0 or 3 credits
Summer 2025 Lecture
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of systems engineering tools and approaches through hands-on problem-solving exercises. Systems Engineering tools/methods are applied to a clinical problem. Upon completion of this course, the participants will have had exposure to system engineering tools and approaches such as process mapping, bottle-neck analysis, queuing, lean engineering, simulation, optimization, dealing with uncertainty, what-if analysis, quality control and performance monitoring techniques. Permission of instructor required.
Learning Outcomes1Discuss the applicability of systems engineering in a healthcare setting.
2Develop familiarity with systems engineering tools and approaches.
3Recognize opportunities for improvement where systems engineering can be employed.
4Identify a specific clinical problem in a real-world setting that can be analyzed using systems engineering.
5Conduct an in-depth analysis of a clinical problem using one of the tools/approaches presented.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.