IE525 ADV.TOPICS IN FACILITIES LAYOUT & LOCAT.
| Course Code: | 5680525 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. MEHMET HAKAN AKYÜZ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims to introduce tools for advanced plant layout and location, focusing on location theory and the methods that are fundamental for industrial engineering. Specific learning objectives include:
- Introducing fundamentals of facilities planning
- Solving plant layout problems
- Learning the most important facility location problems
- Being able to implement and apply solution techniques for layout and location problems
- Gaining deeper insights into the theory behind the methods
- Analyzing problems that arise in storage and warehouse systems
Course Content
Formal and heuristic techniques of layout and location analysis, philosophical aspects of facilities planning in general. Special topics such as design of non-manufacturing facilities and warehouse automation.(R)
Course Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes include the following and the students
- understand the basics of facility planning
- will be able to produce plant layout alternatives
- gain theoretical insights on fundamental facility location problems
- can solve advanced facility location problems
- can read and follow the state-of-the-art scientific articles, and tailor their own algorithms in facility location literature
- can analyze storage and warehouse systems
upon completion of this course.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Specialize with advanced knowledge in selected areas of Industrial Engineering; such as Production and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics and Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Operational Research, Quality Management, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and Strategy and Industrial Economics. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Have advanced ability to formulate and solve industrial engineering problems. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Be able to systematically acquire new scientific knowledge to design and improve socio-technical systems. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Be able to conduct scientific research in industrial engineering. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Be able to apply critical reasoning in their professional careers. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Appreciate the academics ethics. | ✔ | |||