Master of Science in Engineering - Sustainable Product Creation

Objectives:

This Master enables students to acquire a good working knowledge of mechanical engineering covering the full product development process, and thus:

• Understand the impact of market-directed product designs.
• Create innovative designs.
• Ability to apply different material properties.
• Ability to design products and assess their durability as well as evaluating the durability of existing products.
• Evaluate related manufacturing process alternatives.
• Have a good understanding of the financial impact of engineering decisions.

Learning Outcomes:

• Plan, design and produce products in a sustainable fashion to meet market demand.
• Apply techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools required in the engineering practice, develop solutions to unfamiliar problems and manage complexity.
• Conduct experiments, identify, collect, interpret the required data and use his/her judgement and creativity to work with complex information.
• Have the skills to transfer problem-solving techniques to new areas and integrate knowledge from different branches.
• Communicate with co-workers verbally, graphically and in writing, using relevant and specific terms.
• Ability to work within interdisciplinary teams and to communicate with colleagues, customers and suppliers on national and international contexts.
• Assess the environmental, economic and societal implications of his/her decisions in both corporate and global context.
• Have the requisite mindset to take on leadership roles
• Develop his / her continuing education in engineering and as a member of the society.
• Ability to cope with ambiguity and operate in a fast changing competitive business environment.