About Us
The Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Department provides quality engineering education to prepare students for the practice of manufacturing and industrial engineering. A strong laboratory component in the curriculum, with opportunities for industrial internships and research experiences with faculty members provide engineering skills that enhance the understanding of the applications of engineering sciences and the realization of the importance of lifelong learning. A strong emphasis on product/process design and innovation, teamwork and communications is stressed.
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering (MIE) deals with innovation, production, and services systems. The MIE curriculum covers knowledge of engineering design and innovation, manufacturing processes and advanced materials, decision science, and the management and control of man-made systems. MIE at UTRGV provides students access to leading-edge equipment and facilities hosted in the Rapid Response Manufacturing Center, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Fabrication Lab, Surface Engineering Lab, Immersive Environment Lab, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab, Sustainable Manufacturing Lab, Advanced Process Lab, Computer Aid Design Lab, and Quality Engineering Lab. These centers and labs provide student unique opportunity to work on product/process innovation projects sponsored by industry, and research projects directed by faculty members. The INTEnD program at MIE provides students special opportunity of working in an international team and practice team working on product innovation and commercialization.
MIE students have abundant opportunities for financial aid provided by the department and the department affiliated research labs and centers. A very high percentage of MIE students have opportunity as engineering interns with major corporations before graduation. MIE faculty generally have a number of research and development programs that employ students as research assistants or engineering interns.
Automobiles, aircraft, computers, smartphone, satellites, healthcare devices, high-tech machines, robotics...everything you see or use must be designed and manufactured. Manufacturing and Industrial engineers not only design and develop these products, they also develop, plan and manage processes and services that make and deliver the products to customers at the highest standards. Manufacturing and Industrial engineers are crucial to sustaining an innovative and competitive business. They use the know-how of product innovation, material sciences, processes and production methods, and systems engineering approaches to ensure that customer needs are satisfied. As a Manufacturing and Industrial Engineer, you may:
- Direct disruptive innovation projects that involve engineers and managers from many countries and different disciplines.
- Develop nano-robotics that perform surgery.
- Design and deploy an emergency system for disaster relief.
- Develop green products and manufacturing processes to make the world’s environment better.
- Select the best materials in terms of the mechanical properties, durability, corrosion-resistance and the economic performance.
- Construct decision models that contains thousands of variables and constraints to optimize the performance of any system and save millions of dollars