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New Master’s For Digital Design and Manufacturing Innovators

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by Claire Tremont

Students can earn this degree remotely from anywhere in the world, offering an accessible path to advanced engineering education

Students enrolled in this degree take classes such as CAD for Industrial Design; Data Science for Materials and Manufacturing; Manufacturing Automation and Industry 4.0; and many other innovative courses (Christopher LaRosa / UConn College of Engineering Photo)

As academia works overtime to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding and evolving industry, one UConn Engineering graduate program is embracing the challenge to educate engineers to innovate with the latest digital design and manufacturing technologies. 

Computer-generated manufacturing designs.
Contributed illustration, made with artificial intelligence

The Master of Engineering (MENG) in Digital Design and Manufacturing is a 30-credit online graduate degree for engineers wishing to advance their knowledge in digital tools and models used in modern industries.

Students will learn and master the tools shaping the future of engineering, from digital twins and 3D design software to machine learning and data science, in a part-time program designed for their success. 

Together with faculty from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, students will benefit from world-class research and teaching capabilities backed by significant funding from the likes of the National Science Foundation and various Departments of Defense, Energy, and Education funding agencies. 

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Prof. Norato Elected Fellow of the ASME

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Prof. Julián Norato has been honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The Fellow grade of membership recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession and to ASME. The recognition was announced at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences held in Washington D.C. in August, 2024.

Prof. Nguyen receives multiple large grants from the NIH and the Gates Foundation

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by Matt Engelhardt

Through millions in coveted grants, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are recognizing how impactful Thanh Nguyen’s research is to the field of biomedical engineering.

Nguyen, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, has already established himself as one of the top-funded researchers at UConn. The NIH is adding to that success by awarding Nguyen four R01 grants totaling more than $9.5 million, with $7.5 million going to UConn researchers.

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