Manufacturing continues to remain one of the leading contributors to the national GDP, and the growth and innovation within nearly all sectors of manufacturing can be attributed to data driven solutions. Smart manufacturing uses data generation and evaluation at various scales to help make informed decisions from control of specific equipment to the operation of an entire factory. Smart or intelligent manufacturing technologies being applied to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce costs include digital engineering/design/manufacturing, robotics and automation, real-time data analytics, lean and agile process management, six sigma statistical process control, and additive manufacturing. Smarter, automated and more flexible companies need academically qualified and skilled manufacturing engineers. Manufacturing continues to remain one of the leading contributors to the national GDP, and the growth and innovation within nearly all sectors of manufacturing can be attributed to data driven solutions. Smart manufacturing uses data generation and evaluation at various scales to help make informed decisions from control of specific equipment to the operation of an entire factory. Smart or intelligent manufacturing technologies being applied to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce costs include digital engineering/design/manufacturing, robotics and automation, real-time data analytics, lean and agile process management, six sigma statistical process control, and additive manufacturing. Smarter, automated and more flexible companies need academically qualified and skilled manufacturing engineers.<br>Youll learn to identify and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. Youll then be prepared to create and apply new manufacturing technologies to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce cost. Teamwork, leadership, and communication skills are also stressed in the program. Our graduates typically work as manufacturing engineers in such areas as quality control, tool design, production engineering, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), or plant facilities engineering. After gaining industrial experience, graduates might enter the field of technical management as a production engineer, quality control manager, manufacturing engineer, operations manager, plant manager, or project engineer.