Education System
• The system of study of all the academic programs offered by the Faculty is the credit hour system, in which one Credit Hour (CH) is granted for:
-One contact hour of a weekly lecture over a 15-week semester.
-Two-three contact hours of a weekly tutorial/ lab/ workshop/ studio over a 15-week semester.
• One contact hour is divided into a 50-minute session of instruction plus a 10-minute break.
• English is the language of instruction. It should be used for lecturing, discussions, and exams.
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Academic Plan
·
In a main semester (Fall or Spring), the academic load of the student,
which he/she selects with the help of the academic advisor, may reach:
a. Up to 21 credit hours for students with Cumulative
Grade Point Average (CGPA) greater than or equal to 3.0.
b. Up to 18 credit hours for students with CGPA greater
than or equal to 2.0.
c. Up to14 credit hours for students with CGPA less than
2.0.
·
During the final semester of his/her study, the student can register an
overload of no more than 3 CH over the upper limits mentioned before, based on
the academic advisor’s recommendation and approval of the Dean.
·
In the Summer semester, the student may register up to 7 credit hours for any student, regardless of his/her
CGPA.
·
The student’s study level is
related to the credit hours he/she has completed successfully in percent of
total CH of the program as follows:
|
Study
Level
|
CH Completed Successfully in Percent of
Total CH of the Program
|
Study Level Title
|
|
1
|
Less
than 20%
|
Freshman
|
|
2
|
From
20% to less than 40%
|
Sophomore
|
|
3
|
From
40% to less than 70%
|
Junior
|
|
4
|
From
70% to less than 100%
|
Senior
|
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Academic Advising
The Academic Advisor is a Faculty
member who is assigned the duty of counseling and
monitoring a group of students. The
academic advisor is responsible for assisting the student in selecting his academic track as well as in selecting
courses for each semester. The academic advisor may ask the
student to repeat courses which he/she already passed to raise his/her Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) to that required
for graduation. Also, the academic advisor assists the student in selecting the
practical training and graduation project.
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Registration Procedure
The academic year is composed of
three study semesters:
·
The first main semester (Fall Semester) usually starts late September
and lasts for 15 weeks, followed by final exams for 3 weeks. Courses are
registered within three weeks before the start of the semester.
·
The second main semester (Spring Semester) usually starts early February
and lasts for 15 weeks, followed by final exams for 3 weeks. Courses are
registered during the week before the start of the semester.
·
The Summer semester, which is an elective semester, starts late June or
early July and lasts for 7 weeks, followed by 1-week final exams. Courses are
registered during the week before the start of the semester.
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Course Withdrawal and Addition
A student may
add/drop courses within the first two weeks of a main semester, or the first
week in a Summer semester, without incurring any penalty. After such time and
no later than the 12th week of a main semester, or the 4th
week of a Summer semester, a student may withdraw registered courses. In this
case, the course(s) fees will not be refunded; nonetheless, the student is
given a Withdrawn grade (W), and his/her CGPA will not be affected on account
of such course(s) withdrawal.
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Attendance and Absence
The student is required to attend all
classes of the course he/she registers for. A student who is absent for more
than 15% of the total
contact hours of the course without an acceptable excuse is given an academic
warning. A student who is absent for more than 25% of the course hours without a valid excuse accepted by the
Faculty Council shall be deprived from taking all the following
activities and/or examinations scheduled for that course and shall be given a Fail
(F) grade.
The student can withdraw from a course if his absence ratio
exceeds 25% during the first 12 weeks of the semester. If the absence ratio
exceeds 25 % after the first 12 weeks, the student will not be allowed to
withdraw the course.
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Semester Withdrawal
·
The student has the right to withdraw from an academic semester within
the withdrawal period, announced in the academic calendar of the semester.
·
The student will be considered failed if he/she withdraws after the
withdrawal period unless he/she has a valid reason which is accepted by the
Faculty Council.
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Course Assessment Policy
A.
The
Marks of a given course (100 Marks) are distributed on the semester's work and
the final exam according to the nature of the course. The assessment policy
must be declared to the students through course syllabus before the start of
the course. Most of the Faculty
courses comply with the regular assessment scheme of marks distribution, given below:
A1. Final Exam
The final exam constitutes 40 Marks. It shall be a comprehensive
exam covering all course topics.
A2. Midterm Exam
The midterm exam constitutes 30 Marks. It shall be conducted
during the 8th-9th weeks. Exam date should be announced to students. The graded
midterm exam and its model answer should be discussed in class.
A3. Other assessment components
Other assessment components, which constitute 30 Marks, include:
Quizzes, Assignments, Practical exams (if exist), Oral exams (if any), Course
report/ project (if any), student's Performance and Participation.
B. Courses not complying with the regular
assessment scheme of item (A) are characterized by adding a row, containing the
adopted marks distribution, to the corresponding table of the course
description of this Bylaw.
C. The distribution of marks of a course can be
modified after the approval of the Faculty Council based on a proposal by the
Scientific Department offering that course.
Grading System
· There are two conditions to pass a regular course:
1- The student must attend the final exam and obtain at least 40% of its
grade.
2- The overall marks of the student for all assessment components of
the course must be at least 60 Marks out of 100 Marks.
· For non-credit courses (0 CH), the earned grade is either Pass or
Fail (P/F). Pass grade means the student obtained at least 60% of the course
marks. The grade of non-credit courses shall not be included in the CGPA
calculation.
·
The following
grading system is adopted by the Faculty for all the offered courses:
|
Grade
|
Percentage Marks
|
Grade Points
|
Grade
|
Percentage Marks
|
Grade Points
|
|
A+
|
97% and higher
|
4.0
|
C+
|
73% to less than 76%
|
2.3
|
|
A
|
93% to less than 97%
|
4.0
|
C
|
70% to less than 73%
|
2.0
|
|
A-
|
89% to less than 93%
|
3.7
|
C-
|
67% to less than 70%
|
1.7
|
|
B+
|
84% to less than 89%
|
3.3
|
D+
|
64% to less than 67%
|
1.3
|
|
B
|
80% to less than 84%
|
3.0
|
D
|
60% to less than 64%
|
1.0
|
|
B-
|
76% to less than 80%
|
2.7
|
F
|
Less than 60%
|
0.0
|
·
In addition to the
regular grades, the non-credit grades are
|
Grade
|
Meaning
|
Description
|
|
P/F
|
Pass/Fail
|
Grades for non-credit
hour courses
|
|
I
|
Incomplete
|
According to the
conditions of Article (10)
|
|
W
|
Withdrawn
|
According to the
conditions of Article (11)
|
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Failure and Re-registration of Courses
Repeating a course requires attending all its activities,
including lectures, exercises, and exams. Two cases are considered for course
repeating:
A. Retaking a passed Course
A student may repeat a
previously passed course, aiming to improve his/her CGPA, subject to the
following conditions:
A1. The student will get the highest grade among the two attempts, and
this grade will be used in the calculation of the CGPA. All grades will appear
in the academic record.
A2. The student may improve
a maximum of 5 courses during the program study duration,
excluding the extra courses
required for getting out of the academic warning or
satisfying the graduation requirements.
A3. If
the student fails in the retake for improvement, without a valid excuse
accepted by the Faculty Council, the grade of the first take will be disregarded, and
he/she will get the Fail grade (F).
B. Retaking a Failed Course
A student who completes a
course with failing grade (F) is subject to the following conditions:
B1. Fail
grade (F) for any course shall be recorded on the student’s transcript and is
counted in the calculation of the semester
GPA and CGPA, whether the course is compulsory or elective.
B2. If a student fails a
compulsory course in any semester, he/she must retake this course in a
subsequent semester.
B3. If
the student fails an elective course, he/she may retake the same course or
another elective course,
after the approval of his/her academic advisor.
B4. When
the student passes a previously failed course, the highest grade recorded for
him/her is B+.
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Students with GPA less than 2.0
·
If the CGPA of a student drops below 2.0, he/she is placed
under probation and is not
allowed to register more than 14 credit hours per semester until his/her CGPA
reaches 2.0 at least. A written warning should be sent to the student
under probation and a copy of it is forwarded to his/her parents or guardians.
·
The student will be dismissed from the university under the following
situations:
o If his/her CGPA drops below 2.0 throughout FIVE consecutive semesters,
excluding Summer semesters.
o If the student did not achieve the graduation
requirements through the maximum allowed study duration.
·
In dismissal situations, the student may apply to the Dean an appeal for
continuing the study, supported by documents of his/her social and/or health
condition. The Dean shall discuss the appeal with the Faculty Council. For a
student who has successfully completed 80% of graduation requirements, the
Faculty Council may give him/her a last chance of TWO extra main consecutive semesters to improve his/her
CGPA before he/she is finally dismissed.
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Graduation Requirements
To be awarded the Bachelor of Science
(B.Sc.) Degree in Engineering and Technology, students must successfully
complete 164 credit hours with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.0 (C) or higher.
To obtain the
Rank of Honor, the student must:
·
have a GPA not less than 3.3 in all
study semesters,
·
have not failed any course during
the duration of the program,
·
have no disciplinary sanctions
(punishment) imposed on him during the duration of the program.
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Graduation Project
The Graduation Project represents the
crowning achievement of an Engineering student's undergraduate experience. The
student will be eligible to register the first course of the graduation project
upon completing not less than
120 CH. The Faculty
Council may permit decreasing this limit to 115 CH upon a request by the Academic
Advisor and subject to special cases. The graduation project spans two main semesters.
Graduation projects apply both engineering
knowledge and skills to the solution and design of real-world applications. The
work done has to be based on the knowledge and skills acquired during the
course work. The first part of the project should include a survey of the
project subject area with reference to appropriate literature, and the time
schedule for the design and implementation phases of the project. The project is
considered as a decision-making process in which the basic science and
mathematics as well as engineering sciences are integrated to convert resources
optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the
design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis,
analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. The student has to take into
consideration the appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints
during the different phases of the project.
The engineering design must include
most of the following features: development of student creativity, use of
open-ended problems, development and use of modern design theory and
methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specification, consideration
of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, concurrent engineering
design, and detailed system description. Further, it is essential to include a
variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety,
reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact.
One extra month after the end of the
second semester is available for the students to finalize their work. The
supervisor evaluates the contribution of each student during the different
phases of the project. A printed version of the project report beside the final
product of the project work should be submitted to the Department prior to the
date of discussion. The jury members from academy and industry evaluate the
student work based on a submitted documents and final product, oral
presentation and discussion. In case the student failed in the project, he/she
is given a grace semester and will be eligible to present and defend the
project by the end of the grace semester.
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Change of Specialization
·
To be eligible to
join a study program, the student must earn at least 18 credit hours with a
CGPA greater than or equal to 1.0.
·
Every new academic
year, the Faculty Council establishes general rules for the distribution of
students eligible to the different programs considering:
o
the student
preferences
o
the principle of
equal opportunities
o
the requirements
stated by the department offering the program
o
the available
capacity of the program
·
The student may
change his/her specialization or be required to change it by a university
action based on:
o
the student’s
will, and/or the recommendations of the Academic Advisor
o
approval of the
Faculty Dean
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Scientific Visits
The Faculty may arrange scientific visits for the students to industrial, construction and service centers under supervision of the faculty members.These visits are subsidized by the University.
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Practical Training
Practical
training is a part of all the study programs of the Faculty. The overall
duration of the training is 240 hours, divided over 3 modules (80 hours each),
and should be carried out during two or three summer semesters at one or more
engineering facilities (inside or outside Egypt). The training program shall be
related to the specialization of the study program in which the student is
registered and must be approved by the scientific department offering the
program. The student is eligible to register the first training module after
completing the courses of Level Two (or a minimum of 50 CH). The student may
practice at most one on-campus training module (80 hours) offered by the
Faculty. After completing each module, the student shall submit a report and
conduct a presentation to be evaluated by the scientific department. The three
training modules are equivalent to 1 CH.
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