DEAN’S MESSAGE
DR. Haifa Ebrahim Al-Khalifa
DEAN, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Welcome to the College of Engineering and its official page, your primary destination to learn about the college’s departments, programs, and academic faculty, as well as its official news, diverse activities, and opportunities for collaboration.
The College of Engineering at UoB is the leader of higher engineering education in the kingdom. This is apparent through the quality and quantity of the college’s graduates, programs, faculty and facilities besides the confidence given to the college and its programs by local and international quality assurance and accreditation authorities. The realization of this status is the result of our relentless determination to revolutionize the engineering sector in Bahrain and the world, and to make it a major tributary to knowledge-based economy.
Our mission is to help our students’ become engineers who are highly talented, technically capable, innovative, creative and able to lead towards positive change in their immediate and global surroundings. To achieve this, we have created robust education, research, and community service programs.
We welcome you to the College of Engineering
Email: halkhalifa@uob.edu.bh
Contact: 17436604
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The College of Engineering at the University of Bahrain owes its roots to the Gulf Technical College, which was established in 1968 and later became the Gulf Polytechnic in February 1981 and consisted of the Colleges of Engineering and Business Administration. In 1986, the Amiri Decree No.(12) was issued to establish the University of Bahrain by a merger of the Gulf Polytechnic and the Bahrain University College. Since then, the college continued to grow in the numbers of programs and students; currently around 4200 students (2015-2016), coming from diverse nationalities and ethnicities, study at the college.
The College of Engineering consists of five departments, namely, Architecture and Interior Design, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. All departments are located in Isa Town campus.
Nine undergraduate programs are offered by the college, namely, Bachelor of Architecture, B.Sc. in Interior Design, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and B.Sc. in Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering. The College also offers M.Sc. and PhD programs in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management.
Six of our B.Sc. programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (http://www.abet.org), namely, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering. The Architecture program achieved a substantial equivalency by NAAB (http://www.naab.org/) and the Interior Design program is preparing for accreditation by CIDA (http://www.accredit-id.org/).
Vision
The vision of the College of Engineering is to be among the leading colleges in the region and to maintain a respectful international status and reputation by sustaining a high quality of engineering education and scientific research.
Mission
To educate students for positions of leadership and innovation in engineering, architecture, interior design and related fields; widening the horizon of engineering knowledge through original research, developing and transferring technologies to serve the local and regional needs and to benefit the public through service to industry, government, and the engineering profession.
