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specifically designed to assimilate IEN 402 - 3D Printing and IEN 440 - Operations Research II
students into the industrial culture Additive Manufacturing Credit Hours: 3
before they graduate. By spending Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisite: IEN 330
the summer within the industry, Prerequisite: MEC 301
engineering students should gather This course provides an introduction
invaluable experience linking their The course aims to develop an to stochastic (probabilistic)
theoretical knowledge to real understanding of the principles of 3D Operations Research models. Topics
world situations. At the same time, printing and additive manufacturing include decision analysis, discrete
students will have the opportunity processes; including the materials and continuous random processes,
of impressing their employers and used, CAD/CAE/modelling and path Markov chains, and queuing models.
possibly securing future employment. planning for additive manufacturing Students will learn to develop and
The potential employers will have processes. Students will have an analyze models that incorporate
the opportunity to benefit from the opportunity to design and fabricate the effects of randomness and
service provided by engineering using 3D printing machines. The uncertainty. Applications of
students who are at the peak of course also discusses the applications these models to problems in
their creativity. For employers this of Additive Manufacturing in many manufacturing, health care,
program can be cost effective in technical domains such as biomedical, management, and other domains will
terms of selection and training future aerospace, biotechnology industries. be presented.
employees. IEN 420 - Environmental & IEN498 - Capstone Design
IEN 400 - Modelling & Simulation Safety Engineering Project I
Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 1
Prerequisite: IEN 330 + MIS 200 Prerequisite: IEN 310 Prerequisite: Senior Level + MEC 340
This introduces the students to the This course introduces the students This course is a capstone project for
basic techniques for modeling and to the fundamentals of occupational industrial engineering students. The
simulating the industrial systems environmental covers a variety project typically involves the analysis
in the presence of uncertainty. of topics including occupational and design of industrial/mechanical
Fundamentally the course will enable environmental safety engineering and engineering system or a product.
the students to solve different how to management with emphasis Each group of industrial engineering
engineering problem electronically on control of hazardous materials, seniors may address one or more
by building computer-based models safety considerations in production industrial engineering aspects
for real systems and performing facility design and maintenance, such as production planning, asset
simulation experiments to evaluate operation of effective safety management, operation research,
the behavior of a system under programs, and system safety analysis environmental & safety engineering,
different sets of conditions. Moreover, techniques. renewable energy systems and
students are required to do a term MEC 432 - Design and design & manufacturing aspects.
project that will enhance the students Manufacturing Lab IEN499 - Capstone Design
modeling skills. Credit Hours: 3 Project I
IEN 401 - Modelling & Simulation Co-requisites MEC 301 Credit Hours: 3
Lab This lab aims to integrate theoretical Prerequisite: IEN 498
Credit Hours: 1 and practical knowledge gained This course is the second and major
Prerequisite: IEN 400 (co-requisite) from previous design, materials, part of the capstone project for
Simulation models of systems in manufacturing, dynamics and some industrial engineering students.
terms of procedural behaviors, aspects of thermo fluid courses. The project typically involves the
discrete and continuous, Students design and realize typical design of industrial/mechanical
deterministic and stochastic will be mechanical engineering systems engineering system or a device.
studied. These include formulating or components through a series of Each group of industrial engineering
and implementing simulation models, projects and experiments. Students seniors may address one or more
analysis of input and output data, are required to use conventional industrial engineering aspects
statistical techniques for models and modern engineering tools as such as production planning, asset
of single systems and competing well as to develop commitment management, operation research,
alternative systems. A computer to ethical, environmental, social environmental & safety engineering,
program such as ARENA or Pro Model and global issues, and to be aware renewable energy systems and
will be introduced. of entrepreneurial opportunities design & manufacturing aspects.
relevant to design and manufacturing. Projects with interdisciplinary

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