IET 4422: Facilities Design, Plant Layout, and Materials Handling

4 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: IET 2000 and IET 3322
Concurrent: IET 3433
This course introduces the students to fundamental concepts, theories, and procedures for studying facilities design, physical layout, material flow, and material handling systems. The lab portion of the course teaches students to design facility and parking lot layouts using CAD software. Students are involved in a group project to design a manufacturing or service facility.