Spring 2027

Industrial Engineering Design II

Industrial Engineering Design II is a team-based course where students collaborate with external clients to design or redesign systems/processes using ISyE methodologies for analysis, solution development, and implementation planning.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 98.2% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=72 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Employ design thinking, and engage the client in the creative process for problem space exploration and idea generation

  • Utilize a structured modeling, analysis and decision‐making framework to design a new system or process, or re‐design an existing one

  • Choose, synthesize and effectively utilize appropriate ISyE methods, concepts, engineering standards, and modeling and analysis tools in all facets of the project lifecycle

  • Adjust and be flexible with design strategy and adapt it suitably to address unanticipated issues during project execution

  • Hone skills in teamwork, oral and written communication, and project management

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Senior standing only,I SY E 313, 320, 323, 350, and PSYCH/​I SY E 349

ISYE 450

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 98.2% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=72 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Real-world design challenges posed by external organizations.
  • System and process design/redesign using Industrial and Systems Engineering knowledge, methodologies, and tools.
  • Design thinking and client engagement for problem space exploration and idea generation.
  • Structured modeling, analysis, and decision-making frameworks for system design.
  • Application of ISyE methods, concepts, engineering standards, and modeling/analysis tools across the project lifecycle.
  • Flexibility and adaptation of design strategies during project execution.
  • Teamwork, oral and written communication, and project management skills.

Skills

  • Team-based project experience addressing real-world design challenges for external clients.
  • Designing or redesigning systems and processes using Industrial and Systems Engineering methodologies for problem analysis, solution development, and implementation planning.
  • Employing design thinking and engaging clients in creative problem space exploration and idea generation.
  • Utilizing structured modeling, analysis, and decision-making frameworks for system design and redesign.
  • Synthesizing and utilizing ISyE methods, concepts, standards, and modeling/analysis tools across the project lifecycle.
  • Adapting design strategies flexibly to address unanticipated issues during project execution.
  • Developing teamwork, oral/written communication, and project management skills.

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 · 0.06 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 450 · Spring 2027

Industrial Engineering Design II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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