Manufacturing Systems Engineering - Program Overview
Manufacturing encompasses many disciplines, topics, skills and rapidly changing knowledge. The Master of Science Degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) is designed to provide continuous lifelong learning opportunities to aid technical leaders in maintaining the competitiveness of their operations.
Key features of the program include courses in agile and lean manufacturing, e-commerce, international supply-chain management, sustainability, and other current topics that are immediately applicable in the workplace. Students must have industrial experience in order to work on teams with other professionals to solve real-time problems.
The MSE program allows students to integrate systems perspectives with interdisciplinary education, combining the academic study of engineering and business with project work, and topical industry-related research activities. The program covers business planning and management, product design, and manufacturing processes and technology. It emphasizes that quality assurance is introduced at the design level and monitored throughout the total manufacturing cycle, including customer service.
Part-time students can complete the degree requirements in two years. Classes are offered on-campus, broadcast through Lehigh's distance-education satellite program to students across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and online to students world-wide.
Program Requirements
Thirty credits are required comprising of four mandatory MSE core courses, at least one elective with an
MSE-number, three credits of project (MSE 451) or six credits of thesis (MSE 490), with remaining credits are made up of elective courses offered by MSE or other programs related to engineering and business.
Core Courses
| MSE 362/IE 362 | Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
| MSE 421/GBUS 481 | Technology, Operations and Competitive Strategy |
| MSE 427/IE 443 | Automation and Production Systems |
| MSE 438 | Agile Organizations and Manufacturing Systems |
Electives
| MSE 423 | Product Design/Analysis |
| MSE 431 | Marketing & the Invention to Innovation Process |
| MSE 433 | Technology & the Factory of the Future |
| MSE 446 | International Supply Chain Management |
| MSE 496 | Microelectronics Manufacturing Systems & Technologies |
| MSE 498 | Special Topics (this has been ABM-ABC, or other topics) |
Students who successfully complete four (4) MSE-numbered courses may apply to the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering for a Certificate of Completion. All certificate credits may be used toward the completion of the MS degree.
The cost from summer 2008 through spring 2009 is $645 per credit hour plus $100.00 access fee for each online course.
The cost for Professional Continuing Education Courses can be found on the course listing.
Academic Advisor: Professor Keith Gardiner, 610-758-5070/e-mail: Keith.Gardiner@Lehigh.edu .
Manufacturing Systems Engineering website: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inmse/gradprogram/