School Profile

The School of Information Management and Engineering was formerly the Department of Information Management, which was established in 1982. The current name of the school was adopted in March 2005. It offers three undergraduate degree programs, including Information Management and Information Systems, E-Business, and Computer Science and Technology. The school also has two master's degree programs, E-business and Management Science and Engineering, and two doctorate programs, Enterprise Information Management and Enterprise Management Decision-Making. In collaboration with IBM Corporation, the school has also established an E-business lab. Currently, there are 780 undergraduate students, 86 master's students and 9 doctoral candidates. There are 39 full time faculty members. 28 of them, comprising 72% of the faculty, are professors, associate professors, or have received doctorate degrees.

Development Plans

We are working to obtain authorization from the Ministry of Education to award the PhD degree in the first grade discipline of Management Science and Engineering, and establish a post-doctoral program in this area. We are also working to obtain authorization to award the master’s degree in the first grade discipline of Computer Science and Technology, which will create a basis for eventually offering a PhD degree in the same field. We also want to be authorized to confer the master's degree in the three second grade disciplines of Computer Software and Theory, Computer Systems Architecture and Computer Application Technologies; and also be authorized to confer Master of Engineering degrees. We aim to build 2 to 3 related undergraduate programs in the aforementioned disciplines. We will make an effort to ensure at least one of our new second grade disciplines becomes a Shanghai municipal key discipline. We are striving to develop SIME into a leading academic institution in China in the field of information management and engineering, with an appreciable degree of international influence.

Organizational Structure

Faculty

There are 39 full time faculty members. 28 of these faculty members, comprising 72% of the total, are professors or associate professors, or have received doctorate degrees.

Leading Scholars

Professor Wang Yingluo (Visiting Professor, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)

Professor Wang Yingluo is a well-known expert and a leader in the discipline of Management Science and Engineering, and in the discipline of Systems Engineering in China. In his 50 plus year research and teaching career, he has completed more than 10 national level research projects with groundbreaking results. The numerous honors he has received include the title of “Leading Technology Worker in the Higher Education Sector at the National Level”, awarded jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He won a third prize National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, eight first or second prize provincial or ministry level Scientific and Technological Progress Awards, and three national or provincial awards for excellence in education. He was the first doctoral supervisor and post-doctoral program supervisor in the field of management engineering in China.

Professor Xue Huacheng

Professor Xue Huacheng is one of the founders of the management information systems major in Chinese universities and is one of the leading scholars in field of management information systems. He is a visiting professor in SUFE and is a doctoral program supervisor. His research interests include management information system development and management decision support systems. He has completed 6 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation or by the National High-Tech R&D program (“863 program”).

Professor Qin Zheng

Professor Qin Zheng is the Dean of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Information Management and Engineering. His academic research covers E-business and business intelligence, enterprise (government) application integration and collaborative commerce.He is the leader of several research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, Provincial Natural Science Foundation and projects carried out in collaboration with private enterprise. He has published over 70 journal articles and 5 books, and holds 2 national patents.

Research Bases

Information System Intelligence Simulation Laboratory

Institute of E-Business and E-Government

Institute of Decision Management and Decision Consultation

Research Achievements

3 Ongoing National Natural Science Foundation Projects.

3 Provincial or Ministerial Natural Science Foundation projects.

Published more than 100 research papers in academic journals such as Softscience, Journal of Management Sciences in China, and Scientific Management Research.

Partnerships and Collaborations

We have engaged in broad academic exchange and collaborations with universities and institutions in the United States, Great Britain, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

We have established stable, long-term, cooperation with IBM Corporation.

We established our E-business laboratory in collaboration with IBM.

We have set up regular academic exchanges and visits between students and faculty members from our school and the Central University of Taiwan.

Contact:

Tel.: +86-21 6590 3873

Fax : +86-21 6590 4540

Web : http://www.shufe.edu.cn/isdept/index.htm(Chinese)

E-mail: sime@mail.shufe.edu.cn