Industrial Engineering Technology: Associate of Applied Science Degree
Johnson City, TN Campus

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Objectives

This program exposes students to a variety of fundamental skills utilized in entry-level industrial and manufacturing positions. Students will be exposed to various aspects of optimization, human factors, economic analysis, industrial processes, industrial planning procedures, computer applications, and report and presentation preparation.

Career Opportunities

This program offers graduates an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills that can help them pursue employment in a variety of entry-level positions that utilize various aspects of industrial engineering technology in both service and manufacturing organizations, such as industrial engineering technician, quality technician, test technician and manufacturing technician.

Graduates who have difficulty distinguishing colors may not be able to perform the essential functions of various positions involving industrial engineering technology.

Admission Requirements

Refer to the Admission section of this catalog for information relating to Admission Requirements and Procedures for this program.

School Equipment

Students will have the opportunity to use the following school equipment as required throughout the program: computer systems, printers and other common computer peripherals. Refer to Student Equipment in the Online Course Information section of this catalog for information relating to the student equipment requirements for the distance education courses that are taught online over the Internet.

Class Size

Classes generally range in size from 15 to 30 students. Depending on the course subject matter, certain classes may contain a greater or lesser number of students.

Program Outline

Course Number	Course	Credit Hours
Program Total		93.0
Core Courses Subtotal 49.5 IE1110 Introduction to Industrial Engineering Technology+ 4.5 IE1210 Manufacturing Processes+ 4.5 IE1215 Basic Industrial Engineering Graphics+ 4.5 IE1310 Work Measurements+ 4.5 IE1320 Lean Manufacturing+ 4.5 IE1410 Human Factors+ 4.5 IE1420 Statistical Process Control+ 4.5 IE2510 Industrial Safety+ 4.5 IE2515 Facilities Design+ 4.5 IE2620 Cost Estimating+ 4.5 IE2799 Industrial Engineering Technology Capstone+ 4.5
General Education Courses Subtotal 31.5 CO2520 Communications+ 4.5 EN1320 Composition I+ 4.5 EN1420 Composition II+ 4.5 ES2555 Survey of Economics+ 4.5 MA1210 College Mathematics I+ 4.5 MA1310 College Mathematics II+ 4.5 PH2530 Physics+ 4.5
General Studies Courses Subtotal 12.0 GS1140 Problem Solving Theory+ 4.5 GS1145 Strategies for the Technical Professional+ 4.5 GS2745 Advanced Strategies for the Technical Professional+ 3.0

+In this program, this(these) course(s) may be taught either completely in residence at the school, completely online over the Internet as a distance education course or partially in residence and partially online, as determined by the school from time to time in its discretion. Refer to the Online Course Information section of this catalog for additional information relating to the courses that the school decides to teach all or partially online over the Internet. In order to help students become familiar with fundamentals of taking courses online over the Internet, the school may determine that a portion of the first online course that a student takes in this program must be taken online at the school in a supervised setting.

NOTE: The course descriptions for the courses in this program are in the Course Descriptions section of this catalog. The school may, at any time in its discretion, vary the offering and/or sequence of courses in this program, revise the curriculum content of the program or any course in the program and change the number of credit hours in the program or in any program course.