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The University of Malta through the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, together with a number of partner institutions have just been awarded funding for a project entitled A Framework for Strengthening Asian Higher Education on Advanced Design and Manufacture. This project, funded by the EU Asia-Link programme, spans over a period of 36 months and aims to develop a framework to strengthen postgraduate education in advanced design and manufacture in the least developed and developing Asian countries. The principle beneficiaries of this project are teaching staff, postgraduate students and engineers in Bangladesh, China and Pakistan. The project's primary framework development activity is the creation of an innovative multidisciplinary postgraduate course entitled Advanced Design and Manufacture, with the scope of increasing high quality postgraduate numbers in Asia. The project will additionally include a longer-term objective in the form of Asian PhD student training programmes, as well as the training of teaching staff, engineers, and practitioners. Furthermore, the project will offer a basis for comparing and evaluating the higher education systems in the partner countries and institutions. The partnership consists of seven leading universities from three Asian and three European countries, these being: Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, University of Malta, and Troyes University of Technology, France. The total project budget is of EUR 1 million, and aims to reach out to around 150 postgraduate MSc and PhD students from the Asian partner institutions as well as around 40 Asian teaching staff, engineers and scientists participating at different levels in the project. Academic staff at the Department of Manufacturing Engineering will be collaborating in the creation and delivery of three MSc programme modules, namely, "Design Methodology, Techniques and Tools", "Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation", and "Robotics and Manufacturing Automation". The DME will also be involved in the split-training of one Asian PhD student, as well as in other project activities.
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