Table of Contents

• 1. What is Industrial Engineering?


• 2. Big ideas you will hear frequently


• 3. Learning and teaching


• 3.1 Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.
• 3.2 Your style of learning.
• 3.3 Theories of learning.
• 3.4 Life long learning.
• 3.5 Some tools for students.


• 4. Organizations
  • 4.1 What is an organization?
  • 4.2 What do people do in an organization?
  • 4.3 Who does an organization serve?
  • 4.4 Who does the work in an organization?
  • 4.5 What role does an IE play in an organization?


• 5. The IE Approach
  • 5.1 PDCA or DMAIC
  • 5.2 Systems thinking
  • 5.3 Lean operations
  • 5.4 Deming's 14 points
  • 5.5 Six Sigma
  • 5.6 Sustainability
  • 5.7 Fads
  • 5.8 The two parts of a production system


• 6. Design or improve a production system
  • 6.1 What type of physical assets does the organization need?
  • 6.2 Where will the organization put these assets?
  • 6.3 How will the organization move and store physical items?
  • 6.4 How will the organization move and store information?
  • 6.5 How will the organization maintain its physical assets?


• 7. Operate a production system
  • 7.1 Forecasting
  • 7.2 Aggregate planning
  • 7.3 Operations planning
  • 7.4 Supply chain and inventory management
  • 7.5 Operations policies
  • 7.6 Operations


• 8. IE careers
  • 8.1 Employment
  • 8.2 Education and life long learning
  • 8.3 Ethics


• 9. People
  • 9.1 Physical ergonomics
  • 9.2 Safety and the work environment
  • 9.3 Cognitive ergonomics
  • 9.4 Work methods and standards
  • 9.5 Motivation


• 10. Operations research and other mathematical methods
  • 10.1 Collecting data
  • 10.2 Visual display of data
  • 10.3 Models in general
  • 10.4 Deterministic models
  • 10.5 Stochastic models


• 11. Business related skills
  • 11.1 Accounting
  • 11.2 Engineering economics
  • 11.3 Communication skills
  • 11.4 Project management


• 12. The past and the future
  • 12.1 Interchangeable parts
  • 12.2 New sources of power
  • 12.3 Specialization of labor
  • 12.4 The factory and the manager
  • 12.5 Analysis of work
  • 12.6 The assembly line
  • 12.7 Worker rights
  • 12.8 Mobilization for World War II
  • 12.9 Japan after World War II
  • 12.10 Programmable controls, computers, and communication technology
  • 12.11 The future


• 13. References


• 14. Glossary

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