Department Of Industrial Engineering & Management

Department Profile:

The department of Industrial & production engineering was started in the year 1984 with Lt. Col. B.Papanna as the first professor and HOD. The 4 years BE degree in IPE was run under Bangalore University. Lt. Col. B.Papanna headed the department till 1996. In the year 1992, Bangalore university initiated a BE course in Industrial engineering & management on a semester scheme. From 1996 to 2002, the professor and HOD of the department of mechanical engineering was also given the portfolio of heading the department of IEM. In the year 1998, engineering was also given the portfolio of heading the department of IEM. In the year 1998, the college was affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) with some modifications in the syllabus and scheme. In September 2002, Professor & HOD, S.R. Sridhar was HOD till 4th September 2006, and then onwards Prof. Dr.G.R.Srinivasa took charge as Prof. & HOD till 27th June 2007, later Prof. Dr. B.V.Somasekhara joined as Prof. & HOD from 5th August 2007 till date.

Why a student has to choose this field:

Candidates of IE&M can fit into all functional areas of business in different sections of the economy from manufacturing to service sector and the process industry
Many Universities abroad have MS programs in Industrial Systems engineering & Management.
Pursuing MBA and PGDM programs after IEM is much easier and has a great value addition.

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Career options for Industrial Engineering And Management:

Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization of 1990s has evolved many areas of specialization such as IT, Logistics and service sectors. This has reflected on University curriculum being revised and as a result of which Industrial Engineering and management course was born in 1992.

Though an allied branch of Mechanical Engineering, IEM course is unique in its content, application and orientation This course prepares students to fit into managerial positions in all organizations like Manufacturing, service, IT, Logistics & Apparels.

IEM graduates are best suited to be entrepreneurs.

A growing and demanding population:

Industrial Engineering & Management Block

Manufacturing & Engineering industries.
Information technology.
Logistics and transport.
Garment and Apparel.
All service sectors including hospitality, tourism and Entertainment.

New subjects/ areas of study:

Mechanical Engineering,
Production and Manufacturing sciences
ndustrial Engineering
IT
Management

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Current Research Efforts

Current researches in the department are in the areas of Ergonomics, Entrepreneurship and Sericulture.
Students can take up research in the areas of Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Simulation, ERP,Manufacturing and Management

Overcoming Challenges:

To improve teaching learning process by use of teaching aids and developing course materials.
Continuous faculty development programs in the form of QIP and summer schools.
Continuous up gradation of infrastructural facilities keeping in tune with the technical advancement & change of curricula.
Develop and update laboratory experiments and manuals for students’ exposure to hands on experience of industrial life.
Develop students’ association to carry out co-curricular & extra-curricular activities of counseling, industrial visits/tours and talent search.
To establish the department as a formal industry-institute interface by conducting students & staff seminars, conferences & workshops and taking up consultancy projects.

Department Strengths

Academic

Good team of faculty, combined with strong teaching learning process.
Good Practical Training.
Strong Interaction with Industry.
Entrepreneurship Development Cell catering to all Institutions in the campus.
Special placement efforts from the department.

Placement

Majority of the students had the opportunity to participate with companies coming to the campus for the placements.
Gati Logistics.
Dakhini Apparels
Infosys Tech.,
Mahindra Telecom
Tyco Industries.
ITC Apparels.
Stone India ltd.
Wipro Technologies.

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Sl. No.	Companies Name	No. of students placed
1.	Wipro	3
2.	I – Flex Solutions	1
3.	Caritor	1
4.	Infosys	2
5.	Mahindra British Telecom	3
6.	Satyam Computer	1
	Total	11

Infrastructure

	Spacious class rooms with OHP facility.		Tool room microscope.
	Well Equipped seminar hall with LCD projector.		Machine Tool Operations Lab.
	Well Equipped Laboratories.		Advanced Computer Center with
	Modern Industrial Engineering Lab.		ARENA-Discrete Event System
	Metrology Lab with Profile projector &		Simulation software
	Sixth Sense- Enterprise Resources		Planning (ERP) Package.
	Departmental Library.

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