Industrial engineers are responsible for designing, analyzing, rationalizing , optimizing, and controlling these large-scale sociotechnical systems. They also supervise the operation of these systems, taking into account such vital factors as quality, throughput, equipment utilization, costs, ecology, energy conservation, reliability, safety, and health.
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineers also develop performance measures and standards for equipment, workers, and factories to achieve more effective utilization. They apply concurrent engineering principles to design manufacturing systems that fulfill the product realization based on the designs of other engineers.
Consequently, the objectives of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering are to train students to design and analyze manufacturing systems and their associated facilities, to analyze the economic consequences of their engineered designs, to make oral and written presentations of their engineered designs, and to perform their work in an ethical and professional manner.
You will develop good systems design skills throughout the curriculum beginning in the freshman year with ET 280 Engineering and Technology: An Overview, and culminating in the senior year with ISE 440, Industrial Plant Design, where you will complete a design project that simulates work found in professional practice. Also in your senior year, you will complete ISE 445, Systems Design, where you will design a real manufacturing information system, inventory control system, materials handling system, or quality control system for one of the many local industries who participate in our program. In the course of the program, you will also perform the design of software (ET 181 and 240), electrical systems (EE 313 and 314), workplace systems (ISE 333), mechanical and structural systems (CE 301), discrete event simulation systems (ISE 433), and manufacturing control systems (ISE 432). You will also perform additional systems design in the electives you choose for your concentration option as described below.
Courses in the first two years of the program are similar to the curricula of other engineering disciplines and provide the necessary foundation in basic subjects upon which advanced engineering work depends. The last two years of work provide the professional-level material, including instruction in computer applications necessary for the interdisciplinary engineering activities that are required of the modern industrial or manufacturing systems engineer. During the junior and senior years, you will take courses in the ISE concentration areas that are closest to your career goals. If you wish to increase the breadth or depth of your knowledge, the department offers courses leading to the M.S.I.E. and participates in the college's integrated Ph.D. degree program.
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineers follow careers in many fields, including manufacturing, transportation, government, banking, insurance, and hospitals. Because of their systems training and experience, most industrial and manufacturing systems engineers move into management positions after a few years on the job. Salaries are excellent and jobs are plentiful. Because of the increasing need for the U.S. to improve productivity to meet international competition, the need for industrial and manufacturing systems engineers in manufacturing and other organizations will remain high.
For more information, see the department's Web site: https://webise.ent.ohiou.edu//
MATH 263A Calculus 4 ENG 151 Freshman Composition 5 ET 280 Intro to Engineering 4 CHEM 121 Prin. of Chemistry I 4
or CHEM 151 Fund. of Chemistry I or 5
MATH 263B Calculus 4 IT 110 Manufacturing Processes 4 ECON 103 Prin. Microeconomics 4 CHEM 122 Prin. of Chemistry II 4
or CHEM 152 Fund. of Chemistry I1 or 5
IT 101 Engineering Drawing I 3 PHYS 251 General Physics 5 MATH 263C Calculus 4 INCO 103 Fund. of Public Speaking 4
PHYS 251 General Physics 5 MATH 263D Calculus 4 ISE 231 Intro to Indust. and Sys. Engineering 2 ACCT 101 Financial Accounting 4 Electives*
PHYS 252 General Physics 5 ISE 305 Engineering Statistics I 3 ISE 330 Engr. Economy 3 Electives*
MATH 340 Differential Equations 4 ET 181 Computer Methods in Engineering I 4 ISE 306 Engineering Statistics II 4 Electives*
CE 331 Prin. of Engr. Materials 5 ET 240 Computer Methods in Engineering II 4 ISE 333 Work Design 5 EE 313 Basic Elec. Engr. I 3
EE 314 Basic Elec. Engr. II 3 or EE 315 (spring) Basic Elec. Engr. III ISE 433 Indust. Computer Appl. 4 MATH 211 Elem. Linear Algebra 4 CHE 331 Prin. of Engr. Materials 4 Electives*
ENG 305J Technical Writing 4 EE 315 Basic Elect Engr. III 3 (if 314 was not taken winter quarter) ME 321 Intro to Thermodynamics 4 ISE 441 Operations Research 4 Electives*
ISE 432 Manufacturing Control 3 Electives*
ISE 440A Indust. Plant Design I 3 ISE 445A Systems Design I 3 ET 400 PE Fundamentals Review 2 Electives *
Spring
ISE 440B Indust. Plant Design II 3 ISE 445B Systems Design II 3 Electives*
*A minimum of 52 hours of electives is required, including:
16 hours in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering. You must take 3 courses in one of the following concentration areas:
Operations Research-415, 417, 436, 442, 444 Manufacturing Systems-402, 403, 409, 442, 446 Mfg. Information Systems-426, 427, 428, 439 Human Factors-422, 448, 449; 407 as quality elective
3 hours of quality elective: either 407 or 435.
20 hours in social sciences and humanities. Sequences are required in each area including advanced courses in each area. An advanced course is defined as one which (1) is at the 300 or higher level (except for courses dual-listed with 100- or 200-level courses); or (2) has a specified prerequisite. (See college requirements section.)
4 hours of approved mathematics or science electives selected from MATH 306, 307, 314, 330A, 343, 360, 410, 411, 441, 442, 443, 444, 450A, 470; CHEM 123, 153, 345; PHYS 272, 273, 311, 316, 351, 411, 423, 427; BIOS 170, 225; GEOL 270, 283.
4 hours from Tier III courses.
5 hours of electives to be freely chosen.
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