| The Department of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) was established in the year 1985 and was affiliated to Bangalore University. The department was offering a four-year under graduate degree programme in BE (IPE) with focus on industrial engineering and production engineering. Considering the opinion of the recruiting agencies, elite academicians and consequent to the opening up of Indian economy, the department switched over from traditinal business practices to contemprory engineeing and management interventions, it was renamed as "Department of Industrial Engineering and Management" in the year 1992. |  |