INDUSTRIAL AND ROBOTICS ENGINEERING
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INDUSTRIAL AND ROBOTICS ENGINEERING (IRE) IKECHUKWU P. OHU, Ph.D., Program Director FACULTY: Associate Professor: Ikechukwu P. Ohu, Assistant Professor: Ki-Hwan Bae, Adjunct Faculty: Ryan Bookhamer, Mahsa Shateri. Lab Manager: Kevin Mosgrave. Lab Engineer: Nick Devine Overview of the Industrial and Robotics Engineering Program Industrial and robotics engineers learn to apply human and material resources to efficiently and profitably create products or provide services. Students in Gannon University’s industrial and robotics engineering (IRE) program can choose one of the following five concentrations. • • • • • •
Economics and financial systems Healthcare systems International industrial engineering Robotics and production engineering Supply chain and logistics systems Ergonomics and human factors
The IRE program allows students to collaborate with other areas on campus, such as mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, the Dahlkemper School of Business, the Small Business Development Center, and the Erie Technology Incubator. This program will teach students to become leaders as they learn key components of the field, such as designing efficient and safe working environments. Science, mathematics, business, and engineering methods culminate in industrial and robotics engineering, where students will learn to apply them to complex systems and processes. The IRE curriculum is designed to ensure that students acquire knowledge and skills in a wide variety of engineering and management disciplines as well as robotics. Because IRE is a wideranging discipline with numerous career options, students can choose where they want to work, and their skill sets will be directly applicable. Our industrial and robotics engineering program remain ahead of the curve with participation in the constant evolution of the technology landscape. You will be part of the team contributing meaningfully to defining the future of technology and creating innovative products and process designs. Industrial and Robotics Engineers (IREs) (a) Find ways to design effective work systems and eliminate wastefulness in a broad range of processes; (b) Devise efficient ways to improve productivity in systems involving the interplay of workers, machines, materials, information, and energy in the creation of a product or the provision of a service; (c) Device ways to do things better; (d) Find ways that are smarter, faster, safer, and easier, so that companies become more efficient, productive, and profitable, and employees have work environments that are safer and more rewarding; (e) Automate manufacturing and service processes to increase production and precision, and (f) Build, configure and test robots for different applications; (g) Studies human-machine/human-robot ‘working relationships’ in an integrated work environment to determine and implement measures that ensure the comfort of the human while at the same time, improving productivity.
