A RESEARCH SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT TREND OF RESEARCH PROJECT ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IN NATIONAL SCIENCE COUNCIL

ABSTRACT The industrial engineer is a great contribution to economic growth. Every year personal research projects ware being subsidized by industrial engineering department in National Science Council, which is developing research work in the field of industrial engineer. This Study applied content analysis that founds research situation on research projects. And it use grey prediction forecast that development trend on research projects. There are three conclusions of this study: (1) The popular research topics are product and environment design, soft computing, intelligent system, manufacture planning and service performance. (2) The popular research tools are experimental research, algorithm and fuzzy theory. (3) Form 1999 to 2002, the rate of research projects are growth which order are 12.66%, 16.25%, 16.02% and 16.17%. Those show industrial engineering department still growth that receives a grant from the government in future.