National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)

National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)

·        Introduction

The National University of Sciences and Technology (Urdu: قومی جامعہ علوم اور صنعت و حرفت‎, normally noted as NUST) may be a public university with main field in capital of Pakistan, Pakistan and alternative satellite campuses in several cities of Asian country. Established in March 1991 primarily for the promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects, it has since then expanded through establishing a more comprehensive curriculum consisting of economics, finance, management and social sciences degrees.The university is also home to an under-construction International Association of Science Parks (IASP) certified National Science & Technology Park.

NUST was established in 1991 by merging military and civil instructional resources. After its development, existing military schools and colleges became constituent colleges of NUST. The first school to be connected with NUST was MCS in 1991. In 1993, the university was granted a charter and CEME and MCE became part of the university. In December 1994 and Nov 1995, CAE and PNEC became constituents of NUST respectively.

• History

NUST is that the 1st model university established by the Ministry of Science and Technology like KAIST of peninsula. The student body consists of 7,000+ students, including 102 international students and 884 postgraduate students. In 2015, quite seventy,000 candidates applied for the undergraduate program at NUST. NUST has 675 regular utilized college workers together with seventeen members from international universities and plenty of professors and lecturers area unit a district of visiting college of NUST. In addition to the current, professors from universities around the world visit NUST under collaborative arrangements.

·       Campus

NUST may be a multi-campus university with the headquarters situated in capital of Pakistan. Campuses of NUST area unit situated within the following cities:

·       Islamabad

Sector H-12 Campus:

The field in Sector H-12 capital of Pakistan was initiated in 2008. Besides NUST Headquarters, the schools and institutes that were relocated to this campus include School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Research Center for Modeling and Simulation, School of Natural Sciences (formerly known as Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics), Atta-ur-Rehman School of Applied Bio-sciences, college of Art style and design, NUST Business School), School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Professional Development Center, Technology Incubation Center, Marketing and Industrial Relations Organization, NUST commercial enterprise and NUST stretch and Talent Hunt Initiative. It also has a department for career counselling named Centre for Counselling & Career Advisory (C3A) that helps provide primary mental health facilities.

·       Rawalpindi

Military College of Signals (MCS):

Located on Hamayun Road in Rawalpindi Cantt, it is the oldest constituent college of NUST, founded in 1947 after the independence of Pakistan to train the members of Pakistan Armed Forces. The College of Telecommunication and software system Engineering is found on this field. The MCS library is processed, with over fifty-five,000 volumes.

·       College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME):

Located on Grand highway in city, EME is that the largest constituent school of NUST. The field includes all on-campus facilities, area and conference hall, accommodation and mess facilities. The library is totally processed, with a collection of 70,000 volumes.

Sports facilities at EME includes three tennis courts, a basketball court, a squash court, a badminton court, football ground, cricket pitch, a swimming pool and two gymnasiums.

·       Risalpur

College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE):

The college includes four departments; part Engineering Department, astronautics Department, industrial management Department and Humanities and Sciences Department.

Aerospace Engineering Department has 5 major laboratory’s; mechanics lab, structure research lab, propulsion and warmth transfer laboratory, material science lab and numerical analysis lab. Avionics Department has six labs which include guidance lab, navigation and control system lab, antenna lab, communication lab, radar, microwave and digital system lab and embedded system lab.

The field is provided with a library, auditorium, conference hall, dining facilities and hostel facilities, although more hostel accommodation is required for a conducive study environment. The college library features a assortment of eighty,000 technical and reference books. Sports facilities at the campus include table tennis, badminton, basketball, tennis, volleyball, football, hockey, swimming, golf and cricket.

·       Military College of Engineering (Pakistan) (MCE):

College of engineering and National Institute of Transportation area unit situated on this field. MCE is one in all the oldest constituent schools of NUST, founded in 1948. The campus houses laboratories, a computer centre, library with 41,000 books, sports facilities and hostels.

·       Karachi

The college field is adjoining a neighborhood of regarding seventy-five acres (300,000 m2) comprising the administration block, four academic blocks, postgraduate studies center, labs and workshops, professional development center, an area, a mosque, a dispensary, hostel and dining facilities. The field is home to the pc assisted planning and producing Center and also the skilled Development Center.

The campus has a library. A section known as the "Book Bank" stocks used textbooks, loaning them out to undergraduate students for a whole semester, charging 10% of the original cost of the book. The field offers collegian courses in Electrical, Mechanical and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. The students of PNEC area unit one in all the best engineers in Asian country and have a high demand each within and out of doors the country.

·       Academics

Degree programs

NUST colleges and schools offered the subsequent degree programs. The regular length of Bachelor of Science and MS/M Phil degree programs area unit four and a pair of years, respectively.

Research

A Research and Development (R&D) board of directors is established at the NUST headquarters which inspires the expansion of analysis within the university. All efforts of R&D board of directors area unit coordinated through Associate in Nursing structure structure consisting of NUST headquarters, R&D Cells at each constituent college and NUST's commercial arms,