On 22nd till 24th of August 2023, MFRL team involving Zulkhairi, Amer, Kamarul and Zarirah and lead by Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Baharuddin have visited friends and colleagues from various universities. Begins with Dr Mokhtar;s team at UTP, Tronoh Perak. Then, the team met Dr Azman Ismail, who lead the team on the FSW at MIMET, UniKL Lumut. The next day, short discussion with Dr Hadi Azman, metal additive manufacturing expert at UKM. Finally, the main aim of the trip, i.e. to participate at WJAM 2023 and met all the sifu in the FSW and metal AM research areas end the visit. Thanks to all who accept our visit and entertained us.

Every year, after completed their design and fabrication of a tooling for a certain process, Manufacturing Engineering Programme students will face another challenge, i.e. the evaluation. Yesterday 13th of July 2023, the session start from 10 am and finish at 9 pm. Even though tired, they are happy after the session ends. It is normal, some are not well functions as intended to and the product not well produced. This year, 8 groups of student were assigned a task to design and fabricate a lancing tools. The design starts with CAD modeling, cost analysis and testing. Below are some of the photo taken during the session.

Congratulation to Zarirah for her achievement in I-Cited 2023 organized by Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya. The product exhibit in the competition is on low cost and user friendly metal 3D printing machine. The project is under her and still under development. Congratulation again.

Alhamdulillah. After one and half years of study and three hours thesis defense, Faris made the lab proud as he managed to pass his viva voce yesterday 22nd of May 2023. Congratulation. Thank you to School of Mechanical Engineering and USM in providing outstanding support in ensuring postgraduate student like Faris complete their study on time. Thank you as well to the examiners. The project is part of SATU Joint Research Scheme (JRS) programme with collaboration of Prof. Rajendran (SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India) and Dr. Syahir (UTM, Malaysia)