Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at Yuan Ze University concentrates on applications of adopting diverse engineering principles and management techniques to the design, improvement, and maintenance of a high level of productivity for both manufacturing and service industries. It concerns the integration of humans, materials, equipment, energy, and finance into productive systems. The current development of big data and artificial intelligence drive IEM further emphasizes the integration of computers, information, and state-of-the-art technologies to operate complex systems in the requirements of quick-response and diverse environments.

Adopting the market-driven strategy, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Yuan-Ze University emphasizes the courses and research in the following areas:

1. High-tech and value-added manufacturing industry

The research direction is to apply industrial engineering techniques to high-tech industries to improve the manufacturing process and ultimately achieve the goals of quality, cost, delivery, and throughput.

2. Service industry

In the field of research, the objective is to apply industrial engineering techniques to service industries to improve enterprises' operation processes and eventually achieve full utilization of knowledge management.

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