UET to open campuses in Upper Dir, Swat

890 graduates conferred degrees at 21st varsity convocation

PESHAWAR: University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, is establishing new campuses in Upper-Dir and Swat to promote engineering education in K-P, said UET Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iftikhar Hussain.

He was speaking at the 21st convocation of UET on Saturday at the University of Peshawar (UoP) for academic sessions of 2017-18 and 2018-19.

VC Hussain conferred degrees on graduating students of postgraduate PhD, M.c and undergraduate programmes.

In total, 890 students were awarded degrees in engineering and non-engineering programmes including 860 BSc degrees, eight PhD degrees while 22 students were awarded MSc degrees.

At the convocation, 41 Gold Medals were conferred upon graduates of undergraduate programs who achieved top positions. The leading local industries, Kohat Cement and Fast Cables also awarded three cash prizes to the toppers of Electrical Engineering of UET Mardan, Inamullah Johar and Waleed Khan from the Mechanical Engineering department, UET Peshawar.

While presiding over the Convocation, VC Hussain congratulated the graduates and their parent and said: “future of the country was dependent the way we educate and groom them to understand the real challenges of the environment.”

He said UET Peshawar has adopted the outcome based education system through which our major disciplines are now accredited under OBE.

He appreciated the efforts of Pakistan Engineering Council Chairman Engr Javed Salim Qureshi under whose guidance UET Peshawar has attained accreditation status in a short time period.

He further said UET Peshawar is closely linked with HEC though significant research projects under which National Centres of Excellence in Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, and Big Data and Cloud Computing have been established in Pakistan.

Under the umbrella of these projects four new Labs have been established, the Advanced Robotics and Automation Lab, the Innovative Secured Systems Lab, the Intelligent Information Processing Lab, and the Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing Lab.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2019.