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Have you ever taken a test where there was more than one correct answer? Life is filled with these "best-choice" scenarios, and it is these scenarios that face manufacturing engineers on a day-to-day basis.

As a manufacturing engineer, you will work with designers and others as a valuable team member to devise and maintain efficient and reliable manufacturing systems to produce products. Results of your work might be found in a factory, in a space vehicle, in your car, or in a hospital trauma center where critical lifesaving equipment stands ready to assist during high- risk operations.

Manufacturing engineers are leaders and pioneers. Where scientists develop theory and engineers develop practical, manufacturing engineers take these ideas into reality.

The field of manufacturing in the U.S. has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Many factors are responsible for these exciting development; included among them are intensified international trade competition; increased customer demand for quality products and services; dwindling natural resources; increased environmental concerns; new materials such as superalloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites; rising energy costs; and technological advances in such areas as computers, robotics, artificial intelligence, lasers, and machine vision.

Manufacturing Engineering

Six schools participate in a recently funded Southern California Coalition for Education in Manufacturing Engineering (SCCEME) grant. The six participant schools are:

California State University, Fulleron
California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Long Beach
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California

These participant schools offer various programs leading to a wide variety of opportunities in manufacturing engineering. Each school's outstanding teaching faculty, practical and diverse curricula, close ties with industry, and state-of-the-art laboratories and computer facilities combine to ensure that its students receive the best education for career preparation and professional development.

Manufacturing engineering provides state-of-the-art knowledge and practical experience in Manufacturing processes using conventional and modern materials, automation technologies, and robotics applications.

The growth to the Manufacturing Engineering major is very timely due to our nation's heightened awareness of manufacturing as a vital segment of the American economy, and as a key element in the nation's leadership in the world economy. As companies attempt to cut costs in an increasingly competitive market, manufacturing engineers are designing real-world solutions to real-world problems. Manufacturing engineers make processes run more efficiently and reduce environmental waste.

The programs prepares students at the SCCEME campuses to address industry demands for increasingly sophisticated manufacturing methods and to play an important role in planning, developing and optimizing the highly automated "factories of the future."

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