3 credits | Prerequisites: No credit in ACC 471, ACC 502, ACC 503

This course introduces the basic concepts and methods used in corporate financial statements for the information of investors and other interested external parties. Readings, problems and cases are used. Major topics included are: The Basic Accrual Model, Analysis of Transactions, Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement Construction and Analysis. The course also emphasizes analysis of cases and actual financial reports and concerns the applications of the basic concepts and methods of financial accounting to issues such as long-term assets, inventory, sales, receivables, debt securities, corporate ownership, international operations, and analysis of financial statements.

Curriculum Area: Marketing and Strategy
3 credits | Prerequisites: ACC 501 and no credit in ACC 552

This course deals with decision-making in organizations, where the decisions involve the generation, analysis, or use of financial information. The major topics in this course include the use of accounting in making alternative choice decisions, the development and use of product cost information, and the use of accounting information for managerial planning and control. Throughout the course, a managerial viewpoint is stressed. Cases are used.

4 credits | Prerequisites: preceded by AEROSP 345. Preceded or accompanied by AEROSP 315, 325, and 335

Introduction to the engineering design process for space systems. Includes a lecture phase that covers mission planning, launch vehicle integration, propulsion, power systems, communications, budgeting, and reliability. Subsequently, students experience the latest practices in space systems engineering by forming into mission component teams and collectively designing a space mission. Effective team and communication skills are emphasized. Report writing and presentations are required throughout, culminating in the final report and public presentation.

3 credits | Prerequisites: AEROSP 315

Introductory level. Finite element solutions for structural dynamics and nonlinear problems. Normal modes, forced vibrations, Euler buckling (bifurcations), large deflections, nonlinear elasticity, transient heat conduction. Computer laboratory based on a general purpose finite element code.

3 credits | Prerequisites: AEROSP 315 or MECHENG 412

Effective stiffness properties of composites. Constitutive description of laminated plates. Laminated plate theory. Edge effects in laminates. Nonlinear theory of generally laminated plates. Governing equations in the Von Karman sense. Laminated plates with moderately large deflections. Postbuckling and nonlinear vibration of laminated plates. Failure theories and experimental results for laminates.

3 credits 

This course presents a review of strategies for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in power generation, transportation, and the built environment.  Sources discharges, and physical properties of greenhouse gases are surveyed, and technologies for greenhouse gas elimination or sequestration are discusses.  Policy options for greenhouse gas control and carbon footprint reduction are also considered.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Standing

Basic critical path planning and scheduling with arrow and precedence networks; project control; basic overlapping networks; introduction to resource leveling and least cost scheduling; fundamental PERT systems.

3 credits | Advisory Prerequisites: Bio 172 or equivalent and Che 330 or BiomedE 221 or Chem 230, or graduate standing or enrollment in PharmD program.

This course covers fundamental concepts essential for the discovery, development and characterization of biopharmaceuticals.  Topics include basic immunology, molecular biology and cloning, in vitro protein library generation and screening, antibody discovery and engineering, biophysical characterization and protein expression and purification.

4 credits | Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Standing

Four aspects of starting high-tech companies are discussed: opportunity and strategy, creating new ventures, functional development, and growth and financing. Also, student groups work on reviewing business books, case studies, elevator and investor pitches. Different financing models are covered, including angel or VC funding and small business (SBIR) funding.

4 credits | Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing) or Graduate Standing

This course covers the fundamentals of patents for engineers. The first part of the course focuses on the rules and codes that govern patent prosecution, and the second part focuses on claim drafting and amendment writing. Other topics covered include litigation, ethics and licensing.

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), devices, and technologies. Micromachining and microfabricating techniques, including planar thin-film processing, silicon etching, wafer bonding photolithography, deposition, and etching. Transduction mechanisms and modeling in different energy domains. Analysis of micro-machined capacitive, piezoresistive, and thermal sensors, actuators and applications. Computer-aided design for MEMS layout, fabrication and analysis.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 320 or Graduate Standing

Semiconductor material and device fabrication and evaluation: diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors, passive components. Semiconductor processing techniques: oxidation, diffusion, deposition, etching, photolithography. Lecture and laboratory. Projects to design and simulate device fabrication sequence.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 311 or EECS 312 or EECS 414 or Graduate Standing

Development of a complete integrated microsystem, from functional definition to final test. MEMS-based transducer design and electrical, mechanical and thermal limits. Design of MOS interface circuits. MEMS and MOS chip fabrication. Mask making, pattern transfer, oxidation, ion implantation mantation and metallization. Packaging and testing challenges. Students work in interdisciplinary teams.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 270 and EECS 312 and EECS 320 or Graduate Standing

Design techniques for rapid implementations of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, MOS technology and logic. Structured design. Design rules, layout procedures. Design aids: layout, design rule checking, logic and circuit simulation. Timing. Testability. Architectures for VLSI. Projects to develop and lay out circuits.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 330 or 334 or permission of instructor or graduate standing

EECS 434 provides an introduction to photonics, optoelectronics, lasers and fiber-optics. The course begins by analyzing optical propagation, reflection/refraction at interfaces and optics in anisotropic media. Polarization is discussed, with application to liquid crystal displays and waveplates. Anti-reflection coatings, dielectric mirrors, and interferometers are studied. Dielectric waveguides and fiber optics are discussed, together with methods of modulating radiation for communications and metrology. Optical spectral analysis, filtering, resonators, lasers and coherence are covered. The course concludes with semiconductor optics: laser diodes, LEDs, photo-detectors and communication systems.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 281 or Graduate Standing

Concepts and techniques for designing computer system user interfaces to be easy to learn and use, with an introduction to their implementation. Task analysis, design of functionality, display and interaction design, and usability evaluation. Interface programming using an object-oriented application framework. Fluency in a standard object-oriented programming language is assumed.

4 credits | Prerequisites: Senior standing and successful completion of at least two-thirds of the credit hours required for the program subjects

Professional problem-solving methods developed through intensive group studies. Normally, one significant design project is chosen for entire class requiring multiple EECS disciplines and teams. Use of analytic, computer, design, and experimental techniques where applicable are used. Projects are often interdisciplinary allowing non-EECS seniors to also take the course (consult with instructor).

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 414

Advanced micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) devices and technologies. Transduction techniques, including piezoelectric, electrothermal, and resonant techniques. Chemical biological sensors, microfluidic and biomedical devices. Micromachining technologies such as laser machining and microdrilling. EDM, materials such as SiC and diamond. Sensor and actuator analysis and design through CAD.

4 credits | Prerequisites: (EECS 423 or EECS 425) and EECS 311 and EECS 320

Integrated circuit fabrication overview relationships between processing choices and devices performance characteristics. Long-channel device I-V review, short-channel MOSFET I-V characteristics including velocity saturation, mobility degradation, hot carriers, gate depletion. MOS device scaling strategies, silicon-on-insulator, lightly doped drain structures, on chip interconnection parasitics and performance, Major CMOS scaling challenges. Process and circuit simulation.

3 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 421 and EECS 423

Theoretical analysis of the chemistry and physics of process technologies used in microelectronics fabrication. Topics include: semiconductor growth, material characterization, lithography tools, photoresist models, thin film deposition, chemical etching, plasma etching, electrical contact formation, microstructure processing and process modeling.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or permission of instructor

Introduction to robots considered as electro-mechanical computational systems performing work on the physical world. Data structures representing kinematics and dynamics of rigid body motions and forces and controllers for achieving them. Emphasis on building and programming real robotic systems and on representing the work they are to perform.

3 credits |  Prerequisites: None

Production Systems Engineering (PSE) investigates fndamental laws that givern production systems and utilizes them for analysis, design, and continuous improvement.  The topics covered include quantitative methods for analysis and design, improvability, measurement-based management, and the PSE Toolbox.  The skills acquired will make students marketable as engineering managers of manufacturing organizations.

3 credits |  Prerequisites: EECS 203 and Math 425 (Stat 425)

Programs and automata that "learn" by adapting to their environment; programs that utilize genetic algorithms for learning. Samuel strategies, realistic neural networks, connectionist systems, classifier systems, and related models of cognition. Artificial intelligence systems, such as NETL and SOAR, are examined for their impact upon machine learning and cognitive science.

4 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 427

Advanced very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design. Design methodologies (architectural simulation, hardware description language design entry, silicon compilation, and verification), microarchitectures, interconnect, packaging, noise sources, circuit techniques, design for testability, design rules, VLSI technologies (silicon and GaAs), and yield. Projects in chip design.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in a biostatistics course.

 This course covers concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposures to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Emphasis is on operating mechanisms and practical aspects of industrial hygiene air-monitoring equipment, characterizing exposure distributions, and developing sampling strategies. The course includes lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, problems, technical reports, and readings, and is targeted primarily towards students in occupational health and safety.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior and Graduate Standing

This course provides students with a perspective in looking to form or joint startup companies and those that are looking to form or join startup companies and those that are looking to create corporate value via industrial research. The students are taught the entrepreneurial business development screening tools necessary to translate opportunities into businesses with focus on: strategy, finance and market positioning.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior and Graduate Standing. Students must take ENGR 520 before taking ENGR 521

This course teaches the students how to screen venture opportunities in various cleantech domains. Venture assessments are approached through strategic, financial and market screens, and consider the impact of policy and regulatory constraints on the business opportunity. A midterm, and final project as well as six home works are required.

(If taking MFG 605, cannot take IOE 440)

3 credits, no credit granted for students who have credit for OMS 605 | Prerequisites: IOE 310 and 316 or Graduate Standing

Principles and models for analyzing, engineering, and managing manufacturing and service operations as well as supply chains. Emphasis on capacity management; queuing models of operational dynamics (including cycle time, work-in-progress, inventory, throughput, and variability); operational flexibility; the math and physics of lean enterprises.

2 credits | Prerequisites: Senior standing

Review of philosophies, systems, and practices utilized by world-class manufacturers to meet current manufacturing challenges, focusing on "lean production" in the automotive industry, including material flow, plant-floor quality assurance, job design, work and management practices. Students tour plants to analyze the extent and potential of the philosophies.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 310 and IOE 316

Basic models and techniques for managing inventory systems and for planning production. Topics include deterministic and probabilistic inventory models, production planning and scheduling; and introduction to factory physics.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 310 and IOE 316

Fundamentals in developing efficient layouts for single-story and multi-story production and service facilities. Manual procedures and microcomputer-based layout algorithms. Algorithms to determine the optimum location of facilities. Special considerations for multi-period, dynamic layout problems.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 201 and IOE 310 and IOE 366

The goal of this course is to introduce a basic understanding of financial management. The course develops fundamental models of valuation and investment from first principles and applies them to problems of corporate and individual decision making. The topics of discussion will include the net present valuation, optimal portfolio selection, risk and investment analysis, issuing securities, capital structure with debt financing, and real options.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 201 and IOE 310 and IOE 366

The main objectives of the course are first, to provide the students with a thorough understanding of the theory of pricing derivatives in the absence of arbitrage, and second, to develop the mathematical and numerical tools necessary to calculate derivative security prices. We begin by the absence of static arbitrage. We proceed to develop the implications of no arbitrage in dynamic trading models: the binomial and Black-Scholes models. The theory is applied to hedging and risk management.

ISD Instructor: Patt Hammett

(If taking IOE 461/MFG 461, cannot take IOE 466/MFG 466)
This course is not for D. Eng. in Mfg. Students

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 366, (Only for M. Eng. in Mfg. Credit not for D. Eng. in Mfg.)

This course provides students with the analytical and management tools necessary to solve manufacturing quality problems and implement effective quality systems. Topics include voice of the customer analysis, the Six Sigma problem solving methodology, process capability analysis, measurement system analysis, design of experiments, statistical process control, failure made and effects analysis, quality function development, and reliability.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 333 or ME 395 or BME 231 and IOE 265 or Stats 412

Design of lean manufacturing systems requires knowledge and skills for describing manual work, identifying value added and non-value added work elements, designing efficient work equipment and methods preventing fatigue and related worker health problems and predicting work performance.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE/STAT 265 and IOE 366 or STAT 401

Quality Improvement Philosophies; Modeling Process Quality, Statistical Process Control, Control Charts for Variables and Attributes, CUSUM and EWMA, Short Production Runs, Multivariate Quality Control, Auto Correlation, Engineering Process Control, Economic Design of Charts, Fill Control, Pre-control, Adaptive Schemes, Process Capability, Specifications and Tolerances, Gage Capability Studies, Acceptance Sampling by Attributes and Variables, International Quality Standards.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 333 and IOE 366

Principles of engineering psychology applied to engineering and industrial production systems visual task measurement and design, psycho-physical measurements, signal detection theory and applications to industrial process control. Human information processing, mental workload evaluation, human memory and motor control processes.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 333, IOE 334, or IOE 433

Anatomical and physiological concepts are introduced to understand and predict human motor capabilities, with particular emphasis on the evaluation and design of manual activities in various occupations. Quantitative models are developed to explain (1) muscle strength performance, (2) cumulative and acute musculoskeletal injury, (3) physical fatigue, and (4) human motion control.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 265 or Biostat

Recognition, evaluation, and control of generic safety hazards (confined spaces, electricity, fire, mechanical energy, etc.) found in contemporary work places, using case studies from manufacturing, transportation and power generation. Students perform an interdisciplinary team project using contemporary systems safety methods (e.g., fault tree analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, or job safety analysis) to redesign a work station or consumer product.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 316 or IOE 310

The problem of scheduling several tasks over time, including the topics of measures of performance, single-machine sequencing, flow shop scheduling, the job shop problem, and priority dispatching. Integer programming, dynamic programming, and heuristic approaches to various problems are presented.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 515 or EECS 501

Introduction to queuing networks. Topics include product and non-product form networks, exact results and heavy and light traffic approximations, queuing networks with blocking, and polling systems. Applications from manufacturing and service industries are given as examples.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 265 and IOE 310

When a global supply chain is viewed as a network, the arcs in the network correspond to transportation systems such as land-based transport (trucking and railways), sea transport, and air transport. The nodes, on the other hand, represent the facilities through which the goods are handled. Our focus in this course is the nodes, and their interface with the arcs. Such facilities include: · Manufacturing facilities · Warehouses · Distribution Centers · Container terminals (or Seaports) · Consolidation/Deconsolidation Centers · Railway yards · Crossdocks · Airports (freight; not passenger) Since manufacturing facilities and warehouses are addressed in other courses, this course will focus on the remaining facilities in the above list.

3 credits | Alternate Years | Prerequisites: IOE 310 and IOE 416

Analytical models for the design and throughput performance evaluation of material handling systems used in discrete parts flow production facilities. Analysis of design and control issues for manual and automated handling systems including lift trucks, microload automatic storage/retrieval systems and automated guided vehicle systems.

3 credits | Prerequisites: IOE 366 or ME 401

Time series modeling, analysis, forecasting, and control, identifying parametric time series, autovariance, spectra, Green's function, trend and seasonality. Examples from manufacturing, quality control, ergonomics, inventory, and management.

Since IOE 565 (MFG 561) and MECHENG 563 are similar courses, a student may only count IOE 565 or MECHENG 563 toward the MFg degree.

3 credits

This course is intended to introduce the student to the systems engineering process used to create multidisciplinary solutions to complex problems which have multiple, often conflicting objectives. The course will provide an overview of systems engineering in the context of large developmental programs, with examples taken from a wide range of application areas, including civil engineering and transportation systems, space and missile systems, ship systems and land vehicle development. By focusing on the objectives, principles and practices of systems engineering, the course will enable the student to better understand the functions, capabilities and limitations of systems engineering. The course will be of value to all who will participate in major engineering efforts in the commercial, civil or defense communities.

Curriculum Area: Safety, Health and Ecology
3 credits | Prerequisites:

This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the interdisciplinary field and methods of risk analysis.  The course covers the foundations of the field - the meaning of risk and uncertainty, risk perception, communication and governance; semi-quantitative risk analysis methods; fault trees and event trees; Bayesian belief networks; extreme value statistics, project risk management; terrorism risk analysis, and environmental health and safety risk assessment.  The focus is on providing a strong foundation for both further study and practice in the field of risk analysis.

3 credits | Prerequisites: MECHENG 350

Please Note:   
ISD 528 Advanced Design for Manufacturability, it is the same course as MECHENG 452 Design for Mfg, except it has additional readings and homework assignments to make it a 500 level course.  ME 452 and ISD 528 meet the same time, same place and has  the same instructor.  MFG students should enroll in ISD 528. 

3 credits

Prerequisites: Student should have some basic background in the development of software or software/hardware systems. Development of mid-sized software system using object-oriented programming language is beneficial.

Focus on the process for software development of a large, complex software systems.  Pragmatic aspects of the production of software systems, dealing with structuring principles, design methodologies and informal analysis.  Emphasis is given to development of large, complex software systems.

Curriculum Area: Engineering Elective

3 credits

This course is an introduction to the design of road vehicles through modeling and system analysis.  The course is designed to provide basic introduction to various vehicle subsystems and their functional performance characteristics.  Domain specific modeling and analysis methods will be discussed and applied.  The scope of this course will be limited to modeling and analysis of hte basic phenomena related to longitudinal motion, propulsion systems and lateral motion.

3 credits

Methods for verifying and validating requirements (inspection, demonstration, simulation, testing, similarity, etc.) as well as for developing requirements which balance stakeholder needs with technical and economic feasibility.  Methods include decision trees, use case diagrams, interactive simulation, project management and qualitative regression (using SPSS software).  Coursework includes a team project focused on developing a verification plan for a topic chosen by your team.   

Curriculum Area: Safety, Health and Ecology

online, on-campus

Prerequisites: No prerequisites for this course.  However, basic knowledge of finite element analysis is recommended.

This course will teach the basics of vehicle crashworthiness and occupant protection along with finite element modeling for vehicle safety designs.  Specifically, upon completion of this course, the students should be able to understand the general procedures and state-of-the-art tools to evaluate vehicle crash safety, apply fundamental principles to interpret injury mechanisms, safety concerns, and design benefits in different types of crashes, and assess safety systems using finite element crash simulations.  This course will be features with three projects, including a modeling project, a literature review project, and a group project on vehicle crash safety designs.

Curriculum Area: Engineering Elective

online, on-campus

Prerequisites: You are expected to have knowledge of differential equations, linear algebra, and Laplace or Fourier transform.

This course focuses on modeling and control of connected vehicle systems consisting of human driven and connected automated vehicles. Models are built in terms of ordinary differential equations and delay differential equations. The stability of uniform flow equilibrium is studied at the linear and nonlinear levels. Controllers for connected automated vehicles are designed so that they can ensure stability and disturbance attenuation around the equilibrium. The impacts of utilizing connectivity in order to ensure traffic safety and efficiency are highlighted.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior standing

Design concepts. Engineering economics. Problems of scaling. Materials substitution. Competitive processes. Case histories. Professional and ethical considerations. Written and Oral presentations of solutions to design problems.

The design of production and refining systems for engineering materials. Unit processes in the extraction and refining of metals. Production and processing of ceramic and polymeric materials, and electronic materials and devices.

3 crdits | Prerequisites: MATSCIE 220 or MATSCIE 250

Behavior, processing, and design of composite materials, especially fiber composites. Emphasis is on the basic chemical and physical processes currently employed and expected to guide the future development of the technology.

Analysis of failed structures due to tensile overload, creep, fatigue, stress corrosion, wear and abrasion, with extensive use of scanning electron microscope. Identification and role of processing defects in failure.

3 credits | Prerequisites: NERS 421/521 or MSE 350 or Permission of Instructor

Ion-solid interactions, ion beam mixing, compositional changes, phase changes, micro-structural changes; alteration of physical and mechanical properties such as corrosion, wear, fatigue, hardness; ion beam analysis techniques such as RBS, NRA, PIXE, ion channeling, ion microprobe; accelerator system design and operation as it relates to implantation and analysis.

1 to 3 credits

Special Topics in Manufacturing.

3 credits | Prerequisites: MECHENG 382

Mechanical behavior and environmental degradation of polymeric-, metal-, and ceramic matrix composites; manufacturability of advanced engineering materials; use of composite materials in novel engineering designs.

3 credits | Prerequisites: advisory MECHENG 382

Introduction of advancements in machining.  Overview and analysis of the single-point, multiple-point and abrasive processes.  Machine tool design and cutting tools and tool wear mechanisms.  Cutting forces and mechanics of chip formation.  Termperatures of the tool and workpiece.  Analysis of electrical discharge, electrochemical, chemical, laser, and biomedical/tissue/soft-material machining.

3 credits | Prerequisites: ME382

Study of mechanism of surface bonding, welding metallurgy, effect of rate of heat input on resulting microstructures, residual stresses and distortion, economics and capabilities of the various processes.

3 credits | Prerequisites: MECHENG 350

The emphasis for this course will be on gaining insight into auto body structural behavior and the relationship to the vehicle. Body structure element behavior will be examined including thin walled members, panels, joints, spot welds, and local attachments. Structural models for the primary requirements will be analyzed in detail. These include global body bending, body torsion, crashworthiness, and vibration behavior. The importance of bending and torsion stiffness on the perceived level of refinement will be discussed, and tools for analysis will be developed. The interaction between structural topology and vehicle packaging and styling will be treated, including the need for trade-off analysis in selecting the best structure configuration. Methods for selection of alternative body materials will be covered.

4 credits | Prerequisites: ME240 (or equivalent undergraduate dynamics course). This requires proficiency in free body diagrams, Newton’s Laws, and derivation of equations of motion, ME360 (or equivalent undergraduate systems modeling & controls course). This requires proficiency in transfer function representation of linear time-invariant systems, Laplace Transforms, First and Second Order system time and frequency domain responses, ME461 (or equivalent undergraduate classical controls course). This requires proficiency in classical controls methods in time and frequency domains. Includes an understanding control system performance metrics, system bandwidth/robustness/sensitivity, root-locus, Bode Plots, Nyquist plots, and PID controllers, EECS314 (or equivalent undergraduate electronics course). This requires proficiency in RLC circuits, loading effects, ideal sources and meters, and Op-Amp circuits. ME552 draws heavily from the above topics and a thorough understanding of these topics is an essential pre-requisite for the class. Students who have not covered these topics in their previous courses ARE NOT adequately prepared to take ME552 at this time. There will be no exceptions made on these pre-requisites. 

Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of mechanical disciplines, controls, electronics and computers in the design of high-performance systems. Case studies, hands-on lab exercises and hardware design projects cover the practical aspects of machine design, multi-domain systems modeling, sensors, actuators, drive circuits, simulation tools, DAQ, and controls implementation using microprocessors.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Standing

Basic integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing processes; electronics devices fundamentals; microelectro-mechanical systems fabrications including surface micromachining, bulk micromachining, LIGA and others. Introduction to microacturators and microsensors such as micromotors, grippers, accelemeters and pressure sensors. Mechanical and electrical issues in micromachining. IC CAD tools to design microelectro-mechanical structures using MCNC MUMPs service. Design Projects.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Math 451 and Math 217 or equivalent

Mathematical modeling of engineering design problems for optimization. Boundedness and monotonicity analysis of models. Differential optimization theory and selected numerical algorithms for continuous nonlinear models. Emphasis on the interaction between proper modeling and computation. Students propose design term projects from various disciplines and apply course methodology to optimize designs.

3 credits | Prerequisites: senior or Graduate Standing
Also offered via distance learning

Fundamentals of discrete optimization for engineering design problems. Mathematical modeling of engineering design problems as discrete optimization problems, integer programming, dynamic programming, graph, search algorithms, and introduction to NP completeness. A term project emphasis application to realistic engineering design problems.

3 credits | 

Since IOE 565 (MFG 561) and MECHENG 563 are similar courses, a student may only count IOE 565 or MECHENG 563 toward the MFg degree.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or permission of instructor
Also offered via distance learning

Geometry, kinematics, differential kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators.  The mathematical tools required to describe spatial motion of a rigid body will be presented in full.  Motion planning included obstacle avoidance is also covered.

3 credits | Prerequisites: ME 382

Mechanisms of deformation, cohesion, and fracture of matter. Unified approach to the atomic-scale origins of plastic, viscous, viscoelastic, elastic, and inelastic behavior. The influences of time and temperature on behavior. Stress field of edge and screw dislocations, dislocation interactions, and cross slip. Surface stress and energy states, wetting, solid adhesion, friction. Ductile, creep, brittle, and fatigue failure mechanisms.

3 credits | Prerequisites: 382 or equivalent

A broad treatment of stress, strain, and strength with reference to engineering design and analysis. Major emphasis is placed on the analytical and experimental determination of stresses in relationship to the fatigue strength properties of machine and structural components. Also considered are deflection, post-yield behavior, residual stresses, and temperature and corrosion effects.

Material properties, including physical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, economic, corrosion and environmental properties. Interaction of function, shape, choice of materials, processing, economics and environmental impact in design. Methodology for materials selection and optimization, including performance indices, multiple constraints and multiple objectives. Introduction to analysis of environmental impact from materials selection.

Advanced control and sensing methodologies for machining processes: milling, turning, drilling, grinding and laser cutting. Machine tool structure. CNC programming. Drive components. Trajectory interpolators. Selection of control parameters. Software compensation and adaptive control. The design process of a comprehensive machining system. Two-hour lecture and two-hour lab per week.

3 credits | Prerequisites: senior or Graduate Standing

Application of lasers in materials processing and manufacturing laser principles and optics. Fundamental concepts of laser/material interaction. Laser welding, cutting surface modification, forming, and rapid prototyping. Modeling of processes, microstructure and mechanical properties of processed materials. Transport phenomena. Process monitoring.

3 credits | Prerequisites: ME 481 and ME 401 or equivalent

Globalization and manufacturing paradigms. Product-process-business integration. Product invention strategy. Customized, personalized and reconfigurable products. Mass production and lean production. Mathematical analysis of mass customization. Traditional manufacturing systems. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Reconfigurable machines. System configuration analysis. Responsive business models. Enterprise globalization strategies. The global integrated enterprise.

3 credits | Prerequisites: MECHENG 381 and MECHENG401 or equivalent

Assembly as product and process. Assembly representation. Assembly sequence. Datum flow chain. Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing. Tolerance analysis. Tolerance synthesis. Robust design. Fixturing. Joint design and joining methods. Stream of variation. Auto body assembly case studies.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Standing

The purpose of the course is to teach students how to evaluate and communicate sustainable designs, specifically by providing them with an introduction to tools and models that quantitively link economic decisions with environmental impact.

3 credits | 

This course examines how metal components are made, highlighting the choice of processing options and parameters based on material properties and part design.  We focus on metal forming plasticity theory and application; elastic and plastic stress-strain relations; yield criteria and fow rusles; analyses of various plastic forming operations; and the effects of hardining and friction, temperature, strain rate, and anisostropy. We also examine other key metals processing options: casting, machining and additive manufacturing.  Students will analyze processes using some of the key equations governing product quality (e.g., dimensional accuracy), process rate, and manufacturing energy intensity.  Metals processing is a significate contributor to global energy demand and greenhouse gase emissions; we will also examine material production, end-of-life options, and explore emerging paradigms in sustainable metals processing.

Required course for Tauber Institute Students only

1.5 credits | Prerequisites: Restricted to Tauber Institute Students

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of various topics in operations, such as lean production systems, supply chain management, design for manufacturability, facilities planning, the environmental, legal, and ethical issues in operations, and product design. Students learn how all these aspects of operations interconnect.

Required for M. Eng. in Mfg. Students

3 credits | Prerequisites: Graduate Standing in Manufacturing Engineering

This course is to provide students an introduction to the procedures and methodologies for designing manufacturing systems. Topics covered include paradigms of manufacturing system configuration, performance, optimization, launch and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems.

Required for M. Eng. in Mfg. students

3 credits | Prerequisites: Mfg 502

Students in Manufacturing Engineering or Global Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering may register for this course. This project course is intended to provide students with an industry-relevant team project experience in manufacturing.  A faculty member will follow the progress and serve as an advisor to the project.   Each project must have a clearly defined problem or need; must show a solution methodology; and must be value-added to the sponsor.

Required for Tauber Institute Students only

3 credits | Prerequisites: MFG 501 and Must be enrolled in Tauber Institute program

Tauber Institute students will participate in the required Team Project, which is a multidisciplinary internship. In preparation students will refine their communications, team building, and project management skills through specialized seminars. Upon completion, each student will perform an advanced analysis of the project results under the supervision of UM faculty.

1 to 3 credits

Individual study specialized aspects of Manufacturing engineering

 Required for M. Eng. in Mfg. Students

Curriculum Areas: Engineering Elective or Business Operations and Management

MFG 599 Seminars in Smart Manufacturing is a required course for Manufacturing Engineering students and may be used toward the Engineering Elective requirements or toward the Business Operations and Mgt  requirements.  Please note: This required 1.5 credit seminar course may not evenly fit in your overall 30 credit planned program course distribution.  It may mean that you will take over 30 credits to meet the degree requirements.  

1.5 credits | 

This seminar course brings together experts in various aspects of manufacturing-relevant technologies with experts (e.g., academic researchers, industry, and funding agency) involved in research and applications that require cutting edge technologies for smart manufacturing. Smart manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing with the goal of optimizing concept generation, production, and product transaction. While manufacturing can be defined as the multi-phase process of creating a product out of raw materials, smart manufacturing is a subset that employs computer control and high levels of adaptability. Smart manufacturing aims to take advantage of advanced information and manufacturing technologies to enable flexibility in physical processes to address a dynamic and global market [Davis, et al, 2012]. The invited seminar speakers will discuss some of key building technologies for smart manufacturing, which may include but not limited to: advanced materials/structures and manufacturing processes; computer simulations and augmented reality for product/process design; sensors, automation and robots for automatic production monitoring and execution; data analytics and optimizations for production planning, quality control, and optimal equipment operation and maintenance; Industrial IoT, network security, cloud computing and optimal  decision-making for robust supply chain management and enterprise operation.

1 to 3 credits

Special Topics in Manufacturing

3 credits 

As many organizations improve their operational quality, they recognize the need to focus their improvement efforts on designing quality into new products and services. This course, organized around the IDDOV Design for Six Sigma Methodology, examines methods and analysis tools for designing in quality to increase customer satisfaction and reduce downstream operations quality and warranty concerns. The IDDOV methodology involves identifying customer requirements, evaluating design concepts, and then optimizing new processes to meet the customer-driven design objectives. Among the tools and methods covered in this course include: Voice of the Customer Analysis, Design Scorecards, Transfer Functions, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, TRIZ, Pugh Method, Design of Experiments, Response Surface Methodology, Taguchi Robustness and Optimization Methods, Design for Reliability, Tolerance Simulation and Analysis, and Product/Process Validation. Working in new product development is an exciting and enriching career, but also challenging. This course is focused on improving your skills to succeed in this critical area.

1 to 8 credits

Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted to status of candidate

4 to 8 credits

Election for dissertation work by doctoral student who has been admitted as a doctoral candidate. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full term candidacy enrollment.

Curriculum Area: Marketing and Strategy
3 credits | Prerequisites: No credit in MIT 502, 503

This course is concerned with understanding 1) an entity's own goals and abilities and 2) its potential and existing customers and competitors as bases for setting objectives and making decisions about products, services, pricing, promotion, and distribution. The ability to analyze current situations and objectives, recognize impediments, and generate solutions is the foundation for creating, achieving, and maintaining competitive advantage. This is a management-oriented course designed to give students an integrative framework for analyzing marketing programs and making marketing decisions. Leveraging the Business School's action-based learning approach, student teams take an active part in course development by creating cases based on their own areas of interest.  The course consists of a mixture of lectures, student case presentations, in-class exercises, and a case-based final examination.

Curriculum Area: Systems and Engineering Management
3 credits | Prerequisites: No credit in MO 503, MO 552

The purpose of this course is to improve your effectiveness as a manager by introducing you to frameworks for understanding organizational processes and by giving you experience in applying these frameworks. The field of management and organizations is at the intersection of several social science disciplines and focuses on applying their insights to solving organizational problems and building organizational competencies. Topics include improving decision making, building networks, negotiation, power and politics, organization design, motivation and compensation systems, and leading (and surviving) organizational change.

4 credits | Prerequisites: NAVARCH 310

Structural modeling and analysis techniques applied to ship and marine structure components. Equilibrium and energy models applied to elastic beam theory; static bending, torsion and buckling. Shear flow and warping of multi-cell cross sections. Stiffened and composite plates. Plastic analysis of beams. Thick walled pressure vessels. Course project using finite element analysis.

3 credits | Prerequisites: NAVARCH 260, NAVARCH 310

Principles and applications of modular construction and assembly, major manufacturing processes, thermo-mechanical interactions and contributions to quality and dimensional accuracy, accuracy control methods and practices.

4 credits | Prerequisites: NAVARCH 321, NAVARCH 332, NAVARCH 340, Co-Requisites: NAVARCH 310

Organization of ship design. Preliminary design methods for sizing and form; powering, maneuvering, and seakeeping estimation; arranging; propulsion; structural synthesis; and safety and environmental risk of ships. Extensive use of design computer environment. Given owner's requirements, students individually create and report the conceptual/preliminary design for a displacement ship.

Curriculum Area: Engineering Elective
3 credits | Prerequisites: None

Fundamental concepts associated with fatigue damage and failure in engineering structures and contemporary design and analysis procedures with an emphasis on fatigue of welded structures, including most recent developments in finite element based fatigue design and analysis procedures, e.g., mesh-insensitive structural stress method and master S-N curve approach.

3 credits | Prerequisites: NAVARCH 260 or equivalent or Graduate Standing

Examination of business strategy development, operations management principals and methods, and design-production integration methods applied to the production of complex marine systems such as ships, offshore structures, and yachts. Addresses shipyard and boat yard business and product strategy definition, operations planning and scheduling, performance measurement, process control and improvement.

4 credits | Prerequisites: Graduate Standing

Organization of marine product development; concurrent marine design. Shipbuilding policy and build strategy development. Group behaviors; leadership and facilitation of design teams. General theories and approaches to design. Conceptual design of ships and offshore projects. Nonlinear programming, multicriteria optimization, and genetic algorithms applied to marine design. Graduate Standing required.

3 credits | Prerequisites: None

Optimization methods (linear, nonlinear, sequential, probabilistic) concepts and application in the operations of marine and intermodal systems. Elements of maritime management: Risk and utility theory. Fleet operations optimization and fleet deployment using various linear nonlinear and sequential optimization techniques. International Trade and Shipping. Tariffs, quotas and other barriers to trade. Cartels, OPEC and Tanker Shipping. Liner shipping and Conferences. Rate formation in Conference shipping. Forecasting methods, concepts and applications to shipping and shipbuilding decisions. Inland waterway and port operations optimization. Economics of merchant shipbuilding and ship scrapping. Maritime Forecasting and its shortcomings.

3 credits | Prerequisites: EECS 401 or Math 425 or STAT 412

Overview of Reliability analysis; Probabilty review; Introduction to estimation and data analysis; Reliability of simple systems; Reliability and availability of systems with repair; Using continuous-time Markov Models; Maintenance, replacement and repair decisions using deterministic and stochastic dynamic programming; Human error. Intro to basic Structural Reliability; Risk Assessment Safety and safeguards analysis: FMEA, Fault and event tree analysis; Marine, Manufacturing, Health Care, Industrial and Operations and other engineering applications.

3 credits | Prerequisites: Senior Standing

Analysis of material and energy flows in industrial and ecological systems to enhance eco-efficiency and sustainability in meeting human needs. Methods: life cycle assessment quantifies energy, wastes and emissions for materials production, manufacturing, product use, and recovery/disposition; life cycle design integrates environmental, performance, economic, and policy/regulatory objectives. This interdisciplinary course also includes a series of industrial/municipal site assessments (one-credit optional).

3 credits

This is a course on the basic concepts and techniques of operations and inventory management. The foundation of the course is a system of manufacturing laws collectively known as "Factory Physics". These laws relate measures of plan performance, such as throughput, cycle time, work-in-process, customer service, variability, and quality, in a consistent manner and provide a framework for evaluating and improving operations. Concepts and methods are examined via exercises and case studies.