Blog Post 4: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

The Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) is an European open access journal that aims to publish researches related to the understanding of industrial management and industrial engineering problems in organizations from four major perspectives:

(1)Production Planning/Scheduling/Inventory, 

(2) Logistics/Supply Chain, Quality Management, 

(3) Operations Management and

(4)Operational Research.

The main areas of interest of the journal include:

• Supply Chain
• Lean manufacturing
• Operations improvement
• Innovation management in operations 
• Operations in service industry
• Operational Research
• Total Quality Management
• Total Productive Maintenance
• How to manage workforce in operations
• Logistic in general

JIEM publishes three regular issues a year and authors must pay a fee of 295 euros per article accepted. According to the Journal's open access policy, research should be "freely available to the public and supports a greater global exchange of knowledge" and thus, all its content is immediate available and open to the public. JIEM adopts a new model of Dynamic Journal Issue in which authors do not need to wait a long time for publication as traditional publication systems. In this model, the journal is always open to new contributions and therefore, it accelerates accelerates the impact of authors' contribution and also brings the possibility of referencing the article in future research as soon as it is accepted by our reviewers and editors.

If you are from the Industrial Engineering field, access:

http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem

Blog Post 3: MIT invests in Artificial Intelligence for Educational Purposes

MIT has decided to invest $1 billion to address the challenges brought by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Within this, $350 million will go to the foundation of MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, named after the CEO and co-founder of Blackstone. This new branch of MIT will serve as the center for interdisciplinary work in computer science, AI, data science, and related fields seeking to establish its position as a key entity within these fields. This act from MIT records the largest investment that an American educational institution in AI as well as the biggest change to MIT since the 1950s. The college is currently scheduled to open its doors on September 2019 but a new building, specifically for these fields, is scheduled to be built by 2022. MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will create 50 new faculty positions as well bring a new deanship for the college itself. 

I believe that MIT has made this investment not only to establish position at the very top but to bring new minds together to propel these fields towards the future at a faster rate. The college will develop a new curricula that connects computer science and AI with other disciplines and you can expect new innovative technologies to come with this new college to support its courses and research. MIT is without a doubt planning on creating a new legacy within its computing discipline. They have proved once again its commitment to enhance education in technological disciplines, make it accessible to those who wish to pursue it and advance our society through its numerous researches. MIT as always been ever present within the top engineering colleges in the United States and with this moves they have guaranteed their spot for decades to come.

Source: http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015