Student Design Projects

Most Manufacturing Engineering Technology Student Projects are industry based. Students work with industrial firms to solve real-world problems in a wide area of industrial concerns, including:

• Lean production improvement
• Quality
• Product design
• 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing
• Product testing
• Process design and improvement
• Inventory control
• Facility layout
• Automation and robotics
• Logistics and transportation

Each student is required to complete a capstone design project, often working with a team. In addition, some students gain experience working as interns for local industries.

Some of the companies students have worked in the past for their internships and capstone projects include:

• Alumacraft Inc., St. Peter, MN 
• Seneca Doors, Mankato, MN  
• Itron, Waseca, MN 
• Truck Body Equipment International, Lake Crystal, MN 
• Children's Museum of Southern MN, Mankato, MN 
• AGCO, Jackson, MN 
• Hormel Foods, Austin, MN 
• Johnson Outdoors, Mankato, MN
• Jones Metal Products, Mankato, MN
• Dotson Iron Casting, Mankato, MN
• Michael Foods, Gaylord, MN
• Cambria, Le Seuer, MN