Evaluation of Engineering Data is the applied statistics course of an industrial engineering programme. The statewide description is brief — “analysis of industrial data and subsequent characterization of industrial processes” — and that brevity is itself informative: the course is defined by what it is for rather than by a topic list.
What it is for is the rest of the degree. Quality control, simulation and operations research all assume that a student can fit a distribution, test a hypothesis and read a regression. This is where that happens, on industrial data rather than textbook data.
⚠ It is carried by FIU alone at 3 credits; UF carries ESI3215C, Data Analysis for Industrial Applications, at 4 credits.
Named on the Industrial Engineer career path. It is preparation rather than a destination — but it is the preparation that decides whether the quality, reliability and analytics work later in the degree is understood or merely performed.
This course is offered by Florida International University and by no other Florida public institution. Two things follow, and both matter more than they sound.
First, this guide describes that institution’s course, not a statewide consensus, because there is no consensus to describe. Second, the statewide SCNS record was almost certainly written by the same institution — so where the two agree, that is one source quoted twice rather than independent corroboration. Nothing here should be read as more strongly established than a single department’s practice.
⚠ On transfer, expect to send the syllabus. A receiving institution that does not offer the number has nothing to match against, so the decision will be made on content and hours. UF’s ESI3215C is the nearest equivalent and carries an extra credit.
The statewide record gives the prerequisite as MAC 2312 (Calculus II). FIU’s own catalogue gives it as MAC 2311 or MAC 2281, or instructor permission — Calculus I, or the business-calculus alternative.
Take the institution’s own requirement as operative, since it is the institution that enforces registration. The discrepancy is worth knowing because a student planning from the state record would delay this course by a term for no reason.
ESI3215C at UF carries 4 credits against FIU’s 3. The C indicates an integrated laboratory or computing component. ⚠ Check the credit value against your degree audit if you are moving between them — a one-credit difference in a tightly budgeted engineering programme surfaces at the final audit.
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