Academic Plan – 2017/2018 Bylaws

The minimum number of credit hours required for obtaining the Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc.) in Engineering is 160 credit hours in no less than nine semesters and maximum of 8 years.

Indicative Curriculum Content by Knowledge Area

• A final written examination is held for each course at the end of the semester. A student must obtain at least 40% of the final exam to pass the course.
• A student may study one elective course from other engineering program
• New elective courses can be added to the elective pool of each program upon the approval of the school, education and the university council.

University Requirements - Liberal Arts Courses

The study of liberal arts is one of the main distinct features of E-JUST undergraduate programs that makes such programs different from all other programs offered by other universities. 

The focus of E-JUST liberal arts requirements is on:

• Creativity and decision making by allowing freedom of thinking.
• Logical and critical thinking.
• Multidisciplinary and synthesizing.
• Promotion of diversity by learning various ways of explaining ideas and phenomena.
• Soft skills including leadership qualities.

The pedagogy used includes:

• Students centered by maintaining small size classes.
• Active learning through group work, discussions, projects, and problem solving.
• Reflection of one’s learning.
• Allowing students to interact with others beyond their major.

These requirements are specified to help building the knowledge and skills needed for a modern society.

The aims of the liberal arts courses are to help individuals for:

1. Preparing domestic citizenship and free thinking personnel.
2. Character building
3. Fostering ambition to use their specialized knowledge in the real world with transferable skills.
4. Exposing to broad fields such as humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to inculcate in multidisciplinary thinking.
5. Stimulating and satisfying the intellectual curiosity.
6. Developing the ability to identify creative solutions to problems and take action in the future society.

The weight of University Requirements (UR) courses is 26 credits. The weight of each course in this group is 2 credits. The student has to choose 4 elective courses, in addition to 10 core courses.

Through these courses students will cover the bases of arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences as well as attaining core skills related to critical and creative thinking and technical writing.

Liberal arts include four categories: arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and core skills. The coding system for these courses is based on the categories (1, 2, 3 and 4) for the four categories, respectively.

Core Courses

Each student has to take the following 10 core courses, each one with 2 credit hours, except for the Japanese language course (one credit hours). These courses are classified as follows:

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A. Arts and Humanities	Prerequisites	Cr Hrs
1. LRA 101 Japanese Culture	none	2
2. LRA 102 Introduction to Philosophy	none	2
3. LRA 103 Fine Arts Appreciation, Drawings and Paintings	none	2
B. Social Sciences
4. LRA 201 Introduction to Economics and Sustainable Development	none	2
5. LRA 202 Peace studies	none	2
C. Natural Sciences
6. LRA 301 Environment and Earth Science.	none	2
D. Key Skills
7. LRA 401 Japanese Language (1) (one credits)	none	1
8. LRA 402 Japanese Language (2) (one credits)	LRA 401	1
9. LRA 405 Key skills seminar (1)	none	2
10. LRA 406 Key skills seminar (2)	none	2

 Elective Courses

The student is free to select four courses one form each of the following four categories of A, B, C and D.

A. Arts and Humanities	Prerequisites	Cr Hrs.
1. LRA 104 Music and Technology	none	2
2. LRA 105 Theater and Drama	none	2
3. LRA 106 Physical Education	none	2
4. LRA 107 Selected topics in Japanese arts	none	2
5. LRA 108 Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt	none	2
6. LRA 109 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	none	2
7. LRA 110 Modern Egyptian History		2
B. Social Sciences
1. LRA 203 Entrepreneurship and Innovation	none	2
2. LRA 204 Public Policy.	none	2
3. LRA 205 Egyptian Business Regulations	none	2
4. LRA 206 Sociology of work	none	2
5. LRA 207 African and Middle Eastern studies	none	2
C. Natural Sciences
1. LRA 302 Introduction to Life Sciences	none	2
2. LRA 303 Introduction to Environmental Biology	none	2
3. LRA 304 Water and Politics in Africa and Middle East	none	2
4. LRA 305 Astronomy	none	2
5. LRA 306 Natural Resources and Sustainability	none	2
D. Key Skills
1. LRA 403 Japanese Language (3)	LRA 402	1
2. LRA 404 Japanese Language (4)	LRA 403	1
3. LRA 407 English Language	none	0
4. LRA 408 Arabic Language	none	0
5. LRA 409 Research Methods	none	2
6. LRA 410 Fundamentals of Communication	none	2
7. LRA 411 Transformational Leadership	none	2

Faculty Requirements - Basic Sciences and Mathematics

Basic sciences courses are equivalent to 27 credit hours, including two courses in each of mathematics, chemistry and physics to build strong basic science background for engineering students.

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
MTH 111	Mathematics (1) ( Calculus + Linear Algebra)	3
PHY 111	Physics (1)	3
CHM 111	Chemistry (1)	2
PHY 112	Basic Sciences Lab-1 (Physics (1))	1
CHM 112	Basic Sciences Lab-2 ( Chemistry (1))	1
MCE 111	Mechanics (Statics + Dynamics)	3
MTH 121	Mathematics (2) (Calculus + Linear Algebra)	3
PHY 121	Physics (2)	3
CHM 121	Chemistry (2)	2
PHY 122	Basic Science Lab-3 (Physics (2))	1
CHM 122	Basic Science Lab-4 (Chemistry (2))	1
BIO 121	Fundamentals of life Science	2
MTH 211	Probability and Statistics	2
Total		27

Faculty Requirement – Basic Engineering

The weight of the basic engineering faculty requirement courses is equivalent to 27 credit hours.

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
IME 111	Safety and Risk Management	2
IME 121	Engineering Drawing	3
EPE 121	Electrical Engineering (Circuits + Machines)	3
EPE 122	Electrical Engineering Lab	1
CSE 211	Computer Programming	2
CSE 212	Computer Programming Lab	1
CPE 211	Introduction to Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering	3
IME 211	Introduction to Manufacturing Processes	2
IME 212	Manufacturing Processes Laboratory	1
EPE 221	Measurements and Instrumentations	2
EPE 222	Measurements and Instrumentations Lab	1
MSE 221	Fundamentals of Materials Science	2
MSE 222	Materials Science Lab	1
ERE 221	Thermo-Fluids	2
ERE 222	Thermo-Fluids Lab	1
Total		27

School Requirements – Basic Engineering

The weight of the basic engineering school requirement courses is equivalent to up to

8 credit hours as shown below

ode	Course Title	Cr	School
CPE212	Energy, Environmental and Chemical Eng. lab	3	EECE
ERE222	Thermo-Fluids Lab	1
MTE211	Theory of Machines	3	IDE
ECE221	Introduction to Electronics Engineering	2	IDE+ ECCE
ECE222	Electronics Engineering Lab	1	IDE+ ECCE
IME221	Project Management	2	IDE+ ECCE
CSE213	Numerical Analysis	3	ECCE

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

Industrial training is considered a complementary part of the study. The B.Sc. degree is not granted unless the student spends a total of two months of industrial training throughout the academic years starting from the first year. Each Department Council specifies an Industrial training system to be implemented during holidays, under the supervision of department faculty members. Industrial training weighs 4 credit hours; each credit hour is considered as 5 contact hours as the student is expected to stay one shift (8 hrs) per day in the factory/field. The evaluation criterion is specified according to E-JUST system. 

GRADUATION PROJECT 

In the final two semesters, a senior student has to be engaged in one of the research laboratories of the corresponding department to carry out his graduation project. The graduation project weights 10 credit hours distributed on two semesters. One credit hour for the project is equivalent to 4 contact hours because the student needs to stay in a research lab during the project period according to the Japanese best practices. The first part of the graduation project cannot be registered before semester 8 and the second part of the graduation project cannot be registered before semester 9.