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Cullen College of Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering

Chair: Dr. Jacob J.G. Chen

Note: Nonengineering majors may not register for engineering courses except with the written permission of the dean.

Courses: Industrial Engineering (INDE)

6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

6331: Finance and Accounting for Industrial and Chemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of chair. Finance and accounting procedures for nonfinancial managers with emphasis on cost, working capital, budgeting, cost of capital, long term financing and financial assets for industrial engineers.

6332: Engineering Project Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Planning, scheduling, and control of engineering projects, network models, CPM and PERT, resource allocation, time-cost tradeoff.

6333: Industrial Ecology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Systems analysis of manufacturing processes and engineering design in environmental context; life cycle assessment (mass/energy balances, impact and risk assessment, design for environment); environmental accounting; decision analysis/design tools; case studies; term projects.

6334: Statistical Decision Analysis and Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 2333. Statistical inference concepts in engineering decision making and design, utility, uncertainty, Bayes theory, loss function, sequential decision procedures, and design of engineering systems.

6335: Engineering Administration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of chair. Scientific management relating to functioning and operation of engineering activities within the framework of the organization. Problems and cases with emphasis on human relations.

6336: Reliability and Quality Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 2333. Reliability testing, distributions, and programs; quality control programs, zero defects, and organization and administration for total quality control.

6337: Human Factors in Systems Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: permission of instructor and graduate standing. Methods of measurement of human performance, psychological and physiological background of human information processing, principles and techniques of display and information system design, and human error and reliability.

6339: Materials Handling
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: INDE 4331 and CIVE 2332. Systems, equipment, and methods related to industrial and commercial operations. Design of equipment.

6340: Engineering Database Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Concepts and methods associated with planning, designing, executing, and maintaining relational databases for engineering applications. Includes development of data structures and reports using relational database software. Engineering case studies and student projects.

6349: Language and Programming in Artificial Intelligence
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing and one (1) year programming experience. Introduction to AI languages; symbolic expressions and primitives; function definitions and predicates; recursion and iteration; I/O. Representations by a-lists, property lists and frames for problems and applications in engineering.

6350: Design of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: permission of instructor and graduate standing. Concepts of artificial intelligence, symbol manipulation, AI programming languages and techniques, engineering applications to computer-aided design and factory automation.Ê

6361: Management and Organization of Production
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering. Philosophical bases and modern practices relating to the production and engineering functions within the industrial organization.

6364: Advanced Engineering Statistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: undergraduate engineering statistics and graduate standing. Design and analysis of industrial experiments including analysis of variance, factorial designs; multiple regression models including model classification, estimation and hypothesis testing.

6365: Engineering Economy II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: INDE 3333 and 4371 or approval of chair. Advanced theory, problems, and cases in the economic aspects of engineering enterprises. Operations research techniques applied to problems in engineering economy.

6366: Taguchi Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: INDE 4364 or equivalent and graduate standing. Introduction to quantitative techniques in quality design with applications to manufacturing; review of design of experiments, principles and analysis of variance; quality loss modeling; orthogonal array designs; response measurement and signal-to-noise ratio; outer array designs; multiple performance measures.

6368: Statistics for Engineering Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Elements of probability and statistics supporting engineering management activities. Probability models, data analysis methods and statistical inference, including basic concepts in estimation, reliability, decision-making.

6369: Knowledge-Based Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: consent of instructor and graduate standing. The development, validation and implementation of expert systems in industrial engineering. Knowledge acquisition and representation, inferencing procedures, performance verification, hybrid expert systems, and the relationship of heuristic programming and knowledge-based systems. Course will emphasize real-world engineering applications.

6370: Operations Research: Digital Simulation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 4371. Quantitative modeling of engineering systems; generating stochastic variables; collection of data for digital simulation; simulation language.

6371: Operations Research: Optimization Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. General optimization problems; classical optimization method; Lagrange multipliers; Kuhn-Tucker conditions; search methods; gradient techniques; penalty function methods; conjugate direction; quadratic programming.

6372: Operations Research and Analysis of Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Operations research models with applications to engineering systems; mathematical programming; stochastic models of queueing and inventory, game theory, network models.

6373: Scheduling and Planning
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 4371 or consent of instructor. Scheduling models with simultaneous and probabilistic job arrival, network scheduling techniques. Topics include job shop scheduling, flow shop scheduling, project scheduling and parallel scheduling.

6375: Logistics Engineering I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Analysis of the Integration of support functions in the development, operations and maintenance of complex engine systems.

6380: Topics in Industrial Automation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing and permission of the instructor. Computerized automation in manufacturing, robots and flexible manufacturing systems, AI methods and generative process planning systems, networks and automated manufacturing protocol.

6383: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduction to the current technology in Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems: computer-assisted N/C programming, control systems, flexible manufacturing system (FMS), computer-aided process planning (CAPP), group technology, robotics.

6388: Industrial Engineering Project
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of graduate program advisor. Non-thesis graduate degree industrial engineering project, applicable only to M.I.E. degree.

6390: Management Issues in Systems Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Distinguished lecture series by executives from industry and the public sector on the management of high tech engineering systems, programs, and projects. Topics will include life cycle, costing, risk analysis, quality management, litigation and safety.

6397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

7331: Operations Research: Stochastic Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 4371. Stochastic modeling of engineering systems; Bernoulli, Poisson, renewal, Markov renewal processes; computational methods, applications, reliability theory.

7332: Advance Mathematical Programming
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: INDE 6372. Theories and applications of discrete variable models (e.g., zero-one programming, integer programming, etc.). Recent advanced topics in large scale linear programming problems. Applications to design in manufacturing and systems engineering.

7350: Multiobjective Optimization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: INDE 4333 or permission of instructor, graduate standing. The modeling, solution and analysis of problems involving multi-criteria, large scale systems. Coverage of general MCDM approaches with primary focus on generalized goal programming and employment of the multiplex model and algorithm.

7397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.

8311: Organized Graduate Research Discussions (also CIVE, ECE, MECE)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Group research discussions with the intent of broadening the education and background of the student by exposure to the related research activities in his/her field.

8198:8298:8398:8498:8598: Doctoral Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

8399:8699:8999: Doctoral Dissertation
Cr. 3, 6, or 9 hours depending on semester.