A manufacturing engineer, and future manager in industry, is someone who is able to understand the product or service that their organisation is aiming to present to the marketplace, and who is able to provide it at the time, price and quality that the customer expects. To accomplish this, your Manufacturing Engineering degree programme needs to help you develop a wide range of knowledge and skills, from product design, marketing and accounting, to the management of manufacture, economics and finance - as well as other vital aspects, such as the blend of people, machines and materials necessary to impart quality to the manufacturing process. In order to achieve this, the programme at Birmingham is structured into themes that continue through all four years of your studies, integrating and accumulating your knowledge and understanding of the process of manufacture. You may also graduate with a BEng after three years, with partial accreditation. As a graduate of this degree programme, you will enter a profession where your skills, knowledge and competencies will be sought by companies, in the UK and abroad, that are household names in the manufacture of goods and services.
High quality manufacturing engineers are in great demand.