select tools for ergonomic evaluation of workers and work places, tasks, and environments using real world scenarios. |
| IE 8153 |
Cognitive Engineering |
Three hours lecture. Implications of human perceputal, cognitive, and psycho-motor capabilities on the design of systems for effective, efficient and safe human-machine performance. |
| IE 8163 |
Macroergonomics |
Three hours lecture. Provides a foundational review of Macrergonomics, examing the personnel, technolgical, and environmental factors influencing organizations. Addresses the relationship between macro- and micro- ergonomics. |
| IE 8333 |
Production Control Systems II |
(Prerequisites: IE 4333). Three hours lecture. Inventory systems, static and dynamic production planning, operations scheduling and forecasting systems. |
| IE 8353 |
Manufacturing Systems Modeling |
(Prerequisites: IE 4733 and IE 4773). Three hours lecture. A study of models used to describe and analyze manufacturing systems. Development of models using queuing networks, mathematical programming, simulation, and other techniques. |
| IE 8583 |
Enterprise Systems Engineering (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: Consent of instructor). Three hours lecture. Focuses on the design and improvement of an enterprise through the use of engineering tools and methods, based on the systems perspective of industrial engineering. |
| IE 8713 |
Mechanics and Control of Manufacturing Systems |
Three hours lecture. Design and operation of computer controlled machine tools. Kine-matics and control of robot manipulators. Industrial applications of robots. (Same as ME 8713) |
| IE 8723 |
Operations Research II (Fall) |
(Prerequisite: IE 4713). Problem formulation, general inventory theory, restricted inventory models. Markovian and queuing processes, sequencing and coordination, game theory, search problems. |
| IE 8733 |
Decision Theory (Summer) |
(Prerequisite IE 4613). Three hours lecture. A quantitative development of the decision making process. Criteria for decision making. Treatment of risk under uncertainty and in conflict situations. |
| IE 8743 |
Nonlinear Programming I |
(Prerequisite: IE 4733 or MA 4733). Three hours lecture. Optimization of nonlinear functions; quadratic programming, gradient methods, integer programming; Lagrange multipliers and Kuhn-Tucker theory.
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| IE 8753 |
Network Flow & Dynamic Programming (Fall) |
(Prerequisites: MA 2733 and IE 4613).Three hours lecture. Application of network optimization problems and network simplex algorithm;and dynamic programming to industrial/management problems. Study of serial and non-serial multistage systems--both deterministic and stochastic. Principles of optimality. |
| IE 8773 |
Systems Simulation II |
(Prerequisites: IE 4773/6773). Three hours lecture. Continuation of IE 4773/6773. Includes: Advanced theory and practice of simulation, the statistics of simulation, simulation languages, and continuous simulations. |
| IE 8793 |
Heuristics in Optimization |
(Prerequisite: IE 4733/6733 or IE 4713/6713). Three hours lecture. A study of heuristic methods and their applications to optimization problems. |
| IE 8913 |
Engineering Economy II |
(Prerequisites: IE 3913 and IE 4613). Three hours lecture. Advanced principles and methods for engineering analysis of industrial problems. Topics include criteria for decisions, project investment and analysis, and elements of risk and uncertainty. |
| IE 8990 |
Special Topic in IE - Occupational Physiology (Fall) |
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the physiological characteristics and responses of humans as they relate to the work environment. Discussions of applied techniques for performing physiological evaluations will be presented and discussed for the development/assessment of working conditions. |
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