Higher Education Commission to set up engineering university in DHA Lahore
ISLAMABAD: The inaugural ceremony of an engineering and science and technology university, to be set up in coordination with Austria, will be held at the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore on November 18.
The DHA has provided 100 acres of land to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to establish the university. The university will focus on facilitating connections between university-based research and industry through the development of research clusters in key areas.
The establishment of the university is in line with a mandate to evaluate, improve and promote higher education in Pakistan. Following negotiations between the HEC with government and university representatives from advanced industrialised countries, a large-scale foreign PhD scholarship programme has also been initiated for local students. app
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Ground breaking ceremony at UEST today
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony of the University of Engineering, Science and Technology (UEST) at the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore, today (Saturday).
The DHA has provided a 100-acre piece of land to the HEC for the establishment of the university, being set up in collaboration with Austria. The HEC is setting up six UESTs under its ‘UEST Plan’ to produce a technically skilled workforce equipped with standard education.
The universities are being set up in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Sialkot and Peshawar in cooperation with prominent universities of Austria, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Korea and Italy.
The idea is in line with the Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF) 2005-10, which gives due importance to higher education infrastructure development and related sectoral reforms. The methodology and standards will be maintained by the partner universities. APP
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LAHORE, Nov 18: University of Engineering Science and Technology (UEST) will initially house six major schools.
The schools which include Chemical Engineering and Bio technology, Civil Engineering and GEO-Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering.
The new varsity will initially have 250 students in five different engineering programmes to begin in October 2008.
According to the plan, in a span of ten years the varsity will gradually expand to its full capacity of about 6,000 students, including some 400 PhD scholars.
The administration and academics will gradually shift to local management.
An essential part of each UEST will be establishment of a technology park and business incubation centre. These facilities will help enable the varsity graduates to get rapid employment.
The academics of each UEST will be mainly managed by the staff from the collaborating varsities for the first 8-10 years.
These varsities will be fully funded by the government.
The HEC is in the forefront in developing and implementing the project. —APP
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Its good news that all that new schools are opening.. But at the same time, we have to consider the quality of these institutions and the ones that already exist.
According to some analysts though, the Musharaf govts policies are on the right track.
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The new institution is just going to offer same old traditional engineering (except "biotech") disciplines, is there no interest beyond these disciplines?
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The schools which include Chemical Engineering and Bio technology, Civil Engineering and GEO-Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering.
At an undergraduate level, that list of majors above is pretty impressive, now what engineering disciplines do you have to offer, which are 'non-traditional'? If you are trying to become an engineer, you start from the above curriculums, and then specialize (in grad school) in a specific area of interest. Look at any reputable engineering college in the US, and you will find the following majors mostly:
Electrical Engineering (or an additional Computer Engineering curric.)
Mechanical Engineering (sometimes mechatronics, as an additional course)
Civil Engineering (or sometimes Industrial Engineering)
Aeronautical (if the school is really good, unfortunately in Pakistan, the only one capable of that is CAE Risalpur)
NUST has some engineering programs like transportion and environment engineering programs, but enrollment in those is really low, mainly because most people choose these at a graduate level rather than undergraduate. Most of the other engineering majors are just offshoots of the above, so this new college is right on par, those in the HEC who are doing this need not be criticized, they are doing a wonderful job educating all the PhDs and grad students abroad on scholarships, who are required to come back and fullfil their 3-6 year teaching contracts for the HEC.