Engineering ME - Manufacturing Systems Engineering

This is a named option within theEngineering M.Eng.

The named optionManufacturing Systems Engineering is an online master's degree designed to prepare engineering professionals to lead their manufacturing operations now and in the future. Students will gain cross-functional expertise to drive creative product and process improvement leveraging advanced tools, technologies, and automation systems.

Students in this program will learn how to:

• Analyze, compare, and contrast technical and business systems to optimize operations
• Simulate production processes and evaluate large data sets to identify areas of improvement and develop long-term strategies
• Solve problems and drive innovation to remain competitive
• Understand advanced automation and smart manufacturing technologies that will change the manufacturing processes and positively affect the business

More information about this graduate degree can be found here.

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a comparable degree from an international institution is required. International applicants must have a degree comparable to a regionally accredited U.S. bachelor’s degree. You must have completed your undergraduate degree, or similar, before starting graduate school.

A minimum undergraduate grade-point average (GPA) of 3.00 on the equivalent of the last 60 semester hours (approximately two years of work) or a master’s degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 is required. Applicants from an international institution must demonstrate strong academic achievement comparable to a 3.00 for an undergraduate or master’s degree. The Graduate School will use your institution’s grading scale. Do not convert your grades to a 4.00 scale.

Every applicant whose native language is not English, or whose undergraduate instruction was not in English, must provide an English proficiency test score. TOEFL scores must be submitted electronically via ETS. IELTS scores can be submitted electronically or by paper.  Our office address is: UW-Madison Graduate School, Office of Admissions, 232 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706.  Your score will not be accepted if it is more than two years old from the start of your admission term. Country of citizenship does not exempt applicants from this requirement. Language of instruction at the college or university level and how recent the language instruction was taken are the determining factors in meeting this requirement.

Applicants are exempt if: