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A Historical Record of The

Faculty of Engineering

1950 The Board of Studies was set up by the University of Malaya, located then in Singapore,
recommended the establishment of a Department of Engineering to provide degree courses on
the civil side and to provide facilities for students taking Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
to take part of their courses at the University before proceeding overseas to complete their

degrees.

1954 The Department was set up in the 1954-55 session with the appointment of C.A.M. Gray as the
First Professor of Engineering. Teaching began in the 1955-56 session in Singapore, with the
intake of Year I students and Year II students(i.e. students who had joined the Faculty of

Science in the 1954-55 session with the hope of taking Engineering after completing their first
year in science.)

1956 Engineering education, at the tertiary level, began in Malaysia with the establishment of the
Engineering Department at University of Malaya's Bukit Timah campus in Singapore. Only a

Bachelor degree course in Civil Engineering was offered at that time.

1957 The Department of Engineering was transferred to the Kuala Lumpur campus of the University
in July.

1958 The Department of Engineering was upgraded to a Faculty of Engineering when University of

Malaya relocated to its campus in Lembah Pantai with Professor C.A.M. Gray as the first
elected Dean. In the same year, the second bachelor degree course in Mechanical Engineering
was introduced.

1959 Bachelor Degree course in Electrical Engineering was added to the number of courses available

to undergraduates.

1970 The Faculty introduced the fourth course, a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering.

1974 All the four Divisions in the Faculty were upgraded to Departments.

1996 In the 1996/97 session, the Faculty introduced six other courses namely in Telecommunication

Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Materials Engineering, Computer Aided Design and
Manufacturing Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.