Industrial Engineering (IENG)

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IENG 217 COST ESTIMATING ENGINEERING III
(1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This course covers the fundamentals of cost accounting and cost estimating. Topics include estimation of factory overhead, operation estimating, product estimating, job order costing, process costing, and activity based costing.

IENG 301 BASIC ENGINEERING ECONOMICS
(2-0) 2 credits. Junior or higher standing preferred. Introduces the concepts of economic evaluation regarding capital investments, including the time value of money and income tax effects. Graduation credit cannot be given for both IENG 301 and IENG 302.

IENG 302 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS
(3-0) 3 credits. Junior or higher standing preferred. Studies economic decision making regarding capital investment alternatives. Covers compound interest and depreciation models, replacement and procurement models. Analysis is made variously assuming certainty, risk and uncertainty. Graduation credit cannot be given for both IENG 301 and IENG 302.

IENG 354 MARKETING TECH INNOVATIONS

IENG 241L INTRO TO QUALITY METHODS AND TEAMS
(0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Quality improvement methods, team processes, and related ways of thinking are introduced. Students will be exposed to the data collection and analysis tools often used for quality improvement across multiple disciplines. Laboratory activities involve teams and team processes including decision making, communications, and customer relations. This course meets the quality requirement for the sixsigma greenbelt certificate.

IENG 375 EHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing or higher preferred. This course will introduce students to many of the professional and ethical issues they will encounter over the course of their career. Professionalism topics include: networking, business etiquette, and professional dress. Ethics topics include: harassment, necessary disclosure, and the Whistle Blower Act.

IENG 466/566 PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PSYC 101 preferred. Project planning, execution and control of less repetitive types of work. This includes quantitative aspects such as costs, time and performance specifications; and qualitative aspects such as organization structures, psychological and sociological relationships. Students enrolled in IENG 566 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in IENG 466.

IENG 341 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 112/112L, MATH 281 or higher statistics course. Overview of the field of industrial hygiene. Examines the identification, evaluation, and control of occupational health hazards in the workplace that can cause illness among workers or citizens of the surrounding community with routes of entry through the lungs, skin, ears, and eyes. Specific hazard classifications of chemical, physical, and biological origin will be addressed.

IENG 461 SIX SIGMA GREENBELT EXAM
(1-0) 1 credit. This self-paced, pass/fail course culminates in a written exam. Passing this exam is necessary component of the Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification.

IENG 451/451L OPERATIONL STRATEGIES
(2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Review of philosophies, systems, and practices utilized by world-class organizations to meet current operational challenges. Focuses include “lean production” in the manufacturing industries, including material flow, plant-floor quality assurance, job design, work and management practices as well as the most effective practices in the service industries. Students complete lab projects and tour organizations to analyze the extent and potential of the philosophies.

IENG 452 INTRODUCTION TO SIX SIGMA
(1-0) 1 credit. This course introduces students to the philosophy of Six Sigma. Topics include the history of Six Sigma and the Six Sigma problem solving methodology.

IENG 463 SIX SIGMA GREENBELT PROJECT
(1-0) 1 credit. Taken in conjunction with another course requiring a project, students in this course will use the Six Sigma problem solving philosophy in the completion of the project. Students will then document how they use the Six Sigma process and the results of the project in a written report.

IENG 311/311L WORK METHODS AND MEASUREMENT
(2-1) 3 credits. Corequisite: IENG/MATH 381. This course presents the underlying theory and basic methodology for work methods and measurement techniques. Emphasis is placed on knowledge of the basis for selection of a technique appropriate for the individual as related to the task to be performed.

IENG 321/321L ERGONOMICS/HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
(2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. Corequisite: MATH 281 or higher statistics. Topics covered include: Engineering anthropometry methods, workplace design, electrophysiologic models and measurement, biomechanical modeling, work kinesiology, and hand-tool evaluation.

IENG 331 SAFETY ENGINEERING
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Overview to the field of Safety Engineering emphasizing quantitative problem solving. Will draw on fundamental knowledge from the fields of chemistry, physics, mechanics, mathematics, and statistics. Contents: fundamental concepts and terminology, injury and accident statistics, ethics, certification, regulations, standards, hazards and their control, and management aspects.

IENG 345 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
(4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: ACCT 211 and IENG 301 or IENG 302 or permission of instructor. Covers topics on the legal aspects, management skills, business plans, and sources of capital as well as case studies of successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurial initiatives.

IENG 362 STOCHASTIC MODELS
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG/MATH 381 or permission of instructor. This course covers stochastic models in operations research and is a complementary course to MATH 353. Topics include queuing theory, Markov chains, Pert/CPM, decision theory, dynamic programming and inventory control models.

IENG 366 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(3-0) 3 credits. A course designed to acquaint the student with engineering management discipline through the formation and operation of business and industrial enterprises. In addition to engineering management decision tools, students will be exposed to emergent trends in learning organizations, systems thinking, change management, and processes utilizing all four quadrants of Herrmann Whole Brian model for advanced problem solving.

IENG 381 INTRO TO PROB AND STAT
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 and prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 225. Introduction to probability, discrete and continuous distributions, sampling distributions, central limit theorem, and general principles for statistical inference. This course is cross-listed with MATH 381. Individuals may apply at most 4 credits toward a degree from the following list of courses: MATH 281, IENG/MATH 381, MATH 441/442.

IENG 382 PROBABILITY THEORY AND STATISTICS II
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG 381. Review of general principles for statistical inference, linear regression and correlation, multiple linear regression, ANOVA, and statistical design of experiments. This course is cross-listed with MATH 382.

IENG 425 PRODUCTION AND OPERATION
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 123; IENG/MATH 381 or BADM 221. Management of the production environment. Topics such as bills of materials, inventory control, production control, production scheduling and MRP will be discussed. The impact of production management on the design process and how products can be designed for better manufacture.

IENG 441 SIMULATION
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG 381 or MATH 441. Development of computer simulation models of real or conceptual systems. Interpretation of results of computer simulation experiments.

IENG 460 INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATA PROCESSING
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG 381 concurrent, some programming experience, and junior or senior standing. Role of information systems in supporting industrial operations such as manufacturing, personnel, resource allocation, scheduling, and forecasting. Data acquisition, organization, manipulation, and use of various data storage media. Human factors in the design of information systems.

IENG 464 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT I
(0-3) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or graduation within three (3) semesters. Small groups of students work on original design projects. Topics are solicited from local companies, hospitals, banks, mines, government agencies, thus providing students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and techniques to real problems in business and industry.

IENG 465 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT II
(0-3) 3 credits. Continuation of IENG 464. Small groups of students work on original design projects. Topics are solicited from local companies, hospitals, banks, mines, government agencies, thus providing students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and techniques to real problems in business and industry. As applicable, these are continuation projects started in IENG 464.

IENG 471 FACILITIES PLANNING
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or graduation within three (3) semesters. Topics covered include: material handling, computerized layout planning, storage facilities, flexible manufacturing systems, and “Factory of the Future.”

IENG 475/475L COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS
(2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor. Fundamental concepts of using computers in the design of a computer integrated, discrete-item, manufacturing facility are covered. Basic ideas of Computer Aided Design (CAD), Group Technology (GT), process planning, integrated production control and computer numerical control are covered. The manufacturability issues and concepts of selecting and using robots in the workplace are explored.

IENG 486 STATISTICAL QUALITY AND PROCESS CONTROL
(3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: IENG 381 or MATH 441 or permission of instructor. This course covers the development of statistical methods for application to problems in quality and process control. Statistical topics include: basics of processes and variability, statistically controlled processes, variable and attribute control charts, moving averages, individual trend and others, process capability, sampling plans for attributes and variables. This course is crosslisted with MATH 486.

IENG 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic.

IENG 492 TOPICS
1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.

IENG 215 COST ESTIMATING FOR ENGINEERS I
(1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This course covers the fundamentals of financial statements and analysis. Topics include the structure of accounts, the balance sheet, the income statement, changes in owner equity, statement of cash flows, and analysis of financial statements to determine the financial health of a business entity.

IENG 216 COST ESTIMATING ENGINEERS II
(1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This course covers the fundamentals of building the operational budgets needed for modern industrial practice. Topics include sales forecasting, sale budget, production budget, material budget, direct labor budget, factory overhead, cost-of-goods sold, and budget variances.

IENG 352 CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

IENG 357 TECH INNOVATION SEMINAR

IENG 353 COMMERCIALIZATION: NEW TECHNOLOGY

Contact: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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