Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management
City University of Hong Kong
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Strategic Plan
TO BE THE BEST
We will
- create new programs to meet current and future challenges
- strengthen our curricula by revamping existing programs and updating contents
- recruit new faculty to diversify and increase our intellectual capital
- invite visiting professors from abroad
- encourage research in strategic focus areas
- create world-class labs in focused areas of excellence
- establish mutual recognition of Engineering Doctorate program
- enhance global engineering management education
TO EDUCATE THE BEST
MEEM aims to provide world-class education for technical experts in manufacturing and engineering managers in order to produce leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators to meet the current needs of manufacturing industries and business sectors. Our education is to educate and equip students with the in-depth professional skills knowledge and technical expertise skills to meet the needs of changing needs of today's industrial and business communities today and beyond.
With its roots in manufacturing engineering, MEEM consists of two foundation disciplines: mechanical engineering and industrial engineering. The curriculum design, therefore, should be traceable to one of the foundation disciplines with appropriate courses introduced from other disciplines, as illustrated in the diagram below
Over the past decade, prompted by the increasing concentration of manufacturing sites in Asia Pacific, the need for engineering talents and management expertise has witnessed tremendous growth. Therefore, our education evolves to be more comprehensive such as introducing management concepts, logistics and operations skills.
Total Quality Engineering Program
The recent recalls add urgency to increase the talent pool for Quality Experts who not only can engineer quality into the products, but also can ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations and standards globally. The department plans to offer a new undergraduate degree programme in "Total Quality Engineering" (TQE) to meet the increasing needs for quality experts and inspectors in 2009.
The aim of Total Quality Engineering is to address the issue of quality control and assurance in international trade, focusing on safety, health and environment (HSE) consequences of products. TQE combines total quality management concept and the HSE compliance requirement. TQE ensures that all products are of certain quality with no health, safety and environmental risks. In essence, it is almost zero-defect manufacturing, one step further than average quality engineering which meets certain minimum standards only.
Change brings opportunities
The changes of Hong Kong's higher education and the introduction of Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning in City University requires our careful examination of all of our academic programmes and rethinks our curriculum designs to meet future needs as well as the changes in technologies and shifting in global manufacturing environments.
We constantly re-examine our curriculum design and revamp all of our programmes to tailor to our education objectives and identify the core competences.
We have developed strategic planning in the education that leads us to our vision.
Path to 2012 Vision (Manufacturing Engineering)
Path to 2012 Vision (Engineering Management)
Research
To ensure that we can teach from strength, we are actively gearing up our research competence in key focused areas, obtaining resources to establish world-class facilities and building up academic credentials in the Department. One of our greatest assets is our dedicated faculty who are leading experts to apply knowledge in multidisciplinary research. Our rigorous research have been well recognized yet bearing in mind that the world is changing at the pace it has never been, we need to respond with agility. To stay ahead, we have to work hard and look for new talent to join our teams of experts.
Strategic Focus Research Areas:
Nano-scale measurement
Micro-robtic networking
Quality engineering and conformity
Creativity and Innovation
Materials selection and substitution for Green Manufacturing
Industrial affiliation
The Department endeavors to foster close partnerships with industries and international organisations in order to better understand the industry needs and anticipate future challenges of the globalized economy. The collaboration not only benefits our partners, but also helps us identify new opportunities and upgrade our educational programs as well as research. We actively engage in industrial research, R&D activities, training and professional consultancy with the manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Greater China and Asia Pacific. The rapid transformation of manufacturing fields is vital to the region's economy, it also boosts the needs for engineering caliber and management expertise.