Energy and Power Major ILOs:
In addition to the NARS for Engineering the following academic reference standards represent the general expectations about the qualifications attributes capabilities that the graduates of mechanical power and energy programs should be able to demonstrate.
Knowledge and Understanding:
In addition to the knowledge and understanding of engineers, the graduates of mechanical power and energy engineering program should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
a) Fundamentals of thermal and fluid processes
b) Internal combustion, pumps, turbines and compressors, classification, construction design concepts, operation and characteristics
c) Fluid power systems
d) The constraints which mechanical power and energy engineers have to judge to reach at an optimum solution.
e) Business and management techniques and practices appropriate to mechanical power and energy engineering applications.
f) Mechanical power and energy engineering contemporary issues.
g) Basic theories and principles of some other engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines providing support to mechanical power and energy disciplines.
Intellectual Skills:
In addition to the intellectual skills of engineers, the graduates of mechanical power and energy engineering program should be able to:
a) Evaluate mechanical power and energy engineering designs, processes and performances and propose improvements.
b) Analyze and interpret data, and design experiments to obtain new data.
c) Evaluate the power losses in the fluid transmission lines and networks
d) Analyze the performance of the basic types of internal combustion engines and hydraulic machines
e) Analysis of fluid power systems, subsystems and various control valves and actuators
Practical & Professional Skills:
In addition to the practical and professional skills of engineers, the graduates of mechanical power and energy engineering program should be able to:
a) Use basic workshop equipment safely and appropriately.
b) Prepare engineering drawings, computer graphics and specialized technical reports.
c) Write computer programs pertaining to mechanical power and energy engineering.
d) Describe the basic Thermal and fluid processes mathematically and use the computer software for their simulation and analysis
e) Design, operate, repair and maintain fluid hydraulic power systems for diverse applications
f) Carry out preliminary designs of fluid transmission networks, internal combustion and steam engines and solve their operational problems.
g) Work in mechanical power and energy operations, maintenance and overhaul.
Mechatronics Major ILOs:
In addition to the general attributes of the engineer, the graduates of mechatronics programs should be able to demonstrate.
Knowledge and Understanding:
In addition to the knowledge and understanding of engineers, the graduates of mechatronics engineering programs should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
a) Basic science and engineering fundamentals in mechanics, electronics and software in their interfacing
b) Fundamentals of problem identification, formulation and solution in the inter-disciplinary fields of Mechatronics
c) The principles of sustainable design and development
Intellectual Skills:
In addition to the intellectual skills of engineers, the graduates of mechatronics engineering program should be able to:
a) Identify at an appropriate level the design, production, interfacing and software needs of different parts of Mechatronics systems.
b) Create solutions to mechatronics systems especially to manufacturing, maintenance and interfacing problems in a creative way, taking account of industrial and commercial constraints.
Practical & Professional Skills:
In addition to the practical and professional skills of engineers, the graduates of mechatronics engineering program should be able to:
a) Compete, in-depth, in at least one engineering discipline, namely mechanics, electronics or interfacing and software
b) Manage field problem, identification, formulation and solution
c) Utilize practical systems approach to design and performance evaluation
d) Apply the principles of sustainable design and development