PSUT Portal The King Abdullah II School of Engineering provides an exceptional and stimulating educational environment for its students through a distinguished faculty and advanced engineering laboratories. The school is committed to offering high-quality education by promoting innovative research, fostering active community engagement, and delivering specialized engineering programs that serve the industry and the engineering profession at local, regional, and global levels. The school offers a Bachelor's degree in five engineering disciplines: Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Power and Energy Engineering, Networks and Information Security Engineering, and Communications Engineering/Internet of Things. Additionally, it offers Master's degrees in Intelligent Systems Engineering and Power Engineering & Sustainable Energy. A joint Master's program in Engineering Management is also offered in collaboration with the University of Arizona, allowing students to obtain degrees from both universities. Moreover, students can participate in joint programs with several U.S. universities, where they complete four years at PSUT and two years at one of these partner institutions, ultimately earning a Bachelor's degree from PSUT and a Master's degree from the american university.
Notably, all the programs offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are designed with modern learning outcomes that align with the knowledge and skills required in the job market, keeping pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In pursuit of continuous improvement, the school regularly updates its curricula across all programs by holding periodic meetings with industrial advisory committees from outside the university and engaging with its alumni to gather feedback on the curricula. This process strengthens the collaboration between the school and the industrial sector, ensuring that learning objectives and outcomes align with the demands of the job market, and combining theoretical knowledge with practical applications to achieve harmony with the university’s vision and philosophy.
To strengthen the knowledge gained by students, the school adopts a project-based learning strategy, where over 70% of the courses involve engineering design projects, excluding humanities and basic sciences. To also strengthen research, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, students have the opportunity to conduct research under the supervision of the school’s faculty, publish scientific research papers and participate in international conferences.
Moreover, the school emphasizes equipping students with fundamental knowledge and essential skills in engineering design, problem-solving, decision-making, self-learning, effective communication, teamwork, and leadership, while instilling professional ethics. The school also fosters innovation and creativity by providing students with access to a dedicated innovation lab, available around the clock and equipped with tools, equipment, and software, where students can conduct experiments and build prototypes that may evolve into projects or products. To further motivate students, the university supports entrepreneurial projects, training, and preparing them to establish startups that enrich the market with modern technological products.
Additionally, the school establishes partnerships with local and global institutions and companies to enable students to acquire the skills required in the job market at an early stage. Students are also engaged in training programs with leading global companies, with some having secured internships at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES), AIRBUS, TOSHIBA, CERN, AMAZON, Istari Digital, and other renowned organizations.
Furthermore, the school encourages students to participate in extracurricular competitions that develop their skills and motivate them to demonstrate their excellence. Students have won first place in several local, regional, and international competitions, including the 9th Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) organized at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, the Third National Sumo Robot Championship, the 11th National Technology Parade, and the AI Hackathon Competition, among other notable achievements.
To contribute to Jordan's engineering workforce with specialists in modern technologies, the school collaborates with global universities, international bodies, and national institutions to train newly graduated engineers from across Jordan's universities, equipping them with the skills needed in locally and globally in-demand fields. This includes a program in partnership with Purdue University to train 50 Jordanian youth in cybersecurity and another program currently underway to train 100 Jordanian youth in semiconductors, microelectronics, and chip design, in collaboration with Synopsys, as part of DigiSkills.
It is worth noting that all undergraduate programs offered by the school are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the global accreditation body, and the Arab Commission for Accreditation in Engineering and Technology (ACAET), reaffirming the university's prominent position in engineering education at both regional and global levels.
Dr. Osama Abu-Sharkh
Dean of King Abdullah II School of Engineering