Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering supported by its vastness of applications offers great career scope and hence makes excellent career choice for aspiring engineers. The services of a manufacturing engineer are needed everywhere, where there is something manufacturing or processing and packaging. Studies in manufacturing engineering focus on internal industrial dynamics like, machine tools, material science, tribology and quality control.

Manufacturing engineers work with the tools like programmable and numerical controllers, robots, and vision system to fine-tune assembly, packaging and shipping facilities. In general, manufacturing engineer work with a model or say prototype created with computers to execute the final manufacturing process. Manufacturing engineer comes out with methodologies to manufacture a product in efficient and cost effective manner and hence create a marketing edge for the final product.

Under manufacturing engineering discipline various courses are taught through engineering colleges and universities. Degrees like Bachelor in Engineering (B.E.), Master in Engineering (M.E.), and Research degrees like Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) are awarded. Both in India and abroad, a degree in manufacturing engineering is considered both an academic qualification as well as technical qualification.

When you have a B.E. in manufacturing engineering, you can serve the industry as manufacturing engineer or can join a master’s degree program in India or abroad or can appear for competitive exams like civil services. So the opportunities are enormous for a manufacturing engineering graduate. To sum up, one can say, manufacturing engineering is an evergreen field.

The services of a manufacturing engineer are sought in all industries producing goods- from automobiles, and boats, and airplanes, to electronic goods and educational toys, to food and clothing. A manufacturing engineer must have eyes for details, he / she need to be a team worker, both with engineers and others outside engineering departments. A Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree is minimum eligibility criteria for entry-level positions of manufacturing engineer.