Mar 29, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.

 

Industrial Engineering (Graduate Courses)

  
  • IE 5301 - Ergonomics and Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Functional anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system and their applications in work design. Introduction to work physiology, kinesiology, and anthropometry and their applications.
  
  • IE 5302 - Bayesian Analysis for Human Decision

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Emphasizes the human decision making process under uncertainty. Topics include subjective probability, satisficing principle, signal detection theory, cross-entropy, discriminant analysis, Bayesian causal structures, and data envelopment analysis.
  
  • IE 5303 - Work Physiology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and muscular responses to work, including energy costs of work endurance, fatigue, physical work capacity, and physiological modeling.
  
  • IE 5304 - Occupational Biomechanics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Historical development and theoretical fundamentals of body mechanics. The body link system and kinematic and kinetic aspects of body movement. Applications to work systems.
  
  • IE 5305 - Cognitive Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Implications of human perceptual, cognitive, and psycho-motor capabilities for the design of systems for effective human use and control.
  
  • IE 5306 - Safety Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Loss prevention principles, practice, and regulations; accident factors, models, costs, and analysis; systems safety; product safety; safety and health related workplace hazards.
  
  • IE 5307 - Loss Assessment and Control

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Advanced topics in worker safety and health; hazard recognition and analysis; system safety techniques and applications; loss assessment and control.
  
  • IE 5308 - Risk Assessment of Human Behaviors

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 2360 , IE 3341 . Topics include risk perception, psychophysics, multinomial logit choice, life regression, competing risks, proportional hazards, multi-objective and multi-attribute decision models, group decisions, Choquet integral, copula, social networks.
  
  • IE 5309 - Human Factors in Engineering and Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to human factors issues in the design of human-machine systems. Design of workstations, controls, and displays, human-computer interfaces, and the environment in industrial systems.
  
  • IE 5311 - Principles of Optimization

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Linear optimization models: theory and application. Includes simplex, revised simplex, dual, and primal-dual algorithms, sensitivity and parametric analysis, duality theory, decomposition, linear complementarity problem, assignment and transportation problems, and Karmarkar’s algorithm.
  
  • IE 5312 - Queueing Theory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Modeling and analysis of simple and complex service systems. Includes single and multiple server Markov queues, queues with general arrival processes and service times, bulk and batch queues, priority queues, and queueing networks.
  
  • IE 5314 - Multistage Decision Processes

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: IE 5311 . Discrete dynamic programming: Knapsack problem, path problems, equipment replacement, capacity expansion, inventory, partitioning problems, sequencing problems; introduction to continuous dynamic programming; Markov decision processes.
  
  • IE 5316 - Simulation Models for Operations Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Any scientific programming language. Application of simulation techniques to analysis of large scale operations. Production-distribution models; model construction; validation of simulation models; limitations of simulation techniques; programming with simulation languages.
  
  • IE 5317 - Statistical Analysis for Digital Simulation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Proficiency in a current discrete event simulation language. Generation of random variants. Statistical tests for randomness in random number streams. Collection and analysis of data for input parameters and distributions. Detection and removal of transients in simulation model data. Computation of variance of simulation model output; variance reduction techniques.
  
  • IE 5318 - Operations Research Modeling with Spreadsheets

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Development of models for linear, integer, and nonlinear programming; problem formulation, solution, and analysis. Monte Carlo models; sampling methods; and accuracy. Software for current spreadsheet packages.
  
  • IE 5319 - Risk Modeling and Assessment

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Probabilistic risk models; probability distributions for risk modeling; input data for risk modeling; low probability events; risk modeling software; and analysis of risk modeling results.
  
  • IE 5320 - Systems Theory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines theoretical foundations of general systems theory applied to engineering and organizational enterprises addressing issues of systems efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, economics, innovation, quality, and QWL.
  
  • IE 5321 - Decision Theory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Philosophy, theory, and practice of management; decision theory and social responsibility.
  
  • IE 5322 - Industrial Cost Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Cost analysis and/or control of industrial enterprises. Economic budgeting, planning, decision making, and financial analysis for engineering and engineering management.
  
  • IE 5323 - The Engineering Management Environment

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Management of research and development; the legal, financial, and professional interrelationships of engineers and their environment in relation to the modern production organization.
  
  • IE 5324 - Advanced Economics of Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course in basic engineering economy. Design analysis and sensitivity of complex economic systems with evaluation of economic system performance measures and modeling.
  
  • IE 5325 - Productivity and Performance Improvement in Organizations

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Productivity and performance improvement (including efficiency, effectiveness, quality, QWL, innovation, profitability, and budget ability theories, techniques, analysis, and applications for industrial systems.
  
  • IE 5328 - Activity Scheduling

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Deterministic sequencing of single machine, parallel machines, flow shops, and job shops. Theory of complexity. Optimization and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial sequence generation.
  
  • IE 5329 - Project Management

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Technical, organizational, and personnel project management examination including planning, estimating, budgeting, scheduling, resources management, control. Risk analysis and management using software for project performance evaluation.
  
  • IE 5331 - Theoretical Studies in Advanced Industrial Engineering Topics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and departmental approval. Individual theoretical study of advanced topic selected on the basis of departmental recommendation. May be repeated.
  
  • IE 5332 - Experimental Investigation in Advanced Industrial Engineering Topics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and departmental approval. Individual experimental study of an advanced topic selected on the basis of departmental recommendation. May be repeated.
  
  • IE 5342 - Design of Experiments

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Understanding of basic probability and statistics. Single factor, factorial, blocked, split plot designs. Means comparisons, contrasts, estimates of variation. Confounding and fractional factorials.
  
  • IE 5344 - Statistical Data Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Understanding of basic probability and statistics. Exploratory data analysis, graphical displays and analysis. Linear and nonlinear regression, response surfaces. Selected mainframe and microcomputer packages.
  
  • IE 5345 - Reliability Theory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Understanding of basic probability and statistics. System level reliability, redundancy, maintainability, and availability analysis and modeling. Life testing, acceleration, parametric, and nonparametric models.
  
  • IE 5346 - Total Quality Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Total quality philosophy, customer definition and demands, quality strategies, planning and integration, benchmarking, team structures and interaction, supplier qualification, and quality audits.
  
  • IE 5351 - Advanced Manufacturing Processes

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Advanced topics in manufacturing materials and processes, including metallic/nonmetallic materials and their fabrication, nanomaterials, powder metallurgy, nontraditional machining, rapid prototyping, and materials’ testing.
  
  • IE 5352 - Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Focuses on advanced topics in the manufacturing systems and technologies, including design for manufacturing, failure mode and effect analysis, concurrent engineering, lean manufacturing, cellular manufacturing, Six Sigma, statistical process control, and emerging nanotechnology.
  
  • IE 5353 - Sustainable Manufacturing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Life Cycle Assessment for product design and manufacturing process design; three-dimensional sustainabilityùenvironmental, social, and economical aspects.
  
  • IE 5355 - Computer-Aided Manufacturing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Computer usage in manufacturing systems, CAD/CAM, numerical control, CNC, DNC, computer-aided process planning, manufacturing engineering database systems, industrial robot applications, flexible manufacturing systems, and integration of CAD and CAM.
  
  • IE 5356 - Biomedical Design and Manufacturing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to concepts and issues in biomedical design and manufacturing, including biomaterials and nanomaterials, medical devices, body mechanics, design requirements, manufacturing, quality control, and ethics.
  
  • IE 5357 - Manufacturing Facilities Planning and Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theory and application of the location, layout, and design of modern manufacturing facilities, including materials handling practice, manufacturing systems layout, and warehouse operations.
  
  • IE 5358 - Nanomanufacturing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to principle and application in nanomanufacturing, including self-assembly, nano-molding and embossing, nanotransfer printing, scanning probe lithography, and synthesis of nanostructured materials.
  
  • IE 5371 - Bioengineering Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of bioengineering with an emphasis on a systems viewpoint. Use of engineering tools to understand, mimic, and utilize biological processes.
  
  • IE 5380 - Information Systems Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Information systems design for decision support, data modeling, database design and access, internet data, data security, data mining and warehousing, social and ethical issues.
  
  • IE 5381 - Introduction to Critical Infrastructure

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the analysis and implementation of critical infrastructure and analysis of their security and resilience.
  
  • IE 5382 - Cybersecurity for Information Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Countermeasures for combating risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of information technology, access control, security policy, audits, testing, monitoring, cryptography, networking principles and defenses, compliance laws/standards.
  
  • IE 5383 - Industrial and Networked Control Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the analysis and implementation of networked control systems, including applications in critical infrastructure.
  
  • IE 5384 - Security for Systems and Software

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides a comprehensive understanding of a secure systems and software development process.
  
  • IE 5385 - Cyber Attacks

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides a comprehensive understanding of cyber attacks that include systems engineering and software/hardware/network environments for national infrastructure.
  
  • IE 5386 - Requirement Engineering for Systems and Software

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduces the definition of and rationale for systems and software requirements engineering processes. Includes the fundamentals, principles, and techniques for requirements engineering.
  
  • IE 6000 - Master’s Thesis

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
  
  • IE 6304 - Control Theory for Humans

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 2360 , IE 3341 . Topics include cybernetics, feed-back and feed-forward, Fitts’ law, linear system, laplace transforms, gain and lag, Fourier analysis, coherence, stochastic resonance, frequency domain, bode analysis, optima control law.
  
  • IE 6323 - Systems Management Global Environment

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the doctoral program. Explores the critical quantitative as well as qualitative issues shaping the practice and research of systems-technical management.
  
  • IE 6329 - Systems Management Seminar

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the doctoral program. Doctoral research seminar exploring the latest trends in systems engineering and technical management research.
  
  • IE 6331 - Advanced Industrial Engineering Topics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Doctoral degree status and departmental approval. Advanced theoretical and/or empirical studies in industrial engineering, ergonomics-human factors, quality or manufacturing engineering, or OR-engineering systems management.
  
  • IE 6399 - Research Methods in Science and Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Doctoral degree status and design of experiments or equivalent. Examines the research process and differing methodological approaches to research in laboratory, industrial, field work, and case study settings.
  
  • IE 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  
  • IE 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours