The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at CUT has received full accreditation from the engineering council for the newly implemented Diplomas of Engineering in Technology in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering in Technology in Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) is among the most respected accreditation bodies in South Africa, mandated to set competence standards for registering and conducting accreditation programmes for various engineering fields offered at higher education institutions.

“Our Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology is increasingly become known as a faculty that offers vocationally and technologically based programmes that are responding to the needs of industry and employers, said Prof Herman Vermaak, Dean of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.

The accreditation system assures the public, students, employers, funders, and other stakeholders that firstly, the programme fulfills its key purpose of providing the graduate with the educational foundation for engineering in a stated role at the professional level; and secondly, the teaching, learning and assessment processes are effective.

CUT is among a few universities in the Central region of South Africa that offers programmes that are designed to equip diplomates and graduates with the necessary skills and expertise to be leaders in their chosen professions. The University also received provisional accreditation for the Bachelor of Engineering in Technology in Electrical Engineering (Provisional Accreditation of a new programme is done once the programme has been implemented and the first cohort of students has completed 50% of the academic credit requirements towards the programme).

“Accreditation of all the engineering programmes of CUT shows the quality of teaching and learning we provide to our students,” said Prof Herman Vermaak.

Vermaak added that the key to the faculty’s success lies in the high premium it places on innovation, along with the work that is done by different role players to promote the faculty’s applied research outputs in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology.

“This great achievement also means that students graduating from FEBIT meet the educational requirement for professional registration with ECSA in different categories,” concluded Prof. Vermaak.

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Prof. Herman Vermaak: Dean of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.