The Faculty of Engineering of An-Najah National University was established in the year 1979, at which time it offered just a single degree, the Bachelor of Civil Engineering. A year later, the department of Architectural Engineering was established. As the local Palestinian economy and the regional pan Arab economy evolved, the demand on engineers in other disciplines has increased. For the past 20 years the faculty of engineering kept introducing new programs. Currently the engineering faculty houses 17 academic engineering departments including Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Building Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mecatronics engineering , Communication Engineering,Urban Planning Engineering and Energy, Environmental Engineering,Computer Science,Computerized Information Systems,Management Information Systemsan Computer Network and Information Security .
The faculty of Engineering also provides 7 graduate programs leading to master degree in fields in Structural Engineering, Highways and Transportation Engineering, Water and Environment Engineering, Urban and Regional Planning, Architectural Engineering,Engineering Management and Clean Energy Engineering. The academic plans of all the Engineering Faculty’ programs have been constructed in away that meets the needs of the local and regional markets from both scientific and practical points of view. The faculty follows the known international standards of scientific engineering. An-Najah National University has established and constructed a new university campus in AL-Junaid. As a result the Faculty of Engineering was moved to the New Campus starting the academic year 2005/2006. The new engineering building includes engineering workshops, several laboratories equipped with state of the art and modern instruments and devices suitable to conduct advanced teaching and research works. In addition to this, the laboratories are also used to provide many services to the local community. Faculty of Engineering of An-Najah National University is recognized as the leading engineering faculty in the West Bank due to quantity and quality of available programs. The faculty has the more than 90 faculty members most of them having doctorate degrees from well renowned institutions.