BY JAIMINI BHATTACHARYYA ANUSREE BALAN NIMMY J.S.

OVERVIEW
Declining performance of the students

Student quality
Comparison with other branches

What are the problems???

PART I DIRECT SURVEY

The survey procedure..

Passive survey Sample space

Categorizing of the sample space

students

Program wise

Branch wise Non Mech

UG

PG

PhD

Mech

IEM

Non IEM

The questionnaire(non IEM)

Whether IEM was a choice in your M.Tech counseling?
Do you think this is a core branch of Mechanical

Engineering? Whether this branch should accommodate students from mechanical background only? What do you think this branch is all about?(subjective)

1. Whether IEM was a choice in your M.Tech counseling?

Mechanical
Yes 15%

Non Mechanical

Yes 30%

No 85%

No 70%

2. Do you think this is a core branch of Mechanical Engineering?

Mechanical Non Mech
Yes 17%

Yes 35%

No 65%

No Idea 83%

3. Whether this branch should accommodate students from mechanical background only?
Mechanical Non Mech

Yes 35%

No 35%

No 65%

Yes 65%

What do you think this branch is all about?(subjective)

Overall
Wrong Idea 15%
No Idea 40%

Good Idea 20%

Vague Idea 25%

COMMENTS
Good idea Managers in core sectors need this course It is about scheduling, forecasting,optimising. Since MBA is open to all, IEM should be open to all. It concerns about managing other kind of industries also,apart from mechanical industries

COMMENTS..
Vague idea Somebody told NITIE has this branch only. Study of Operation Research Doing MBA is easier than IEM

COMMENTS..
Wrong Idea MBA is globally recognized IEM for optimizing, MBA for empirical study There is no scope for IEM, simply a program to accommodate unemployed engineers.

QUESTIONIRE FOR IEM STUDENTS

If tomorrow you plan to go for PhD., then which

branch you will go with? What is the difference between IEM & MBA? Is it a core Mechanical Engineering branch? Should it accommodate students from all engineering background? What exactly this branch is all about?

If tomorrow you plan to go for PhD., then which branch you will go with?
IEM

Yes 44% No 56%

Is it a core Mechanical Engineering branch?

IEM

Yes 36%

No 64%

Should it accommodate students from all engineering background?

IEM

No 40%

Yes 60%

What is the difference between IEM & MBA? IEM

Good Idea 20%

Vague Idea 12% No Idea 68%

Good Idea
IEM is for technical world which an MBA cant

understand We are not managing the company as a whole. We are managing the production activities, basically.

INFERENCE
Lack of awareness among students.
Awareness problem within our branch also. Motivation

MANN- WHITNEY TEST

H0: Students have negative attitude regarding IEM H1: Students have positive attitude regarding IEM

PART 2 INDIRECT SURVEY

International Status of IEM

Wikipedia
US status

Total number of engineers employed in 2006 = 1.5 million (apprx) Of these, 201,000 were industrial engineers (13.3%) ,the third most popular engineering specialty. The average starting salaries being $55,067 with a bachelor's degree, $64,759 with a master's degree, and $77,364 with a doctorate degree. This places industrial engineering at 7th of 15 among engineering bachelors degrees, 3rd of 10 among masters degrees, and 2nd of 7 among doctorate degrees in average annual salary. The median annual income of industrial engineers in the U.S. workforce is $68,620. Norwegian Status The average total starting salary in 2011for industrial engineers =$83,100 average total salary in general is $172 600.

International Status of IEM..

TimesHigherStudies survey

IEM is for Mechanical Engg people only

Distribution of faculty background
Faculty Background
Math/Stat 8% From websites of: 1)IITs 2)NITs 3) ISM Dhanbad 4)NITIE Mumbai

Mech/Prod 17%

Other 40% Civil 2% CS 13% Electrical 9%

Electronics 11%

Difference between IEM & MBA

Problem: Lets say this year your job is to manage a research management. You have 5$ million in funding for this year,with varying resource requirements, timing & risk. How do you decide how to allocate?

Answer
MBA approach: He will calculate the expected Net Present Value of each project, order them from highest to lowest, and start allocating from top to bottom. IEM approach: He will develop a stochastic optimization problem with a objective function to maximize profit (risk & reward as variables).

Mann Whitney test

CONCLUSION
IEM is not for only Mechanical Engineers. IEM is globally accepted, comes within top 10 most sought

branches & top 10 highest paid job. Currently facing very basic but very severe problems
Lack of awareness
Misconceptions Lack of motivation Placement

We should focus to these basic problems, then we can go

for high level thinking

SUGGESTIONS
For inter purpose A society for Industrial Engineers

Orientation program for newly admitted batch Annual gathering of IE engineers from different institutes in Kerala Gathering all IE students under one roof. Experience sharing by alumni & corporate executives

SUGGESTIONS..
For external purpose Periodic news letter

Projecting our branch to the world Creating awarness Activities in the current period Events Whats going on Coordinating other colleges Achievements of this branch since inception Documentation

Annual magazine

ENDING QUOTE
Industries rule the world Akio Morita Co-Founder, Sony Corporation
Industrial Engineers rule the industries by Us

THANK YOU