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Tunghai University-News--Department of IEEI won the 2016 Technology Management Award
Department of IEEI won the 2016 Technology Management Award
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- Date : 2016-11-16
To facilitate the academic research and practical application of technology management, the Chinese Society for Management of Technology acknowledges individuals as well as teams who have achieved outstanding performances. With prudent evaluation, each year, only two Awards for Technology Management are given in the academic/research area.
This year, the Optimal Decision Systems Research Team led by Assistant Professor Shao-Jen Weng of the Tunghai Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information received one of the awards. The other was given to Industrial Technology Research Institute. For the eighteen years of this event, Tunghai University was the second university to receive such an honor. It also marked the history of the first Department of Industrial Engineering ever to be graced.
Established in 1963, the Tunghai Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information was the very first department related to industrial engineering in the Greater China region. It focuses on research and academic development with a core goal of system design integration and theoretical research development. Professor Shao-Jen Weng joined the department in 2009, organizing and leading the newly built Optimal Decision Systems Research Team. The team has been actively collaborating with various industries including the optoelectronic semiconductor industry, medical industry, precision machinery industry, plastic die-casting industry, recreation and tourism management industry, and more.
The total expense of medical service for Taiwan takes up 6 to 7 percent of the nation’s GDP. In order to lower costs and improve profits, hospitals strive to expand scale and improve operation efficiency. The Tunghai research team incorporated system modeling, lean management, RFID, cloud computing, App, statistics and analytics, and big data analysis onto medical and hospital management. Over the years it has been recognized by the medical in providing advices and improvement on managerial decision-makings to the medical industry. Through effectively combining foundations of industry, academia, and research, it has built a cluster of the medical industry by integrating multi-disciplinary applications with industrial engineering as its core.
According to Professor Weng, based on the team’s experience, there was an estimate of resource waste equivalent to 330 billion NT dollars in the total medical expense of Taiwan. The research team would continue to improve medical resource allocation through the help of the management of technology, hoping to contribute to Taiwan’s medical environment as well as increase people’s well-being.