Background
About Us
School of Microelectronic Engineering (SoME), the first school built in UniMAP on 30th April 2002, is a comprehensive institution, offering formative undergraduate degrees with research and design elements. Our undergraduate programmes provide the opportunity to study and personal development on an intensive high-quality programme at the cutting edge of technology. Our undergraduate degrees are offered based on demands from the industry and fulfilled the requirement of professional bodies. In SoME, creating the environment in which forefront teaching and learning process can flourish and highly demanded expertise can be produced is always our top priority. As a SoME undergraduate student, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of our great study environment and best quality facilities of industrial standards.
2001
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is Malaysia's 17th public institution of higher learning. It was approved by the Malaysian Cabinet on May 2001. Originally known as Kolej Universiti Kejuruteraa Utara Malaysia (KUKUM), or Northern Malaysia University College of Engineering, it was renamed as Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) in February 2007.
2002
The first intake consisted of 116 engineering students who started classes on June 2002.
2012
Celebrating 10 years of excellence! The School of Microelectronic Engineering celebrates our 10th birthday in April 2012. We are proud to look back over a decade of making a difference to individuals, enterprises and communities. We took this opportunity to not only celebrate past achievements, but also to look to the future as SoME continues to deliver leaders who can truly make a difference to the engineering world.
2017
5 years after a decade, we continue to grow as an outstanding engineering center for the great number of students and the best research achievements!
Previous Deans

Dato’ Prof. Dr. Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal
2002 - 2006

Prof. Dr. Zaliman Sauli
2006 - 2008

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johari Adnan
2008 - 2013

Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Rizalafande Che Ismail
2013 - 2019