Spring 2027

Industrial Engineering Design I

Industrial Engineering Design I introduces design tools via experiential learning, including conducting experiments, analyzing real-world data, designing systems, and testing prototypes.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Tony McDonald

The reviewer found the hardest part was figuring out what to do, as directions were unclear, nonexistent, or posted twice with significant differences.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply basic industrial engineering design methods

  • Use appropriate industrial and systems engineering design tools forestablishing solutions to open-ended problems

  • Select the appropriate methods to utilize in order to collect real-world data

  • Observe and collect data relevant to an industrial engineering problem

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Industrial Engineering, (COMP SCI 200, 220, 300, 301, or placement into COMP SCI 300), (I SY E 210,MATH/​STAT 309, 431,MATH 531,STAT 311 or 324) andI SY E 315

ISYE 350 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANTHONY MCDONALD is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 500
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 260
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 601Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 602Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 603Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Tony McDonald

The reviewer described the class as super easy, with no exams, a semester-long project, and presentations that weren't stressful.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 97.4% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tony McDonald

The reviewer found the hardest part was figuring out what to do, as directions were unclear, nonexistent, or posted twice with significant differences.

Past student reviews · Tony McDonald

The reviewer found Tony McDonald easygoing, a positive aspect they noted despite the course's unclear directions.

Topics

  • Experiments, measurements, and real-world data analysis
  • System design and prototype testing
  • Solving open-ended problems with engineering design tools

Skills

  • Applying basic industrial engineering design methods
  • Using industrial and systems engineering design tools for open-ended problems
  • Collecting and observing real-world data for engineering problems

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

6 earlier forecasts · 0.04 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ISYE 350 · Spring 2027

Industrial Engineering Design I

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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