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following are unofficial course descriptions based on 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. 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