The Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering is cross-disciplinary and works with faculty in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Business and Economics and the College of Arts and Science. The Center was created in response to the expressed needs of industry for educational and research activities directed at solving problems of manufacturing industries.

Systems of manufacturing are an essential foundation for maintenance of quality of life. Manufacturing embraces all engineering activities and disciplines; without manufacturing there would be only limited capability for advancements in the sciences, technology and international comity. Manufacturing systems contribute to and enhance the overall wealth of society. The Center collaborates, coordinates, drives, and supports activities that advance these aims.

Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program

Graduate Study Overview

Lehigh's award-winning cross-disciplinary program in manufacturing systems engineering (MSE) provides education for professional engineers and scientists to help their companies secure and maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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.
• The opportunity to work on teams with other professionals to solve real-time problems.
• Flexibility - part-time students can complete the degree requirements in two years; classes are offered on-campus, broadcast through Lehigh's distance-education program to students across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and available on-line world-wide.

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 through the total manufacturing cycle, including customer service.

Students wishing to enroll in the MSE program must have industrial experience. Thirty credits are required for the M.S. A forty-five credit MBA&E degree with an MSE concentration is available. A certificate can be earned by the satisfactory completion of 12 MSE credits.

The MSE program is administered by the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Faculty affiliated with the program represent the academic departments in the Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Arts and Sciences. All have extensive backgrounds in technology transfer with industry.

The program has received the University LEAD Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for incorporating the latest in graduate education and research relating to manufacturing.

MSE course work has a successful history as a component of the General Motors Technical Education Program. MSE courses have been included as electives for programs at Kettering, Purdue, the University of Michigan, and other institutions.

Program Data

Degree offered: M.S.

Number of degrees awarded since 1984: 357

Companies enrolling students in the MSE program: Air Products and Chemicals, Arrow International, AstraZeneca, B. Braun, Berry Plastics, Binney & Smith, Bosch, CNH America, Dent Mfg., Ford, Genetech, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Ingersoll Rand, JSP Intl., Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Mack Trucks, Inc., Mercedes-USA, Merck & Co., Millipore Corporation, Northrup Grumman, Pfizer, Reliant Energy, Sandia, Sanofi Pasteur (Aventis), Silberline Manufacturing, Tecolote Research, Inc., TYCO, Visteon.

Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Prof. Keith Gardiner, director, kg03@lehigh.edu
Carolyn Jones, coordinator, ccj1@lehigh.edu
phone: 610-758-5157; fax: 610-758-6527
www.lehigh.edu/~inmse/gradprogram/