📖Program Curriculum
A common first-year programme was introduced from 2019 across all professional engineering disciplines.
The academic curriculum is regularly modernised in order to ensure that it meets the highest professional and academic standards and that it simultaneously remains locally relevant and applicable.
Many engineering students entering the engineering programmes have limited knowledge of the different branches of engineering and only gain the knowledge to make an informed choice of the programme during their first.
A first-year curriculum that is identical for all programmes allows students to amend their choice at the end of the first.
First-year
Engineering Chemistry
Introduction to the Engineering Profession
Engineering Analysis and Design IA AND IB
Engineering Mathematics IA AND IB
Engineering Physics IA AND IB
Applied Physics I
AND, one of the following courses:
Elementary IsiZulu Language and Culture IA
Elementary Sesotho Language and Culture IA
The International Relations of South Africa and Africa
Introduction to Political Studies
Southern Africa in the Era of Globalisation
Identity and Society
Introduction to Ethics I
Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
Global Encounters and Contemporary Realities IA
Second-year
Computing for Process Engineering
Energy Balances and Applications
Engineering Chemistry IIA AND IIB
Process Engineering Fundamentals A AND B
Electrical Engineering
Mathematics II
Third-year
Chemical Engineering Laboratory
Numerical Methods
Environmental Process Engineering
Momentum and Heat Transport
Mass Transport and Operations
Applied Thermodynamics
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Chemical Reaction Engineering A AND B
Process Design Principles A AND B
Fourth-year
Management for Process Engineers
Solid Fluid Systems
Chemical Engineering Design
Process Control
Chemical Engineering Research Project
Biochemical Engineering
AND, one of the following course combinations:
a) Extractive Metallurgy
Hydrometallurgy
Fundamentals of Pyrometallurgy
Fundamentals of Mineral Processing
b) Advanced Chemical Engineering
Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering
Waste Water Engineering
Synthetic Fuels