Master of Science (M.S.) Degree
Degree Requirements
For the M.S.
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 eight 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 eight 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.
- Manufacturing Systems
- Manufacturing Processes
- Control Systems
- Design
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Materials
- Any graduate course in Materials Science and Engineering
- Financial Processes
- Statistics and Quality Assurance
- Health Systems Engineering
Suggested courses from other cores:
- MIS 573 System Design and Development can be taken as part of Manufacturing Systems
- MIS 574 Enterprise Systems can be taken as part of Manufacturing Systems
- OIE 555 Lean Process Design can be taken as part of Manufacturing Systems
- MFE 520 Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Processes can be taken as part of Design OIE Quantitative Methods can be taken as part of Statistics and Quality OIE Designing and Managing Six- Sigma Processes can be taken as part of Statistics and Quality
- A course taken from the Financial Processes core
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