Industrial Engineering has evolved as a major engineering and management discipline dealing with the development, improvement, and implementation of complex processes and systems by using the principles and methods of mathematical, physical, and social sciences. The effective utilization of industrial engineering has greatly contributed to our increased standard of living during the last century through increased productivity, quality of work and services, and improvements in working environments. Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University was initiated in the 1990s. The graduate program in industrial engineering was launched in 1993, which is the first master program in China, and later the undergraduate program in 1997. It was in 2001 that the Department of Industrial Engineering was established with fourteen faculty members. Dr. Gavriel Salvendy, Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University and Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, was named chaired professor and founding department head. Since then, enrollments and the number of degrees awarded have increased steadily; and the curriculum has been expanded substantially. As of today, it has grown up to be a leading industrial engineering program in China. The Department of Industrial Engineering includes three institutes: Operations Research & Logistics, Production Engineering, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and has established a series of laboratories. Our current faculty consists of 8 professors, 15 associate professors, 6 assistant professors, and 2 professors emeritus. The undergraduate enrollment is about 250 and the graduate student enrollment is nearly 170 including more than 60 foreign students. The number of foreign students has grown in the past five years by three times. The research of the faculty covers major sub-specialties concerned in industrial engineering including engineering management, operations research, log...