New Graduate Courses Designed To Produce Engineers To Face The Challenging Modern Industry

Today’s strong global industrial competition requires our future engineers to have the ability to work in challenging and new industrial environment. It requires our students and future engineers to have the solid technical knowledge, strong leadership and better communication skills. Because a number of advanced industrial knowledge has not been included in the current engineering classes, some necessary curriculum and teaching reforms are needed. A new course titled “Manufacturing Strategy and Lean Manufacturing” has been developed at University of Bridgeport to provide our graduate students with the knowledge to face today’s challenges. The instructor brings the extensive US industrial and engineering experiences to the class and all the advanced technology procedures introduced and discussed in the class can be applied to the industries to improve the plant performance in manufacturing flow, organizational functions, process control, metrics and logistics. Although this course was taught at the mechanical and manufacturing engineering majors, it can also be applied to the most areas of US industrial and engineering practices. In addition to several real industrial case studies, two advanced projects have been assigned in the course to help students to apply the skills learnt from this lecture.