The Department of Industrial and
Manufacturing Systems Engineering
420 Woolf Hall • Box 19017 • 817-272-3092 • http://ie.uta.edu

Requirements for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering
Pre-Professional Courses
(All pre-professional courses must be completed before enrolling in professional courses.)
English
1301, 1302.
Mathematics
1426*, 2325, 2326, 3319
Natural Science
CHEM 1301, 1302; PHYS 1443, 1444
Design Graphics
1350
Computer Science and Engineering
1320
Industrial Engineering
1231, 3301, 3312, 3315

General Education Courses
History
1311, 1312
Political Science
2311, 2312
Literature
Three hours of English or modern language literature or other approved substitute. For engineering majors this University requirement must be met by taking English literature (2000 or higher).
Liberal Arts Elective
For IE majors, SPCH 3302 must be used to satisfy this requirement.
Fine Arts**
Three hours in architecture, art, dance, music, or theatre arts.
Social/Cultural Studies**
Three hours of designated courses in social or cultural studies.

Professional Courses
Industrial Engineering
3314, 3343, 4302, 4303, 4308, 4315, 4318, 4322, 4325, 4339, 4343, 4344, 4345, 4350.
Technical Electives**
Twelve hours of technical electives.
Pre-Professional Total
50 hours.
General Education Total
24 hours.
Professional Total
54 hours.
Total (for degree)***
128 hours, plus exercise and sport activities (EXSA/DNCA) or ROTC or marching band as required.

* The Mathematics Department requires concurrent enrollment in MATH 1323, unless the student has received credit for precalculus or has passed the appropriate placement test provided by that department.

** Lists of acceptable (a) fine arts, (b) social/cultural, and (c) technical electives are available in the departmental office. Electives must have prior approval from the undergraduate advisor. The undergraduate advisor will help each student construct a sequence of four technical electives to address specific student interests. In most cases, the student will be encouraged to use these electives to acquire additional knowledge in a single technical area.

*** Total hours will depend upon prior preparation and academic qualifications. Also, students who do not have two units of high school foreign language will be required to take modern language courses in addition to the previously listed requirements.

Refer to the College of Engineering section of this catalog for information concerning the following topics: Preparation in High School for Admission to the College of Engineering, Admission to the College of Engineering, Admission to the Professional Program, Counseling, College of Engineering Academic Regulations, Transfer Policies, College of Engineering Probation, Repeating Course Policy, Academic Honesty and Foreign Language Requirement.
The Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department conducts an academic advising week. Each student should meet with a faculty advisor during this week. Specific dates and times will be posted on the departmental bulletin board and Web page.

Suggested Course Sequence

Freshman Year
First Semester: MATH 1426; IE 1231; CHEM 1301; ENGL 1301; DG 1350; EXSA or ROTC or Marching Band—Total Credit 16 hours.
Second Semester: MATH 2325; PHYS 1443; CHEM 1302; ENGL 1302; CSE 1320; EXSA or ROTC—Total Credit 17 hours.

Sophomore Year
First Semester: MATH 2326; IE 3312; PHYS 1444; HIST 1311; POLS 2311; EXSA or ROTC or Marching Band—Total Credit 17 hours.
Second Semester: MATH 3319; IE 3301; IE 3315; HIST 1312; POLS 2312; EXSA or ROTC—Total Credit 16 hours.

Junior Year
First Semester: IE 3314; IE 3343; IE 4315; IE 4339; Fine Arts Elective, 3 hours; Technical Elective, 3 hours—Total Credit 18 hours.
Second Semester: IE 4302; IE 4303; IE 4322; IE 4344; English Literature, 3 hours; Technical Elective, 3 hours—Total Credit 18 hours.

Senior Year
First Semester: IE 4308; IE 4325; IE 4343; SPCH 3302; Technical Elective, 3 hours—Total Credit 15 hours.
Second Semester: IE 4318; IE 4345; IE 4350; Cultural Elective, 3 hours; Technical Elective, 3 hours—Total Credit 15 hours.

Oral Communication and Computer Use Competency Requirements
Students majoring in Industrial Engineering may use SPCH 3302, Professional and Technical Communication, to demonstrate oral communication competency. Students majoring in Industrial Engineering are required to take IE 1231 and IE 3343. A computer competency examination will be administered in IE 1231. For transfer students and others who do not take IE 1231, the computer literacy test will be administered in IE 3343.

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Faculty
Chair
Professor Liles
Professors
Corley, Priest, Stevens
Associate Professors
Huff, Imrhan, Rogers
Assistant Professor
Boardman

Program Objectives
Industrial engineers analyze, design and transform complex systems of people, processes, and technology to accomplish organizational goals. To this end, the educational objectives of the Industrial Engineering program are:

1. To produce graduates of high technical competence who can enter industrial engineering or other professions and make contributions that benefit society, their employers, and themselves.
2. To produce graduates who can broadly apply knowledge of: (a) the mathematical, physical and social sciences; (b) economic, operational, and engineering analysis, and (c) the principles and practices of engineering design.
3. To produce graduates who can analyze, design and transform the complex systems of people, processes and technology that enable the E-enterprise of the 21st century.
4. To produce graduates who continue to expand their capabilities through professional development and advanced education.

Industrial Engineering (IE)
Course fee information is published in the online student Schedule of Classes at www.uta.edu/schedule. Please refer to this Web site for a detailed listing of specific course fees.

1231. INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (2-0) 2 hours credit. An introduction to basic industrial engineering concepts. Students become familiar with the IE curriculum and are introduced to the topics that they will study. The computer competency evaluation is administered in this course. Ethics, professional conduct, and the impact of engineering on society are discussed.

3301. ENGINEERING PROBABILITY (3-0) 3 hours credit. Topics in industrial engineering that involve random processes. Applications and backgrounds for topics in reliability, inventory systems, and queuing problems, including absolute and conditional probabilities, discrete and continuous random variables, and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: MATH 2326 or concurrent enrollment.

3312. ECONOMICS FOR ENGINEERS (3-0) 3 hours credit. Methods used for determining the comparative financial desirability of engineering alternatives. Prerequisite: MATH 1426 or concurrent enrollment.

3314. ENGINEERING RESEARCH METHODS (3-0) 3 hours credit. A continuation of IE 3301. Primary emphasis on the construction of linear models of engineering data, testing hypotheses, and analyzing of variance. Prerequisite: IE 3301.

3315. OPERATIONS RESEARCH I (3-0) 3 hours credit. Introduction to the major deterministic techniques of operations research and their application to decision problems. Linear programming, integer programming, network analysis, dynamic programming, nonlinear programming. Prerequisites: IE 3301 or concurrent enrollment and MATH 2326.

3343. METRICS AND MEASUREMENT (2-3) 3 hours credit. This course presents methods for determining the most effective utilization of effort in the man-machine environment as well as systems and methods to measure enterprise performance. The computer competency evaluation is administered in this course for those students who have not had IE 1231. Prerequisites: MATH 2326, IE 3312 or concurrent enrollment, and IE 3301 or concurrent enrollment.

4191, 4291, 4391. SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (Variable credit from 1 to 3 semester hours as arranged, individual instruction). The investigation of special individual problems in industrial engineering under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: consent of the head of the department.

4300. TOPICS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (3-0) 3 hours credit. A study of selected topics in industrial engineering. May be repeated when topics vary. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and undergraduate advisor.

4302. ENGINEERING ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION (3-0) 3 hours credit. A survey of administration, control and organization of engineering and research activities. Strategic planning as well as project planning and control are discussed. Prerequisite: junior standing.

4303. PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL (3-0) 3 hours credit. Fundamental theory and design of systems for the control of production, inventories and their economic interaction, particularly in cases involving uncertainty of demand, of supply availability, and of production rates. Prerequisites: IE 3301 and 3315.

4304. ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 hours credit. An extension of Production and Inventory Control (IE 4303), this course covers enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) in manufacturing, E-Commerce and supply chain environments. ERP software and case studies are reviewed. Prerequisite: IE 4303.

4308. QUALITY SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 hours credit. A comprehensive coverage of modern quality systems techniques to include the design of statistical process control systems, ISO 9000, quality function deployment, acceptance sampling, and process analysis and design. Prerequisite: IE 4322 or concurrent enrollment.

4310. INDUSTRIAL AND PRODUCT SAFETY (3-0) 3 hours credit. Scientific, managerial, and legal aspects of safety hazard control and elimination in the industrial workplace. Methods for enhancing product safety. Prerequisite: IE 4344.

4313. INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE ENGINEERING (3-0) 3 hours credit. Physical, physiological and psychological aspects of the interaction of workers with biological, chemical, and physical agents in the workplace. Design of work systems for control and elimination of these agents. Ethics and professional conduct are stressed. Prerequisite: IE 4344.

4315. OPERATIONS RESEARCH II (3-0) 3 hours credit. A continuation of IE 3315 to probabilistic techniques of operations research and their application to decision models. Topics include Markov chains, game theory, decision analysis, queueing theory, mathematical modeling, general systems theory, and case studies in operations research. This course emphasizes modeling and decision-making skills. Prerequisite: IE 3301, IE 3315, and MATH 3319.

4318. ENTERPRISE DESIGN (3-0) 3 hours credit. Design, analysis, and modeling of enterprises in the E-enterprise environment. Topics include enterprise architectures, structured system modeling methods, enterprise integration, and enterprise transformation. Prerequisite: IE 4308.

4322. ENTERPRISE SIMULATION (3-0) 3 hours credit. The design and analysis of complex manufacturing and service systems using computer-based discrete event simulation techniques. Topics include an introduction to simulation methods, and the design, construction and analysis of discrete-event simulation models, as well as their computer applications. The course also covers the execution and management of simulation projects and the formal presentation of their findings. Prerequisites: IE 3314 or concurrent enrollment, and IE 4315.

4325. AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS (2-3) 3 hours credit. Study of the use of industrial automation and robotics technologies in manufacturing industries. The course introduces the major classes of industrial automation. Issues associated with the successful deployment of automation in the E-enterprise environment are presented. Laboratory exercises focus on a practical introduction to various automation technologies. Prerequisites: IE 4303 or concurrent enrollment.

4339. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCIBILITY AND RELIABILITY DESIGN (3-0) 3 hours credit. This course covers the product development and engineering design process with focus on collaborative design in the E-enterprise environment. Manufacturing, reliability, testing, logistical and product support considerations are emphasized. Prerequisite: junior standing in industrial engineering.

4343. FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN (3-0) 3 hours credit. The course covers strategic facilities planning through detailed facilities layout design. Considerations include product flow, space, and activity relationships, personnel requirements, material handling, and layout. Traditional and contemporary issues in manufacturing and their impact on facilities design including receiving, shipping, warehousing and integration with manufacturing and supporting operations are explored. Facilities planning models and the process of evaluating, selecting, preparing, presenting, and implementing the facilities plan are covered. Prerequisites or concurrent: IE 4302, IE 4303, IE 4322, IE 4339, and IE 4344.

4344. HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING (2-3) 3 hours credit. Study of the interactions between people and their work, workplace, and the environment. Involves identification, measurement, analysis, and evaluation of interactions via human physical and mental capacities and limitations, and social interactions. Prerequisite: IE 3343.

4345. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND E-COMMERCE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Review of contemporary issues in knowledge management, technology management, and E-commerce. Topics include knowledge acquisition, intelligent database design, decision support systems, E-commerce technologies, designs and tools, and collaborative development. Prerequisite: junior standing.

4349. AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS (2-3) 3 hours credit. Study of the design, implementation, and operation of robotics technology. An in-depth study of the design and deployment of industrial automation and robotics technology to meet the needs of high-precision, multi-product production environments. The laboratory activities associated with the course provide practical experience in the areas of sensor-driven automated process development, industrial vision, modular and reconfigurable automation, simulation-based system design and an introduction to computer-based manufacturing control and execution technologies. Prerequisite: IE 4325.

4350. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN (2-3) 3 hours credit. This course provides an open-ended design experience through the planning and design of an enterprise. The student selects a product; determines the necessary processes, equipment, capacities, routings, and personnel required; develops supporting material handling, inventory and quality systems; and designs the fully integrated enterprise including facility layout with estimated cost of operation. Contemporary project management techniques are utilized. The design experience project includes submittal of approximately nine written and oral presentations culminating with a written project report and oral presentation at the end of the semester. IE 4350 is the capstone design course and draws on material from the total industrial engineering curriculum. The impact of engineering design on society is discussed. Prerequisites or concurrent enrollment: IE 4303, IE 4318, IE 4325, IE 4343, and IE 4345.

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