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IE 419 Work Design - Productivity and Safety

Course Description

This course provides industrial engineers with additional tools to better design jobs and the workplace, in terms of productivity while maintaining the health and safety of the worker.

 

Current Course Offering Schedule via C&DE

Summer 2008: This course is designed for Independent Learning with no fixed daily time schedule or meeting location. But it does have weekly homework, lab activities, and exams with scheduled start and end dates.

Start Date: May 19, 2008

End Date: August 15, 2008

 

Course Instructor:

Dr. Andris Freivalds

Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

213 Leonhard Building

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-863-2361

Fax: 814-863-4745

email: axf@psu.edu

Faculty Web Page

 

PSU Course Catalog Description

I E 419 WORK DESIGN - Productivity and Safety (3) Methods improvement, physical work design, productivity, work measurement; principles and practice of safety. Prerequisite: I E 327
 

Required Course Textbook

"Methods, Standards and Work Design"

B. W. Niebel and A. Freivalds

11th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003

ISBN 0-07-246824-6

 

The enrollment process is:

  1. Contact the the Office of Continuing and Distance Education for admission into the course at 814-865-7643.

  2. Complete the registration process. See the Registration Page.

 

Important Dates for Current Offering

First day of instruction

May 19, 2008

End of course

August 15, 2008

 

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