Industrial Engineering (IE) is one of the fastest growing areas of engineering. It is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. IE is vital to solving today’s critical and complex problems in manufacturing, distribution of goods and services, health care, utilities, transportation, entertainment, and the environment. Industrial engineers focus on the integration of humans, machines, and materials to achieve optimum performance of operating systems.
Tsinghua University has been offering Master degree in industrial engineering since 1996 and Bachelor degrees since 2001. In October 2001, the Department of Industrial Engineering was established with over twenty faculty members. The founding chair professor and department head is Dr. Gavriel Salvendy. He is also the first member of either the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society or the International Ergonomics Association to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering, USA. Our IE program has been ranked No. 1 in China and has achieved an international reputation for quality and excellence in research and education. Faculty members in the department are actively engaged in a variety of research projects that have made and continue to make important contributions to both the theory and practice of IE.
The department has many laboratories including those dedicated to production engineering, logistics engineering, enterprise integration, and human factors and ergonomics.
With China becoming a new center of global manufacturing, the demand for IE professionals with multi-cultural background is tremendous. To meet the demand, the Department of Industrial Engineering has started to offer an international Master program since 2003. Nearly 40 international students are enrolled in this program each year, and most of them are from Europe. The Department offers a wide array of courses covering such areas as operations research, decision making, logistics and supply chain management, human factors, production systems, manufacturing technology, simulation, and traffic engineering, etc. The program is designed to be completed in two years of full-time study, including completion of the course curriculum and the Master thesis.
Students are required to complete a minimum of 28 credits from the following:
Chinese Language (2 credits)
Chinese Culture and Society (minimum 2 credits)
Decision Making (3 credits)
Applied Statistics (3 credits)
Ergonomics and Work Organization (3 credits)
Production Management I (3 credits)
Production Management II (3 credits)
Quality Engineering (3 credits)
Systematical Engineering Design (3 credits)
Manufacturing Technology I (3 credits)
Manufacturing Technology II (3 credits)
Logistics and Supply Chain Management (3 credits)
International Logistics (3 credits)
Research for the thesis and its preparation are usually supervised by faculty members. The Master degree requires completion of a thesis describing research of publishable quality. The thesis must be defended before a committee consisting of the advisor and at least two other faculty members in IE. Specific thesis research projects focus on improving key manufacturing processes and related business and management practices. The research area may be one of the following:
(1) Applied Statistics and Quality Engineering
(2) Human Factors and Ergonomics
(3) Information Systems
(4) Logistics and Supply Chain Management
(5) Production Systems
(6) Operations Research
(7) Service Management
Applicants should have a Bachelor degree or equivalent academic background.
(1) The completed Foreigner’s Application Form for Admission to Graduate Programs of Tsinghua University, signed by the applicant (original and duplicated)
(2) Personal Statement
(3) The Original or the notarized degree certificate or proof of education in academic institution, and academic transcript (original and duplicated)
(4) Two academic recommendation letters from scholars of associate professorship or higher (original and duplicated)
(5) Two copies of the page with personal information in the passport (personal and ordinary passport)
(6) Two copies of applicant’s recent photo (cap-free, 2 inches, stick on the application form)
(7) The completed Application Form for Tsinghua University Scholarship (if applicable, original and duplicated)
The application fee is RMB 600 (non-refundable).
Application Fee Payment as follows: Application Fee Payment
The certificates provided should be the original documents in Chinese or in English, otherwise notarized translations in Chinese or English are required. None of the above application documents will be returned
November 1, 2009 – February 28, 2010.
Online Application should be completed and the package should be received by February 28, 2010.
Complete Online Application on the website of Foreign Student Affairs Office, Tsinghua University (http://intlstudent.cic.tsinghua.edu.cn). Print and sign two hard copies of the Application Form produced by the system after the application status changes to “verified”. Download and complete the Application Form for Tsinghua University Scholarship for future students (if you intend to apply).
Submit the application documents listed above to the address indicated below by post mail or in person.
Tuition: RMB 39,000/year.
Accidental Injury and Hospitalization Insurance: RMB 600/year.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for Chinese Government Scholarship, Beijing Government
Scholarship, and Tsinghua University Scholarship. The information about scholarships is available at http://intlstudent.cic.tsinghna.edu.cn.
Tsinghua University offers full scholarships to excellent students. For those who wish to apply for this scholarship, the hardcopies of application documents should be received by Feb. 1, 2010. Due to the limited number of this scholarship, we encourage applicants to apply for other kinds of scholarships at the same time. Please visit our scholarship website for more details.
Ms. Jie NAN
Department of Industrial Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
Tel: +86-10-62772989 Fax: +86-10-62794399
Email: ieoffice@tsinghua.edu.cn