Industrial Engineering, an important and widely applied engineering field closely related to people's social activities, provides manufacturing technologies and equipments to create material wealth and promote social progress in the construction of China's national economy. As a traditional engineering field since the beginning of human history, industrial Engineering has always been the focus of all kinds of production activities. For instance, the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, as well as the present Information Revolution, are all directly or indirectly related to its development. Industrial Engineering is also a rapidly developing field. With the growth and permeation of electronic technology, automation technology, computer and software technique, material science, the foundation of the field has been enriched; the research in this field has been broadened and developed. Therefore, industrial products and production processes are promoted to develop toward precision, automation, intelligence, progression, integration and high efficiency.
Involving a wide range of basic theories and methods such as mechanical design, manufacture, testing, application, maintenance, industrial Engineering has a close tie to material engineering, power engineering, electric engineering, electronics and information engineering, control engineering, computer technique, and industrial design engineering.
