Dean’s Message

The School of Engineering and Technology, SET, was started as one of the pioneer School of Murang’a University of Technology. SET is looking forward to being recognized internationally as a centre of excellence in Engineering and Technology and hopes to endeavour to build engineering capacity for national development and wealth creation through training of the highly skilled workforce in engineering, Technology, research, consultancy and extension services are given working towards achieving vision 2030.

The school aims:

• To provide quality Engineering and Technology education that inculcates creativity and innovation for economic growth.

• To develop and review Engineering, Technology and Technological Education syllabi in line with market demands.
• To continuously improve the quality of Teaching and Learning through curriculum implementation procedures.
• To attract, mentor, retain and motivate high calibre academic and professional staff.
• To maximize the School’s capacity to admit, retain undergraduate and graduate students.

The School has two viable routes to establish technical training programmes:

1. BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
2. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

Both directions are adequately supported by their relevant regulating bodies and can be conducted in complementary ways.

1. BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRICAL/ MECHANICAL/ CIVIL ETC)

REGULATING BODY: THE KENYA ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY REGISTRATION BOARD

“Engineering technology” means part of the engineering profession in which knowledge of applied mathematical and natural science gained by higher education, experience and practice is devoted to the application of engineering principles and the implementation of technology education for the professional focusing primarily on analysing, applying, implementing and improving existing technologies and is aimed at preparing graduates for the purpose of engineering technology practices closest to the product improvement.

2. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING (ELECTRICAL/ MECHANICAL/ CIVIL ETC)

REGULATING BODY: THE ENGINEERS BOARD OF KENYA

“Engineer” means a person registered under this Act as a professional engineer or consulting engineer and who holds a valid license;

“Engineering” means the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions or aspects of intended functions, economics of operation and safety to life and property;

The School is constituted of three main departments.

The school offers Certificates courses in Building, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering and has the following Engineering and Technology programmes:

Prof. Christopher Maina Muriithi

Qualification:

PhD Electrical Engineering (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology), MSc & BSc (National Research University -Moscow Power Engineering Institute- Russia), Graduate Engineer EBK, IEK

Ag. DEAN, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY