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Graduate Degrees offered:
M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Lehigh’s award-winning program in Manufacturing Systems Engineering is cross disciplinary between the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and the College of Business. The M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering program offers engineers, scientists, and managers in industry opportunities to develop skills that enable them to improve their operations while developing their careers.
Key features of the program include:

  •  Courses in agile and lean manufacturing, e-commerce, international supply-chain management, sustainability, and other current topics that can be immediately applied to the workplace;
  • The opportunity to work on teams with other professionals to solve real-time problems;
  • Flexibility - part-time students can complete the degree requirements in two years. Classes are offered on-campus, broadcast via satellite through Lehigh's distance-education program to students across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and available online worldwide.

The Manufacturing Systems Engineering program allows students to integrate systems perspectives with interdisciplinary education, combining the academic study of engineering and business with project work, and topical industry-related research activities.

The program covers business planning and management, product design, and manufacturing processes and technology. It emphasizes that quality assurance is introduced at the design level and monitored through the total manufacturing cycle, including customer service.

Students wishing to enroll in the Manufacturing Systems Engineering program must have industrial experience. Thirty credits are required for the M.S. degree.  A forty-five credit MBA&E with a Manufacturing Systems Engineering concentration is available.  A certificate can be earned by the satisfactory completion of 12 Manufacturing Systems Engineering credits.

The Manufacturing Systems Engineering program is administered by the Center for Manufacturing Systems. Faculty affiliated with the program represent the academic departments in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Arts and Sciences. All have extensive backgrounds in technology transfer with industry.

The program received the University LEAD Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for incorporating the latest in graduate education and research relating to manufacturing.

Companies enrolling students to the Manufacturing Systems Engineering program and hiring Manufacturing Systems Engineering graduates:
Air Products and Chemicals
Arrow International
AstraZeneca
B. Braun
Binney & Smith
Bosch
Ford
General Motors
Genetech
Glaxo SmithKline
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Ingersoll Rand
Johnson & Johnson
Lucent Technologies
Mack Trucks, Inc.
Mercedes-USA
Merck & Co.
Millipore
Northrup Grumman
Pfizer
Sandia National Laboratories
Sanofi Pasteur

For more information or to obtain an application, contact:
Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 West Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3176
Phone: (610) 758-5157
Fax: (610) 758-6527
Email: ccj1@lehigh.edu