Advanced Manufacturing

Competencies

General skills

• Endeavour to combine independence and personal initiative with teamwork in multidisciplinary activities.

Specific skills

• Know about and how to apply the theoretical principles of production and manufacturing systems, and metrology and quality control in engineering, in order to create and interpret statistical data and analyse results. Apply environmental and sustainability technology in engineering.
• Use dynamic system modelling tools and simulation techniques. Understand and apply the properties of sensors, actuators and signal conditioners, in order to program programmable robots, numerical control and robots to develop complex robotic systems that improve processes and the final product.

Basic skills

• Students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialists and non-specialists.
• Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in a field of study that builds on general secondary education with the support of advanced textbooks and knowledge of the latest advances in this field of study.
• Students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of independent learning.

Core skills

• Be a critical thinker before knowledge in all its dimensions. Show intellectual, cultural and scientific curiosity and a commitment to professional rigour and quality.
• Interact in international and worldwide contexts to identify needs and and new contexts for knowledge transfer to current and emerging fields of professional development, with the ability to adapt to and independently manage professional and research processes.
• Use oral, written and audiovisual forms of communication, in one's own language and in foreign languages, with a high standard of use, form and content.

Bibliography

Key references

• Groover, M.P. (2007). Fundamentos de Manufactura Moderna: Materiales, procesos y sistemas (3 ed.). McGraw Hill.
• Kalpakjian, S., Schmid, S.R. (2008). Manufactura, Ingeniería y Tecnología (5 ed.). Pearson.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.