Overview

This Manufacture Materials Design module from The Open University UK uses online texts combined with investigative learning activities to help you develop the ability to make manufacturing decisions.

The manufacturing processes covered are casting, forming, cutting, joining, additive manufacturing, and surface engineering. By gaining a deeper understanding of the scientific and technological principles that govern these basic processes, you will be able to play a more effective role as a professional engineer.

Additional topics introduce management of the supply chain and key ideas in assuring the quality of production. Manupedia, an online database of manufacturing processes, plays a key role in your study.

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This Manufacture Materials Design module from The Open University UK is for engineers with an interest in manufacturing, whether from a production, materials or design perspective.

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From an external perspective, the world of product manufacture has changed beyond recognition in the last fifty years. But underneath it all there are only so many basic ways you can convert materials into objects through casting, forming, cutting and joining. Even the rapidly developing world of additive manufacturing (or 3D printing), which looks set to disrupt our whole approach to making things, still relies on the scientific of casting, cutting and joining to build components.
You will study all these techniques in depth, along with the technologically vital field of surface engineering, where a wide variety of methods are used to modify the surface properties of a shaped component. Many of the factors that result in one process being preferred over another relate to both the design of the product and the commercial environment in which it is being manufactured.

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Duration

Part-time
- 6 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-05-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-09 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

This module can be studied on a standalone basis or as a module of a postgraduate qualification.
It is expected that you hold a bachelors degree in an engineering-related subject (or the equivalent) from a UK university, giving you a basic understanding of mechanics and materials engineering and an ability to follow mathematical models involving simple calculus.
If this is your first postgraduate module, it is important for you to appreciate the substantial differences between undergraduate and postgraduate study. At postgraduate level, you are expected to evaluate, synthesise, review, and reflect on material. Independent study is an important component and you will be expected to draw on resources beyond those provided by the module. This module includes materials that should assist you if you don’t already have these skills, or if your skills need polishing.

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