Message from the Dean
The School of Engineering welcomes its past, present, and future stakeholders to this website. This site provides information about engineering as a discipline in Uganda, the student population, courses offered, projects managed, partnerships, and staff capacity. For long, the discipline of engineering had not been popular in Uganda. Most people did not know what engineering was all about. Even at this University, engineering was taught as a subject in combination with other subjects. There was no fully fledged engineering degree programme.
The demand for engineers became prominent in the 1990’s. This could partly be attributed to the increasing need for infrastructure development and technological advancements. The School of Engineering addressed the gap by starting undergraduate and graduate programmes in various engineering fields, including civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and others.
The introduction of the engineering programmes and the advocacy made has gone a long way to sensitize the population on the relevance of engineering as a discipline. The Ugandan population has now come to appreciate the need for engineers, and many other professionals have turned up to the School of Engineering to undertake graduate programmes in engineering. There is now awareness, and the demand for engineering services is steadily going up. This site is intended to provide you with information about the activities and developments taking place at the School of Engineering. The launching of this website makes a new development in our determined communication endeavor to serve our clients effectively. In case of further inquiries, please contact the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering, and where specific needs are required, contact the heads of various departments of the School.
The website will continue to be updated with new information as and when it comes to our attention. To access information from different departments, please contact the following link: departments.
The School is there to serve you.