quick links

• Interview of Department Head on Aviation Security--December 25, 2009, Attack (video)
• MET on YouTube
• Welcome from the Department Head
• MET Graduate Faculty
• Course Web Pages
• Manufacturing/MFET Technology
• Cooperative Education
• Open Faculty Positions
• Job Postings for MET/MFET Students
• MET Newsletters
• Discovering Automation and Computer Controls Workshop
• College of Technology Scholarship Information
• College of Technology Career Fair -- Registratiion
• MET Student Council
• MET Textbook List
  --Spring 2010
• MFET Textbook List
  --Spring 2010

Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET)

Mechanical Engineering Technology prepares students for a broad range of technical positions throughout manufacturing enterprises that require people with strong mechanically oriented backgrounds.

MET . . . .

• Educates specialists who work with manufacturing and machinery.
• Develops industrial leaders who manage people, machines, and production resources.
• Trains technicians and technologists who plan the production process and design or modify a product for a specific application.

MET Students . . . .

• Solve mechanical problems.
• Work with their minds as well as their hands.
• Enjoy math and science.
• Are job-ready after two-years of full-time study and can elect to continue their education for another two years to earn the B. S. degree.

Manufacturing Engineering Technology (formerly CIMT)

Manufacturing Engineering Technology focuses on automated manufacturing and materials handling using computers to design and manufacture products or in process and quality control. Manufacturing Engineering Technology students learn to take individual islands of manufacturing automation and link them together to achieve the ultimate efficiency of an organization’s manufacturing resources.

Mechanical Engineering Technology News:

College launches 2009-14 Strategic Plan

November 2009 alumni newsletter is online

MET Guitar Workshop creates 'a teaching moment'

Purdue College of Technology program at South Bend to host Project Lead the Way conference for local high school students.

South Bend plans fall industrial advisory board meeting