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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in industrial engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

*Please Note* Due to the nature of this class, if there is any student that cannot be in person, the class will be completely online. Prerequisites: IE 340 credit is recommended. The purpose of this course is to understand models and theories of job and organization job, to be able to answer the questions ?What makes for a good job?? and ?What makes for a bad job?? Students will be able to apply models and theories of job and organization design to the analysis and redesign of jobs ? to figure out how to improve a ?bad? job, and ideally make it a good one. Finally, we will talk about processes to use to implement job redesigns. The IE 598 offering will include all of the material and assignments as IE 498, in addition to each student developing their own research proposal based on course material.