Topic : Human factors engineering

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IEGR 204 – INTRODUCTION TO IE AND COMPUTERS

Research Assignment #2 Literature Critique (Due on Friday, 3/15/19 by

4:00 pm via Bb only)

Write a one-page literature critique on the individually assigned IE topic

shown in the table below. You must use ONE peer-reviewed refereed journal

article for this assignment.

Submission Instructions:

You must submit the literature critique in both MS Word .doc/.docx and .pdf

formats only. Also, you must also submit the single .pdf file of your peer-

reviewed refereed journal article. Please do so any time BEFORE and UP TO

the final due date and time via Bb only such that you do not miss the cutoff

time. It will not be accepted beyond the due date under no circumstances (i.e.,

no excuses or reasons will work, just do it early!)

Formatting Instructions:

The literature critique is a brief summary of one article from a ‘peer-reviewed

refereed’ journal. A critique must be word-processed, single spaced, and one

full complete page in full justification form. Also, you must have a margin

size of 1.00 inch on all sides (i.e., where the top, left and rights sides are even)

of your submitted assignment. Occasionally, your article may not fully reach

the bottom margin due to the writing of your critique; thus, if this occurs, you

must not leave more than a 1.5” margin at the bottom in any case. If

necessary, write a longer summary! The only accepted font size must be 12

pt and Times New Roman font type is required. The paper should contain 4-

5 well-written paragraphs with proper grammar and spelling. In the final

paragraph, briefly discuss something from the article that really impressed

you. Only the last paragraph can be written from the first person point of

view, but not in any other location of the literature critique should 1st or 3rd

person be used (i.e., do not use ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘I’, etc.). For rules regarding

multiple authors, please refer to the appropriate examples and websites

indicated on the next pages.

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At the top of the second page, please write the following information:

Name: John/Jane Doe (but please use your name here)

Class: IEGR 204.001

Date: 3/15/19

Assignment Name: (Put your IE topic here)

A proper APA bibliographic citation reference MUST be used for this paper.

This reference should also appear on the second page of the paper below the

‘Assignment Name’. Although many reference styles exist, the only style

that will be accepted in this class is the APA-style. The general format is

shown below:

First Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial., & Second Author’s

Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (year of publication). Title of the

article where only the first letter of the first word in title or sub-title as well

as proper nouns and acronyms are capitalized. Name of Journal in Italics,

volume in italics (issue number in parenthesis and not in italics if known),

first page number-last page number.

Pay very close attention to the details of the APA citation format (such as

the location of periods, commas, use of italics, etc.)

Sample citation with two authors:

Pitts, Jr., R.A., & Ventura, J.A. (2009). Scheduling manufacturing cells

using Tabu Search. International Journal of Production Research, 47(24),

6907-6928.

Sample citation with >2 authors:

Jerald, J., Asokan, P., Prabaharan, G., & Saravanan, R. (2005). Scheduling

optimization of flexible manufacturing systems using particle swarm

optimization algorithm. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing

Technology, 25(1), 964-971.

REMEMBER: If more than 2 authors have written the article, ALL authors’

names must be listed in the bibliographical reference as in the example

above.

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For many more examples, please refer to the Purdue OWL website at

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/ and click the

appropriate “Reference List” item on the left column for the type of source

you are using.

For additional referencing help, see the APA Style website and click on the

tutorial at http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

Acceptable Journals – Refereed (examples – this is not an exhaustive list):

International Journal of Production Research

The Engineering Economist

International Journal of Economics

IIE Transactions

Journal of Engineering Education

Journal of Operations Research

Management Science

Operations Research

European Journal of Operations Research

Computers and Operations Research

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Modern Materials Handling

Production Planning and Control

etc…

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Research Assignment #2 Topics for IEGR 204.001:

Topics Student 1. Robotics Coleman, Josiah

2. Drones Kalmia, Blaise

3. Computer Programming with IE Alkhayat, Faisal

4. Human Factors Engineering Yesuf, Abdulllah

5. Ergonomic Design (of workplace/products) Alqarni, Turki

6. Quality Control & Reliability Satchell, Satchell

7. Regression & Forecasting Franklin,Darrion

8. Probability & Statistical Analysis Hitchens, Darren

9. Mechatronics Townsend, Mikal

10. Project Management Brown, Emmanuel

11. Production Planning & Control Derbin, Daniel

12. Operations Management Jones, Aria

13. Supply Chain Management Akinsowon, Saheed

14. Operations Research – Linear Programming Garcia, Kyle

15. Sequencing & Scheduling Anderson, Mikayla

16. Parts/Product Routing Harvey, Jermaine

17. Material Handling Systems McQueen, John

18. Computer-Aided Design Alqarni, Khalid

19. Operations Research – Queueing Theory Wiafe, Dajon

20. Simulation Brown, Collin

21. Engineering Economy Demery, Charles

22. Operations Research – Non-linear Programming Alhajeri, Khalefah

23. Materials Engineering Hamdi, Tariq

24. Engineering Management Dinkins, Zion

25. Manufacturing Processes Fernandez, Mauro

26. Additive Manufacturing (3-D printing) Roane, Jaden

27. Operations Research – Dynamic Programming Alzahrani, Faisal

28. Flexible Manufacturing Systems Walker, Nethania

29. Industrial Safety Alsaidi, Soud

30. Facilities/Plant Layout Steele, Shay

31. Virtual Manufacturing Thomas, Amaya

32. Waste & Environment Management Dillard, Jonathan

33. Thermodynamics Spruill, Saaq

34. Data Mining/Big Data Bello, Abayomi

35. Operations Research – Integer Programming Smith, Timothy

36. Healthcare Systems Alshammari, Amal

37. Energy Systems Arey, Kristen

38. Computer-Aided Manufacturing St Louis, Zakeya

39. Virtual Reality with IE Freeman, Alexander

40. Augmented Reality with IE Scott, Kaila

41. Industry 4.0 Goode, Carlene

42. Operations Research – Game Theory Alqallaf, Hussain

43 Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Manufacturing Harvey, Jayson Created on 3/5/19 and last updated on 3/11/2019 by Dr. Richard Pitts, Jr.