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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. They 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 on-line to students world-wide.  

Program requirements:
Thirty credits are required comprising 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 are made up of elective courses offered by MSE or other programs related to engineering and business.

Curriculum

MSE Program 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
  

MSE Program 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)

MBA & E: The Master of Business Administration and Engineering program with a Manufacturing Systems Engineering concentration is a forty-five credit hour option with a greater concentration in business.

Certificate of Completion: Students who successfully complete four (4) MSE-numbered courses may apply to the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering for a Certificate of Completion.

Academic Advisor: Professor Keith Gardiner, 610-758-5070/e-mail: Keith.Gardiner@Lehigh.edu. Manufacturing Systems Engineering website: www.Lehigh.edu/~inmse/gradprogram

For more information, including current course offerings and tuition, please visit our website at: www.distance.lehigh.edu