Industrial Engineering - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

The University of Tennessee,  Knoxville, Tennessee

Who are Industrial and Systems Engineers?
While other types of engineers design things, industrial engineers (IEs) design the systems that enable those things to work effectively. IEs design, install, improve, and control large, complex systems that include the integration of people, materials, machines, and facilities with wide-ranging applications including:

manufacturing
healthcare
service
transportation
energy
finance
entertainment

https://ise.utk.edu/about/who-are-industrial-engineers/

Undergraduate course

https://ise.utk.edu/undergraduate/ie-undergradaute-courses/

IE Department publications and theses

https://trace.tennessee.edu/do/discipline_browser/articles?discipline_key=305

Rupy Sawhney

Human Behavior Based Exploratory Model for Successful Implementation of Lean Enterprise in Industry

Rupy Sawhney  Stewart Chason

First published: 22 October 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-8327.2005.tb00334.xCitations: 34

Abstract

Currently available Lean tools such as Lean Assessments, Value Stream Mapping, and Process Flow Charting focus on system requirements and overlook human behavior. 

 Our exploratory model ‐ The Personnel Behavior Based Lean Model (PBBL), attempts to ingrain the human perspective into Lean design.  T

he paper describes the development of the model and subsequent validation of the model through a case study. The case study also serves as a stepping‐stone for future work and research suggested at the end of the paper.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1937-8327.2005.tb00334.x