UET launches new facilities

Punjab Minister of Higher Education Raja Yasser Humayun Sarfraz has inaugurated Workshop and Design Center at UET, Lahore.

UET Vice Chancellor Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar, deans, Registrar, chairpersons, Project Director, and others were present on the occasion.

The center has been established to promote design and fabrication based final year projects by students of engineering programs. It has been completed with funding from the federal government through HEC.

The center is housed in a dedicated building and contains Machine Shop, Fitting Shop, Welding Shop, Heat treatment shop, and Flexible Manufacturing System.

Students can themselves design and fabricate using the facilities provided in the center while working independently. It will promote the practical skills and aims to produce employment ready graduate. The Computerised Numerical Control (CNC) machines and robot based sorting of machined components based on quality has also been provided in the centre. The sorted jobs can be placed in a storage bin or can be sent back for re-processing.

“This Finite State Machine (FMS) system is one of the latest models and students can create various real scenarios to optimise the working of a manufacturing system,” said Yasser.

He encouraged the faculty to put concerted effort to manufacture imported items locally in order to reduce import bill.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 9^th, 2022.