2005-2006 CURRICULUM

 

 

2007-2008 CURRICULUM

 

First Semester

 

ECTS

 

First Semester

 

ECTS

PHYS 111

General Physics for Engineering I

3

2

4

6

 

PHYS 111

General Physics for Engineering I

3

2

4

6

MATH 155

Calculus for Engineering I

3

2

4

6

 

MATH 155

Calculus for Engineering I

3

2

4

7

ENG 101

English for Freshman

3

0

3

5

 

ENG 101

English for Freshman

3

0

3

5

TURK 101

Turkish I

2

0

2

1

 

TURK 101

Turkish I

2

0

2

2

IE 101

Int. to Industrial and Systems Eng.

3

2

4

7

 

IE 101

Industrial Engineering Orientation

2

0

2

4

IE 111

Computer Aided Engineering Drawing

2

2

3

5

 

IE 111

Computer Aided Engineering Drawing

2

2

3

6

 

16

8

20

30

 

15

6

18

30

Second Semester

 

 

Second Semester

 

PHYS 112

General Physics for Engineering II

3

2

4

6

 

PHYS 112

General Physics for Engineering II

3

2

4

6

MATH 156

Calculus for Engineering II

3

2

4

6

 

MATH 156

Calculus for Engineering II

3

2

4

6

ENG 102

English for Freshman

3

0

3

5

 

ENG 102

English for Freshman

3

0

3

4

TURK 102

Turkish II

2

0

2

1

 

TURK 102

Turkish II

2

0

2

2

CENG 198

Introduction to Computer Programming

2

2

3

5

 

CENG 198

Introduction to Computer Programming

2

2

3

6

IE 112

Statics and Strength of Materials

4

0

4

7

 

IE 114

Materials Science and General Chemistry

3

2

4

6

 

17

6

20

30

 

16

8

20

30

Third Semester

 

 

Third Semester

 

MATH 215

Linear Algebra for Industrial Engineering

3

2

4

7

 

MATH 215

Linear Algebra for Industrial Engineering

3

0

3

5

HIST 201

Principles of Kemal Atatürk I

2

0

2

2

 

HIST 201

Principles of Kemal Atatürk I

2

0

2

2

ENG 201

Adv. Reading and Oral Communication

2

2

3

5

 

IE 243

Manufacturing Processes

2

2

3

6

ECON 213

Principles of Economics

4

0

4

4

 

ECON 213

Principles of Economics

4

0

4

5

IE 227

Introduction to Probability

3

2

4

7

 

IE 227

Introduction to Probability

3

2

4

7

IE 211

Introduction to Eng. Thermodynamics

3

0

3

5

 

IE 211

Introduction to Eng. Thermodynamics

3

0

3

5

 

17

6

20

30

 

17

4

19

30

Fourth Semester

 

 

Fourth Semester

 

MATH 228

Mathematics for IE

3

2

4

7

 

IE 244

Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems

2

2

3

6

HIST 202

Principles of Kemal Atatürk II

2

0

2

2

 

HIST 202

Principles of Kemal Atatürk II

2

0

2

2

IE 200

Summer Training I

0

0

0

1

 

IE 200

Summer Training I

0

0

0

1

IE 228

Engineering Statistics

3

2

4

7

 

IE 228

Engineering Statistics

2

2

3

6

IE 232

Operations Research I

3

2

4

7

 

IE 232

Operations Research I - Modelling

3

2

4

7

IE 212

Materials Science and General Chemistry

3

2

4

7

 

IE 240

Cost Analysis in Engineering

2

2

3

5

 

14

8

18

31

 

ENG 202

Adv. Reading and Oral Communication

2

2

3

3

 

 

 

 

13

10

18

30

Fifth Semester

 

 

Fifth Semester

 

IE 323

Design of Experiments

3

2

4

6

 

IE 301

Work Study and Ergonomics

2

2

3

5

IE 361

Prod. Planning & Operations Analysis I

3

2

4

7

 

IE 361

Production Planning I

2

2

3

7

IE 359

Cost Analysis in Engineering

3

2

4

5

 

IE 341

Engineering Economic Analysis

2

2

3

5

IE 343

Manufacturing Processes

2

2

3

5

 

IE 327

System Simulation

2

2

3

6

IE 333

Operations Research II

3

2

4

7

 

IE 333

Operations Research II - Deterministic Problems

3

2

4

7

 

14

10

19

30

 

 

11

10

16

30

Sixth Semester

 

 

Sixth Semester

 

IE 300

Summer Training II

0

0

0

1

 

IE 300

Summer Training II

0

0

0

1

IE 340

Computer Integrated Manufacturing Sys.

2

2

3

5

 

IE 302

Facilities Design and Location

2

2

3

6

IE 362

Prod. Planning & Operations Analysis II

3

2

4

7

 

IE 362

Production Planning II

2

2

3

7

IE 364

Production Information Systems

2

2

3

5

 

IE 364

Production Information Systems

2

2

3

6

IE 324

Introduction to Simulation

3

2

4

7

 

IE 334

Operations Research III - Stochastic Problems

3

2

4

7

IE 358

Engineering Economic Analysis

3

0

3

5

 

ELEC 1

Restricted Non-Departmental Elective

3

0

3

3

 

13

8

17

30

 

12

8

16

30

Seventh Semester

 

 

Seventh Semester

 

IE 427

Quality Planning and Control Techniques

3

2

4

5

 

IE 427

Quality Engineering

2

2

3

6

IE 435

Decision Analysis

3

0

3

6

 

MAN 102

Introduction to Management

3

0

3

4

IE 407

Production Systems Design - Synthesis

2

2

3

7

 

IE 407

Systems' Analysis

1

4

3

8

ELEC 1

Restricted Non-Technical Elective

3

0

3

2

 

IE 499

Seminar in IE Practice

0

2

1

2

ELEC 2

Technical Elective

3

0

3

5

 

ELEC 2

Departmental Elective

3

0

3

5

ELEC 3

Technical Elective

3

0

3

5

 

ELEC 3

Departmental Elective

3

0

3

5

 

17

4

19

30

 

12

8

16

30

Eigth Semester

 

 

Eight Semester

 

IE 430

Stochastic Models and Applications

3

2

4

8

 

IE 408

Systems' Design and Implementation

2

4

4

11

IE 408

Production Systems Design - Practice

2

2

3

8

 

HUK 4xx

Bussiness Law for IE

3

0

3

5

HMR 471

Human Rights

2

0

2

2

 

ELEC 4

Free Elective

3

0

3

4

ELEC 4

Free Elective

3

0

3

2

 

ELEC 5

Departmental Elective

3

0

3

5

ELEC 5

Technical Elective

3

0

3

5

 

ELEC 6

Man/Econ Elective

3

0

3

5

ELEC 6

Technical Elective

3

0

3

5

 

 

14

4

16

30

 

16

4

18

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL CREDIT

124

54

151

241

 

TOTAL CREDIT

110

58

139

240

 

TOTAL # CREDITED COURSES

45

 

ECTS

 

TOTAL # CREDITED COURSES

45

 

ECTS

 

TOTAL #  COURSES

47

 

 

TOTAL #  COURSES

47

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUST COURSES - DESCRIPTIONS

IE

101

Industrial Engineering Orientation

  (2 0 2)

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the industrial and systems engineering.

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111

Computer Aided Engineering Drawing

  (2 2 3)

The course mainly consists two parts. While the first part provides introduction and general information on AutoCAD, the second part is related with the basics of engineering drawing.

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IE

114

Materials Science and General Chemistry

  (3 2 4)

The course is designed to cover the following subjects:  classification of the materials, atomic structure, periodic table, molecular structure, bonding in solid materials, structure of crystalline solids, mechanical properties of the materials, phase diagrams, thermal processing of metal alloys, properties and use of ceramics, glasses and composites, material selection, and design.

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IE

243

Manufacturing Processes

 (2 2 3)

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction of a number of manufacturing processes. It is an overview course discussing a wide variety of manufacturing processes with less detail. Instead, the principles behind the processes will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to some common methods in manufacturing industry including metal cutting, numerical control, casting, forming and shaping processes.

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IE

227

Introduction to Probability

 (3 2 4)

In this course, basic probability concepts and counting techniques are introduced. Consequently, the concepts of the random variable and distribution are given. The expectation, variance, correlation concepts are introduced. Various types of probability distributions are introduced.  Examples in the manufacturing, service systems and decision making are given so that the concepts and their applications are better appreciated.

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IE

211

Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics

  (3 0 3)

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of thermodynamic principles; application of the first and second laws of thermodynamics; understanding of the basic relations among physical properties of materials, energy transfer by heat, work and mass, and entropy.  Some fundamental and common applications in real world, for instance, power cycles, reverse cycles, refrigeration cycles, etc., are also included.   

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IE

244

Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems

  (2 2 3)

This course is designed to highlight the major automation-related subjects within the scope of manufacturing system. Special emphasis will be given on industrial robotics, robot programming and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Laboratory exercises will deal with robotic programming and experiment with FMS systems. The elements of a flexible manufacturing environment such as CNC machines, robots, conveyors are modeled and operated via OpenCIM software package.

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IE

228

Engineering Statistics

  (2 2 3)

Descriptive statistics, probability and random variables, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, sample size determination, basic experimental design and analysis of variance, simple linear regression. Use of statistical software to analyze data.

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IE

232

Operations Research I – Modeling

  (3 2 4)

This course is redesigned to equip students with the ability of conceptualization of real life systems in the form of mathematical models. Principles of model building and basic optimization concepts and approaches for problem solving are discussed in detail. The application of these principles and concepts are illustrated using simplified but practical problems from diverse fields of application in manufacturing/service/distribution systems. Scopes and limitations of suggested formulations are presented and their applications in real-life situations are focused with the help of mathematical programming software. The emphasis is on the formation and interpretation of models rather than solution procedures.

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IE

240

Cost Analysis in Engineering

  (2 2 3)

This course includes the material necessary to analyze cost behavior, examine costing systems and their practices in different organizations with different nature of production. The ways how these systems are used in decision making at different levels, are illustrated by examples. The aim is to teach the students basics of financial accounting; definition of costs, cost absorption techniques with an emphasis on allocation of overhead, budgeting, variance analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis; preparation of balance sheet, income statement and flow of funds statement; inventory valuation.

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IE

301

Work Study and Ergonomics

  (2 2 3)

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of Work Study and Ergonomics, which are both used in the examination of human and work in all their contexts. The topics covered in the course are introduction, problem solving tools (recording and analysis tools, activity charts, line balancing), operation analysis, manual work design (principles of motion economy, motion study), time study (performance rating and allowances), standard data and formulas, work sampling, predetermined time systems, job analysis, job evaluation and compensation, design (workplace, equipment, and tool), work environment design, design of cognitive work.

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IE

361

Production Planning I

  (2 2 3)

This is the first of two sequel courses, which are designed to introduce the basics of production planning and control with the need of modern manufacturing organizations in mind. The topics covered in the first course are production and inventory management environments, long-range planning, forecasting, aggregate planning, deterministic and independent demand inventory management, stochastic and independent demand inventory management, aggregate inventory management, distribution and inventory control.

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IE

341

Engineering Economic Analysis

  (2 2 3)

This course highlights the importance of economic principles in engineering applications, especially in project evaluation procedures. Basics of economic evaluation of engineering decisions such as time value of money, inflation, depreciation and income taxes and related techniques are given.

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IE

327

System Simulation

  (2 2 3)

This course highlights the importance of economic principles in engineering applications, especially in project evaluation procedures. Basics of economic evaluation of engineering decisions such as time value of money, inflation, depreciation and income taxes and related techniques are given.

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IE

333

Operations Research II – Deterministic Problems

  (3 2 4)

This course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of Operations Research applied to deterministic problems. The emphasis is on the solution procedures and interpretation of the solutions. The topics covered are the basic deterministic models used in decision making: linear programming, simplex methods, duality, post optimality analysis, integer programming, network models and nonlinear programming.

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IE

302

Facilities Design and Location

  (2 2 3)

In this course, an overview of all the functions that are involved in successfully designing and operating a manufacturing facility. The topics covered are choosing manufacturing processes, developing production systems and associated plant layout, designing material-handling and storage systems, selecting the essential labor resources, considering the cost factors that go into the design and operation of a plant, basic location/allocation analysis, which determines the most economic location for a plant or plants in a country (or machines within a plant).

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IE

362

Production Planning II

  (2 2 3)

This is the second of two sequel courses, which are designed to introduce the basics of production planning and control with the need of modern manufacturing organizations in mind. The topics covered in the first course are master scheduling, push production control systems (MRP, lot sizing, MRP II), pull production systems (just-in-time production, kanban), production activity control (scheduling in different production environments, priority rules, input/output control), supply chain management, project management (CPM, PERT, time costing methods, resource constraints).

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IE

364

Production Information Systems

  (2 2 3)

Various aspects of information systems (IS) and information technologies (IT) related to industrial engineering (IE) discipline with special emphasis on production systems. IT infrastructure. Data resources management. IE perspective on IS, understanding the business value of information, digital firm, IS in enterprises, strategic importance of IS. Enhancing management decision making, telecommunications and internet technologies. Database structure and development, relational database structure, security and control, ethical and social aspects. Enterprise resource planning and material requirement planning software packages. E-business and IT applications for production systems.

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IE

334

Operations Research III – Stochastic Problems

  (3 2 4)

This course is designed to introduce uncertainty, risk and probabilistic approaches in decision making problems. Basic mathematical modeling tools used in stochastic processes, queuing theory, inventory systems and decision analysis are introduced. Discrete and continuous time Markov chains, birth and death processes, M/M/c queuing systems, stochastic dynamic programming are analyzed and elementary solution techniques are discussed.

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IE

427

Quality Engineering

  (2 2 3)

Review of fundamental statistical concepts. Introduction to control charts. Control charts for attributes. Control charts for variables. Special control charts. Graphical methods for quality improvement. Process control techniques. Specification limits. Process capability analysis. Tolerances and related techniques. Acceptance sampling by attributes and by variables. Application of design of experiments to quality control. Taguchi methods.

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IE

407

Systems’ Analysis

  (1 4 3)

This course is a project based synthesis of the techniques and methodologies of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering covered in other courses. This is not a course in the classical sense. The aim is to conduct a program in which industry and academia, students and engineers/managers, learning and implementing, course-work and real-life all come together and meet with each other. More specifically, teams of students and professors work on real-world projects sponsored by industry to develop implementable solutions. The projects are concerned with the design of complex systems and may involve modeling and analysis of manufacturing and service systems based on demand, resource, capacity, location, computer integration, and information requirements. IE 407 is devoted to the understanding and identification of the particular system involved, the issues, and statement of the problem.

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IE

499

Seminar in IE Practice

  (0 2 1)

Throughout this course a series of seminars will be given by invited speakers on issues of current interest to the practice of industrial engineering to introduce IE students to the work atmosphere and opportunities available in academia and various manufacturing and service systems.

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IE

408

Systems’ Design and Implementation

  (2 4 4)

This course is a project based synthesis of the techniques and methodologies of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering covered in other courses. This is not a course in the classical sense. The aim is to conduct a program in which industry and academia, students and engineers/managers, learning and implementing, course-work and real-life all come together and meet with each other. More specifically, teams of teams of students and professors work on real-world projects sponsored by industry to develop implementable solutions. The projects are concerned with the design of complex systems and may involve modeling and analysis of manufacturing and service systems based on demand, resource, capacity, location, computer integration, and information requirements. IE 408 is devoted to the formulation and development of the solution of the problem stated in IE 407, and implementation of that solution in the corresponding real life system.

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ELECTIVE COURSES - DESCRIPTIONS

 

 

IE

402

Supply Chain Management

  (3 0 3)

This course gives and understanding of the basic concepts, techniques and algorithms for planning and coordinating the supply chain systems. Moreover, it serves an opportunity to practice the tools taught in operations research and production planning courses.

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IE

406

Project Scheduling and Control

  (3 0 3)

In this course, the project planning and control tools used in managing and delivering projects will be explained in depth. Upon the conclusion of this course, students will have gained a practical knowledge of:

- Project scheduling basics and models

- Resource constrained project scheduling :models and solution algorithms

- Project monitoring and control tools

- Project risk analysis tools

- Project management software

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IE

412

Applied Time Series Analysis

  (3 0 3)

This course introduces Box-Jenkins methods for modeling time series data. First the basic concepts are introduced and then the models for both stationary and non-stationary processes are discussed briefly. The estimation, model identification and forecasting are presented. Finally, the concepts are extended to multivariate case.

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IE

422

Industrial Pollution Prevention

  (3 0 3)

The course has a core fundamental part, which covers basic concepts of P2, relationship between industrial activity and environment, and environmental regulations. In the second part of the course, the focus is on the P2 tools and techniques, such as improved manufacturing operations (green design or eco-design), life cycle assessment (LCA), ecoefficiency and good housekeeping. The P2 planning and its economics are the other related topics to be covered in the course. 

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IE

428

Quality Management Systems

  (3 0 3)

This course teaches how to apply the concepts and tools of total quality to develop, implement, and maintain an effective quality assurance system in a manufacturing or service organization. Emphasis will be on both documentation and team-based strategies for continuous improvement, using the ISO 9000:2000 Standard as a basis for quality system requirements.

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IE

429

Design of Experiments

  (3 0 3)

This course is redesigned to equip the students with the ability of designing, performing and analyzing experiments. Principles of experimentation, different design types are discussed briefly. Besides the concept of robustness is introduced and designs of robust experiments are given. Also finding out the optimum levels of the effective factors are of concern. Thus, response surface methodology and designs are also introduced.

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IE

435

Decision Analysis

  (3 0 3)

Introduction, elements of decision problems, structuring decisions, probability and decision,  decision making in a complex world, uncertainty and making choices,  payoffs and losses, developing a decision model, Non-probabilistic and probabilistic criteria for decision making under uncertainty, utility and the assessment of utility functions, Decision tree analysis, gaining insight through evaluation, the value of information, terminal and posterior decisions, the value of perfect and sample information, pre-posterior analysis, using simulation to solve decision problems, getting agreement, implementing the decision analysis process.

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 IE

452

Analysis of Investment Projects

  (3 0 3)

This course presents that how statistical tools are used in evaluation and comparison of capital investment projects and financial investments. Uncertain nature of future returns and costs of projects are analyzed and decision making techniques are introduced.

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IE

454

An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis

  (3 0 3)

The aim of this course is to develop better skills in understanding, formulating and building combinatorial models. Real life cases are studied. Software packages are used for solution and analysis of models

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IE

456

Mathematical Modeling and Application

  (3 0 3)

The aim of this course is to develop the skills in understanding, formulating and building mathematical modeling. Deterministic models in the areas of transportation, distribution, location, production and economic planning are analyzed. Real life cases are studied. Software packages are used for solution and analysis of models.

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IE

458

Mathematical Models in Defense Systems

  (3 0 3)

Review of Military Operations Research, mathematical models in Defense Analysis; deterministic combat simulation (homogeneous, heterogeneous) models; stochastic (Lanchester, discrete-time) combat simulation (homogeneous, heterogeneous) models; weapon effectiveness index/attrition models; weapon system and munition planning models; hybrid land combat models; naval warfare simulation and modeling; air defense models.

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IE

470

Reliability Engineering

  (3 0 3)

Introduction, basic ideas behind  product reliability and reasons for collecting reliability data, Models, types of reliability data, probability plotting, reliability and hazard functions, system reliability evaluation, model’s parameter estimation and reliability testing, life testing and accelerated life testing models, reliability improvement: warranty and preventive maintenance, case studies.

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IE

471

Inventory Planning and Control

  (3 0 3)

The aim of this course is to develop better skills in understanding, formulating and building inventory planning and control models. Inventory policies for known demand and time varying demand, for uncertain demand and for special items are analyzed. Real life cases are studied. Software packages are used for solving the models.

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IE

473

Material Handling Systems

  (3 0 3)

In this course, firstly manufacturing systems and importance of material handling will be reviewed. Secondly, material handling systems will be reviewed, including MHS design, ten principles of material handling and unit load concept. Then features and typical applications of material transport systems will be discussed. Mathematical analysis of vehicle based system will be studied on the basis of rate of deliveries and required number of vehicle. Applications of charting techniques in material handling and conveyor analysis will be studied. The last section deals with storage systems.

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IE

474

Scheduling and Sequencing

  (3 0 3)

This course gives an introduction to scheduling problems techniques, principles, algorithms and computerized scheduling systems.

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IE

481

Optimization Techniques

  (3 0 3)

Special forms of simplex algorithm. Maxima, minima and saddle points. Lagrange multipliers and Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Univariate search methods. Gradient methods and constrained optimization techniques including penalty methods.

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IE

491

Industrial Waste Management

  (3 0 3)

The course is composed of two main parts. The first part is designed to introduce the fundamentals of the subject, such as, definition of waste management, mass balance techniques to carry out simple flow diagram problems, pollution prevention, feasibility analysis, risk assessment, etc. The second part focuses on the major pollutants originating from the industries and their control using environmental technologies.

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