About Us

introduction

I.Summary

The scope of industrial engineering began with the time and motion study in the beginning of the twentieth century. The research gradually evolved into scientific management, operations research in the mid-twentieth century. Later in the century, due to the need for industrial automation and electronic automation, the research forged ahead into the time of interdisciplinary “Industrial Engineering and Management.”The Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) at National Taiwan University was therefore established in 1994 with focuses on System Integration, System Engineering and System Management. Putting emphases on systems and interdisciplinary research, IIE consists of faculty members from College of Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Management, and other related departments and institutes. IIE currently offers programs in three major fields:

1. Production Systems and Processes

2. Operations Research and Information Systems

3. Industrial Analysis and Technology Trends

II. Faculty

Regular Faculty: 14 professors (including 4 from mechanical engineering department, 2 from electrical engineering department, 1 from computer science and information engineering department, 1 from business administration)
Adjunct Professor: 3 professors
Distinguished Research Chair Professor: 1 member
Visiting Professor: 1 member
Doctorial Instructors: 19 members

III. Teaching and Research Facilities

* Advanced technological industry educational training resources and corporate performance analysis

* Proposal for better system and corporate performance analysis (KAIZEN-suggestion system)

* Advanced technological industry practice of improved total quality management competent abilities analysis

1. Shared Facilities

The facilities are owned by the two independent TCP / IP domain, set up separately in the International Youth Centre (IYC) and College of Engineering Building. Www has built web, mail server, file server, Oracle database server, via fiber, routers, ATM and other broadband network equipment and National Taiwan University’s campus network connectivity, providing the teaching and research by the most advanced computer, Internet and communications environment.

2. Multimedia Video Conference Room

The room is equipped with a single gun LCD projector, electric screen, audio-visual CD-ROM drive, TV, high-power audio equipment, optical projectors, camcorders, and industrial engineering technology and management-related video 80.

3. Multimedia Computer Room

The room is equipped with LCD projector, electric screen, LAN, servers, mainframe, personal computer equipment 18 units, full-color graphics scanner, CD burner, color printer, network laser printer 2, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), and image capture equipment.

4. Integration of Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory

The laboratory supports CAD / CAM / CIM systems technology and network control technology research and teaching, as well as information management systems and object-oriented systems development. Major equipment has video capture card, barcode identification system, 3DStudioMax software, microcomputer control study machines, programmable logic controller PLC, single-chip Analog control module, various types of motors (stepper motor module), mechanical modules (pressure mode Group and mechanical arm), chip burner, Visual Studio, Matlab, EM plant, Rational Rose object-oriented system planning software.

5. Quality and Process Control Research Laboratory and Statistics Data Mining Research Laboratory

The use of statistical theory of the development of sophisticated process control and optimization methods and data mining technology, combined with the latest information technology and industry cooperation in R & D integrated process control system, yield diagnostic systems, biomedical diagnostic systems prognosis. Key equipment including: industrial grade programmable network controller, SAS Enterprise Miner, Insightful Miner, Statgraphics, SCA, Statistica, Maple, Matlab and other statistical software and math Borland C + + Builder, Visual Studio, SQL Enterprise Server, Oracle Database systems such as instrument.

6. Production Systems and Enterprise Engineering Laboratory

With the rise of global production and supply of wide-area system in recent years, production systems and the organization have new problems in coordination, control, cooperative economy. This research lab is set up to explore the complexity of production systems, organizational design, and operational problems. Research system includes the subject of factory systems, supply chain systems, product engineering chain, and industrial organization. Research topics include machine portfolio includes planning, the semiconductor supply chain control, capacity planning and investment strategy, and industrial economy.

7. Global Logistics Operations and Systems Management of Virtual Research Center

The department of virtual research center focused on the design of logistics center system integration. The topics include timely logistics providers of operating systems, logistics, information systems, transportation services, logistics center routing planning, logistics, supply chain management to build a conceptual model, and the construction of the overall logistics system.

8. Innovative Services and Collaborative Processes Laboratory

The main factor for Taiwan’s industrial competitiveness over the past is manufacturing capacity. With industrial changes, the focus in the future must be product services and logistics. The core objective of the research is based on manufacturing capacity, with the exploration in innovative product services and logistics.

9. Supply Chain Systems Integration Research

Using the latest distributed object-oriented technology, integration of the development of supply chain information systems and the environment.

10. Total Quality and Human Resource Management Research Group Research

TQM and HRM to explore related topics. Research focus at this stage for the enterprise of shaping a model of organizational culture and the conversion process mode.

IV. Course Plan

Our institute yearly recruits approximately thirty master students from diverse background, such as science, engineering, management and sociology departments. NTU offers more than ten thousand courses every year. This rich environment made possible the construction of solid foundations and development of research innovations in the field of industrial engineering, operations research, mathematics, statistics, logistics, information technology, economics, finance, management science, and technological related curriculum.

Our institute has equal emphasis in both theory and practice. Students are allowed to either focus a direction based of their interests or choose to enroll in related courses offered by other departments in the school. Our department offers graduate students a curriculum in the following:

1. Production systems and processes

2. Operations and information systems

3. Industrial analysis and technological trends

4. Measurement analyzing methods

Master students curriculum rules are the following:

(Applies only to students enrolled after year 97)

1. Master students not only have to abide by the university curriculum regulations, but also finish at least twenty-five credits of master courses (not including master thesis) and fulfill the required courses and graduation credit requirement listed at the bottom.

2. Required curriculum for regular and working students

(1). Required major courses: Curriculum is divided into [Industrial

System and Service Engineering] and [Industrial Analyses and Technology Trends] by research direction. Master students have to choose one of the two course group and finish nine credits.

(2). Special Topics (M0070): One credit which belongs to a repetitive course schedule. Before passing the degree exam, students need to finish two credits during every semester.

(3). Graduate Seminar (M0080): One credit which belongs to a repetitive course schedule. Before passing the degree exam, students need to finish two credits during every semester.

(4). Master Thesis: Six credits.。

3. Required curriculum for international students

(1). Required major courses: Same as regular students.

(2). Special Topics (M0070): One credit which belongs to a repetitive course schedule. Before passing the degree exam, students need to finish two credits during every semester.

(3). Graduate Seminar (M0080): Same as regular students.

(4). Master Thesis: Six credits.

4. Required credits for graduation

(1). Special Topics (M0070): Maximum of three credits.

(2). Graduate Seminar (M0080): Maximum of two credits.

(3). Other than special topics, graduate seminar, and master thesis, students are required to take at least twelve credits from their own institute (including required major courses) and six credits from other departments.

5. Master students studying abroad during exchange periods through the school or National Science Council and Ministry of Education are exempted from the requirement of Special Topics and Graduate Seminar.

6. Calculated by each semester starting from the second semester, if the credits of the failing courses exceed half of the total enrolled credits, a discontinuation of school will be enforced.

7. After the confirmation from the Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering (GIIE) and the school, the above regulations will be enforced on the posted date.

V. Academic Activities

In the recent years, the revolution in the Taiwanese industries has driven the development of global manufacturing and logistics along with many other cutting edge technologies. Therefore, the latest technologies such as information service, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology, micro-electrical systems, optoelectronics, and microelectronics have sprung in the field of industrial engineering and management. Major technological breakthroughs in these fields have been achieved as the result of the world-class research facilities here at the National Taiwan University (NTU). Furthermore, the school culture motivates the graduate students to extend their visions and to think with creativity.

Our department performs exceptionally well in the fields listed above. We not only receive awards at various levels but also attract industrial sponsorships and partnerships around the world. The achievements are summarized in the following:

＊　Knowledge Economy and Management

◎　 Provide training to the nationwide public service providers for Council for Economic Planning and Development

＊　 Resource allocation management for semiconductor production

◎　 Won Industry-Academy Collaboration Award from the Ministry of Education

＊　 Developed Cluster Tool scheduling techniques for semiconductor production machines

◎　 Won Lam Thesis Award

＊　 Research on the needs in semiconductor production network

◎　 Received a three year US$ 350,000 research funding from Semiconductor Research Corp.

＊　 Theory of Support Vector Machines

◎　 Won Da-You Wu Memorial Award

◎　 The technology has been widely adopted for hundreds of times

◎　 The software has been used by thousands of people around the world

＊　 Distributed Colored Timed Petri Net

◎　 Won Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council

＊　 Optimization of scheduled semiconductor production using simulation

◎　 Won IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation Thesis Award

＊　 Design, monitor and control of semiconductor supply chain

◎　 Received a two year US$ 100,000 research funding from Semiconductor Research Corp.

＊　 Advanced Equipment Control and Advanced Process Control (AEC/APC)

◎　 Won AEC/APC Outstanding Student Paper Award

＊　 Semiconductor Engineering Chain Competition and Collaboration

◎　 Won Shared University Research sponsorship from IBM

＊　 Discrete and continuous optimization and soft computing

◎　 Developed software that has been used for research and education purpose

In academia, we develop a featured systematic research core of integration, engineering and management. We also pay attention to international academic exchange through hosting research conferences, inviting world-class guest speakers, participating in scholar exchange programs and world research organizations, and etc. It often involves international teleconference, in which students actively participate in the projects. In December 2002, our department proudly hosted “The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems.”This event attracted four hundred participants from twenty different counties. In addition, we received five hundred and fifty thousand US dollars for our joint research with “Semiconductor Research Corp. and International Semiconductor Manufacturing Initiatives, Inc” in the United States. Our department also collaborates with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NTU. In year 2003, we began to accept both domestic and international doctoral degree applicants from mechanical engineering to join us in the field of industrial engineering and management. In the same year, we began to accept applications for Master’s Degree.