Coursework emphasizes breadth in various engineering and business areas related to manufacturing. Students at the precandidate level select their courses in consultation with the PIM Program Advisor or, if available, their specialty advisor. Students with candidacy status may be required to take additional courses in consultation with their dissertation committee. In both cases, the following requirements described in this section must be met

At least 50 credit hours are required for the degree. Of those credit hours, each student must successfully complete a minimum of 24 letter-graded (A-E) credit hours at the University of Michigan beyond his or her masters degree with a cumulative GPA of at least 6.0/9.0 (B+) 

Eighteen (18) of the above 24 credit hours must satisfy the following distribution: 

Acc501 (3 cr)
Acc 502 (2.25 cr)

MO 501 (3 cr)
MO503 (2.25 cr)

The Qualifying Examination must be taken in four areas related to manufacturing, from a variety of examination areas offered by various departments. The proposed four examination areas must be approved by the PIM Council. One area, designated as the major area, will require both a written and an oral examination. The other three areas, designated as minor areas, will require only written examinations. There will be five designated faculty members (two for the major area, and one for each minor area) on the examination committee.

The committee members are chosen from the graduate faculty ( i.e. holding a regular appointment at the University of Michigan as Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor with an earned doctorate from an accredited institution). One of the two committee members for the major area may be chosen from UM Dearborn faculty. The proposed four examination areas and names of committee members must be submitted to the PIM Council for approval at least two weeks prior to a regularly scheduled Council meeting.

Some example areas which may be declared as major or minor areas for the exam are listed as follows: 

Aerospace Eng: Gasdynamics: Aerodynamics, Propulsion: Structural Mechanics, Dynamics and Control; Design.

Chemical Eng: Fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and reaction engineering

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Semiconductor Processing, Metrology, Control Systems, Design and Test, Databases.

Industrial and Operations Eng: Operations research, Production/Manufacturing systems, Statistical decision-making, Ergonomics, Information systems, Engineering management.

Materials Science and Engineering: Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Physics/Electronic, Optical, Magnetic Properties of Metals.

Mechanical Engineering: Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Dynamics and Vibration, Design, Systems and Control, Heat Transfer, Materials, Manufacturing.

Naval Architecture and Marine Eng: Mathematics, Linear algebra, Optimization and Numerical Methods, Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics, Probablistic methods, Structure, Rigid body dynamics, Coastal hydrodynamics

Similar areas from Civil Engineering and the Business School can also be selected .

Students who fail the Qualifying Examination will have one opportunity to petition the PIM council for permission to repeat the examination. If the student's petition is approved by the PIM council, the student must take the exam within four months of the approval. 

Students should take the Qualifying Examination only after they have accumulated at least 18 credit hours. All new students with admission after January 1, 2005 (full or part time) must be in good academic standing, i.e., they must possess a cumulative GPA of 6.5/9.0 or better to take the Qualifying Examination.

FULL TIME STUDENTS : A full-time student is one who registers for 8 or more credit hours during a full term (i.e., the Fall or Winter terms). Full-time students are strongly encouraged to take the Qualifying Examination at the end of their second term of enrollment in the program. At the latest, a full-time student must take the Qualifying Examination before the end of his/her third term of enrollment in the program. 

PART TIME STUDENTS: A part-time student must take the Qualifying Examination within 2.5 years of first enrolling in the program. 

A student who does not meet the above GPA and timeline criteria will not be allowed to take the Qualifying Examination and will be asked to leave the program.

Within one year after the successful completion of the Qualifying Examination, the student is required to write an abstract of the proposed research and a petition listing a recommended dissertation committee (the composition of the committee is described below). The abstract and dissertation committee membership petition must be submitted to PIM Council for approval at least two weeks prior to a regularly scheduled Council meeting. The PIM Council will forward the dissertation committee petition to the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Engineering for final approval. If the committee is revised at any time, the new member(s) should also be so approved first by petitioning PIM Council, followed by final approval by the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Engineering  

Upon approval of the petition, the student is required to take a Preliminary Examination to test his/her knowledge of the primary and supporting fields. The structure of the preliminary exam should be such as to test the student's breadth in and beyond engineering, as well as depth in his or her primary field. The student must write a dissertation proposal, and defend the proposal at an oral examination given by the dissertation committee. This examination consists of an oral presentation by the student of his/her dissertation proposal, followed by an oral examination administered by the dissertation committee The student must give the written dissertation proposal to the dissertation committee at least one week prior to the oral examination.

All students (full or part time) must be in good academic standing, i.e., they must possess a cumulative GPA of 6.0/9.0 (B+) or better, to take the Preliminary Examination. A student who does not meet the above criteria will not be allowed to take the Preliminary Examination and will be asked to leave the program. 

An industrially relevant, engineering-practice oriented dissertation is a requirement of the degree, and is supervised by a dissertation committee.

•  Constitution of the Committee: All dissertation committees must consist of at least four members. At least two members should be regular graduate faculty members (as defined earlier) participating in the Program in Manufacturing. A third member should also be a regular graduate faculty member of the University of Michigan in another department or program related to the student's dissertation work. One of these three regular graduate faculty members may be chosen form UM Dearborn faculty. The chair or one co-chair must be a regular faculty member in the College of Engineering in Ann Arbor . Exactly one member of the committee should be from industry. The member from industry must be a full-time professional with practical experience in problems that fall within the student's dissertation area. (Private or national laboratories are also viewed as industry.) Vitae of the member from industry should be submitted with the petition to establish the committee. Additional members of the committee beyond the first four may be professors, instructors, lecturers or research scientists from other departments or colleges at the University of Michigan , or may be special members from other universities. Vitae of special members should be submitted with the petition to establish the committee. No person working toward a graduate degree may serve on a committee until all requirements for his or her own degree have been met.

Function of the Committee: The dissertation committee is charged with the supervision of a student's dissertation activities including the Preliminary Examination and the dissertation defense. It is also expected that this committee will meet regularly with the student to monitor progress towards completion of the dissertation. All members of the committee must read the dissertation and submit their written evaluations to the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Engineering .

The student must submit a dissertation comprised of practice-oriented, original work with industrial relevance. The dissertation must be published; this requirement is typically satisfied by publication in University Microfilm form. Legibility and conformity with the regulations of University Microfilms International are the only format requirements. Conformity with format requirements must be checked by the office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Engineering.

The student must defend his/her work at an oral examination that is open to the public. The examination consists of an oral presentation of the dissertation followed by an oral examination led by the dissertation committee. At least four of the committee members must be present at the dissertation defense. The student must give the dissertation to the committee at least two weeks prior to the dissertation defense.

Each student must maintain a cumulative GPA of 6.0/9.0 (B+) or better to be enrolled in the program.

Residency requirement: at least 18 graduate credit hours must be completed on the Ann Arbor campus. Courses elected for "visitor'" status and 990 or 995 elections cannot be used to fulfill the residency requirement.

Minimum fees: each student must accumulate the required number of fee credits, exactly as outlined in the most recent edition of the Rackham student handbook. 

Except for those explained in this document, the requirements are the same as for the Rackham Ph.D. degree.

Requesting Information:

Additional information on the D. Eng. in Manufacturing degree can be requested from :

Ann Arbor Campus: Ms. Henia Kamil, Program Manager, Program in Manufacturing, College of Engineering, 1542 H.H. Dow Building, 2300 Hayward Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-2136, Tel: (734) 764-3312, Fax: (734) 647-0079, E-mail: pim@umich.edu. 

Dearborn Campus: Dr. P.K. Mallick, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, University of Michigan - Dearborn, 120 MSEL, 4901 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn, MI 48128-1491, Tel: (313) 593-5519 or (313) 593-5580, Fax: (313) 593-5386.