Advanced Engineering Manufacturing Center (AEMC)

In light of the rapid transformation toward a knowledge-based industrial economy, the need has emerged for advanced centers that integrate academic knowledge, practical expertise, and industrial engineering services—enhancing national industrial competitiveness and driving technology localization. From this perspective, the Advanced Engineering Manufacturing Center (AEMC) was established to serve as a pioneering platform that bridges education, research, and practical application, while providing comprehensive industrial and consulting services in engineering and digital manufacturing, aligned with the requirements of Industry 4.0.

The center aims to empower the national industry by supporting innovation, entrepreneurship, and the development of industrial solutions and products, in addition to offering an advanced environment that nurtures national talent and builds a generation capable of leading the industrial transformation journey.

Guided by the values of innovation, quality, integration, and sustainability, the center strives to be a strategic industrial partner in technology and industry localization, to reinforce the university’s leadership role, and to contribute to achieving the objectives of Vision 2030 toward a prosperous, knowledge- and technology-driven economy.

Vision

To lead in empowering the national industry through an integrated educational, applied, and advanced industrial services ecosystem in engineering and digital manufacturing (Industry 4.0). The center supports innovation and accelerates technology and industry localization in alignment with Vision 2030.

Mission

To provide technical, technological, and logistical expertise and deliver advanced industrial services to companies and factories, to foster a culture of engineering and digital manufacturing. The center seeks to empower students, researchers, and entrepreneurs to develop and localize innovative industrial solutions within an advanced environment that embraces national talent and modern technologies, contributing to industrial transformation, strengthening the leadership role of universities, and supporting the knowledge-based economy.

Values

National belonging, innovation and entrepreneurship, excellence and professionalism, integration and teamwork, social responsibility, digital and knowledge transformation, sustainability, localization, and manufacturing efficiency.  

General Goal and Specific Objectives

The Advanced Engineering Manufacturing Center (AEMC) aims to be a leading national platform in supporting the transition toward Industry 4.0 by providing an integrated system of industrial, consulting, and technical services. The center seeks to empower students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and the industrial sector, while strengthening partnerships with both government and private entities within an advanced knowledge-based environment. It aspires to localize innovative industrial solutions and transform ideas into sustainable products and developmental solutions that contribute to improving the quality of life and driving industrial transformation.

Building on this general goal, the center strives to achieve the following specific objectives: 

• Develop Applied Engineering Education
  By engaging students in specialized workshops, hands-on learning, and practical training, enabling them to provide technical support and manufacture prototypes and products that serve the needs of the national industry.
• Design Innovative Engineering Solutions
  By fostering the development of applicable engineering products that address technical challenges faced by individual makers, startups, and small and medium enterprises within the local community.
• Promote a Culture of Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
  By raising students’ awareness of manufacturing, innovation, and entrepreneurship through real interactive experiences with entrepreneurs and makers in the local ecosystem.
• Enable University–Industry Partnership
  By supporting effective collaboration between the university and the local industrial sector through joint development and production projects, contributing to applied research and enhancing the quality of engineering and technical education.
• Maximize the University’s Economic and Knowledge Returns
  By investing in the university’s human resources, infrastructure, laboratories, and technical facilities, transforming them into sustainable income streams that serve its developmental objectives.
• Build Strategic Local and International Alliances
  By establishing partnerships and cooperation agreements between the Advanced Engineering Manufacturing Center and leading manufacturing and innovation centers, industrial companies, government bodies, and related ministries, the center can exchange expertise and adopt global best practices in manufacturing and innovation.
• Support Creative Skills of General Education Students
  By contributing to the development of technical and engineering skills among students of general education at various levels through community initiatives that help build a creative generation capable of engaging in modern manufacturing pathways.
• Manufacturing and Forming Metallic and Non-Metallic Materials
  By utilizing the latest technologies and international standards to support advanced manufacturing solutions.

Center Activities and Key Services

Through its specialized laboratories and workshops, advanced equipment, and modern facilities for prototype manufacturing, product development, and the forming of metallic and non-metallic materials, the center provides the following services and related values: