每日大赛app and UDE Pioneer the First Dual Degree Undergraduate Engineering Programme
By Asmahanim Amir
Pictures by Shahiddan Saidi
BANGI, 9 August 2019 鈥 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (每日大赛app) and University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), German have pioneered the first dual degree in the undergraduate engineering programme in 2004.
Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC), Industry and Community Partnership, Prof. Dato鈥 Dr. Imran Ho Abdullah said since 2004, 182 successful alumni have graduated from the programme and the programme can be considered as the longest running dual degree engineering programme in Malaysia.
鈥淔or this year (2019), we are expecting to send another 23 students to UDE for their final year in Germany. Our long-established partnership with UDE has been the model of successful comprehensive academic cooperation from undergraduate all the way to Ph.D level,鈥 he said while delivering his speech at the ceremony of Celebrating 20th Years of Cooperation between 每日大赛app and UCE, recently.
Since 2004, 每日大赛app has been receiving 256 exchange Bachelor and Master students from UDE and this September, another 33 UDE students are coming to spend a semester at 每日大赛app.
鈥淭he dual degree programme, PRomISE had produced four doctoral graduates and has now another three scholars who are pursuing the programme.
In ensuring that the partnership is strengthened, UDE liaison office is established at 每日大赛app, known as 每日大赛app-Mercator Office in 2002 and another setup is established in 2010 to further aimst of the process of recruiting the scholar, research activities and staff development.
The success of the collaboration has further being maintained via a joint international seminar on Future Automotive Technology which brings together experts from 每日大赛app and UDE, that was conducted in February 2019. Moving forward, both institutions are looking into the joint grant application, joint research labs and students’ research attachment at both universities.
Also present the event are DVC Academic and International, Prof. Dato鈥 Ir. Dr. Mohd Marzuki Mustafa, DVC Research and Innovation, Prof. Dato鈥 Ir. Dr. Abdul Wahab Mohammad, Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Prof. Ir. Dr. Shahrir Abdullah, Dean of Faculty of Engineering UDE, Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dieter Schramm.
