- VISION AND MISSIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY
The missions of the University of Burundi are recorded in article 4 of Decree No. 100/279 of October 18, 2012 relating to the reorganization and operation of the University of Burundi, which makes it a public establishment of an administrative nature endowed with a legal personality and financial and organic autonomy.
They are structured around three major orientations: teaching, research and services to society. Overall, these missions consist of “contributing to the improvement of the social and economic well-being of the population and the sustainable development of Burundi in general through training, scientific and technological information, through research and experimental achievements, as well as only through innovation and the transfer of technologies and knowledge to society.
These missions of the University of Burundi, as well as its ambition to be a quality teaching and research institution aiming for excellence, are essentially fulfilled within its various Faculties and Institutes including the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. (FSI).
- MISSION OF THE FSI
Faculty of Engineering Sciences is one of the eleven Faculties and Institutes that make up the University of Burundi. Its mission is training, knowledge development and innovation in the field of Engineering Sciences, or applied sciences in four areas or axes which are the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Architecture, Development and Urban Planning, Electricity , Mechanics and Energy, and in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
He accomplishes his mission:
By training qualified engineering bachelors likely to be hired and integrated into various local and sub-regional industries and production companies;
By providing baccalaureate graduates with knowledge, skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship encouraging and stimulating self-employability among the graduates;
By planning, organizing and stimulating applied scientific research whose results are useful to society and exploitable;
By training specialized master engineers equipped with in-depth knowledge and skills likely to be hired and used directly in the job market and integrated into various local and sub-regional industries and production companies;
By planning, organizing and stimulating fundamental and applied scientific research whose results are directly usable by society
Regarding the structure of training and teaching programs, there are four groups of courses and various activities, namely the so-called "general training" or fundamental courses, the "specific" courses (known as specialty), various engineering and research projects including the company internship as well as support courses.
The Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FSI) results from the merger of the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FSA) with the Higher Technical Institute (ITS) which occurred in December 2011 following the implementation of the BMD system by Law No. 1/22 of December 30, 2011 relating to the reorganization of Higher Education in Burundi.
In the old system, the training provided at the FSA/ITS was organized into a 3-year engineering course at the FSA after 2 years of application (1st application and 2nd application) to the Faculty of Sciences, polytechnic option; and a 4-year training course at ITS.
At the end of the training, the FSA graduate obtained a civil engineering diploma, while the ITS training resulted in an industrial engineering diploma.
At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, in application of Law No. 1/22 of December 30, 2011 relating to the reorganization of higher education in Burundi, all institutes and faculties of the University of Burundi switched to the BMD system, and the FSA merged with the ITS thus becoming the Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FSI)
