Course Description

ININ 5505 - Total Quality Management. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ININ 4078. Introduction to innovating philosophies total quality control. The impact of leadership, organizational infrastructure and client satisfaction on quality management. Utilization and management of information, personnel, processes and product design for continuous quality improvement.

ININ 5565 - Measurement and Prediction of Product Reliability. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ININ 4020 or authorization of the director. Analysis of data associated with the product reliability; statistical methods for the analysis of experimental data of several types.

ININ 5575 - Sequence and Scheduling of Resources. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture and/or discussion per week. Co-requisite: ININ 4039 or authorization of the director. Conceptual and practical aspects involved in the scheduling of resources. Examples and applications drawn from areas such as manpower, computer and transportation.

ININ 5595 - Design and Management of Services Processes. Industrial Engineering  techniques and models to design and manage the operations of service organization or services processes manufacturing enterprises. Includes the development, evaluation and implementation of alternative solutions to the service organization operational problems. Presentation of applications in the following areas: marketing, quality assurance and management, work measurements and design, operations research, planning and control, engineering economy, human resources, management  information systems and facilities layout.

ININ 6005 - Experimental Statistics. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: permission of the director. Fundamental principles in the design and analysis of engineering experiments. Approach ANOVA, factorial and mixed experiments, designs of complete and incompletes blocks; methodology of answers surfaces, fractional, nested factorial design and divided parcels. The students will use computers packages to analyze real data and develop experimental designs.

ININ 6008 - Network Flows and Graphs. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Principles of network flows and graphs theory and their applications in management science. Classical network flow problem formulations including maximal flow-minimal cut, assignment, transportation and others. Formulation of network problems, and the use of the out of kilter algorithm for their solution. Single versus multicommodity flow, as well as the relation of graphs and networks with combination problems.

ININ 6010 - Multiple Regression Analysis. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Analysis of unplanned experimental data to develop models for predicting complex systems behavior. Topics include matrix formulation and properties of least squares estimators in multiple linear regression; analysis of residuals, diagnostics; effects and corrective measures for problems with correlated predictor variables; biased regression and other estimation criteria, autocorrelated residual; simultaneous inference; model validation.

ININ 6016 - Human Factors Engineering. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Human Factors applications in the design of equipment and work environment. Methods for the analysis of human errors and skills and their utilization in the design of control systems and information displays.

ININ 6019 - Advanced Production Control. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Deterministic models of inventory for constant and variable demand through time.  Inventory models for stochastic demand. Decisions systems for different classes of articles. Mathematical approaches and models for added planning of the production. Hierarchic approaches of planning to solve the problem of production planning.

ININ 6020 - Queueing Theory and Applications. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture or discussion per week. Development and use of mathematical models for the analysis of queuing systems; including that they are possible to be modeled with the Poisson distribution. Introduction to the sthochastic- process models. Applications on the design and optimization of queueing systems in service and manufacture organizations.

ININ 6025 - Linear and Discrete Optimization. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Mathematical foundations in linear programming, the duality theory, the dual simplex algorithm, the limited variables method, the decomposition algorithm, sensitivity analysis and parametric programming. Mathematical formulation of linear optimization problems. Introduction to the methods of whole and mixed programming. Also introduces the programming by objectives, dynamics and nonlinear. Application of linear discrete optimization methods to problems of the industry and the government. Use of computer packages for the solution of problems.

ININ 6026 - Digital Simulation Systems. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Modeling of the interrelation between components of a system by computer programs; generation of variables; special languages of simulation; emphasis in the problems solution.

ININ 6030 - Advanced Economics for Engineers. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: permission of the director.  Formulation of economic problems in terms of quantifiable models. Use of deterministic, stochastic techniques and  risk to evaluate design alternatives and to select an acceptable solution.

ININ 6036 - Introduction to Time Series Analysis. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: permission of the director.  Univariate and bivariate time series in frequency and time domain; use of autocorrelation and spectral analysis for model identification. Use of model diagnostics and forecasting techniques, dynamic systems modeling and stochastic estimation by means of the Kalman filter.

ININ 6045 - Materials Systems Handling. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Fundamentals of material systems handling with emphasis in the types of equipment and their applications, relationship between material handling and design of facilities, computer control and automation. A project in the course will be required.

ININ 6046 - Advanced Industrial Experimentation. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ININ 6005 and permission of the director. Discussion of the applications of tolerance and prediction, confidence intervals. Applications of response surface methodology and evolutionary operations in the manufacturing processes. Cases study of manufacturing experiments with variables of discrete response. Use of logistic regression for modeling the relationship between a categorical variable and a set of covariates. Statistical techniques and methods for designing, modeling, and analyzing mixture data.

ININ 6078 - Quality Control Systems. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week. Design and analysis of applicable quality control systems in manufacture companies or on service. The subjects include the costs of the bad quality, the control and improvement of quality systems, the approach of Taguchi to the quality engineering, applications in production organizations and services..

ININ 6995 - Special problems. One to three credit hours. Study of previous works and literature on a selected topic of the industrial engineering field.

ININ 6998 - Engineering Project. Up to three credit hours. Comprehensive study of a special industrial engineering problem selected so as to integrate the knowledge acquired in the graduated program study. This project fulfills one of the final requirements of the program of the Masters of Engineering, and will be regulated by the norms established for this purpose.

ININ 6999 - Thesis. Up to six hours credit. Research in the Industrial Engineering field leading to the presentation and approval of a thesis.