Industrial and manufacturing engineers.

If you have sufficient experience, knowledge and training in mechanical engineering.

Mechanical Engineering is one of the versatile and the oldest branches of engineering. Manufacturing engineering is a sub sect of Mechanical Engineering and is focused mostly on various production processes. It is good to have a basic degree in Mechanical Engineering and then do specialization in the specialized areas of Mechanical Engineering such as Thermal Engineering, Machine design, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Mechtronics etc. Industrial experience is a vital role to decide

I think it depends a lot on what course work you've taken vs what course work a good mechanical engineering program requires. Industrial and/or manufacturing engineering curicula tend to go light on heat power course work,fluid flow, dynamics and basic control theory and may not put much emphasis on design of equipment in the 4th year. Most mechanical engineers do a design project that involves a good amount of advanced analysis and calculations of the subject of the project.

The majority of product manufacturing companies look to their mechanical engineers to primarily design products that are manufactured and ask their mechanical engineers to do mostly machine design and strength of materials related calculations and place a high priority on CAD skills. Ususally in today's world this involves close coordination with electrical and software engineers as these functions are increasingly integrated into products to provide control compared with the practice of the 20th century where there was a greater degree of human operator control. A manufacturing engineer with good CAD skills and a keen understanding of how to manufacture can do well in such a a position.

However, in a world of increasing demand for solutions to energy problems as well as attention to safety and environmental issues the work will place increasing requirements on mechanical engineers to be able to analyse a broader range of issues such as covered in the mechanical engineering course work I mentioned above both during system design and post design problem solving.

So I would counsel you to carefully assess the positions you apply for and understand that you may not be ready for some without some further course work. Ideally you will land a position in a company that can use your skills in product design as they would be coming out of a Beng program in manufacturing engineering. The in the meantime you could complete course work as a part time student to obtain an additional Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. This may prove easier than pursuing a masters degree after graduation especially if your mathematics skills are likely to be strained. You may be pleasently amazed at the value of the perspective gained during a year or two at work and how it will help you in studying and learning new mechanical engineering subjects in less challenging under-gradualte courses.

Ed Weldon

yes.

having had 2 engineering degrees under your belt should make it easy for you to either work in a mech'l eng'r position, or take up the course as a 3rd degree. I believe its all a matter of attitude and aptitude. if this is a job you're taking, it'll be quite challenging and you may be required to re-tool with specific ME disciplines that are required for the position. if it's a course you're taking, go right on ahead. you're better equipped than your peers already and I'm sure you'll make it to the top of the class. best of luck!

-- langyaw

Yes, it will be better for you in your future working life. You will get much deeper knowledge about manufacturing than if you do only mechanical engineering. I did mechanical engineering and added production engineering latter on.

Suresh Sharma.

Dear Sir,

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Well I am a fresh graduate of Mechanical Engineer and recently employed. My badge included one mechantronics and one industrial and manufacturing engineer.

What I found out that Mechanical Engineering is really the most versatile engineering. I happen to have knowledge of all the matters that Industrial Engineer was involved in as well as Mechantronics Engineer's also.

On the other hand while we were studying the plant machines which included their all kinds of system(mechanical, electrical, electronics,etc). I found out that it was the most difficult for the industrial engineer and was instant to me. He was just unable to understand the limitations of machine regarding production speed and blamed operator for slow speed. while mechatronics engineer was just ok.

I think a Mechanical Engineer can easily handle tasks regarding production and quality as I was able to but Industrial Engineer is not good from Mechanical point of view in their state of Fresh Graduates.

Regarding experience, even an uneducated but experienced person can manage all tasks by himself.