The Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MFG) track offered by the I S E department is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully meet the most difficult challenges of modern manufacturing industries on a global scale. The track provides engineers with detailed state-of-the-art knowledge of both traditional and advanced manufacturing technologies, systems integration techniques, economic analysis methods, and operations management practices and principles. Based upon this knowledge, students develop the ability to perform analysis, evaluation, and synthesis for a broad range of problems related to the design, implementation, and efficient operation of manufacturing systems. Prerequisites for any manufacturing systems engineering degree are an ABET-accredited B.S. degree in engineering (or equivalent).
Students within the graduate program in the manufacturing systems engineering track are assumed to have had undergraduate courses in simulation and optimization. If this is not the case, such students must make up this deficiency by either taking the appropriate undergraduate courses or by taking graduate courses in these areas. If graduate courses are taken, they can be used in the plan of study as elective credits towards the degree requirements.
The Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MFG) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is designed to provide an opportunity for in-depth independent research in a highly-focused problem domain approved by the student’s advisory committee. To perform such research, courses relevant to the problem domain are necessary. The culmination of the research is the Ph.D. dissertation. The Ph.D. degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering is intended primarily for those desiring to develop expertise in a particular, focused problem domain. Degree students typically seek research-oriented industrial positions or academic appointments.
