Description:
The Manufacturing Engineering Department at Faculty of Engineering was established in the end of 2013. In all Iraqi universities, manufacturing engineering is the unique engineering department.
The department of Manufacturing Engineering is regarded as the sole department of its type in Kurdistan Region in particular and in Iraq in general. My colleagues and I are trying very hard to raise the standard of teaching at this department to be compatible with high ranking universities.

Manufacturing engineers develop and create physical artifacts, production processes, and technology. It is a very broad area which includes the design and development of products. The manufacturing engineering discipline has very strong overlaps with  mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, production engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science, materials management, and operations management. Manufacturing engineers' success or failure directly impacts the advancement of technology and the spread of innovation. This field of manufacturing engineering emerged from tool and die discipline in the early 20th century. It expanded greatly from the 1960s when industrialized countries introduced factories with:

1. Numerical control machine tools and automated systems of production.

2. Advanced statistical methods of quality control:

3. Industrial robots on the factory floor, introduced in the late 1970s: These computer-controlled welding arms and grippers could perform simple tasks such as attaching a car door quickly and flawlessly 24 hours a day. This cut costs and improved production speed.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing the undergraduate study program in manufacturing engineering, a graduate should develop scientific concepts (knowledge), critical thinking and problem solving ability, effective communication skills and ethical responsibility with the site.
By the time of graduation, Students should have acquired the following knowledge and skills:


General Skills:

Graduates of the program are expected to demonstrate:

• An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. 
• An ability to identify, formulates, and solves engineering problems. 
• An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. 
• An ability to communicate effectively. 

The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning.
An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
The ability to work in one or more significant application domains.



Analytical Skills:
Be recruited as a site engineer at different construction projects.
Work at lab of site investigation to classify soil at any construction project.
Design shallow and deep foundation.
Solve the problems in stabilizing excavations in rock masses.
Work at irrigation project to manage and schedule irrigation interval in effective and economical way.
Design of excavations, slopes, tunnels and shafts.
Work in a team for channel network system design or pipe network design.



Communication Skills:
From the beginning, the department’s head meets the new students to give them information about the department regulations and civil engineer tasks and fields in which they operate or finding jobs. This will help students to:

• The ability to formulate an engineering statement precisely.
• The ability to write a coherent engineering report.
• The ability to present an engineering argument verbally. 

Reading and Research Skills:

• The ability to research, acquire, use and critically evaluate experimental, numerical and other complex data.
• The ability to conduct practical experiments/activities to investigate engineering behavior and material properties.
• Sufficient experience in engineering language and foundation material to be well-prepared to extend one’s engineering knowledge further through independent reading.
• Exposure to a successful experience in solving construction problems presenting substantial intellectual challenge.