INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ISE)

ISE 2000. Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Computers.  Lec. 1. Lab. 3. Credit 2.
Corequisites: ENGR 1110 and 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 ISE 3100.

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

ISE 3210. Engineering Statistics. Lec. 2. Credit 2.
Prerequisites: MATH 1920 and junior standing. Engineering applications of probability, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals.

ISE 3220. Design of Experiments. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200 or ECE 3910. Process improvement techniques including stepwise regression, and multi-factor experiments.

ISE 3300. Human Factors Engineering.  Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Corequisites: ISE 2000 and 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.
Corequisite: ISE 3100 and MATH 2010. Methods for optimizing the design of engineering systems using operations research techniques that include linear programming, integer programming, goal programming, and network theory.

ISE 3410. Simulation of Industrial Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200, ISE 3400, and ISE 3800. Design and development of computer-based models of of engineering systems using discrete event simulation.

ISE 3800. Information Systems for Industrial Engineering.  Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ENGR 2121 or programming experience in Fortran, C, C++, or Visual Basic. Design and development of information systems; for 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 3920. Engineering Design and Professional Practice. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ECE 2020, ECE 2110, and junior standing in ECE. Project design and management processes, team development, communication, ethics, and professionalism. Proposal for ECE Capstone Design Project.

ISE 4000.  Engineering Leadership and Project Management.  Lec. 2. Lab. 3. Credit 3.  
Prerequisite: ISE 3100 and either ISE 3200 or ECE 3910; or consent of instructor. Introduction to engineering leadership roles and issues; technical leadership; tools, concepts, and techniques for engineering project management.

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

ISE 4240 (5240). Quality Engineering. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 4230. 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 and 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 3400, ISE 3800, and consent of instructor. Nonlinear programming topics such as convexity and local and global minima; integer programming techniques including the modeling of yes/no and if – then else statements; and simulated annealing and genetic algorithms for obtaining improved solutions to engineering problems.

ISE 4410. Advanced Topics in Discrete Event Simulation. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3410 and consent of instructor. Extensive design, development, and analysis of discrete event simulation and models. Topics include model validation, workload scripts, variance reduction techniques, experimental design, and the application of optimization techniques to simulation models.

ISE 4450. Engineering Design Using Expert Systems. Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200, ISE 3400, and 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 3310 and ISE 3400. Planning and designing industrial physical facilities. Design project required.

ISE 4510. Engineering Design Internship. Lab. 9. Credit 3.
Prerequisite: ISE 3220, ISE 3410, ISE 4000, ISE 4500, and consent of instructor. Real and unstructured projects in the design of industrial systems.

ISE 4550 (5550). Product Development and Engineering. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ME 3010 and 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 3310, ISE 3400, and junior 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. 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 4230. Inspection tolerances and allowances, mechanical, electrical, optical, and pneumatic equipment in process and automatic gaging. Design of gages.

ISE 4650. Lean Production Systems. Lec. 3. Credit 3.
Prerequisites: ISE 3200 and ISE 4600. Design and analysis of lean production system in manfacturing and service. Study of performance measures for lean systems. Design project required.

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.