Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) or Technical University of Malaysia Malacca is a public university located in Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia. It is the pioneer in the use of the "Practice and Application Oriented" teaching and learning method for tertiary level technical education in Malaysia. The programmes offered are tailored with input from industry in order to create graduates that match the demands of the industry. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) was established on December 1, 2000. It was formerly known as Kolej Universiti Teknikal Kebangsaan Malaysia (KUTKM) before being rebranded to university status in February 2, 2007. Industrial Campus The Industrial Campus in Taman Tasik Utama used to be the administrative and teaching centre of the university before moving to the Main Campus. The university operated in 2001 by renting 68 units of shop houses from Metacorp Properties to house the administrative offices, lecture rooms, hostels, library and staff accommodation. In 2002, the university rented 40 more shop houses to accommodate new laboratories for the faculties and to cater for additional administrative and student hostels. In early 2003, additional spaces in the form of 11 shop houses were rented from Metacorp Properties. In the same year, 119,200 square feets of space was rented from Cubic Electronics, Ayer Keroh. Thereafter, the shop houses were subsequently abandoned. As of 2009, use of the Industrial Campus rented from Cubic Electronics was discontinued and the remaining faculties in Industrial Campus were moved to the Main Campus using the facilities with the other faculties on a sharing bases.
