Manufacturing Systems Certificate

Competitive markets require manufacturing organizations to be increasingly efficient, innovative and sustainable. Highly skilled manufacturing engineers with advanced technical knowledge and capabilities are essential to the success of these organizations. The Manufacturing Systems certificate program is designed to develop manufacturing engineers with the knowledge, skills and attitude required for value creation by designing, manufacturing and managing more sustainable products, processes and systems. The certificate is structured as a four course program with all courses available entirely online. It provides graduate level qualifications for engineers and manufacturing professionals in industry who are interested in expanding their qualifications with less of a time investment than is required for a full master’s degree.

Admission Requirements

Prospective students for the graduate certificate program must:

1. have a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited post-secondary school (or equivalent) or a bachelor’s degree in technology management, business, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or other related areas;
2. earn a GPA of 3.0 or greater at the institution granting the bachelor’s degree; and
3. demonstrate (via official transcript) successful completion (grade B or better) in each of 2 courses (minimum total 6 credit hours) of college mathematics (consisting of differential and integral calculus). All three criteria must be met to be eligible for admission into the proposed graduate certificate program.

Course Requirements

Select course work to satisfy the minimum 12 credit-hour requirement from these two categories: