Introduction to Industrial Engineering

Objectives

  • To provide an overview of Industrial Engineering areas and activities
  • To exemplify and study a number of quantitative methods used in Industrial Engineering

General characterization

Code

10574

Credits

3.0

Responsible teacher

Ana Paula Ferreira Barroso, Susana Carla Vieira Lino Medina Duarte

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 45

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

The curricular unit is taught in the 2nd semester and is the first within the scope of the course, with no prior knowledge required.

Bibliography

Chase, R. B., Jacobs F. R. e Aquilano N. (2005), Operations Management for Competitive Advantagwith Global Cases, 11ª ed., McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, UK.

Heizer, J., Render, B. e Munson, C. (2017), Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, 12ª ed., Pearson, New Jersey. 

Roldão, V. e Ribeiro, J. S. (2014), Gestão das Operações. Uma Visão Integrada2ª ed., Monitor, Lisboa.

Slack N., Chambers S. e Johnston R. (2016), Operations Management, 8ª ed., Prentice Hall, Harlow.

Stevenson, W. (1998) Productions/Operations Management, 6ª ed., Irwin/McGraw-Hill.

Teaching method

The curricular unit is taught in theoretical-practical classes, with a load of 3 hours/week. During the classes, different activities are developed.

An active and dynamic didactic-pedagogic approach is used to motivate the students to learn the Industrial Engineering areas and activities.

Evaluation method

The assessment is of the Project type, consisting of the realisation of a project, and its assessment is made up as follows:


Final mark = 0.45 * [(∑Ai) / i] + 0.20 *T + 0.20*R + 0.15*Ap


where:
- Ai - performance grade for activity i. The grade for activity i will be calculated as follows

Ai = 0.2*MT + 0.8*( R×CI) where:
MT - individual mini-test
R - success in achieving the proposed results
CI - individual contribution to the execution of the activity. The Evaluation Scale will be determined on the basis of the following rationale: the points must be distributed in their entirety, using only integer values and using the following logic per working group:

- Presence of 5 elements: distribute 47 points;
- Presence of 4 members: distribute 38 points;
- Presence of 3 members: distribute 29 points.

- T - Test grade

- R - Report grade. The grade will be calculated as follows:
R= Grade*Cti
Cti=individual contribution to the report (consider 0 to 100 per cent for each group member)

- Ap - Presentation grade. The grade will be calculated as follows:
Ap= Grade*Cti
Cti=individual contribution to the presentation (consider 0 to 100 per cent for each member of the group)

The grade for each of the assessment components is rounded to the nearest tenth.


Frequency, valid for 1 year, depends on the student''s presence at the Seminar (in 14 May).

There will be no recourse exam.

Approval is given if the final mark is equal to or greater than 9.5.

Subject matter

Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management. Definitions, differences and complementarity.
Management and production systems in industry and services. Concepts of productivity, competitiveness and optimization.
Operations management.
Project management.
Materials management.
Layout. Balancing assembly lines.
Quality management

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