Jimma Institute of Technology (JiT)

The establishment of the FoT can be traced back to 1997(1990 E.c) when the government decided to expand the then Jimma institute of Healthy science (founded in 1983) beyond healthy fields and upgrade it into a full –fledged university with the opening of faculty of technology and faculty of business and economics. Upon its establishment, the faculty consists of three departments namely civil Engineering Department, Electrical Engineering Department and Mechanical Engineering Department. The first batch graduates from the regular program appeared in 2002. Currently the institution has five main Faculties and two schools: Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Chemical Engineering. The institute has undergraduate, masters and PhD programs in different disciplines. JiT is a unique institution that from its inception has charted distinct pathways to academic excellence. It has been aptly described as the "First Community based Institution in Ethiopia,"broad in scope, open and accessible to all. JiT from the beginning developed a curriculum that incorporates the need of the society, industry and focus on the design, construction, installation manufacturing and operation (management) of infrastructures. This plan identifies broad directions for the institution and wide actions for implementing those directions. The focus is on issues that crosscut or transcend the boundaries of departments, and other units of the institute, while recognizing that the locus of implementation for many of these actions is and must be in administration and departments. The plan does not refer to or analyze particular academic or administration units.