IE 1106 - OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course leads students to apply basic industrial engineering tools to healthcare operations, with a focus on healthcare providers. This includes data gathering, process mapping, system analysis and modeling, work sampling, work study, and workflow improvement. This course will provide an overview of the differences between healthcare and other more traditional industrial engineering settings (e.g., manufacturing, retail), and the opportunity to apply industrial engineering techniques, while developing and understanding basic healthcare operations and systems in the United States. (This class is designed to be a complement to IE 1108/2108.)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (IE 1040 and IE 1054) and (ENGR 0021 or ENGR 0020 or IE 1070); PROG: Swanson School of Engineering

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