THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Shop Floors to Factories to Supply Chains to EnterprisesProf. William B. Rouse, DirectorTennenbaum Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
(www.ti.gatech.edu)ABSTRACTIndustrial engineering is the engineering discipline that can assure that all the pieces fit together. Our perspectives, methods, and tools enable addressing the complexity of today's enterprises – large in scale, laced with uncertainties, and dynamic in function and form. We are the multi-discipline that understands and integrates across contributing disciplines from engineering, computing, management, and economics, as well as the physical, behavioral, and policy sciences. Our practitioners need to be expert in addressing cross-cutting strategic challenges of enterprises and our students need to be educated in the fundamentals of these challenges. Enterprises ranging from private sector companies to public sector government agencies are the domain of industrial engineering – the place where we make critical contributions to value-centered enterprises.

Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium

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