The Department of Industrial Logistics was established in 1992 on the initiative of Professor Albert Alekseevich Kolobov (1935-2010), Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, a prominent scientist in the field of organization and design of production systems. Under the leadership of A.A. Kolobov, the ideas of a systematic approach to the management of high-tech machine-building production were developed at the department, the principal novelty of which was the combination of engineering knowledge with the principles of logistics-oriented management and strategic planning.

The training of specialists under the leadership of A.A. Kolobov was based on the principle of integration of interdisciplinary scientific knowledge in the fields of engineering, production organization, logistics, marketing and management. Since 1993, scientific directions in the field of logistics and marketing of high-tech production have been distinguished at the department.

Since 2010, the department has been headed by Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation Irina Nikolaevna Omelchenko. A.A. Kolobov and I.N. Omelchenko are the founders of the scientific school of industrial logistics nationwide.

A large scientific baggage allows the department to carry out high-quality training of bachelors in the following areas:

innovation;
management;
applied mathematics;
business informatics.

Masters — in the following areas:

organization and management of high-tech industries;
applied mathematics;
high-tech technologies and the economics of innovation.

The department successfully trains scientific and pedagogical personnel of the highest qualification, there is a postgraduate course in the following specialties:

management in technical systems;
economy.

Many teachers of the department have completed internships and training at foreign universities, successfully cooperate with large domestic industrial enterprises, have work experience in production.

Research work at the Department of "Industrial Logistics" is developing in the following relevant areas:

development of the methodology of logistics management of knowledge-intensive production;
development of logistics systems to support the life cycle of products;
creation and management of innovation infrastructure;
management of modern engineering and organization of production of innovative products;
research in the field of strategic management, investment management and high-tech marketing;
research and application of modern information systems and technologies in engineering, logistics, marketing and management.

The professional competencies of graduates of the department are knowledge of methods of organizing resource support for high—tech production systems and optimizing the processes of movement and processing of material resources in the system of integrated enterprises.

Since its foundation, the department has produced more than 7000 management engineers.

Outstanding graduates of the department:

Eroshin Sergey Evgenievich — Head of the Research Department of the Scientific and Educational Center of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey", Candidate of Technical Sciences;
Fatkulov Ilya Eduardovich — Strategy Partner of VSK Insurance House;
Sharifzoda Dilshodjon — Deputy Director of the Department of Project Development of Territories of the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Science of the Ministry of Defense;
Maxim Vitalievich Yazev is the Head of the Deep Analytics Department at Alfa—Bank.