Course Essentials
I would like to welcome you to the MSc course for Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technologies with Robotics. This MSc award supports the increased use of automation as the manufacturing industry has an immediate and long term need for skilled jobs to conceive, design, implement, operate and maintain automated systems (BBC, 2019).
Ghazal Sheikholeslami
MSc Course Director
Academic Calendar: Trimesters
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2025-26 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.
Our team at the School of Engineering, Technology and Design is committed to providing you with a broad base to increase the employability and long-term career prospects of MSc Advanced Manufacturing students, locally and globally in sectors including the automotive and aerospace industries and in companies that utilise 3D metal printing and micro machining. The development of the MSc Advanced Manufacturing and Technology and associated Robotics route with industry partners also means that students will graduate as industry ready engineers.
The awards embrace the latest advances in research and development and offer students a variety of practical and workshop-based learning opportunities which use authentic industry projects and challenges so that students are exposed to the various dimensions of front-line engineering that they will experience in the workplace.
We have 2 course routes which provides in-depth learning in multidisciplinary subject areas such as advanced manufacturing processes, management of advanced manufacturing systems and mechanical manufacturing, each route provides specialist learning in:
Each programme will be in 3 trimesters. Trimester 1 & 2 will be taught modules and hand in practice laboratory experiments and Trimester 3 will be focused on research project and dissertation/thesis. Below is the overview of each trimester break down:
MSc of Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology with Robotics (All compulsory):
Your welcome and induction will be w/c 16th September 2024 - we look forward to meeting you then.
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