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.