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SSIE 533 - Human Factors
in Engineering and Design (Spring 2004, 2005) |
Course Description: Introduction to Human Factors and
systems; design for human use; Human Factors research methodologies;
information about human performance, abilities, and limitations
will be surveyed and applied: physical work and manual material
handling, applied anthropometry and workplace design, human control
of systems, control and data entry devices, and environmental conditions;
Human Factors applications including human error, accidents, safety,
Human Factors and the automobile, and Human Factors in Systems Design.
Course Objectives: To provide students with a basic understanding
and competence in the use of human factors/ergonomics principles
in designing human-machine systems, which take into account both
human and engineering capabilities and limitations; and to use good
human factors principles in design of work places for industrial
and office environments, design products for safe consumer use,
design computer interfaces that are easy to use and design environments
that are safe, and comfortable.
Textbook: Sanders, M.S. and McCormick, E. J. (1993) Human
Factors in Engineering Design, 7th Edition, New York, McGraw Hill.
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SSIE 505 - Applied Probability
and Statistics (Fall 2003, 2004, 2005) |
Course Description: This course is designed to introduce
students to basic concepts in probability and statistics required
in the modeling of random processes and uncertainty. Topics include
data analysis, probability, random variables, discrete and continuous
probability distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis
testing, correlation, and analysis of variance.
Course Objectives: To acquaint students with the fundamental
concepts of probability and statistics, to develop an understanding
of the role of statistics in science and engineering, and to provide
an understanding of the processes by which real-life statistical
problems are analyzed.
Textbook: Devore, Jay L., Probability and Statistics for
Engineering and the Sciences, 6th Edition, Brooks/Cole, 2004.
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ISE 211 - Engineering
Economics (Fall 2004, 2005) |
Course Description: This course deals with economic analysis
of engineering, in particular, with the evaluation of projects in
terms of time, costs and worth. Topics include interest rates, time
value of money, present and future worth, economic evaluation of alternative
decisions, replacement analysis, inflation, taxes, cost accounting,
activity-based accounting and economic justification of new technologies.
Course Objectives: To introduce and apply fundamental
concepts of engineering economic analysis. Upon successful completion
of this course, students should be able to: a) Explain and understand
terminology of engineering economics, b) Use spreadsheets to help
solve problems in engineering economics, c) Calculate present worth,
equivalent annual cost, and breakeven rate of return for a predicted
series of cash flows, and d) Compare different alternatives using
incremental analysis, present worth, equivalent annual cost, or
the benefit/cost ratio in a technically correct manner.
Textbook: Newnan, D. G., Lavelle, J. P., and Eschenbach,
T. G., Engineering Economic Analysis, 9th Edition (2004), Oxford
University Press.
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ISE 231 - Human
Factors (Spring 2005) |
Course Description: Review of the concepts involved in the
application of scientific principles, methods, and history to the
development of engineering systems in which people play a significant
role. Primary focus is on the man/machine interface and how to design
for the human being as part of an overall system.
Course Objectives: To provide students with a basic understanding
and competence in the use of human factors/ergonomics principles
in designing human-machine systems, which take into account both
human and engineering capabilities and limitations; and to use good
human factors principles in design of work places for industrial
and office environments, design products for safe consumer use,
design computer interfaces that are easy to use and design environments
that are safe, and comfortable.
Textbook: Sanders, M.S. and McCormick, E. J. (1993)
Human Factors in Engineering Design, 7th Edition, New York, McGraw
Hill.
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