Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences

·        Introduction

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) may be a public institute targeted on the study of science, technology, engineering and arithmetic (STEM). It is located in Islamabad, Pakistan.[1]

Founded in 1967 as Reactor faculty in response to increasing industrialisation of West Pakistan, the institute started its academic activities with the affiliation of Quaid-e-Azam University, and have become Centre for Nuclear Studies (CNS) in 1976; the institute gained its new name and have become freelance in 1997. In 2000, PIEAS was granted the standing of a degree grant institute.

PIEAS relies on a one hundred fifty acres (0.61 km2; 0.23 sq mi) field and has around one hundred thirty five regular college members.

PIEAS has sturdy collaboration with the yank Society of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Electrical and physical science Engineers.

As of 2017, instruction Commission rated PIEAS because the first leading engineering university in West Pakistan.[5] QS World Uniiversity Rankings stratified it as 397th worldwide whereas QS Asia University Rankings ranked it as 5th in Pakistan, 146th overall in Asia in 2019.

·       History

The institute was established in 1967 because the Reactor faculty below the management of the PAEC to provide qualified personnel for Pakistan's budding nuclear program.[7] A fellowship programme was instituted in 1972, below that science and engineering graduates were invited to vie for the award of engaging fellowships for the length of the course.

The Reactor faculty was upgraded administratively to the extent of a Division of the West Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) and was renamed the Centre for Nuclear Studies. With its increasing activities, additional space became of paramount importance and therefore a separate building, located close to PINSTECH, was constructed, and CNS shifted to it in 1978. CNS introduced many new degree programmes including M.Sc. (Systems Engineering) in 1988, M.Sc. (Nuclear Medicine) in 1989, and Ph.D. (Nuclear Engineering) in 1990. Due to enhancements in its infrastructure that created the capability for offering programmes in many different fields, its name was changed to Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences in 1997. In April 2000, PIEAS was granted the status of a degree-awarding institute by the Government of Pakistan to promote education and research at its highest standards in Pakistan. Today, PIEAS is a multi-faceted, degree-awarding university-level educational institution,

·       Campus

The PIEAS field is sprawling over a district of concerning 360 acres. The organic structure includes 9 educational blocks, eight workshops, production plants for liquid nitrogen and oxygen, 30 laboratories, lecture halls, a video-conferencing facility, conference rooms, and a 400-seat auditorium.

A progressive pc center with two hundred computers provides process facilities round the clock, seven days a week. PIEAS is AN associate of PERN network and has access to HEC Digital Library which will be accessed from anybody of the 1500 nodes of PIEAS native space Network. Internet facilities are available even in student hostels. The PIEAS library holds a repository of quite 15000 artifacts and it conjointly subscribes to each technical and educational journal. PIEAS Library has extended hours to facilitate students' access a replacement library block is below construction.

·       Residential facilities

PIEAS provides hostel facilities for each feminine and male student. Most students stay there. There area unit eight hostel blocks as well as a separate feminine hostel, No profit no loss mess, canteen, fitness centre, rest-house, and indoor and out of doors sports facilities. A post workplace, bank and retailers for normally needed things area unit obtainable within the neighborhood. A mosque is a recent addition.

·       Academics

The current major areas of academic and technical activities available at the institute are Computer and Control Systems, Applied Electronics, Applied Mathematics & Numerical Analysis, Analytical Chemistry, Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science & Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Radiation Physics, Optics & Laser Physics, Polymer Laboratory and Nuclear Medicine.

Although PIEAS offers BS, MS, M Phil and PhD degree programs, the postgraduate degree programs dominate. In addition to the degree programs, PIEAS conjointly offers specialised short courses to engineers, scientists and other professionals for their continuing professional development. The length of those courses vary from two to eighteen months, and the areas covered have included reactor supervision and operation, health physics, medical physics, laser technology, vacuum technology, computer applications advanced reactor safety and management sciences.

·       Degree programs

The disciplines and therefore the degree programs offered by PIEAS are tabulated below. The regular length of Bachelor of Science and MS / M Phil degree programs is four and 2 years, severally.

·       Faculty

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PIEAS has around one hundred thirty-five extremely qualified regular college members within the various fields of physical sciences, engineering and medication. 95 of them have PhD degrees from highly reputed institutions in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan, Austria and Australia. Another twenty-five college members were expected to finish their Doctor of Philosophy studies throughout 2013 and 2014. PIEAS college members have revealed quite 650 papers in international journals and are adorned with three Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 2 Tamgha-i-Imatiaz, 3 President's Pride of Performance, 1 President's Medal for Technology, one Aizaaz-e-Kamal, 3 Aizaaz-e-Fazeelat, and 9 Best Teacher Awards.

·       Research and industrial liaison

PIEAS may be a many-sided institution, with academic and training programs conducted at the highest level in a broad spectrum of disciplines. These area unit complemented by an energetic R&D program, which now also extends to working on industry-related projects. In this context, several products of industrial use, like a PC-controlled drill machine, a PC-controlled milling machine, and robotic manipulators, have been developed.

·        Rankings, honors and awards

PIEAS's excellence was recognized on the national level once it absolutely was declared to be the most effective engineering university in West Pakistan by the upper Education Commission (HEC) in its 1st ever ranking of universities in 2006. PIEAS preserved this title in HEC's second ranking, distributed in 2012. The university was ranked as the top engineering institute of Pakistan by the HEC in the "engineering and technology" category, as of 2013