📖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
Vacation Work (Civil)
Second-year
Materials and Structures I AND II
Numerical Methods
Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics for
Engineers
Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Engineering Computing
Engineering Economics and Infrastructure Planning
Geology for Civil Engineers
Mathematics II
Engineering Surveying
Practical Training (Civil)
Third-year
Construction Materials I
Geotechnical Engineering I
Structural Steel Design
Reinforced Concrete Design
Hydrology
Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
Structural Analysis I AND II
Systems Analysis and Optimisation
Transport Engineering
Fourth-year
Construction Materials II
Geotechnical Engineering II
Investigational Project
Integrated Resource Management
Hydraulic Engineering
Structural Engineering
Civil Engineering Design
