The University of Macau (UM) will considerably broaden its science and know-how footprint within the second half of this 12 months, launching 5 new colleges as half of a tutorial restructuring geared toward strengthening analysis capability and worldwide competitiveness.
According to a statement from UM, the college can have a Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Information Science and Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, and Faculty of Design from August.
These will construct on and substitute the UM’s two current science and know-how colleges, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST). The plan has been accepted by the University Council.
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At the centre of the enlargement is the brand new Faculty of Medicine, anticipated to turn out to be UM’s largest science-based faculty. New educational departments will embrace medical drugs, dentistry, and nutrition-related sciences, whereas worldwide collaboration can be strengthened by a joint skilled medical drugs programme with Portugal’s University of Lisbon.
UM’s new Faculty of Information Science and Computing will refocus its current science and know-how choices in direction of areas resembling synthetic intelligence (AI), robotics, microelectronics and monetary know-how. The faculty is anticipated to function a core platform for digital and data-driven disciplines.
The Faculty of Engineering may also mix current FST departments with new choices, whereas the Faculty of Science will “provide foundational support in the basic sciences for technological innovation in Macao and nationwide,” UM stated.
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The newly established Faculty of Design will focus on the intersection of AI and inventive apply, providing programmes in visible communication, structure and industrial design.
Rector Yonghua Song stated the restructuring would deepen UM’s position in cutting-edge analysis and expertise growth, whereas supporting Macao’s integration with Hengqin. Several of the brand new colleges will function throughout UM’s major campus and its Hengqin campus underneath a dual-campus mannequin, designed to encourage nearer hyperlinks between academia, business and worldwide analysis networks.
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