ISE Graduate Course Descriptions and Syllabi

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed.
For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.

ISE 507 Six-Sigma Quality Resources for Health Care (3, Fa)
Comprehensive study of Six-Sigma and Lean metrics, methods, and systems with emphasis on the application to health care services.

ISE 508 Health Care Operations Improvement (3, Sp)
Improving operations, patient flow, quality and processes.  Students will become familiar with methods for implementing change in health care settings such as hospitals.
Syllabus: Spring 2007   Fall 2007

ISE 511L Computer Aided Manufacturing (3, Fa)
Modern industrial automation, numerical control concepts, programmable controllers, robotics, computer-process interfacing, automated process and quality control, flexible manufacturing systems, introduction to computer-integrated manufacturing systems.
Syllabus: Spring 2008

ISE 513 Inventory Systems (3, Sp)
Deterministic and stochastic demand systems with static/dynamic models. Practice in inventory management, computerized procedures, materials requirements planning, just-in-time production, Kanban systems.
Syllabus: Spring 2007

ISE 514 Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling (3, FaSm)
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.
Syllabus: Fall 2006   Fall 2007

ISE 515 Engineering Project Management (3, 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.
Syllabus: Spring 2007(Benshoof)   Spring 2007(Kreidler) Fall 2007

ISE 517 The Modern  Enterprise System (3, FaSp)
Study of various aspects of integrated manufacturing and service enterprises including management, design and production functions, interfaces and related resources and information systems. Recommended preparation: manufacturing processes, probability, statistics, computer programming.
Syllabus: Spring 2007   Fall 2007

ISE 520 Optimization: Theory and Algorithms (3, Fa) 
Conditions for optimality.  Nonlinear programming algorithms for constrained and uncontstrained problems.  Special problems such as quadratic, separable, fractional, geometric programming.
Prerequisite:  MATH 225 or EE 441, or departmental approval.
Syllabus: Fall 2006   Fall 2007

ISE 525 Design of Experiments (3, Sp,)
Develop skills necessary to plan efficient data collection activities. Derive empirical models of physical systems. Perform sequential optimization studies based upon the empirical models.
Syllabus: Spring 2007

ISE 527 Quality Management for Engineers (3, Fa)
Principles of quality management, quality philosophies and frameworks, quality leadership and strategic planning, process management, and performance measurements.
Syllabus: Fall 2006   Spring 2007    Fall 2007

ISE 530 Introduction to Operations Research (3, Sp)
Linear programming, integer programming, transportation and assignment problems, networks, dynamic programming, Markovian models, and queueing.
Prerequisite: MATH 225, ISE 220.
Syllabus: Spring 2003

ISE 532 Network Flows (3, Sp)
Tree, path, flow problems, formulation and solution techniques. Methods for minimal cost flows. Applications.
Prerequisite: ISE 330 or ISE 536 or departmental approval.
Syllabus: Spring 2006   Spring 2008

ISE 536 Linear Programming and Extensions (3, Fa)
Linear programming models for resource allocation; simplex and revised simplex methods; duality; sensitivity; transportation problems; selected extensions to large scale, multiobjective, and special structured models.
Prerequisite: MATH 225 or EE 441 or departmental approval.
Syllabus: Fall 2006    Fall 2007

ISE 538 Elements of Stochastic Processes (3, Sp)
Random variables, stochastic processes, birth-and-deathprocesses, continuous and discrete time Markov chainswith finite and infinite number of states, renewal phenomena, queueing systems.
Syllabus: Spring 2007

ISE 544 Management of Engineering Teams (3, FaSp)
Design and management of engineering teams. Group decision-making,motivation, leadership, infrastructural requirements, performance measurement, team diversity, conflict, and integration.
Syllabus: Spring 2007 (Morelli)   Fall 2007 (Bottlik)   Fall 2007 (Morelli)

ISE 545 Technology Development and Implementation (3, Fa)
Principles and practices of technology development and implementation,with application to products and systems in manufacturing and services.  Syllabus: Summer 2006

ISE 549 Systems Architecting (3, FaSp) 
(Enroll in SAE 549)

SAE 550 Engineering Management of Government-Funded Programs(3, Fa 2006, Sm 2007)
Analysis of risks inherent in managing high-tech/high-cost government-funded engineering programs; tools and techniques for coping with the impacts of politically-driven budgets on the engineering design process.
 Recommended preparation: two years of work experience.
Syllabus: Fall 2006

ISE 555 Invention and Technology Development (3, Sp)
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. Graded CR/NC
Syllabus: Spring 2007   Fall 2007

ISE 561 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects (3, Sp)
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 460.
Syllabus: Spring 2007   Fall 2007

ISE 562 Value and Decision Theory (3, FaSpSm)
Decision making under risk conditions; utility theory; sufficientstatistics; conjugate prior distributions; terminal andpre-posterior analysis; Baysian statistics versus classicalstatistics.
Syllabus: Spring 2007    Fall 2007

ISE 563 Financial Engineering (3, Sp)
Syllabus: Spring 2007

ISE 564 Performance Analysis (3, TBD)
Measurement systems for performance analysis.Determination of performance metrics,analytical models, case studies. Cross-industry comparisons,measures for manufacturing and service systems, information andknowledge workers.
Syllabus: Fall 2003

ISE 566 Financial Accounting Analysis for Engineers (3, Sp)
Indentification, formulation, and solution of financial accounting problems in engineering enterprises.  Legal context of financial decisions, process cost determination and allocation, financial reports, and reporting systems. Open only to graduate students.
Syllabus: Fall 2007

ISE 570 Human Factors in Engineering (3, TBD)
Psychological and physiological characteristics of humans; how they limit engineering design of machines and human-machine systems.
Syllabus: Fall 2005   Fall 2007

ISE 571 Human Factors Issues in Integrated Media Systems (3, TBD)
This course will cover the Human Factors issues relevant for the creation of dynamic, usable and useful Integrated Media Systems. This will include coverage of the psychological, cognitive, physical and social human assets and limitations, and how they impact information technology design, development and evaluation. The course format will include lectures, guest speakers and hands-on demonstrations.
Syllabus: Spring 2004