IEE 582 RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY

Spring 2015
Campus and On-line Sections
Instructor: Professor D.C. Montgomery (BYENG 348, 5-3836, e-mail: doug.montgomery@asu.edu).
There is also a TA for this course. Information about TA office hours will be posted on Blackboard.
Office hours: 2:30 3:30 MW, most weeks, other times by appointment
Text: Myers, R.H., Montgomery, D.C., and Anderson-Cook, C.M. (2009), Response Surface
Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments 3rd edition, John Wiley &
Sons, Hoboken NJ
About the Course
This is a second course in design of experiments, at about the level of IEE 572 Design of Engineering
Experiments. The formal prerequisite is IEE 572, although anyone with a working knowledge of factorial
and fractional factorial designs (with emphasis on the two-level system) has adequate background. The
focal point of the course is response surface methodology (or RSM), which is a blend of statistical design
techniques, empirical model-building, and optimization methods. RSM has been applied extensively in
the industrial world for process and product development and optimization. The techniques were initially
developed and applied in the chemical industry during the period from about 1950-1975. Since then,
applications of RSM have expanded to include many other industrial settings.
In addition to the basic methods of RSM, we will discuss mixture or formulation experiments (a special
type of response surface experiment where the factors are the ingredients of a mixture and the response
depends only on the component proportions, not their amounts). We will also discuss robust design
(making products and processes insensitive to eternal sources of variability), including the response
surface approach to robust design.
Modern computer software for implementing these techniques will be illustrated in class, primarily
Design-Expert and JMP.
Course Schedule and Outline
Class

1
2

Date

3
4
5
6
7

1/12/15
1/14
1/19
1/21
1/26
1/28
2/2
2/4

8
9
10
11
12
13

2/9
2/11
2/16
2/18
2/23
2/25

Topic

Recommended
Reading
Chapter 1

Homework
Problems

Chapter 2

2.1, 2.2

Inference and model adequacy checking

Chapter 2

2.4, 2.11, 2.18

Fitting a second-order model

Chapter 2

Method of steepest ascent

Chapter 5

5.1 (a & b), 5.3

Method of steepest ascent

Chapter 5

5.4

Chapter 6, sec.
6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
Sec. 6.3.1

6.4, 6.5

Introduction to RSM
Empirical model building, method of least squares
No Class MLK Day

Analysis of the second-order model, role of contour

plots
Canonical analysis of the second-order model
Sampling properties of response surface results

Sec. 6.4

Method of Ridge Analysis

Sec. 6.5

Multiple response optimization

Sec. 6.6

Multiple response optimization

Sec. 6.6

Experimental designs for fitting response surfaces designs for fitting the first-order model

6.13

Class

Date

14

3/2

15

3/4

16
17

3/9&11
3/16
3/18

18
19

3/23
3/25

20

3/30

21

4/1

22
23
24
25

4/6
4/8
4/13
4/15

26

4/20

27
28
29

4/22
4/27
4/29
5/4

Topic
Experimental designs for fitting the second-order
model: the class of central composite designs,
rotatable designs
Cuboidal designs and the face-centered cube,
blocking in RS designs
Spring Break all week
The Box-Behnken design

Recommended
Reading
Chapter 7, sec.
7.1, 7.2, and 7.3

Homework
Problems
7.1, 7.2, 7.6, 7.7,
7.8

Sec. 7.4

7.22, 7.23

Sec. 7.4

Designs that require a relatively small number of

runs: equiradial designs, the small composite design
and the hybrid design
Mid-Term Exam

Chapter 8, sec.
8.1

8.1, 8.2

General criteria for constructing, evaluating and

comparing RSM designs: design optimality, design
efficiencies, the VDG & FDS plots
Computer-generated designs and their applications
in RSM
Robust parameter design and process robustness
studies
Robust design

Sec. 8.2

8.3

Sec. 8.3 & 8.4

8.8, 8.9, 8.18

Chapter 10

10.1, 10.2

Chapter 10

10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Chapter 10

10.11, 10.17, 10.21

Chapter 11

11.1, 11.2, 11.5

Chapter 12

12.2, 12.3

Chapter 12

12.7, 12.8, 12.9

Robust design
Experiments with computer models
Introduction to experiments with mixtures: the
simplex region and the Scheff polynomials;
Simplex-type designs for exploring the
unconstrained mixture region
Constraints on the component proportions: use of
pseudo-components for lower-bound constraints.
computer generated designs;
Computer-generated mixture designs
Mixture experiments using ratios of components.
Mixture experiments with process variables.
Final Examination 2:40 4:20

Grading: The final grade in this course will be determined by combining the midterm examinations
grade at 40% each, the final examination grade at 40%, and required homework/selected assignments at
20%. The homework assignments for this term will be posted on Blackboard. There will be at least one
homework problem assigned for each chapter covered in the text that you will be required to turn in.

The exams in this course are open book and notes, including the student solutions manual,
and your own problem solutions. No computers of any kind are allowed, including ereaders. You will need a hard copy of the book, since you can't use a computer or ereader during the exam. The exams are paper/pencil exams and on-line students must take
the exam with a proctor. GOEE has requirements for proctors. You will need to be sure
that you have an appropriate proctor in advance of the first exam.
If you will need a proctor please choose a suitable proctor, e.g. a supervisor from work.
Contact GOEE for guidelines in choosing a proctor. You need to fax a proctor form
(available from GOEE) to GOEE as soon as possible, and this form should include your
proctor's contact information. On exam day, GOEE will fax/email a copy of the exam to
your proctor. You and your proctor need to arrange a time on exam day, and you will sit

for the exam on that specified period. The proctor will be physically present during the
exam. Proctors are responsible for emailing/faxing the exam back to GOEE.
Exams are open notes, open books, but computers and other electronic devices are
prohibited in the exam. Only calculators (which cannot do matrix operations) are
allowed.
Please attend to your proctor forms as soon as possible as the first exam will be coming up
soon.
Be sure that you understand the ASU academic integrity policy. I take academic
misconduct very seriously and violators will be reported.