Abstract: With the recent advancement of science and
technology, the modern industry-oriented competency
requirements in mechanical engineering demand higher
education for essential computer based knowledge. Production
processes in modern factories these days, for example, mostly are
controlled and operated by computers but current mechanical
engineering curriculum doesn’t provide such knowledge. In this
paper, we proposed an interdisciplinary curriculum that is
designed for undergraduate mechanical engineering major
students so they may meet the competency requirements for the
industry. An ideal industrial production process management
method, where computer networking and cloud computing
concepts are considered in the design, was proposed to illustrate
such needs. The proposed method is designed to solve the
problems that the modern production industries are experiencing.
The proposed curriculum is designed to provide such computer
knowledge to the mechanical engineering major students, which
attempts to satisfy the modern industry-oriented competency
requirements.