Master's in Manufacturing Degree Requirements

Courses in this program are offered by various departments in the College of Engineering, primarily through the Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments. The degree requirements are 21 credits in core classes and 18 credits in electives, for a total of 39 credits.

Each student will be able to shape the UW Manufacturing Program to his or her vision through technical electives. Thus, students will be able to blend Engineering Science, Engineering Design, and Engineering Management to suit their needs in the following key areas:

• Manufacturing Processes
• Engineering Design & Management
• Simulation and Modeling
• Statistical Methods & Experimental Design
• Quality & Reliability Engineering
• Computational & Optimization Methods
• CIM/CAD/CAM

Core classes (21 credits):

• IND E 533 (3cr) Computational Methods in Design amd Manufacturing
• ME 572 or IND E 594 (3cr)  Methodologies for Engineering Design: Conceptual Design / Engineering Design and Management
• ME 501 (3cr)  Manufacturing Processes
• IND E 524 (3cr)  Robust Design and Quality Engineering
• IND E 521 (3cr)  Quality Control in Manufacturing
• IND E 531 (3cr)  Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• IND E / ME 518 (3cr)  Seminar

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Technical Electives (18 credits):

Any course offered through EDGE can be used as a technical elective course.

Courses can be chosen from the following areas:

Materials

• Composites
• Polymers
• Electronic Packaging
• Engineering Considerations: Fatigue, Stress Analysis

Manufacturing Processes

• Metal Forming
• Material Removal Processes
• Numerical Control
• Machining Methods
• Friction and Wear

Optimization

• Optimization in Engineering Design
• Linear Optimization
• Fundamentals of Optimization
• System Dynamics and Control

Management

• Management Decision Models
• Entrepreneurship
• Management of Engineering Design

Manufacturing Systems and Design

• Large Scale Assembly
• Knowledge Based Engineering Design
• Probabilistic Mechanical Design
• Flexible and Robotic Systems
• Conceptual Design
• Robust Design

Reliability and Quality

• Reliability in Product Designs & Testing
• Reliability and System Safety SQC and TQM

Manufacturing Systems

• CIM/CAD/CAM
• Large Scale Manufacturing
• Virtual Reality

Engineering Science

• Finite Element Analysis
• Stress Analysis
• Fracture Mechanics
• Fatigue
• Adhesion Mechanics

Automation, Control, Robotics

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