History

Industrial Management Institute is founded on 1994. PhD and on-the-job MBA are formed on 1999 and 2002 respectively.

To offset the shortages that BA and IE educations lack techniques and management respectively, the goal of IM at NCU is to breed high-class IM personnel that own the ability of science management and system integration. Moreover, IM at NCU hopes to help industries to strengthen their business constitution and quality and to pursue the largest economical benefits.

Character

IM at NCU currently offers PhD, MBA, and on-the-job MBA programs. The research direction in IM involves the four areas, Manufacturing Automation, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, and Business Process Management. The traditional courses offered are Material handling, Planning and Scheduling, Production and Distribution Models, Statistical Process Control, and Business Process Management. The new course design is constantly expanding toward ERP and E-commerce issues, such as Planning and Scheduling, Material Management, and Sale and Distribution based on SAP.

Future

The course planning in IM will actively expand into SCM and ERP issues in the future. For the faculty planning, IM will also engage a full-time professor that owns a specialty of SCM and ERP. The course of on-the-job MBA will focus on Business Management and E-commerce applications.

Courses

MBA Program: To be awarded a master’s degree in IM, graduate students are required to complete a minimum of 34 units and a thesis.

Doctoral Program: To be awarded a PhD degree in IM, doctoral students are required to complete a thesis, publication of academic papers, a minimum of 28 units (4 credit points on Seminar and 4 obligatory courses chose must involve the four research areas in the below table).

On-the-job MBA: To be awarded a master’s degree in IM, students are required to complete a minimum of 36 units and a thesis.

＊    If a selected course isn’t chose by more than 15 students, it will be stopped.