HKUST's Industrial Engineers Foster Expertise On The Chinese Mainland

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[evdate 1997-08-15] For immediate release

15 August 1997

HKUST's Industrial Engineers Foster Expertise On The Chinese Mainland

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is celebrating four years of success in promoting industrial management on the Chinese Mainland with an international conference to be held at the University from 18 to 22 August.

The rapid industrialization of the Chinese Mainland created a great need for industrial engineers and engineering managers, but when the IEEM Department opened at HKUST in 1993, there were no courses or departments in the subject on the Chinese Mainland.

"We organized our first conference in Shenzhen in 1994 to show what industrial engineering and engineering management could offer," said Prof Mitchell Tseng, Head of the IEEM Department at HKUST. "Our initiative was enthusiastically taken up by mainland universities and companies."

"Now, just four years after we began, there are 25 degree programs in mainland universities and progressive companies are making use of industrial management expertise," said Prof Tseng.

This year's event, the Fourth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, is jointly organized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and has attracted over 150 international academics and industrialists from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States and Europe.

Companies sending representatives include the Ford Research Laboratory, Dunwell Industrial (Holdings) Ltd. and Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings) Co. Ltd.

Event: 4th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management: IE&EM for Global Competitiveness

Date: 18-22 August 1997 Venue: 8:30 am, 19 August 1997, Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (LTG), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon.

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