BEng / BEngTech / BEngTech Extended in Mechanical Engineering

BEngTech in Mechanical Engineering

The purpose of the BEngTech in Mechanical Engineering is to build the necessary knowledge, understanding, abilities, and skills required for further learning towards becoming a competent practicing Mechanical Engineering Technologist. Specifically, the qualification provides graduates with:

• Preparation for careers in engineering itself and areas that potentially benefit from engineering skills, for achieving technological proficiency and making a contribution to the economy and national development;

• The educational base required for registration as a Professional Engineering Technologist with ECSA.

• For graduates with an appropriate level of achievement, the ability to enter NQF level 8 programs and then proceed to master's degrees.

• For certificated engineers, the education base for achieving proficiency in mechanical engineering/plant operations and occupational health and safety.

Reasons for studying at UJ

• UJ offers not only a special program called the First Year Experience to help orientate students throughout the first year but we also offer a Senior Student Experience that gears students toward the workplace!

• Grab the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports and train alongside Olympians and Paralympians on state-of-the-art pitches, tracks, and fields, or just keep fit by joining one of the gyms on each of our 4 campuses.

• Be part of a young, vibrant, and agile university that reflects and adapts easily to our country’s aspirations, while maintaining global relevance through numerous international partnerships.

• 178 Internationally respected and accepted qualifications.

• Join a university that cares enough to have raised over R300 million since the start of 2016 in order to support the Missing Middle Campaign. UJ also ensures that more than 6 000 needy students have two healthy meals per day.

• Study in the vibrant City of Gold – the economic hub of South Africa. Join a vibrant, cosmopolitan, progressive group of students and academics on their way to re-imagining the future!

• UJ offers an amazing on-campus experience whether you live in one of UJ’s residences, belong to a day house, or whether you just want to socialize at the Student Centres on all campuses.

• We ensure the health, safety, and security of all our students through our own on-campus health services and UJ Protection Services.

• Did you know that during the first five years of UJ’s existence it doubled its targeted research output and to this day, continues to break records!

Shanghai Ranking

• World Rankings: 601-700 in the world / 5th in South Africa and 6th in Africa
• Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS):

Hospitality & Tourism Management: 18th in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Sociology: Top 150 in the world, 1st and only one ranked in South Africa and Africa
Public Administration: Top 150 in the world, 1st and only one ranked in South Africa and Africa
Education: Top 300 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Earth Sciences: Top 300 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Geography: Top 300 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Chemical Engineering: Top 400 in the world, joint 1st in South Africa and Africa
Political Sciences: Top 400 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Physics: Top 400 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Management: Top 500 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Ecology: Top 500 in the world

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)

• World Rankings: 434 in the world, in the Top 1.4% / 3rd in South Africa and Africa
• Subject Rankings:

English Language & Literature: Top 250 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Chemical Engineering: Top 350 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa, and joint 4th in Africa
Education & Training: Top 350 in the world, 5th in South Africa and Africa
Economics & Econometrics: Top 400 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 5th in
Africa Agriculture & Forestry: Top 400 in the world, 6th in South Africa
Physics & Astronomy: Top 450 in the world, joint 2nd in South Africa, and joint 3rd in Africa
Environmental Sciences: Top 450 in the world, 6th in South Africa and Africa
Chemistry: Top 500 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa, and joint 6th in Africa
Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering: Top 500 in the world, 5th in South Africa
Medicine: Top 650 in the world

• QS Graduate Employability Rankings:

Top 500 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa

Times Higher Education (THE)

• World Rankings: 601-800 in the world / Joint 7th in South Africa
• Subject Rankings:

Law: Top 201+ in the world, joint 4th in South Africa and Africa
Education: Top 300 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Psychology: Top 400 in the world, joint 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Arts & Humanities: Top 400 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Social Sciences: Top 400 in the world, 4th in South Africa and Africa
Life Sciences: Top 500 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 5th in Africa
Business & Economics: Top 600 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 6th in Africa
Engineering & Technology: Top 600 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa
Clinical & Health: Top 600 in the world
Computer Science: Top 800 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa
Physical Sciences: Top 800 in the world

• THE Young University Rankings: 173 among young universities, 4th in South Africa
• THE Emerging Economies University Rankings: 116 among universities in emerging economies, 7th in South Africa

US News & World Report’s Best Global Universities Rankings (BGUR)

• World Rankings: 378 in the world / 5th in South Africa and Africa
• Subject Rankings:

Geosciences: 222 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Chemistry: 280 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Social Sciences & Public Health: 287 in the world, 5th in South Africa and Africa
Physics: 289 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Engineering: 392 in the world, 2nd in South Africa, and 4th in Africa
Plant & Animal Science: 424 in the world
Environment/Ecology: 463 in the world

The exit level outcomes, as informed by ECSA, are that students who complete this program will be able to:

• Apply mechanical engineering principles to systematically diagnose and solve broadly-defined engineering problems.
• Apply knowledge of mathematics, natural science, and engineering sciences to define and applied mechanical engineering procedures, processes, systems, and methodologies to solve broadly-defined engineering problems.
• Perform procedural design of broadly-defined mechanical engineering components, systems, works, products or processes to meet desired needs within applicable standards, codes of practice, and legislation.
• Conduct investigations of broadly-defined mechanical engineering problems through locating, searching, and selecting relevant data from codes, databases, and literature, designing and conducting experiments, and analyzing and interpreting results to provide valid conclusions.
• Use appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering tools, including information technology, prediction, and modeling, for the solution of broadly-defined mechanical engineering problems, with an understanding of the limitations, restrictions, premises, assumptions, and constraints.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with engineering audiences and affected parties.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the impact of mechanical engineering activity on the society, economy, industrial and physical environment, and address issues by analysis and evaluation.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, and to manage projects.
• Demonstrate competence to engage in independent and life-long learning through well-developed learning skills.
• Comprehend and apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of mechanical engineering technology practice.