MARSHALL UNIVERSITY GRADUATE COLLEGE

College Of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE)

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia 25755-2586

 

ENGINEERING:   ENGR 610

“APPLIED STATISTICS”

 

Course Time: Spring 2003, Wednesday Evenings; 6:00 to 9:00 P.M.

                                                Shawnee State College, Portsmouth, Ohio

 

Course Instructor:     William S. (Bill) O’Brien, Ph.D., P.E.

                                                5313 Glow Drive, Cross Lanes, West Virginia 25313-1104

                                                Telephone: (304) 776-5685;    E-Mail:

 

Marshall University Contact Person:          

                                                            Dr. Anthony B. Szwilski, Chair

                                                            Division of Environmental Science & Safety Technology

                                                            Marshall University

                                                            Room 112, Gullickson Hall

                                                            18th Street and 3rd Avenue

                                                            Huntington, WV    25755-2586

                                                                                       Telephone:     304-696-5457

                                                                                       FAX: 304-696-5454

                                                                                       E-Mail:          szwilski@Marshall.edu

 

Required Textbook:

                        Applied Statistics For Engineers And Scientists:

                                    Using Microsoft Excel® and MINITAB®

                                                David M. Levine, Patricia P. Ramsey & Robert K. Smidt

                                                Prentice-Hall; Upper Saddle River, NJ; 2001 (ISBN 0-13-488801-4)

 

Tentative Composition Of Course Grade:

                                                                        Homework                   20%

                                                                        Exam 1             20%

                                                                        Exam 2             20%

                                                                        Exam 3             20%

                                                                        Final Project                 20%

 

Homework and Exams:

            Contact the instructor for permission to hand in homework late

                        or to take an exam at a different time than the scheduled exam date and time.

            Students may work together on homework assignments, but each student must

                        turn in the assignments on separate sheets of paper with sufficient work shown

                        so it can be graded independently.

            Each student must prepare and perform his/her own independent “Final Project”.


 

Tentative Outline Of Lectures

 

                                                                                                                                                                                             Chapter

                                                                                                                                                                                                In Text

Wed., Jan.. 22              A.        Introduction; Describing Experimental Data                   1, 2 & 3

 

Wed., Jan.  29              B.         Discrete & Continuous Probability Distributions              4 & 5

 

Wed., Feb. 5                C.        Estimates of the Mean; Confidence Limits                           8

 

Wed., Feb. 12 D.        Hypothesis Testing - I                                                                    9

 

Wed., Feb. 19              E.         Hypothesis Testing - II                                                                      9

 

Wed., Feb. 26                                      *** IN-CLASS EXAM ONE ***

 

Wed., Mar.  5              F.         Design of Experiments - I (Guest Lecturer - JLH*)                               10

 

Wed., Mar. 12 G.        Design of Experiments - II (Guest Lecturer - JLH*)                           11

 

Wed., Mar. 19                         ***   MID-SEMESTER BREAK   ***

                                                   (Will Be Used As A Makeup Class If A Previous Class Has

                                                                                                           To Be Canceled Because Of Bad Weather)

 

Wed., Mar. 26 H.        Modeling, Response Surfaces  (Guest Lecturer - JLH*)           Handout

 

Wed., Apr.  2                                        *** IN-CLASS EXAM TWO ***

 

Wed., Apr.  9               I.          Simple Linear Regression                                                              12

 

Wed., Apr. 16              J.          Multiple Linear Regression                                                 13

                                                            (Turn in “Project Outline”)

 

Wed., Apr. 23              K.        Control Charts - I                                                                          6

 

Wed., Apr. 30              L.         Control Charts - II                                                              7

                                                            (Turn in “Final Project Report”)

 

 

Wed., May 7                                        ***  IN-CLASS FINAL EXAM ***

 

                                                *  (Guest Lecturer - James L. Hansen)

 


ENGR 610: “APPLIED STATISTICS”

 

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN PROJECT

 

 

            Design, run and evaluate a set of experiments designed to study the effects of at least two (and preferably three) variables on a measurable response.

 

            On or before April 16th, hand in a written outline (1 to 2 pages) of your proposed project describing the project situation and your plan-of-attack.

 

            On April 30th, hand in a written report of your work. The report should contain;

                                                Summary

                                                Introduction/Background/Objective

                                                Experimental Approach

                                                Presentation and Discussion of Results

                                                Conclusions and Recommendations

                                                References/Bibliography (if appropriate)

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION FOR THOSE STUDENTS

 WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER

 

            As a registered student of Shawnee State College you are entitled to use the student computer facilities on the College campus. If you have already familiar with the computer facilities, you may go ahead and use the computers when the computer room is open.

 

            If you have not used these College facilities, ask for assistance from the lab assistants. When you do so, be ready to show certification that you are a currently registered student in Shawnee College.