University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
جامعہ انجینئری و ٹیکنالوجی لاہور‬
Former names
 Mughalpura Technical College, Maclagan Engineering College
Motto Read in the name of thy Lord who creates!
Type Public
Established 1921 (1921)
Chancellor Governor of the Punjab
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fazal Ahmad Khalid
Registrar Muhammad Asif
Students 10,738
Location Lahore, Punjab,  Pakistan
Colors Blue, Periwinkle
Nickname UET Lahore
Affiliations Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Pakistan Engineering Council, Pakistan Council for Architects and Town Planners
Mascot UETian
Website uet.edu.pk

The University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (Urdu: جامعہ انجینئری و ٹیکنالوجی لاہور‬‎; abbreviated as UET Lahore) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specializing in Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.[1]

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 the Punjab and began offering undergraduate degrees in engineering disciplines. In 1962, it was granted a charter and renamed as the West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. In 1972, the university was renamed as the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. It established a second campus in 1975 in Taxila, which became an independent university in 1993.[2]

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.[3] It has a strong collaboration with University of South Carolina, University of Manchester and the Queen Mary University of London and has conducted research funded by Huawei, Cavium Networks, Microsoft and MontaVista.[4][5] 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 #701 in world by the same publication in 2018.[6][7] 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 and in world wide unverisity ranking is 701.[8]

History

UET Stadium at evening

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.

Aerial Panorama of UET Lahore and its surrounding


In 1954, a bachelor's degree program in Mining Engineering was started. In 1962, it was upgraded to West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology[9]. 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.[10]

Auditorium Complex UET Lahore
Student enrollment8865
PhD enrollment188
Departments24
Research centres17
Faculty741 (including 122 PhDs)
Faculty under PhD trainingForeign 180

Local 37

Undergraduate programs29
Postgraduate programs55
Supporting staff1707
Student enrollment, undergraduate7005
Student enrollment, postgraduate1860
Total enrollment8865
Student hostels16 (2700 students)
Cafeteria5
Sports facilities5 play grounds
Transport facilities51 buses
Student service centres2

Location

Khayaban e Fazal, the newly constructed entrance of UET Lahore

The campus is situated on Grand Trunk Road (GT Road), Begum Pura, Lahore (31°34′42.34″N 74°21′31.90″E / 31.5784278°N 74.3588611°E / 31.5784278; 74.3588611Coordinates: 31°34′42.34″N 74°21′31.90″E / 31.5784278°N 74.3588611°E / 31.5784278; 74.3588611) 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

CampusLocationEstablished
UET KSK CampusKala Shah Kaku2006
RCET-UET Gujranwala CampusGujranwala2002
UET Faisalabad CampusFaisalabad2004
UET Narowal CampusNarowal2012
UET Narowal Campus (Temporary Building)
UET Lahore City Campus, Main Block

Academics

Faculties

Department of Chemical Engineering

UET Lahore offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, under the following faculties:[11]

Main campus Lahore

Department of Electrical Engineering

The university consists of 33 departments:[11]

Sports Complex, aka Old Auditorium, UET Lahore

Research centers

Laser and Optronics Center

The university consists of 17 research centers:

More than 870 students are foreign students and more than 1000 are female students.[12]

Teaching faculty

The UET faculty consists of 741 people including 14 international faculty members; around 122 have doctoral degrees.[13] 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.

Co-curricular and extracurricular activities

National Library of Engineering Sciences

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.[14] 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 Debating Society and UET Literary Society hold several national titles.

Officially-constituted societies

  • AIChE
  • Aks UET Photography Society
  • ASHRAE
  • ASME Student Section
  • Blood Donors Society (BDS)
  • CESA ACI Student Chapter
  • Environmental & Horticultural Society (EHS)
  • ICE Student Chapter UET Lahore
  • IEEE UET Student Branch.
  • IET UET Lahore Section
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers' Club
  • Literary Society
  • Mechatronics Club
  • SGE
  • Society of Mining Engineers
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers, UET Lahore Student Chapter
  • SPACE Student chapter
  • UET-ACM
  • UET Debating Society
  • UET Dramatics Society
  • UET Media Society (UMS)
  • UET Tribune[15][16]

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.[17] 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

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[21]
  • Arif Ghafoor, Fellow of the IEEE, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University,[22] 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,[23] 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,[24] 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,[19] 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,[25] graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering

References

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  2. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore | University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  3. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore | University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  4. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore | University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  5. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore | University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  6. ↑ "Here's how 6 Pakistani universities ranked worldwide". The Express Tribune. 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore". topuniversities.com. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  9. ↑ http://uet.edu.pk/aboutuet/aboutinfo/index.html?RID=about_uet_history
  10. ↑ "UET Facts in Numbers". Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Faculties and Departments (UET Main)". Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  12. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore - University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  13. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore - University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "IEEE UET". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  15. ↑ "UET Tribune Official Site". Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  16. ↑ "UET Tribune-UET's First ever magazine style news network". Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  17. ↑ http://library.uet.edu.pk/
  18. ↑ "Adil Najam Named Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies - BU Today - Boston University". bu.edu. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  19. 1 2 "Ishfaq Ahmad". Ranger.uta.edu. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  20. ↑ Hassan, Muzammil. "UET Lahore - University of Engineering and Technology". www.uet.edu.pk. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  21. ↑ "Ali R. Butt@Virginia Tech". People.cs.vt.edu. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  22. ↑ "Arif Ghafoor – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University". Engineering.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  23. ↑ "DR. Asrar Ul-haq Sheikh EE Dept KFUPM". Faculty.kfupm.edu.sa. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  24. ↑ "Dr. Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Professor and Chair, Department of ECE, IIT, Chicago". ece.iit.edu. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
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