INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING (ISE)

ISE 2000. Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Computers.  Lec. 1. Lab. 3. Credit 2.
Prerequisite: ENGR 1120. Industrial engineering and computer methodology for the design of various components of industrial systems.

ISE 2900.  Industrial Engineering Seminar. Lec. 1.  Credit 1.
Prerequisite:  Sophomore standing in industrial engineering or consent of instructor. Current topics in industrial engineering.

ISE 3100. Engineering Economy. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: MATH 1920. Concepts and techniques useful in the economic evaluation of engineering alternatives.

ISE 3110. Principles of Engineering Economy. Lec. 2. Credit 2.
Prerequisite: MATH 1920. An abbreviated version of IME 3100.

ISE 3200. Engineering Statistics. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: MATH 1920, Junior standing. Engineering applications of probability and inferential statistics including statistical distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, simple and multiple regression.

ISE 4210 3220. Design of Experiments. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200. Process improvement techniques including stepwise regression, multi-factor experiments, Taguchi methods and subgrouping strategies for effective control chart usage.

ISE 3300. Human Factors Engineering.  Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Corequisites: ISE 2000, ISE 3200. A study of the limitations of humans in production and other man-machine systems in the context of work system design.

ISE 3310.  Process Improvement Techniques.  Lec. 3. Lab. 3. Credit 4.
Prerequisite: ISE 3200. Metrics and standards in production and service systems; techniques for process improvement, including ergonomics, work measurement, and methods analysis.

ISE 3400. Operations Research.  Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: MATH 1920. Corequisite: ISE 3100, MATH 2010. Methods for optimizing the design of industrial systems using operations research techniques such as linear programming, dynamic programming and nonlinear programming.

ISE 3410. Simulation of Industrial Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ENGR 1120, ISE 3200, ISE 3400, and ISE 3800, or consent of instructor. Design and development of computer-based models of industrial systems.

ISE 4800 3800. Information Systems for Industrial Engineering.  Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ENGR 1120 or equivalent, junior standing in engineering. Corequisites: ISE 3410, ISE 4210, ISE 4500, ISE 4600. Design and development of information systems; utilization of information systems for design and analysis of complex industrial engineering systems.

ISE 3900. Industrial Engineering Seminar. Rec. 2. Credit 1.
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Topics of interest to industrial engineers. Technical communication and program arrangement and management.

ISE 3910.  Engineering Leadership and Project Management.  Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.  
Prerequisite: Junior standing in an engineering major and consent of instructor. Introduction to engineering leadership roles and issues; technical leadership; tools, concepts and techniques for engineering project management.

ISE 3920. Fundamentals of Engineering Design. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ECE 3910 or ISE 3200. Introduction to application and management of the engineering design process, including team development; design issues related to product life cycle, economics, manufacturing, and safety; design communication; and design project management.

ISE 3230 4230. Quality Control.  Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 3200. Techniques of quality control and process improvement including control charts, acceptance sampling, design and analysis of experiments.

ISE 4240 (5240). Quality Engineering. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 3230. Application of quality engineering methods for continuous improvement of system performance and reliability.

ISE 4320 (5320). Occupational Safety and Health. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 3300 or consent of instructor. The technical, legal and social issues relating to safe work environment. Hazard control for safety and health.

ISE 4330 (5330). Ergonomics in Manufacturing Systems. Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200, ISE 3300. The design principles and strategies to incorporate the human component in a system dedicated to manufacturing products.

ISE 4400. Advanced Topics in Operations Research. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200, ISE 3400, ISE 3800. Corequisite: ISE 3410. Continuation of ISE 3400. Additional operations research techniques that can be utilized to optimize the design of complex industrial systems are examined. Limitations of computer solutions for these techniques are also evaluated.

ISE 4450. Engineering Design Using Expert Systems. Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ENGR 1120, ISE 3200, ISE 3400, ISE 3800. An introduction to expert systems with significant emphasis on the use of an expert system as a decision support tool in systems design.

ISE 4500. Facilities and Material Handling Systems Design. Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 3100, ISE 3310, ISE 3400. Prerequisite: ISE 3220, ISE 3410, ISE 3910, and consent of instructor.Planning and designing industrial physical facilities. Design project required.

ISE 4510. Engineering Design Internship. Lab. 9. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: Senior standing and consent of instructor. Corequisite: ISE 4500. Real and unstructured projects in the design of industrial systems.

ISE 4550 (5550). Product Development and Engineering. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ME 3010, ISE 3100. Corequisite: CEE 3110. An introduction to industry's best practices in product development and the role of engineering as both participant and manager of product development efforts. 

ISE 4600 (5600). Production Control. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 2000, ISE 3310, ISE 3400, Senior standing. Design and operation of production and inventory control systems in different types of manufacturing companies and service organizations.

ISE 4610 (5610). Computer-Aided Manufacturing. Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 2000, ME 3010. Computer numerical control machine tool path development. Process planning system design. Cellular manufacturing systems. Design project required.

ISE 4620 (5620). Metrology and Inspection. Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ME 3010. Corequisite: ISE 3200 or ISE 3230. Inspection tolerances and allowances, mechanical, electrical, optical, and pneumatic equipment in process and automatic gaging. Design of gages.

ISE 4650. Manufacturing, Quality, and Productivity. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3100, ISE 4600, ME 3010. Review of current industrial engineering techniques relevant to manufacturing, service, quality and productivity. Design project required.

ISE 4910.  Industrial Engineering Seminar. Lec. 1. Credit 0.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in industrial engineering; to be taken the semester in which the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam is taken. Review of industrial engineering topics covered on the Fundamentals of Engineering examination and current topics in industrial engineering.

ISE 4990 (5990). Special Problems. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Maximum 18.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and approval of department chairperson. Investigation of current topics in the student's area of interest. Because of the impossibility of duplicating the conditions on a special problem(s), this course may not be repeated for the improvement of a grade.

Course descriptions for 6000 and 7000-level courses are contained in the Graduate Catalog.