清华大学制造工程研究所与世界著名大学和研究机构有着广泛的联系, 在研究生国际培养、高层次学者互访和联合科研申请等方面加强国际交流与合作, 近年的主要国际交流与合作方包括：

1. Claudio R. Boer , Professor and Research Director , Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali ed Automazione , National Research Council － ITLA , Italy

2. Hong C. Zhang, Ph.D., Professor and Director, The Center for Advanced Manufacturing 
Department of Industrial Engineering , Texas Tech University,USA

3. PEIHUA GU Ph.D., Professor & Head,NSERC Chair in Life Cycle Design Engineering, Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering,The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

4. Julian Zhang, Professor, La Trobe University , Australia

5 . Jie Chen, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Department of Mechanical Eng, Purdure University at Indianapolis, USA

6. Ziqiang Zhu, Ph.D and Professor, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

7. Seung-Woo Kim, Ph.D.and Professor, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, Lab. for Precision Engineering & Metrology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA

8. Jong Hyeon Park, Ph.D and Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, KOREA

9. YAOBIN CHEN, Ph.D and Professor, Associate Dean, SCHOOL oF ENGINEERING, IUPUI, USA

10. Masatoshi NAKAMURA. Dr and PROFESSOR,GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, SAGA UNIVERSITY, SAGA, JAPAN

11. Johnson Zhu, Ph.D and Senior Scientist, Research & Development, Analytical & Technofogy Division, Procter& Gamble Far East. Inc,USA

12. Yiming Rong, Ph.D.and Higgins Professor, Director of Cam-Lab,Department of Mechanicaf Engineering, The University of Science and Technology, Worcester, USA

13. KAI CHENG, Ph.D. and PROFESSOR,FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND ENCINEERINC SYSTEMS, LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK

14. FRITZ B. PRINZ,Ph.D. and Adams Professor and Chair,Stanford University

15. Jinming Zhou, Ph.D. and Associate Professor , Lund University , Lund , Sweden

16. YIGANG CAI, Ph.D. and Technical Staffs and Fellow of ASME , Senior Member of IEEE, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs , and Argonne National Laboratory , USA

17. Günther Seliger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Director of Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management, Technical University Berlin , Germany

18. Marco Ceccarelli, Prof, Director of LARM (Lab of Robotics and Mechatiouics) University of Cassino , Italy , Secretary-General of IFToMM.