IE719, CIM System Design

Workgroup for Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing

The objective of this course is to examine tools and techniques for designing and implementing a client/server-based manufacturing system. The design and implementation of a working system is the vehicle used to learn the course material. Students use the College of Engineeering's Eos computing environment to build a working system.

Objective

To provide graduate students in engineering with knowledge about the design and implementation of engineering applications using database technology. Examples will be drawn from manufacturing and production systems.

Focus

The course will focus on using rapid application development (RAD) tools to design and implement database-based applications. This includes:

• the SQL database query language,
• Visual Basic for Applications in database application construction,
• a standard RAD environment and how to access information in a database from it,
• entity/attribute modeling of the database structure,
• anomalies of database structures that create problems for applications,
• modeling of an application system's functionality,
• how to integrate these tools together to design and implement engineering applications.