quick links
- Welcome from the Department Head
- Course Web Pages
- Manufacturing/MFET Technology
- Cooperative Education
- Open Faculty Positions and Department Head Search
- 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
- Textbook List
--Summer 2008
- Textbook List
--Fall 2008
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:
Students collaborate with European universities on plant design project
Purdue group modifies machine to help feed Africans
Splingaire wins NHRA midwest national title
TOYchallenge teams headed to nationals
MET student to impact energy scene
contact info:
Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology
Purdue University
Knoy Hall · Room 145
401 North Grant Street
West Lafayette IN 47907-2021
Voice: (765) 494-7513
Fax: (765) 494-6219
