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Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
It introduces a conceptual design framework with a logic foundation and a systematic process to carry out concept generation and improvement for innovative product developments.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Principles and practices of technology development and implementation, with application to products and systems in manufacturing and services.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Applying industrial and systems engineering skills to problems drawn from industry, while working in teams of 3–4 students. Teach project management skills and provide direct experience in managing and executing a group project.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Design and management of engineering teams. Group decision-making, motivation, leadership, infrastructural requirements, performance measurement, team diversity, conflict, and integration.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Specific problems and methods of analysis in mechanical systems design.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Typical engineering problems discussed on a physical basis. Vector analysis; functions of complex variables, infinite series, residues.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Systems electives:
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Study advanced concepts behind computational representations, algorithms, and mathematical foundations, and their applications in computer-aided design and manufacturing. Develop hands-on computational skills in team projects.
Recommended preparation: bachelor's degree in industrial engineering; programming experience, C++ preferred.
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
Required Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Use of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering, math, and computer science to design of high performance and sophisticated products and processes and systems involving mechatronic.
Recommended Preparation: bachelor’s degree in engineering or physical sciences, and preliminary knowledge of programming in C.
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
Required Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Advanced concepts in production planning and scheduling including resource allocation, lot sizing, flow shop and job shop scheduling, workforce scheduling and assembly line balancing.
Recommended preparation: prior knowledge of operations research and probability theory.
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
Required Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Planning data collection to investigate relationships between product/process design choices (materials, temperatures, etc.) and performance, empirical modeling to predict performance, identification of the best design choices.
Recommended Preparation: ISE 225.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Principles of quality management, quality philosophies and frameworks, quality leadership and strategic planning, process management, and performance measurements.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
This project-oriented course elaborates on the process of engaging creative thought, tools and techniques for invention, and issues involved in bringing inventions to the production phase.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Economic evaluations of engineering systems for both government and private industry; quantitative techniques for evaluating non-monetary consequences; formal treatment of risk and uncertainty.
Prerequisite: ISE 500;
Recommended Preparation: an undergraduate course in engineering economy.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Decision making under risk conditions; utility theory; sufficient statistics; conjugate prior distributions; terminal and pre-posterior analysis; Bayesian statistics versus classical statistics.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Scientific principles and industrial practices defining how a team of stakeholders should collaboratively work together to reach agreement on complex engineering tasks. Open only to graduate students in engineering. Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to modeling and analysis of stochastic systems, with an emphasis on discrete-event simulation of non-Markovian systems. Recommended Preparation: Probability and statistics, including hypothesis testing, and introductory computer programming
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
The role of enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) in an organization and the task of implementing and managing the IS function.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Management skills and tools for technology intensive enterprises. Life cycle analysis of technology from planning through exploitation, obsolescence and renewal.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Advanced planning for data collection in order to investigate relationships between product/process design choices and performance; empirical modeling to predict performance; identification of the best design.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to systems architecture in aerospace, electrical, computer, and manufacturing systems emphasizing the conceptual and acceptance phases and using heuristics.
Prerequisite: BS degree in a related field of engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Practical applications of machine learning techniques to real-world problems. Uses in data mining and recommendation systems and for building adaptive user interfaces.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Identification, evaluation and commercialization of new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the legal, financial and marketing aspects of technology transfer and development.
Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate business and accounting students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
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.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Improving operations, patient flow, quality and processes. Students will become familiar with methods for implementing change in health care settings such as hospitals or clinics.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Technology electives:
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Design of mechanical systems using advanced graphics techniques; computer-aided drafting, design optimization, elements of computer graphics, solids modeling; introduction to computer-aided manufacturing.
Prerequisite: AME 204 or CE 225;
Recommended Preparation: AME 308.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Product planning and task clarification, voice of customers, quality function deployment, conceptual and embodiment design, axiomatic theory of design, product quality and manufacturability, design decision-making.
Recommended Preparation: AME 305.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Current topics in Aerospace Engineering are addressed by a number of industry panelists. Students, under panelists’ supervision and guidance, complete independent research reports and briefings.
Recommended Preparation: AME 261, AME 441, AME 481 or equivalents. Genuine interest in design of flight vehicles.
Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors, master and doctoral students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Symbolic and object-oriented modeling, product and process modeling for design and manufacturing, information models for computer integrated and collaborative engineering, information modeling for life-cycle engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
Design synthesis of aero/hydro/mechanical systems; techniques of design; conceptual thinking; problem definition, configurational development, analytic engineering approximation, oral briefings and group problem solving.
Instruction Mode: Lecture Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Computer control as applied to machine tools, mechanical manipulators, and other mechanical machinery; discrete time controller design; microprocessor implementation of motion and force control servos.
Prerequisite: AME 451.
Instruction Mode: Lecture Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Provides an overview of the methods and tools available for design for manufacturing and assembly and reducing the manufacturing costs.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Fundamentals of contemporary manufacturing automation; underlying building blocks of the automation system; mechanics-based models for designing automation system; and physical and decision-making aspects of automation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to systems architecture in aerospace, electrical, computer, and manufacturing systems emphasizing the conceptual and acceptance phases and using heuristics.
Prerequisite: BS degree in a related field of engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Mechanical properties of materials; macroscopic mechanical behavior related to structure and microstructure of the material; elementary dislocation theory related to basic strengthening mechanisms; fatigue and fracture; nanomaterials.
Recommended preparation: MASC 310.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Scientific principles and industrial practices defining how a team of stakeholders should collaboratively work together to reach agreement on complex engineering tasks. Open only to graduate students in engineering.
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: FaSp
Alternative energy/power conversion including fuel cells, photovoltaic, batteries, and biologically inspired energy processes; biomass conversion and utilization; Environmental implications of alternative energy processes.
Instruction Mode: Lecture Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Materials selection in relationship to design and fabrication, economic considerations, methodology of selection, performance parameter; case studies.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Reviews all aspects of space mission design for practical approaches to reducing cost. Examines “LightSat” mission experience and potential applicability to large-scale missions. Graduate standing in engineering or science.
Recommended Preparation: ASTE 520 or some experience in space engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Units: 3
This project-oriented course elaborates on the process of engaging creative thought, tools and techniques for invention, and issues involved in bringing inventions to the production phase.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
Units: 3
Concepts and methods to analyze the environmental impacts of industrial systems, including lifecycle assessment, material flow analysis, design for environment and sustainable consumption.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter