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Manufacturing (Monozukuri in Japan, Production is Europe) is one of the key elements of economic well-being of a society. This article deals with the interplay of manufacturing engineering courses and web-based education from the context of undergraduate mechanical engineering degree program. The manufacturing engineering related courses offered by the undergraduate mechanical engineering degree programs of some institutes in the USA, UK, EU, Middle-east, and Japan are described. The web-based manufacturing engineering course-offering aided by concept maps is also described. The outcome of this article shed some lights on how to balance the aspects near-future-employment-based education and academic-discipline-based education for creating learned professionals in manufacturing for the years to come.
