The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering has taken a number of steps to transform its Postgraduate Program from a traditional on-campus teaching program to a program were the majority of Honours modules are presented in a block week format. Prospective postgraduate students can apply for admission and register through the world-wide web for any of the Honours, Masters or PhD degrees offered by the Department. All students must first complete their Honours degree before they can register for a Masters degree. Honours students are required to complete four 700-level postgraduate modules and Masters students have to write a full dissertation on research undertaken under the guidance of one of the lecturers in the Department. The Department presents approximately 40 different postgraduate modules, to enable students to specialize in any of the following specialist areas: Advanced Computing and Embedded Systems, Bio-engineering, Computer Network and Security, Control Systems and Automation, Electromagnetism, Electronics and Microelectronics, Energy Systems and CNES, Intelligent Systems, Music and Artificial Intelligence, Power Systems, Photonics, Power Electronics and Electric Drives, Signal Processing and Telecommunications and Software Engineering. Students with an appropriate BSc(Hons) qualification in the natural sciences can register for a MSc(Applied Sciences) degree in the Department.

The presentation of all the postgraduate modules will be a combination of web-assisted learning by the students and on-campus teaching and experimental work in state-of-the-art laboratories during the pre-scheduled block weeks. At the start of the semester a detailed study guide for each of the postgraduate modules offered in that semester will be published on the world-wide web, containing information regarding the course administration, contact details of the lecturer, textbooks, dates and venues of the block weeks, assignments, etc. Students will be required to attend the compulsory two block weeks scheduled during the semester, where they will report back on completed assignments, receive lectures on selected topics, have discussion groups, write tests and do experimental work in laboratories to get hands-on experience. At the end of the semester an exam assignment will be posted on the worldwide-web, to be completed by the students and sent back to the Department within an allocated time. All exam assignments will be thoroughly examined and the results posted on the worldwide-web. The formal contact time during the block weeks will comprise approximately 32 hours per course per semester, and it is expected from each student to spend another 218 hours of study on each course during the semester. The Department has accepted the challenge to provide postgraduate education in electrical, electronic and computer engineering to the whole of the Southern African region, and has now restructured its postgraduate program to make this possible. We would like to invite the engineering community to make use of this excellent opportunity for further education.