KARACHI: Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) is all set to launch new courses in near future with Management Sciences being on the top.
“The new course of Management Sciences, which will include MBA, BBA etc, will start after its formal approval by the institution’s Academic Council and final authorization from the Board of Governors,” the vice chancellor Professor Dr Jawaid H Rizvi said. He pointed out that the SSEUT which started with only two technologies of Computer and Electronic Engineering in 1994, today has 10 technologies with three technologies of Electrical, Architecture and Software Engineering having been added in 2014 while its enrollment grew from 200 students to over 6,043 students in 2016.
“We started with just a couple of technologies but now we expanded the programme to 10 new departments. We have plans in hand to further expand University keeping in view the national, international demand and market trend,” he added. He informed that the university has turned out more than 14,000 graduates so far and the aim is to turn out true professionals who can face competitive world of today and tomorrow with full confidence when they enter professional life.
Dr Jawaid said the ultimate test of our institution lies in successfully achieving job placements for its graduating students. The situation is encouraging and our graduates are well placed, either pursuing higher education doing MS or PhD or doing jobs abroad or in Pakistan. He also said that there are a large number of graduates who are in business and recently the university has upgraded this function to further reinforce career planning and placement and renamed the department as Center of Guidance and Career Planning and Placement Bureau, headed by an experienced adviser.
He stated that in accordance with Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) guidelines, a Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC), headed by a very senior level professor as its Director is regularly organizing training workshops and some of the faculty members were also sent to Thailand for advanced training in quality education.
He said that the curriculum is regularly updated through university’s Statutory Bodies in conformity with the HEC and Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) standards and remain at par with the contemporary and future requirements in the fields of engineering, science, and technology. He added that the statutory bodies appointed by the government regularly visit this university and evaluate its academic activities, research work, faculty performance and all other functions. The Chartered Inspection and Evaluation Committee (CIEC) has rated SSUET as 5-star university.
He described the university’s admission policy as straight forward with merit-based admissions while strictly observing HEC and PEC quite strictly. He said the University generously offers merit based and need-based scholarships to students to ensure that deserving students are not deprived of studies due to any genuine financial constraint.
He informed that SSUET is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and a member of International Association of Universities (IAU). Sponsored by UNESCO the university was on the Board of Governors of IAU for 8 years. He said that the university coordinates with professional bodies like Institute of Engineers Pakistan (IEP), Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) and Pakistan Software Board besides having close working relationship with KCCI and FPCCI, which are represented in the university committees like Finance and Planning, Board of Studies, Board of Faculties and Academic Council.
He informed that every year the university brings out its research journal and gives incentives to faculty members and research scholars for conducting research. He also said that SSUET has a library with a total of 92,560 text books, reference books and a Book Bank besides a Digital Library and separate libraries for each department. He said that the university organizes job fairs and displays projects. These are attended by professionals, management level personnel and entrepreneurs.
With regards to coping with the growing demand of the university, he stated that it has 200 acres of land in the Education City where its new campus will be built with all necessary facilities for learning and recreation. A concept plan of new campus has been prepared and the Chancellor Jawaid Anwar has formed a Master Plan (MP) Committee to prepare it in conformity with the overall MP of Education City.
