The Department offers undergraduate courses in Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering. The undergraduate Course leads to the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering. This course has been designed to equip students with a broad knowledge of electrical engineering with opportunity to specialise in power or communications engineering during the final year. The course is of four years duration and is supported by extensive practical work performed in well-equipped laboratories. The first year of the degree course provides emphasis on basic studies in English, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Science.

During the long vacations at the end of each year, students are expected to take employment with sponsors or organizations which deal in some aspect of Electrical and Communication Engineering.Experience gained during these periods is regarded as an essential and integral part of the student's training. Students are required to accumulate at least ten weeks’ vacation training experience during the course. This training must be approved by the Head of Department and all students are required to submit a report at the end of each training period. The major employers of degree graduates are Telikom PNG, the Papua New Guinea Electricity Commission, National Broadcasting Commission, Office of Civil Aviation, Department of Works, and mining industries. The Department has a keen interest in rural outreach, and has research programmes in power systems, power electronics, microwave propagation (terrestrial and satellite communication), computer networks, micro hydro generation, power systems, power system protection, computer architecture, PLC’s, and microprocessors and industrial control.

The students are streamed after completing the 3rd year programme into two streams, i.e. Power & Communication streams. The Department is introducing a third specialization in 2017, the Computer Engineering stream. The students are allowed to choose this option after finishing the first year. In response to requests from industry to provide further training for graduate engineers, the Department offers specialist short courses, which can be given at the University or at the industrial site. The Department has an extensive Master programme.This Master’s degree is based on research to be presented as a thesis and will normally take two years to complete. Masters degrees are offered in propagation studies, control engineering and instrumentation, power systems and computer network.There will be shortly the opportunity to study for the M.Sc. by course work and dissertation in Power and Communication Engineering.