Appendix IB. Course Syllabi

IE 341 Material and Project Control

1. Catalog Course Description (currently under revision):
Forecasting, analysis of inventory systems, and sequencing and scheduling problems in the control of material flow with applications in industrial systems. Material requirement planning and project control techniques such as PERT and PERT/COST systems are included. Construction of mathematical models, use of heuristic techniques, and use of problem-oriented languages such as FORTRAN in solving problems. Project involving design of material control systems required.

2. Prerequisites: IE 312 Optimization; Stat 231 Probability and Statistical Inference for Engineers

3. Textbook:
Production: Planning, Control, and Integration by Sipper and Bulfin (1997), McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

4. Course Objectives:

• Students will learn the key concepts of production systems.
• Students will learn and appreciate the decision-making problems that industrial engineers typically face in various areas of production systems.
• Students will learn quantitative and analytical techniques for solving the decision-making problems.
• Students will learn and appreciate how to design and analyze a production system via a team project and gain first-hand experience in production systems.

6. Topics covered:

Week 1: Overview of Production Systems (Chapters 1-3)

Week 2: Static Deterministic Inventory Models (Chapter 6)

Week 3: Dynamic Deterministic Inventory Models (Chapter 6)

Week 4: Single Period Stochastic Inventory Models (Chapter 6)

Week 5: Multi-Period Stochastic Inventory Models (Chapter 6)

Week 6: First Midterm Exam; Forecasting (Chapter 4)

Week 7: Material Requirements Planning (Chapter 7)

Week 8: Material Requirements Planning (Chapter 7)

Week 9: Project Planning and Scheduling (Chapter 9)

Week 10: Operations Scheduling (Chapter 8)

Week 11: Operations Scheduling (Chapter 8)

Week 12: Second Midterm Exam; Student Team Project Presentations

Week 13: Student Team Project Presentations

Week 14: Advanced Production Systems: Just-in-Time; Setup Reduction Models(Chapter 10)

Week 15: Advanced Production Systems: Just-in-Time; Kanban (Chapter 10)

7. Class Schedule: Three sessions per week. Fifty minutes per session

 8. Contribution of course to meeting the professional component:
Students will learn the key concepts of production systems, and how to apply these concepts in identifying, formulating, and solving problems that are relevant to production systems. Students will also learn the quantitative and analytical techniques typically used in the problem solving processes. Also, students will gain first-hand experience in production systems and learn to appreciate them via a production system team project.

9. Relationship of course to program objectives:
Objectives 1, 3, 6: Be able to design, analyze, implement, and manage effective production and service systems.
Objectives 2 and 7: Be able to integrate the engineering and business processes of an organization.
Objective 1, 2, 3, 6, 7: Be able to integrate processes involving people, material, equipment, information, and control.

10. Person who prepared this description and date of preparation: Jo Min on 12/15/99