# Manufacturing Engineering
**Source**: https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/graduate/msc-programmes/materials-and-manufacturing-engineering/specialization/manufacturing-engineering
**Parent**: https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/graduate/msc-programmes/materials-and-manufacturing-engineering
## Manufacturing Engineering
This subject area deals with the mechanical, thermal, physical, and chemical processes constituting the manufacture of high-tech products — including design, fabrication, joining, and post-processing.
This subject area covers all processing steps, which materials undergo within the fabrication chain before they are used in a product, constructions or component.
Manufacturing Engineering particularly focuses on the development of advanced technologies, for example in additive manufacturing as well as the fabrication of microcomponents based on metallic or polymer materials. It also deals with product engineering, design and optimization of products, as well as the analysis and optimization of process chains and production systems from micro- to macro scale.
The focus is on Industry 4.0, in which process characterization and modelling, including measuring techniques and quality assurance, are an integral part of Manufacturing Engineering, also in the interplay with Materials Engineering.
The link between Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering is essential to the MSc Eng programme, and is reflected in the various courses which forms the programme.
Example study plan starting in the spring semester with focus on Manufacturing Engineering.
Polytechnical foundation
Programme specific courses
Thesis
1.Semester
[41737](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41737?menulanguage=en)\
Design of plastic products
5 point
[41656](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41656?menulanguage=en)\
Materials in advanced applications and products
10 point
[41658](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41658?menulanguage=en)\
Methods for experimental materials... Methods for experimental materials characterization
5 point
[42501](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/42501?menulanguage=en)\
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
5 point
2.Semester
[41730](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41730?menulanguage=en)\
Industrial forming of metals
5 point
[41733](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41733?menulanguage=en)\
Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of... Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components
5 point
[41740](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41740?menulanguage=en)\
Digital Manufacturing - Industry 4.0
5 point
[41662](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41662?menulanguage=en)\
Physical metallurgy
5 point
[41743](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41743?menulanguage=en)\
Micro product design, development and... Micro product design, development and production
5 point
3.Semester
[41669](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41669?menulanguage=en)\
Advanced surface engineering
5 point
[41734](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41734?menulanguage=en)\
Geometrical metrology and machine... Geometrical metrology and machine testing
5 point
[41750](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41750?menulanguage=en)\
Composites Manufacturing
5 point
[41739](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41739?menulanguage=en)\
Experimental plastic and metal... Experimental plastic and metal processing technology
5 point
4.Semester
Thesis \
Master Thesis
30 point
\
Example study plan starting in the fall semester with focus on Manufacturing Engineering.
Polytechnical foundation
Programme specific courses
Thesis
Electives
1.Semester
[41740](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41740?menulanguage=en)\
Digital Manufacturing - Industry 4.0
5 point
[41730](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41730?menulanguage=en)\
Industrial forming of metals
5 point
[41747](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41747?menulanguage=en)\
Modelling in materials and manufacturing... Modelling in materials and manufacturing engineering - heat transfer and diffusion
5 point
[41749](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41749?menulanguage=en)\
Precision Machining
5 point
[42500](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/42500?menulanguage=en)\
Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical... Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation)
5 point
2.Semester
[41737](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41737?menulanguage=en)\
Design of plastic products
5 point
[41656](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41656?menulanguage=en)\
Materials in advanced applications and products
10 point
[41734](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41734?menulanguage=en)\
Geometrical metrology and machine... Geometrical metrology and machine testing
5 point
[41750](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41750?menulanguage=en)\
Composites Manufacturing
5 point
[41739](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41739?menulanguage=en)\
Experimental plastic and metal... Experimental plastic and metal processing technology
5 point
3.Semester
[46420](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/46420?menulanguage=en)\
Composite Materials and Fibres
5 point
[41733](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41733?menulanguage=en)\
Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of... Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components
5 point
[41662](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41662?menulanguage=en)\
Physical metallurgy
5 point
[41653](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41653?menulanguage=en)\
Corrosion (theory and engineering)
10 point
[41743](https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/41743?menulanguage=en)\
Micro product design, development and... Micro product design, development and production
5 point
4.Semester
Thesis \
Master Thesis
30 point
\