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University of Florida Graduate School
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College of Engineering/Master of Science or Master of
Engineering. Contact the graduate coordinator for information.
EIN 6227: Advanced Quality Management and Engineering for
Business Processes (3) Prereq: introductory statistics or consent of
instructor. Philosophy of continuous improvement and methodology for
applying team problem solving to manufacturing and service industries.
Hands-on application of basic statistical quality tools; introduction to
quality function deployment; concurrent engineering; business process
reengineering; process analysis; benchmarking. Team project.
EIN 6336: Advanced Production and Inventory Control (3) Prereq:
ESI 6417, 6429. Production planning and control; problem identification
and formulation. Mathematical theory of single- and multicommodity
inventory systems; problem solving using dynamic programming and
Markov chains.
EIN 6357: Advanced Engineering Economy (3) Prereq: STA 4321.
Economic analysis of capital expenditure decisions. Financial mathematics
and microeconomics. Decision under risk and uncertainty. Game theory
and utility theory.
EIN 6367: Facilities Layout and Location (3) Prereq: ESI 6417. Planar
and discrete layout problems and locations problems; network location
problems. Single- and multi-objectives. Industrial and public sector
applications.
EIN 6392: Manufacturing Management (3) Prereq: ESI 6314 and
undergraduate probability and statistics. Variety and importance of
management decisions. Total quality management, just-in time
manufacturing, concurrent engineering, material requirements planning,
production scheduling, and inventory control.
EIN 6905: Special Problems (1-6; max: 9) Laboratory, lecture, field
work, or conferences.
EIN 6910: Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EIN 6918: Graduate Seminar (1; max: 15) S/U.
EIN 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EIN 6971: Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EIN 6972: Research for Engineer's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EIN 7933: Special Problems (1-6; max: 12) Laboratory, lecture, field
work, or conferences.
EIN 7979: Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students
before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's
degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a
doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted
to candidacy. S/U.
EIN 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
ESI 5236: Reliability Engineering (3) Prereq: ESI 4567C, STA 4322.
Mathematical models and methods of reliability engineering. Typical
component failure distributions; system reliability as a function of
component reliability. Reliability block diagrams and fault trees.
ESI 6162C: Advanced Industrial Applications of Microprocessors (3)