Electrical Engineering
The Electrical Engineering curriculum at UKZN is designed to prepare students for a career in the exciting, dynamic field of electrical engineering. Professionals in this discipline have a focus in the development, maintenance and utilisation of the largest man-made machines in the world – the electrical power grid. With the evolution of the smart-grid and the shift from fossil-fuel based generation to renewable generation, the electrical grid is undergoing the largest transition since its inception and Electrical Engineers are at the forefront of this global revolution. Electrical Engineers are involved with the generation, conversion, storage, transmission and distribution of electricity to consumers.
Electronic Engineering
The The Electronic Engineering curriculum is designed to prepare students for a career in the all-pervasive discipline of electronic information handling, from the analogue to the digital world. Electronics are everywhere from mobile phones and electric vehicles to the underpinning of the Internet. Electronics is a vast subject encompassing many diverse fields such as analogue electronics, digital electronics, telecommunications, power engineering, electromagnetics, computers, control systems, and signal processing.
Computer Engineering
The Computer Engineering curriculum at UKZN is designed to prepare students for a career in the exciting, fast evolving field of computer engineering. Professionals in this discipline will be at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The vision of the future is that of advanced fixed and mobile computing systems driving the digital revolution with unprecedented processing, storage and networking capabilities. Such systems will connect billions of people and will improve their lives through the use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, autonomous vehicles, virtual assistants and advanced software
