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Description: Capstone design course emphasizing analysis and design of manufacturing systems, cellular design, flexible manufacturing systems and manufacturing integration; integrates knowledge gained from all required industrial engineering courses in a system design project; for students in their final semester of undergraduate studies.
PREREQUISITES
ISEN 314, 416, 424
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is the culmination of the industrial engineering undergraduate curriculum. As part of a four-member student team, students apply their engineering skills to a design project, under the guidance and advice of faculty members and industrial sponsors. A core requirement of this course is to use engineering decision analysis. Each student team will produce, analyze, and select from alternative designs of its own creation. Students will use most of the knowledge gained in their previous courses throughout the design project.
TEXTBOOK AND ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIAL
(UL REFERENCES ON DESIGN PROCESS & DECISION MAKING) Hazelrigg, George A. Systems Engineering: an Approach to Information-Based Design. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996; Arrow, K. The Limits of Organization. W.W. Norton, New York, 1974; Fishburn, P.C. Utility Theory for Decision Making. Lively, New York, 1970; Luce, R.D. and H. Raiffa. Games and Decisions. John Wiley, New York, 1957; Marshal, K.T. and R.M. Oliver. Decision Making and Forecasting. McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1995; Page, A.N. Utility Theory: A Book of Readings. John Wiley, New York, 1968.
TOPICAL OUTLINEProject groups will generally consist of three or four students. Each group will be assigned a project with one of our industrial partners. The project proposal is intended as a milestone for identification of the project direction as determined by your group.
A mid-term design review is also used to evaluate progress and adjust the course of action, as needed.
There will be three final "deliverables" for each project. These deliverables include a project report, a project presentation, and a project web site.
CLASS SCHEDULEFriday 9:10-10:00; Labs: Monday and Wednesday 9:10-12:00
PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT
The senior design course is a one-semester course that provides senior industrial engineering students an opportunity to experience project-type work in an industrial setting. As such, it is probably the most valuable course in the IE curriculum. The intent of the course is to provide an environment in which students can use a variety of the tools that they have learned throughout their undergraduate curriculum to solve a "real world" problem. These are exactly the same types of projects that many of them will see during their industrial engineering careers. Due to the nature of the course, the project instructor/advisors will act in advisory roles. In this course, the instructor does not have "the answers," and it is incumbent on the groups to seek out advice and assistance whenever required.
ABET OUTCOMES
- ABET outcome A - The ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.
- Students learn how to apply basic knowledge in manufacturing operations, manufacturing processes, mathematical modeling, and engineering economy.
- ABET outcome B - An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
- ABET outcome C - An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.
- ABET outcome D - The ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.
- Teamwork in an essential component of this course. Students are required to work on team-based sponsored design projects. Students are required to do a peer evaluation of team performance and the end of the semester.
- ABET outcome E - The ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
- Students engage in the identification of industrial engineering problems in the context of modern production systems. Students use basic mathematical and computer modeling tools to formulate and solve some of the problems typically presented to industrial engineers in industry.
- ABET outcome F - An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
- ABET outcome G - Ability to communicate effectively.
- Students constantly engage in team discussions and team presentations in the classroom. Two major presentations of design projects are also part of the course.
- ABET outcome I - A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
- ABET outcome J - A knowledge of contemporary issues.
- ABET outcome K - Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
- Students will be using several state-or-the-art software packages in the modeling and analysis of production systems.
PREPARED BY: Amarnath Banerjee DATE: 9-22-03
