Organizational Environment

Faculty of Civil Engineering (FCE) of UiTM is the off-spring of the former School of Engineering (one of the oldest School of ITM/UiTM-established in 1967) formed in 1996 when The School of Engineering then was split and repositioned into three faculties namely Faculty of Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering respectively.

Being one of the oldest, FCE has played a significant role in promoting professional engineering education among the Bumiputra community. To date, it has produced more than 7500 graduates alone from 1998 to 2007, who are currently playing a very active role in civil engineering profession through different employment activities in both the private and public sector, as well as serving in the overseas market.

Starting with a modest facility in the old Engineering block, FCE moved into a portion of the new UiTM’s Science and Technology Complex in December 2003. The faculty is mainly centred in Blok 1 (teaching facilities) and Tower 1 (Administration and Lecturers’ rooms) of the S & T Complex. The faculty is equipped with 31 laboratories, 47 classrooms (inclusive of seminar and TEC rooms), 16 staff offices and 35 technical support staff offices, 3 administrative offices and shared lecture theatres with other faculties. Currently, the enrolment in Shah Alam consists of 2091 Degree students and 252 graduate students. At the same time the faculty is also responsible for developing and monitoring its Diploma programmes in UiTM’s Perlis Campus (servicing 908 Diploma students), Penang campus 738 Diploma Students), Jengka Campus (servicing 614 Diploma Students) as well as Sarawak Campus (servicing 273 Diploma Students). Besides that, the faculty is also responsible for the Collaborative Diploma Program run by KPTM in Kuantan which currently has an enrolment of 200 students.