Production Engineering – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The wide scope of the programme provides students to select courses across three main occupational tracks but they have also the possibility to customize their own education.

* Production systems engineering - is about taking an active interest in design and developing complex production systems. The work tasks include purchasing of automation technology as well as planning for other industrial facilities and processes featuring safe and profitable involvement of human resources. Skills in building virtual models of machines, cells and lines are incorporated as a sustainable engineering way of working and analytic competence is needed for example securing efficient and reliable production flows.
* Manufacturing Process Engineering - content the work tasks to select suitable processes, tools and machines for value adding manufacturing operations in the physical materials. To prepare metallurgy processes as forming, machining, casting and joining as well as planning the manufacturing for polymer and composite materials often come about virtual processing using computer based tools.
* Production Management Engineering – is focusing the management of resources and activities of a business that are required to efficiently produce goods for sale. Important aspects are to align the manufacturing strategy to the needs and strategy of the company, to manage and initiate design and change initiatives in production, to plan and control the effective use of materials and production units to meet customer service demands, and to ensure that suitable modern production technologies and philosophies are made proper use of.

Research connections


The programme’s courses are given by different departments at Chalmers: Materials and manufacturing technology, Product and production development, Signals and systems and Technology management and economics.

These all have prominent research activities, and the students can thereby take advantage of up-to-date research advancements. For students interested of an occupation in the academic field, the programme also offers courses that prepare for starting a research career.