Trollhättan, Sweden
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
SEK 130,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Manufacturing methods strongly affect the design, quality and economy of production. In this program you learn to plan, design, develop and integrate processes, systems, machines and tools for the manufacturing of high-quality products. Fully English-taught, University West’s two-year Master’s Programme in Manufacturing Engineering is designed in close collaboration with industry, incorporating recent methods, new materials and new manufacturing processes. The second-year can include an industry placement in Europe, Asia or South America as the basis for your thesis. Outstanding features include the integration of real work situations and access to advanced manufacturing laboratories.
This programme presents multiple crucial manufacturing technologies and their scientific bases, along with related scientific developments and ongoing challenges. Master of these subjects will enable you to effectively control and monitor these processes, considering the impact of processes on materials.
Admissions
Curriculum
In this interdisciplinary learning environment, you’ll build knowledge across a broad range of engineering topics. An advantage of studying at University West, you will also have easy access to the rich research environment in the PTC and PTW.
The total programme is 120 credits per the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).
Year 1
Autumn
- Advanced Materials Science, 6 credits
- Additive Manufacturing Processes, 7.5 credits
- Surface Engineering, 7.5 credits
- Machining, 6 credits
- Academic Writing, 3 credits
Spring
- Computer-Aided Manufacturing, 3 credits
- Thermal spraying, 6 credits
- Welding Processes, 6 credits
- Welding Metallurgy, 7.5 credits
- Non-destructive testing, 4 credits
- Materials Characterization, 3.5 credits
Year 2
Autumn
During the autumn you will need to take your industrial placement. The courses are optional and offered online, allowing flexibility for you to take them along with your industrial placement if it was necessary. You can also spend the autumn semester as an exchange student in one of our partner universities, and gaining required credits (30 credits) from your host university.
- Industrial placement, 15 credits
- Statistical Process Control and DoE, 7.5 credits
- Process Simulation and Modelling, 7.5 credits
Spring
- Thesis in Manufacturing Engineering
Career Opportunities
Manufacturing represents a notable section of economic activities in developed countries. Companies of all sizes need manufacturing engineers to handle tasks and challenges relevant to manufacturing processes. These challenges include planning design and development of manufacturing processes, development design of new manufacturing methods or improving existing methods. From this master’s programme, you will gain skills to enhance your career in different sectors of the manufacturing field. On graduation, you will be highly competitive for positions within the private sector or further PhD studies.
Further education
This programme helps you build a strong foundation in the field and develop the qualifications you need to pursue your PhD in Manufacturing Engineering.
After graduating from this master’s programme you will be eligible to continue studying as a PhD student in Sweden or elsewhere. University West offers a doctoral degree programme within the field of production technology.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
University West Scholarship Programme
The University West scholarship programme is open for fee-paying students admitted to specified master's programmes. The scholarship will fully or partly cover the tuition fee for the programme (so not costs for travel or living expenses).
Swedish Institute Scholarships
Students admitted to master's programmes in Sweden can apply for a scholarship to cover their tuition fee. There is a national scholarship programme administrated by the Swedish Institute towards specific countries.
Why study at University West
Advanced laboratory and access to experts
As a Manufacturing manufacturing Engineering engineering student, you will have access to our Production Technology Centre (PTC) during your studies. PTC is one of the largest and newest most up-to-date manufacturing laboratories in Sweden.
The PTC has been in the field of manufacturing research for over 20 years. This collaborative platform offers a unique collection of manufacturing and related advanced industrial research technologies:
- Welding technologies (tungsten inert gas, metal active gas, robotised welding, etc.)
- World-leading thermal spraying facilities (plasma- and combustion-based spraying guns)
- CNC milling and turning equipment
- Metal additive manufacturing technologies (powder bed fusion techniques such as electron beam melting, directed-energy deposition techniques such as laser metal deposition with wire and powder as well as wire-arc, etc.)
- Measurement and control systems for in situ monitoring and inspection