Department of Industrial Engineering

The Industrial Engineering programs at Anna University, as a specialization under the faculty of Mechanical Engineering has been given due recognition by forming into a division under the Department of Management studies, in the year 1973. The same division has been upgraded to a full-fledged Department of Industrial Engineering in the year 2002.

Courses Offered :

=> B.E. Industrial Engineering
=> M.E. Industrial Engineering
=> M.E. Quality Engineering and Management
=> M.S. by Research
=> Ph.D. ndustrial Engineering

Facilities :

The lab facilities in the Department include: Work design lab, Ergonomics lab, Automation lab, and Computer applications lab. In addition to the required hardware, various software packages like LINDO, REIASOFT, ARENA, EXTEND, MINITAB, GPSS, etc., relevant to Industrial Engineering are available in the Department.

Research :

=> Simultaneous Optimization of Multi Response Taguchi Experiments
=> Application of Metaheuristics for Assembly Job Shop Scheduling
=> Vehicle Routing Problem in Supply Chain Management
=> Cost Estimation and Off-line Quality Assurance of Software Products
=> Some Issues in the Design, Operation and Evaluation of Production Line Systems
=> Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Cotton Spinning System
=> New Approaches in Reliability Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Safety Systems
=> Flexibility and Related Issues in Evaluation and Selection of Manufacturing Systems
=> Design and Development of Intelligent Decision Support System for Safety Management
=> Optimization and Simulation in the Management of Continuous Process Plant operations
=> Modeling and Analysis of Product Quality Gaps across Product Life Cycles
=> An Empirical Investigation of Total Quality Service in Indian Automobile Sector
=> Decision Making Models for Customer Integrated Vendor Evaluation
=> Modeling and Evaluation of Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Networks
=> Investigation into Implementation Issues of Information Technology Projects
=> Productivity Management Model for a Service Sector Organization
=> Study of Factors Leading to Mortality of Small Scale Industries
=> Scheduling of Metro Transport System
=> An Empirical Investigation of TQM application to Engineering Education in India
=> Modeling censored life data
=> Human Factors Engineering
=> TQM implementation in Health care Industries.
=> Quality issues in Agro food Supply Chain Management
=> System dynamics study in ERP implementation