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
Electrical Engineering
Mathematics II
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
Applied Mechanics A
Computing Skills and Software Development
Applied Mechanics B
Mechanical Engineering Design I
Fluid Mechanics I
Engineering Thermodynamics
Third-year
Mathematical Methods
Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory
Aircraft Design
Introduction to Aeronautics
Mechatronics I
Business Management
Mechanical Vibrations
Engineering in its Social Context
Numerical Methods and Statistics
Aircraft Structures
Incompressible Flows
Vacation Work I (Mechanical)
Fourth-year
Design Project
Research Project
Systems Management and Integration
Gas Dynamics and Propulsion
Aerodynamics
Flight Dynamics
Aircraft Structures II
Mechatronics II
Engineering Professional Activity
Selected Topics in Social Science
Vacation Work II (Mechanical)

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it