Advanced Manufacturing

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The technological challenges facing our nation and the world call for new materials with enhanced performance, novel functionality, advanced modeling, characterization and testing, and flexible design-enabling manufacturing techniques.
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Advanced Manufacturing centers on improving the performance of the manufacturing industry through the innovation in manufacturing processes and systems.  The Graduate Certificate in Advanced Manufacturing provides students who have strong science, technology, mathematics and/or engineering backgrounds with additional graduate education in advanced manufacturing to address this important local and national need.  The objectives of the certificate are to:

  • provide students with education in the area of manufacturing process development and advanced techniques.
  • fulfill a workforce need for educated individuals with a knowledge of advanced manufacturing  concepts
  • provide opportunity to practicing engineers so that they can obtain a formal recognition of focused graduate study in the area of advanced manufacturing

Earning the certificate will enhance the competitiveness, technical knowledge, and resulting working efficiency of the students. The certificate also serves as a stepping stone into our professional coursework-only Master of Engineering programs.

Students can receive the certificate in as little as 9 months by taking two courses per semester.


Degrees Offered:

  • Certificate

 

 

Ann Hawkins

megradapp@iastate.edu
515-294-0838

Admission Requirements

Graduate College Requirements:

  • 4 year Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
  • Academic Records/Transcripts
  • Minimum 3.0 GPA (Program may alter requirement.)
  • Proof of English Proficiency.

Program Specific Requirements:

  • Resume, Statement of Purpose, Letters of Recommendation (LOR)
  • Program Requires GRE: Yes. Recommended minimum GRE scores are 145 (Verbal), 155 (Quantitative) and 3.0 (Writing).
  • Program Requires GMAT: No
  • Program Will Review Without TOEFL or IELTS: No

International Requirements:

  • Financial Statement:  Application
  • English Proficiency Minimum:
    TOEFL Paper (PBT) 550
    TOEFL Internet (iBT) 79
    IELTS 6.5
    PTE 53
    Duolingo (approved through spring 2025) 105

Application Requirements

Application Deadlines:

January 15 for Fall Admissions and September 1 for Spring Admissions; For full consideration, all materials must be submitted and part of your application file by the deadline.

Application Details:

This program is open to domestic and international students.

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