Advanced Manufacturing

Enhance your manufacturing knowledge and skills with this accredited Advanced Manufacturing Master's from the University of Portsmouth. You'll develop your understanding of the systems and hardware used in manufacturing, and polish the managerial skills you need to lead teams in the industry.

You'll study the advanced tools used in design and manufacturing processes, the ever-widening range of materials available, and the systems used in business to apply your operational skills efficiently and effectively. You'll take on an advanced project that can solve a technical problem in your field of interest, or answer questions that apply directly to your current or future workplace.

When you graduate from this Advanced Manufacturing course from the University of Portsmouth , you'll be able to bring demonstrable skills and knowledge to a sector of industry that prizes your expertise. You'll have worked on business case studies, and you'll have built professional networks with your peers and your lecturers' industrial connections, making you ready to meet the needs of a manufacturing career.

You can start this in September (full time or part time) or January (full time only).

Highlights

• Use industry-standard simulation and modelling applications for advanced manufacturing, such as Creo Parametric, MATLAB and Enterprise Dynamics

• Enhance your understanding by investigating real industrial problems, using the strong links with companies

• Fuse the topic of your individual project with one of the research groups, such as the Advanced Polymers and Composites Research Group, and benefit from the expertise of academics

• Study for a Master's that follows the current needs of the industry, guided by advice from the external businesses and organisations that make up the Industrial Advisory Board

Career development

Manufacturing, and engineering in general, is experiencing a skills shortage, with the Institution of Engineering and Technology calling for businesses to address future problems by ensuring they have highly skilled workers in its December 2021 survey. When you graduate from this Master's in Advanced Manufacturing, you'll have demonstrable skills in understanding the issues and using the tools of the industry, ready to take on a role that helps the sector face its upcoming challenges.

Graduates of this course have gone onto areas such as:

• design

• research and development

• product manufacture

• project management

Graduates of this course have gone onto roles such as:

• Design Engineer

• Internal Sales Engineer

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate

• Planning Engineer

• Systems and Application Engineer

This course is awarded the EUR-ACE (European Accredited Engineer) label and is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Modules include:

• Individual project

• Advanced Manufacturing Processes

• CADCAM Systems

• Manufacturing System Design

• Advanced Materials

• Operations and Quality Management

• Supply Chain Management