Electrical Engineering at PUA
The Electrical Engineering Department at PUA adopts a clear vision by providing its graduates with higher academic levels to acquire a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, either in Communications and Electronics or in Power and Automatic Control. Graduates should be able to innovate, create, design, and compete in both local and universal markets.
Career prospects
Electric Engineering is a mature technology in the sense that some problems and solutions have existed for many years. On the other hand, modern environmental constraints and the perennial demands for growth, increased reliability, and competitive costs require new solutions to old problems and introduce entirely new problems, as typified by emerging power quality issues. New technologies and ideas continue to emerge; many fueled by sophisticated computer-based analysis and control.
Pharos’s Electric Engineering Department is dedicated to the education of engineers for this strategic industry. A strong and concerted effort is needed to sustain electric power & communication engineering programmes, attract students to the field, and increase research support. This effort is necessary to educate the next generation of engineers. This is both a national crisis and a challenge that must be met to ensure that our electric energy system is able to support economic development, maintain energy security, and address major issues such as climate change.
Communication systems industry faces major challenges nowadays. Mobile communications, wireless communications, communication networks, GSM, GPRS, etc. are all areas that require highly motivated and talented engineers. Furthermore, the electric power industry in Egypt faces major challenges over the next two decades to renew ageing networks and to accommodate new generation, especially renewable and distributed generation. As a consequence, the industry needs to recruit a new generation of well-qualified electrical power engineering graduates.
Programme outline
The purpose of this Bachelor Programme is to provide a broad education within Electrical Engineering with the opportunity to specialize in one of two areas: Communications or Power and Control. Special emphasis is placed on engineering skills, integration of software and hardware, system design, and a few on engineering project management.
The Electrical engineering department includes the following two specializations:
- Power and Control programme
- Electronic and Communications programme
A student in the Power and Control programme or the Electronic and Communications programme must successfully pass courses totaling a minimum of 179 or 177 credit hours, respectively, through at least five academic years of study (or 10 academic semesters).