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SMA–MST courses opened a wide range of jobs to me, and the one-year course provided me with the discipline and experience of working with people from different cultures. Bonding with my fellow classmates was a memorable experience, and our friendships still continue, many years after graduation. |
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The SMA–MST degree programme was developed to create technical leaders for global emerging industries. The curriculum and many programme activities create well-grounded engineers with a "systems view” of the manufacturing world. The course, projects, seminar, trips, industry attachments, and research project provide engineers with a strong base for working with any industry, particularly with newly emerging industries.
By its very nature, this is a “global degree programme.” In addition to being jointly designed, the SMA–MST degree programme is jointly executed by faculty from MIT, NTU, and NUS. Students attend classes in both Cambridge and Singapore, while group projects are completed at both multinational and local companies in Singapore. With a strong emphasis on math- and science-based methods for the analysis, design, and operation of manufacturing enterprises, as well as exposure to global business and manufacturing strategies, the SMA–MST degree programme provides the graduate with rapid entry into this exciting and ever-changing field.
The learning experience begins with a “summer camp” of short projects and classes, so students quickly get a sense of the breadth and depth of the programme. The curriculum includes exercises in production and quality control, project design based on customer needs, factory and supply chain simulations, as well as tours of potential company project sites.
This is followed by the fundamental phase of the programme, which is primarily the MIT Master of Engineering in Manufacturing (MEM) degree. Taken in residence at MIT and then via interactive video while at NTU, this programme covers the four pillars of:
The capstone to this phase is a group project in a Singapore-based company. Projects range from new process technology to improving inventory control and supplier quality, and they involve solving problems that are of real value to the company.
The final phase of the degree is the opportunity to choose a concentration within manufacturing and then pursue it in detail. This involves three subjects in your concentration and an individual research project. Your project can range from participating in the SMA–MST Research Programme on the Manufacturing Science of Microfluidic Devices and Systems problems for emerging industries to extending certain aspects of your group project. While following a particular area of interest, you will work with faculty and staff on an independent research project that results in a Master of Science thesis and a degree from NTU.
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