2007-2008 Undergraduate Catalog - Kettering University

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IME-572 Quality Systems II: Reliability & Maintainability
Prerequisite: IME-332 or MATH-408 or MATH-226 4 0 0 4
Minimum Class Standing: BS
This course covers the topics of methods of reliability and maintainability
that are used in the manufacturing and service industries. It includes reliability
definition, reliability measures, reliability testing, reliability data analysis,
system reliability, basic reliability tools, and maintained systems. Terms
Offered: Winter, Spring
IME-573 Quality Systems III: Advanced Quality Assurance
Prerequisites: IME-333, IME-471 4 0 0 4
Minimum Class Standing: BS
This course covers the advanced topics of modern methods of quality control
and improvement that are used in the manufacturing and service industries.
It includes statistical methods of quality improvement, concept of variation
and its reduction, statistical process control, designed experiments in quality
improvement, and quality in the service sector. Taguchi and Deming’s quality
concepts will also be discussed. Terms Offered: Summer, Fall
IME-575 Failure Analysis 2 0 4 4
Prerequisite: IME-301
Minimum Class Standing: SR
An engineering materials analysis course emphasizing the interaction of
materials and processing as they relate to product failure. Topic coverage
includes fracture path analysis, fracture mode, brittle and ductile behavior,
fracture mechanics, physical chemistry, corrosion, and material process
analysis. This course requires a laboratory analysis project. Terms Offered:
Summer, Fall
IME-581 Industrial Engineering Concepts 4 0 0 4
Prerequisite: NA
Minimum Class Standing: Non-IE SR
This course introduces IE concepts related to engineering management for
the students with no IE background. It covers the tools and techniques for
subjects such as forecasting, scheduling, inventory, project management, linear
programming, and control charts. The use of popular software packages is a
major part of the course. Term Offered: Fall, Spring
IME-582 Industrial Engineering 4 0 0 4
Prerequisite: NA
Minimum Class Standing: Non-IE SR
This course relates IE concepts to lean enterprise and engineering management
for the students with no IE background and covers the tools and techniques
to plan for output needs, to analyze, design, and implement a lean process,
and to evaluate the process and pursue continuous improvement. It includes
subjects from job design, human machine interface design, and ergonomic
and human factors of product design to plant layout and material handling as
well as pull manufacturing and lean manufacturing. The use of popular
software packages is a major part of the course. Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
ISYS-201 Fundamentals of Information Systems 4 0 0 4
Prerequisite: NA
Minimum Class Standing: FR
Systems theory, quality, decision making, and the organizational role of
information systems are introduced, Information technology including
computing and telecommunications systems are stressed. Concepts of
organizations, information systems growth, and process improvement are
introduced. Terms Offered: Winter, Spring
ISYS-211 Information Systems Productivity 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: NA
Minimum Class Standing: NA
Students with minimal computer skills will learn to enhance their personal
productivity and problem solving skills by applying information technologies
to problem situations and by designing and using small information systems
for individuals and groups. Terms Offered: Summer, Fall
ISYS-440 Information Management 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-211
Minimum Class Standing: SO
The concepts, principles, issues and techniques for managing corporate data
resources. Techniques for managing the design and development of large
database systems including logical data models, concurrent processing, data
distribution, database administration, data warehousing, data cleansing, and
data mining. Terms Offered: TBA
ISYS-442 Technical Infrastructure 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-201
Minimum Class Standing: SO
Telecommunications fundamentals including data, voice, image, and video.
The concepts, models, architectures, protocols, standards, and security for
the design, implementation, and management of digital networks. Essentials
of local area networks, (LAN), metropolitan area networks, (MAN), and wide
area networks (WAN). Transmission and switching efficiency. Regulatory
and technical environments. Topics include security and authentication,
network operating systems, e-commerce and associated web sites and
practices, and middleware for wireless systems, multimedia, and conferencing
Terms Offered:TBA
ISYS-444 Systems Analysis 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-201
Minimum Class Standing: SO
Systems development life cycle; analysis and design techniques; information
systems planning and project identification and selection, requirements
collection and structuring, process modeling, data modeling, design of
interface and data management, system implementation and operation, system
maintenance, and change management implications of systems. Globalization
issues in systems. Students will use current methods and tools such as rapid
application development, prototyping, and visual development. Terms Offered:
TBA
ISYS-446 Project Management 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-201
Minimum Class Standing: SO
Managing projects within an organizational context, including the processes
related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing
a project. Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, and risk
management. Managing the changes in organizations resulting from
introducing or revising information systems. Identifying project champions,
working with user teams, training, and documentation. The change
management role is of the IS specialist. Terms Offered: TBA
ISYS-448 Information Technology Management 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-201
Minimum Class Standing: SO
The top management, strategic perspective for aligning competitive strategy,
core competencies, and information systems. The development and
implementation of policies and plans to achieve organizational goals. Defining
the systems that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs
of the organization, its business units, and individual employees. Approaches
to managing the information systems function in organizations, including
examination of the dual challenges of effectively controlling the use of wellestablished
information technologies, while experimenting with selected
emerging technologies. Role of the CIO. Terms Offered: TBA
ISYS-450 E-Commerce 3 0 2 4
Prerequisite: ISYS-201
Minimum Class Standing: SO
The course focuses on the linkage between organizational strategy and
networked information technologies to implement a rich variety of business
models in the national and global contexts connecting individuals, businesses,
governments, and other organizations to each other. The course provides an
introduction to e-business strategy and the development and architecture of
e-business solutions and their components. Terms Offered: TBA
LANG-101 Beginning German I 4 0 4 4
Prerequisite: NA
Minimum Class Standing: NA
This course is the first in a three-part sequence to an introduction to speaking,
reading, and writing German. To that end, its focus is on the grammar,
vocabulary, and syntax of the German language. Students are eligible to take
this course only if they have less than one year of high school German, or
less than one term of college German. A basic skill course, it counts only for
free elective credit toward graduation. At least 4 hours per week will be
required in a language laboratory. Terms Offered: As Needed