Abstract: Investigation is made for the current status of laboratories for the major of industrial engineering (IE) in China universities.These laboratories are then classified into four categories:demonstrative,comprehensive,confirmative,and that just at the planningphase.According to the characteristics of IE discipline as well as the objectives and requirements of personnel training,the contents of IE experiment are proposed to include basic IE experiments and modern IE experiments.With the above basis,the IE laboratory construction mode has also been defined,includes teaching laboratory,comprehensive laboratory,and platform laboratory.