Manufacturing Engineering - Focus area

This subject area deals with the mechanical, thermal, physical, and chemical processes constituting the manufacture of high-tech products — including design, fabrication, joining, and post-processing.

This subject area covers all processing steps, which materials undergo within the fabrication chain before they are used in a product, constructions or component.

Manufacturing Engineering particularly focuses on the development of advanced technologies, for example in additive manufacturing as well as the fabrication of microcomponents based on metallic or polymer materials. It also deals with product engineering, design and optimization of products, as well as the analysis and optimization of process chains and production systems from micro- to macro scale.

The focus is on Industry 4.0, in which process characterization and modelling, including measuring techniques and quality assurance, are an integral part of Manufacturing Engineering, also in the interplay with Materials Engineering.

The link between Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering is essential to the MSc Eng programme, and is reflected in the various courses which forms the programme.

Example of a study plan: Manufacturing Engineering

Example study plan starting in the spring semester with focus on Manufacturing Engineering.

Polytechnical foundation
Programme specific courses
1.Semester
41737
Design of plastic products
5 point
41656
Materials in advanced applications and products
10 point
41658
Methods for experimental materials... Methods for experimental materials characterization
5 point
42501
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
5 point
2.Semester
41730
Industrial forming of metals
5 point
41733
Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of... Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components
5 point
41740
Digital Manufacturing - Industry 4.0
5 point
41662
Physical metallurgy
5 point
41742
Introduction to micro mechanical systems... Introduction to micro mechanical systems design and manufacture
5 point
41743
Micro product design, development and... Micro product design, development and production
5 point
3.Semester
41669
Advanced surface engineering
5 point
41734
Geometrical metrology and machine... Geometrical metrology and machine testing
5 point
41748
Modelling in materials and manufacturing... Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - thermomechanics
5 point
41739
Experimental plastic and metal... Experimental plastic and metal processing technology
5 point
4.Semester
Thesis
Master Thesis
30 point

Example study plan starting in the fall semester with focus on Manufacturing Engineering.

Polytechnical foundation
Programme specific courses
Thesis
Electives
1.Semester
41740
Digital Manufacturing - Industry 4.0
5 point
41730
Industrial forming of metals
5 point
41747
Modelling in materials and manufacturing... Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - heat transfer and diffusion
5 point
41749
Precision Machining
5 point
42500
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
5 point
2.Semester
41737
Design of plastic products
5 point
41656
Materials in advanced applications and products
10 point
41734
Geometrical metrology and machine... Geometrical metrology and machine testing
5 point
41748
Modelling in materials and manufacturing... Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - thermomechanics
5 point
41739
Experimental plastic and metal... Experimental plastic and metal processing technology
5 point
3.Semester
46420
Composite Materials and Fibres
5 point
41733
Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of... Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components
5 point
41662
Physical metallurgy
5 point
41653
Corrosion (theory and engineering)
10 point
41743
Micro product design, development and... Micro product design, development and production
5 point
4.Semester
Thesis
Master Thesis
30 point