The Industrial Engineering and Systems Management graduate program provides advanced analytical as well as technological knowledge in various fields of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, mathematics and information technology, systems design and management as well as related business aspects. This is to provide awareness of research in engineering sciences, and to encourage the development of inventiveness while searching for engineering solutions to technical problems. The program includes a number of elective courses, which permit the students to specialize in a particular area. The program offers a comprehensive and integrated framework of required skills of industrial engineers, leaders and managers that are becoming increasingly valuable to the employers and the society, especially in areas of: Operations Research, Production and Operations Planning, Plant Design, Manufacturing Systems, Ergonomics and Occupational Biomechanics, Quality Control and TQM, Reliability, System Modeling and Simulation, Project Planning and Management, Classical and Heuristic Optimization, Supply Chain Strategies and Logistics, Productivity Enhancement Methods.
Vision
The vision of the Industrial Engineering and Systems Management department is to be internationally recognized for leadership and excellence in teaching, research and cooperation with manufacturing and service industries with its innovative structure of interdisciplinary trends of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, mathematics and information, business, and, systems design and management.
Mission
- To offer high quality, up-to-date, and internationally recognized educational programs where fusion of science, technology, and mathematics -as a liberal art- are supported by active researchers, a wealth of campus resources and an open minded, multi cultural environment.
- To nurture graduates rational thoughts, intellectual capabilities and/or engineering and design knowledge foundation, to transform them into individuals who can find and solve problems, conduct research and contribute to society.
- To provide faculties with adequate environment to conduct strong research activities.
- To ensure strong cooperation with local, regional and international industry and organizations.
Objectives
- The department will be able to generate innovative ideas, products and services, obtain patents, and start spin-off companies.
- The department will be able to establish and operate state of the art research laboratories and centers, which will produce internationally, recognized scientific publications.
- The department will organize international symposia, workshops and join in international conferences in areas of targeted research lines.
- Graduates will be able to identify, define and implement effective solutions to realistic problems in the manufacturing and service systems by applying industrial engineering tools, contemporary knowledge and cutting-edge technologies.
- Graduates will be able to acquire the required skills needed to design integrated systems combining people, machines, information, energy, materials and financial resources.
- Graduates will be able to ethically communicate and work effectively and efficiently as individuals and/or team members.
- Graduates will be able to assume leadership roles in their profession and communities.
- Graduates will be able find problems, identify a research question, review literature, establish hypotheses, use research technology, collect and analyze data, interpret results, draw conclusions and recommend further research.
- Graduates will be able to write research papers in the appropriate scientific style.
The program is supported by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology -TiTech- (http://www.me.titech.ac.jp/). The curriculum is the result of mutual collaboration between the two sides. A number of eminent Japanese professors teach different courses and help in bridging the two cultures and civilizations in order to build a unique institutional core; also, TiTech visiting professors join the supervision of MSc and PhD students and the program research activities.
Laboratories
The Industrial Engineering and Systems Management program is rapidly building its research and educational laboratories; supported by state of the art computing facilities including computers, servers and advanced graphics workstations, to start with, the program is currently in the process of setting up the following laboratories:
- Supply Chain Networks Design and Logistics Laboratory
- TransCADط¢آ® Spatial Decision Support System
- ArcGISأ¢â€آ¢ Geographic Information System
- Rockwell ARENA ط¢آ® Discrete Event Simulation
- Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping
- 3D laser scanner
- 3D Color Solid Printer
- CATIAط¢آ®
- Solid Worksط¢آ©
- ANSYS
- Facilities Design Laboratory
- Autodeskط¢آ® Factory Design Suite
- FactoryCADط¢آ©
- FactoryFLOWط¢آ©
- Micro Machining Laboratory
- CNC laser Micro Machining System
General and common equipment and laboratories
Research workshop
- CNC Turn أ¢â‚¬â€œMill center.
- Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM).
- Metrology instruments.
General Optimization and Mathematics Software
- LINGOط¢آ© Optimization.
- IBM ILOG OPL-CPLEXط¢آ©
- Matlabط¢آ®
- Mathematica
- MS Excel Risk Solver Platform
Future laboratories include Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Human Factors and Work Design Laboratory, Motion Analysis Laboratory, and CAD/CAM laboratory, Modular Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS).