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MSc Manufacturing and Operations (Upper Midwest) (Online)

Frontier Innovation University

Frontier Innovation University

Master's

MSc Manufacturing and Operations (Upper Midwest) (Online)

Frontier Innovation University

Frontier Innovation University (online)

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Tuition

$750 total (online)

Degree

M.Sc.

Delivery

Full-time · Online

Duration

2 years (18 mo)

Language & requirements

Taught in: English

Tuition fees

  • INTERNATIONAL$750 total (online)

About Frontier Innovation University

Affordable US innovation university in Austin, Texas.

Overview

This MSc is for supervisors and planners who already live inside takt, scrap, and truck appointments in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Frontier Innovation University will not prepare you to stamp drawings as a professional engineer. You will design a shift-handoff that survives absenteeism, cost a changeover, and treat winter freight as a constraint, not a footnote. Tuition-free online and Austin campus use the same rubrics and identity-checked exams. Capstones need a real plant, warehouse, or contract-manufacturer dataset (anonymised)—not a toy factory in a textbook with the city renamed Austin.

Delivered fully online with live seminars, recorded lectures, and tutor support.

**Award:** Frontier Innovation University **Credits:** 36 | **Typical duration:** 2 years (18 months)

Course structure

4 terms · 16 modules · 36 credits

Module 1: Plant systems

  • MLT401·Discrete and Process Operations in the Upper Midwest
    3 credits
  • MLT402·Capacity, Takt, and Mix as Management Problems
    3 credits
  • MLT403·Labour Markets, Shifts, and Absenteeism
    3 credits
  • MLT404·Safety Literacy for Managers (Not Trainer Certification)
    3 credits

Module 2: Quality and assets

  • MLT405·Quality Escapes, Containment, and Customer Communication
    3 credits
  • MLT406·Maintenance Backlog and Spare-Parts Politics
    3 credits
  • MLT407·Tooling, Changeover, and Small-Lot Reality
    3 credits
  • MLT408·Documentation that Survives a Customer Audit (Non-PE)
    3 credits

Module 3: Flow beyond the dock

  • MLT409·Inbound, Outbound, and Winter Freight
    3 credits
  • MLT410·Contract Manufacturing and Customer Scorecards
    3 credits
  • MLT411·Energy, Utilities, and Plant Continuity
    3 credits
  • MLT412·Ethics, Data, and Shop-Floor Metrics that Lie
    3 credits

Module 4: Capstone

  • MLT413·Briefing Plant Leadership without Theatre
    3 credits
  • MLT414·Operations Research Methods for Mid-Size Plants
    3 credits
  • MLT415·Dual-Pathway Parity in Technical Management Education
    3 credits
  • MLT416·Capstone: Upper Midwest Manufacturing Operations Project
    3 credits

Learning outcomes

  • Apply discipline-specific theory to complex professional problems
  • Design and execute research or applied projects to postgraduate standard
  • Communicate findings clearly to academic and industry audiences
  • Demonstrate ethical, inclusive practice in global workplaces
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