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Rector's Speech at Convocation 2007:
Due to some un-avoidable circumstances, this convocation is held
after 2 years. I will present a brief of activities & progress
made by Abbottabad Campus uptill 2005 and in the last 2 years.
The campus started in
2001 with 4 academic departments, 5 programs, 5 labs, 103
students, 22 faculty, 96055 Sft. Covered area and a development
fund of Rs. 38.131 Million. We all worked hard as a
community under your guidance and upto year 2005, the campus had
6 departments, 12 programs, 1308 students, 110 faculty, 15 labs
and 131926 Sft. Covered area. At the end of 2005, the campus has
4 development projects worth Rs. 141.4 million.
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The campus continued
working and after an exhaustive exercise, prepared a Medium Term
Development Framework. Prepared several development plans, some
were approved and with the grace of Almighty, with your
permission, I feel great pleasure announcing in this gathering
the progress of the Institute in year 2006 and 2007.
Now the Campus has 6
departments, 16 programs, 2835 students with 160 MS / PhD level,
255 faculty members with 34 are PhDs, 33 labs and 229000 Sft.
Covered area.
Sir, The highly positive
exponential growth was possible by immense support by all
stakeholders, the Ministry, Higher Education Commission,
Planning Commission, Finance Ministry, Board of Governors, Staff
Faculty and Students.
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In July 2007, a
development project worth Rs. 470 million has been approved
which will provide 4 buildings, 7 engineering labs, 2
environment science labs, 5 computer science lab, equipment and
books. Master plan of the campus is also completed. We are
planning to complete this project in 3 years. Altogether Rs.
817.131 million development projects has been approved for the
campus reflecting hard work by the concerned in Abbottabad,
under the dynamic leadership of the Director. The Campus has worked
hard on future plans and by 2015, it is planned to increase
number of departments to 11, programs to 34, students to 6100,
faculty to 317 and labs to 66 through development projects.
On academics side,
campus has made significant progress. Upto 2007 number of
graduating students are 1029 which include 34 MS students. After
2005 when last convocation was held, the Department of
Environmental Sciences has planned a series of International
Conferences every 2 years. 1st conference was held in 2005 and
second in 2007 and third will be held in 2009. 141 delegates
attended from 9 countries of the world and 130 research papers
presented on environmental related topic. Almost all faculty in
the department is PhD. An interactive training workshop on
alternate energy was conducted in collaboration with Oxford
University. Hands on training provided on manufacturing of Solar
Geezer and Wind Mill.
The campus has planned
TechnoMoot every 2 years. Latest exhibition held in 2007.
Department of Electrical Engineering arranged EMCOT, an
exhibition of embedded system, where engineering projects
prepared by students from various universities participated and
competed. Department of Mathematics organized Symposium on
Computational complexities. Department of Computer Science
arranged software exhibition, which was widely participated by
Software houses and Universities.
The Department of
Computer Sciences arranged conferences on annual basis on
Frontiers of Information Technology, participated and attended
by numerous professionals.
The campus has exerted
in carrying out research and publications in national and
international referred research journals. During 2007, 42
research papers have been published in HEC recognized journals,
53 papers have been submitted and 49 are under submission. I am
pleased to inform the audience that CIIT acquired 7th position
in research productivity during 2006 as ranked by HEC. The
Engineering program was ranked 8th in Pakistan by HEC.
Quality in education is
a prime concern of the campus. The campus has invested a lot in
human resource development. Faculty is continuously motivated to
participate in scholarship programmes by HEC or other agencies.
CIIT has also provided scholarships and some faculty members
proceeded at their own expense. Total 63 faculty members are
perusing MS or PhD programs in various universities all over the
world. The first batch will start returning from 2008.
The Campus has also
established research collaboration with 10 international
universities. 4 from Great Britain, 2 from USA, 1 each from
Norway, Italy, Germany & Czech Republic.
Now the vision and
future plan well aligned with the national goals and objectives
is prepared and we all pray to Almighty to provide us energy to
implement this future vision under your guidance.
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