Welcome to the Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty Office consists of the Dean’s Office, Senior Assistant Registrar’s Office, the Centre for Continuing Engineering Education (CCEE), the Computer Aided Learning (CAL) laboratory, three Faculty workshops namely; Mechanical, Electrical and Students Training Workshops.

The Faculty of Engineering offers six undergraduate degree programmes in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering as well as Geoinformatics & Surveying, seven MSc programmes and one postgraduate diploma programme. Engineering professionals in industry within Zimbabwe and the Southern African Region willing to keep updated with developments in the Engineering profession are catered for through the Centre for Continuing Engineering Education (CCEE). The major mandate of CCEE is to coordinate continuing engineering education offered in the six disciplines of the Faculty namely; Geoinformatics & Surveying, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Metallurgical and Mining Engineering.

Mission Statement

Mission Statement
Mission   Our mission is to enable our clients and customers to make meaningful engineering contributions to sustainable developm...

Departments

Departments
  The faculty has got six departments namely: Civil Engineering Metallurgical Engineering Electrical Engineering ...

Dean's Office

Dean's Office
Eng.WR Nyemba   Foreword The Faculty of Engineering  within the then University of Rhodesia was established in 1973 wih the technical, ma...

Programmes on offer

Programmes on offer
The Faculty of  Engineering offers undergraduate degrees , masters degrees and postgraduate diplomas.   Undergraduate Progra...
BSc Honors In Mining Engineering

 

Mining Engineering Level 2 Courses: A student shall take all the core courses


COURSE CODE

DESCRIPTION

PREREQUISITES

UNITS

EE202

Electrical Machines

EE101

15

ME204

Thermofluids

 

15

MIE207

Surface Mining Technology

 

15

MIE208

Underground Mining Technology

 

15

MIE211

Rock & Soil Mechanics

 

10

MIE216

Information and Communication Technology

 

10

MT204

Engineering Mathematics  2 Paper 1

MT104

10

MT205

Engineering Mathematics  2 Paper 2

MT105

10

GL206

Fundamentals of Geology

 

10

MIE203

Introduction to Mining and Metallurgy

 

10

 

 

Mining Engineering Level 3 Courses: A student shall take all the core courses


COURSE CODE

DESCRIPTION

PREREQUISITES

UNITS

GL 317/8

Mining Geology

GL206

10

MIE304

Mine Ventilation Practice

 

10

MIE313

Mining Machinery, Materials Handling and Services

 

20

MIE314

Mine Surveying & GIS

 

10

MIE315

Mine Environmental Management Health and Safety

 

10

MIE360

Industrial Attachment

 

60

 

 

Mining Engineering Level 4 Courses: A student shall take all the core courses


COURSE CODE

DESCRIPTION

PREREQUISITES

UNITS

MIE405

Mine Design and Planning

 

15

MIE406

Mineral Dressing

 

10

MIE412

Operations Research

 

15

MIE413

Small to Medium Scale Mining Enterprises

 

10

MIE415

Mining Law

 

15

MIE417

Mineral Economics and Management

 

15

MIE460

Project 2

MIE360

40