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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Prepare for academic & social
• Principles of Chemistry & Lab life adjustments
• Written & Oral • Safe use of equipment & chemicals
Communications I • Report presentation in
• Interdisciplinary Design & subsequent courses
Manufacturing • Systems approach to
• Calculus I manufacturing products
• Economic Principles • Foundation for subsequent
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab IE courses
• Calculus II • Prepare for Engineering
• Engineering Graphical Economics course
Communication • Build lean design work
& ergonomics
State-of-the-Art • Prepare for Design of
LAB
FACILITIES Experiments course
• Layouts & bills of materials
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Multivariate Calculus • Foundation for
• Algorithms & Computer subsequent courses
Programming • Automation of Excel
• Intro to Social Sciences or the workbooks operations
Humanities • Address societal issues
• Electricity & Magnetism & Lab • Wire & test relay logic circuits
• Statistics • Work place design & structural
• Engineering Economics support analysis
• Biostatistics I • Statistics application
• Science or Math Elective in life sciences
• Acquire tools in the area of
Get In The Lab science/mathematics
• Our Applied Control Systems Design Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
Lab—equipped with industrial-grade • Specify suitable materials for a
state-of-the-art hardware and • Engineering Materials given application
software systems —prepares you to • Operations Research I: • Optimize resource allocations
apply your knowledge to solve problems Deterministic Models • Effective sampling techniques
in industrial, service, and governmental • Engineering Statistics I • Address contemporary issues
entities. • Intro to Social Sciences or the • Preparation to write thesis &
Humanities
• You will apply your knowledge of • CUE Intro Course thesis options
ergonomics in our Human Factors • Written & Oral • Design experimental methodologies
Lab, where you’ll figure out how a Communication II • Performance improvement
computer keyboard, a pen holder, or • Engineering Statistics II through work design
even a jackhammer can be improved to • Lean Work Design • Optimize processes by
enhance efficiency and safety. • Designing Value in the Supply eliminating waste
Chain • Acquire statistical
• The Work Design Lab is where we will • Science or Math Elective knowledge & tools
teach you the big picture. You will design
an entire production system—yes, it
could be an entire motorcycle factory, Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
complete with assembly line—with Legos. • Design & analyze
• Simulation
• In our Computer Integrated • Tools for Managing the Supply Chain production systems
Manufacturing Lab, you will get a • IE Concentration Elective • Decision system for global
chance to use robots and computer • Applied Control Systems Design supply chain
driven equipment to boost workplace • Ergonomics • Specialize in one of many
productivity and product performance. • Quality assurance aspects of IE
• Senior Seminar • PLCs in manufacturing/
• Kettering even has production-grade • Two Free Electives service industries
manufacturing equipment— a foundry, • IE Concentration Elective II • Design safe working conditions
sheet metal presses, machining centers, • Senior Design Project • Quality control tools to produce
and plastic molding machines. And • IE Concentration Elective III quality products.
you’ll start using this equipment from the • Culminating Undergraduate • Solve real world problems
first year to learn real-world processes Experience • Ability to write & communicate
on real-world equipment. ideas effectively
