This Master's merges manufacturing technical and technological aspects with innovation and entrepreneurship teaching, in the context of global societal challenges, such as circular economy, industrial innovation and sustainability. It is a double degree programme, coordinated by EIT Manufacturing Master School, between UCD and other universities around Europe i.e. Aalto University, Finland, Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP), France, University of Trento (UNITN), Italy and Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria. The first year is spent at UCD (entry university) and the second year is spent at another (exit) university as listed above.

 

Students choose one of four majors offered as part of the programme i.e.

• Additive manufacturing for Full Flexibility,
• Zero-Defect Manufacturing for a Circular Economy,
• Digital Manufacturing for Innovative Ecosystems
• Data Science and AI for Competitive Manufacturing.

 

 The unique factors that this programme offers to all students include

1. direct involvement of industry,
2. hands-on experiential learning through Teaching & Learning Factories,
3. Fully immersive and transnational experience involving at least two institutions from different countries,
4. core technology areas combined with structured training in innovation and entrepreneurship,
5. cross-sectoral involvement from both academia and industry.