Manufacturing Engineering

Overview

With the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program’s growth, the new Manufacturing Engineering program at Brigham Young University is dedicated to maintaining this focus on experiential learning. New courses in smart manufacturing, design for manufacture and assembly, and manufacturing systems simulation, along with the program’s new automation, quality, and additive manufacturing laboratories will add to the existing CNC, plastics & composites, manual machining, welding, casting, and friction stir joining facilities to ensure students are prepared to tackle today’s issues.

Program Requirements: 

• Credit hours: a minimum of 30 hours, six of which are thesis hours.  The remaining 24 hours are coursework, half of which must be offered by Manufacturing Engineering.
• Of the 24 hours of coursework required, 21 credit hours must be at 500+ level, with 3 credits at the 400+ level upon approval by graduate committee.
• Students from programs other than manufacturing engineering or from a non-ABET accredited program may be admitted provisionally, but may be required to take additional undergraduate courses during the first year.  Applicants will work with their potential graduate committee chair (advisor) to determine exactly which courses will be required.  These courses are prerequisites and will NOT count toward the MS degree.
• Program of study: each student must submit a study list of approved courses during the first semester.
• Prospectus: each student must submit a written prospectus during the second semester.
• Biannual Evaluations: each student’s progress will be evaluated twice a year, in January and May. Satisfactory progress must be maintained in order to remain in the program.