General Statement and Programs of Study

           The Faculty of Engineering has the following fourteen departments:

Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Engineering Sciences
Environmental Engineering
Food Engineering
Geological Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Mining Engineering
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
offering 13 undergraduate programs (the Department of Engineering Sciences has no undergraduate program) as well as numerous graduate programs at both master's and doctoral level. The Faculty of Engineering, being aware of its distinguished standing in the country, gives utmost priority to research activities and to relations with the industry. There are also cooperative links with universities in the U.S.A., U.K., Europe, and Australia via several educational and R&D protocols.

The basic philosophy of the Faculty of Engineering is to deliver a sound engineering education at both undergraduate and graduate levels for the purpose of providing the graduating students with a background which will enable them to carry out high quality engineering work. In the light of this basic philosophy, the undergraduate curricula of the Faculty of Engineering aim at:

  • Ensuring a basis for life-long learning.
  • Providing a sound background on the basics of engineering.
  • Establishing a structure which would emphasize the roles of motivation and creativity in education.
  • Allowing for easy implementation of interdisciplinary work.
  • Setting the basis for future R&D studies in newly emerging disciplines.
  • Providing the structure necessary for adaptation to globalization trends in education.
  • Allowing a dynamic structure for each program to follow and integrate new developments in its engineering discipline.
  • To comply with the basic philosophy and these aims, effective as of 1994-95 academic year, a major revision was made on departmental curricula based on a newly formed Faculty Core Curriculum which intends to set up the criteria regarding the maximum and minimum allowable credits necessary for graduation and to establish a well-balanced composition of the topics from the following four main categories:
  • Mathematics and Basic Sciences,
  • Engineering Sciences,
  • Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Communication,
  • Professional Sciences and applications of a particular engineering field.

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