The Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering has a significant and diverse research program that includes areas such as industrial and operations research, design for manufacturing, quality, assembly and concurrent engineering, robotics, global networking, logistics and simulation issues of small and medium-sized companies, multimedia, environmental and health/safety and medical engineering. Research also is affiliated with these major NJIT research centers: Center for Manufacturing Systems and the Multi-lifecycle Engineering Research Center.

Areas of Research

Industrial Engineering, Systems and Operations

Research includes the development of control and scheduling algorithms for the optimization of container terminal operations, global networking and logistics operations for small, medium and large corporations, the impact of telecommuting strategies on traffic flow, engineering system modeling and design tools, distributed virtual laboratory networks between research groups, the R&D of quality systems, quality control and management systems.

Manufacturing Systems and Mechatronics Engineering

Focus is on robotics, robot cell design, flexible computer-integrated manufacturing, system integration of automation systems, flexible assembly system modeling, integration, implementation, non-contact sensing and inspection, CAD/CAM integration, servo pneumatic positioning and sensor technology.

Concurrent/Simultaneous and Total Lifecycle Engineering

This new research field includes the development of new methods and toolsets for small batch luxury automobile manufacturers (such as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars), and general methods, tools and technologies for design for manufacturing, design for quality manufacturing, and assembly and maintenance systems.

Medical, Environmental, Health and Safety Engineering

Activity in this area is increasing. Main areas include the assessment of the realistic impact of environmental factors on productivity, devices and methods for the prevention of repetitive motion injuries, microrobotic manipulators for human artery cleaning, and new medical devices coupled with simulators and expert systems that can be used for interacting with the human body and other medical applications.

Multimedia, Simulation and Virtual Reality Modeling

Research activities are spread between discrete event and continuous system modeling and simulation and areas such as graphical modeling of workcells, object-oriented simulation coupled with AI, engineering multimedia developments for the study of servopneumatic positioning, multimedia for total quality management and the ISO9001 standard, flexible automation, concurrent engineering and the virtual reality simulation (and rapid prototyping) of complex electromechanical products and their manufacturing/assembly processes.

For more information about IE at NJIT contract the department chairman at (973) 596-3653 or bladikas@.njit.edu.