I E 640 Decision Support Systems in Industrial Engineering 4(3,2) Design of decision support systems for production and service systems based on operations research models. Use of spreadsheets, databases, and integrated software development environments to implement decision support systems. Preq: I E 280; CP SC 161 or I E 220.
I E 652 Reliability Engineering 3(3,0) Probabilistic approach to assessing system reliability. Methods for analyzing serial, parallel, and complex systems. Reliability life testing and its acceleration are covered. Essential elements of maintainability are identified and related to system availability. Preq: I E 360.
I E 656 Supply Chain Design and Control 3(3,0) Industrial engineering aspects of supply chains including design and control of material and information systems. Preq: I E 386.
I E 660 Quality Improvement Methods 3(3,0) Study of modern quality improvement techniques presented in an integrated, comprehensive context. Preq: Senior standing.
I E 661 Quality Engineering 3(3,0) Design aspects of quality and the engineer's role in problems of quality in production systems. Preq: I E 360.
I E 665 Facilities Planning and Design 3(3,0) Study of the principles and techniques of plant layout. Economic selection of materials handling equipment and integration of this equipment into the layout plan to provide effective product flow. Quantitative techniques for evaluation of facilities plans. A design project is required. Preq: I E 280.
I E 682 Systems Modeling 4(4,0) Modeling of discrete industrial systems using a digital computer. The purpose, theory, and techniques of system modeling are presented. Preq: I E 381.
I E (B E, EE&S) 684 Municipal Solid Waste Management 3(3,0) See EE&S 684.
I E 685 Industrial Systems Engineering 3(3,0) Modeling and analysis of multistage decision processes, recursive optimization, process and system design, and control problems. Preq: I E 280, 381.
I E 687 Industrial Safety 3(3,0) Recognition and prevention of hazards; recognition and control of hazardous materials; developing and managing a safety program; designing inherently safe equipment and workplaces. Preq: Junior standing.
I E 689 Industrial Ergonomics and Automation 3(2,3) Physical ergonomics and ergonomics in industrial settings including work physiology, the physical environment, automated systems, and hybrid work systems. Preq: I E 210.
I E 691 Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering 1-3(0-3,0-9) Comprehensive study of any timely or special topic in industrial engineering not included in other courses. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 800 Human Factors Engineering 3(3,0) Fundamentals of design for human use; human performance; applications of abilities, and limitations to the design of tools, machines, facilities, tasks, and environments for efficient, safe, and comfortable human use. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 801 Design and Analysis of Human-Machine Systems 3(3,0) Methodologies used in the design and evaluation of human-machine systems including function and task analysis; questionnaires and interviews; scenarios, mock-ups, and prototypes; participative design, empirical testing, and iterative design; models of human-system interaction; analysis and classification of human error; and design of job performance and training aids. Preq: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
I E 802 Design of Human-Computer Systems 3(3,0) Issues in designing, implementing, maintaining, and refining the user interface of interactive computer systems including interface design theories, models, principles, and guidelines; interaction styles; input and output devices; system messages; screen design, manuals, on-line help, and tutorials; and iterative design, testing, and evaluation. Preq: I E 801 or consent of instructor.
I E 803 Engineering Optimization and Applications 3(3,0) Introduction to optimization through the study of problems related to the planning, design, and control of production/manufacturing systems; classical nonlinear optimization and algorithmic procedures, primal and dual problems with postoptimality analysis, Markov chains. Preq: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
I E 804 Manufacturing Systems Planning and Design 3(3,0) Concepts and principles associated with the design of manufacturing systems with a focus on modeling and integration methodologies; group technology, process planning, manufacturing modeling, and design for manufacturing. Preq: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
I E 805 Foundations in Quality Engineering 3(3,0) Fundamental tools of quality engineering and their application to real situations; advanced statistical process control, design of experiments, Taguchi techniques, and Shainin methodologies. Preq: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
I E 807 Discrete Systems Simulation 3(3,0) Constructing computer models to represent existing real-world systems or hypothetical future systems; experimenting with these models to explain system behavior, improve system performance, or design new systems with desirable performances. Preq: MTHSC 302 and I E 809 or consent of instructor.
I E 809 Model Systems Under Risk 3(3,0) Application of probabilistic methods to engineering problem solving and decision making. Cases are presented illustrating use of Markov chains, queuing processes, and other stochastic models in practice. Preq: MTHSC 302 or consent of instructor.
I E 811 Human Factors in Quality Control 3(3,0) Aspects of use of the human as a detector of product quality, serving as the basis for a taxonomy of human tasks in inspection; incorporates models of visual search and human decision making within the quality control framework. Preq: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
I E 812 Work Science and Design 3(3,0) Design methods for work and work systems; scientific and engineering basis of work and its analysis. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 813 Occupational Ergonomics 3(3,0) Theory and applications of ergonomics at work; human performance, fatigue, stress, work patterns, work environment.
I E 815 Research Methods in Ergonomics 3(2,2) Contexts and processes for research in ergonomics with emphasis on engineering problems; scientific and engineering methods; measurement; visual and physical tasks; simulation, laboratory and archival studies. Preq: MTHSC 884 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
I E 860 Dynamic Programming 3(3,0) Theory and methodology of dynamic programming; Bellman's principle of optimality; Mitten's sufficiency conditions; recursive optimization of serial and nonserial multistage systems; optimization of discrete and continuous systems through decomposition; special aspects of problem formulation. Preq: I E 803.
I E 865 Facility Planning and Design 3(3,0) Planning and design of industrial facilities emphasizing automated production facilities; quantitative approaches to equipment design and evaluation of performance. Preq: I E 803.
I E 871 Industrial Testing and Quality 3(3,0) Design and use of component and product tests; automated inspection; test and inspection in integrated systems; cost-based models. Preq: I E 661.
I E 880 Advanced Methods of Operations Research 3(3,0) Methods and applications of advanced operations research techniques; discrete optimization, integer, and mixed integer programming, Boolean minimization, network optimization, permutization methods on implicit enumeration. Preq: I E 803 or consent of instructor.
I E 884 Advanced Engineering Economic Analysis 3(3,0) Engineering economic analysis for engineering research, development, and construction projects emphasizing detailed treatment of tax effects, methods for determining discount rates, proper use of economic criteria in various decision environments (certainty vs. uncertainty, single vs. multiple project selections, etc.). Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 886 Operations Research in Production Control 3(3,0) Latest techniques in scientific inventory management, scheduling, and forecasting; operations research; statistics; computer methods; case studies. Preq: I E 803.
I E 888 Advanced Probabilistic Methods 3(3,0) Advanced treatment of stochastic optimization, potentially including single and multiple channel queues, Markov programming, and stochastic optimal control. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 890 Special Problems in Industrial Engineering 1-3(1-3,0) Principles and methods of industrial engineering applied to analysis of a current interest problem. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits. To be taken Pass/Fail only. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 891 Master's Thesis Research 1-12
I E 892 Master's Design Project 3(1,6) Design project in industrial systems; integration of industrial engineering principles and methodologies; resolution of contemporary systems design problems. Project requires research, development, implementation planning, reporting, and project assessment. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 893 Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering 1-3(1-3,0) Selected topics in industrial engineering emphasizing new developments in systems science, systems analysis, and operations research. May be repeated for credit. Preq: Consent of instructor.
I E 895 Industrial Engineering Research Techniques 1(1,0) Series of weekly one-hour lectures given by students, faculty, and guests on methods and issues involved in industrial engineering research. To be taken Pass/Fail only.
I E 971 Advanced Quality Engineering Seminar 3(3,0) Current topics in the research and development of quality engineering methodologies. Preq: I E 871 or consent of instructor.
I E 991 Doctoral Dissertation Research 1-12