Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) is one of the most successful fields in contemporary engineering education. It attracts good students, produces highly attractive engineers, and has important influence on firm management and competitiveness, both as results of advances in IEM research and the central position of alumni in industry. 

The aim of the Scandinavian Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management (ScAIEM) is to strengthen academic education and research within the field of Industrial Engineering and Management in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

Hence, ScAIEM prioritize the following activities:

• Promote academic IEM research and education on all levels – from graduate, postgraduate and doctoral level – at faculties of engineering in the Nordic countries.
• Facilitate close interaction between education, research and practice so that they may strengthen each other.
• Stimulate cooperation between IEM educational and research institutions in the Nordics and encourage contact and collaboration between individuals of different sub disciplines of IEM.
• Perform systematic analysis of the content, direction and quality of IEM education.
• Collaborate with similar associations beyond the Nordics.

IEM has expanded significantly during the last decades and there is a growing demand for management knowledge at the interface between technology and engineering. By addressing managerial issues, like effectiveness, innovation, and sustainability, in engineering contexts, industrial engineering and management seek to be in the forefront to enable global competitiveness.