MSA - Chairman

Ing Francis Farraugia is a Senior Lecturer in Quality Engineering with Department of Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Malta. Ing. Farrugia was head of the Department between 1993 – 2001, he is also the Director of the Academic Audit Unit. He studied at the Malta College of Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino from where he obtained a post-graduate diploma in Machine Construction, and at the University of Birmingham from where he obtained an M.Sc (Eng) in Integrated Manufacturing Systems.

In 1990, Ing. Farrugia founded the Malta Quality Group and was its Chairman between 1991 to 1996. Since 1992, Ing. Farrugia was responsible for helping over 80 local companies to obtain ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification and has been invited to run ISO 9000 and TQM seminars in Athens, Greece and Libya on a number of occasions.
In 1993, Ing. Farrugia was appointed coordinator of the working group: "Quality for I.T. products and processes" with the National Strategy for Information Technology. Ing. Farrugia is a qualified EFQM model assessor and also one of the assessors in the ‘People Management and People Satisfaction" award run by Employment and Training Corporation.

In 1994, Ing. Farrugia formed part of an EU Task Force set up to prepare guidelines for a self-assessment scheme based on the European Quality Model, to be used by the Education Sector.
Between 1993 and 1996 he was member of the Malta Board of Standards. He was also University’s representative on the Board of Assessors for Merit Award Scheme (Government - MAM Agreement 1993), member of the Advisory Board of the Cleaner Technology Centre (1994) and an advisor with the Young Enterprise scheme.

Ing. Farrugia has published over 50 technical articles in journals, magazines, daily and weekly papers etc. The Open University (UK) appointed him M.Sc supervisor for local candidates; he participated as speaker in over 20 conferences and seminars both locally and abroad. Ing. Farrugia is a member of the IEE (UK), IQA (UK) and ASQ (USA).