(Industrial Engineering) originated in the United States and is an applied engineering technology discipline developed on the basis of Taylor science. It emphasizes improving productivity in an all-round way, reducing production costs, ensuring product quality, making the system in the best operation state and obtaining huge overall benefits. It is a mainstream science that assists enterprise management, from method engineering, job measurement, job evaluation, salary system and factory design to job research and decision analysis, and even absorbs the research and practical experience of statistical methods and information technology, network planning technology and behavioral science development. The goal of IE is to improve the production management infrastructure of the factory, increase labor productivity, make theory and practice complement each other, ensure management effect, reduce costs, improve economic benefits, and find problems, solve problems and prevent problems based on engineering technology and scientific management skills.
Through study, students can organically combine technology and management, and carry out industrial simplification, specialization and standardization of IE management for enterprises, which can play the role of IE technology management from the formulation and formulation of process operation standards, labor quota hours, on-site management of processes and processes, and even the optimization and improvement of the production management system of the whole company.
Many people confuse IE with enterprise management, which is extremely wrong. It is actually the integration of technology and management. We know that the earliest watch is a mechanical watch, which uses a clockwork-driven timing system. Later, electronic watches appeared in the 1970s, and then electronic and mechanical integration formed today's electronic mechanical watches. This is the simplest example of "mechatronics", the "technology-management integration" of industrial engineering ("technology-management integration")
Industrial engineering has a history of 100 years abroad and is one of the seven major engineering disciplines in the United States. It integrates engineering and management, which greatly promotes the economic and social development of industrialized countries. Industrial engineering is a science about the effective operation of complex systems. It combines engineering technology with management science, and quantitatively analyzes, optimizes and designs practical engineering and management problems in manufacturing, service and other enterprises or organizations from a systematic perspective. It is an independent engineering discipline, aiming at system efficiency and benefit.
The development of industrial engineering discipline in Tsinghua University began in 1990s. The first batch of industrial engineering masters 1993 and undergraduate majors 1997 were approved, and enrollment began. After that, it was approved to award Doctor of Engineering and Master of Industrial Engineering according to the first-class discipline of "Management Science and Engineering". 200 1 10 The Department of Industrial Engineering was formally established, and Professor Savindi of Purdue University in the United States was specially appointed as the first department head and chair professor. From June 5438 to 10, 2004, Professor Savindi successfully completed his first term and continued his second term (2004. 10 to 2007. 10). There are 23 faculty members in the Department of Industrial Engineering, including teachers 18, all of whom are doctors returning from studying abroad or young and middle-aged teachers studying abroad.
Professor Savindi's goal for the Department of Industrial Engineering of Tsinghua University is to build a world-class industrial engineering discipline in a relatively short time. In the past three years, the Department of Industrial Engineering has made great progress.