Master of Engineering (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
(M. Eng. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering) Faculty of Engineering
Overview
The department of industrial engineering aims to produce graduates with knowledge and skills in production technology and engineering management techniques. Graduates can have careers in both manufacturing and service industries that focus on the design, develop and manage the manufacturing processes, including quality control and assurance, engineering management, planning, controlling, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, machines and equipment, energy, materials, and processes to increase working efficiency and productivity improvement. The engineering candidates from this department are mainly trained and educated about the advanced technology relevant to manufacturing processes and engineering management techniques. They are capable of the process to design, develop and manage the manufacturing processes, including productivity, quality control and assurance, and engineering management.Master of engineering program in industrial and manufacturing engineering, major of industrial engineering include, but not limit to, research methodology in engineering, seminar in industrial and manufacturing engineering, principle of industrial and manufacturing engineering, production and operation management, logistics and supply chain management, design of experiments, advanced manufacturing system.
For major of manufacturing engineering include, but not limit to, advanced engineering metallurgy, advanced metal forming technology, welding metallurgy, finite elements modeling for stress analysis, design of experimental for materials technology, advanced materials machining processes, metal removal theory, CAD for engineering product design, advanced machine tools, tribology in metalworking, advance composite materials manufacturing and applications, special topic in manufacturing engineering and the master thesis.
Duration of Course 2 years
Language of Instruction: Thai or English
Entry requirements:
- Obtained a Bachelor’s degree of engineering or other relate fields with CGPA of at least 3.00 out of 4.00
- Statement of purpose and letters of recommendation are also required.
- Exemption from above criteria may be considered on case by case by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
Course Content
Program Structure
Plan A ; Total of Credit 40 Credit
Year 1, First Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-601 | Research Methodology in Engineering * | 3 |
| 04-411-701 | Thesis (Plan A) | 6 |
| Total Credit | 9 | |
Year 1 / Second Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-602 | Seminar in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering * | Non-credit |
| 04-411-701 | Thesis (Plan A) | 9 |
| Total Credit | 9 | |
Year 2 / First Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-701 | Thesis (Plan A) | 9 |
| Total Credit | 9 | |
Year 2 / Second Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-701 | Thesis (Plan A) | 12 |
| Total Credit | 12 | |
Plan B ; Total of Credit 36 Credit
Year 1/ First Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-601 | Research Methodology in Engineering * | 3 |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Major Required Course 1 (Select from list) ** | 3 |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Major Required Course 2 (Select from list) ** | 3 |
| 04-411-606 | Principle of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering * | Non-credit |
| Total Credit | 9 | |
Year 1/ Second Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-602 | Seminar in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering * | Non-credit |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Major Required Course 3 (Select from list) ** | 3 |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Elective Course 1 (Select from list) *** | 3 |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Elective Course 2 (Select from list) *** | 3 |
| Total Credit | 9 | |
Year 2 / First Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Elective Course 3 (Select from list) *** | 3 |
| 04-xxx-xxx | Elective Course 4 (Select from list) *** | 3 |
| 04-411-702 | Thesis (Plan B) | 6 |
| Total Credit | 12 | |
Year 2 / Second Semester
| Subject Code | Subject | Credit |
| 04-411-702 | Thesis (Plan B) | 6 |
| Total Credit | 6 | |
Course description
Core course are as the following subjects *
| 04-411-601 | Research Methodology in Engineering |
| Research topic selection, feasibility and limitation of a research work, objective and outline of a research work, literature review, assumption and experimental design, data examination and analyze using a high quality instrument, references, thesis format and performance, introduction to a good presentation | |
| Non-Credit | |
| 04-411-602 | Seminar in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Presentation and discussion on currently interesting topics in industrial and manufacturing engineering | |
| 04-411-606 | Principle of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Statistics and application in engineering, motion and time analysis, and manufacturing processes. | |
Major Required Course select from the following subjects **
Major of industrial engineering
Major of manufacturing engineering
| 04-411-603 | Production and Operation Management |
| Responsibilities of production and operation manager in the enterprise for providing product or service to meet the quality, price, quantity and specification needs of the market study of functions of production and operation manager quantitative approach to decision making in production and operation management | |
| 04-411-604 | Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
| Concept and definition of logistics and supply chain, components, roles and importance of logistics and supply chain related to industrial management, logistics and supply chain management considering from material sourcing, inventory management, warehouse management, transportation, and performance measurement in logistics and supply chain | |
| 04-411-605 | Design of Experiments |
| Applications of experimental design to engineering problem with emphasis on the methods of experimental set up, data collection, and data analysis |
| 04-412-601 | Advanced Manufacturing System |
| Fundamentals of manufacturing processes, automation production systems, material handling systems, quality control in manufacturing process, modern manufacturing systems, manufacturing support systems and computer intergrated manufacturing, machine tool design. | |
| 04-412-602 | Advanced Engineering Metallurgy |
| Principle of plastic deformation theory, nucleation and growth kinetic, diffusion in solid solution, heat treatment of metal, microstructure and analytical method, effect of metallurgical parameter on machinability, case study of research and development in metallurgical field. | |
| 04-412-603 | Advanced Metal Forming Technology |
| Study about the advanced processing of materials and advanced surface engineering, green and sustainable manufacturing. Study in details of micro-molding of plastic part, plastic for pharmacy and medical processing, composite forming technologies, metal injection molding, advance tribology, advanced bulk metal forming, advanced sheet metal forming, superplastic metal forming, tools and CNC system for metal forming and advanced simulation in metal forming. |
Elective Course select from the following subjects ***
Major of industrial engineering
Major of manufacturing engineering
| 04-411-607 | Factory Management and Productivity Improvement |
| Factory and production management, productivity improvement and application of lean thinking, lean manufacturing, Toyota Production System and key performance indecators measured factory capabilities. | |
| 04-411-608 | Quality Management |
| Quality management concepts and their integration into a comprehensive quality management system including statistical techniques, quality function deployment, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, quality audits, quality cost, quality loss function and quality information system | |
| 04-411-609 | Entrepreneurship Creation |
| Business fundamentals, patents, market, technical forecasting, legal and tax aspects, accounting principles, financial statements, sources of funds, financial decision making, practical work in developing a complete business plan for a company to develop, manufacture and distribute technical product and service | |
| 04-411-610 | Engineering Project Management |
| Engineering project planning, network systems and management, pricing, estimating and cost control, proposal preparation, project information system, risk management, conflict management and performance measurement at the organizational, functional, and individual levels | |
| 04-411-611 | Economic Decision Analysis |
| Engineering economic analysis including project investment evaluation; capital decision analysis for engineering; decision with risk and uncertainty; computer application for solving problems | |
| 04-411-612 | Integrated Product and Process Design |
| Integration of various product realization activities covering important aspects of a product life cycle such as customer needs analysis, concept generation, concept selection, product modeling, process development and end-of-product life options | |
| 04-411-613 | Industrial System Simulation |
| Simulation modeling of manufacturing and service operations through the use of computer software for operational analysis and decision making | |
| 04-411-614 | Work Design |
| Design of workstations and tasks topics include micro-motion study, operational analysis, manual materials handling, macro-ergonomics, anthropometrics, biomechanics, cumulative trauma disorders (CTS) and hand-tool design | |
| 04-411-615 | Safety Health Energy and Environmental Management |
| Principles of safety engineering applied to industries, strategic processes and partnership required for the management of sustainable energy infrastructures and innovation in energy systems, health hazards and ergonomics hazards, industrial air pollution, control of heat transfer, noise pollution and chemical hazards, industrial safety, rules and control standards | |
| 04-411-616 | Special Topics in Industrial Engineering |
| Current interesting topics or new developments in various fields of industrial engineering |
| 04-412-604 | Welding Metallurgy |
| Principle of heat in welding, chemical reaction in welding, weld metal formation concept, microstructure of weld metal and application, case study of special metal weld joint development. | |
| 04-412-605 | Finite Elements Modeling for Stress Analysis |
| Principle of finite element concepts, Simulation of upsetting, drawing, extrusion, forging, blanking and fine blanking and deep drawing Simulation. | |
| 04-412-606 | Design of Experimental for Materials Technology |
| Simple comparative experiments, experiments with a single factor, randomized blocks, factorial designs, Taguchi method, and application of design of experiment in research | |
| 04-412-607 | Advanced Materials Machining Processes |
| Non-traditional machining processes for remove excess material removal by various techniques involving mechanical, chemical, electrochemical, thermal and combinations of these energies, principle of material removal, components of machine, parameters in machining, calculation of material removing rate, work piece surface evaluation | |
| 04-412-608 | Metal Removal Theory |
| Introduction to chip formation, cutting tool geometries, mechanics of metal cutting, analysis and thermal aspects of metal cutting, wear and tool life, machinability of metals, research in special metal removal process | |
| 04-412-609 | CAD for Engineering Product Design |
| Object modeling methods, meshing and necessary preparations for CAE analysis file system management for CAD and CAE, mechanical analysis and simulation using CAE, comparisons between CAE simulation results and those using conventional methods | |
| 04-412-610 | Advanced Machine Tools |
| Machines in manufacturing such as machine that produces and un-produce the scrap, shearing machine, cutting machine that produce geometrical and ungeometrical cutting shape, operating principles of structure parts of various machines such as pressing machine, lathe machine, milling machine, EDM and automatic production systems | |
| 04-412-611 | Tribology in Metalworking |
| Tribology in metalworking, friction in metalworking, metalworking lubrications, wear in metalworking, surface interactions, techniques of analysis and measurement, material removal | |
| 04-412-612 | Advanced Composite materials Manufacturing and Application |
| Study about the general and advance composite materials. The application of advance composite materials for automotive, railway and aerospace industries. Manufacturing and application of advanced composite materials and green composites. | |
| 04-412-613 | Special Topics in Manufacturing Engineering |
| Study of currently interesting topics and up-to-date technology in manufacturing engineering |
Thesis
| 04-411-701 | Thesis (Plan A) | |
| Research work under the supervision of an advisor with emphasis on originality and aim toward new and useful results in engineering fields, the research to be publicized in the international journal/transaction, preparation of thesis in a proper form, oral examination and writing up a complete thesis | ||
| 04-411-702 | Thesis (Plan B) | |
| Research in an interesting topic in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering under the supervision of a faculty member, preparation of thesis, presentation at a public seminar, oral examination by the committee and writing up a complete thesis | ||