15 February 2001
Academia reacts
Graduate engineering students at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, in the heart of
the automobile industry, can now earn a master's degree concentrated in manufacturing
information systems, described by the college catalog as ". . . a response to the need of
students who want to complement, extend, and integrate technical and organizational knowledge
on information systems. The proposed program will also satisfy the need of the industry to
incorporate enterprisewide information systems to be competitive in the global marketplace."
North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, offers a similar program under the
auspices of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute, created in 1984 to
foster multidisciplinary graduate education in manufacturing systems technology. The
institute specifically recognizes that "the breadth of interest included in manufacturing
systems engineering covers the entire spectrum of the manufacturing process, together with
the impact of the technologies of automation, robotics, CAD, CAM, CIM, and artificial
intelligence." The industrial engineering graduate program offers a concentration in
information systems.
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