ABET Program Outcomes: MfgE

The Program Outcomes describe the knowledge, skills, and behaviors for each MfgE graduate.

Our graduates will be systems thinkers.

• Ability to apply mathematics, science, and engineering
• Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
• Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
• Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
• Understanding the behavior and properties of materials as they are altered and influenced by processing in manufacturing
• Understanding the analysis, synthesis, and control of manufacturing operations using statistical and calculus based methods, simulation and information technology

Our graduates will be global collaborators.

• Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
• Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Knowledge of contemporary issues

Our graduates will be work-ready innovators.

• Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints
• Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context
• Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
• Understanding the design of products and the equipment, tooling, and environment necessary for their manufacture
• Understanding the creation of competitive advantage through manufacturing planning, strategy, and control
• Ability to measure manufacturing process variables in a manufacturing laboratory and make technical inferences about the process