Introduction
The Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program provides students with a broad understanding of manufacturing issues, concepts and techniques, their integration and application. Topics of interest include: Engineering design; materials in manufacturing; production processes; production planning and control; quality control systems; computer-integrated manufacturing and manufacturing management and strategy. The primary active participants in this multi-disciplinary collaborative program are: The Departments of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Operations Management Group in the Faculty of Management.
The Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program is only open to full-time students registered in the M.Eng. degree program in any one of the participating Engineering Departments. Participating students are expected to complete the degree requirements within a one-year period from September to August -- no admissions are allowed in January. The students are required to complete seven half courses and a four-month (May to August) industrial summer project that is worth three half courses, for a total of ten half courses.
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Program Requirements
Candidates applying for this program are required first to register in one of the participating Engineering Departments (listed above) and then request admission to the collaborative program. Students must, thus, complete the M.Eng. degree requirements of both the collaborating department and Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program. Students are strongly advised to check with their respective graduate departments about the exact degree requirements prior to admission into the program. Students who complete the program receive the M.Eng. degree in their respective home department and the following notation in their transcripts: "Completed the Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program."
The Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program is only open to full-time students who have a four-year Bachelors degree in any one of the following engineering disciplines: Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Materials Science or Mechanical Engineering. The students, when possible, must successfully complete within the first eight months (September to April) their course requirements and carry out a full-time summer project (May to August), when possible, at a sponsoring industrial corporation in teams of two students. The director of the program arranges opportunities for the students to find summer projects with sponsoring corporations based on personal interviews. (The students must not be working in any form for an industrial company other than the specific corporation who is sponsoring their own project, during the summer periods, in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest). In case an industrial project cannot be secured, the student must personally seek a summer project to be carried out within the University of Toronto, within any one of the collaborating departments, with the written approval of the Director.
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Courses of Instruction
In addition to the three half courses worth industrial summer project, the students must receive credit for seven half courses, when possible, within the first eight months of their first registration in the program (i.e., September to April):
Four collaborative-program courses:
- MGT 2406 Operations Management Strategy
- MGT 2800 Management Science
- MIE 1718 Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- MIE 1727 Quality Assurance
Two home-department elective courses:
Students must choose two courses from their own home-department-specific lists developed for the Integrated Manufacturing Collaborative Program (to be updated yearly). The lists should be available at the beginning of the academic year at their respective graduate departments.
One technical elective course:
Students must choose one elective course form any one of the participating engineering graduate departments, not necessarily from their own home department. Curing the academic year the students will be encouraged to attend company visits, technical workshops, seminars, verbal- and written-communication-development courses, and computer programming courses to be arranged by the director of the program at no cost to the students (except for possible transportation costs). The students in the collaborative program will also be encouraged to be student members of the Society of the Manufacturing Engineers also at no cost to the students.
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Core Courses
MGT 2406H: Operations Management Strategy
This course deals with strategic operations in both service and manufacturing organizations (including the public sector). The goal is to enhance the abilities of students who aspire to management positions in operations and other functional or staff departments. Topics include: Planning of capacity, process and location, vertical integration, choice of operations policy and international relations. A mix of lectures and case studies is used.
MGT 2800H: Management Science
This course will focus on quantitative management techniques that can serve as decision-making tools to obtain an objective evaluation of available alternatives and select the 'best' one (with respect to some pre-defined criteria and constraints). Many of the most important and successful management science methods that will be discussed in this course fall under the category of constrained optimization techniques: Linear, integer, non-linear, multi-objective and dynamic programming. Commercial spreadsheet packages will be used for course assignments and projects.
MIE 1718H: Computer Integrated Manufacturing
This course focuses on the integration of facilities (machine tools, robotics) and the automation protocols required in the implementation of computer integrated manufacturing. Specific concepts addressed include flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and interfaces between computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing systems.
MIE 1727H: Quality Assurance
Shewart, CUSUM and EWMA control charts; economic models for sampling inspection; multi-stage on-line quality control methods; off-line quality control and parameter design; the ideas of Deming and Taguchi and their implementation.
Program Committee
B. Benhabib, BSc, MSc, PhD/Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, (Director)
O. Berman, BA, SM, PhD/Management
M.K. Kortschot, BASc, MASc, PhD/Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
J.D. Lavers, BSc, MASc, PhD/Electrical and Computer Engineering
L. Shu, BSc, MSc, PhD/Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
S. Thorpe, BASc, MASc, PhD/Materials Science and Engineering
Contact Information:
Address:
Room RS214B, 4 Taddle Creek Rd.
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 3G9
Telephone: (416) 978-3045
Fax: (416) 978-7753
E-mail: im@mie.utoronto.ca
Web: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/grad/GradProg/integmanu.html
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