UET Lahore is the oldest and pioneer institution of Engineering and Technology of this country. It has three campuses including Main Campus, Kala Shah Kaku Campus and Faisalabad Campus in addition to one constituent college Rachna College of Engineering and Technology, Gujranwala.
There are eight technical colleges affiliated with UET at undergraduate level. The main campus at Lahore offers graduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. level degrees in eighteen disciplines.
The Faisalabad Campus offers graduate level degrees in three disciplines and the Kala Shah Kaku Campus offers graduate level degrees in three disciplines also. The Rachna College of Engineering and Technology offers graduate level degree in three disciplines. Rachna and Faisalabad Campuses would become University in near future.
Five advanced research centers including Energy Technologies Development Center, Nano Technology Development Center, Bio-Medical Engineering Research Center, Aero Space Engineering Center and Advanced Construction Materials Research Center are also being set-up at Kala Shah Kaku. The number of disciplines to be offered at all these campuses will increase in phases. The research publications produced by the faculty of university in various international / national research journal from 2004 to date is 456.
Highly qualified staff is available at each campus. 80 Ph.D's and 31 M.Phil's are working at Main Campus while 103 teachers of the Main Campus are doing Ph.D. abroad / locally under various schemes. 1640 million rupees would be spent on faculty development in three phases for the four campuses. UET has now updated most of its equipment and more is in the pipeline due to generous support of the government and HEC. A PC-I worth approximately Rs 9 billions is under preparation / approval. It would take care of infrastructural HRD and Equipment requirements. It would strengthen the research capability of University manifolds.
UET's mission is to maintain its status as the most prestigious Engineering University of the country by excellent teaching commitment and research in collaboration with industry to materialise socio-economic development of the country.
The basis for selecting the sites of new campuses was to position them in close vicinity of the Industry for setting-up collaborative research programmes.
Higher Education Commission and Govt. of Pakistan are providing generous support to UET for its ambitious programs under the dynamic leadership of Lieutenant General (R) Muhammad Akram Khan (HIM, SIM, Tbt, SI) Vice-Chancellor UET Lahore.
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