Following a heated controversy between Arba Minch University (AMU) management and about 50 prospective graduates who studied in the "Production Engineering Department" of the university, the management of the university began reaching out to employers which will potentially absorb the graduates, focusing mainly on giant industrial companies, Addis Standard has learnt. Accordingly, a task-force was established by AMU's technology campus which listed out close to 200 state and private industrial manufacturers and those involved in the production of metals and other products.

The move by Arba Minch University, located in Arba Minich city, some 437 km South-West of Addis Abeba, came following complaints by fifth year students who are currently attending their final year classes in the Production Engineering department, a department that they claimed was 'singled out' and 'abandoned' after it was opened and they spent years studying in it. According to the students, the department was originally established as "Metals Production Engineering Department' under the university's Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Production Engineering Faculty in 2014/15 academic year.

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