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Internationally Accredited
Programs
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Chemical & Process
Engineering
The discipline
of Chemical Engineering is concerned with the design, construction
and operation of all the systems involved in process industries.
The course of study requires a fundamental knowledge of Physics,
Chemistry and Mathematics at Advanced level and comprises
a balanced curriculum of basic chemical engineering analysis
but with a significant component of practical and project
work in engineering applications, computer studies and industrial
plant projects.
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Petroleum Geoscience
Petroleum Geoscience
is concerned with understanding the structure of the earth
to depths of five miles to identify potential areas of hydrocarbon
deposits and to identify the hydrocarbon bearing zones, fault
patterns and water ingress, and thence to model them in sufficient
detail so as to be able to design development programmes for
economic exploitation. After a reservoir comes into production,
petroleum geoscientists monitor production to ensure that forecasts
are accurate and identify potential geological problems and
opportunities. Petroleum geoscientists are the professionals
who assess acreage, identify exploration prospects, suggest
possible drilling sites for hydrocarbon exploration, appraise
new discoveries, plan and implement field development, monitor
the wells during production and generally assist field management
by teaming with petrophysicists, drillers, engineers and commercial
units.
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Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Civil engineering
is the discipline that covers the conversion of resources through
the application of the laws of science and engineering to facilities,
products and systems that sustain and improve the quality of
life. It concerns itself with the provision of roads, bridges,
buildings, airports, seaports, dams, water supply, beaches,
marinas, ports and harbours, recreational facilities and environmental
plant and systems, all as integrated components of civil infrastructure
and facilities that support towns, cities, countries and regions.
The Department offers training in five essential engineering
sub-disciplines: geotechnical engineering, structural engineering,
transportation engineering, water resources and coastal engineering,
and environmental engineering. Civil engineering management
is also included to cover the effective management of the conversion
of resources to social, commercial and recreational infrastructure,
and the event and impact of hurricanes, earthquakes and other
natural hazards today form an essential module of the discipline.
Because civil engineering is also concerned with the sustainability
of infrastructure and society, emphasis on environmental engineering
is considered vital to the discipline. Accordingly, the Department
now offers two streams of engineering education, one in the
traditional civil engineering and the other in civil with environmental
engineering. (Accreditation
from The United Kingdom)
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Electrical & Computer
engineering is primarily concerned with the application of
electrical, electronic and electromechanical technology to
diverse aspects of human endeavour in business and industry,
for entertainment and health services. These activities may
include generation, distribution and utilisation of electrical
energy; design, production and installation of electrical and
electronic equipment; development of systems for communication;
use of systems for monitoring and automatic control of engineering
equipment; and development of systems for storing, communicating
and processing all types of information. Electrical technology
has found widespread use in fields such as measurement, control,
automatic computation and bioengineering. Moreover, the exploitation
of abstract systems-oriented concepts, which have evolved largely
from the rigorous analysis of problems in electrical engineering,
has engendered fields of exploration and endeavour. These new
fields include areas such as information technology and software
engineering, which are concerned with the development of systems
for managing data flow. Unprecedented advances in all aspects
of information technology have contributed significantly to
the predominance of electrical engineering as the fastest growing
discipline in the field of engineering.
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Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical
engineering is concerned with the design, manufacture, testing,
operation and maintenance of various types of machinery, industrial
plants and systems and often includes the executive management
of industries.
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Manufacturing Engineering
Manufacturing
engineering deals with creative and innovative activities and
operations involving product design, materials selection, production
planning, quality assurance and management and marketing of
consumer products, intermediate and capital goods. It includes
the concurrent design and development of tooling, processes,
machines and equipment, and methods for integrating facilities
and systems by which products may be manufactured.
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Industrial Engineering
Industrial
engineering is concerned with the analysis, design and improvement
of integrated industrial systems that stress enterprise development,
entrepreneurship and technological innovation. It includes
process and systems design, operations research, human factors,
information technology and project management that cut across
other major engineering and management disciplines. Industrial
engineering has applications to a broad range of industries
including manufacturing firms, processing plants, offshore
operations, banks, insurance companies, hospitals and government
departments.
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Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Bio-systems
Engineering Bio-systems
engineering applies engineering principles to modern food and
fibre production, and to bulk handling, storage and processing
systems for biological products. It covers the areas of mechanisation,
infrastructural development, post-harvest technology and food
engineering, including food plant machinery. All the courses
in this area are rooted in the fundamentals of engineering,
e.g. heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, dynamics and
mechanics of machines and engineering mathematics, however,
engineering applications are focused in the biological/food
production areas.
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Surveying & land Information
Land surveying is
the general term used to refer to several sub-disciplines:
geodetic surveying: the theoretical basis and control framework
for all other surveys; topographical surveying: mapping the
physical and cultural features on the earth's surface; engineering
and mining surveying: the provision of spatial data for the
design, construction and monitoring of engineering and mining
works; cadastral surveying: delineation and parcellation of
property rights and the establishment of a base for effective
land administration; hydrographic surveying: off shore position-fixing,
tidal studies and mapping of water features and coastal areas.
land surveying provides spatial (geological) and attribute
information in the form of maps and other manual records or
computer-compatible format to meet the multitude of user needs.
The products of land surveying are invaluable tools for informed
decisions in all spatially-oriented land and marine-based activities.
Satellites and computers have changed the technology of measurement,
processing and presentation of information used by the surveying
profession. Simultaneously, spatial information and information
theory and practice have acquired greater emphasis in land
surveying.
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