Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Take taught modules on cutting-edge additive, subtractive and hybrid manufacturing technology and apply this knowledge to a project supported by our world-leading research.<br/><br/>**Course description**<br/>Youll learn about cutting-edge additive, subtractive and hybrid manufacturing technologies, spanning the entire manufacturing process, from supply of materials to final assembly. The taught modules are informed by world-leading research from the Centre for Advanced Additive Manufacturing (AdAM) and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and you will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to an industrially motivated research project. This is an ideal course if you are interested in pursuing a career in advanced manufacturing.<br/><br/>**Previous study**<br/>To give you a fair chance of succeeding on your course, we need to make sure you have enough experience in relevant subjects. All of our MSc courses are designed for students who have completed a degree similar to our BEng Mechanical Engineering.<br/><br/>Many of our MSc students come from different subject backgrounds, including aerospace, automotive, civil and marine engineering courses, as well as mechatronics, manufacturing, mathematics and physics.<br/><br/>We would like to see evidence of experience in the key subject areas listed below:<br/>- Solid mechanics<br/><br/>Mohrs circle, 2D elasticity including plane stress and plane strain, bending of beams, buckling of columns, plasticity, fracture mechanics.<br/>- Statics, dynamics and control<br/><br/>Equilibrium, free body diagrams, kinematics and kinetics of mechanisms, vibrations, resonance, block diagram representation of feedback control, Laplace domain models.<br/>- Fluid mechanics<br/><br/>Laminar and turbulent flows, Reynolds number, Bernoulli’s equation, calculation of pressure drop in pipework.<br/>- Thermodynamics and heat transfer<br/><br/>First and Second Laws, Carnot, Rankine and Otto cycles, general conduction equation, convection, Nusselt number, emissivity, view factors.<br/><br/>We would normally expect to see a strong performance in these subjects on your transcript. If you have studied these topics as part of modules with very different titles, you will need to indicate this on your application form.<br/><br/>**Accreditation**<br/>We are currently seeking re-accreditation from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for 2024-25 entry.<br/><br/>Please see our University website for the most up-to-date course information.