Trends in Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing is one of the major wealth producing sectors of the world economy with a direct and powerful impact on the quality of life of everyone. The field of manufacturing has undergone dramatic changes during the past decade. Read More

TRENDS IN MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing is one of the major wealth producing sectors of the world economy with a direct and powerful impact on the quality of life of everyone. The field of manufacturing has undergone dramatic changes during the past decade. Diverse forces driving these changes include the following factors:

• rapid technological advances in areas such as computers, lasers, machine vision, robotics and automation;

• emerging new materials including polymers, composites and ceramics;

• an accelerating trend toward a global economy with intensified international trade competition; changing labor management relationships;

• dwindling natural resources;

• increasing energy costs;

• and, heightened environmental concerns.

These factors continue to produce new demands and exciting opportunities for manufacturing engineers. Graduates of the program have found diverse employment in manufacturing fields such as automotive, aerospace, defense, food processing, and consumer product manufacturing industries. Others have earned related graduate degrees at some of the nation's finest graduate engineering schools prior to assuming industry positions.

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