Cannot be used as a professional elective. Students participate in group design exercises. An introduction to some advanced topics in operations research and industrial engineering. Areas of study may include game theory, Markov chains and their applications, decision analysis, network analysis. Class 4, Credit 4 0303-550 Safety Engineering Acquaints students with practical aspects of safety engineering.
Students acquire a working knowledge of legal and technical aspects of safety.
Focuses on a systems approach to safety engineering. Students also are exposed to various theories of accident causation, research methodology and ways of evaluating safety programs and related research. Each student group attempts to define, analyze design and implement a solution to unstructured, open-ended, actual ongoing problems in the Rochester community. 0303-599 Independent Study A supervised investigation within an industrial engineering area of student interest. This course examines the nature and measurement of value.