DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

An important function of this department is to test, orient, and guide the student. Starting in the freshman year the student is advised, by means of psychological tests, as to his fitness for engineering. Later, the Staff Control course offers an opportunity to guide the student in the field of human relationships. Guidance in this field is as important as it is in engineering study.

Many engineering graduates are entering the fields of manufacturing, selling, and administration. These men should have not only a knowledge of the fundamentals of engineering, but also a knowledge of economic theory, business functions, and human relationships. It is also believed that a knowledge of these subjects will be beneficial to those men who remain in the engineering field.

Therefore, in addition to the training in the fundamental principles of engineering, every student in the Newark College of Engineering is required to take all of the courses listed in the Department of Industrial Engineering.

This department serves as a link between industry and the college. It is responsible for the direction and administration of student work in industrial plants and organizations. Beginning in the freshman year, students are interviewed several times to determine their fitness and their preferences regarding placement in industrial plants. Records of these interviews are used in placing students in industrial work and in summer work.

The department arranges for the placement of students in industry and for the details of working plans or programs for each student. After the student is placed, contact with the employer is maintained by frequent visits to the plant. The progress of each student is carefully supervised, and, in cooperation with a representative of the firms, records are kept showing the progress of each student throughout the period of his employment. Students must receive a satisfactory mark in their industrial work before they are eligible for graduation.

The department seeks to give the student effective individual guidance, a gradual, consistent orientation to his professional life, and a keen awareness of human relation values of his obligations as a citizen and a member of society.

The department uses as mediums, certain courses extending over the college career, established psychological tests, supervised industrial placement, personal interviews, thorough treatment of Staff Control, Economics and Management and lectures and group discussions with men prominent in fields connected with this program.

The department also acts as a link between its graduates and industry. It conducts a placement bureau for the purpose of helping the graduates better their employment opportunities.

SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION
in the
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Ind E 11 Principles of Engineering. (The College).

An attempt to interpret to the new student the activities which go to make up his college experience.

The various catalogued subjects are discussed and their values indicated and explained as an integral part of the professional development of an engineer. The why and wherefore of the various courses and their objectives are discussed with the students so that they may have a clear and somewhat definite idea as to the reasons for courses and instruction material.

As the course proceeds extra-curricular activities are considered in their relation to the academic values.

The objective of the course is to give some purposeful direction to the activities of the freshman and to possibly establish some sense of values inherent in his undergraduate work.

The course consists of a series of two-hour discussion periods in subjects carefully and sequentially arranged and definitely scheduled. The discussions are led by members chosen from the entire staff for their particular fitness to explain professional values in terms within the students’ experience.

Ind E 12 Principles of Engineering (The Industry).

A series of discussions centering about personal problems having for its object the preparation of the student for the required industrial experience to follow his sophomore year. Believing that general attitudes, point of view, emotional and personality factors are of the greatest importance in any common enterprise, the discussions are so directed as to clarify some of the common misconceptions concerning modern industrial practice as it touches the individual.

A serious attempt is made to induce the student to undertake some constructive program of personality and character development, to meet the standards required of those who can successfully live and work together. While the work of the previous year has served to explain the internal standards and objectives of the college, this continuation of the course explains the aims, objectives and values inherent in the great industrial laboratory.

Ind E 13 Staff Control.

The subject matter of this course includes those factors which have to do with human behavior and with human relation problems. It deals with the coordination of the young engineer with his environment. Particular attention is given to the professional, economic, social, emotional and moral phases of this correlation.

In the junior year the students discuss twenty-five to thirty books on human relations and subjects which affect human behavior. The subject matter of these books, in outline form, is presented to the class by the students.

Ind E 14 Staff Control.

In the senior year the students discuss problems in human relations. Many of these problems, which are presented in written form by the students, consist of incidents which have taken place in the cooperative firms. Therefore the cooperative firms may be viewed as human relation laboratories, furnishing real and vital problems for the students.

The discussion groups provide an opportunity for the students to discuss and analyze these problems which now face them; and also problems which may face them later in their profession and their every day life.

Ind E 21 Industrial Management.

This course includes a study of the industrial plant, its design, layout, and equipment; organization, production control, time and motion study, standardization, cost finding and engineering economy studies. The object of the course is to present to the students some of the important principles underlying modern management methods.

Texts: Alford, “Cost and Production Handbook”; Grant, “Problems of Engineering Economy”.

Ind E 22 Industrial Management.

This course is similar to Ind E 21 but is less extensive in nature.

Text: Kimball, “Principles of Industrial Management”.

Ind E 31 Economics.

This course in the fundamentals of Economics is presented from the business man’s point of view and includes many concrete examples and illustrations from the world of business. Some of the subjects discussed are economic concepts, the nature of production, organization of modern business, size of business units, specialization, process of exchange, money, business cycles, monopolies, international trade, business risks, distribution of income.

Text: Bye, “Principles of Economics”.

Ind E 41 Accounting.

This course is intended to give the engineering student the fundamentals of accounting. Only enough general bookkeeping and accounting is supplied to make the course practical and to provide a proper groundwork. Emphasis is placed on the preparation and analysis of statements, the calculation of fixed assets, and control features.

Text: Reitell and Van Sickle, “Accounting Principles for Engineers”.

Ind E 51 Business Law.

An elementary study of the principles of the Common Law as applied to business relations. Students are required to study definite parts of the text in preparation for each meeting of the class. The class time is divided between discussion of the subject matter and written quizzes. The subjects given particular attention are: The definition of “contract”, and a detailed study of each element of the definition; agency; sales; partnerships and (briefly) corporations; negotiable instruments; patents, copyrights and trade-marks; master and servant; damages; evidence.

A practicing patent attorney gives special lectures on the subject of patents.

Text: Harding and Canfield, “Legal and Ethical Phases of Engineering”.

Ind E 60 Cooperative Work.

This is industrial placement offered to selected groups of pre-Junior students who have demonstrated their ability, and have given some indication that they will capitalize the experience.

The placement is designed to furnish the laboratory work for the courses in Staff Control, Management, and Economics, and to provide general motivation for the professional courses given during the last two years. The student gains the experience of adjusting himself to a new and usually different environment, learns at first-hand some of the factors which affect a young man’s progress in industry, and has the opportunity to observe the practical application, and the limitations, of some of his academic subjects.

The College maintains close contact with the industrial firm and obtains frequent reports on the student’s personal qualities. These reports are discussed with the student in individual consultations.

Ind E 61 Cooperative Work.

This work is similar to Ind E 60. It is offered to selected groups of pre-Senior students.