Graduate Courses

INSY 6240/6246 PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEMS (3) LEC. 3. Analysis and design of production and inventory control systems with emphasis on quantitative methods, algorithms, and information technology. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5240 and INSY 6240.

INSY 6250/6256 SCHEDULING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT (3) LEC. 3. Sequencing and scheduling methods and models are presented, with special emphasis on scheduling and controlling projects. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5250 and INSY 6250.

INSY 6330/6336 DATA BASED DECISION MAKING USING SIX SIGMA (3) LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Covers statistical tools needed for implementation of "Six Sigma", "Lean Six Sigma" and "Design for Six Sigma". Credit will not be given for both INSY 5330 and INSY 6330/6336.

INSY 6500/6506 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR OPERATIONS (3) LEC. 3. Role and potential of using computer-integrated systems within manufacturing and service industries. Analysis of relevant data, synthesis of the flow of information in an operations environment, and development of databases to support the production process. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5500 and INSY 6500.

INSY 6550/6556 DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR OPERATIONS (3) LEC. 3. Fundamentals for modeling, designing, and implementing decision support systems for the operation of manufacturing and service industries. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5550 and INSY 6550.

INSY 6600/6606 MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION ECONOMICS (3) LEC. 3. Continuation ofINSY 3600. Emphasis on design economics and cost estimating techniques and applications to various manufacturing and service operations. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5600 and INSY 6600.

INSY 6630/6636 REAL OPTIONS/DECISION ANALYSIS (3) LEC. 3. Analysis of engineering and business decisions under risk and contemporary risk management methods including statistical decision theory and real options. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5630 and INSY 6630/6636.

INSY 6800/6806 LEAN PRODUCTION (3) LEC. 3. Manufacturing system design based on a strategy of linked cells providing a continuous flow of materials. Evaluation strategies and analysis tools are studied. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5800 and INSY 6800.

INSY 6830/6836 VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY AND TRENDS (3) LEC. 3. Investigation of the advances in automotive technology and the impact of future technologies on the design and manufacture of the automobile. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5830 and INSY 6830.

INSY 6840/6846 CONTROL OF THE MANUFACTURING FLOOR AND PROCESSES (3) LEC. 2. LAB. 3. Students work within multi-disciplinary teams to apply the principles of Computer Aided Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS) on the modern automated floor. Laboratory features CNC Controls, Robots, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Kanban system. DELMIA Catia and MasterCAM. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5840 and INSY 6840.

INSY 6850/6856 ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (3) LEC. 3. Introduction to electronics packaging and electronics manufacturing technologies including current and future trends, design and quality, and manufacturing for high volume. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5850 and INSY 6850.

INSY 6860/6866 AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (3) LEC. 3. History of automotive manufacturing and the automotive manufacturing systems for a typical automotive assemble plant. Credit will not be given for both INSY 5860 and INSY 6860.

INSY 7020/7026 SAFETY ENGINEERING II (3) LEC. 3. Pr. (INSY 6010 or INSY 6016). Systems safety analysis techniques including human error and reliability, fault trees, and cost benefit analysis.

INSY 7030/7036 MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS (3) LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. Emphasis on the development of analytical models of serial production lines, flexible manufacturing systems, cellular systems, and facility layout and location problems.

INSY 7050/7056 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS (3) LEC. 3. Introduction to the basic concepts of industrial hygiene with emphasis on the industrial hygiene/safety interface and on the evaluation and control of noise and vibration stress.

INSY 7060/7066 ERGONOMICS I (3) LEC. 3. Overview of the human body systems and evaluation of the physiological response of the human body to occupational activities with emphasis on task design.

INSY 7070/7076 ERGONOMICS II (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7060 or INSY 7066. Use of biomechanics in the evaluation and design of work activities. Emphasis is placed on biomechanical modeling, manual materials handling, tool design, and repetitive motion trauma.

INSY 7080/7086 HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING (3) LEC. 3. Examination of human factors, ergonomics and safety research methodologies. Emphasis is on human information input, output and control processes with the objective of optimizing integration of the human into simple and complex systems.

INSY 7081 HUMAN FACTORS LABORATORY (1) LAB. 3. Coreq. INSY 7080. Laboratory experience in testing human factors principles and concepts covered in INSY 7080. Experience in proper writing of laboratory reports.

INSY 7100/7106 ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION (3) LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Adaptive search methods inspired by nature for continuous and combinatorial optimization. Methods include simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, tabu search and ant colony systems.

INSY 7190 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH FORUM I (1) LEC. 1.

INSY 7200/7206 ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF FUZZY SYSTEMS AND NEURAL NETWORKS (3)LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Introduction to fuzzy systems and neural networks with emphasis on their uses in engineering applications in clustering, modeling, optimization, control, forecasting, and classification. A

INSY 7230/7236 ADVANCED LAYOUT AND LOCATION (3) LEC. 3. Facility layout algorithms and the facility design process. Facility location models and their relationship to strategic organization goals.

INSY 7240/7246 PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL THEORY (3) LEC. 3. Theoretical foundations for the analysis and design of production and inventory control systems with emphasis on quantitative methods and current areas of research.

INSY 7290 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PRACTICUM I (1) LEC. 1. Study of contemporary interdisciplinary issues in occupational safety and health. Investigation of real-world interdisciplinary OSH problems. Analysis and presentation of OSH concerns and solutions.

INSY 7300/7306 ADVANCED ENGINEERING STATISTICS I (3) LEC. 3. Advanced concepts of experimental design including blocked designs, analysis of variance regression approach, and fractional factorials in base-2 designs. Emphasis throughout is on developing and improving industrial products and processes. Credit will not be given for both INSY 7300 and STAT 7300.

INSY 7310/7316 ADVANCED ENGINEERING STATISTICS II (3) LEC. 3. Pr. (STAT 7300 or STAT 7306) or (INSY 7300 or INSY 7306). Fractional factorial experimentation applied for the purpose of process and quality improvement and optimization, introduction to analysis of covariance, multiple regression analysis, and response surface analysis. Credit will not be given for both INSY 7310 and STAT 7310.

INSY 7330/7336 OFF-LINE AND ON-LINE QUALITY CONTROL (3) LEC. 3. Pr. STAT 7010 or (STAT 7300or STAT 7306) or (INSY 7300 or INSY 7306). Departmental approvalTaguchi's quality loss functions. Taguchi's orthogonal arrays and their relationships to fractional factorial designs. Taguchi's parameter and tolerance designs, on-line process control concepts and methods. Process capability. CUSUM charts and other process control charts.

INSY 7380/7386 RELIABILITY ENGINEERING (3) LEC. 3. Pr. STAT 7600 or (STAT 7300 or STAT 7306) or (INSY 7300 or INSY 7306). Reliability, maintenance, replacement with emphasis on failure-rate estimation and life testing. Hazard functions, parameter estimation and reliability testing including exponential and Weibull distributions. Markov models and repairable systems. Credit is not given for both INSY 7380 andSTAT 7780. Departmental permission.

INSY 7390 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH FORUM II (1) LEC. 1. Pr. INSY 7190. Continuation of OSH Forum I (contemporary interdisciplinary issues in occupational safety and health). Emphasis is placed on leadership and mentoring of other OSH students (INSY 7190).

INSY 7400/7406 SIMULATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS (3) LEC. 3. Introduction to discrete event modeling and simulation. Fundamental concepts of Monte Carlo and discrete event simulation and the application of those concepts using commercial simulation software.

INSY 7420/7426 LINEAR PROGRAMMING AND NETWORK FLOWS (3) LEC. 3. Linear programming and network flows emphasizing algorithms and theory.

INSY 7430/7436 INTEGER AND NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7420 or INSY 7426. Departmental approvalInteger and non linear programming, emphasizing algorithms and theory.

INSY 7440/7446 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING (3) LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Aspects of sequential decision making with emphasis on formulation and solution using the dynamic programming algorithm. Approximation methods for problems involving large state spaces. Solution techniques for problems under uncertainty.

INSY 7470/7476 SEARCH METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION (3) LEC. 3. Single and multivariate search techniques and strategies that are used in finding the optimum of discrete and continuous functions.

INSY 7490 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PRACTICUM II (1) LEC. 1. Pr. INSY 7290. Investigation of real-world interdisciplinary OSH problems. Analysis and presentation of OSH concerns and solutions. Emphasis is placed on leadership and mentoring of other OSH students (INSY 7290).

INSY 7500/7506 ADVANCED SIMULATION (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7400 or INSY 7406. Coverage of advanced simulation and simulation language design concepts. Includes advanced input/output analysis, modeling concepts, and language design/implementation concepts.

INSY 7550/7556 STOCHASTIC OPERATIONS RESEARCH (3) LEC. 3. Stochastic operations research models with emphasis on model formation, solution and interpretation of results. Emphasis on stochastic processes, queuing theory and their applications.

INSY 7600/7606 ADVANCED ECONOMIC DECISION ANALYSIS (3) LEC. 3. Departmental approval. Theory and practice of decision making under uncertainty. Stochastic capital budgeting models: Decision trees, the value of information: Bayesian approaches, including conjugate and predictive distributions: Utility theory foundations, risk preference, multi-attribute utility: Financial engineering, real options.

INSY 7940 INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROBLEMS (1-5) IND. Departmental approval. Individual student endeavor under staff supervision involving special problems of an advanced undergraduate or graduate nature in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Interested student must submit written proposal to department head. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.

INSY 7950/7956 SEMINAR (1) LEC. 1. SU. Presentation and discussion of ISE research by graduate students, faculty and guests. Must be taken at least one term and cannot be used in the plan of study to apply towards the minimum number of hours for a degree.

INSY 7970/7976 INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SPECIAL TOPICS (1-5) LEC. 1. LAB. 1. Departmental approval. Special topics of a graduate nature pertinent to Industrial and Systems Engineering. Specific prerequisites will be determined and announced for each offering. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.

INSY 7980/7986 MASTER'S IN INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROJECT (1-5) IND. SU. Non-thesis master's project. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.

INSY 7990 RESEARCH AND THESIS (1-10) MST. Departmental approval.Departmental approval. Course may be repeated with change in topics.

INSY 8010 ADVANCED SAFETY ENGINEERING (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7020 or INSY 7026. Topics of current interest in occupational safety research. Occupational safety research methodology and research priorities.

INSY 8060/8066 ADVANCED ERGONOMICS (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7060 or INSY 7066. Topics of current interest in occupational ergonomics and human factors research. Occupational ergonomics and human factors research methodology and research priorities.

INSY 8250 SCHEDULING THEORY (3) LEC. 3. Pr. (INSY 6250 or INSY 6256) and (INSY 7420 orINSY 7426). The theory for various scheduling methods and models is presented. Emphasis is on current research in the scheduling area.

INSY 8420/8426 TOPICS IN OPTIMIZATION (3) LEC. 3. Pr. INSY 7420 or INSY 7426. Basic concepts and theory of optimization, including saddlepoint conditions for differentiable and non-differentiable programs, duality, approximation, decomposition and partitioning, illustrated by application to specific algorithms.

INSY 8970 INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SPECIAL TOPICS (1-5) LEC. Departmental approval. Special topics of an advanced graduate nature pertinent to industrial and systems engineering. Specific prerequisites will be determined and announced for each offering. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.

INSY 8990 RESEARCH AND DISSERTATION (1-10) DSR. Departmental approval.Departmental approval. Course may be repeated with change in topics.