About the Manufacturing Engineering & Management Discipline

Manufacturing Engineering & Management is concerned with the application of basic scientific and engineering knowledge to the development, manufacture and distribution of goods of all types. The principles of Manufacturing Management also can be applied to many service enterprises such as banking and the operation of transport systems.

Manufacturing Engineering & Management covers areas as diverse as the design and operation of factories, the economic analysis of projects, computer simulation of manufacturing systems, the use of robots in manufacturing, the design of materials handling systems and the design of systems for controlling production.

Although Manufacturing Engineering & Management is diverse in its areas of operation, it also often requires a sound overview of these diverse areas. Thus technical, organisational and economic aspects are involved as well as the management of people.

Graduates from the Manufacturing Engineering & Management degree are involved in a wide range of essential industries and because of the diversity of industries and activities which require their skills, career prospects are excellent. The increasing emphasis on computer-based technologies in manufacturing means that recent graduates are in strong demand.

Years 3 and 4 of Manufacturing Engineering & Management are mainly concerned with applications of engineering where the emphasis is on management, the operation of systems, economics, product design and manufacturing technology. These third and fourth years include core and elective courses which can be selected from a wide range of topics. In fourth year a personal thesis project is undertaken under the supervision of a member of staff.

Undergraduate Degrees

For information on
      •  common years 1 and 2 of our BE degrees
      •  combined degrees
      •  scholarships
see Prospective Undergraduate Students.

Postgraduate Degrees

For information on
      •  general postgraduate coursework degrees
      •  specific manufacturing engineering and management options
see Prospective Postgraduate Coursework Students.

For information on
      •  postgraduate research degrees
      •  research topics in the manufacturing engineering and management field
      •  scholarships
see Prospective Postgraduate Research Students.

Staff

For information on staff in the Manufacturing Engineering and Management discipline, go to Staff and sort by “Research Group” or “Research Area”.

Laboratories

For information on laboratory and computing facilities, see Labs & Computing.

Research Activities

For information on current research activities, go to
      •  Staff and sort by “Research Group” or “Research Area”
      •  Research & Publications

Consulting & Testing

Consulting and testing for industry is available via MECHLAB @ UNSW