Research Interest
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) supports four areas of interest and their applicationsSmart Production
Students who focus on smart production in the IEM program study:
- Production and distribution systems: material handling systems, material requirements planning, facility planning, capacity expansion, adaptive forecasting, multistage sequencing, and lean manufacturing
- Optimization: large-scale optimization, convex optimization, location theory, network optimization, integer programming, optimization of traffic networks, multiple criteria decision-making, robust optimization, and compressed sensing
- Quality engineering: total quality systems, process improvement strategies, design for quality, statistical modeling of tolerances, Taguchi loss function, and continuous quality improvement
- Simulation: production modeling, operational scheduling, plant design and layout, process flow analysis, and robust optimization
Faculty members who specialize in smart production are:
- Dr. Tsai, Du-Ming
- Dr. Chen, Yun-Shiow
- Dr. Cheng, Chuen-Sheng
- Dr. Liang, Yun-Chia
- Dr. Tseng, Yuan-Jye
- Dr. Tsai, Chi-Yang
- Dr. Jen, Hen-Yi
- Dr. Wu, Gen-Han
- Dr. Huang, Hao
- Dr. Chen, Pei-Wen
Supply chain, Services, and Health
Students who focus on supply chain, service engineering, and health systems engineering in the IEM program study:
- Supply chain and logistics: network design, enterprise integration, supply chain coordination and collaboration, contracting mechanisms, congestion modeling, and transportation modeling
- Service engineering: retail engineering, workforce modeling, data mining, demand management, pricing, employee training, employee retention, and resource allocation
- Health systems engineering: health information technology, patient flow modeling, capacity management, staff scheduling, quality improvement, data visualization, health informatics, and cost-effective modeling
Faculty members who specialize in supply chain, services, and health engineering are:
- Dr. Chen, Chi-Kuang
- Dr. Ting, Ching-Jung
- Dr. Sun, Tien-Lung
- Dr. Lin, Chen-Ju
- Dr. Jen, Hen-Yi
- Dr. Wu, Gen-Han
- Dr. Huang, Hao
Human Factors/Ergonomics
Students who focus on human factors/ergonomics in the IEM program study:
- Ergonomics: workplace analysis, mental workload evaluation, biomechanics, modeling crash impacts, human reliability modeling, safety planning, and work physiology
- Human-centered design: ergonomic product design and analysis, design cognition, human and social dynamics in design, and problem-solving enabling methods
- Human-computer interaction: human-computer interface and information visualization
- Human-machine systems: human-in-the-loop simulation, behavioral decision-making modeling, human performance modeling, machine learning, and eye-tracking systems
Faculty members who specialize in human factors/ergonomics are:
- Dr. Tsai, Chieh-Yuan
- Dr. Su, Chuan-Jun
- Dr. Sun, Tien-Lung
- Dr. Lin, Ray F.
- Dr. Chou, Chin-Mei
Big Data Analytics
Students who focus on big data analytics in the IEM program study:
- Applied probability and stochastic systems: queuing systems, stochastic networks, control of telecommunications and information systems, call center modeling, and large-scale service systems
- Statistics applications: statistical learning theory, spatial statistics, time series models, response surface methods, analysis and design of experiments, and large-scale statistical inference
- machine learning: decision tree, Bayesian network, neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolution neural networks, deep learning, attention mechanism
Faculty members who specialize in big data analytics are:
- Dr. Tsai, Chieh-Yuan
- Dr. Tsai, Du-Ming
- Dr. Chen, Yun-Shiow
- Dr. Su, Chuan-Jun
- Dr. Sun, Tien-Lung
- Dr. Lin, Chen-Ju
- Dr. Chen, Pei-Wen