Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Management

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Master of Science inManufacturing Systems
Management

• For more information contact
• Donald C. Price, Ph.D., P.E.
• Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Director of Special Programs
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Southern Methodist University
• 214-768-xxxx (office)
• dprice_at_smu.edu

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• Purpose of Manufacturing Systems Management
  Program
• Manufacturing is undergoing rapid change. Global
  competition, rapid advances in manufacturing
  technology, integration across the enterprise and
  an expanding role for software are putting
  pressure on manufacturing businesses from the
  Fortune 500 to small job shops. Success now
  requires manufacturing professionals with
  up-to-date knowledge and skills in these rapidly
  evolving fields.
• Developed in consultation with business and
  industry leaders and professionals in
  manufacturing, the SMU MSMSM program is unique in
  providing both the latest in technology and the
  broad management skills needed for success in
  todays business. The interdisciplinary program
  prepares manufacturing professionals to lead
  their companies in the integration of the entire
  product commercialization process from concept,
  to design, to manufacturing process development,
  to production, and to distribution. The program
  provides a broad set of business skills to manage
  this integrated process including strategies,
  globalization, project management, and quality.
• The program is built in three parts. The core
  technology courses provide the basic building
  blocks for the modern product realization
  process, the latest computer assisted tools on
  the factory floor and fundamentals of quality
  engineering and management. The management core
  courses provide an introduction to modern
  management, exposure to financial measurement and
  depth in operations management. Each student with
  the assistance of a faculty advisor then has the
  opportunity to select electives best suited to
  their career needs from an approved list of
  specialized electives or other course offerings
  in packaging, mechanical engineering, electrical
  engineering, manufacturing management, and
  engineering management.
• Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems
  Management
• Admission Requirements
• Bachelor of Science in one of the engineering
  disciplines, or in a closely related scientific
  field with a GPA of at least 3.00 on a 4.00 scale
• Degree Requirements
• Thirty-six (36) semester hours (12 courses) for
  students with a non-engineering degree
• Thirty (30) semester hours for students with an
  engineering undergraduate degree
• Core Curriculum
• Degree candidates are required to take the
  following six courses for a total of 18 semester
  hours
• ME 5-7351 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
  SystemsME 5-7352 Modern Manufacturing Methods
  and SystemsME 5-7353 Manufacturing Management
  PracticesME 5-7354 Total Quality ManagementME
  5-7355 Integrated Design and ManufacturingME
  5-7391 Financial Decisions for Manufacturing and
  Engineering or an equivalent level
  finance/accounting course

• Elective Courses
• Degree candidates, dependent on their
  undergraduate background, must take 12 to 18
  semester hours of elective courses. They have the
  flexibility to choose among the courses listed
  below, or with their advisers approval, to
  select other courses offered by the School of
  Engineering or the Edwin L. Cox School of
  Business.
• ME 5-7356 Human Factors in Manufacturing
  DesignME 5-7365 Strategies for Manufacturing
  FirmsME 5-7366 Manufacturing in a Global EraME
  5-7368 Project and Risk ManagementME 5-7369
  Managing Technology and Innovation
• ME 5-7363 Electronic Manufacturing Technology
• Suitable for Undergraduate Electives
• Manufacturing Systems Management courses listed
  in this program are suitable for undergraduate
  senior electives and undergraduates are
  encouraged to enroll. Classes are purposely
  scheduled so that they do not interfere with
  other senior classes
• Distance Learning
• All courses being taught in the Electronic
  Packaging Program are being taught on-campus and
  across the nation in the format of Distance
  Learning. Local students may attend classes on
  campus or elect to receive DVDs by mail and study
  the class material at any time that fits within
  their busy schedules. Busy working professionals
  can take advantage of this flexibility and
  convenience to achieve an advanced education.
  Degree studies may now be balanced against work
  priorities. It is easy to communicate with
  professors via telephone, fax, and email. The
  courses are offered via DVDs mailed to the
  students following the classroom instruction.
  Lecture notes are provided to the student via
  email attachment, so that the notes are available
  when the student views the DVD.
• The degree program totals 30 semester credit
  hours (ten 3-hour courses) with no on-campus or
  thesis requirement. The program is designed to
  further your career goals and is ideally suited
  for military personnel, whether stationed in the
  US or abroad. Additional information may be found
  in the DANTES catalog or online.

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• Core Courses
• Degree candidates are required to take the
  following six courses for a total of 18 semester
  hours
• ME 5-7351 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
  Systems
• Basic concepts and use of computer integrated
  manufacturing. Topics include integration
  approaches for manufacturing, process planning
  and simulation, the production process in
  relation to automated control systems, process
  design for shop oor control of multiple
  interacting processes, distributed network
  process control, real-time aspects, interface
  protocols and languages of production processes,
  computational and data processing methods for
  planning, design, production, and shipping, and
  methods of optimizing output quality, price and
  productivity. Economic justification and the use
  of articial intelligence for planning and process
  control will be examined.
• ME 5-7352 Modern Manufacturing Methods and
  Systems
• Highly successful manufacturing methods and
  systems will be examined. Topics include the
  evolution of manufacturing technology in the
  United States, mass manufacturing, integrated
  manufacturing, distribution and manufacturing
  automation, just-in-time systems, continuous
  improvement, Kaizen, poka yoke and total quality
  management. Modern Japanese manufacturing
  techniques will be examined in depth. The
  underlying concepts and strategic benets of
  flexibility, agility, time-based competition, and
  global manufacturing operation will be covered.
  The course will be presented from the perspective
  of the manufacturing manager.
• ME 5-7353 Manufacturing Management Practices
• New organizational structures, paradigms and
  leadership styles. Problem solving within the
  business context manufacturing strategies for
  optimizing production processes across the
  enterprise. Measuring and reporting business
  performance. Investment decision making under
  conditions of risk and uncertainty. Intellectual
  property strategies, products liability and the
  legal environment. Contemporary practices,
  including self-directed work forces, competitive
  assessment, total productive maintenance,
  managerial and activity-based costing, and other
  topics.
• ME 5-7354 Total Quality Management in
  Manufacturing
• An overall total quality management perspective
  for the design of quality management systems.
  Metrics for cycle time and defects, baselining
  and benchmarking, and House of Quality approaches
  are examined. Managing product quality from
  inception to deployment. Topics include acquiring
  and stabilizing new production processes, data
  collection and analysis for improvement and
  decision making. Purchasing, process control,
  reliability are covered in detail. Taguchi and
  poka-yoke and other practices are examined as
  tools for implementing TQM.
• ME 5-7355 Integrated Design and Manufacturing
• Industrial performance is strongly correlated to
  success in integrating design and manufacturing.
  The interrelationships between the total product
  realization cycle, product generation, and
  manufacturing are examined with the objective of
  improving industrial performance.

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• Manufacturing Systems Management Electives
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• ME 5-7356 Human Factors in Design and
  Manufacturing
• A senior-graduate course that deals with human
  factors or ergonomics relating to designing for
  human use. The lectures cover the empirical and
  analytical aspects of design and manufacturing as
  affected by the need to accommodate human use and
  abilities. Included are topics on visual displays
  of static and dynamic information text, graphics
  symbols codes auditory, tactual, and olfactory
  displays speech and nonverbal communications
  physical work-materials handling motor skills
  hand-tool devices and controls. The workplace
  design, anthropometry, component arrangement in
  space, lighting, sound climate, and motion will
  also be covered.
• ME 5-7365 Strategies for Manufacturing Firms
• Examines the development and implementation of
  strategies for product design and manufacturing
  that best supports the overall strategy of the
  firm. Topics include positioning the product and
  production system in the industry, location and
  capacity decision, implementing manufacturing
  technologies, facilities planning, vertical
  integration, logistics planning, and
  organizational culture. Case studies of
  manufacturing firms are used extensively.
• ME 5-7366 Manufacturing in a Global Era
• This course examines goals and strategies for
  manufacturing operations in the multinational
  environment. Topics include decision making for
  decentralizing and setting up foreign
  manufacturing operations, marketing, sales and
  distribution strategies, RD support, location
  and capacity decisions, implementing new
  manufacturing technologies, facilities planning
  and modernizations, vertical integration,
  outsourcing strategies, logistics planning and
  organizational cultures. Case studies of
  manufacturing firms are used.
• ME 5-7368 Project and Risk Management
• Focuses on specific concepts, techniques and
  tools for managing projects successfully. Network
  planning techniques, resource allocation, models
  for multi-project scheduling, methods of
  controlling costs, determining schedules and
  performance parameters. The basics of risk
  management including hard analysis, risk
  analysis, risk control, and risk nancing are
  covered. The focus of the course is to integrate
  risk assessment with managerial decision making.
  Examples and case studies
• ME 5-7369 Managing Technology and Innovation
• In the face of rapid technological growth and
  innovation, a disciplined management approach is
  necessary to assure a reasonable expectation of
  success. The course examines the factors of
  proper selection, justification, and
  implementation of new technologies within the
  framework of consumer electronics, advanced
  materials, and emerging information capabilities,
  expert systems and machine tool industry. Topics
  include technological forecasting risk and
  uncertainty, and project management.
• ME 5-7363 Electronic Manufacturing Technology
• Topics include an introduction to the
  electronics industry, electronic components, the
  theory and methods of manufacture of solid state
  devices, packaging techniques such as wire
  bonding flip chip and TAB, printed wiring board,
  soldering and solderability, leaded and surface
  mounted components, electro-magnetic
  interference, electrostatic discharge prevention,
  testability and electronic stress screening.

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Manufacturing Systems Management Instructors

• Kevin Cluff, Ph.D.
• University of Maryland
• Abbott Laboratories
• Dallas, TX
• Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Department
• Southern Methodist University
• Dallas, TX
• Gemunu Happawana, Ph. D.
• Purdue University
• Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Department
• Southern Methodist University
• Dallas, TX
• Charles Lovas, Ph.D.
• ???
• Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering

• David Nowacki, MBA and M.S. in Finance
• Louisiana State University
• DJN Investments
• Dallas, TX
• Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Southern Methodist University
• Dallas, TX
• Rod Pipinich, Dr. Engr., P.E.
• Southern Methodist University
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
• Ft. Worth, TX
• Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
• Southern Methodist University
• Dallas, TX
• Nuraj Rajapakse, Ph.D.
• Southern Methodist University
• Lennox Industries

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• Donald C. Price, Ph.D., P.E.
• Director - Electronic Packaging Program
• Donald C. Price, Ph.D., P.E. is Industry
  Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director
  of the Electronic Packaging Program and the
  Manufacturing Systems Management Program within
  the Mechanical Engineering Department. Dr. Price
  was formerly a Principal Engineering Fellow at
  Raytheon Electronic Systems, a military
  electronics contractor. Dr. Price has more than
  32 years experience in the electronic packaging
  industry.
• Dr. Price received the BSME and MSME degrees
  from Southern Methodist University and the PhD
  degree from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Price
  served as a member of the faculty of the
  Mechanical Engineering Department at Southern
  Methodist University from 1965 to 1970 and left,
  as an Associate professor, for a position in
  industry. While employed at Texas Instruments and
  Raytheon, Dr. price served as an Adjunct
  Professor from 1985 until 2006. In December of
  2006, Dr. Price retired from Raytheon and joined
  the Mechanical Engineering Department at SMU on a
  full-time basis.
• While employed at Texas Instruments and
  Raytheon, Dr. Price was responsible for the
  thermal management of a wide range of Raytheon
  products, including airborne missile systems,
  airborne- and ground-based electro-optics
  systems, and phased-array radar systems. This
  activity involved thermal model simulations of
  military systems and the computer-aided design of
  coldplates and heat exchangers. The work also
  includes the thermal design of airborne
  electronic pods cooled by vapor-cycle or
  air-cycle refrigeration systems.
• Dr. Price has been a member of a number of
  University Industry Advisory Boards, including
  the SMU Mechanical Engineering Department Board
  for Knowledge, where he served as chair of the
  curriculum committee. Dr. Price is a member of
  several technical and professional societies
  ASME, IEEE, AIAA, IMAPS, TSPE, NSPE, and ASEE.
  The ASME North Texas Section (NTS) Electronic and
  Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) selected Dr.
  Price as Engineer-of-the-Year for 1997, and the
  ASME NTS selected him as the Engineer-of-the-Year
  for 1998. The Dallas Chapter of the Texas Society
  of Professional Engineers honored Dr. Price as
  Engineer-of-the-Year for 2001-02. Dr. Price was
  further honored as an ASME Fellow in 2002 and was
  designated as an ASME Life Fellow in 2004. Dr.
  Price served as Chairman of the ASME North Texas
  Section Industry Advisory Board from to 2006.

• At the national level of ASME, he has been a
  member of the K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in
  Electronic Systems since 1996. He served as
  Vice-Chair of this committee from 2000 to 2003
  and as Chair from 2003-05. Dr. Price has been a
  member of the ASME Electronic and Photonic
  Packaging Division (EPPD) since 1996. He became
  a member of the EPPD Executive Committee in 2001
  and served the executive committee as Secretary
  from 2002-03, Treasurer from 2003-04,
  Vice-Chairman from 2004-05, and Chairman for
  2005-06. Dr. Price served the ASME InterPack
  Conference as a Session Chair in 1997, Thermal
  Management Track Chair in 1999, Conference
  Program Chair in 2001, and General Chair of the
  conference in 2003. Dr. Price currently serves as
  a technical reviewer for the ASME J. of Heat
  Transfer and the ASME J. of Electronic Packaging.
• As an employee of Raytheon, Dr. Price has been
  issued five US patents and three foreign patents.
  In addition, he is co-inventor of two US Patent
  applications, which are currently pending. He
  has published numerous technical papers in
  referred journals and conference proceedings, and
  he has made technical presentations at society
  conferences. Dr. Price has made numerous
  presentations on professionalism (Ten Keys to a
  Successful Engineering Career) to a wide variety
  of engineering and student groups. Dr. Price has
  been married to his wife, Barbara, for almost 49
  years, and they consider themselves fortunate to
  have been parents to four children and are most
  proud of their seven grandchildren.

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