 Disciplines and Research Fields: The IME covers two national category specialities in the discipline of mechanical engineering, which ranked first in the 2003 China National Evaluation of key disciplines. The two specialities are Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation and Mechatronics, of which Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation is a National Key Discipline. In addition, the IME has also performs research in the area of CAD and computer graphics.
| Research Directions |
Research Areas |
Advanced Manufacturing Equipment
and Control |
Manufacturing Equipment and Control |
| IC Equipment |
| Robotics and Automation |
| Numerical Control Technology |
Precision and Nontraditional
Manufacturing |
High Precision Manufacturing |
| Nontraditional Manufacturing |
| Micro- and Nanomanufacturing |
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
and Graphics |
CAD Theory and Methodology |
| Computer Graphics |
Manufacturing Information
and Systems |
Manufacturing Informatization and Computer
Integrated Manufacturing |
Computer Aided Manufacturing and
Engineering (CAM/CAE) |
| Green Manufacturing Engineering |
Teaching and Training: The IME offers about 30 courses, including ¡°Engineering Graphics¡± as a core undergraduate course to all engineering disciplines of Tsinghua University. ¡°The Principle of Manufacturing Engineering¡± and ¡°Modern Manufacturing Technology¡± are major courses taught to mechanical engineering students. In addition, there are many other major courses and graduate degree courses offered to students of mechanical engineering and automation. The IME has the following laboratories: the National CIMS/ERC Manufacturing System Lab, the Virtual Manufacturing Lab, the Robots and Control Lab, the Tsinghua CAD Teaching & Training Center and the Manufacturing Engineering Training Base. Every year, the IME admits about 100 undergraduate students, 40 masters students, and more than 10 Ph.D. students.
Faculty and Staff: The IME has 50 faculty members including 13 full professors and 23 associate professors, of which one is a specially appointed professor for the ¡°Changjiang Scholar Award Plan.¡± The IME also has more than 100 Doctoral and masters degree candidates.
Resources: The IME possesses a number of homemade or imported advanced manufacturing and measurement equipment, including: horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, turning machining centers, electrical discharge machine tools (EDM), parallel kinematic machine tools(PKM), an arbitrary shape piston CNC turning lathe, industrial robots, a nanoscale ultra-precision platform and 3-Dimensional measuring machines. The IME also has many advanced graphics workstations and professional software for computer aided design, analysis and manufacturing.
Achievements:
* In 1958, cooperating with industry, the IME built the first numerical control machine tool of China.
* In 1992, the IME founded the first computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS) of China, and won the SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award given by the International Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 1994.
* In 1997, the IME independently developed China¡¯s first large-scale boring-milling parallel machine.
* Each year on average the IME carries out more than 20 research projects funded by either the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National 863/973 Research Project Foundation or industry. Annually, the IME publishes more than 100 papers and 3-4 books and won 3-4 national invention patents. Since 1980, more than 20 projects have wins awards from the nation and the ministries.
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