By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features
Services)
The Sir Syed University of Engineering and
Technology (SSUET), Karachi ,
and the University of Malaga, Spain, have agreed in principle to have
collaboration between the two institutions for Masters and PhD programs besides
exchange of students and faculty members in various disciplines of engineering.
The agreement was reached at a meeting held
between Chancellor SSUET, Engr Adil Usman, and Dr Javier Poncela, a visiting
Professor from the reputed Spanish
Malaga University
The meeting was attended, among others, by
the SSUET Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dr Jawaid Hasan Rizvi, Chairman Electronics
Department, Prof Dr Bilal Alvi, Registrar Shah Mahmood H. Syed, Dr S M
Makhdumi, Dean of Engineering, Dr Najeeb Ahmed, Associate Dean Engineering,
Director QUE, Prof Zakaullah, Mohammed Shafiq, Chief Consultant, Yahya
Waliullah, Director IT and
Statistics, and Mohammad Aamir, Assistant Professor Electronics Engineering.
During the wide-ranging discussion Dr Javier
sought collaboration between the two universities with the focus on research
and development.
After having visited the facilities available
at the SSUET he was of the opinion that collaboration between the two
institutions will be of mutual benefit, particularly for PhD programmes and
exchange of students and faculties. He also spoke about assessing the
possibilities of undertaking joint research programmes.
In his remarks the SSUET Chancellor, Engr
Adil Usman, stated that their university looked forward for the collaboration
in higher engineering courses, Masters and PhD, observing that they will
soon evolve a system for working with the Malaga University.
The SSUET Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jawaid Rizvi,
added that the university will welcome such collaboration as far as possible
and would further discuss faculty exchange in particular as well as Masters and
PhD programmes.
Registrar Shah Mahmood Hussain Syed informed
the participants of the meeting that the SSUET already has collaboration with
many US and UK universities
and would like to have the same relationship with Malaga as well.
He said the two sided should identify some
concrete steps to achieve the objective and sign MoU for the purpose and to make the
collaboration effective.
Later, the two sides went into another
session to discuss and sort out technical details for the proposed
collaboration.On the occasion the Chancellor
presented the SSUET’s traditional souvenir
