Industrial Engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the design, improvement and operation of integrated systems involving people, materials, equipment, information and energy to ensure the overall system functions efficiently and human needs are adequately met. Historically, the system here is a manufacturing system, but in the recent development the system is not only a manufacturing system but also service system and other economic sectors. Thus, the knowledge and skills learned during the education program can be applied by the graduates to many working environments.Industrial Engineering as a separate department in ITB was established on 1st January 1971; however as the program study it was started long before in 1955 as part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1980, a postgraduate program on Industrial Engineering and Management was established and since then the programs attract many students.Today the intake of the undergraduate program is 180 students per year. There are currently 45 teaching staffs, most with doctoral degrees from various overseas universities.Research performed by the teaching staff in the area of manufacturing system, ergonomics and work system design, supply chain system, industrial management, and decision and information system has been published in various national and international scientific journals or seminar proceedings.
Aims
In general, the graduates of industrial engineering undergraduate program have competencies in desig
ning, engineering, fabrication, improvement, and operation of integrated system which consists of people, materials, equipment, information and energy in order to make the system more productive and efficient. In detail, the competencies of industrial engineering undergraduate program graduates are:Ability to identify, formulate, and solve integral system problem using appropriate analytical, computational and/or experimental approach
Having broad insight and ability to understand the impact of the application of industrial engineering approach to social, environmental, global context
Ability to communicate effectively
Ability to cooperate in multidiscipline team, both as a team leader or as a team member
Ability to apply new technique and analysis tool that is needed in doing their professional practice
Ability to understand and aware of professional responsibilities and ethics
Ability to understand and aware of the importance of continuous learning
OBJECTIVES
At ISTIL we strive to provide high quality education in Industrial Engineering,
to give our graduates a solid background and hands-on experience in Industrial Engineering so that they acquire the necessary skills in applying engineering theory to real life situations and projects,
to provide a course of training that will prepare our students for today's fast paced challenges as well as the new challenges that will develop in the future,
to train our graduates to work as team players and have an ethical behavior and concern for colleagues, society and the environment.
After completing our program, ISTIL graduates should be technically competent, practice-oriented, socially responsible and well prepared to compete as industrial engineering professionals or to go on to graduate studies.
Curriculum
The curr
iculum of undergraduate program consists of 144 credit semester which can be completed within 8 semesters or 4 years. The program involves lecture classes, laboratory practices as well as class projects especially for the capstone design courses. In the 7th semester, or the last year the students are required to do internship program in industry for about two months, and finally the students are also required to do a final project at the end of the study program.There is no specialization in the undergraduate program, however there are elective courses that can be taken by the students according to their interest with the consultation of the student advisor.Facilities
To support the educational processes, the program has two educational laboratories, name
ly Laboratory for Industrial Engineering Design and Multi-Media Laboratory. The first laboratory is available for two semesters of Industrial Engineering Design practices while the second laboratory is for various classes that require the use of software as part of the class assignment, laboratory practices and class project. To support the program, the department also provides departmental library specialized in industrial engineering book and journal collection.During final year, students conducting final project can utilized research laboratories which can be chosen according to final project topics. The research laboratories include Laboratory for Work System Design and Ergonomics, Laboratory for Production System, Laboratory for Industrial System Optimization and Planning, Laboratory for Decision and Information System, and Laboratory for Innovation and Organization Development.Career Opportunities
The wide application of industrial engineering makes the range of career opportunities of industrial engineering graduates very wide. According to the record, the graduates of industrial engineering program have career opportunities in:
Production planning and control
Logistic and distribution
Human Resources Management
Banking industries
Information System Administrator and Developer
Management Consultant
Transportation
Trading
Government sector such as Ministry of Industry and Trade, National Planning Agencies,
etc.
Industrial Engineers aresystems integrators and champions of change.
They will figure out how to improve quality and productivity, enhance the effectiveness of existing resources and save companies money.
They will enhance reliability of behavior for complex equipment and plants, design plant layouts, train workers, develop materials handling and mechanization projects and will engineer processes and systems that will improve the efficiency of plants, businesses and other institutional operations.
Industrial engineers focus on the big picture : they specialize in the design and management of major systems that encompass the total organization.
Industrial engineering is the most people-oriented area in engineering: it is distinct from other specialties as industrial engineers typically work on problems or systems which include human beings as a major variable.
In order to make changes, industrial engineers must be able to observe others and understand why they are doing what they do.
People usually resist change : industrial engineers must possess the ability to communicate effectively in order to sell their ideas. Such skills can change the process from a shoot out at the OK Corral to a walk in the park!
In order to earn respect and have their ideas considered, industrial engineers must have great professional ethics, be responsible and patient and have the ability to interact with diverse groups of individuals in different environments.
Industrial engineers serve as abridge between management goalsand operational performance.They combine their solid engineering backgroundwith good business sense and management abilityto integrate people, material and machines into productive units.
