This area focuses on processing materials and designing
control systems used to transform the initial elements.
Examples of topics include metal cutting and forming,
integrated circuit fabrication, welding, casting, polymer
processing, and automatic control systems. Courses in
this core area are:
| ChE 450 |
Process Design |
| ChE 470 |
Process Dynamics and Control |
| ChE 540 |
Polymer Science and Technology
|
| ChE 541 |
Plastics and High Polymer Laboratory |
| ChE 770 |
Advanced Process Dynamics and
Control |
| ECE 453 |
Digital Microprocessors |
| ECE 468 |
Digital Computer Projects in Control
and Instrumentation |
| ECE/NEEP 528 |
Plasma Processing and Technology
|
| ECE 549 |
Integrated Circuit Fabrication
Laboratory |
| IE 415 |
Introduction to Manufacturing
Systems, Design and Analysis |
| IE 691 |
Rapid Prototyping Technologies:
Theory and Applications |
| ME/MS&E 415 |
Metal Forming |
| ME 417 |
Introduction to Polymer Processing
|
| ME 419 |
Fundamentals of Injection Molding |
| ME/MS&E 420 |
Powder Metallurgy |
| ME 428 |
Numerical Control |
| ME 429 |
Metal Cutting |
| ME 437 |
Advanced Welding Processes and
Materials Selection |
| ME 438 |
Weld Design and Inspection
|
| ME/ECE 439 |
Introduction to Robotics |
| ME 446 |
Automatic Controls |
| ME 447 |
Computer Control of Machines and
Processes |
| ME/ECE 577 |
Automatic Controls Laboratory |
| ME 601 |
Fundamentals of Microfabrication
(Lec. 11) |
| ME 717 |
Advanced Polymer Processing |
| ME 720 |
Advanced Powder Processing and
Particulate Engineering |
| ME 729 |
Stochastic Analysis of Machine
Tool Dynamics and Control |
| ME/ECE 739 |
Advanced Automation and Robotics
|
| ME 747 |
Advanced Computer
Control of Machines and Processes |
| MS&E 434 |
Introduction to Thin-Film Deposition
Processes |
| MS&E 461 |
Advanced Metal Casting |
| MS&E
465 |
Fundamentals of Heat
Treatment |
| MS&E 749 |
Advanced Foundry Metallurgy |
|
Other Areas: |
Product
Design and Process Planning |
| |
Design,
Operation and Improvement of Manufacturing Systems |
| |
Managerial
and Organizational Aspects |