JordanUniversityofScienceandTechnology

FacultyofEngineering
DepartmentofIndustrialEngineering

COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title Design of Engineering Experiments
Course Number IE 710
Credit Hours 3
Section 1
Lecture Time Sunday 2:30 PM 5:30 PM
Classroom E2115
Semester First Semester 2017/2018

CONTACT INFORMATION
Instructor Dr. Omar Bataineh
Office Room IE Head Office
Office Phone 22548
E-mail omarmdb@just.edu.jo

OFFICE HOURS
Sunday 10:30 AM 11:30 AM
Monday 10:30 AM 11:30 AM
Tuesday 10:30 AM 11:30 AM
Wednesday 10:30 AM 11:30 AM
Thursday 10:30 AM 11:30 AM

COURSE TEXTBOOK
Textbook Design and Analysis of Experiments
Author(s) D. C. Montgomery
Publisher Prentice Hall
Year 2001
Edition 5th
 SUGGESTED REFERENCES
1- C. R. Hicks and K. V. Turner, Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments, Latest
Edition, Oxford University Press
2- R. O. Kuehl, Design of Experiments: Statistical Principles of Research Design and Analysis ,
Latest Edition, Duxbury Press
3- P.G. Mathews, Design of Experiments with MINTAB, ASQ Quality Press, 2004
4- J. Antony, Design of Experiments for Engineers and Scientists, Butterworth-Heinemann,
2003
5- C. F. Jeff Wu and M. Hamada, Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design
Optimization 1st Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2000

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course introduces the basic concepts and analysis techniques in the design of
engineering experiments to help students understand:
1. How to run simple comparative experiments
2. The analysis of variance concept
3. Randomized complete block design (RCBD)
4. Some useful designs such as the Latin square and Graeco-Latin square designs
5. Blocking and confounding in factorial designs
6. Fractional factorial designs
7. Nested and split-plot designs
8. Regression models
9. Covariance analysis
10. How to use latest software programs in design of experiments such as Minitab
 COURSE OUTLINE

Subject Textbook's Chapter

Syllabus NA
Introduction 1
Simple Comparative Experiments 2
Experiments With A Single Factor: ANOVA 3
Randomized Blocks, Latin Squares, And Related
4
Designs
Introduction To Factorial Designs 5
Midterm Exam November 19
The 2k Factorial Design 6
k
Blocking And Confounding In The 2 Factorial
7
Designs
Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs 8
Experiments with random factors 12
Nested and split-plot designs 13
Other design and analysis topics 14
Project Presentations December 17

GRADING POLICY

Midterm Exam 30%

Team Project 20%
Final Exam 50%

EXAM NOTES

i- All exams are open-book.

ii- Exam papers must be returned to your instructor at the end of the lecture during which
they are delivered to you.
 COURSE PROJECT

The course project is about showing how Design of Experiments (DOE) can be used to address a
real life problem such as the flight distance of a plane. The objective is to select a suitable
design for a paper plane, then identify the critical parameters and their optimal conditions for
your selected design. This requires each student to:

i. Work in a team of three students (no individual work will be accepted)

ii. Teams must report the names of their members on a paper and submit it to ME in class on
November 19, 2017 (Anyone not signed yet will lose 5 points from his project grade)

iii. On December 17, the presentations will begin. The teams will be selected by ME
randomly. If any selected team was found as not ready may not be given a second chance.
If given a second chance, this will lead to deducting 5 points from all team members for
each time they decline to present
iv. Each team must provide a printed handout of his presentation slides (2 slides per page)
on the day of the presentation and keep a softcopy of it on the classrooms computer

v. As for the presentation, summarize your work using PowerPoint. This presentation
should consist of the following parts (as a minimum): Title page, Outline, Problem
Statement, Introduction, Section(s) showing the calculations and results, Conclusion,
References

vi. All team members must participate in the presentation (e.g. one for introduction, one for
calculations, and one for results and conclusions). Not all students on a team may get the
same grade.

vii. A prototype of your optimal paper plane must be introduced!