Manufacturing engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering. Manufacturing engineering requires the ability to plan the practices of manufacturing; to research and to develop tools, processes, machines and equipment; and to integrate the facilities and systems for producing quality products with the optimum expenditure of capital.

The manufacturing engineer's primary focus is to turn raw material into an updated or new product in the most effective, efficient & economic way possible. Students who complete specific courses in this area may obtain a minor in Manufacturing Engineering from the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department.

Recommended Technical Elective Offerings

• ME 435: Plastics and Polymer Processing in Manufacturing
• IME 380: CAD/CAM for Manufacturing
• IME 430: Process Engineering
• IME 431: Production Engineering
• IME 432: Composite Materials Manufacturing
• IME 433: Additive Manufacturing
• IME 437: Methods for Precision Manufacturing
• IME 482: Automated Manufacturing Systems