Industrial Manufacturing & Information Engineering

Bachelor of Science

Course Catalog

IEGR 200: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING-One hour lecture and laboratory; 1 credit. Introduction to industrial engineering as a career and IE curriculum at Morgan State University. Introduction to the basics of computer usage for solving problems in engineering. Topics include: computer structure, WINDOWS and UNIX operating Systems, WWW Home Page development using HTML, demonstrations of selected applications software relevant to engineering: spreadsheet, computation and editors and CAD. Prerequisite: IE Major.

IEGR 222 HOSPITALITY FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING, AND OPERATION-Two credits. An introduction to and management overview of the problems and opportunities inherent in the development, planning, and construction of hospitality facilities; as well as an overview of the operation of hospitality facilities, including operating costs for various types of facilities, types and characteristics of major building systems, and the responsibilities of the engineering and maintenance departments. For non-engineering majors only.

IEGR 300 INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING FOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGN -- Three hours lec. and laboratory; 3 credits. Introduction to structured programming in C language and advanced concepts of C language, with emphasis on applications. The new C language standard will be introduced. Skills are developed in the areas of program design, problem formulation, and the art of debugging. Introduction to the C++ programming environment. Applications to engineering design. Development of numerical methods. Final project to involve a major applicant in engineering. Prerequisite: IEGR 200.

IEGR 305 THERMODYNAMICS-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Fundamental thermodynamic concepts, temperature and pressure measurements; work and heat; first law of thermodynamics; properties of pure substances; first law analysis of some thermodynamic systems; some emphasis on electro-mechanical systems; second law analysis of thermodynamic systems; design of thermal systems; course includes a thermal design project. Prerequisites: PHYS 206 and MATH 242.

IEGR 309 MATERIALS ENGINEERING-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Fundamentals of materials including the structure of metals, mechanical behavior, testing, manufacturing properties, and physical properties. Metal alloys including their structure and strengthening by heat treatment. Production, general properties, and use of steels, nonferrous metals, polymers, ceramics, graphite, diamond, and composite materials. Prerequisite: CHEM 110. Jnr. Standing.

IEGR 311 FLUID MECHANICS & INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS- Four hours lecture; 4 credits. Fluid properties, fluid statics, integral and differential formulations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Bernoulli's equation. Dimensional analysis and similitude. Inviscid flow. Viscous flow. Experimental and computational methods in fluid mechanics. Introduction to design of flow devices and fluid-operated sensors. Prerequisite: IEGR 300; PHYS 206.

IEGR 315 INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES I-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Survey of selected industrial technologies of the thermo-fluid and electro-mechanical types. Emphasis on design issues and "how things work", with regard to these technologies. Introduction to "reverse engineering" and its applications and use in industry. Emphasis will also be placed on industrial competitiveness and globalization in engineering design and development. Prerequisite: IEGR 300, IEGR 305.

IEGR 317 SOLID MODELING AND DESIGN I-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 Credits. Introduction to solid modeling and computer-aided design for manufacturing. Students will be exposed to the rudiments of CAD and CAE, and to their applications in the design of products. Extensive discussions on modeling and design to equip students with state-of-the-an tools for product and systems design. Prerequisite: IEGR 300.

IEGR 331 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Includes sample spaces, combinatorial methods, probabilities, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, descriptive statistics and related distributions, specific probability laws and their interpretation, the theory of estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: MATH 242 and Jnr. Standing.

IEGR 350 ENGINEERING ECONOMY-three hours lecture; 3 credits. Equivalence concepts. Present worth, annual worth, and rate of return methods for tangible methods of evaluation. Economic life and replacement economy; economic lot sizes Tax influence. Cost of capital. Benefit/cost ratios and project priority ranking. Prerequisite: ECON 211.

IEGR 355 EXPERT SYSTEMS IN ENGINEERING -- Three hours lecture and lab; 3 credits. Basic review of artificial intelligence and expert systems and their applications in decision making. Topics covered include search, rule-based systems, logic, constraint satisfaction, knowledge representation, interfacing mechanism, expert-system development life cycle and development alternatives. Prerequisites: IEGR 300, PHIL 109.

IEGR 357 PRODUCTION DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Quality control, work methods and measurement, and time and motion study. Design of physical manufacturing systems; integrating the concepts of the design and control of production systems, including organization, plant layout, economic analysis, materials handling systems, site and plant location and projects involving plant design using optimization techniques.

IEGR 360 ERGONOMICS AND WORKPLACE DESIGN-Three hours lecture and lab.; 3 credits The capabilities and limitations of humans are addressed in the context of the person's interaction with machines and the environment. Topics of discussion include anthropometric physiological capabilities and behavioral aspects in the work environment, and the design of controls and displays. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.

IEGR 363 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES- Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Fundamentals of processing typical industrial materials including casting, heat treatment, welding, machining, numerical control forming, and finishing; automation, economics and design considerations, planning of manufacturing operations, and performance measurement. Prerequisite: IEGR 309.

IEGR 385 MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN I-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Delivery Technologies, Multimedia platforms, Peripherals (sound cards, video cards, CD-ROM, Photo CD, Writeable CD-ROM), Networking, Planning, Design, Content Provisions, and Production Media Management. Compression data standards (sound, video, image text), data capture (text, sound), data administration. Software Development, authoring tools, pedagogical issues, intellectual property rights, copyright, licensing production. Prerequisite: Junior standing and/or permission of instructor.

IEGR 390 INDUSTRIAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Acquisition and analysis of experimental data. Laws of modeling and simulation. Report formulation and presentation. Basic principles of measuring instruments and sensors. Fundamentals of digital data acquisition and use of computer-based data systems. Laboratory experiments including the use of strain gauges, transducers, computerized data systems, and bar-code readers. Applications in industrial instrumentation design. Prerequisite: Jnr./Snr Standing.

IEGR 401 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Advanced topics in statistical experiments with emphasis on the design aspect. Confounding, fractional replication, factorial and nested design, and Taguchi method. Prerequisite: MATH 331 or IEGR 331.

IEGR 402: SOFTWARE AND DATABASE DESIGN -- Three hours lecture and Lab; 3 credits; Introduction to Windows 95/98INT operating systems. Development of engineering applications with Visual Basic for Windows. Applications of object oriented techniques to Visual Basic development. Development of robust stand-alone and client/server applications for Windows using Microsoft Access. Development of applications with Data Access Objects (DAO). Access and client/server computing. Special requirements for engineering and design environments. Prerequisite: IEGR 300.

IEGR 406 INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HEALTH-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Survey of procedures and practices in industrial safety including government regulations (OSHA), life safety, electrical safety, air contamination, noise, radiation, ventilation, illumination, toxicology, and safety engineering organization. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.

IEGR 410 SIMULATION OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS-Three hour lecture and lab.; 3 credits. Introduction to analytic modeling and discrete event simulation of queuing systems with associated statistical concepts. Applications to industrial system modeling include production systems, inventory analysis and other aids to decision making. One simulation language is covered in detail and several others are discussed with animation demonstrated. Prerequisites: IEGR 300; MATH 331 or IEGR 331.

IEGR 414 HEAT TRANSFER AND INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS-Three hour lecture and lab.; 3 credits. Heat transfer process. General heat conduction equations; Steady-and unsteady-state heat conduction problems. Methods of analysis; analytical, analog and numerical solution methods. Fundamentals of convective heat transfer. Evaluation of convective heat transfer coefficients; dimensional analysis; boundary layer approach, analog between heat and momentum transfer. Energy exchange by thermal radiation; fundamental concepts and laws, radiation properties, radiative heat transfer between surfaces. Design considerations: design of energy conversion components used in industry. Prerequisites: IEGR 315; IEGR 317.

IEGR 415 INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES II-Three hour lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. In-depth study and analysis of selected electro-mechanical-based industrial technologies. Equipment or process foci to be determined by instructor. Course is structured to incorporate a number of design experiments. Prerequisite: IEGR 315; IEGR 317.

IEGR 420 INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN-Three hour lecture and lab.; 3 credits. Study of information systems development to include design, implementation, evaluation and management based on a standard development of life cycle methodology. Structured analysis and design techniques are introduced. Prerequisites: IEGR 300 and Senior Standing.

IEGR 431 QUALITY CONTROL AND RELIABILITY-Three hour lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Introduction to quality control. Review of statistics. Control charts for variables, control charts for attributes. Lot-by-lot acceptance sampling. Economic aspects of quality control. Quality assurance and quality engineering. Introduction to reliability engineering. Failure functions, Weibull distribution, life expectancy and reliability testing. Prerequisites: MATH 331 or IEGR 331; IEGR 357.

IEGR 432 INTRODUCTION TO QUALITY-Three hour lecture; 3 credits. Engineering and Robust Design. Description: Off-line quality control. Build high quality into products in the design and development stages. Design high-quality products at low production cost by using quality loss function, experimental design, fractional factorial design as well as response surface methods. The objective is to design a product that is robust or less sensitive to manufacturing variations, environmental conditions and deterioration over time. Prerequisite: IEGR 431.

IEGR 439 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES-Three hour lecture; 3 credits. Introduction to major environmental problems in industry. Discussions in environmental ethics/ecology, development of environmental concerns, public policy and the environment, responses to environmental problems including strategies for business/society. Environmental impact in energy conversion/utilization. Case studies include hazardous waste disposal, air and water pollution. Prerequisite: Senior Standing.

IEGR 440 DETERMINISTIC MODELS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Basic concepts and techniques of deterministic operations research modeling; introduction to the decision-making process; theory of simplex and revised simplex methods; duality theory, complementary slackness, sensitivity analysis, post-optimal analysis. transportation assignment and transshipment problems. Introduction to software packages for linear programming. Prerequisite: IEGR 357.

IEGR 441 STOCHASTIC MODELS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Basic concepts and techniques of stochastic operations research modeling. Topics include Markov chains, queuing theory, inventory systems, reliability, forecasting, decision analysis and introduction to simulation. Applications to engineering problems, including the use of computer codes are also covered. Prerequisite: MATH 331 or IEGR 331.

IEGR 452 PROJECT MANAGEMENT-Three hours lecture; 3 credits. Basic definitions of network models, shortest path problem, maximal flow problems, CPM and PERT and their use in project planning control, minimum cost network flow problems. Minimum spanning tree problems. Use of CPM/PERT in project planning control. Resource scheduling. Multiproject scheduling. Prerequisite: IEGR 357.

IEGR 457 MATERIAL HANDLING AND PRODUCTION DESIGN-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Review of material handling equipment used in warehousing and manufacturing: Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems, order picking, powered and gravity conveyors, automated guided vehicle systems, and carousels. Analytic and discrete event stimulation case study of material handling systems to design and analyze discrete parts material storage and flow. Prerequisite: IEGR 357.

IEGR 460 ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS-Three hours lecture and lab.; 3 credits. Continuation of instruction on the capabilities and limitations of humans in the context of the person's interaction with machines and the environment (IEGR 360). Topics of discussion include anthropometric physiological and auditory capabilities. Behavioral aspects in the work environment, and the design of selected workplace-specific products will be addressed from an ergonomic viewpoint. Prerequisite: IEGR 360 and Junior Standing.

IEGR 465: OBJECT-ORIENTED ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS -Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits Fundamentals, key benefits and major object technologies. Modeling with objects with discussions in object oriented analysis and object modeling in the system's life cycle. Development of objects with C++ and Java using visual development environments. Key decisions on the trade- off between development costs and run-time performance. Defining and choosing storage strategy with discussions on using object databases and objects within relational databases. Building cross platform applications with component based software using Object Management Group's COBRA standard, Microsoft's ActiveX component technology and Java-based components. Applications of object technology in engineering and design, selecting and using object CASE tools and the right development teams. Pre-requisite: IEGR 300

IEGR 470 INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Basic concepts are the organization and operation of microcomputer-controlled manipulators. Experiments include kinematics, manipulation, dynamics, trajectory planning and programming language for robots. Applications of computer-controlled robots in manufacturing and programmable automation. Prerequisites: IEGR 357; IEGR 363.

IEGR 475 MECHATRONICS AND CIM-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Introduction to the use of CIM systems to improve productivity, information flow and management of resources. Design and operation of a pilot-scale flexible manufacturing system. Hardware, software, design and economical considerations. Prerequisite: IEGR 470.

IEGR 480 PRODUCT DESIGN-Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits. Dynamics of converting ideas to marketable products. The use of programming skills and numerical tools to support design/redesign of products, in a 3 -D solid modeling computer workstation environment. Course covers the trajectory from product idea to design and prototype development and production. Course involves numerous design experiments, and requires the team design and rapid production of prototypes. Prerequisites: IEGR 317 and Advisor's Approval.

IEGR 485 MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN II-Three hours lecture and lab. 3 credits. Internet Navigation via World Wide Web; FTP, E-mail, HTML. JAVA, VRML. Presentation software, Teaching methodologies; Effective communication; Multimedia-based learning. Image/sound/video capturing and manipulation, Constructing movies (combining image, video, and sound), Story boards, 3-D animation tools (Truespace, 3-D Studio), Creating multimedia projects (Director, Premier), Authoring tools (Authorware, Toolbook, Simple), CD-ROM production, and Identification of learning styles. Prerequisite: Snr standing and/or permission of instructor.

IEGR 486: NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ADMIN. IN ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS. Three hours lecture and laboratory; 3 credits An overview of UNIX and NT servers; Workstation and Server administration; Tools and utilities; Overview of UNIX, '(Iron Shell and TCP/IP programming; Windows based WEB servers including Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise; Implementing WEB security; Building applications using Perl. Adopting special needs of engineering environment including CAD/CAM/CAE, calculation intensive applications and concurrent engineering based work environments. Pre-requisite: IEGR 300.

IEGR 495 SUMMER ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP-3 credits. Students holding industrial engineering academic summer internships may receive academic credit for such internships. Consult faculty advisor prior to registration for information and approval. Prerequisite: Advisor's Approval.

IEGR 496 SENIOR DESIGN I-1 credit. A capstone design course emphasizing analysis and design of a specific industrial engineering problem area under the guidance of a faculty advisor. During this phase the student or student teams are to identify the problem and analyze optional solutions and submit a written proposal describing how the project is to be executed during the follow-on course IEGR 498. Prerequisite: Advisor/Faculty Director's Permission.

IEGR 498 SENIOR DESIGN II-2 credits. This course is a follow-on execution of the project proposed in course IEGR 496. A final written report is required of the students. If a team of students executed the project, each student is required to submit a report describing the special aspects of the project executed by the student. An oral presentation of the project and its results is also required. The report should contain a summary of data and analysis that led to the design recommendation. Prerequisite: IEGR 496.

IEGR 499 SPECIAL TOPICS-3 credits. In-depth study of recent advances in specific areas of student/faculty interest. Prerequisite: Advisor's Approval.