3.00 Credits
Introduction to methods, standards, work design, and productivity improvement. Work method design: exploratory, documentation, and analysis tools. Operation analysis: product, process and schedule design. Introduction to facilities layout, work design, work method improvement, time study, learning curves, and wage incentives systems. A survey of manufacturing processes, traditional machining, and non-traditional machining. Fundamental principles and procedures will be applied through a class project developed by students working in teams.(RE) Prerequisite(s): Engineering Fundamentals 152 or 157.(RE) Corequisite(s): 200 or Statistics 251.Recommended Background: Completion of freshman engineering courses.Comment(s): Available to other majors who have completed an introductory course in probability and statistics.