The Faculty of Energy Engineering at Aswan University is one of the first engineering colleges in southern Upper Egypt. Established in 1989 as the Higher Energy Institute, its mission was to graduate specialized engineers for the electricity and energy sectors, equipped to adopt and apply modern technologies efficiently while keeping pace with global developments.
The faculty remained under the Ministry of Higher Education until 2006, when it was incorporated into South Valley University – Aswan Branch. In 2011, it was officially renamed the Faculty of Energy Engineering.
From its inception until 2007, the faculty followed a two-semester system, after which it adopted the credit-hour system, which remains in use today. However, due to challenges such as a limited number of academic staff, constraints in laboratory and infrastructure capacity, and limited practical experience with the system, there is now a pressing need to revise academic regulations for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs and to consider returning to the two-semester system.