Master in Science in Advanced Manufacturing
Master’s of Science in Advanced Manufacturing
The Master of Science in Advanced Manufacturing is a program established in Fall 2025 at Northwestern seeking to train students in emerging advanced manufacturing, and provide a deep background in the fundamentals of manufacturing sciences, operations, quality control, and automation. Our goal is to create strong manufacturing innovators capable of developing new manufacturing processes, and deploying manufacturing strategies across new and existing products.
Program Learning Objectives:
- Equip students with analytical thinking skills by providing a core education in manufacturing fundamentals and the tools used to understand and predict material evolution in processing, such as physics-based analytical and computational tools.
- Provide students with the breadth of manufacturing processes by covering additive, subtractive, deformation-based, and hybrid processes.
- Broaden students’ perspectives in circular economy by presenting the principles of materials-process-property-performance and by teaching the principles of data collection, artificial intelligence and statistics in quality and process control of manufacturing processes and supply chain.
- Prepare students well in smart manufacturing by introducing robotics, the Internet of Things, and automation tools in modern manufacturing and assembly.
Learn more about the MSAM program here