The University of Engineering and Technology Lahore (Urdu: ????? ???????? ? ????????? ???????, abbreviated as UET Lahore) is a public research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specialising in STEM subjects.
Founded in 1921 as Maclagan Engineering College, it was named after Edward Douglas MacLagan. In 1932, the school became an affiliated college of the University of Punjab and began offering undergraduate degrees in engineering disciplines. In 1962, the university was granted a charter and renamed as the West Pakistan University of Engineering. In 1972, the university was renamed as UET. It established a second campus in 1975 in Taxila, which in 1998 became an independent university in its own right.
The university, as of 2016, has a faculty of 881 people with 257 with doctorates. It has a total of 9,385 undergraduate and 1,708 postgraduate students studying over 32 STEM majors. It has a strong collaboration with University of South Carolina, University of Manchester and the Queen Mary University and has conducted research funded by Huawei, Cavium Networks, Microsoft and MontaVista. It is one of the highest ranked universities in Pakistan, with domestic rankings placing it as the fifth best engineering school in Pakistan, while QS World Rankings putting U.E.T as 701st in the world every year between 2013 and 2016, it is also ranked as #200 in Asia by the same publication in 2018. In 2018 QS rankings university observed downgrading from 701 to among 801-1000 ranked slot. Meanwhile, in Asia university ranking is currently being ranked at #200.
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History
UET was established in 1921 in Mughalpura, a suburban area of Lahore, as Mughalpura Technical College. In 1923, the name was changed to Maclagan Engineering College to honor Sir Edward Maclagan, the then Governor of the Punjab, who laid the foundation stone of the building.
In 1932 the institution became affiliated with the University of the Punjab for awarding a bachelor's degree in Engineering. By the time of independence of Pakistan in 1947, it offered Bachelor of Science courses in electrical, mechanical and civil engineering.
In 1954, a bachelor's degree program in Mining Engineering was started. In 1961, it was again renamed as West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology. During the 1960s, bachelor's degree courses were started in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture, and City and Regional Planning. By the 1970s it had established over a score of master's degree courses in engineering, architecture, planning and allied disciplines. PhD degree programs were also started. Today it is widely considered to be the best and most prestigious engineering university of Pakistan with as many as 50,000 students applying every year.
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Location
The campus is situated on Grand Trunk Road (GT Road), Begum Pura, Lahore (31°34?42.34?N 74°21?31.90?E) and is within few kilometers from the Shalimar Gardens. It has eleven gates, seven are numbered from zero to six; normal daily traffic is restricted to use only gate number three for both Entry and Exit.
Campuses and institutes
These campuses also award degrees of UET Lahore.
These institutes also award degrees of UET Lahore.
Besides the main campus in Lahore, a sub-campus known as UET KSK Campus (also in Lahore) was established at Kala Shah Kaku. It is called Uet City Campus campus. Besides City campus, other campuses includes RCET (Rachna College of Engnieering and Technology) which is a constituent college of UET Lahore.
The campus of Rachna College of Engineering and Technology, Gujranwala is spread over an area of about 74 acres (30 ha), surrounded by a canal on the south and lush agricultural land on the remaining three sides. The Faisalabad campus, located in Khuryanwala, has been converted into a university sub-campus of UET Lahore. Another Campus was established in Narowal City with cooperation of Ahsan Iqbal MNA of District Narowal. The Campus was inaugurated on 1 March 2012 by CM Shahbaz Sharif.
The original campus is still under construction on a 200 acres while the classes are temporary being held in Govt. PG Degree College, Narowal.
Academics
Faculties
UET Lahore offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, under the following faculties:
- Faculty of Architecture and Planning
- Faculty of Business and Management
- Faculty of Chemical, Mineral and Metallurgical Engineering
- Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Faculty of Earth Sciences & Engineering
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Humanities and Islamic Studies
Departments
Main campus Lahore
The university consists of 33 departments:
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Mechatronics & Control Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Transportation Engineering
- Architectural & Building Engineering
- Environmental Engineering and Management
- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
- Product and Industrial Design
- Chemical Engineering
- Polymer and Process Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Geological Engineering
- School of Architecture and Design
- City and Regional Planning
- Humanities and Natural Sciences
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Business Management
UET Kala Shah Kaku Campus
- Undergraduate Program
KSK campus is offering four years' bachelor's degree program in following disciplines.
- Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Technology
- Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Electrical Engineering Technology
- Chemical Engineering Technology
- Biomedical Engineering
Research centers
The university consists of 17 research centers:
- Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
- Huawei - UET Joint TeleComm and IT Center
- Center for Language Engineering
- ZTE - UET Joint TeleComm Center
- Laser and Optronics Center
- Energy Research Technologies Development Center
- Institute of Environmental Engineering and Research
- DSP & Wireless Communication Center
- Center of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering
- Research Center
- Software Engineering Center
- Manufacturing Technologies Development Center
- Automotive Engineering Center
- Nano Technology Research Center
- Innovation and Technology Development Center
- Engineering Services UET
- Center for Energy Research and Development
- Bio Medical Engineering Center
More than 870 students are foreign students and more than 1000 are female students.
Teaching faculty
The UET faculty consists of 741 people including 14 international faculty members; around 122 have doctoral degrees. Its faculty holds one Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one Izaz-e-Kamal Presidential Award and nine HEC Best Teacher Awards.
The university has established a Directorate of Research, Extension and Advisory Services which strives for the promotion and organization of research activities. The Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences is a notable name in research activity in computer sciences in Pakistan.
A designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed has been a teacher here, under Islamic Studies faculty. Few more lectures of the University have been found involved in terror activities.
Co-curricular and extracurricular activities
The university has a sports complex, consisting of a swimming pool, tennis court, table tennis court, squash court and a cricket stadium that is also used for athletics. The university has several football grounds.
Apart from sports-related facilities, there are societies to promote co-curricular activities.IEEE UET is the oldest technical Society of UET Lahore, has won several technical competitions on the national level, including IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition and IEEE Day Contest, which is a worldwide contest, in 2015 alone. The Environmental and Horticultural Society (EHS) works for the betterment of the environment . UET's Blood Donor Society is among the newest societies of UET and now has more than 500 blood donors and more than 25 members. UET's Debating Society holds several national titles.
Officially-constituted societies
- UET XNews
- IEEE UET Student Branch.
- ASME Student Section
- ICE Student Chapter UET Lahore
- Mechatronics Club
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, UET Lahore Student Chapter
- Blood Donors Society (BDS)
- Environmental & Horticultural Society (EHS)
- Debating Society
- Dramatics Society
- Literary Society
- ASHRAE
- AIChE
- IET UET Lahore Section
- SGE
- CESA ACI Student Chapter
- Society of Mining Engineers
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers' Club
- UET-ACM
- UET Tribune
The National Library of Engineering Science
The National Library of Engineering Science, inaugurated by Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, is the central library of the university with a seating capacity for 400 readers and more than 125,000 volumes of books, 22,000 volumes of bound serials and 600 issues of scientific and technical serials on diverse fields. The Library has the honour of having recently been chosen by the Higher Education Commission to serve as the primary resource center for engineering & technical education. It is a three-story building in front of Allah Hu Chowk.
Notable alumni
- Notable Alumni
- Adil Najam, Dean Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Previously Vice Chancellor Lahore University of Management Sciences. Previously Associate Professor of international relations at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and associate professor of International Relations at Tufts University, USA
- Ali Sajid, educationist and a professor of management engineering at UET Lahore
- Fawad Rana, owner Lahore Qalandars
- Parvez Butt, nuclear engineer and former chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
- Junaid Jamshed, mechanical engineer and former pop singer
- Jawad Ahmad, mechanical engineer and pop singer
- Najam Sheraz, civil engineer and pop singer
- Syed Muhammad Ali Sarfraz, electrical engineer, entrepreneur, CEO of Qatar Auto World and Operational Manager at Al-Mujahid Group
- Faakhir Mehmood, electrical engineer and pop singer
- Sami Khan, actor, PTV Awards winner best actor 2011
- Ahsan Iqbal, politician, member of Pakistan Muslim League, Mechanical Engineer
- Nooruddin Mengal, mining engineer, slain leader and former acting president of Balochistan National Party
- Fazal Ahmad Khalid, metallurgical engineer, Vice Chancellor of UET, Lahore
Alumni in foreign university faculties
- Shahid H. Bokhari, Fellow IEEE, Fellow ACM, Former Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Independent researcher and consultant, San Francisco bay area, graduated from department of electrical engineering
- Muhammad Moazzam, Professor of Nuclear Physics at University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA and former chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
- Ali R. Butt, Senior Member of IEEE, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Arif Ghafoor, Fellow of the IEEE, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, graduate from the department of electrical engineering
- Asrar Ul-Haq Sheikh, Fellow of the IEEE, Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, graduate from the department of electrical engineering
- Ashfaq Khokhar, Fellow of the IEEE, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, graduate from the department of electrical engineering
- Ishfaq Ahmad, Fellow of the IEEE, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, graduate from the department of electrical engineering
- Shamim Ahmed Sheikh, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, graduate from the Department of Civil Engineering
- M. Tariq Iqbal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering http://www.engr.mun.ca/~tariq/
- Amir Asif, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada, graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering
References
External links
- Official website
- Industrial Open House and Career Fair, UET Lahore
- Environmental & Horticultural Society, UET Lahore
- HEC - Rankings
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, UET Lahore
- Pakistan Engineering Council PEC
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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