As the Singapore economy transitions into a service-based and hub-oriented model, the demand for talents who can operate at the systems level will increase. This capability will require the development of a whole gamut of skills that includes understanding the key drivers of industry and business performance, modeling the transactional processes that occur, diagnosing the nature of problems present and opportunities available, and developing a balanced solution that accounts for the conflicting goals of diverse stakeholders. The part-time B.Tech.(Industrial and Management Engineering) programme is launched precisely to provide education that enables the graduates to acquire these key skills.

The Bachelor of Technology in Industrial and Management Engineering, a part-time undergraduate programme offered by the ISE Department, aims to graduate professional industrial and management engineers who have a strong foundation in the relevant modeling and methodological expertise together with a systems mindset who can contribute to society through innovation, enterprise and leadership. The B.Tech.(Industrial and Management Engineering) programme admits working engineering personnel with a good polytechnic diploma. It provides these students with an education that enhances and complements their knowledge and experiences.

In order to prepare graduates for the rapidly evolving landscape of Industrial and Management Engineering and to upgrade polytechnic graduates into learning engineers, the B.Tech. degree programme was specially designed to comprise essential modules, technical elective modules project modules, faculty and university level requirement modules. The essential modules seek to equip students with a strong foundation in mathematics, probability and statistics in engineering fundamentals. The technical electives provide the breadth and depth in different areas of Industrial and Management Engineering.

Design, which is the heart of engineering, is integrated through various project activities. Non-technical modules introduce students to methodologies of business and management. By providing graduates with a combination of broad-based fundamentals and specialized knowledge, the ISE Department strives to graduate versatile engineers who would be best positioned to lead in a rapidly changing and increasingly knowledge-based economy

The structure of the B.Tech.(Industrial and Management Engineering) programme is designed to meet the following programme objectives:

• To impart fundamental knowledge and skills set required in the Industrial and Management Engineering profession, which include the ability to apply basic knowledge of mathematics, probability and statistics, and the domain knowledge of industrial and management engineering.
• To produce graduates with the ability to adopt a system approach to design, develop, implement and innovate integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment and energy.
• To enable students to understand the interactions between engineering, business, technological and environmental spheres in the modern society.
• To cultivate the practices of independent learning on the part of the students that will prepare them to function effectively for diverse careers and life long learning.
• To enable students to understand their role as engineers and their impact to society at the national and global context.

The course aims to achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Core: Understanding of and ability to apply the mathematical & statistical concepts and the engineering knowledge fundamental to the discipline
• Breadth: Basic competence in a range of technical areas relevant to industrial and management engineering
• Depth: Be able to understand and apply in-depth knowledge of one or more specialisations within industrial and management engineering
• Design: An enhanced ability to perform engineering design by the process of creative thinking, synthesis and integration of inter-disciplinary knowledge