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Curriculim and Courses Descriptions

    1-CURRICULUM (sample)

    Freshman
    IME    101    Intro to IE & ME
    IME   105     Intro to Computers and Computation
    MTH  121    Calculus I
    CHM 161    General Chemistry
    ENG  101    English Comp.
    General Ed Social Forces Econ.

    IME   103    Computer Aided Graphics
    IME   117    Computer Numerical Applications
    MTH 122    Calculus II
    PHY 110     University Physics I
    COM 103   The Oral Communication Process

    Sophomore
    IME     301  Engineering Economy I
    MTH   233  Calculus III
    PHY    201  University Physics II
    Gen. Ed -   Human Values
    CE     150   Mechanics

    IME    311    Intro to Engineering Statistical Methods
    IME    386    Industrial & Mangerial Engineering
    MTH   224    Differential Equations
    IME    331    Fundamentals of Material Science
    IME    305    Engineering Economy II

    Gen. Ed - Western Civilization

    Junior
    IME 312 Engineering Statistical Methods
    IME 313 Operations Research I
    IME 325 Transport Phenomena
    CE 301 Mechanics of Materials
    Gen Ed. - Fine Arts

    IME 314 Operations Research II
    IME 466 Facilities Planning
    IE 522 Manufacturing Quality Control
    MFE Elective
    Gen Ed. - Social Forces

    Senior
    IME 497 Information Systems Design
    IE 516 Simulation of Man/Machine Systems
    IE 528 Human Factors Engineering
    EE 327 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I
    PSY 310 Industrial & Organizational

    IME 499 Senior Project
    IE 564 Production Planning
    Tech Elective
    Gen Ed. - Eng 305 Technical Writing
    Gen Ed. - Non-Western Civilization

    2 - Courses :

    Combine engineering skills with business principles
    Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems. These systems may involve people, materials, information, equipment, or energy. The work of industrial engineers involves carefully analyzing and improving these systems. IEs have a strong background in mathematical, physical, and social sciences, as well as in engineering analysis and design. They also learn many of the same principles studied in business school. With preparation in both engineering and business, IE graduates have many employment opportunities.

    The Big Picture
    Industrial engineers have a slightly different focus than other engineers. Instead of focusing on engines, gears, circuits, or bridges, IEs concentrate on overall systems and processes. They step back and look at the big picture so they can improve quality and productivity in a wide range of environments.

    Many Opportunities
    Since IEs can work in so many different fields, the list of projects they may be assigned can be quite varied. For example, an IE may design the admissions procedure at a hospital, improve a product assembly process to increase quality and reduce worker injury, or work with other engineers to design a new office building.

    Where do IE�s work?
    � Large and small manufacturing facilities
    � Service industries such as hospitals and city government
    � Consulting organizations

    The following are unofficial course descriptions based on
    students' interpretations and experiences.

    IME 101 - Introduction to Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: A course meant to familiarize incoming students to the tools, skills, and abilities needed in an IE and MFE. Incorporates brief projects to help the student do meaningful, major related work from the first semester. Back to top

    IME 103 - Computer Aided Graphics: Lecture and labs intended to enable students to use AutoCADLt98. Includes theories of projection, section views, basic dimensioning, and other important parts of the software package. Back to top

    IME 105 - Introduction to Computers and Computation: Teaches the student the foundations of programming languages through basic FORTRAN programming. Students learn how to use create a web page using HTML. Gives the student expertise in Quattro Pro Spreadsheet software, and Corel Word Perfect. Back to top

    IME 117 - Computer Numerical Applications: A Continuation of IME 105. Explain various theories behind integral calculus including Simpson's Rule, Trapezoidal Approximation, Matrix Multiplication, Gaussian Elimination, and more. Students creating codes of the algorithms in labs to incorporate understanding of theories and computer programming. Incorporates FORTRAN, Quattro Pro Macros, and MathCAD. Back to top

    IME 200 - Engineering Co-op: Students gain real world experience by participating full time in the workforce for alternating semesters. Essays and evaluations required at the end of each work session. Back to top

    IME 301 - Engineering Economy: The student learns how to analyze economic aspects of engineering decisions. More specifically, how to quantify, evaluate, and support decisions based on monetary result. Includes effects of interest, inflation, depreciation, also salvage value, annualized payments, and more. Back to top

    IME 305 - Engineering Economy 2: Continuation of IME 301. Includes techniques of obtaining cost data, product costing, and break-even analysis. Also introduces the student to fundamentals of accounting. Back to top

    IME 311 - Introduction to Engineering Statistical Methods: Explores the fundamentals of statistical analysis. Topics include discrete and continuous probability models, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, regression analysis, essentials of statistically designed experiments, and engineering application of statistical methods. Extensively utilizes statistical analysis software. Back to top

    IME 312 - Engineering Statistical Methods: Continuation of IME 311. Topics include probability models, multi-variable analysis, step-wise design of statistical experiments, multiple regression, response surface analysis, distribution of random vectors, and function of random variable sample statistics. Back to top

    IME 313 - Operations Research 1: The student learns methods to apply quantitative theories and techniques to make decisions and solve problems. Back to top

    IME 314 - Operations Research 2: Continuation of IME 313. Includes theories of queuing, inventory and fundamentals of simulation. Back to top

    IME 325 - Transport Phenomena: Basics of thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass diffusion. Enables the student to understand the physics applications of real world situations. Back to top

    IME 331 - Fundamentals of Materials Science: Enables students to understand the basic properties of materials. Begins with explanation of matter at the smallest levels and progresses to describe characteristics of materials as a whole. Back to top

    IME 333 - Materials Science Laboratory: Laboratory practices and experience for basic materials science investigations. Back to top

    IME 341 - Introduction to Manufacturing Processes: The student learns the basics of manufacturing machinery, processes, tooling, and safety. Back to top

    IME 386 - Industrial and Managerial Engineering: A project and lab based class intended to let the student apply the knowledge and techniques learned in previous classes. It is essentially a "taste" of how Industrial Engineering is applied in the work world. Lab examples include time study training, inventory management, incentive programs, forecasting, sequencing, and production planning. A focus on concurrent engineering, the concept of integrating typically unrelated parts of a process to bring about a complete final result. Back to top

    IME 395 - Solid Modeling and Rapid Prototyping: The student learns principles of solid modeling and 3D drafting. Modeled objects include solids, wire frames, and pictorial representation. Additional concepts include advance dimensioning, tolerancing, geometric dimensioning, drafting for production, and techniques useful in rapid prototyping. Back to top

    IME 431 - Material Engineering: The student learns how to select the materials appropriate for use in engineering applications. Topics investigated include thermal and mechanical treatments and corrosion control and prevention. The students use destructive and nondestructive testing, and also learn to test and design for fracture resistance. Back to top

    IME 433 - Manufacturing Properties of Materials: The student learns which mechanical and physical properties are important in manufacturing and how to determine them. Manufacturing uses considered include metal removal, metalworking, forming, and fabrication processes. Influential properties include temperature, strain rate, and anisotropy. Back to top

    IME 441 - Materials Processing I: The student investigates principles, limitations, techniques, and applications involved in metal cutting and forming process. Phenomena discussed include tool life, tool wear, surface integrity, resultant properties, and tolerances of those operations. Back to top

    IME 443 - Materials Processing II: A continuation of IME 441. The student now learns about metal casting, nonmetallic molding, joining processes, fabrication, and assembly. Manufacturing parameters, design, and resultant effects of material structure and properties are emphasized. Back to top

    IME 445 - Computer Aided Manufacturing: The student learns how to use computer applications in the manufacturing process. Computer programs are applied in areas such as machining, material handling, and the integration of computer aided design (CAD) with computer aided manufacturing (CAM). A lab is included in program generation, simulation, and equipment usage. Back to top

    IME 466 - Facilities Planning: The student learns how to manipulate the physical organization of work places and departments to optimize objectives such as material movement, safety, and worker satisfaction. Computer solutions for layout problems and mathematical models for location problems. Back to top

    IME 491 - Manufacturing Design: The student learns to apply static design, analysis, specification, and financial analysis to a specific product. There is a focus on integrating machine tools, work holding, materials handling, processing, measurement, and operator interface. The lab includes tool design, modular tool construction, and virtual modeling of tooling systems. Back to top

    IME 493 - Mechanical Design: The student learns about the design of linkages, cams, gears, gear trains, welded and brazed joints, springs, shafts, and flexible elements for both static and dynamic loads. Back to top

    IME 497 - Information Systems Design: Analysis and design of computer based information systems. Definition of data bases, measures of effectiveness, management-staff interfaces. Focus on analyzing the situation and its particular needs before attempting a solution. Case studies from engineering, manufacturing, and service environments used to create discussions. Back to top

    IME 499 - Senior Project: A semester long project usually taking place in the final semester of senior year. The student is grouped with a small team and assigned a real project from an outside company. Output expected includes presentations, written proposals, and other aspects necessary for the particular solution. Back to top

    IME 516 - Simulation of Man/Machine Systems: The student learns how and when to implement computer simulation experiments to analyze human-machine systems in engineering, business, and social sciences. Back to top

    IME 522 - Manufacturing Quality Control: Analysis of factors affecting product quality during manufacturing. Back to top

    IME 528 - Human Factors Engineering: This is the student's first experience with the application of ergonomics in engineering. The student learns about functional anatomy and physiology of muscle and skeletal systems and their relationship to work design. How to create job design, personnel assignment, and work-rest scheduling based on physical work capacity and job demands. Back to top

    IME 564 - Production Planning and Control: An analysis of services-production-inventory systems using common planning and scheduling techniques. Back to top

    MFE 525 - Design for Manufacturability: The student learns about the design process, interaction of materials, processes and design, economic considerations, and design considerations for manufacturing processes. Back to top

    IMT 222 - Statics: This is an introduction to some fundamentals of Civil Engineering. A focus on analyzing two and three dimensional force systems, equilibrium, structures, distributed force, friction, work, and moments of inertia. Back to top

    IMT 232 - Physical Metallurgy: In this lecture and lab, the student learns about crystal structures, metallography, destructive and nondestructive evaluation of physical properties, and applications of ferrous materials and alloys. Back to top

    IMT 262 - Applied Statistics and Quality Control: The student learns how to apply statistical methods to help select and compare designs and products for quality control. Topics included are designing and evaluating experiments, fitting curves, and determining confidence intervals. Back to top

    IMT 322 - Dynamics: The student learns about particle and rigid body motion using physics principles including force-mass acceleration, work-energy, and momentum. Back to top

    IMT 324 - Strength of Materials: The student learns to analyze and predict strength and deflection based on stresses, strains, shearing, bending moments, and design of beams. Back to top

    IMT 328 - Mass and Energy Transfer: This is an introduction to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. Topics covered include heat, work, equilibrium, reversible processes, conservation of mass, linear momentum, energy, and heat transfer by conduction, radiation, and convection. Back to top

    IMT 332 - Nonmetallic Materials: This course and lab emphasize design and processing considerations for quality products. The student learns about properties, manufacturing techniques, and applications of nonmetallic materials including plastics, ceramics, and electronic materials. Back to top

    IMT 342 - Advanced Manufacturing Processes I: The student learns about metal casting, nonmetallic molding, joining processes, fabrication, and assembly. Manufacturing parameters, design, and resultant effects of material structure and properties are emphasized. Back to top

    IMT 344 - Advanced Manufacturing Processes II: In this lecture and lab, the student learns how to apply of machining processes. Processes include traditional forging, rolling, drawing, and extrusion. Topics include analysis of tool forces, heat generation, deflection, operation parameters, and resultant surface qualities and integrity. Areas of analysis include optimization and economics. Back to top

    IMT 346 - Computer Aided Manufacturing and Automation I: This course is an overview of industrial robots, systems, concepts, end effectors, computer control, specifications, justifications, and programming. The student learns principles and applications of numerical control of machine tools. Back to top

    IMT 362 - Metrology and Instrumentation: The student learns about instruments and their applications to industrial processes measurements, associated control functions of circuits, principles underlying various measuring elements, determination of quantities to be processed, and feedback control problems. Back to top

    EET 320 - Electricity and Power: The student learns about the fundamentals of direct current and alternating circuits, transformers, rotating machinery, electrical and electronic control, and electrical energy. Back to top

    EE 327 - Fundamentals of Circuit Analysis: The student learns the fundamentals involved in electrical engineering. Topics include analysis of circuits, transient and steady state phenomena, general analysis techniques. Back to top

    CE 150 - Mechanics I: The student learns how to determine support reactions and internal forces in beams and simple trusses. A focus on analyzing two and three dimensional force systems, friction systems, center of gravity, centroids, and moments of inertia. An introduction to some fundamentals of Civil Engineering. Back to top

    CE 301 - Mechanics of Materials: The student learns how to determine stress and strain in a member for a variety of loading conditions, torsion of a rod, bending of beams, and axial deformation. Topics include analysis of members subjected to axial and torsional loads, internal forces including stress and strain, deformation in members, and member design, shear and bending moment diagrams and Mohr's Circle. Back to top

    PSY 310 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology: This course is an introduction to the psychology behind the workplace. Subjects include job analysis, psychological testing, interviewing, performance appraisal, employment law, leadership, motivation, training, job satisfaction, organizational theory, and research methods. Back to top

    Note : Quoted from : http://imet.bradley.edu/studentcourses.html

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