School of Intelligent Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing
Where intelligence meets the physical world
Software alone will not industrialise Africa. This School builds the engineers who put intelligence into machines, factories, chips, buildings and aircraft. It follows the clearest single lesson of the restructuring now under way in the world's largest higher education system: robotics, semiconductors, embodied intelligence and autonomous systems are the disciplines that convert a digital economy into a manufacturing economy. The School operates on a factory floor model in which every laboratory is also a production line, every cohort maintains the machines it learns on, and every graduate leaves with a physical portfolio of things that work. Engineering programmes here are four years, are designed with the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers and the Engineers Registration Board in view from the first draft, and carry the largest practical load in the University.
- Departments
- 10
- Degree programmes
- 16
- Credit units
- 2,356
- Award levels
- 5
Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 208.
Departments and degrees
10 departments, 16 degree programmes
Every degree below is published in the Curriculum Compendium with a full term-by-term and block-by-block curriculum, programme learning outcomes and an employment thesis.
Department of Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
Robot perception, control and manipulation; humanoid and field robotics; learning for control; and the emerging discipline of embodied artificial intelligence.
- BEng (Hons)FU/IEM/BREI · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MScFU/IEM/MRAS · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Science in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
90 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
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Department of Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Integrated circuit design, verification, embedded systems, sensors, packaging and test.
- BEng (Hons)FU/IEM/BEES · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Embedded Systems Engineering
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - BEng (Hons)FU/IEM/BSME · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Engineering in Semiconductor and Microelectronic Engineering
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MEngFU/IEM/MICD · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Engineering in Integrated Circuit Design
90 credit units · Campus · Online · Hybrid
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Department of Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing
Industrial automation, digital twins, additive manufacturing, industrial internet of things and precision production.
- BEng (Hons)FU/IEM/BIMM · 4 years (8 semesters)
Bachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics
176 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MScFU/IEM/MAMS · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Science in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
90 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
View degree - MEngFU/IEA/MEAM · 18 months (3 semesters)
Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
90 credit units · Campus · Hybrid
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Department of Smart Infrastructure and Construction Technology
Intelligent civil systems, building information modelling, structural health monitoring and resilient urban infrastructure.
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering
Electrical power, electronics, instrumentation, industrial control and automation systems, including the intelligent monitoring and protection of networks and plant.
Department of Materials and Product Engineering
Materials selection and characterisation, product design and prototyping, manufacturing processes and quality systems, run with simulation and intelligent testing throughout.
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Showing 16 of 16 programmes
Bachelor of Engineering in Autonomous Systems and Low Altitude Aviation
The low altitude economy — drone logistics, aerial survey, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection, medical delivery and eventually urban air mobility — is one of the fastest forming new industrial sectors in the world, and it is o...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Control Engineering
Every intelligent system, every factory, every grid and every vehicle in the modern economy depends on people who can design power electronics, control systems and the electrical infrastructure that survives African conditions. Electrical and control engineering is the load bearing discipline ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Embedded Systems Engineering
Every other programme in this School and in the School of Energy, Climate and Earth Systems depends on people who can design power electronics, control systems and embedded devices that survive African grid conditions. This is the Universit...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Systems Engineering is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics
Uganda's industrial parks are filling with plant that nobody local can commission, optimise or repair, and the resulting dependence on imported technicians is a recurring hidden cost of industrialisation. This programme builds the engineer ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Robotics and Autonomous Systems is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
Embodied intelligence has just been created as a formal undergraduate discipline in the world's largest university system, with institutions fast tracked to deliver it, and no African university offers a dedicated undergraduate degree in it...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Semiconductor and Microelectronic Engineering
Integrated circuits are the physical substrate of every intelligent system, and the discipline has been identified as a strategic priority in every serious industrial policy in the world. Africa currently designs almost none of them. Fabric...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Semiconductor Engineering and Chip Design
Semiconductor Engineering and Chip Design is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the third accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Semiconductor and Microelectronics Engineering department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Engineering in Smart Infrastructure and Construction Technology
Uganda will build more infrastructure in the next twenty-five years than in its entire history, and construction remains among the largest absolute job creators in the world. The failure mode is not a shortage of civil engineers but a short...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisBachelor of Science in Materials and Product Engineering
Africa consumes physical products designed and made elsewhere from materials it often exports raw, and the constraint on changing that is the near absence of engineers who understand both materials and the engineering of products made from them. Materials and product engineering is where value ...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisDoctor of Philosophy in Intelligent Engineering
Doctoral research across robotics, microelectronics, manufacturing, autonomous systems and smart infrastructure, anchored in African engineering problems and required to terminate in something that works outside a laboratory. Candidates pub...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
Industrial transformation in Uganda is constrained less by machinery than by the absence of engineers who can design, digitalise and lead a production system. This professional engineering masters is the practice weighted counterpart to the School's research MSc: it is built for working ...
Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Engineering in Integrated Circuit Design
The global shortage of chip design and verification engineers is structural, the work is routinely performed remotely, and the barrier to African participation is training rather than capital. This programme converts engineering and computi...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Science in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
Industrial transformation in Uganda is constrained less by machinery than by the absence of engineers who can design, digitalise and lead a production system. This programme is built for working manufacturing professionals and for graduates...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisMaster of Science in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
A research and translation degree producing the small cadre able to lead robotics programmes in African industry and to found deep technology ventures. It is deliberately weighted towards deployable systems rather than simulation results, a...
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Programme and employment thesisComing in future intakes
Planned, not yet accredited
These programmes are designed but will not open until the relevant accreditation wave is complete. We list them so the pipeline is visible, not to imply you can apply.
- BEng Industrial and Systems Engineering · Future intake
- BEng Electrical and Control Engineering · Future intake
- BSc Materials and Product Engineering · Future intake
- MEng Advanced Manufacturing Systems · Future intake