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Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, which was once known as the
CAD/CAM unit was established in 1993 as The National CAD/CAM Centre. In 1996,
the unit started offering the Bachelors Degree in Computer Aided Design and
Manufacturing (CAD/M), there were only about 25 students as the first intake. The
following year, the unit began offering a course in Manufacturing Engineering,
which was once offered by the Mechanical Engineering Department. However,
since both manufacturing and CAD/M areas are closely related to each other, for
session 1997/1998, the university’s management had approved a proposal for the
manufacturing course to be transferred to the CAD/CAM unit. Due to the transfer,
the CAD/CAM unit was changed to the CAD/CAM and Manufacturing unit. In the
year 2000, with the offering of two programmes and rapid development of the
unit, it was upgraded to Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture.
Starting from 2000/2001 session, a four-year course system was implemented.
Today, within a decade of the establishment of the department, it has managed to
produce more than 500 graduates in CAD/M and Manufacturing programmes.
Within five years of the offering of Master of Engineering (Manufacturing), there
are more than 50 graduates and more than a handful of MSc by research and PhD
graduates. This can be considered as a great achievement for one of the youngest
department in the Faculty of Engineering.
With the intensification of research activities, the department aims to increase the
number of academic staffs with PhD and professional qualifications. This would
ensure that the quality of our programmes is not compromise in our quest to
produce quality graduates for the industry.
In line with the mission and vision of
the faculty and the university, the
department is moving towards
establishing a research culture
amongst staff and students. To spear
head this initiative, the Centre for
Product Design and Manufacturing
(CPDM), Centre of Advanced
Manufacturing and Material
Processing (AMMP) and
Manufacturing System Integration
research group (MSI) were
established within this department.
Academic staffs are associated with
the centers and have attracted a
great amount of funding from
various external sources such as the
Technofund, Sciencefund,
Fundamental Research Grants,
Experimental Research Grants, High-
Impact Research Grants and several
other research grants.
BRIEF PROFILE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE