Program Overview

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Overview of the Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program

The Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program offers a range of online degrees and certificates, including doctoral programs, master's programs, graduate certifications, and professional credentials.

Doctoral Programs

• Doctor of Engineering

Master Programs

• Aeronautics & Astronautics
• Autonomy
• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Dual Degree MSE+MBA
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Engineering Education
• Industrial Engineering
• Interdisciplinary Engineering
• Internet of Things
• Mechanical Engineering
• Microelectronics and Semiconductors
• Nuclear Engineering
• Robotics
• Software Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Graduate Certifications

• Applied Heat Transfer
• Digital Signal Processing
• Hypersonics
• International Development
• Microelectronics and Semiconductors
• Noise Control
• Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Science for Medical Devices
• Systems
• Teaching and Learning in Engineering

Professional Certifications

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Lean Principles
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Refresher
• Agile Project Management
• Project Management Essentials
• PMP Exam Preparation

Professional Courses

• Semiconductor Fabrication 101
• Additive Manufacturing
• Design for Security
• Data Science
• Building Water Essentials
• Model-Based Systems Engineering
• Product Safety: An Introduction for Effective Engineering Design
• Small Modular and Advanced Reactor (SMR/AR) Technology
• Systems Engineering Processes and Professional Competencies

Course Details: Design and Control of Production and Manufacturing Systems

Course Description

To achieve cost-effective, sustainable production/mfg/service systems, a thorough understanding of production system operations and flow is essential. This course focuses on the fundamental understanding of the factors affecting operational performance of production systems. We develop this understanding by discussing the basic models and techniques of inventory control, queuing analysis, job scheduling, and supply networks, and their role in the context of analytics and informatics (A&I).

Course Details

• Credit Hours: 3
• Learning Objective: After taking this course, students should be able to design and achieve cost-effective, competitive, and sustainable production, mfg., and supply systems and factories of the future by applying analytic models of their operations and flow.
• Description: To achieve cost-effective and sustainable production, mfg., and supply systems, in the age of cyber-physical systems, AI, and robotics, this course focuses on the engineering fundamentals affecting the performance of such systems operations. We learn models and techniques that enable you to design and control them effectively and competitively.
• Topics Covered:
  • Manufacturing, production, and supply inventory models, optimization, learning models, digital twins
  • Manufacturing and production flow design and control
  • Scheduling, systems collaboration, and supply decisions
  • Cyber-physical, AI, and robotics in manufacturing, production, and supply systems
• Prerequisites: Basic concepts of production, statistics, and optimization.
• Applied / Theory: 70/30
• Homework: Approximately five homework assignments
• Projects: Project by mixed teams of on- and off-campus students, integrating models learned in our course and from articles. Projects are on design and control of manufacturing or production/supply, applying either robots/drones, or digital twins. Can be job-related.
• Exams: Two exams (in-person proctored) and a final project.
• Textbooks: No textbook required. Five optional reference books are listed in the syllabus.
• Computer Requirements: Word processor, spreadsheet, PowerPoint, equation editor is helpful.

Instructor

• Shimon Nof

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Degree Program Applicants

• Aeronautics & Astronautics
• Autonomy
• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Doctor of Engineering
• Dual Degree MSE+MBA
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Engineering Education
• Industrial Engineering
• Interdisciplinary Engineering
• Internet of Things
• Mechanical Engineering
• Microelectronics & Semiconductors
• Nuclear Engineering
• Robotics
• Software Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Graduate Certificate & Non-Degree Admissions Information

• Non-Degree (Course Only)
• Applied Heat Transfer
• Digital Signal Processing
• Noise Control
• Teaching and Learning in Engineering
• Systems
• Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Science for Medical Devices
• Graduate Certificate in Microelectronics and Semiconductors

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