Message from the Department Chair
20 January 2024 2024-01-28 17:20- January 20, 2024
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Message from the Department Chair
MESSAGE FROM THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Dear Students,
We welcome you to the Department of Industrial Management & Technology (DIMT) and congratulate you on your success. Our Department began its operation in 1991. It is the genuine successor of the “School of Industrial Studies” that was founded back in 1938, evolved to the “Higher Industrial School of Piraeus” in 1958, and was finally renamed as the “University of Piraeus” in 1989.
The DIMT is a dynamic, evolving cell of the University of Piraeus, with goals, vision and a promising future. Its distinctive advantage – and at the same time its added value – is that it combines management science with the technological component in the field of industrial enterprise, thus differentiating it from general business administration studies. Let’s try to understand what this actually means.
Every day we all use products and goods that have been produced through industrial processes and procedures. But what does industrial production involve? Questions like how a product is designed, how do we choose the materials to use, what equipment to choose and how to put it into operation, how to plan our production using available resources in an optimal manner, how to manage our supplies and how we organize our distributions, how we set our strategy in the face of competition, how we manage and motivate our executives, how we leverage our information and how we analyze our business data, how we manage energy and environmental challenges, how we make business decisions under uncertainty, how we set up reliable and quality production units, etc., are required on a daily basis in an industrial enterprise so that we can enjoy various innovative and sustainable products.
In your undergraduate studies at DIMT you will have the opportunity to learn and practice the methods that provide us with answers to these (and many more) questions and use modern software tools to support your decisions, implement strategies and solve problems that require knowledge and skills in the contemporary, technologically advanced industry. But above all, you will develop a broad and critical way of thinking and discover the challenges and the fascination of combining technological and managerial knowledge, which shape both the modern scientist and the successful business executive.
Our Department, as well as our University in general, will be by your side at every step of this path, providing you with knowledge and opportunities and opening windows for you to discover attractive areas of interest.
From your side, you should be consistent, operate with academic principles, make every day count and always evolve.
I wish you all have a creative academic year!
Professor Dimitrios Emiris
Department Chair
