Club activities include frequent visits to a wide variety of manufacturing industries, participation in special departmental events and social and recreational programs that include faculty and their families. The program also hosts a student chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers. Manufacturing engineering technology offers a cooperative education program. This allows the student to alternate work and study semesters after the completion of the freshman year. The work consists of a job suited to the student's area of interest.
Many students acquire experience through internships, summer work or part-time work.
Additional mathematics, including trigonometry and geometry, is desirable. The manufacturing engineering technology program is accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Several faculty are involved in accreditation activities as a service to the profession and to ensure that the program keeps current. One faculty member is a recent past national president of the Fluid Power Society. Another faculty member is the chairman of the Reliability, Stress Analysis and Failure Prevention Committee of the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.