Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering

Master of Science (M.S.) Degree

For the M.S.

The WPI faculty has passed new requirements for the MS degree in MFE. The new requirements allow for considerably more flexibility in selecting the courses to satisfy the core. A student who satisfies the previous requirements will also satisfy the new ones. Any one course can only be used to satisfy distribution in one area.

The Manufacturing Engineering (MFE) program is intended to be flexible in order to meet student needs. Many MFE graduate students work full time as engineers, others are graduate teaching and research assistants. Some of the courses are offered in the evenings.

The M.S. Degree in MFE requires 30 credit hours of graduate studies. The 30 credits consist of a minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework, plus 18 credit hours of any combination of coursework, independent study, directed research or thesis that complies with the following constraints: if there is a thesis, it must at least 6 and no more than 12 credits; there can be no more than 9 credits of directed research; and the total number of credits from the Management Department cannot exceed 14.

The minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework must include a minimum of two credits each in at least four of the seven core areas. The coursework should be selected in consultation with an advisor from the MFE faculty. All full-time students are required to participate in the non-credit seminar course MFE 500.

The seven core areas, and corresponding suggested courses that students can select from to fulfill the requirements in each of these areas, are listed below. Courses that appear in more than one core area can only be used to fulfill the requirements in one.

  1. Manufacturing Systems
    • 1.1. MFE 530 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
    • 1.2. OIE 544 Supply Chain Analysis and Design
    • 1.3. OIE 548 Productivity Management
    • 1.4. OIE 555 Lean Process Design
    • 1.5. MIS 573 System Design and Development
    • 1.6. MIS 574 Enterprise Systems
  2. Manufacturing Processes
    • 2.1. MFE 520 Design and analysis of Manufacturing Processes
    • 2.2. MFE 511 Industrial Robotics

Or any graduate Manufacturing Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering course on a manufacturing process

  1. Control Systems
    • 3.1. MFE 510 Control and Monitoring of Manufacturing Processes
    • 3.2. MFE 511 Industrial Robotics

Or any graduate course in the Dynamics and Controls section of Mechanical Engineering

  1. Design
    • 4.1. MFE 540 Design for Manufacturability
    • 4.2. MFE 520 Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Processes
    • 4.3. ME 545 Computer-aided Design and Geometric Modeling
  2. Materials

Any graduate course in Materials Science and Engineering

  1. Financial Processes
    • 6.1. ACC 501 Financial Accounting
    • 6.2. FIN 502 Finance
    • 6.3. FIN 508 Economics of the Firm
    • 6.4. FIN 509 Domestic and Global Economic Environment of Business
    • 6.5. ACC 514 Business Analysis for Technological Managers (prerequisites: ACC 501, FIN 502, OIE 505, MKT 506 and FIN 508)
  2. Statistics and Quality Assurance
    • 7.1. OIE 505 Quantitative Methods
    • 7.2. MKT 506 Principles of Marketing
    • 7.3. OIE 558 Designing and Managing Six-Sigma Processes
    • Or any graduate Mathematical Sciences course on statistics
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