The University of Malta’s Department of Systems and Control Engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It was set up in June 2007, as part of the restructuring exercise in the Faculty of Engineering.
To celebrate this milestone, the Department will be organising a public lecture by Professor Markos Papageorgiou, Director of the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory at the Technical University of Crete. The public lecture, entitled 'Traffic Management in the Era of Vehicle and Communication Systems', will be held on Thursday 14 December 2017 at 17:30 in the Engineering Lecture Theatre at the University of Malta.
Interested members of the public may register by sending an email to sce.eng@um.edu.mt or phoning on +356 2340 3385 during office hours by Friday 8 December. Following the public talk, the newly refurbished and relocated Control Systems Engineering Laboratory will be inaugurated.
The Department had started its life with a very compact set up, comprising three academics, one laboratory officer, one research assistant and clerical support. This has now grown to include an additional four academics and two systems engineers.
Staff members contribute to teaching activities at Bachelor and Master levels, supervision of undergraduate and M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, funded and collaborative research programmes, as well as maintaining links with industry and international peers.
The Department’s research activities are multidisciplinary and include automation, control systems, robotics, intelligent transportation systems, signal and image processing, machine learning, biomedical engineering, computer vision and related areas. This year, the Department inaugurated a new M.Sc. taught course on Signals, Systems and Control and organised two international conferences – the 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation and the 17th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.