This 9 credit-hour certificate could take less than nine months to complete. Courses are 7 weeks each fall and spring and summer. Courses are strategically designed to enhance the instruction and interaction between industry and academic leaders.
Plan of Study Overview
Course Name | Credit Hours |
| ENGT 55000: Manufacturing System Design for Sustainability | 3 |
| MFET 55800: Smart Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain | 3 |
| ENGT 51000: Internet of Things and Cybersecurity | 3 |
Course Descriptions
ENGT 55000: Manufacturing System Design for Sustainability
This course prepares manufacturing and information technology leaders to design and analyze manufacturing processes to achieve manufacturing system objectives that meet internal and external customers’ quality, cost and delivery requirements within a safe environment. The course project covers major aspects of manufacturing system design and Industry 4.0 in the context of meeting customer needs. Technology leaders and entrepreneurs learn how to work with others to design manufacturing systems that are sustainable (in business, ecological, social and technological terms) for the long term. When to use Lean and Six — Sigma techniques in the context of the manufacturing enterprise system design to meet customer needs, it will be assessed from a system design perspective, through analytical and computer simulation techniques, and through the use of physical modeling tools.
MFET 55800: Smart Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain
Progressive manufacturing uses innovative technology to improve products or processes through the Internet of Things. Smart manufacturing is not limited to emerging technologies; rather, it is composed of efficient, productive, highly integrated, tightly controlled processes across a spectrum of globally competitive U.S. manufacturers and suppliers, including the facilities themselves. This course will examine the selection, characteristics, and optimization of materials, processes, big data, cloud analysis of design data, control and adaptive theories, and personnel in a production environment. Examining global manufacturing issues through a variety of business examples, you will study the framework that explains the characteristics and challenges surrounding global supply chain management and investigate the impact on suppliers, manufacturers, and customers.
ENGT 51000: Internet of Things and Cybersecurity
The internet has brought about the ability to embed computing into everyday devices to allow them to send and receive information. These devices, known as the Internet of Things (IoT), will require management at all levels to understand the inherent security risks due to the interconnection via the internet. Illegally accessing (hacking) IoT is increasingly becoming the most pervasive form of industrial espionage in use today. Understanding the threats aimed at IoT and how to protect IoT will be the key to keeping sensitive corporate information and secrets secure and private, and will require everyone’s participation, not just the IT department. For this course students will learn the basics of research of and into cybersecurity, and the techniques used to commit industrial-related crimes; how to detect these potentially catastrophic crimes; and the means to protect one of the company’s most important assets — its systems and data.
- Must receive a B- or better in each of the three courses.
- Courses are subject to change due to faculty discretion.