- NUST School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering SCEE Established 2008 Type Public Rector Lt Gen Muhammad Asghar Director General Nasrullah Khan Academic staff 65 Students 554 Location Islamabad, Pakistan Campus Urban Affiliations National University of Sciences and Technology Website Official website The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (or SCEE), was founded by the National University of Sciences and Technology in 2008 by merging together three established institutes; National Institute of Transportation, Institute of Geographical Information System, and Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.
The school is co-educational and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, leading to PhD, in the fields of civil and environmental engineering.
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History
National Institute of Transportation (NIT) was established in 1991 at the Risalpur campus of NUST, and was affiliated with Military College of Engineering. The institute initially provided undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of Transportation Engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Structural Engineering, and Water Resources Engineering.
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (IESE) started its MS in Environmental Engineering in July 1996. Later, PhD programmes were also offered.
With the establishment of the new campus of NUST in Islamabad in 2008, NIT was merged together with IESE and Institute of Geographical Information System and given the name of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering(SCEE).
The school consists of four institutes; NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering, Institute of Geographical Information Systems, and National Institute of Transportation.
Foreign collaborations
Industry linkages
SCEE has encouraged the local industries, both in the public and private sectors, to collaborate with the institute’s researchers. This industry-university partnership includes faculty interaction with industries and solution to industrial problems through R&D projects.
University linkages
SCEE has collaborations in the field of research and development with the following universities [1]:
- Michigan State University, USA
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Iowa State University, USA
- Cornell University, USA
- University of Illinois, USA
- McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- RMCS, Cranfield University, UK
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
- University of New South Wales, Australia
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- National University of Singapore
- Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
- Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
See also
- National Institute of Transportation
- Institute of Geographical Information System
- Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- National University of Sciences and Technology
Notes
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan Colleges: Institutes: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Islamabad · National Institute of Transportation, Risalpur · NUST Business School, Islamabad · NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Islamabad · Institute of Geographical Information System, Islamabad · Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Rawalpindi · International Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Islamabad · School of Chemical and Materials Engineering · School of Mechanical and Manufacturing EngineeringCentres: Technology Incubation Centre, Islamabad · Centre for Cyber Technology and Spectrum Management, Islamabad · Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, Rawalpindi · Research Centre for Modeling & Simulation, Islamabad · NUST Centre of Virology & Immunology
Categories:- Engineering universities in Pakistan
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