Topic: Manufacturing Engineering Management
 
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Shanlin Yang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Xinbao Liu, Hefei University of Technology, China
 
Guest Editors

Fred W. Glover	University of Colorado	USA
Ignacio E. Grossmann	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
Nenad Mladenovic	Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts	Serbia
Nicholas Hall	Ohio State University	USA
Asoo J. Vakharia	University of Florida	USA
Sergiy Butenko	Texas A&M University	USA
Oleg A. Prokopyev	University of Pittsburgh	USA
Wanpracha A. Chaovalitwongse	University of Washington	USA
Giuseppe Nicosia	University of Catania	Italy
Theodore B. Trafalis	The University of Oklahoma	USA
Athanasios Migdalas	Lulea University of Technology	Sweden
Claude Baron	University of Toulouse	France
Cheng Wu	Tsinghua University	China
Chongqin Guo	Tongji University	China
Binshi Xu	Academy of Armored Force Engineering	China
Bingheng Lu	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China
Qidi Wu	Tongji University	China
Tianyou Chai	Northeastern University	China
Qiao Xiang	Aero Engine Corporation of China	China

Description
Frontiers of Engineering Management is a research journal sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, administered jointly by Tsinghua University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and published by Higher Education Press, China. The journal is international in its scope and mission. It is published quarterly in English in both print and online versions. Frontiers of Engineering Management provides a high-quality international platform for academic researchers, industry professionals and other constituent communities in the broad field of engineering management to impart and share the latest research results and knowledge in the form of research articles, review articles and special reports.
Frontiers of Engineering Management strives to promote the advancement of the science of engineering management, the improvement of the practice of engineering management, and the preparation of researchers and practitioners to address contemporary and future challenges in engineering management. The topics covered by the journal include general, specialty and cross-disciplinary studies in engineering management, both theoretical and applied, and studies related to engineering management education worldwide.
 
Aims and scope
Frontiers of Engineering Management announces a forthcoming issue on “Manufacturing Engineering Management”, targeting at solving the key scientific issues in the situation where the Internet and big data technology is deeply integrated into manufacturing industry. Based on the theories and methods of optimization and decision making, information management, organization management, quality management, cost management, risk management, and life cycle assessment in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering, this special issue focuses on the engineering management issues involved in the research and development, production, service and remanufacturing of high-end equipment.
In order to construct the innovation system of high-end equipment manufacturing engineering management based on Internet and big data technology, this special issue covers the research on decision making, planning, organization, command, coordination, and control of all resources involved in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering.
Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:
 ●  Philosophy in manufacturing engineering management
 ●  Optimization and decision theory in manufacturing engineering
 ●  Information management in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  Organizational management in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  Quality management in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  Cost management in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  Risk management in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  Life cycle assessment in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering
 ●  R&D project management of high-end equipment
 ●  Production engineering management of high-end equipment
 ●  Service engineering management of high-end equipment
 ●  Remanufacturing engineering management of high-end equipment
 
Submission Details
To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fem. Under “Manuscript Type”, please select “Manufacturing Engineering Management”. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in accordance with the established policies and procedures of the journal. Papers will be selected for publication following the outcome of the peer review process and subsequent decisions of the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief.
 
Important Dates
 ●  Submission deadline: March. 1, 2018
 ●  First decision notification: June. 1, 2018
 ●  Submission of revised paper: July.1, 2018
 ●  Final decision notification: Aug. 1, 2018
 ●  Expected publication date: September, 2018 (to be determined by the journal editor)