IME 611	Human Factors Engineering	Credits: 2
Study and application of human factors engineering fundamentals. Emphasis on human-system integration and optimization covering both physical and cognitive ergonomics. Human physical and cognitive characteristics, research methods, interface design, task analysis, usability. Pre-requisites: IME 311, 460. Offered Fall, even years.
IME 620	Aircraft Design for Manufacturing 3	Credits: 3
Introduction to aircraft structures and their manufacturing processes through on-line materials. Students will create PowerPoint audio-visual presentations of self-selected in-plant case studies, and connect with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) industry applications through contributing to a journal publication on DFM use in the aircraft industry. Graduate students will propose a state-of-the-art research activity to improve DFM theory and applications. Pre-requisites: IME 330. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 627	Electronics Manufacturing	Credits: 3
Process and production engineering for manufacturing of electronic components; specialty materials, process parameters, production system design factors, production performance metrics. Introduction to concurrent engineering applied to development of electronic products. Open to all engineering majors. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 630	Process Engineering	Credits: 3
Comprehensive analysis of selected manufacturing processes; development of process flow maps and models of process dynamics, evaluation of processing alternatives. Design of effective and efficient processes for selected industrial products. Seminar/case study format. Prerequisite: IME 330. Offered Fall.
IME 631	Production Engineering	Credits: 3
Undergraduate: design of fixtures, dies and tooling for economical production. Graduate: In-depth analysis of production systems for selected manufactured products; development of production system flow maps and linked process dynamic models, evaluation of task time and identification of constraints. Design of alternative solutions for production constraints. Seminar/case study format. Prerequisites: IME 330; Recommended: IME 430/630. Offered Spring.
IME 635	Plastics and Injection Molding Manufacturing	Credits: 3
Addresses the material properties, process, and devices for the fabrication of parts from plastics. Contrasts and compares to processes for other materials. Coordinated with ME 463 and 464.Pre-requisite: IME 330. Cross-listed with ME. Offered Spring, odd years.
IME 640	Engineering Economics	Credits: 3
Capital investment decision foundation within the rules of general and project accounting. Analysis of benefits and returns against cost for engineering installation, operation, life cycle, and buy-rent-lease decisions. Prerequisites: Junior standing or IME major. Offered Fall, Spring and Summer.
IME 650	Systems Engineering and Management	Credits: 3
Integration of technical disciplines through the stages of systems life cycle: needs and requirements determination, operating and support concepts, design and prototyping, test and evaluation, facilitation, manuals, training, and supportability. Prerequisites: Junior. Offered Fall.
IME 651	Logistics Engineering and Management	Credits: 2
Extends systems, methods, production, inventory, and facility topics to integrated logistics support. Emphasis on reliability, maintainability, tools, test equipment, spares, operating and maintenance instructions, and training. Co-requisite: IME 450 or 650. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 652	Integrated Industrial Information Systems	Credits: 3
Integration of technical, business, and operational information for status, progress, and decision making in product development, manufacturing, and logistical support of product and customers.Pre-requisite: IME 450 or 650. Offered Spring.
IME 653	Hospital Management Engineering	Credits: 3
Survey of management engineering roles in the delivery of health care. Review of functional relationships present in health care delivery systems. Application of industrial engineering tools to solve health care delivery problems focused on cost reduction, process redesign, facility design, quality improvement, and systems integration. Pre-requisite: departmental approval; students should have taken core industrial engineering courses. Offered Spring, even years.
IME 655	Management of People Systems	Credits: 2
Study of traditional management functions (planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling) in the context of engineering and management system interactions. Emphasis on communication skills, teaming, job design, leadership, facilitation, and improving employee productivity. Prerequisites: Junior. Offered Fall.
IME 656	Program and Project Management	Credits: 3
Capstone experience. Integration of technical, business, and operational specialties in a project consulting firm. Work with multidisciplinary teams that design, plan, and present for a variety of industrial clients. Prerequisites: Senior. Offered Spring.
IME 660	Evaluation of Engineering Data	Credits: 3
Design of engineering experiments and evaluations, curve fitting, regression, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, Taguchi methods in engineering design. Pre-requisite: Math 166. Offered Fall and Spring.
IME 661	Quality Assurance and Control	Credits: 3
Proactive and reactive quality assurance and control techniques; emphasis on quality planning, statistical process control, acceptance sampling, and total quality management. Issues in reliability and maintainability engineering. Pre-requisite: IME 460 or 660. Offered Spring.
IME 662	Total Quality in Industrial Management	Credits: 3
The meaning and means for achieving �total quality� in all dimensions of industrial activities and organizations. Topics include continuous improvement, statistical process control, leadership, and training. Offered Fall, even years.
IME 663	Reliability Engineering	Credits: 3
Study and application of statistical models and methods for defining, measuring and evaluating reliability of products, processes and services: life distributions, reliability functions, reliability configurations, reliability estimation, parametric reliability models, accelerated life testing, reliability improvement. Pre-requisite: IME 460 or 660. Offered Spring, odd years.
IME 670	Operations Research I	Credits: 3
Techniques to optimize and analyze industrial operations. Use of linear programming, transportation models, networks, integer programming, goal programming, dynamic programming, and non-linear programming. Pre-requisites: Math 129, Math 265. Offered Spring.
IME 671	Operations Research II	Credits: 3
Probabilistic operations research. Queuing theory, decision analysis, Markov processes. Pre-requisite: IME 460 or 660, 470 or 670. Offered by demand.
IME 672	Simulation of Business and Industrial Systems	Credits: 3
Development of the fundamentals and techniques of simulating business and industrial systems. Monte-Carlo techniques and computer usage. Pre-requisites: IME 460/660, high-level computer language. Offered Spring.
IME 680	Production and Inventory Control	Credits: 3
Planning and controlling of industrial production and inventory: demand forecasting, master scheduling, materials requirements planning, job scheduling, assembly line balancing, and just-in-time production. Pre-requisites: IME 460 or 660, 470 or 670. Offered Fall.
IME 682	Automated Manufacturing Systems	Credits: 3
Design of integrated production systems including flexible, programmed automatic control for fabrication, assembly, packaging, movement, and storage. Numerical control, flexible manufacturing systems, and computer integrated manufacturing. 2 recitations, 1 three-hour laboratory. Pre-requisites: IME 311, 330, ECE 303. Offered Fall.
IME 685	Industrial and Manufacturing Facility Design	Credits: 3
Capstone integration of analysis and design tools to convert product design into production plans and plants. Prerequisite: Senior . Offered Spring.
IME 699	Supply Chain Management	Credits: 3
Concepts and methods in supply chain strategies, planning and operations. Topics include logistics network configuration, inventory management, distribution strategies, strategic alliances, supply chain design, and information technology. Pre-requisites: Math166 and IME 460/660, or equivalent.
IME 711	Advanced Human Factors Engineering	Credits: 3
Research-based study of current human factors engineering problems. Students will review current human factors topics, design and conduct research studies, and produce technical papers reporting results. Pre-requisites: IME 411 or 611, 460 or 660. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 720	Surface Engineering	Credits: 3
Engineering surfaces: structure and properties. Tribology: surface contacts, friction and wear. Surface heat treatment. Solid, liquid and vapor phase deposition processes for tribological coatings. Emerging processes: nano-engineered and diamond-based coatings. Evaluation and characterization of tribiological coatings. Pre-requisite: Graduate standing in engineering or science Offered Spring, odd years.
IME 740	Advanced Engineering Economics	Credits: 3
Advanced topics in engineering economy including replacement analysis, capital budgeting, income tax effects on equipment selection, probabilistic models, and manufacturing costing. Pre-requisite: IME 440 or 640. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 761	Quality Engineering	Credits: 3
Study and application of advanced statistical tools and techniques for defining, monitoring and improving quality of products, processes and services: statistical control charts, process capability analysis, acceptance sampling of variables and attributes, application of design-of-experiments for product and process optimization, response surface methodology, Taguchi methods. Pre-requisite: IME 461 or 661. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 765	Data Analysis	Credits: 3
Applications oriented. Topics include: statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, non-parametric methods, and design of experiments, factorial experiments, response surface methodology, regression analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, multivariate methods, statistical control charts. Pre-requisites: Math 166 and IME 460/660, or equivalent.
IME 770	Advanced Operations Research Topics	Credits: 3
Study of the theory and applications of linear programming, network flows, and nonlinear programming. Pre-requisite: IME 470 or 670. Offered Fall, odd years.
IME 772	Advanced Simulation	Credits: 3
In-depth study of special purpose simulation languages to model, analyze, and design industrial and engineering systems. Stochastic and deterministic methods are included. Pre-requisite: IME 472 or 672. Offered Spring, even years.
IME 774	Neural Networks	Credits: 3
See Computer Science 735 for description.
IME 780	Advanced Production and Inventory Control	Credits: 3
Study of the theory and applications of production scheduling, inventory management, production planning, just-in-time production, and materials requirement planning. Pre-requisite: IME 480 or 680. Offered Fall, even years.
IME 782	Robotics/CAD/CAM/Control Systems	Credits: 3
Study of automation, integration of fabrication, and assembly systems. Includes automated material handling and intelligent control systems. Pre-requisite: IME 482 or 682. Offered Spring, odd years.
IME 784	Computer Integrated Manufacturing	Credits: 3
Study of the continuum of integrated manufacturing processes where computer technology is incorporated in the conception, design, planning, and fabrication of a good or service. The study of philosophy and methods of systematically building flexible and efficient production systems. Pre-requisite: IME 472 or 672. Offered Spring, even years.
IME 785	Facilities Location	Credits: 3
Theory and methods of locating facilities. Domains include plant and warehouse siting, emergency service sites, vehicle and hazardous material routing, distribution systems design. Topics include planar single and multi-facility models, network location problems, cyclical networks. Pre-requisite: IME 470/670 or ENGR 770 or equivalent.
IME 786	Manufacturing Systems Analysis	Credits: 3
Comprehensive analysis of complex issues in the technology and management of modern manufacturing systems and enterprises. Technological issues will impinge on product realization, production of goods, and manufacturing equipment and facilities; management issues addressed will be those drawn from operation of global production enterprises. Seminar format. Pre-requisite: IME 630 or 631. Offered Spring.
The following variable courses are also offered:
IME 790	Research Seminar	Credits: 1-3
IME 692/792	Case Studies	Credits: 1-3
IME 793	Individual Study	Credits: 1-5
IME 794	Practicum/Internship	Credits: 1-8
IME 695/795	Field Experience	Credits: 1-15
IME 696/796	Special Topics	Credits: 1-5
IME 797	Master�s Paper	Credits: 1-4
IME 798	Master�s Thesis	Credits: 1-10