Overview

The Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters Program, offered by EdX in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MITx, provides students with a fundamental basis for understanding and controlling rate, quality and cost in a manufacturing enterprise.

Develop the fundamental skills needed for global excellence in manufacturing and competitiveness with the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters Credential, designed and delivered by MIT’s #1-world ranked Mechanical Engineering department.

The Principles of Manufacturing are a set of elements common to all manufacturing industries that revolve around the concepts of flow and variations. These principles have emerged from working closely with manufacturing industries at both the research and operational levels.

Targeted towards graduate-level engineers, product designers, and technology developers with an interest in a career in advanced manufacturing, the program will help learners understand and apply these principles to product and process design, factory and supply chain design, and factory operations.

This curriculum focusses on the analysis, characterization and control of flow and variation at different levels of the enterprise through the following subject areas:

Unit Process Variation and Control: Modeling and controlling temporal and spatial variation in unit processes

Factory Level System Variation and Control: Modeling and controlling flows in manufacturing systems with stochastic elements and inputs.

Supply Chain – System Variation and Control: How to operate and design optimal manufacturing-centered supply chains.

Business Flows: Understanding the uses and flow of business information to start up, scale up and operate a manufacturing facility.

Job Outlook

100% of graduates from MIT’s Masters of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing & Design program are successfully employed within 6 months of completion

The growth rate of new manufacturing firms is at its fastest pace since 1993. (source: U.S. Census, Business Dynamics Statistics)

Exciting career opportunities in positions such as Manufacturing Engineer, Supply Chain Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Engineering, Product Development Engineer (Source: MIT Mechanical Engineering department)

Mean salary ranges of $70,000-95,000 (U.S. only; source: Indeed.com)

What You'll Learn:

A new perspective for design and operational decision making at all levels of manufacturing, in the context of volume manufacturing, where rate, quality, cost and flexibility are the key metrics

How to operate and control unit processes to ensure maximum quality using basic and advanced statistical and feedback control methods

How to design and operate systems of processes with optimal capacity, resilience and inventory

How to design and operate optimal supply chain systems

The financial underpinnings of a manufacturing enterprise, including new ventures

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Supply Chains for Manufacturing: Inventory Analytics

Supply Chains for Manufacturing: Capacity Analytics

Manufacturing Process Control

Manufacturing Systems

Management in Engineering: Accounting and Planning

Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 17 months
- 10 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Credits

6 alternative credits

6-24 credits towards masters degree, depending on the chosen university to pursue the masters' degree after the MicroMasters program

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Portland, United States

Disciplines

Production and Manufacturing Engineering View 62 other preparation in Production and Manufacturing Engineering in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Instructor-paced

Instructor-led on a course schedule

Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this program: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this program in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

Tuition Fees

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Applies to you

Non-residents

889 USD / year

≈ 889 USD / year
Out-of-State

889 USD / year

≈ 889 USD / year

Funding

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