Courses of Instruction

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE)

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.

105 Introduction to Industrial Engineering (3, FaSp) Introduction to the philosophy, subject matter, aims, goals, and techniques of industrial and systems engineering. Corequisite: COMP 101.

107 Technical Communications (3, FaSp) Written, oral, and visual communication of industrial/systems engineering. Formats and strategies for written documents; instruction and practice in oral presentations; ways to represent data visually. Prerequisite: COMP 101.

115 Manufacturing Processes (3, FaSp) Materials selection, cold and hot forming; rolling, extrusion, forging, and conventional metal removal processes; solidification and casting; composite and ceramic forming; numerical control and automation. Prerequisite: MASC 110L or CHEM 105aL or CHEM 115aL.

220 Probability Concepts in Engineering (3, FaSp) Techniques for handling uncertainties in engineering design: discrete and continuous random variables; expectations, probability distributions and transformations of random variables; limit theorems; approximations and applications. Prerequisite: MATH 226.

250 Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Systems (3, Sp) Roles of manufacturing enterprises in society, economy, and environment; their resources, related challenges, and problems; tools and technologies for their design, operation, and analysis. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.

325 Engineering Statistics I (3, FaSp) Sampling distributions; parameter estimation, hypothesis testing; analysis of variance; regression; nonparametric statistics. Prerequisite: ISE 220.

330 Introduction to Operations Research I (3, Fa) Introduction to linear programming; transportation and assignment problems; dynamic programming; deterministic inventory models and Markov chains. Prerequisite: MATH 225.

331 Introduction to Operations Research II (3, FaSp) Stochastic processes; Markov chains; queueing theory and queueing decision models; probabilistic inventory models; PERT-CPM; simulation and output analysis. Prerequisite: ISE 220, ISE 330.

360 Engineering Economy (3, FaSp) Utilizing principles of economic analysis for choice of engineering alternatives and engineering systems. Pre-tax and after-tax economy studies. Prerequisite: upper division standing.

370L Human Factors in Work Design (3, Sp) Physiological systems and psychological characteristics; ergonomics; anthropometry; effects of the physical environment on humans; occupational safety and health. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite: ISE 107, ISE 325.

390 Special Problems (1-4) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.

410 Production Planning and Control (3, Sp) Production systems, planning, and control; application of quantitative methods, operational research techniques, and computer integrated decision systems in analysis and control of production systems. Prerequisite: ISE 330.

411L Facilities Analysis and Design (3, FaSp) Plant and office layout for cost effective operations; facilities studied include manufacturing, printing, healthcare and financial institutions; material handling system design and equipment familiarization. Prerequisite: ISE 325.

415 Industrial Automation (3) Traditional (automobile) and modern (computer based) concepts in Industrial Automation. Computer control concepts (sensors, actuators), robotics, flexible manufacturing systems. Prerequisite: senior level status.

426 Statistical Quality Control (3, Sp) Quantitative aspects of statistical quality control (process control, acceptance sampling by attribute and by variable, rectifying inspection), quality assurance and the management of QC/QA functions. Prerequisite: ISE 325.

435 System Simulation in Industrial Engineering (3, FaSp) Model design to simulate discrete event systems with elementary input and output analysis through the use of high order languages, applied to industrial engineering problems. Prerequisite: ISE 220, CSCI 101L; corequisite: ISE 325.

440 Social Organization and Technology (3) Socio-technical work design principles; joint optimization of the social/ structural and technological components of computer-based automation systems. Assembly line, CAD, CAM and CIM exercises. Prerequisite: senior level standing in Engineering.

450 Systems Methodology and Design (3, Fa) Principles for integrating traditional engineering problem solving methods with systems theory, management science, behavioral science decision theory, and planning and design approaches; case studies. Prerequisite: ISE 107; senior level standing in Engineering.

457 Modeling of Manufacturing Systems (3, Sp) Methodologies and tools for design, operations planning, and control, and performance analysis of production systems. Roles of optimization, analytical evaluation, and simulation are discussed and demonstrated. Prerequisite: ISE 220; CSCI 101L; MATH 225, MATH 226.

477L Work Analysis and Design (3, FaSp) Methods improvement and work measurement for productivity and quality improvement; approaches to work measurement; methodologies and techniques for improvement of work methods. Prerequisite: ISE 325.

482 Introduction to Computer Systems (3) Fundamental concepts of modern computer systems; design of industrial information systems including hardware selection, software design, human/machine interface, and data processing economics. Prerequisite: CSCI 101L.

490x Directed Research (2-8, max 8, FaSp) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit. Prerequisite: departmental approval.

495x Senior Design Project (3, FaSp) Group work on an industrial engineering design problem in an organization. Not available for graduate credit. Prerequisite: senior standing.

498abcdex Preparation for Graduate Study in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2-4-2-1-1) Elements of industrial and systems engineering pertaining to: a: principles of engineering economy; b: facilities design and materials handling, production planning and control, and work analysis and design; c: human factors in work design; d: probability; e: statistics. Not available for credit to ISE majors, graduate or undergraduate.

499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8) Course content to be selected each semester from recent developments in industrial and systems engineering and related fields.

511L Computer Aided Manufacturing (3, Sp) Modern industrial automation, numerical control concepts, programmable controllers, robotics, computer-process interfacing, automated process and quality control, flexible manufacturing systems, introduction to computer-integrated manufacturing systems.

513 Inventory Systems (3, Sp) Deterministic and stochastic demand systems with static/dynamic models. Practice in inventory management, computerized procedures, materials requirements planning, just-in-time production, Kanban systems.

514 Industrial Scheduling (3, Sp) Resource allocation and scheduling, single and multi-resource cases, flow shop and job shop scheduling, on-line scheduling, heuristics, scheduling in large scale systems.

515 Engineering Project Management (3, Sp) Methods of planning and controlling engineering projects with computer tools and industrial engineering skills.

516 Facilities Location and Layout (3, Sp) Problems of location and layout for single or multiple facilities; applications in plant, warehouse, emergency service contexts; quantitative models and solution techniques for these problems.

517 Computer Integrated Manufacturing (3, Fa) Flexible automation, group technology, database systems in manufacturing, computer automated design and process planning, benchmarking, computer integrated production management systems, system integration and concurrent engineering.

520 Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (3, Sp) Conditions for optimality. Nonlinear programming algorithms for constrained and unconstrained problems. Special problems such as quadratic, separable, fractional, geometric programming. Prerequisite: MATH 225 or EE 441, or departmental approval.

525 Intermediate Engineering Statistics II (3, Fa) Intermediate statistical methods in design of experiments; analysis of variance and hypothesis testing.

527 Advanced Quality Control (3, Fa) Advanced topics in the economic design and use of acceptance sampling and control charting; applications of modern statistical theory in the quality assurance.

528 Advanced Statistical Aspects of Engineering Reliability (3, Sp) Advanced statistical methods applied to reliability engineering. Experimental design analysis and interpretation of multifactor reliability problems.

530 Introduction to Operations Research (4, Sp) Linear programming, integer proignment problems, networks, dynamic programming, Markovian models, and queueing. Prerequisite: MATH 225, ISE 220.

532 Network Flows (3, Sp) Tree, path, flow problems, formulation and solution techniques. Methods for minimal cost flows. Applications. Prerequisite: ISE 330 or ISE 536 or departmental approval.

535 Continuous Systems Simulation (3, Sp) Analysis of continuous systems via simulation; concepts of combined discrete and continuous system modeling; emphasis on simulation of large-scale industrial and systems engineering problems and related physical systems.

536 Linear Programming and Extensions (3, Sp) Linear programming models for resource allocation; simplex and revised simplex methods; duality; sensitivity; transportation problems; selected extensions to large scale, multiobjective, and special structured models. Prerequisite: MATH 225 or EE 441 or departmental approval.

537 Discrete Optimization (3) Modeling and theory for discrete optimization problems. Integer programming algorithms. Selected combinatorial problems such as matching, traveling salesman, Chinese postman, set covering, coloring problems. Applications.

538 Elements of Stochastic Processes (3, Sp) Random variables, stochastic processes, birth-and-death processes, continuous and discrete time Markov chains with finite and infinite number of states, renewal phenomena, queueing systems.

540 Advanced Topics in Work Measurement and Methods Analysis (3, Fa) Derivation and application of standards and the analysis and design of human work tasks. Review and discussion of literature.

541 Systems Engineering Methodology (3, Fa) Integration of engineering problem solving methodologies based on systems concepts. Application to complex, large scale technical systems and problems faced by engineering managers. Case studies. Prerequisite: ISE 515.

544 Engineering Team Design (3, Sp) Design and management of engineering/ professional project teams and production work groups. Product/technology innovation cases integrated with group dynamic theory and sociotechnical design principles.

549ab Systems Architecting (3-3, Fa) (Enroll in AE 549ab)

550 The Political Process in Systems Architecture Design (3, Fa) Exploration and analysis of the intimate interaction between the political process and the engineering design process in high-tech, high-cost programs. "Designing the politics in." Prerequisite: undergraduate degree in engineering or related field plus two years of work experience.

561 Advanced Engineering Economy (3, Sp) Advanced topics. Economic evaluation of engineering systems for both government and private industry; quantitative techniques for evaluating non-monetary consequences; formal treatment of risk and uncertainty.

562 Value and Decision Theory (3, Fa) Decision making under risk conditions; utility theory; sufficient statistics; conjugate prior distributions; terminal and pre-posterior analysis; Bayesian statistics versus classical statistics.

564 Productivity Analysis (3) Analytical models and measurement systems for productivity analysis. Methodological problems in factory level and industry level productivity measurement. Output measurement for service sector, "information workers" and R&D. Prerequisite: ISE 360 and microeconomics.

570 Human Factors in Engineering (3, Fa) Psychological and physiological characteristics of humans; how they limit engineering design of machines and human-machine systems.

573 Work Physiology (3) Survey of metabolic processes in the performance of physical work, study of individual and environmental factors affecting these processes.

574 Cognitive Engineering (3, Sp) Design of optimal work stations and work processes based on human cognitive capability. Effects of memory, attention, and mental models on human performance. Prerequisite: computer programming experience and either HUFA 537 or ISE 570.

575 Systems Control Theory (3) A theoretical study of the principles of feedback control in continuous and lumped parameter systems. Stochastic inputs. Applications to man-machine systems and quality control problems. Prerequisite: ISE 325.

578L Intelligent Interface (3) Improvement of interface between human and machine using artificial intelligence and human factors engineering techniques; knowledge representation and engineering; text understanding; LISP and Prolog exercises.

580 Statistics of Simulation (3, Fa) Statistical analysis of simulation input/ output data, random number generators, random variable generation, validation of simulation models, variance-reduction techniques, Monte Carlo. Prerequisite: ISE 325, ISE 435x.

590 Directed Research (1-12) Research leading to the master's degree; maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

594abz Master's Thesis (2-2-0) Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC.

599 Special Topics (2-4, max 9, Fa) Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of industrial and systems engineering.

650abcd Seminar in Industrial Engineering (1/2, 1/2, 1/2, 1/2, FaSp) Reports on current departmental research; review of papers, proposals, and special projects; guest speakers. Required of all students enrolled in Ph.D. program.

680 Modeling and Simulation in Industrial Engineering (3)

685 Seminar in Advanced Topics in Industrial Engineering (2, max 4)

690 Directed Research (1-4, max 8, FaSpSm) Laboratory study of specific problems by candidates for the degree Engineer in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Graded CR/NC.

790 Research (1-12, FaSpSm) Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

794abcdz Doctoral Dissertation (2-2-2-2-0) Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded IP/CR/NC.