Tianjin University

The first institution to establish the major of industrial engineering in the country

Established in 1993, one of the earliest two universities approved by the State Education Commission to establish the major of Industrial Engineering.

Ranked as one of the leading programs in mainland China.

Host of the Industrial Engineering Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES).

One of the first batch authorization institutions approved by Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to award master and doctor degree of industrial engineering

One of the first batch institutions approved by Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to cultivate engineering master of industrial engineering in 1999.

One of key disciplines in national ‘211 Project’ and ‘985 Project’

The program of Industrial Engineering in Tianjin University develops in parallel with the cutting-edge, theory and methods of industrial engineering. The program is designed to cultivate senior industrial engineering and management talents with basic knowledge and skills of broad engineering technology, management, humanity, social sciences. The IE graduates understand solid theory and methods of economics, management and system engineering, and they have strong mathematical ability and Industrial Engineering skills.

Program Features

IE program is inter-disciplinary. Industrial engineering program is designed to cultivate students with profound understanding of modern engineering technology, manufacturing and service system. The students can apply contemporary management knowledge and industrial engineering methods to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis for system design, implementation, optimization and control. The program integrates IE theory with practice. In recent years, IE department has collaborated with FAW, Motorola, Dongfeng Automobile, Media, Foxconn, Huawei and other companies, and established long term collaborations. IE department is active in international cooperation It has links with the IE departments of many famous universities in America, Canada, Australia, HK, Taiwan and other regions. Outstanding students are provided with opportunities to study abroad as the exchange students. And the department focuses on practical education to build up students’ ability of finding and solving problems. The department has a comprehensive IE lab where students have access to conduct experiments related to systems simulations, ergonomics, logistics, production line design and quality control.

Major courses

Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Fundamentals of Computer Technology, Economics, Principles of Management, Accounting, Financial Management, Basics of Industrial Engineering, Production Planning and Control, Quality Management, Cost Control, Management Information System, Human Factors, Engineering Economy, Reliability Engineering, Systems Simulation, Advanced Manufacturing System.

Faculty

The department currently has 16 faculty members including 6 full professors, 8 associate professors and 2 lecturer. All faculties hold PhDs and 70% faculty members have overseas studying or working experiences.

Employment

The graduates can be employed in state administrative departments, public institutions, institutes of scientific research, business enterprises to engage in planning, design, evaluation and innovation work. They can also conduct teaching and scientific research in universities and colleges. In recent years, many IE graduates were recruited by large companies such as Huawei, ZTE, Siemens, Foxconn, Sany Heavy Industry, Tianjin Bank.

Excellent Student

Cui Mao (student of industrial engineering of the year 2009 ), winner of 2010 top ten outstanding youths in Tianjin, and winner of Hundred Outstanding Elites from 2010—2011. Through four-year learning of theory and method of industrial engineering, he is able to deeply detect the management problems in enterprises especially manufacturing enterprises, and gives corresponding countermeasures using IE theory and methods.