University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Photomontage '18.

Founded in 1921 in Mughalpura, a suburban area of Lahore, as Mughalpura Technical College, it later became the 'MacLagan Engineering College', a name given to it in 1923 when Sir Edward Douglas MacLagan, the then Governor of the Punjab who laid the foundation stone of the main building, now called the Main Block. In 1932, it was affiliated with University of the Punjab for the award of Bachelor's Degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In 1939, Civil Engineering degree was also started in the college. In 1954, a bachelor's degree program in mining engineering was started. In 1962, it was granted charter and was named the West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.[4] During the 1960s, bachelor's degree programs were started in chemical engineering, petroleum and gas engineering, metallurgical engineering, architecture and city and regional planning. In 1972, it was officially renamed the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. By the 1970s, it had established over a score of master's degree programs in engineering, architecture, city and regional planning and allied disciplines. Several Ph.D. degree programs were also started. A second campus of the university was established in 1975 in Sahiwal which was relocated in Taxila in 1978 and became an independent university in 1993 called University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.[5]

Today, it is widely considered one of the best and most prestigious engineering university of Pakistan where more than 50,000 students apply for admission every year.[6]

The university, as of 2016, has a faculty of 881 people with 257 with doctorates. It has a total of 9,385 undergraduate and 1,708 postgraduate students studying.[7] It has a strong collaboration with University of South Carolina, University of Manchester and the Queen Mary University of London and has conducted research funded by Huawei, Cavium Networks, Microsoft and MontaVista.[8][9] It is one of the highest ranked universities in Pakistan with domestic rankings placing it as the fifth best engineering school in Pakistan while QS World University Ranking putting U.E.T as 701st in the world every year between 2013 and 2016. It is also ranked as #701 in world by the same publication in 2018.[10][11] In 2018 QS rankings university observed downgrading from 701 to among 801–1000 ranked slot. Meanwhile, in Asia university ranking is currently being ranked at #200 and in worldwide university ranking is 701.[12]

Aerial Panorama of UET Lahore and its surrounding

Khayaban e Fazal, the newly constructed entrance of UET Lahore

The campus is situated on the Grand Trunk Road (GT Road), few kilometers from the Mughal era Shalimar Gardens.

Department of Chemical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering

The university consists of following faculties and departments:[13]

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Humanities and Islamic Studies

• Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Modern Languages
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Islamic Studies
• Institute of Business and Management (IBM)[14]

Sports Complex, aka Old Auditorium, UET Lahore

Laser and Optronics Center

The university consists of following research centers:

• Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS)
• Huawei – UET Joint TeleComm and IT Center[15]
• Center for Language Engineering[16]
• ZTE – UET Joint TeleComm Center[17]
• Laser and Optronics Center[18]
• Energy Research Technologies Development Center[19]
• Institute of Environmental Engineering and Research[20]
• DSP and Wireless Communication Center[21]
• Center of Excellence in Water Resources Engineering[22]
• Research Center[23]
• Software Engineering Center[24]
• Manufacturing Technologies Development Center[25]
• Automotive Engineering Center[26]
• Nano Technology Research Center[27]
• Innovation and Technology Development Center
• Engineering Services UET Pakistan (Pvt) Limited (ESUPAK)[28]
• Center for Energy Research and Development
• Bio Medical Engineering Center

More than 870 students are foreign students and more than 1000 are female students.[29]

The faculty consists of 741 people including 14 international faculty members; around 122 have doctoral degrees.[30] Its faculty holds one Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one Izaz-e-Kamal Presidential Award and nine HEC Best Teacher Awards.

The university has established a Directorate of Research, Extension and Advisory Services which strives for the promotion and organization of research activities. The Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences is a notable name in research activity in computer sciences in Pakistan.

The university has a sports complex, consisting of a swimming pool, tennis court, table tennis court, squash court and a cricket stadium that is also used for athletics. The university has several football grounds. Apart from sports-related facilities, there are societies to promote co-curricular activities. These include:

• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), UET Lahore Student Chapter
• AIChE
• Aks UET Photography Society
• ASHRAE
• ASME Student Section
• Blood Donors Society (BDS)
• CESA ACI Student Chapter
• Environmental and Horticultural Society (EHS)[31]
• ICE Student Chapter UET Lahore
• IEEE UET Student Branch[32]
• IET UET Lahore Section
• Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers' Club
• Literary Society
• Mechatronics Club
• SGE
• Society of Mining Engineers (SOME)
• Society of Product and Industrial Design (SPID)
• UET Science Society (SS)
• SPACE Student chapter
• UET-ACM
• UET Debating Society
• UET Dramatics Society
• UET Media Society (UMS)
• UET Tribune[33][34]

National Library of Engineering Sciences

The National Library of Engineering Science, inaugurated by Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, is the central library of the university with a seating capacity for 400 readers and more than 125,000 volumes of books, 22,000 volumes of bound serials and 600 issues of scientific and technical serials on diverse fields.[35] The Library has the honor of having recently been chosen by the Higher Education Commission to serve as the primary resource center for engineering and technical education. It is a three-story building in front of Allah Hu Chowk.

• Notable Alumni
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  Ahsan Kareem is a professor at the University of Notre Dame
• 
  Adil Najam is a professor at Boston University
• 
  Ahsan Iqbal was a federal minister of Pakistan
• 
  Mosharraf Hossain is a Bangladeshi politician
• 
  Mehreen Faruqi is an Australian politician

• Fawad Rana, Owner of Lahore Qalandars
• Parvez Butt, Former Chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
• Junaid Jamshed, Pop Singer and Religious Scholar
• Jawad Ahmad, Pop Singer
• Junaid Khan, Rock Singer and Actor
• Najam Sheraz, Pop Singer
• Faakhir Mehmood, Pop Singer
• Sami Khan, Actor
• Ahsan Iqbal, Politician, Member of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
• Mir Nooruddin Mengal, slain Leader and Former Acting President of Balochistan National Party (Mengal)
• Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Former Vice Chancellor of UET, Lahore[36]
• Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Politician
• Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi, Islamic Scholar
• Mosharraf Hossain, Bangladeshi Politician

• Adil Najam, dean Pardee School of Global Studies[37] at Boston University, former vice chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences and former associate professor at International Institute for Sustainable Development, former associate professor at Tufts University, USA
• Ahsan Kareem, Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering and Director of NatHaz Modeling Laboratory at University of Notre Dame, USA
• Shahid H. Bokhari, fellow IEEE, fellow ACM, independent researcher and consultant, San Francisco bay area
• Muhammad Moazzam, professor at University of Texas, the USA and former chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
• Ali R. Butt, senior member of IEEE, professor at Virginia Tech, USA[38]
• Arif Ghafoor, fellow of IEEE, professor at Purdue University, USA[39]
• Asrar Ul-Haq Sheikh, fellow of IEEE, chair professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia[40]
• Ashfaq Khokhar, a fellow of IEEE, professor and department chair at Illinois Institute of Technology, USA[41] graduate from the department of electrical engineering
• Ishfaq Ahmad, fellow of IEEE, professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, USA[42]
• Shamim Ahmed Sheikh, professor at University of Toronto, Canada
• M. Tariq Iqbal, professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada[43]
• Amir Asif, professor and dean at Concordia University, Canada[44]
• M. Ilyas Bhatti, professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA[45]

• UET Lahore official website
• Industrial Open House and Career Fair, UET Lahore
• Institute of Business and Management UET Lahore
• Rachna College of Engineering and Technology Gujranwala
• UET Lahore Kala Shah Kaku campus
• UET Lahore Faisalabad campus
• UET Lahore Narowal campus
• Pakistan Engineering Council