Laboratory assignments related to system design and operation. 3 Principles and concepts of the metal casting process. Note that the general topics will be the same as I E 479X, but the assignments for those enrolled in I E 579X will be more theoretical. Principles and practice for the design, analysis, and implementation of electronic commerce systems. Role of electronic commerce in manufacturing systems, open financial exchange, electronic data interchange, open trading protocol, system design, system performance.
Advanced credit requires completion of projects and research papers of larger scope and difficulty.
3 Introduction to data warehouses and knowledge discovery. Techniques for data mining, including probabilistic and statistical methods, genetic algorithms and neural networks, visualization techniques, and mathematical programming. Relationship to enterprise computing. Advanced topics include web-mining and mining of multimedia data. Case studies from both manufacturing and service industries will be discussed.