University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila
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The University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, or UET Taxila is located at Taxila
, Punjab, Pakistan
. It was established in 1975 as a campus of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and chartered as an independent university in 1993, offering Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees in disciplines in Engineering.
UET is a state university and the Governor
of Punjab
is the Chancellor
of the university. The Vice-Chancellor is the executive head and manages the university functions.
It offers degrees in nine engineering studies: Computer, Telecom, Software, Electrical, Electronics, Civil and Mechanical at the main campus, and Mechatronics and Electronics at the subcampus of Chakwal . It is located near the historical site of Julian University, an ancient Buddhist university.
There are some remnants of the ancient civilization of Taxila around the main campus. This includes the Jandial tempal(Right next to the gate#1), The city of sirkap
, Bhir Mound
, the ruins of the stupa at Dharmarajika
, the monastery at Jaulian
, the monastery at Mohra Muradu
in addition to a number of stupas.
Taxila Museum is three kilometers from the campus.
. In 1978 it was shifted to its permanent location at Taxila. The college continued its working under the administrative control of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore till October 1993. During this month it received its charter as an independent university under the University of Engineering and Technology Taxila Ordinance 1993. Enrollment of undergraduate and postgraduate students is about 3000..
The university has gone through construction and development. This includes the construction of the computer and software department, central library, a bypass road that leads to museum road, girls hostel, foreign faculty house, Ali hall, vice chancellor's house, extensions of the academic blocks, construction of central mosque, abubakkar hall, cafeteria, and construction of stands for the sports stadium.
branch line. The city of Taxila is 35 km from the twin cities of Islamabad
and Rawalpindi
and 6 km from Rawalpindi
–Peshawar
highway. The university buses commute daily between the campus and the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Wah and Hasan Abdal
. The campus covers an area of 109 acre (0.44110774 km²) and houses the teaching departments, residential colony for teachers and employees, students' hostels, guest house, post office, dispensary and bank.
The computer, software and telecommunication programmes have been offered successfully in 2001, 2002 and 2007 respectively. The Computer Department and library have just completed.
Four hostels including separate girls' hostel have been built. The electrical and mechanical blocks have been extended. An electronics program was launched in 2008.
started functioning in 2005. UET Taxila is planning a campus at Pind Dadan Khan
in Jhelum District
.
UET Taxila has launched its newly developed web based Library
Automation
System named as UET LIBAS which can be accessed using the following address: UET LIBAS
The Central Library
has a seating capacity for 100 readers in its halls. The reading halls remain open (two shifts) from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm on all working days, with a break for Jumma prayer 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm. The library is stocked with encyclopedia
s, dictionaries, handbooks, standard specifications, yearbooks, almanacs, abstracts, indexes and a big reserve collection of text and general technical books.
The library has 40000 volumes of book
s and 45000 volumes of bound serials. Besides engineering
subjects there is reading material on humanities
, social sciences
and Islamic Studies
.
The library houses a Book Bank, which lends textbooks to the undergraduates for long periods on a nominal rent. Books, which are in excess of the requirements of the Book Bank, are sold to the students on a no-profit no-loss basis through its Co-operative Bookstore.
s, researchers of UET Taxila, Pakistan
with the provision of quality scholarly information based electronic delivery through the Pakistan Educational Research Network (PERN). HEC has given the online access of journals and research papers to UET Taxila. Access to all these resources is free of cost from within the UET Taxila intranet for students and researchers of UET Taxila.
The Department of Civil Engineering has established an institute by the name of “Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering (TITE)”. Taxila
Institute of Transportation Engineering will provide education
and research facilities in the field of transportation engineering. TITE mission is to develop and implement innovative methods, materials, and technologies for improving transportation efficiency
, safety, and reliability, while improving the learning and innovative environment
of M.Sc and Ph.D students, faculty, and staff in transportation-related areas.
To assist the Highway Engineers, Material Engineers and Laboratory
Technicians, Taxila institute of Transportation Engineering at CED, UET Taxila has launched short courses to enhance the professional’s competency. These courses are:
After the admission test, merit lists are prepared allowing the students who secured good results in both HSSC and EUCAT to get the opportunity to study in the institutions. For admission to M.S. and Ph. D. programs candidates appear in interviews and/or written tests.
There are some seats reserved for foreign students in undergraduate level and there is also a good percentage of seats reserved for areas other than Punjab. The qualification for admission is H.S.S.C. or GCE A level or its equivalent with good grades in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
UET Taxila offers Bachelors, Masters and in various disciplines under the following faculties:
It provides training on new technology and trends. A few areas of training are core switches, routers, optical
fiber, structure cabling and network management.
Main services provided by NARC are:
NARC is provides and maintains the internet
on the campus and connects Chakwal
campus to the main campus.
Centre of Excellence for ASIC Design and DSP is equipped with facilities to cater for undergraduate teaching and demonstrations, for graduate and post graduate/Doctoral research .
The university holds a sports gala week every year.
The students are popularly referred to as a "UETian"'. "Theta" or "Θ" is the UETian who is busy in his studies all the time with no balanced time for other activities.
. The Alumni Association's mission is "to encourage, in partnership with the University, a lifelong relationship between alumni association and their university".
The Association, a separate society being established under the society Act , makes its home at UET Taxila campus.
A transport facility is provided for students, with buses plying between Rawalpindi
, Islamabad
, Hassan Abdal, Wah Cantt
and the campus. The university
has a fleet of about 25 bus
es.
University campus has the following hostels:
(**)Abubakkar hall is under construction
Besides many small mosques throughout the campus there is a central one (Jamia) also known as Masjid Bilal.It has a capacity of 700 worshippers.
No ranking list has been published by HEC or other institution after 2006.
Taxila
Taxila is a Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is an important archaeological site.Taxila is situated about northwest of Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi in Panjab; just off the Grand Trunk Road...
, Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It was established in 1975 as a campus of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and chartered as an independent university in 1993, offering Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees in disciplines in Engineering.
UET is a state university and the Governor
Governor
A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
of Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
is the Chancellor
Chancellor
Chancellor is the title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the Cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers who sat at the cancelli or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the...
of the university. The Vice-Chancellor is the executive head and manages the university functions.
It offers degrees in nine engineering studies: Computer, Telecom, Software, Electrical, Electronics, Civil and Mechanical at the main campus, and Mechatronics and Electronics at the subcampus of Chakwal . It is located near the historical site of Julian University, an ancient Buddhist university.
There are some remnants of the ancient civilization of Taxila around the main campus. This includes the Jandial tempal(Right next to the gate#1), The city of sirkap
Sirkap
Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan.The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after he invaded ancient India around 180 BC. Demetrius founded in the northern and northwestern Indian subcontinent an...
, Bhir Mound
Bhir Mound
The Bhir Mound is the oldest of the ruins of Taxila in the Punjab province of Pakistan.-Excavation:The ruins of Bhir Mound were excavated from 1913-1925 by Sir John Marshall. The work was continued by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1944-1945 and by Dr. Mohammad Sharif in 1966-1967. Further excavations...
, the ruins of the stupa at Dharmarajika
Dharmarajika
The Dharmarajika is a large Buddhist stupa in the area of Taxila, Pakistan. It is thought that it was established by the Maurya emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE around relics of the Buddha.The stupa is also popularly called as 'Chir Tope.'The site of divided into two parts: the stupa area in...
, the monastery at Jaulian
Jaulian
Jaulian are the ruins of an ancient buddhistic monastery near Taxila, Punjab , Pakistan.-The Ruins:The ruins at Jaulian date from the fifth century CE and consist of two main parts. These are 1) the main stupa and 2) the monastery and university of Jaulian. The ruins are situated on a mountain top...
, the monastery at Mohra Muradu
Mohra Muradu
Mohra Muradu is the place of an ancient buddhistic stupa and monastery near the ruins of Taxila, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The ancient monastery is located in a valley and offers a beautiful view of the surrounding mountains...
in addition to a number of stupas.
Taxila Museum is three kilometers from the campus.
History
With the increase in student enrollment in the 1970s, additional campuses of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore were built, including the University College of Engineering Taxila, in 1975. For three years it functioned at SahiwalSahiwal
Sahiwal is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the administrative centre of Sahiwal District and Sahiwal Division. Sahiwal is approximately 180 km from the major city Lahore and is the city between Lahore and Multan...
. In 1978 it was shifted to its permanent location at Taxila. The college continued its working under the administrative control of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore till October 1993. During this month it received its charter as an independent university under the University of Engineering and Technology Taxila Ordinance 1993. Enrollment of undergraduate and postgraduate students is about 3000..
The university has gone through construction and development. This includes the construction of the computer and software department, central library, a bypass road that leads to museum road, girls hostel, foreign faculty house, Ali hall, vice chancellor's house, extensions of the academic blocks, construction of central mosque, abubakkar hall, cafeteria, and construction of stands for the sports stadium.
Location
The university campus is located on the outskirts of Taxila, 5 km from the city. It is situated near railway station Mohra Shah Wali Shah on Taxila-HavelianHavelian
Havelian is the second largest municipality in Abbottabad District, in what used to be the Hazara District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan.-villages:...
branch line. The city of Taxila is 35 km from the twin cities of Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
and Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
and 6 km from Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
–Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
highway. The university buses commute daily between the campus and the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Wah and Hasan Abdal
Hasan Abdal
Hasan Abdal is an historic town in Northern Punjab, Pakistan. It is located where the Grand Trunk Road meets the Karakoram Highway near the North-West Frontier Province province, northwest of Wah. It is 40 km northwest of Rawalpindi. It has a population of about over 50,000. It is famous for...
. The campus covers an area of 109 acre (0.44110774 km²) and houses the teaching departments, residential colony for teachers and employees, students' hostels, guest house, post office, dispensary and bank.
Four hostels including separate girls' hostel have been built. The electrical and mechanical blocks have been extended. An electronics program was launched in 2008.
Campuses
Almost thirty years after the establishment of the main campus, the first campus of UET Taxila at ChakwalChakwal
Chakwal is the capital of Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located 90 km south-east of the federal capital, Islamabad and is named after Chaudhry Chaku Khan, chief of the Mair Minhas tribe from Jammu, who founded it in 1525 CE during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur...
started functioning in 2005. UET Taxila is planning a campus at Pind Dadan Khan
Pind Dadan Khan
Pind Dadan Khan is a town in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, it is the capital of Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil, which is an administrative subdivision of the district...
in Jhelum District
Jhelum District
Jhelum District is in the Punjab province of Pakistan. According the 1998 census the district had a population of 936,957, of which 31.48% were urban. Jhelum is known for providing a large number of soldiers to the British and later to the Pakistan armed forces due to which it is also known as...
.
Affiliated institutes
Institutes affiliated with UET Taxila are:- CASE - Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, Sir Syed Memorial Building,19-Attaturk Avenue, G-5/1, Islamabad.
- KICSIT - Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, KRL Kahuta, Dist. Rawalpindi.
- HITEC College of Engineering and Management Sciences, Taxila Cantt
- Wah Engineering College, Wah CanttWah Engineering College, Wah CanttWah Cantonment, Pakistan is a constituent institute of the University of Wah. The university was established under "The University of Wah Act 2009 ".The institute was established in 2004 by Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah Cantt...
- SS-CARE School of Engineering (SCSE)
- Swedish College of Engineering and Technology(Wah Cantt Campus)
- Army Public College of Management and Sciences (APCOMS), Rawalpindi
Central Library
The Central LibraryLibrary
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
UET Taxila has launched its newly developed web based Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
Automation
Automation
Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
System named as UET LIBAS which can be accessed using the following address: UET LIBAS
The Central Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
has a seating capacity for 100 readers in its halls. The reading halls remain open (two shifts) from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm on all working days, with a break for Jumma prayer 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm. The library is stocked with encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
s, dictionaries, handbooks, standard specifications, yearbooks, almanacs, abstracts, indexes and a big reserve collection of text and general technical books.
The library has 40000 volumes of book
Book
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
s and 45000 volumes of bound serials. Besides engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
subjects there is reading material on humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
and Islamic Studies
Islamic studies
In a Muslim context, Islamic studies can be an umbrella term for all virtually all of academia, both originally researched and as defined by the Islamization of knowledge...
.
The library houses a Book Bank, which lends textbooks to the undergraduates for long periods on a nominal rent. Books, which are in excess of the requirements of the Book Bank, are sold to the students on a no-profit no-loss basis through its Co-operative Bookstore.
Digital Library
To meet the information requirements of studentStudent
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
s, researchers of UET Taxila, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
with the provision of quality scholarly information based electronic delivery through the Pakistan Educational Research Network (PERN). HEC has given the online access of journals and research papers to UET Taxila. Access to all these resources is free of cost from within the UET Taxila intranet for students and researchers of UET Taxila.
Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering
Taxila
Taxila is a Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is an important archaeological site.Taxila is situated about northwest of Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi in Panjab; just off the Grand Trunk Road...
Institute of Transportation Engineering will provide education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
and research facilities in the field of transportation engineering. TITE mission is to develop and implement innovative methods, materials, and technologies for improving transportation efficiency
Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal of efforts to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. For example, insulating a home allows a building to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve and maintain a comfortable temperature...
, safety, and reliability, while improving the learning and innovative environment
Social environment
The social environment of an individual, also called social context or milieu, is the culture that s/he was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom the person interacts....
of M.Sc and Ph.D students, faculty, and staff in transportation-related areas.
To assist the Highway Engineers, Material Engineers and Laboratory
Laboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
Technicians, Taxila institute of Transportation Engineering at CED, UET Taxila has launched short courses to enhance the professional’s competency. These courses are:
- Highway Material Engineer
- Highway Material Technician
Admissions
Undergraduate admission in UET is competitive. After completion of higher secondary school level (HSSC) education, a student can submit his application for undergraduate admission if it fulfills the minimum requirements. Students with a minimum percentage(60%) in HSSC exams with core subjects of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English are allowed to appear in the admission test organized by the UETs and other institutions often called Engineering University and College Admission Test(EUCAT).After the admission test, merit lists are prepared allowing the students who secured good results in both HSSC and EUCAT to get the opportunity to study in the institutions. For admission to M.S. and Ph. D. programs candidates appear in interviews and/or written tests.
There are some seats reserved for foreign students in undergraduate level and there is also a good percentage of seats reserved for areas other than Punjab. The qualification for admission is H.S.S.C. or GCE A level or its equivalent with good grades in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
Profile of the University faculties
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Civil EngineeringCivil engineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
- TaxilaTaxilaTaxila is a Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is an important archaeological site.Taxila is situated about northwest of Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi in Panjab; just off the Grand Trunk Road...
Institute of Transportation Engineering - Department of Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental engineeringEnvironmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
Faculty of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Department of Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
- Department of Electronics Engineering (At TaxilaTaxilaTaxila is a Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is an important archaeological site.Taxila is situated about northwest of Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi in Panjab; just off the Grand Trunk Road...
campus) - Department of Electronics Engineering (At ChakwalChakwalChakwal is the capital of Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located 90 km south-east of the federal capital, Islamabad and is named after Chaudhry Chaku Khan, chief of the Mair Minhas tribe from Jammu, who founded it in 1525 CE during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur...
campus)
Faculty of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
- Department of Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
- Department of Mechatronics Engineering (At ChakwalChakwalChakwal is the capital of Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located 90 km south-east of the federal capital, Islamabad and is named after Chaudhry Chaku Khan, chief of the Mair Minhas tribe from Jammu, who founded it in 1525 CE during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur...
campus) - Department of Aeronautical Engineering (Future Programme)
Faculty of Telecommunication and Information Engineering
- Department of Computer EngineeringComputer engineeringComputer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
- Department of Software EngineeringSoftware engineeringSoftware Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
- Department of Telecommunication Engineering
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
It has the following departments under it- Department of Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineeringIndustrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
- Department of Engineering Economic and ManagementManagementManagement in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
(Future Programme)
NARC (Network Administration and Research Center)
The NARC Research section provides information about the research areas in NARC. Student Projects link will show the student projects and Collaborations will give information about industry linkages and training programmes.It provides training on new technology and trends. A few areas of training are core switches, routers, optical
fiber, structure cabling and network management.
Main services provided by NARC are:
- Design and planning of university networks
- Installation and setup of server farms
- Maintenance and deployment of domain level services
- Procurement of equipment to fulfill the requirements of the university
- Introduction of technologies and market trends to the students and staff
- Automation of existing processes
- Bandwidth distribution planning and equipment commissioning
- Management of firewalls and intrusion prevention
- End users software and hardware support
NARC is provides and maintains the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
on the campus and connects Chakwal
Chakwal
Chakwal is the capital of Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located 90 km south-east of the federal capital, Islamabad and is named after Chaudhry Chaku Khan, chief of the Mair Minhas tribe from Jammu, who founded it in 1525 CE during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur...
campus to the main campus.
Video and Image Processing Laboratory
The laboratory was established with the funding by HEC to facilitate research in the area of image and video processing.Center of Excellence for ASIC Design and DSP
The Center of Excellence for ASIC Design and DSP is equipped with more than 7 million US$ software tools for chip design, simulation, PCB design. Test and measurement equipments for advanced testing and verification are also available. With a mission to introduce newest technologies in the ASIC and DSP field, the center provides design and research facilities to Ph. D, M.Sc and undergrad students. Workshops and training courses are arranged.Centre of Excellence for ASIC Design and DSP is equipped with facilities to cater for undergraduate teaching and demonstrations, for graduate and post graduate/Doctoral research .
Sports
A student common room is provided in each of the hostels with facilities for indoor games such as basket ball, shooting ball, squash, table tennis, badminton and cairumboard. Outdoor games include cricket, hockey, volleyball and football. Other sports available are boxing, karate, athletics and body building.The university holds a sports gala week every year.
Student societies
Engineering and non-technical societies on the university campus include:- University Art & Literery Society or UALS promotes artArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, cultureCultureCulture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
and the literary abilities of the students. - Quiad-e-Azam debating society (QDS) gives the opportunity to students to speak in front of others. The society has won competitions all over Pakistan.
- Hostel Athletic & Sports Club (HASC) organize the sports activities for resident students. The aim of the club is to produce the best athletes and sportsmen with good sportsman spirit for the universityUniversityA university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
and for participants in the inter universityUniversityA university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
tournaments. - Rashid cheema blood donating society(RCBDS) helps patients in need of blood.It arranges blood donating camps in co-ordination with the Red Crescent of Pakistan.It was formerly known as the Blood Donating ociety but later its name was changed to Rashid Cheema Blood Donating Society(RCBDS) to commemorate the late student Rashid Zamaan cheema who drowned in the lake of Khanpur dam.
- UET adventure Club(UETAC) provides students with an opportunity to escape from the daily routine of the busy campus life and to enjoy the wilderness and nature.It organizes hiking, mountaneering, jogging, boating and excursion trips.
- Environment protection society(EPS) helping university in increasing awareness and plantation in the campus.
Co-curricular societies
- Robo-Club
- IEEE Chapter UET Taxila
- ASME Chapter UET Taxila
- Gandhara Software Solutions
- DOT IT
The students are popularly referred to as a "UETian"'. "Theta" or "Θ" is the UETian who is busy in his studies all the time with no balanced time for other activities.
Alumni Association
The Alumni Association of UET Taxila is a link between UET Taxila graduates and UniversityUniversity
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
. The Alumni Association's mission is "to encourage, in partnership with the University, a lifelong relationship between alumni association and their university".
The Association, a separate society being established under the society Act , makes its home at UET Taxila campus.
Health Facilities
The university provides medical facilities to its employees and students. The dispensary helps students with their physical health problems with doctors available round the clock. Students are provided free consultation by the Medical Officer. Medicines are issued to students free of charge. A night dispensary service is available in emergency, with free ambulance service, in case of acute emergency, any time.Transport
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
, Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Hassan Abdal, Wah Cantt
Wah Cantt
Wah Cantonment is a military city located in the Punjab province of Pakistan, to the north west of Rawalpindi/Islamabad.-History:...
and the campus. The university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
has a fleet of about 25 bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
es.
Campus network
All departments and hostels are networked on 100 Mbit/s Ethernet, and connected through a fiber link. Outdoors are covered by Wifi at 54 Mbit/s. The campus connects to the internet through a high speed link provided by the Pakistan Telecommunication Company. The university uses the HEC digital library program and connects to the Scopus network for its e-library requirements.Hostels
- Quad-e-Azam hall
- Iqbal hall
- Ali hall
- Umar hall
- Usman hall
- Ayesha hall
- Abubakkar hall**
(**)Abubakkar hall is under construction
Central mosque
Ranking
The University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila was ranked 6th by the HEC in 2006.No ranking list has been published by HEC or other institution after 2006.
External links
- University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila
- Digital Library UET Taxila
- NARC
- ASIC Design
- Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering (TITE)
- Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, Islamabad
- HIT Education City
- Dr.A.Q Khan institute of computer sciences and information technology
- SS-CARE School of Engineering