Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology - Engineering and Related Design
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose: The primary purpose of the qualification is to provide a well-rounded, broad education that equips qualifying learners with the knowledge base, theory, and methodology of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. It aims to enable learners to demonstrate initiative and responsibility in an academic or professional context. This qualification prepares learners for professional training, postgraduate studies, or professional practice in the field of Engineering. The Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering provides learners with a foundation in education, philosophy, principles, and skills in the Mechanical Engineering profession while also enabling them to apply these in professional or career contexts.
Rationale: Engineering is a discipline and profession that serves the needs of society and the economy. This qualification is designed to contribute to meeting this need by developing engineering competence in learners. With its broad fundamental base, the qualification serves as the starting point of a career path in various areas of engineering specialization through structured development and lifelong learning. The broad base of the qualification allows for maximum flexibility and mobility for holders to adapt to changing needs in the field. The skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes reflected in the qualification serve as building blocks for the development of learner engineers, leading them towards becoming competent engineers capable of leading complex engineering activities, solving complex engineering problems, and contributing to economic activity and national development.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate competence to identify, assess, formulate and solve convergent and divergent engineering problems creatively and innovatively.
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, natural sciences, engineering fundamentals and an engineering speciality to solve complex engineering problems.
- Perform creative, procedural and non-procedural design and synthesis of components, systems, engineering works, products or processes.
- Demonstrate competence to design and conduct investigations and experiments.
- Demonstrate competence to use appropriate engineering methods, skills and tools, including those based on information technology.
- Demonstrate competence to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with engineering audiences and the community at large.
- Demonstrate critical awareness of the sustainability and impact of engineering activity on the social, industrial and physical environment.
- Demonstrate competence to work effectively as an individual, in teams and multidisciplinary environments.
- Demonstrate competence to engage in independent learning through well-developed learning skills.
- Demonstrate critical awareness of the need to act professionally and ethically and to exercise judgment and take responsibility within own limits of competence.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Analyze and define the problem, identifying criteria for an acceptable solution.
- Identify necessary information and applicable engineering and other knowledge and skills.
- Generate and formulate possible approaches to the solution of a problem.
- Model and analyze possible solution(s).
- Evaluate possible solutions and select the best solution.
- Formulate and present the solution in an appropriate form.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Identify and formulate the design problem to satisfy user needs, applicable standards, codes of practice, and legislation.
- Plan and manage the design process, focusing on essential issues and dealing with constraints.
- Acquire and evaluate the requisite knowledge, information, and resources, applying correct principles and using design tools.
- Perform design tasks including analysis, quantitative modeling, and optimization.
- Evaluate alternatives and the preferred solution, exercising judgment and performing techno-economic analyses.
- Assess the impact and benefits of the design in social, legal, health, safety, and environmental aspects.
- Communicate the design logic and information effectively.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Plan and conduct investigations and experiments.
- Conduct a literature search and critically evaluate material.
- Perform necessary analyses.
- Select and use appropriate equipment or software.
- Analyze, interpret, and derive information from data.
- Draw conclusions based on evidence.
- Communicate the purpose, process, and outcomes in a technical report.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Select and assess the applicability and limitations of the method, skill, or tool.
- Apply the technique, skill, or tool properly.
- Test and assess critically the end-results produced by the method, skill, or tool.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
- Use appropriate structure, style, and language for the purpose and audience.
- Use effective graphical support.
- Apply methods of providing information for use by others involved in engineering activity.
- Meet the requirements of the target audience.
- Use appropriate visual materials.
- Deliver fluently.
- Meet the requirements of the intended audience.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
- Identify and deal with an appropriate combination of issues related to the impact of technology on society, occupational and public health and safety, impact on the physical environment, and personal, social, and cultural values and requirements.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:
- Identify and focus on objectives.
- Work strategically and effectively.
- Deliver completed work on time.
- Make individual contributions to team activity.
- Perform critical functions and enhance the work of fellow team members.
- Benefit from the support of team members.
- Communicate effectively with team members.
- Acquire a working knowledge of co-workers' discipline.
- Use a systems approach and communicate across disciplinary boundaries.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 9:
- Reflect on learning and determine learning requirements and strategies.
- Source and evaluate information.
- Access, comprehend, and apply knowledge acquired outside formal instruction.
- Critically challenge assumptions and embrace new thinking.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 10:
- Be aware of requirements to maintain competence and keep abreast of up-to-date tools and techniques.
- Display an understanding of the system of professional development.
- Accept responsibility for own actions.
- Display judgment in decision-making during problem-solving and design.
- Reason about and make judgments on ethical aspects in a case study context.
- Discern boundaries of proficiency in problem-solving and design.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Honours Degree
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 480
- SAQA Source
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