Online Graduate Certificate in Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing
Program Overview
Ready to further your career and education in the field of Advanced Manufacturing? This online Graduate Certificate in Advanced Manufacturing is for professionals with a bachelor’s degree in engineering or current engineering graduate students. The fully online courses of this add-on graduate certificate in Advanced Manufacturing are taught by the world-class University of Tennessee, Knoxville faculty. Learn from experts in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department within the Tickle College of Engineering.
Why Earn a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Manufacturing?
The Advanced Manufacturing Graduate Certificate provides graduate-level education in advanced manufacturing topics. Courses are taught by the world-class faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department within the Tickle College of Engineering. Topics in the certificate program include additive manufacturing (polymers, metals, and hybrids/composites), computer-numerically controlled (CNC) machining, robot-assisted welding, micro/nanoscale fabrication, and more. Students who wish to pursue a Master of Science degree can do so using all credits earned in the certificate program.
This certificate program is open to practicing professionals as a stand-alone credential or to current graduate students as an add-on program. All courses will be made available online. Applicants are expected to have earned a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with a GPA of 3.0 or higher; students from other disciplines may be admitted but may require prerequisite courses. Expected background knowledge includes mathematics (including calculus and differential equations), mechanics of materials, heat transfer, and materials science.
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely-related discipline
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Qualified graduates of other technical disciplines may be considered but may be required to take prerequisite courses as described in the Graduate Catalog
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Featured Courses
The graduate certificate in advanced manufacturing requires the completion of four courses; examples of courses you can take when completing this certificate are as follows:
Fundamental principles of the major classes of manufacturing processes, developing first-order mathematical descriptions for selected processes. Comparison of advantages and limitations across various processes regarding process quality and productivity.
Elasticity in three dimensions: equations of equilibrium, strain-displacement relations, compatibility, constitutive equations. Energy methods. Beams on elastic foundation, unsymmetrical bending, shear center, beam-columns, buckling, plastic collapse.
Fundamentals of nanotechnology and nano fabrication, experimental methods of nano science and technology, advanced manufacturing overview, additive manufacturing (3D printing), electromechanical device fabrications, printable sensors and energy devices, biomedical printing.
The overarching theme of the class is hybrid materials. We will start with a general overview of how engineering materials are classified and selected for design (Ashby-type analysis), then introduce the different classes of hybrid materials along with basic models for predicting limit behavior. We will then dive more deeply into each class of hybrid material (composites, laminates, sandwich structures, cellular materials, and segmented structures) and introduce models for mechanical and transport behavior, where applicable. At the end of this class the student should have a working knowledge of basic mechanics models for all classes of hybrid materials and be able to apply these models to design hybrid materials given a set of functional and material constraints (e.g. mass, volume, cost, strength, etc.). At the end of this course, the student should also have a working knowledge of the engineering materials landscape and a familiarity with resources available for more in-depth analysis and design of hybrid materials.
