CHE 440 Industrial Organization and Management

Credit Structure:(3-0)3

 

Catalog Description:

Industrial organization, organization techniques, management, research and development, procurement and contracting, production, marketing, personnel and administration, employer-employee relations, financing, accounting, plant supervision. Special emphasis is given to chemical and related industries and major problems encountered in Turkish industry. ISO 9000, Just-in-time, TQM techniques.

 

Course Objectives:

Course aims to achieve the following:

 

          To know the basic concepts related to companies and how they are organized and the principles

          for choosing the location of a plant and making the layout,

          To be able to plan and control the operations in industry,

          To get familiar with total quality management,

          To know the basic principles of marketing, project management, financial management and human

          resources management,

           To be able to plan effective maintenance in industry,

           To learn industrial safety principles and their related responsibilities,

           To understand the importance of ethics in industry,

           To get familiar with managerial applications and new trends in industry,

           To understand the process of decision making in business life,

           To broaden the engineering students’ knowledge on business life.

           To give the awareness of  importance of learning managerial concepts and new applications

 

Prerequisites:
None

 

Textbook(s):
Turner, C.T., Mize, J.H., Case, K.E., Nazemetz, J.W., ‘Introduction to             Industrial and Systems Engineering’, Prentice Hall

 

Reference:
None

 

Syllabus:

                    Introduction and History ( 1 wk)

                    Company and Organization ( 1 wk)

                    Facility Location and Layout Planning (1 wk)

                    Operation Planning and Control ( 1 wk)

                    Marketing and Distribution (1 wk)

                    Total Quality Management (2 wk)

                    Project Management ( 1 wk)

                    Maintenance Management (1 wk)

                    Financial Management (1 wk)

                    Human Resources (1 wk)

                    Industrial Safety and Ethics in Industry (1 wk)   

                   Other Topics and Recent Trends in Management (1 wk)

 

 

Homeworks, Quizzes, Projects:

3-4 quizzes

 

Computer Usage:

None

 

Laboratory work:

None

 

Category Content:

Mathematics and Basic Sciences:

Engineering Sciences: None

Humanities & Social Sciences: 2 credits

Departmental: 1 credit

 

Instructors:
Ayhan Gerçeker