文档介绍：An Approach to Determine the Industrial Engineering Body of Knowledge through Concept Mapping
Denise Jackson University of Tennessee, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite 100, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, ******@
, Mildred Louidor University of Tennessee, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, 416 East Stadium
Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, ******@
, Hal Aikens University of Tennessee, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, 416 East Stadium
Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, ******@
Abstract – Industrial engineering, both as a discipline and as a profession, is at a pivotal point in its evolution. The academic discipline is almost one hundred years old, with the first department established in 1908 at the Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Academic departments of industrial engineering are disappearing or being merged with other engineering departments or, in some cases, business departments. Although industrial engineering plays a critical role in the analysis, design, development, implementation, and improvement of most systems which have a ponent, the concepts, principles, and methods of industrial engineering are still neither well defined nor uniformly agreed upon. Even the name is controversial, and, perhaps, misleading. Originally, it was refl