Minor or Area of Special Interest
Minor or ASI: Overview
The Advanced Manufacturing Program provides students with the interdisciplinary skills needed to apply cutting-edge manufacturing techniques within a wide range of industries. Throughout the program, students work with state-of-the-art industrial equipment and open-platform fabrication systems with a focus on additive manufacturing. The Advanced Manufacturing teaching lab is dedicated to the program allowing students to explore various equipment and systems. Within this lab, students have the option to work with polymers, metals, ceramics and biological materials, while optimizing structural design and capturing and interpreting important process data.
Minor or ASI: Outcomes
Upon completion of the Minor or ASI, students will have the skills to:
- Design products for additive and advanced manufacturing processes
- Drive innovation through the effective application of various tools for ideation and design verification
- Leverage advanced manufacturing systems to integrate state-of-the-art technologies within various fields
- Analyze data to create better R&D solutions
Minor or ASI: Requirements
Minor in Advanced Manufacturing: 18 credit hours
Required: AMFG 401 Introduction to Additive Manufacturing (3 credit hours) and 15 credit hours* selected from the table below (effective Fall 2020).
Area of Special Interest in Advanced Manufacturing: 12 credit hours
Required: AMFG 401 Introduction to Additive Manufacturing (3 credit hours) and 9 credit hours* selected from the table below (effective Fall 2020).
*At least 9.0 of the hours required for the minor or ASI must not be used for any part of the degree other than Free Electives and must be 300-level courses or higher.
Course offering code: Spring (S), Fall (F), Summer (Su), Online (O)
| Mechanical Engineering Major | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Major | Other Majors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMFG 401 Intro to Additive Manufacturing (3.0) | Required | Required | Required |
| MEGN 381 Manufacturing Processes (3.0) | Required for ME; can be double-counted for AMFG minor | Optional | Optional |
| MEGN 412 Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3.0) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| AMFG 421 Design for Additive Manufacturing (3.0) | Recommended | Optional | Optional |
| AMFG 422 Lean Manufacturing (3.0) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| AMFG 511** Data-Driven Materials Manufacturing (3.0) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| AMFG 531** Materials for Additive Manufacturing (3.0) | Optional | Recommended | Optional |
| FEGN 525** Advanced FEA Theory & Practice (3.0) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| FEGN 526** Static and Dynamic Applications in FEA (3.0) | Optional | Optional | Optional |
**Requires approval by appropriate program directors
Contact to Enroll
To learn more or to enroll in either the Advanced Manufacturing Minor or ASI, please contact:
Craig A. Brice
Program Director
craigabrice@mines.edu
Jenifer Blacklock
Assistant Director
jblacklo@mines.edu