Introduction to Kiuchi Laboratory

Abstract

　The Kiuchi Laboratory in the Department of International Management, College of Business Administration at Tamagawa University focuses on the research of the growing field of Industrial Engineering. For example, it concentrates its efforts in the study of the processes that organize information, and the ones that deal with the corporate activities in the engineering production and supply chains, where mainly Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is utilized.
　For undergraduate students, the purpose of the seminar is to allow them to naturally and progressively develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. In order to achieve it, several exercises will be proposed such as business games, operations management exercises, business creation exercises and others. For graduate students, methodologies and frameworks which will contribute to possible solutions for the problems company activities might encounter will be developed through the studies during the Master’s degree.