Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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To support Taiwan’s economic development and increase its industrial productivity and competitiveness, the Department Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) was established at NYCU in 1984. Currently, IEM offers four degree programs: the undergraduate program (since 1984), graduate (master) program (since 1987), graduate (doctorate) program (since 1991) and the parttime master program (since 1999).
The role of industrial engineering and management is to optimize the quality and efficiency associated with designing, operating and improving sustainable processes for acquiring, producing, selling and delivering products and services. We commit to deliver quality education and research in the field of IEM. The department seeks to prepare students with knowledge and skills to become IEM professionals who are capable of designing an effective problem-solving model to predict, plan, control, coordinate, improve and integrate limited resources to maximizing business profitability. This department attempts to provide a fruitful learning experience for students to apply IEM theories to practices. The department is prepared to train students with diverse backgrounds and interests.
Industrial engineering and management, an interdisciplinary study, has broad applications to many types of industries and organizations. At NYCU, we focus on four areas: production systems, decision science, human factors engineering and manufacturing engineering.
 Production Systems: Concentrating on the planning and management of the traditional production systems (known as in-house production systems), we also study supply chain and logistics (global production systems) management in response to the global evolution in business models and manufacturing strategies.
 Decision Science: We examine the development of quantitative methods in system design, planning and control. We employ systems analysis, operations research, statistics, simulations and other engineering and scientific methods to improve industry and government decision-making.
 Human Factors Engineering: We conduct human information processing studies with the aim to uncover principles underlying human-machine interaction (HMI) and human errors. We are particularly interested in applications of high-tech products, complex systems (nuclear power plants, healthcare systems, etc.) and automated systems.
 Manufacturing Engineering: We study both traditional manufacturing systems and intelligent manufacturing systems. We combine our interest in system integration, planning and control to optimize their interactions with other management systems.
We emphasize the importance of balance between theories and practices. The main campus of NYCU is located right next door to the Hsinchu Science Park (known as “Taiwan’s Silicon Village”). A large number of the top executives in the companies in “Taiwan’s Silicon Village” are NYCU alumni, and they have formed a close network. The geographic privilege and the close netw

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