Research Expenditures 2004-05: $2 million 2005-06: $2,111,388 Research faculty: 13 Doctoral Students: 30 total 18 full-time funded positions 12 part-time

Our faculty members have strong research backgrounds, and specialized, practical experience in the areas they teach and research. The department’s research faculty are complemented by part-time faculty who bring in-depth industrial experience into the classroom. This combination of cutting-edge research with real-world knowledge provides for excellent master's and doctoral degree programs that are connected to the real-world.

 

Quality and Reliability Engineering

The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has excellent research achievements and talent in this area. Faculty’s research interests include the quality and reliability improvement in manufacturing process, such as multivariate statistical methods in root cause analysis, nondestructive reliability evaluation, robust electronic manufacturing process. Faculty’s research interests also include quality and reliability improvement in the product development process, such as Design for Six Sigma, robust design, innovative product development, voice of customer and reliability engineering. Our strength has been extended to quality management in service industry.

 

Product Development
The Department  of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has real strength in the broad area of product development. The faculty’s research encompasses concurrent engineering, ergonomics for design, R&D management and intelligent engineering. Our industrial experts bring their product development experience to the research teams. One area of growing interest in the department is global product development. We are unique in that our interdisciplinary teams include not only engineering faculty but also faculty from around Wayne State University from the disciplines of marketing, international business, information systems and anthropology.

Manufacturing Operations
Another area of faculty strength is operations with a special focus on manufacturing operations. Faculty research interests include lean operations and processes, flexible manufacturing, design for manufacturing, computer integrated manufacturing, cellular manufacturing, ergonomics of safety, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, and architecture for production control. The faculty’s interests in quality and reliability cover both product development and manufacturing. Other research interests that cut across broad areas include decision and risk analysis, risk management, enterprise computing, and management of technology change.

Faculty: Teams

Faculty: Individual or Pairs

Product Development and Collaborative Engineering

Manufacturing Process Quality

Quality Engineering

Reliability Engineering

Design Engineering

MINDSET-High School Math and Operations Research

Innovative Design Practice

Human Factors

Engineering and Human Performance and Aging

Cellular and Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Manufacturing Operations

Agile Enterprise Computing

Lean Manufacturing

Cad/Cam

Quality Management in Service Industry

Supply Chain Management

Intelligent Engineering Systems

Factory Control

Knowledge Management

Design Informatics and Bio-inspired Systems

Global Teaming

Diffusion of Innovation

Multi-agent systems

Global Engineering and Manufacturing Management

eHealth and Telerehabilitation

Virtual Teams

Decision Making

Risk Management

Emergency Services

Technology Change Management