Course Curriculum of The Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
Course Curriculum of The Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
Engineering
Courses offered by IPE Department
Core Courses:
IPE 101: Economics for Industrial and Production Engineering.
3 credit hours
The basic ideas of microeconomics and macroeconomics in developing economy. Theory
of firms, theory of production, consumption, costs, pricing and distribution of income,
markets and their equilibrium, Comparative economic system, input-output, analyzing.
Allocation of resources. Employment, Inflation, economic indicators of development,
market economy.
Acceptance sampling plans: OC curves, single and double sampling plants, sequential
and rectifying inspection plans AOQ.
Quality and Reliability: failure and survival probability; hazard rate, component and
system reliability and its prediction; failure mode and fault tree analysis, reliability
testing.
Quality standards and their compliance, ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. Foundations of quality
revised Total Quality Management (TQM), application of TQM philosophy, Frontiers
of quality.
Anthropometry, work place design and work place layout, human performance under
environment temperature, illumination, vibration, noise, pollution radiation static and
dynamic conditions.
Evolution of modern safety concepts, Industrial hazard, safety and risk management,
productivity, worker health and safety, proactive management techniques for safety
management, safety standards and regulations for engineering works, case studies.
Phy 105 (N): Structure of Matter, Electricity and Magnetism, and Modern Physics
3credit hours
Structure of Matter, States of Matter, solid, liquid and gas, Classification of solids:
amorphous crystalline ceramics & polymers. Atomic arrangement in solids, different
types of bonds in solids; metallic. Vander Waals, covalent and ionic bond, packing in
solid, inter atomic distances and forces of equilibrium, x-ray diffraction, Braggs law.
Plasticity and electricity. Distinction between metal insulator and semi-conductor.
Electricity and magnetism: Electric charge, Coulombs law. The electric field; calculation
of the electric flux and Gausss law, some application of Gausss law, electric potential V,
relation between E and V, electric potential energy, Capacitors; capacitance, dielectrics
and atomic view, dielectrics and Gausss law: current and resistance; current and current
density, Ohm law, resistivity; an atomic view, Amperes law. Faradays law, Lenzs law,
self inductance and mutual inductance. Magnetic properties of matter: magneto-motive
force, magnetic field intensity and permeability, susceptibility, classification of magnetic
materials, magnetization curves, Modern physics.
Michelson Morleys experiment, Galilean transformation, special theory of relativity.
Lorenz transformation, relative velocity, length contraction, time dilation mass-energy
relation. Photo-electric effect, Compton effect, de Broglie wave, Bohrs atomic model.
Radioactive decay, half life, mean life, isotopes, nuclear binding energy, alpha, beta,
gamma decay.
Phy 117: Waves & Oscillations, Geometrical Optics and Wave Mechanics
3 credit hours
Waves & Oscillations: Differential equation of a simple harmonic oscillator, Total energy
and average energy, combination of simple harmonic oscillations, Lissajous figures,
Spring- mass system, Calculation of time period of torsional pendulum, Damped
oscillation, Determination of damping co-efficient. Forced oscillation, Resonance, Twobody oscillation, Reduced mass, Differential equation of a progressive wave, Power and
intensity of wave motion, Stationary wave, Group velocity and phase velocity,
Architectural acoustics, Reverberation and Sabines formula.
Geometrical Optics: Combination of lenses: Equivalent lens and equivalent focal length,
Cardinal points of a lens, power of a lens: Defects of images: Spherical aberration,
Beams: Shear force and bending moment diagrams; Various types of stresses in beams:
Flexure formula; Deflection of beams: integration and area moment methods;
Introduction to reinforced concrete beams and slabs.
Torsion formula; Angle of twist; Modulus of rupture; Helical springs; Combined stresses:
principle stress, Mohrs Circle; Columns: Eulers formula, intermediate column formulas,
the Secant formula; Flexure formula of curved beams.
Introduction to experiment stress analysis techniques, Stain energy; Failure theories.
ME 447: Robotics
3 credit hours
Introduction to robotics; Definitions; Plane, rotational and spatial motion with
applications to manipulators; Geometric configurations: structural elements, linkages,
arms and grippers; Kinematics of manipulators; Motion characteristics, trajectories,
dynamics and control of manipulators; Actuators and sensors for manipulators;
Application of industrial robots and programming; Teleoperators, mobile robots and
automated guided vehicles. Special purpose robots.