DEPARTMENT OF THERMAL AND ENERGY ENGINEERING

The thermal and Energy Engineering department is primarily focused on thermal energy technologies and systems and covers advanced aspects of energy system modeling, heat- and mass transfer, control engineering, and experimental work with a focus on different components and energy system aspects. The themes for the HND Programs are particularly focused on Thermal Energy and Process Engineering and an in-depth understanding of the technologies and scientific disciplines involved in energy conversion, utilization, and transport. The education is multidisciplinary and covers the integration of general engineering disciplines such as thermal systems, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and thermal hydraulics.

Objectives

The main objectives to be attained through the specialization can be summarized as follows:

• To obtain a general understanding of the design, modeling, and optimization of energy systems used in various energy production applications
• To understand the detailed operation, functionality, and interaction between the various components of key thermal energy conversion technologies.
• To gain detailed insight into system integration concerning both system efficiency and control engineering aspects of energy systems.
• To be able to develop, construct and operate thermal energy conversion technologies in the laboratory and in real applications.

Knowledge and Skill Acquisition

At the end of the course, the trainee must be able to attain the following knowledge and skills concerning thermal and energy engineering

Problem-based learning

Problem-based learning and working in groups during your study programme will give you many useful skills that make you an attractive candidate for the job market. You know how to approach a problem and solve it in collaboration with other people, which is often how things are done in the "real world". Your work tasks may include:

• Energy distribution to the general population
• Energy optimization of apparatus, systems, and households
• Development of new energy technologies and systems
• Analyzing new energy technologies
• Researching energy resources
• Assessing the sustainability of different forms of energy
• Energy efficiency in the production and consumption of energy
• Biofuel
• Hydraulic wave energy systems.

Career opportunities

Thermal Energy engineers with a specialization in Thermal Energy and Process Engineering have a wide range of job opportunities.

You can work in project engineering, research, development, and management in Cameroon and international industries or public institutions.

DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM AND MINING ENGINEERING

The School of Engineering and Technology offers a 2-year diploma program in Petroleum Engineering. The growing significance of the petroleum industry has resulted in the demand for skilled personnel and individuals with the effective knowledge which is required for navigating this field and tackling various challenges in the oil and gas industry. 

As a way of meeting this demand, the program offers fundamental exposure and training in the various aspects of Petroleum Engineering. The field provides an in-depth understanding of petroleum exploration. 

OUTCOME OF THE PROGRAM

The School of Engineering offers an HND diploma program in Petroleum Engineering. As a way of contributing to the growth of this industry, this program is designed to produce the competent man-power, who can fully navigate the elements related to this field and also produces engineers equipped to conduct safe and environmentally sound exploration, evaluation, development, and recovery of oil, gas, geothermal and other fluids in the earth.

WHAT YOU WILL KNOW

The program is approved by MINSUP, this ensures the delivery of quality academics coupled with the most relevant industry exposure. It provides a comprehensive study of vital concepts of the Petroleum Industry which include petroleum exploration, fundamental fluid, and rock behavior, reservoir engineering, production engineering, and artificial lift, well engineering (well testing and well completions and stimulation), formation evaluation, economic evaluation of petroleum projects, environmental and safety issues, computer simulation, supplemental and enhanced oil recovery, drilling engineering, environmental engineering, and refining technology.

Engineering design is taught throughout the curriculum, including a senior design course that applies learned skills to real-world reservoir development and management problems.

The courses are designed such that students can specialize according to their interests.

OUR UNIQUENESS

With the school’s unique orientation towards research and development, the various facilities and laboratories have been placed to encourage innovation and the continuous search for knowledge amongst students.

The curriculum is strategically designed to provide the students with the most worthwhile industrial exposure and hands-on practical training to ensure their avenues for quality placements and contribution to global development and also the ability to design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas deposits.  

OUR FACILITIES

You will study on our campus located in Limbe and enjoy several facilities such as: 

• Well-equipped Laboratories
• Study spaces
• Library
• Computing facility
• Social Spaces
• Leisure  
• facilities

Careers in Petroleum Engineering

Qualifications from PAC-LAB HITMS in Petroleum Engineering offer project-based and hands-on experience. Students should have no problem finding a Petroleum job upon graduation. We equally train you with a job-creator mentality, so stop asking yourself “what can I do with this qualification?” and start pursuing your passion with tenacity. We’ve got a few careers to reflect on, if you need a push

• Petroleum industry - National and international oil and gas companies hire petroleum engineers in different sectors such as exploration, drilling, petrophysics, production, reservoir, and management;
• Oil/Gas midstream industry - Petroleum engineers are required to design pipelines and transportation systems for oil and gas, which is an essential business in SO.NA.RA;
• Academics - Carry out scientific research in a university or a research center;
• Production engineers - handling daily management of oil and gas production operations.
• Production operations - implementing safe and environmentally sound practices in field operations and maintenance.
• Reservoir engineers - evaluating field performance opportunities and helping maximize the ultimate value of a property.
• Petroleum engineers - designing and developing methods of extracting oil and gas from deposits below the Earth’s surface.

- Also, there are different opportunities in the petrochemical industry and geothermal energy development.

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Mechanical engineering is a broad field, which has more impact on people’s daily lives than you may realize, from manufacturing the clothes they wear to building the apps on their phones. Mechanical engineers design and build solutions to a range of problems, improving efficiency across a wide range of industries. By studying mechanical engineering, you can look forward to good job prospects, high salaries, and varied work. Mechanical engineering skills are transferable, meaning they will be useful across a variety of industries and help you to become more employable. Every country in the world needs mechanical engineers to create and maintain infrastructure. This means you may have an opportunity to work abroad. You may want to spend some time working in developing countries, where your specialist knowledge could make a real impact.

Skill Acquisition

A Higher National Diploma or more so a Degree in mechanical engineering will give you a range of skills including:

• Problem-solving – engineering is about finding better, more efficient ways of doing things
• Teamwork – working in teams means you can share expertise and develop faster and more robust solutions
• Advanced technical skills – specializing in mechanical engineering means you will build a strong knowledge of mechanical engineering theory, and how to put it into practice practically
• Academic writing – you will be able to present your findings and ideas compellingly in written reports
• Decision making – mechanical engineers have to be willing to take risks and have confidence in their decisions under pressure.

Gain a Broad Range of Knowledge Mechanical engineering is a broad field, which has more impact on people’s daily lives than you may realize, from manufacturing the clothes they wear to building the apps on their phones. You will study a range of interesting subjects during your degree programme.

This may include:

• Computer applications – computer technology continues to evolve at an incredible pace, stretching its impact into almost every part of life
• Mathematics and physics – having a good grounding in pure mathematics and physics is vital, as they are the basis of all engineering
• Electricity – study the science behind electricity and how it can further change the world 
• Design and manufacture – learn how to draw designs digitally and how manufacturing processes work
• Robotics and artificial intelligence – study the mechanics of robotics and the influence that this relatively new technology is having across several industries.

Career Options

Depending on your interests and career ambitions, you can choose from a range of engineering sectors, including:

• Aerospace – help to design the next generation of planes, rockets, and satellites
• Automotive – work on everything from Formula 1 cars to buses, from their wheels to how they are fuelled
• Biomedical – improve lives by designing high-tech medical equipment including artificial limbs and pacemakers
• Energy – find greener, more efficient alternatives to the power industry and homes
• Manufacturing – streamline machines and equipment to create the most efficient manufacturing processes possible.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Switch on your career in electrical and electronic engineering at PAC-LAB Higher Institute of Technology and Management Sciences (PAC-LAB HITMS). We're home to one of the largest departments dedicated to the subject in the South West Region in Cameroon with fantastic links with industry, we are dedicated to helping solve the day's biggest energy problems

Our Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering strives to offer you a well-designed program of study to match your ambitions and to build your competencies to satisfy the job market requirements in Cameroon, Africa, and the international work arena.

The faculty, staff, and students, are united in purpose to achieve market standards of excellence, creative innovation, leadership, and ethics in engineering scholarship, education, and service.

Candidates to the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering will be coached to deal with real-life situations creatively, ethically, and professionally. Students will be prepared to deal with their immediate environments conscientiously providing solutions with adequate communication and commitment.

The use of electricity, for example, is fundamental to modern life. Without a secure supply, society in its current form would collapse. Consequently, the importance of efficient and sustainable generation, secure distribution, and intelligent user devices cannot be overstated. This will be a lifetime challenge facing the next generation - and electrical and electronic engineers have a vital role to play.

Aims

You will explore the importance of efficient and sustainable solutions for Electrical and Electronic engineering current and future challenges, for example sustainable, electricity generation, secure distribution, intelligent communication systems, etc.

• We will provide ample opportunity for practical application and project work. These are strong themes throughout our course.
• You will be taught by academics to work on cutting-edge research, helping to solve the world's biggest challenges.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Excellent facilities

With access to an extensive range of leading facilities, you will get hands-on with industry-standard equipment - improving your knowledge and skills, and preparing you for work post-graduation. More so, you will study on our campus located in Limbe, Cameroon, and enjoy several facilities such as:

• Well-equipped measurement and Testing Laboratory
• Study spaces
• Library
• Computing facility
• Social Spaces

Regular, close support

During the first year, you will be supported by unit-specific tutors, who hold weekly small-group sessions to discuss questions related to your course. Additionally, you will also be assigned an Academic Advisor, who will offer you support in terms of your academic progression and career development.

Options and flexibility

The first three semesters of our HND program courses, share the same content. This allows you to transfer between electrical and electronic, electronic and mechatronic engineering up until halfway through your second year. 

Teaching and learning

Project-based teaching and field trips are at the heart of programs offered at PAC-LAB HITMS, and so of this program. The real world is the most important classroom, thus going beyond the classroom helps you apply your learning to real-life scenarios and understand how the world works. This program emphasizes component learning, component identifying, software stimulation, programming, practical, and field-based experiences. These are great opportunities to get your hands dirty!

For instance, you will be:

• Learning how people in Cameroon can generate different forms of electrical energy
• Writing programs using different programs (proteus, MATLAB, etc)
• Developing software
• Building and repairing laboratory equipment.

You may also learn how to use several field tools, such as:

• Repairing software
• Arduino kit
• Relay, timers, contactors
• Measurement kit

Getting ready to collaborate, create and innovate in a stimulating and engaging environment, which will allow you, our future engineers and material scientists, to come together and make your mark on our nation and the world.

PROGRAM OUTCOME

Our Engineering Graduates will be able to:

• Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
• Problem analysis: Identity, formulate, review research literature, and analyse complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using the first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
• Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety, and cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
• Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis, and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
• Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
• The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues, and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
• Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
• Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
• Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and multidisciplinary settings.
• Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
• Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
• Life-long learning: Recognize the need for and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

HOW WILL YOU BE ASSESSED?

Assessments may be carried out by a mixture of the following, and will vary from module to module:

• Coursework
• Exams
• Lab observations
• Presentations
• Project  
• reports

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

A qualification from PAC-LAB HITMS in Electrical and electronics offers project-based and hands-on experience. You should have no problem finding an electrical or electronics job upon graduation. We equally train you with a job-creator mentality, so stop asking yourself “what can I do with this qualification?” and start pursuing your passion with tenacity. We target both the fundamental advances and the practical applications of science and technology to help address some of the greatest challenges of the future. We’ve got a few careers to reflect on if you need a push.

• Maintenance engineer
• Power systems engineer
• Aerospace engineer                                         
• Electrical engineer
• Software engineer
• Calibration engineer
• Wiring engineer
• IT
• Office designer
• Engineer  
• Assistant (for the  test, measurement, and control)

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Civil Engineering is the key to many of the issues affecting our lives today. Civil Engineers solve problems, and design, build and maintain our living and working spaces. You might design a new stadium, work on a local by-pass or railway line, assess a damaged structure, provide immediate and safe drinking water to a refugee camp, or manage a multi-million-pound construction project. The significance of construction projects for sustainable development has been on a constant rise, creating a high demand for civil engineering experts. The School of Engineering and Technology offers a two-year HND diploma program in Civil Engineering and seeks to impart to the students the knowledge and competencies related to construction and building structures. The Department of Civil Engineering is equipped with a league of expert departmental and resource persons from renowned schools and universities, who endeavor to provide the students with a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of Engineering.

The program is MINESUP approved thus guaranteeing students of the most enriching quality learning experience. As a way of developing the practical skills of the students, the department is also equipped with laboratories and research centers that focus on various domains of Civil Engineering such as Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Environmental Engineering and Concrete Technology. Beyond the scope of academics, the department also seeks to develop the career competencies of the students, making them industry ready, during academics.

PROJECT-BASED TEACHING AND MULTI-FACETED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Teaching in the school of engineering and technology is a multi-faceted experience. Our faculty use a strong pedagogic perspective that supports a wide range of situations by focusing on key areas such as

• Reflective practice and professional development
• Assessment and giving concrete feedback to students
• The teaching and supporting of learning
• The design and planning of learning activities Developing effective learning environments and student learning support system

OBJECTIVES

Graduates will pursue a diverse range of careers that build on their engineering education. During the initial years of their careers, graduates will:

• Apply technical proficiency in the principles and methods essential to modern civil engineering practice.
• Demonstrate understanding of global, societal, environmental, and sustainability issues related to civil engineering.
• Exhibit effective communication, teamwork, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills.
• Engage in ethical and responsible practice while pursuing professional growth.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF GETTING CIVIL ENGINEERING QUALIFICATIONS?

Whether you thinking of a civil diploma or degree, typically as a student or an employee pursuing career advancement, completing a qualification in this field can have several benefits including

• Increase your, and your team’s work performance
• An improved understanding of strategy and operations
• Potential for promotion upon graduation
• Salary increase
• Develop specialized skills applicable to various industries
• Become a goal-oriented, better, and more knowledgeable, leader
• Easier transition into new careers.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE/DIPLOMA?

We understand that deciding exactly what to study is often hinged on what you want to do after your studies and we’ve have done the homework for you. By the way, getting a degree or diploma in Agriculture can offer you a wide array of career options in many different careers or industries, and will help you determine if it’s the right educational program for you.

• Structural Engineer,
• Earthquake Engineer,
• Transportation Engineer,
• Geotechnical Engineer,
• Fluid Mechanics,
• Site Engineer
• Environmental Engineer,
• Concrete Technology
• Civil Engineer
• Assistant Civil Engineer
• Project Manager
• Assistant Project Manager, etc.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Chemical engineering is a multidisciplinary branch of engineering that requires foundational knowledge in natural and experimental sciences (chemistry and physics), life sciences (biology/microbiology), plus mathematics and economics to design and manufacture consumer products, provision clean water, and air, formulate our world and the products of tomorrow.

PROJECT-BASED TEACHING AND MULTI-FACETED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Teaching in the school of engineering and technology is a multi-faceted experience. Our faculty use a strong pedagogic perspective that supports a wide range of situations by focusing on key areas such as

 
• Reflective practice and professional development
 
• Assessment and giving concrete feedback to students
 
• The teaching and supporting of learning
 
• The design and planning of learning activities Developing effective learning environments and student learning support system

WHAT DOES IT COVER?

 Chemical engineering is a broad-based engineering discipline that remains a premier source of well-educated and well-prepared engineers. It is a field of practice covering the development, production, design, and control of processes and products involving biological, chemical, and molecular change, and the operation of such processes.

WE WILL TEACH YOU TO:

 
• Use innovative technologies
 
• Operate and manage industrial processes that turn raw materials into valuable products
 
• Develop core expertise in transport processes
 
• Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of science, mathematics, and engineering
 
• Conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data, and conclude using engineering judgment

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

We take advantage of your foundation in sciences, ad support you develop expertise in thermodynamics, transport processes, and chemical kinetics. Combined with a range of complementary courses, you will develop the essential academic structure in  our various specialties, and not only is our program a classroom mainstay but will expose our students to internships, mini-projects, and our well-equipped chemical laboratory. If you are interested in seeking an advanced degree in one of the programs in chemical engineering, you are encouraged to discuss such steps with the HND coordinator o tr academic adviser.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF GETTING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING QUALIFICATIONS?

Whether you thinking of a chemical diploma or degree, typically as a student or an employee pursuing career advancement, completing a qualification in this field can have several benefits including

 
• Increase your, and your team’s work performance
 
• An improved understanding of strategy and operations
 
• Potential for promotion upon graduation
 
• Salary increase
 
• Develop specialized skills applicable to various industries
 
• Become a goal-oriented, better, and more knowledgeable, leader
 
• Easier transition into new careers.

OUR FACILITIES

You will study on our campus located in Limbe and enjoy several facilities such as: 

 
• Well-equipped Laboratories
 
• Study spaces
 
• Library
 
• Computing facility
 
• Social Spaces
 
• Leisure  
 
• facilities

CAREER PATHS

A diploma or degree in chemical engineering from PAC-LAB HITMS is positioned for getting you to where you want to go – whether it is to further your education in a prestigious postgraduate school some go in the world or go directly into industries –

 
• Food processing
 
• Healthcare
 
• Environmental health and safety
 
• Manufacturing
 
• Pharmaceuticals
 
• Biotechnology
 
• Design and construction
 
• Governments
 
• Consulting
 
• Education