Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, usually shortened to UTM, is a Malaysian public research university whose main campus stands at Skudai in the southern state of Johor.马来西亚理工大学（Universiti Teknologi Malaysia，简称 UTM，又称马来西亚工艺大学）是一所马来西亚公立研究型大学，主校区位于南部柔佛州的士姑来。

It grew out of technical classes first held in 1904, became a university-level institution in 1972 and took its present name in 1975, placing joint 158th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校源自 1904 年开办的技术课程，1972 年成为大学层级的学府，1975 年改用现名，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 158。

History

• The institution began in 1904 as technical classes held at the municipal building of Kuala Lumpur.学校起源于 1904 年在吉隆坡市议会大厦开设的技术课程班。

• In 1906 those classes were expanded into a technical school, first housed at the Batu Lane Malay School and later moved to a museum building at Bukit Nanas.1906 年，这些课程扩充为技术学校，最初设于巴都路的马来学校，后迁至武吉纳那斯的博物馆楼。

• In 1925 the Public Works Department developed the technical school on what is now Jalan Tun Sambanthan in Kuala Lumpur to train its own technical staff and those of the land and survey office.1925 年，公共工程部在今日吉隆坡敦辛班丹街一带扩建技术学校，用于培训该部门以及土地与测量局的技术人员。

• In 1930 the school planned to move to a new campus on Jalan Bandar, but the plan was delayed by the Second World War and carried out only in 1946.1930 年，学校计划迁往万达街的新校区，但受第二次世界大战影响，计划推迟到 1946 年才实现。

• By then the institution had been renamed the Kuala Lumpur Technical College.此时，学校已更名为吉隆坡技术学院。

• Its diploma courses, each lasting three years, covered civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, architecture, town and country planning, land surveying and quantity surveying.其文凭课程学制均为三年，涵盖土木、机械与电气工程、建筑、城乡规划、土地测量以及工料测量。

• Construction of a new technical college on Jalan Semarang began in 1951 and the building was fully in use by March 1955.位于士马勒街的新技术学院于 1951 年动工，至 1955 年 3 月全面投入使用。

• In 1960 the college began to offer bachelor's degrees in engineering.1960 年，学院开始开设工程类学士学位课程。

• Students on those courses sat the professional examinations of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers.修读这些课程的学生须参加英国土木工程师学会与机械工程师学会的专业考试。

• In 1967 a higher education planning committee decided to raise the college to university status from 1969.1967 年，高等教育策划委员会决定自 1969 年起将学院升格为大学层级的学府。

• The plan was realised on 14 March 1972 under the Universities and University Colleges Act of 1971, when the Institut Teknologi Kebangsaan, or National Institute of Technology, was established.该计划最终于 1972 年 3 月 14 日依据 1971 年《大学与学院法》落实，成立国家科技学院（National Institute of Technology）。

• On 1 April 1975 the institute became Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the name it still bears.1975 年 4 月 1 日，学院升格为马来西亚理工大学，并沿用此名至今。

• Its earlier names were the Technical School from 1904 to 1941, the Technical College from 1942 to 1971 and the Institut Teknologi Kebangsaan from 1971 to 1975.其早期名称依次为 1904 至 1941 年的技术学校、1942 至 1971 年的技术学院，以及 1971 至 1975 年的国家科技学院。

• In 1976 the government approved the university constitution, and its Senate and Council were established.1976 年，政府批准了大学章程，学校的评议会与校董会随之成立。

• In the 1975-76 academic year the faculty of engineering was divided into separate faculties of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering.在 1975 至 1976 学年，工程学院分设为土木、机械与电气三个工程学院。

• Together with the faculty of built environment, the faculty of surveying and the centres for science and humanities students, these became the forerunners of most of its present academic programmes.这些学院与环境建筑学院、测量学院以及理科与人文学生中心一道，成为今日多数课程的雏形。

• By 1976 the student population had reached 2,593, of whom 1,745 were studying for diplomas, 607 for degrees and 241 on integrated programmes.到 1976 年，学生总数达到 2593 人，其中 1745 人攻读文凭、607 人攻读学位、241 人就读综合课程。

• On 3 December 1977 the university conferred degrees on its first group of sixty-five graduates at an inaugural convocation in Kuala Lumpur.1977 年 12 月 3 日，学校在吉隆坡举行的首届毕业典礼上向首批六十五名毕业生授予学位。

• Its first chancellor was Sultan Ismail, who presided over that inaugural convocation, and the chancellorship later passed to Sultan Iskandar.学校首任校监为苏丹依斯迈，由他主持了首届毕业典礼，此后校监一职由苏丹依斯干达继任。

• Construction of the new Skudai campus in Johor began in 1978 on a site of about 2,400 acres.柔佛士姑来新校区的建设于 1978 年动工，用地约 2400 英亩。

• The Skudai campus was opened on 16 September 1985 by Sultan Iskandar, then the head of state, acting as the university's second chancellor.士姑来校区于 1985 年 9 月 16 日由时任最高元首苏丹依斯干达以学校第二任校监的身份主持启用。

• On 8 January 2012 the Ministry of Higher Education declared UTM the first Malaysian university to attain full autonomy from the government.2012 年 1 月 8 日，高等教育部宣布工大成为马来西亚第一所获得完全自主权的大学。

• In 2018 the university carried out a major restructuring that merged its faculties from eighteen into seven.2018 年，学校进行重大重组，把学院数量从十八个合并为七个。

• It maintains regional and international collaborations with companies such as Intel, Altera and Proton as well as with universities abroad, and its university presidents forum led to the formation of the Iskandar Malaysia Academic Partnership.学校与英特尔、Altera、宝腾等企业以及多所海外高校保持地区与国际合作；其大学校长论坛还促成了依斯干达马来西亚学术伙伴关系的建立。

Academics

• The university teaches engineering and technology together with education, science, management and human resource development.学校除工程与技术外，还开设教育学、理学、管理学与人力资源发展等学科。

• Its faculties include civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical and energy engineering, each of which also carries a Malay name such as Fakulti Kejuruteraan Awam.其学院包括土木工程学院、电气工程学院、机械工程学院，以及化学与能源工程学院，各学院在英文名称之外还另有马来语名称，如土木工程学院称 Fakulti Kejuruteraan Awam。

• Others are built environment and surveying, geoinformation and real estate, education, management and human resource development, science, and computing.其他学院还包括环境建筑与测量、地理信息与房地产、教育学、管理与人力资源发展、理学以及计算机科学。

• The chemical and energy engineering faculty was formed by merging the former chemical and natural resources engineering faculty with the petroleum and renewable energy engineering faculty.化学与能源工程学院由原化学与天然资源工程学院与石油与可再生能源工程学院合并而成。

• The faculty of science began as a School of Science teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics for the engineering faculty, and was upgraded to a full faculty in 1981.理学院最初是为工程学院教授物理、化学与数学的“理学科”（School of Science），1981 年升格为正式学院。

• In 1987 the faculty of science introduced a bachelor's degree in industrial science, and in 1988 it moved to the Skudai campus.1987 年，理学院开设工业理学士学位；1988 年，学院迁往士姑来校区。

• The faculty of science is organised into departments of chemistry, physics, biosciences and mathematical sciences, supported by the Ibnu Sina Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, the Centre for Sustainable Nanomaterials, the UTM Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and a laser centre.理学院下设化学系、物理系、生物科学系与数学科学系，并由伊本·西那科学与工业研究所、可持续纳米材料中心、工大工业与应用数学中心以及激光中心支持。

• The Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre grew out of a membrane research unit founded in 1990 at the Kuala Lumpur campus, moved to Skudai in 2002 and was made a centre of excellence in 2008.先进膜技术研究中心源于 1990 年在吉隆坡校区成立的膜研究组，2002 年迁至士姑来，2008 年升格为卓越中心。

• In November 2015 that centre was recognised by the Ministry of Higher Education as a higher institution centre of excellence in water reclamation.2015 年 11 月，该中心被高等教育部认定为水回收领域的国家级卓越中心。

• In 2020 the university had 32,325 students, of whom 14,538 were undergraduates, 8,775 postgraduates and 4,555 doctoral candidates, and it employed 2,624 academic staff.2020 年，学校有学生 32325 人，其中本科生 14538 人、研究生 8775 人、博士研究生 4555 人，并聘有 2624 名学术人员。

• More than a quarter of its students are enrolled in master's and doctoral programmes, and since the 1990s the share of international students from neighbouring countries, the Middle East and Africa has grown.其学生中有超过四分之一就读于硕士与博士项目；自 20 世纪 90 年代起，来自邻国、中东与非洲的国际学生比例不断上升。

• Teaching is carried out mainly in Malay and English, and its qualifications are recognised by the Malaysian government.教学主要以马来语与英语进行，其学历获马来西亚政府承认。

• It offers 108 master's and doctoral programmes in engineering and technology, some of them taught in English for international students.学校开设 108 个工程与技术领域的硕士与博士项目，其中部分以英语授课、面向国际学生。

• Its Research Management Centre was established in 1982 as the research and consultation unit and took its present name in 1997, supporting research grants and collaboration with industry.其科研管理中心于 1982 年以科研与咨询单位之名成立，并于 1997 年定名为科研管理中心，负责支持科研拨款与产业合作。

• The Kuala Lumpur campus houses the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, which offers undergraduate engineering programmes in English.吉隆坡校区设有马来西亚-日本国际技术学院，以英语开设工程类本科课程。

• UTM is one of a small number of Malaysian public universities with research university status, which brings access to additional government research grants.工大是马来西亚少数获得研究型大学地位的公立大学之一，由此可获得更多政府科研拨款。

• The university is a member of the ASEAN University Network and of the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning.学校是东盟大学联盟与东南亚高等教育机构协会的成员。

• Its greatest strength lies in civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering, in which it supplies a large share of the country's engineers, and it also teaches architecture, town and country planning, land surveying and quantity surveying.其最强领域为土木、机械、电气与化学工程，为全国输送了大量工程师；学校还开设建筑、城乡规划、土地测量与工料测量等学科。

Campus

• UTM has three campuses: the main campus at Skudai covering about 1,148 hectares, the Pagoh campus in Muar District covering fifty hectares and the Kuala Lumpur campus covering thirty-eight hectares.工大设有三个校区：占地约 1148 公顷的士姑来主校区、麻坡县占地五十公顷的巴莪校区，以及占地三十八公顷的吉隆坡校区。

• The main campus lies in the Iskandar Puteri area about twenty kilometres north of Johor Bahru, close to Senai International Airport, and is the second largest public university campus in the country after Universiti Putra Malaysia.主校区位于依斯干达公主城一带，距新山市以北约二十公里，紧邻士乃国际机场，是全国面积仅次于博特拉大学的第二大的公立大学校园，也是柔佛州的第一所大学。

• The Kuala Lumpur campus on Jalan Semarak accommodates diploma students, part-time students on the SPACE programme, undergraduates of the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology and foreign students taking business courses.位于士马勒街的吉隆坡校区容纳文凭课程学生、修读在职（SPACE）项目的学生、马来西亚-日本国际技术学院本科生以及修读商科的外国学生。

• The Pagoh campus was officially opened on 2 May 2017 and includes the UTM Innovation Centre in Agritechnology for Advanced Bioprocessing, which supports research on agricultural technology.巴莪校区于 2017 年 5 月 2 日正式启用，设有工大农业技术与先进生物加工创新中心，从事农业技术方面的研究。

• The main campus is divided into an inner ring and an outer ring, and the earliest residences were built in the inner ring in the style of Malay village houses.主校区分为内环与外环两区，最早的宿舍建在内环，采用马来乡村房屋式样。

• Later residences were built as high-rise blocks in the outer ring, and its residential colleges are named kolej rather than the ordinary Malay word for a hostel.后来的宿舍以外环的高层楼形式建造；其宿舍以“学院”而非马来语常用的“宿舍”一词命名。

• The earliest inner-ring colleges were numbered Kolej 1 to Kolej 5 before receiving their present names.内环最早的宿舍在获得现名之前依次以第一至第五宿舍称之。

• The inner ring colleges include Rahman Putra, Tun Fatimah, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein Onn and Tun Dr Ismail, the last of which houses students of the reserve officer training corps.内环宿舍包括拉曼布特拉、敦花蒂玛、敦拉萨、敦胡申翁与敦依斯迈医生等学院，其中敦依斯迈医生学院供后备军团学生住宿。

• The outer ring colleges include Tuanku Canselor, Perdana, Kolej 9 and Kolej 10, along with Datin Seri Endon, Tun Ghafar Baba and Dato Onn Jaafar, and Kolej 11 was merged into the Tun Dr Ismail college in 2013.外环宿舍包括校长陛下、柏达纳、第九与第十宿舍，以及拿汀斯里恩顿、敦嘉化峇峇与拿督翁惹化等学院；第十一宿舍已于 2013 年并入敦依斯迈医生学院。

• Kolej 9 and Kolej 10, built together, are each formed of two U-shaped blocks, one serving women and one men, and the Datin Seri Endon college was formed from the former Kolej 12 and Kolej 13.第九与第十宿舍同时兴建，各由两栋呈 U 形的楼组成，分别供女生与男生使用；拿汀斯里恩顿学院则由原第十二、十三宿舍合并而成。

• The university library, the Perpustakaan Sultanah Zanariah, opened on 3 February 1991, occupies five floors and has 3,422 seats and about half a million volumes, mostly in science and technology.学校图书馆名为苏丹娜扎娜丽雅图书馆，于 1991 年 2 月 3 日启用，共五层，设 3422 个座位，藏书约五十万册，以科学与技术类为主。

• The library has branches on the main and Kuala Lumpur campuses, and free bus services and local and international restaurants serve the campus community.图书馆在主校区与吉隆坡校区设有分馆；校园内提供免费巴士服务，并设有本地与国际餐厅。

• In 2005 the library was named the best academic library in Malaysia, and it holds mainly scientific and technical works while expanding its social science and humanities collections.2005 年，该馆被评为马来西亚最佳学术图书馆；其藏书以科学与技术类为主，同时不断扩充社会科学与人文领域的馆藏。

Reputation

• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia places joint 158th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 401-450 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education table and in the 701-800 band of the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities.马来西亚理工大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 158，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名处于 401 至 450 区间，2022 年软科世界大学学术排名处于 701 至 800 区间。

• In the 2023 QS table it stood 219th in the world, 38th in Asia and fifth among Malaysian universities, and QS has rated it a five-star university.在 2023 年 QS 榜单中，学校位列世界第 219、亚洲第 38，并在马来西亚高校中排名第五；QS 还将其评为五星大学。

• In 2016 QS placed it within the world's top hundred for engineering and technology.2016 年，QS 把其工程与技术学科列入世界前一百。

• In the Webometrics ranking of world universities it has been placed fourth in Southeast Asia and first in Malaysia.在世界大学网络计量排名中，学校曾列东南亚第四、马来西亚第一。

• In the 2023 US News global ranking it stood 379th.在 2023 年《美国新闻与世界报道》全球排名中，学校位列第 379。

• It is among the oldest and best known national universities in Malaysia specialising in engineering and technology.学校是马来西亚历史最悠久、最负盛名的工程与技术类国立大学之一。

• It is a principal source of the country's engineers and related professionals, and its alumni association plays a part in the development of engineering and technology in Malaysia.学校是马来西亚工程师与相关专业人才的主要来源之一，其校友会在本国工程与技术领域的发展中发挥着一定作用。

• Its classes in the QS World University Rankings have risen from 358th in 2012 to around 150th in the 2020s, reflecting its growing research profile and its stated ambition to be recognised as a global university.其在 QS 世界大学排名中的名次从 2012 年的第 358 位升至 21 世纪 20 年代的约第 150 位，反映其科研影响力的提升，以及跻身全球性大学之列的既定目标。

• Its qualifications are recognised by the Malaysian government, and its graduates increasingly work in academic and professional institutions worldwide.其学历获马来西亚政府承认，毕业生越来越多地在世界各地的学术与专业机构任职。

Student life

• Its motto is the Malay phrase Kerana Tuhan Untuk Manusia, meaning in the name of God for mankind.学校校训为马来语（Kerana Tuhan Untuk Manusia），意为“为主、为人”。

• Its colours are maroon and gold, and its official song is entitled Keunggulan Terbilang, composed by Hamzah Ibrahim with lyrics by Tamjis Kastiran.学校校色为栗色与金色；其校歌名为《Keunggulan Terbilang》，由 Hamzah Ibrahim 作曲、Tamjis Kastiran 作词。

• Its residential system uses named colleges that function as halls of residence for undergraduate and postgraduate students.其住宿体系以冠名学院作为本科生与研究生的宿舍使用。

• Students of the reserve officer training corps are required to live in the Tun Dr Ismail college because it stands near their training ground.因后备军团的训练场地位于敦依斯迈医生学院附近，参加军团的学生须住宿于该学院。

• The university's sports complex stands close to the Tuanku Canselor college.学校的体育中心位于校长陛下学院附近。

• The Datin Seri Endon college is named after the late wife of a former Malaysian prime minister, and the Tun Ghafar Baba college after a former deputy prime minister.拿汀斯里恩顿学院以前首相已故夫人命名，敦嘉化峇峇学院则以前副首相命名。

• The Dato Onn Jaafar college is named after a founder of a major Malaysian political party.拿督翁惹化学院以马来西亚一个重要政党的创办人命名。

• The campus provides free bus services and dining outlets, and facilities to help students with disabilities move around and study.校园提供免费巴士与餐饮设施，并为残障学生提供便于出行与学习的设施。

• Its two Johor-based rings of residences and its city campus in Kuala Lumpur give it a largely residential student life in the south of the peninsula.柔佛主校区的内外两环宿舍与吉隆坡城市校区，使其学生生活主要围绕半岛南部的住宿校园展开。

Notable people

• Wee Ka Siong, a former Malaysian minister of transport, is an alumnus.马来西亚前交通部长魏家祥是学校校友。

• Annuar Musa, a former minister of communications and multimedia, and Hamzah Zainudin, a former minister of home affairs, are also among its graduates.前通讯与多媒体部长安努亚慕沙与前内政部长韩沙再努丁，也是其毕业生。

• Saarani Mohamad is the Menteri Besar, or chief minister, of the state of Perak, and Adly Zahari is a former chief minister of Melaka.沙拉尼·莫哈末是霹雳州务大臣，阿德里·扎哈里则是马六甲前首席部长。

• Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani is a former inspector-general of police of Malaysia.阿克里·沙尼·阿都拉·沙尼曾任马来西亚警察总长。

• Shaziman Abu Mansor, a former minister of works, is an alumnus as well.前工程部长沙兹曼同样是学校校友。

• Lee Khai Loon, a state assemblyman in Penang, and Chan Ming Kai, a member of parliament, both studied at the university.槟城州议员李凯伦与国会议员曾敏凯，都曾就读于该校。

• Dominic Lau Hoe Chai leads a Malaysian political party.刘华才领导着马来西亚的一个政党。

• The office of chancellor has been held by the Sultanah of Johor, Raja Zarith Sofiah, while its earliest chancellors were the state's sultans.学校校监由柔佛苏丹后拉惹查丽苏菲雅担任，而最早的几任校监则由柔佛苏丹出任。

• Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, a membrane scientist who directed the Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre, served as vice-chancellor from 2020 to 2024.膜科学家阿末法乌兹·伊斯迈曾任先进膜技术研究中心主任，并于 2020 至 2024 年出任校长。

• Its vice-chancellors have run from Ainuddin Wahid, who served from 1975 to 1989, to Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, appointed in 2025.学校历任校长从 1975 至 1989 年在任的 Ainuddin Wahid，一直到 2025 年上任的 Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim。