Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has accorded formal accreditation to the four-year B.Sc Computer System Engineering (CSE) programme in the Mirpur University of Science and Technology (Must), said the varsity sources.
Engr. Professor Muhammad Waris, Head of Computer System Engineering Department told this news agency on Sunday that the accreditation to the four year CSE degree programme reached after the recent visit of a three-member team of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) to all the three campuses of Electrical, Mechanical and Computer System Engineering at the Must, formerly known as Ali Ahmed Shah University College of Engineering and Technology.
The B.Sc CSE programme has been granted the accreditation of one-year (intake of existing fist batch of 2005 of the four-year engineering programme), he said.
Professor Waris said that the PEC Visitation Committee comprising Engr. Brig, Dr Muhammad Younus Javed, Convenor and Expert Computer Engineering, CE and MP, Rawalpindi, Engr. Dr Shahzad A. Malik, Expert Computer Engineering, CIIT, Islamabad and Engr. Dr Ashfaq Ahmed Sheikh, Rep. PEC, Headquarter, Islamabad had visited all the said three departments including that of CSTE programme at the Must and expressed satisfaction over the facilities being dispensed to the students.
During the visit to the Must, the team also met Vice Chancellor of the AJK University Dr Habib ur Rehman and Dean of the Must Engr. Professor Naib Hussain Chaudhry and Chairman of the CSE Professor Waris and discussed the matters relating to the proposed grant of accreditation to the Computer System Engineering Programme in the Must.
The VC and the Dean apprised the team of the details of the required academic facilities being extended to the students in line with the criteria determined by the PEC. Besides appreciating the academic facilities being provided to the students in the all the three programmes at the Must the PEC visitation team also evaluate postgraduate programmes to be launched in the near future relevant to subject disciplines.