COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE: DESIGN OF ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS

DEPARTMENT: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
CODE: IIND 4213
Fall 2014
W/F 17:00 18:30

Instructor: Professor D. C. Montgomery

Course email account: IEE572@asu.edu

Local Coordinator: Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei
Teaching assistant: Isabel Namen (mi.namen36@uniandes.edu.co)
Office ML 752

Please contact the TA for any questions regarding the course material, exams or projects.

Complimentary class: Wednesdays 17:00 - 18:30, AU-205, starting August 6
th


Textbook and other required materials:
Design and Analysis of Experiments, 8
th
edition, by D.C. Montgomery, John Wiley &
Sons, New York, 2012
Student Solutions Manual for the textbook

We will use both the student version of Design-Expert V7 or V8 software and the current
version of JMP (V10, although older versions V9 and V8 are acceptable). You will need
one of these software packages.

Some of these materials may be obtained either from the bookstore or directly from the
publisher. The ISBN number for the textbook is 978-1118-14692-7.

Be sure that you have the correct version of the text; older editions and international
(usually softcover) editions have substantial differences from the required text. Wiley
usually offers bundles that include the textbook, the student solutions manual and
Design-Expert.

Alternatively, you can purchase only the textbook and the student solutions manual from
Wiley and obtain JMP software through ASU. The university has a license for this
software that allows you free access.

About the Course
This is a basic course in designing experiments and analyzing the resulting data. It is
intended for engineers, physical/chemical scientists and scientists from other fields such
as biotechnology and biology. The course deals with the types of experiments that are
frequently conducted in industrial settings. The prerequisite background is a working
knowledge of statistical methods. A formal course in engineering statistics at the level of
IEE 380 is the official prerequisite, but this specific course isnt essential. You will need
to know how to compute and interpret the sample mean and standard deviation, have
previous exposure to the normal distribution, be familiar with the concepts of testing
hypotheses (the t-test, for example), constructing and interpreting a confidence interval,
and model-fitting using the method of least squares. Most of these ideas will be reviewed
as they are needed.

The course objective is to learn how to plan, design and conduct experiments efficiently
and effectively, and analyze the resulting data to obtain objective conclusions. Both
design and statistical analysis issues are discussed. Opportunities to use the principles
taught in the course arise in all phases of engineering and scientific work, including
technology development, new product design and development, process development,
and manufacturing process improvement. Applications from various fields of
engineering (including chemical, mechanical, electrical, materials science, industrial,
etc.) will be illustrated throughout the course. Computer software packages (Design-
Expert, JMP) to implement the methods presented will be illustrated extensively, and you
will use these packages for homework assignments and the term project. Most problems
are too tedious to work manually.

All experiments conducted by engineers and scientists are designed experiments; some of
them are poorly designed, and others are well-designed. Well-designed experiments
allow you to obtain reliable, valid results faster, easier, and with fewer resources than
with poorly-designed experiments. You will learn how to plan, conduct and analyze
experiments efficiently in this course. A well-designed experiment can lead to reduced
development lead time for new processes and products, improved manufacturing process
performance, and products that have superior function and reliability.

The course schedule and outline contains assigned reading topics from the textbook and
suggested homework problems. I dont collect or grade homework. Many of the
assigned problems are worked in the student solutions manual. Please contact me or the
course TAs if you have difficulty getting the correct answer or if you dont understand
the details of problem solution. The textbook contains a lot of worked examples. Making
sure that you understand how those problems were solved is a good starting point for
study. Please stay current with the lecture, reading material and homework falling
behind can have significantly bad consequences.

In addition to the textbook reading assignments you may also want to read some of the
supplemental text material for each chapter. This material is found on the World Wide
Web page for the book maintained by the publisher, John Wiley & Sons. See the text
Preface for more details. The JMP and Design-Expert computer software packages can
be used to solve most of the problems in the textbook.







Course Outline and Schedule

Class Date Topic Text Reference Suggested
Exercises
1 7/30 Introduction to DOX, begin
review of basic statistical
concepts
Chapters 1 & Chapter
2 (Sections 2.1
through 2.4)
1.1, 1.5, 1.6
2 8/1 Continue statistics review; the t-
test and confidence intervals
2.1, 2.5,
2.6, 2.10,
2.20, 2.21,
2.27
3 8/6 Introduction to the analysis of
variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 3 (Sections
3.1, 3.2, and 3.3)
3.3, 3.10,
3.12, 3.18,
3.19
4 8/8 Some practical aspects of
planning experiments before
this lecture view the video on
planning experiments that is on
Blackboard
Suggested reading:
Coleman, D. E. and
Montgomery, D. C. (1993),
Planning for a Designed
Industrial Experiment,
Technometrics 35(1), pp.
1-12 (also on Blackboard).
Also see the supplemental
text material for Chapter 1

5 8/13 More about ANOVA; multiple
comparisons, residuals and
model adequacy checking
Sections 3.4, 3.5, and
3.6, 3.8

6 8/15 More about ANOVA; checking
model assumptions, the Box-
Cox method
Chapter 15, Section
15.1.1
3.26
7 8/20 Choice of sample size in
designed experiments
Section 3.7
8 8/22 The randomized complete block
design (RCBD)
Chapter 4 (Section
4.1)
4.1, 4.4,
4.7, 4.8
9 8/27 RCBDs, Latin squares, etc. Section 4.2 4.21, 4.23
10 8/29 Introduction to factorial designs Chapter 5 (Sections
5.1, 5.2, and 5.3)
5.2, 5.7, 5.8
11 9/3 Factorials, continued
First Project Report
(Proposal, steps 1-3) Due
Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 5.19, 5.23
12 9/5 2
k
factorial designs, introduction Chapter 6 (all
sections)
6.1, 6.5
13 9/10 Exam 1 6.6
14 9/12 2
k
factorial designs, continued 6.18, 6.19,
6.26, 6.27
Class Date Topic Text Reference Suggested
Exercises
15 9/17 2
k
factorial designs, continued 6.31
16 9/19 Blocking and confounding in
the 2
k

Chapter 7 (Sections
7.1 through 7.6)
7.1, 7.4,
7.7, 7.9

17 9/24 Fall Break no class
18 9/26 2
k-p
fractional factorial designs,
introduction
Chapter 8 8.3, 8.4,
8.6
19 10/1 2
k-p
fractional factorial designs,
continued
8.24
20 10/3 2
k-p
fractional factorial designs,
continued; Second Project
Report Due
8.28
21 10/8 2
k-p
fractional factorial designs,
continued
8.39, 8.43,
8.49
22 10/10 2
k-p
fractional factorial designs,
continued
Chapter 11 (Sections
11.1 through 11.4)
11.8
23 10/15 Response surface methods and
designs (an overview)

24 10/17 Exam 2
25 10/22 Computer experiments Chapter 11, Section
11.5

26 10/24 Random factors in factorial
experiments, mixed models
Section 13.1, 13.2,
13.3, 13.5, 13.6
13.1, 13.3
27 10/29 Random factors in factorial
experiments, mixed models
13.6,
13.10
28 10/31 Nested and split-plot designs

Chapter 14, Sections
14.1, 14.2 and 14.3
14.1, 14.3
29 11/5 Nested and split-plot designs Chapter 14, Sections
14.4 and 14.5
14.19
30 11/7 Thanksgiving no class
31 11/7 Nested and split-plot designs
32 11/12 Nested and split-plot designs
Term Projects Due

Final exam: November 14
th


Problem solving class:

(Wednesday 17:00-18:20 Room: AU 205)

Each week the teaching assistant will assign a selection of problems (uploaded on
SicuaPlus). The students are expected to turn in the solution to these problems in the
following complementary class as part of their evaluation for Homework Assignments
(20%). During the complimentary classes the TA will respond to questions regarding
these problems, will resolve any doubts about the videos and some additional exercises
may be explained.

Grading
Your grade in the course will be determined by the two exams (20% each), the final exam
(20%), the term project (20%) and assigned homework problems in the problem solving
sessions (20%). The final grade of the course will be approximated to the nearest two
decimal digits, e.g. 3.925 yields a final grade of 3.93.

Exams
Each exam includes questions of every topic seen up to the date of presentation, except
for the final exam which is cumulative. During each exam the only material that can be
consulted is the book and consulting any other element will be considered as fraud and
will be managed according to the university regulations. Calculators can be used in the
exams, however they cannot be programmable.

Term Project
The term project is performed in teams of up to three people. The project consists of
planning, designing, conducting and analyzing an experiment, using appropriate DOX
principles. Two written interim project reports are required, along with a final written
project report. The dates these items are due are on the course outline above.

The context of the term project experiment is limited only by your imagination. In
previous classes, students have conducted experiments directly connected to their own
research projects. The project is a nice way to get extra-mileage from this course; it can
help you finish your research sooner. For industrial participants or those with an
internship in industry, a project that you are involved with at work is a good possibility. If
all else fails, you could conduct a household experiment (such as how does varying
factors such as type of cooking oil, amount of oil, cooking temperature, pan type, brand
of popcorn, etc. affect the yield and taste of popcorn). However, Ive seen just about all
the possible popcorn (and catapult and paper airplane) experiments than can be run, and
Im looking for a little variety in my life, so lets be creative.

The major requirement is that the experiment must involve at least three design factors.
Each of the interim reports requires information about the problem, the factors, the
responses that will be observed, and the specific details of the design that will be used.
You will be given feedback on these reports that should help you in completing the final
experiment and the analysis, and preparing the final report. Some of these projects may
be selected for class discussion/presentation, if time permits.

The textbook web site has several examples of term projects from previous classes. These
will give you a good idea about the types of experiments that have been conducted by
previous groups of students, and how their reports were prepared. I would like to
include some of your projects on the website, and I hope that you will be willing to
donate your project.