The program of Industrial Engineering was founded in 1993, with a long history of operation. The USST is the first to establish this major in Shanghai and has the right to grant bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. The industrial engineering major belongs to the Department of Management Science and Engineering of the USST, which is a discipline with doctoral degree granting authority. It is the postdoctoral station discipline, Shanghai key discipline, Shanghai first-class discipline and Shanghai Gaoyuan project discipline.
2012– The industrial engineering major was in the top 27% of China in the discipline assessment organized by the Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee.
2014– The ranking of the discipline of management of more than 700 universities in China: the top 5-6%.
2016– The industrial engineering major ranked 19th in the fourth round of China Discipline Evaluation, entering the top 10.16%, which is the A grade and “flagship discipline” in the management category of USST.
2017– The industrial engineering major ranked 34th in China, with A+ grade (the “flagship discipline” in the management category of USST). The subject of this major has been successfully entered the Advanced Subjects” of the Sportlight DC discipline rankings. In the fourth round of China Discipline Evaluation, Management Science and Engineering was assessed with a B+ grade.
2018– The industrial engineering major was the first in China to be accredited by AACSB, and was the only one in Shanghai to be approved as the pilot project of applied undergraduate program in Shanghai-affiliated universities.
2019– The Shanghai Virtual Experiment Teaching Center and the Industry-University-Research Collaboration Center of the Ministry of Education were established. In addition, the industrial engineering major was approved for the National Industrial Engineer in Training Certification Qualification.
2020– The National Industrial Engineer Certification Qualification was approved.
2021– The National Supply Chain Modeling Engineering Practice Base was established.
Educational Objectives
Firstly, cultivating talents who understand both modern manufacturing technology and management for the advanced equipment manufacturing industry and service industry; Secondly, cultivating complex senior management talents with both strategic thinking and system thinking ability; Thirdly, in addition to the comprehensive application of modern management science theories and methods to systematically plan, design, improve and innovate manufacturing and service enterprises, the trained talents need to specialize in the design of production systems and management of production operations.
Research Areas and Achievements
Research Areas:
Intelligent services and manufacturing, intelligent logistics management, supply chain management and procurement management, quality and reliability engineering, digital production manufacturing, project management, etc.
Achievements:
In recent years, the faculty members of the Department of Industrial Engineering have presided over 50 national and provincial research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Science Project of Ministry of Education, the Soft Science Research Project of the Shanghai Municipal Science Commission, the Doctoral Program Fund of Higher Education, the Key Project of Scientific Research and Innovation of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the sub-project of the Major Project of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Construction, etc. The department has achieved a number of domestic leading and international advanced level research results. The department has published more than 200 papers, including 80+ SCI/SSCI/EI papers (Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Annals of Physics, Physics Letters A, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, etc.) and 40+ papers in core management journals of National Natural Science Foundation of China; 10 monographs and 5 software copyrights and invention patents. The achievements have been awarded the second class prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award, the State Council’s Major Equipment Award, the first class prize of the State Machinery Industry Bureau’s Science and Technology Progress Award, the second class prize of the Ministry of Education’s Science and Technology Progress Award, two second class prizes of the Shanghai Science and Technology Advancement Award, and four third class prizes of the Shanghai Science and Technology Advancement Award, etc.
Industry Research Areas
Advanced Equipment Manufacturing
Service Industry
Core Courses
Undergraduate Courses: Production and Operations Management, Work Research, Ergonomics, Facility Planning and Design, Quality Control and Reliability, Smart Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Project Management, etc.
Postgraduate Courses: Production and Operations Management, Modern Industrial Engineering, Enterprise Resource Planning, Project Management, Equipment Maintenance Theory and Modeling, Human Factors Engineering, Logistics, Internet of Things, etc.
Admissions
Undergraduate Program: Industrial Engineering
Postgraduate Programs: Management Science and Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, Logistics Engineering and Management
Doctoral Program: Management Science and Engineering
Graduates
Domestic and foreign study, logistics and supply chain management, consulting and training, production management, project management, information and others, finance, etc.
Faculty
At present, there are 18 faculty members in Industrial Engineering, four with senior titles, four with associate titles and 17 with doctoral degrees. There is one person with special allowance of the State Council, one advanced individual in scientific and technological research during the “Seventh Five-Year Plan” period of the former Ministry of Machinery and Electronics, one advanced individual in scientific and technological research during the “Ninth Five-Year Plan” period, one advanced individual in science and technology management of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and one outstanding teacher of Baosteel Education Foundation, one outstanding young teacher in Shanghai universities, one selected expert from the National Intellectual Property Expert Database (11 from Shanghai), one member of the Shanghai Management Science and Engineering Discipline Evaluation Group, one industrial engineering expert of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, one expert of Shanghai Government Quality Award. One person is selected for the “Pujiang Talent Plan” and one person is selected for the “Young Oriental Scholar.” In addition, the teachers of industrial engineering major are the executive director of the Behavior Operation Management Committee of the China Operations Research Society, the director of the Shanghai Mechanical Engineering Society, the director of the Shanghai System Engineering Society, the secretary-general of Shanghai Engineering Management Society, and the executive deputy director of Shanghai Industrial Engineering Society, etc.