BEng Computer Engineering (Engage)
Pretoria, South Africa
DURATION
5 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The Engineering Augmented Degree program (Engage) is an extended degree program with a five-year curriculum. It is designed to enable students who show academic potential but who do not meet the normal entry requirements for the four-year degree program, to obtain an Engineering degree. Engage students spend the first three years of the program covering the content of the first two years of the four-year degree program.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
Fundamental modules
- Academic orientation
Core modules
- Information technology practice
- Physics
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Professional orientation
- Additional mathematics 1
- Professional orientation
- Additional statics
- Additional mathematics 2
- Additional physics
- Statics
- Calculus
- Mathematics
Year 2
- Program design: Introduction
- Imperative programming
- Electricity and electronics
- Information technology practice
- Additional electricity and electronics
- Additional programming 1
- Additional materials science
- Additional programming 2
- Materials science
- Calculus
- Numerical methods
Year 3
- Engineering statistics
- Operating systems
- Data structures and algorithms
- Electrical engineering
- Professional and technical communication
- Linear systems
- Introduction to programming and computer simulations
- Digital systems
- Community-based project
- Mathematics
- Differential equations
Year 4
- Engineering management
- Intelligent systems
- Control systems
- Digital communication
- Information technology practice
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Microprocessors
- Analog electronics
- Software engineering
- Computer engineering design
- Engineering activity and group work
Final Year
- Computer engineering: Architecture and systems
- e-Business and network security
- Project
- Practical training and report
- Research project
- DSP programming and application
- Engineering professionalism
Program Outcome
Total Credits: 670
A graduate in engineering should be able to apply the following skills on an advanced level:
- Engineering problem solving.
- Application of specialist and fundamental knowledge, with specific reference to mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences.
- Engineering design and synthesis.
- Investigation, experimentation and data analysis.
- Engineering methods, skills, tools and information technology.
- Professional and general communication.
- Awareness and knowledge of the impact of engineering activity on society and the physical environment.
- Work in teams and in multidisciplinary environments.
- An awareness and ability for lifelong learning.
- An awareness and knowledge of principles of professional ethics and practice.
- Awareness and knowledge of engineering management principles and economic decision-making.