The Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Concentration is coordinated by the CME (Center for Manufacturing Enterprise), working cooperatively with the participating fields and the Master of Engineering program. The requirements for this concentration are described on the pages that follow. The Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Design Project (ORIE 5910) fulfills the ORIE MEng project requirement.
Manufacturing Focus Courses
The Manufacturing Concentration uses some of the elective freedom in the regular M.Eng. curriculum to provide a common core of manufacturing courses. The manufacturing core courses are:
Accounting and Financial Decision Making, NBA 5530
This course focuses on basic financial and managerial accounting, the economic and financial concepts that have a bearing on managerial decisions. The goals of the course are: (1) to give students a working knowledge of the accounting process and the value and limitations of the data that comes out of the accounting information system, (2) to familiarize students with key concepts in managerial accounting and the application of cost information to pricing and operating decisions, and (3) to promote an understanding of the use of economic theory in the evaluation of capital investment projects. The teaching methods consist of lectures and cases. Students are evaluated on the basis of exams.
Design of Manufacturing Systems I, ORIE 5100
Project course in which students, working in teams, design a manufacturing logistics system and conduct capacity, material flow, and cost analysis of their design. Meetings between project teams and faculty advisers are substituted for some lectures. Analytical methods for controlling inventories, planning production, and evaluating system performance are presented in lectures.
Manufacturing Project, ORIE 5910
A cross-disciplinary group design project centered on a major manufactured product, including the concurrent design of a system for the product’s manufacture. Market needs, economics, financing, quality, life-cycle costs, distribution, and marketing are addressed as part of the product and manufacturing-system design. Each project will involve an industrial partner.
Technology and Industry Breadth
Students should select at least three elective courses (an approved list is included in the MEng Handbook). Several of the electives follow:
Supply Chain Management, ORIE 5126
A supply chain is the scope of activities that convert raw materials (e.g., wheat) to finished products delivered to the end consumer (e.g., a box of cereal at the local P&C), usually spanning several corporations. Supply chain management focuses on the flow of products, information, and money through the supply chain. An overview of issues, opportunities, tools, and approaches. Emphasis is on business processes, system dynamics, control, design, re-engineering. Covers the relationship between the supply chain and the company's strategic position relative to its clients and its competition. Considers dimensions of intercorporate relationships with partners, including decision-making, incentives, and risk.
Project Management, CEE 5900
Core graduate course in project management for people who will manage technical or engineering projects. Focuses both on the technical tools of project management (e.g., methods for planning, scheduling, and control) and the human side (e.g., forming a project team, managing performance, resolving conflicts), with somewhat greater emphasis on the latter.
Introduction to Composite Materials, MAE 4550
Course topics include introduction to composite materials; varieties and properties of fiber reinforcements and matrix materials; micromechanics of stiffness and stress transfer in discontinuous fiber/matrix arrays; orthotropic elasticity as applied to parallel fibers in a matrix and lamina; theory of stiffness (tension, bending, torsion) and failure of laminates and composite plates, including computer software for design; and manufacturing methods and applications for composites. There is a group component design and manufacturing paper required, and a group laboratory on laminated component fabrication.
Students who already have coursework equivalent to ORIE 5300 and ORIE 5560 can finish the M.Eng. degree with the Manufacturing Option in two semesters plus the January intersession period, which is used for part of the group project work. Students who lack equivalent course work should either take these courses during the preceding summer, or spend two fall semesters and one spring semester at Cornell.