Manufacturing Processes and Systems

How to turn designs into products?

Manufacturing turns designs into products, playing an essential role in modern economic growth and innovation. 


Via case studies ranging from industrial-level mass production to cutting-edge technologies such as biofabrication, students will appreciate the integrated nature of design, material, processing, and management in the manufacture of products.


A teaser of what you will learn …

  • Why is it challenging to produce the flight deck of an aircraft carrier?
  • How to select materials for electronic textiles?
  • How to produce ultra-soft human-machine interface?
  • How is the SpaceX starship weld together?
  • Why carbon-fibre bikes are so expensive?
  • How to build the turbine engine blades?
  • How was the main frames of National Stadium (Birdnest) constructed?
  • … 

” … this course will answer the question – how objects are built – from large-scale aircraft engines to microelectronic chips; from high-strength carbon-fibre reinforced bikes to ultra-soft articifial organs. We will take a case-study based approach to illustrate you the interplay among material-design-manufacturing …”

message from the course instructor

Course code: SMMG 4020