The history of the foundation of the Faculty of Engineering goes back to 1939 when the School of Engineering at Gordon Memorial College was established under the supervision of the Department of Education. It awarded at that time, Diploma of Engineering Studies. The School developed to be a University College under a scheme of dual relationship with University of London in 1947 and eventually as s Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Khartoum science the foundation of the latter in 1956.

The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture is located within the main University campus, on the Western side.

The Faculty has (75) members in its teaching staff:-
(1) Emeritus Professor (Prof. Dafa' Allah Al-Turabi)
(3) Professors
(41) Associate Professors
(16) Assistant Professors
(15) Lecturers

In addition to (31) teaching assistants and (22) technicians.

The Faculty currently enrolls (3000) students in its various departments (345) engineers graduated for the (1997-98) and (7080) engineers have graduated from the Faculty since 1941 until 2001, (39) students have been awarded the graduate diploma. (254) students the M.Sc. degree and (26) students the Ph.D. degree since 1961 until 2001.

There are more than (40) laboratories in the Faculty distributed among the different departments. Each laboratory accommodates about (150) students used by the B.Sc. students, graduate students and members of the teaching staff. There are also workshops, used, for students' training.

The Faculty has a specialized library containing approximately (30,000) volumes in addition to periodicals, dissertations and other relevant material. The reading room accommodates about (350) students and the library meets the needs of the B.Sc. Honours and graduate students as well as the teaching staff. There are also specialized libraries in each of the faculty nine departments.

The faculty presents research opportunities and studies in the various engineering fields of its nine departments. In addition to its contribution to industry and the attempts to find solutions to its problems particularly through the variety of the specializations of the teaching staff which encompass most of the Engineering Sciences. These researches and studies are usually published in the Sudan Engineering Society Journal as well as in international and regional journals and periodicals. As far as financing for research is concerned, the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture exerts its efforts to coordinate and cooperate with other Engineering Institutions in order to find solutions to the problems facing them through conducting applied researches.

The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture shares relations with most of the Faculties of Engineering inside the Sudan, whereby many members of the teaching staff undertake teaching and supervision for the students of the Faculties of Engineering in other universities. Some members of the teaching staff are on secondment to some of the Faculties of Engineering in the Arab world and some others spend their sabbatical leaves at similar faculties in the Arab world, Europe and United States.

The Departments of the Faculty organize seminars and training programmes where Engineering courses appropriate to the specializations of the different ministries are taught. For example, the Water Recourses Seminar for the Ministry of Engineering Affairs and the Structural Design Seminar for the engineers of the same ministry, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering. There are seminars and progrannes offered by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering for the engineers and technicians of the Sudan Telecommunication Company (Sudatel), the National Electricity Corporation and the National Television Corporation. The Department of Mechanical Engineering organizes training sessions in the fields of Machines and Production for Engineers in Governmental ministries and departments.