I am an IE.  I spent over 12 years of my life in IE school.  I earns 3 degrees in Industrial Engineering.  I took almost every classes of that the schools offered including what they recommended to take from other schools.  I have over 700 books related to IE.  More than half of those books, I read cover-to-cover.

When I join industry, I started my job as an IE manager.  I did use many tools I learned from IE schools.  I found the strength of IE and the room for improvement.  The IE curriculum can be slightly modified to bridge the gap between industry and academic.  In fact, IE is already the bridge between academic and industry, the bridge between shop-floor and management, including the gap between management and engineering.  By having all classes I'm thinking here, IE will definitely be the super-career of 21st century.

Here are the classes I wanted to learn during my time in IE schools.  Each class includes the description.  I also plan to put the textbook or related articles or even links to each class.  There is no copyright now but you are welcome to drop me a note if you plan to put some classes to reality.  I guarantee to help at no cost - as much as my time allow me to do so.  Please note that these classes are limited to the IE school only.  Therefore, there are other classes that I really wanted to learn in school but not specific to IE major.  So I did not include they here.  Enjoy and think some more about these classes.  Drop me an email how I can help or you want to share the experience after applying this class or even there are other classes that you wanted to learn during your IE school.

• Manufacturing Management
• Maintenance System and Management
• Project Management
• System Thinking and System Dynamics
• Decision making method and application

Manufacturing Management

Description Topics include Manufacturing KPIs, shop floor management, visual factory/control, 5S, production-maintenance management, Principle of Changeover, Suggestion Scheme, Manufacturing management process (e.g., daily follow-up, shift line-up)

Textbooks

• Overall Equipment Effectiveness by Robert C. Hansen

Links

• Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance
• www.changeover.com

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Maintenance System and Management

Description Topics include Maintenance KPIs, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, Failure analysis approach, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Autonomous Maintenance, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Maintenance organization development

Textbooks

• Complete Guide to Preventive and Predictive Maintenance by Joel Levitt Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management by Terry Wireman Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance by John M. Gross Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management (Step-By-Step Approach to TPM Implementation) by John Dixon Campbell
• Zero Breakdown Strategies by Terry Wireman "
• Maintenance Engineering Handbook by Lindley R. Higgins, Keith Mobley, R. Keith Mobley
• Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing Tpm on the Shop Floor (Tpm) by Masaji Tajiri, Fumio Gotoh

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Project Management

Description The focus of this class should be different from traditional project management class.  We keep traditional topics such as PERT/CPM, resource allocation, network model and how-to use software for project management.  In addition, other topics include "project management process", important of Roles & Responsibilities, project follow-up approach, objective of project management, KPI of project management (how to tell if the project is success or fail) 

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System Thinking and System Dynamics

Description Topics include Principle of System, Control system, Dynamic system and control, System Thinking, System Dynamic, Application of System Thinking

Textbooks

• Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World by John Sterman The Fifth Discipline by PETER M. SENGE

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Decision Making method and application

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