Collaborative Research Workshop: Industrial Engineering for the Next Decade: Committee on the Next Decade in Industrial Engineering (CONDIE), held in Ann Arbor, MI, Fall, 2005

工业工程在世界经济中发挥着至关重要的作用，但已经达到了一个关键的转折点。技术进步（例如，计算通信）现在允许IE的焦点超越操作以包含非常大的系统的战略管理（例如，全球供应链、医疗保健交付和全球制造业）。新的计算环境（高性能计算与信息情报获取相结合）现在允许我们解决“系统的系统”的设计和战略操作。“这笔赠款为一个研讨会提供资金，将工业工程（IE）社区的领先研究人员，教育工作者和从业者聚集在一起，以确定新兴领域的关键研究机会，并将IE定位为未来十年的重要贡献。它还将作为一种催化剂，启动工业教育和相关领域之间的合作努力。其主要目标是确定、组织和产生一个分类法和路线图，以确定未来十年工业工程的研究和教育目标。如果成功，这项研究的结果将对未来十年工业工程的研究和教育目标产生重大影响。统一的重点和路线图将保持IE的活力，并有助于建立与相关领域的合作。生产力和效率的提高将产生重大的经济影响。

Industrial Engineering plays a vital role in the world economy but has reached a critical transition point. Advances in technology (e.g., computing & communication) now allow the focus of IE to move beyond operations to embrace strategic management of very large systems (e.g., global supply chains, healthcare delivery, and global manufacturing). New computational environments (high performance computing coupled with information & intelligence acquisition) now allow us to address the design and strategic operation of "systems of systems." This grant provides funding for a workshop to bring together leading researchers, educators and practitioners in the industrial engineering (IE) communities to identify critical research opportunities in emerging areas and position IE for essential contributions for the next decade. It will also serve as a catalyst to initiate collaborative efforts between IE and related fields. The main objective is to identify, organize and produce a taxonomy and roadmap that defines the research and educational thrusts in IE for the next decade.If successful, the results of this research will have a great impact on the research and educational thrusts in IE for the next decade. The unified focus and roadmap that results will maintain the vitality of IE and help establish collaborations with related fields. Increased productivity and efficiency will have a significant economic impact.