By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
The Department of Industrial Engineering won the Innovations in Curriculum Award of Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) at the annual meeting of IIE held in Nashville, Tennessee on May 20.
The subject of the award-winning project is Logistics Laboratory. Competing with American universities, the project won the first place and became the only winner of this award. It is the first time for IIE to set up such an award.
The Department of Industrial Engineering was established in 2001 with Dr. Gavriel Salvendy as the founding chair professor and department head. The Logistics Laboratory was set up in 2004.
