Auburn University
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 Master of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Auburn University, AL 36849-5331
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Courses and Schedule

Course offerings in the Engineering Distance Education Program vary from semester to semester.

To find out what courses will be offered for your semester of interest, please use the Course Offerings Web Page. Choose the semester you are interested in (i.e., Spring 2004) and then your program of interest (i.e., Industrial and Systems Engineering). Remember that all distance education course codes end in the number "6" (i.e., AERO-7206).

Courses Available through the Master of Industrial and Systems Engineering Distance Education Program.
Course Code \ Title Hrs. Description
INSY 6016
SAFETY ENGINEERING I		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3020. Occupational safety engineering and management with emphasis on control of hazardous materials, fire prevention, safety considerations in production facility design and maintenance, and operation of effective safety programs.
INSY 6026
SAFETY ENGINEERING II 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 6010 and STAT 3600. Systems safety analysis techniques including human error and reliability, fault trees and cost benefit analysis.
INSY 6236
FACILITIES DESIGN AND OPERATION		 3 LEC. 3. Coreq., INSY 3700. Facilities design problems that seek to efficiently balance the need of production, material handling, information flow and the human operator. Warehousing operations and material handling problems.
INSY 6246
PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEMS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3700. Analysis and design of production and inventory control systems with emphasis on quantitative methods, algorithms, and information technology.
INSY 6256
SCHEDULING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3700. Sequencing and scheduling methods and models are presented, with special emphasis on scheduling and controlling projects.
INSY 6336
OFF-LINE AND ON-LINE QUALITY CONTROL		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., STAT 3610 and senior standing; departmental approval. Taguchi°s quality loss functions, Taguchi°s orthogonal arrays and their relationships to fractional factorial designs, Taguchi°s parameter and tolerance designs, on-line process control concepts and methods.
INSY 6386
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., STAT 3610 and senior standing. Reliability, maintenance, replacement with emphasis on failure-rate estimation and life testing.
INSY 6476
SEARCH METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., MATH 2660, INSY 3410. Single and multivariate search techniques and strategies that are used in finding the optimum of discrete and continuous functions.
INSY 6606
MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION ECONOMIES 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3600. Continuation of INSY 3600. Emphasis on design economics and cost estimating techniques and applications to various manufacturing and service operations.
INSY 6806
LEAN PRODUCTION 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 4700, INSY 6230, INSY 6240. Manufacturing system design based on a strategy of linked cells providing a continuous flow of materials. Evaluation strategies and analysis tools are studied.
INSY 6976
INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SPECIAL TOPICS 		1-5 LEC. Pr., departmental approval. Special topics of an advanced undergraduate or graduate nature pertinent to industrial and systems engineering. Specific prerequisites will be determined and announced for each offering. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.
INSY 7056
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3020. Introduction to the basic concepts of industrial hygiene with emphasis on the industrial hygiene/safety interface and on the evaluation and control of noise and vibration stress.
INSY 7066
ERGONOMICS I 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3020. Overview of the human body systems and evaluation of the physiological response of the human body to occupational activities with emphasis on task design.
INSY 7076
ERGONOMICS II 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 7060. Use of biomechanics in the evaluation and design of work activities. Emphasis is placed on biomechanical modeling, manual materials handling, tool design, and repetitive motion trauma.
INSY 7236
ADVANCED LAYOUT AND LOCATION 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3420, INSY 4700. Facility layout algorithms and the facility design process. Facility location models and their relationship to strategic organization goals.
INSY 7246
PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL THEORY		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 6240. Theoretical foundations for the analysis and design of production and inventory control systems with emphasis on quantitative methods and current areas of research.
STAT/INSY 7306
ADVANCED ENGINEERING STATISTICS I		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., STAT 3610. Advanced concepts of experimental design including blocked designs, analysis of variance regression approach, and fractional factorials in base-2 designs. Emphasis throughout is on developing and improving industrial products and processes. Credit will not be given for both INSY 7300 and STAT 7300.
STAT/INSY 7316
ADVANCED ENGINEERING STATISTICS II 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., STAT/INSY 7300. Fractional factorial experimentation applied for the purpose of process and quality improvement and optimization, introduction to analysis of covariance, multiple regression analysis, and response surface analysis. Credit will not be given for both INSY 7310 and STAT 7310.
INSY 7426
LINEAR AND INTEGER PROGRAMMING 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3410. Linear and integer programming emphasizing solution techniques and theory.
INSY 7556
STOCHASTIC OPERATIONS RESEARCH 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., STAT 3610, INSY 3420. Stochastic operations research models with emphasis on model formation, solution and interpretation of results. Emphasis on stochastic processes, queuing theory and their applications.
INSY 7606
ADVANCED ECONOMIC DECISION ANALYSIS		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 3410, INSY 3600, STAT/INSY 7300. Engineering and economic aspects of project design and analysis.
INSY 7986
MASTER°S IN INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROJECT 		1-5 IND. Pr., departmental approval. Non-thesis master°s project. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 5 credit hours.
INSY 8066
ADVANCED ERGONOMICS 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 6020, INSY 7070, INSY 7080. Topics of current interest in occupational ergonomics and human factors research. Occupational ergonomics and human factors research methodology and research priorities.
INSY 8426
TOPICS IN OPTIMIZATION 		3 LEC. 3. Pr., INSY 6470, INSY 7420. Basic concepts and theory of optimization, including saddlepoint conditions for differentiable and non-differentiable programs, duality, approximation, decomposition and partitioning, illustrated by application to specific algorithms.