Report
of the Programme Assessor 2007
Faculty of
Engineering
Universitat
Duisburg-Essen
47048 Duisburg Germany
E-mail: jd.herbell@uni-duisburg-essen.de
for
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Programme
Department of Mechanical
and Materials Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Universiti Kebangsaan,
Malaysia
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report
was prepared as a result during my visit at UKM (9 July – 14 Sept 2008). I would like to thank the Administration
of UKM and especially Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering, Professor
Marzuki Mustafa for inviting me to do this programme review. During my visit the Chairman of the Department
of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Professor Ahmad Kamal Ariffin Mohd. Ihsan, was giving a full
cocoperation to make sure that I had access to all the relevant information and
had the opportunity to meet with the
lecturers and professors of the
department as well as with a group of
students. He also made sure that my stay at UKM was socially pleasant and
interesting.
1.
INTRODUCTION / GENERAL COMMENTS
The review from available documents
show that the contents of the mechanical engineering programs at
UKM are quite similar to other
programmes I met in University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, or at China University
of Mining & Technolgy in Xuzhou, PR China.
The philosophy, vision, mission, aims and Programme Educational Objectives (PEO) of UKM
and the faculty of engineering are outstanding.
2. INDUSTRY
There are a few reasons why the environmental industry is growing, such as the fact that issues of climate change are moving up the political agenda. Mean that a diverse range of organizations need help to meet these new legal requirements. There is, therefore, an increased means the need to recruit more environmental professionals.
Increasing industrial contacts for students and lecturers
would have a positive effect on the
understanding of local and global issues on environment. A major effort
by the department may be necessary to increase industry
contacts and establish mutual understanding between industry and
UKM such as research cooperation
with industry and speakers from industry to give seminars
on industry perspective and activities.
3.
ASSESSSMENT OF PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
Successful
integration of cleaner production concepts and technologies will require that
students receive adequate training and knowledge. Yet at present, most
university programs outside mainstream environmental programs cover little in
the way of environmental issues or sustainability and only a few shows how
environmental concepts such as cleaner production should be integrated into
management, design, engineering, marketing and service.
To make sure that the programme fulfill the environmental issues, it should be incorporate in some courses in Mechanical Programme and Manufacturing Programme such as KKKJ2513 Engineering Materials, KKKJ3943 System Design, KKKJ4953 Design Project, KKKP4273 Product Design.
4. THE
FINAL YEAR STUDENT PROJECT AND
LAB WORKS
There are 4 courses entirely devoted to final year thesis (KKKJ4013 / KKKJ4023/KKKP4913/KKKP4923).
Student should do the entire final year project and include the effect to the
environment as a part from the final year project result. This is not easily
done and requires contacts with
industries and knowledge of the industrial issues and problems.
One possible improvement would be to have the discussion that relate to environment
issues whether attached to the current lab experiment or new lab experiment and
to assure that everyone are familiar with the experiments.