By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan
News & Features Services)
The Chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and
Technology (SSUET), Karachi, Engr Mohammed Adil Usman has said that the
university was alive to the staggering speed at which the technology was
growing and also to the multiple dimensions the technology is encompassing for
its growth.
“To keep pace with the developments we must undertake the
cultivating, nurturing and mentoring of young minds, employing the best of the
available human and material resources”, he said in an interview.
He pointed out that the SSUET was established with a view to
adorning the youth with the most modern knowledge and the University made them
available the best choices for study in the field of modern technology.
Since its inception, he said, this university has been
performing this sacred duty of developing the youth, capable to meet the
challenges of the modern world. It is due to this fact that engineer from the
SSUET occupy respectable positions in National and Multi-national organizations
in Pakistan
and abroad.
He observed that relevance with the main stream of modern
technical education is also very essential for the University and this will be
possible with continuous improvement of curricula besides adding new
disciplines.
Keeping this in mind the University introduced Software
Engineering, Bioinformatics and Architecture as new subjects of
study and this journey of growth will go further in the subsequent years too,
he added.
Chancellor Adil Usman said that the Aligarh Muslim
University Old Boys’ Association (AMUOBA), the sponsors of the SSUET, can look
back with satisfaction that their efforts have really been crowned with
success.
The graduates from the SSUET have earned good name for the
University as well as for the country and serving honorably in the countries,
which are touching the zenith of progress in Science and Technology.
The University, he noted, stands for humanism, tolerance,
progress, adventure of ideas, the search of truth and for the new breakthroughs
in technology and for onward march of the youth towards ever higher objectives.
“We keep promotion of human values as the keynote of schemes
of our curricula and teach them importance of human values under the caption
“Aligarh Movement”.
The young graduates, he said, must bear in their mind that
they are living in the times where knowledge is the ultimate power. For them
the road ahead may be long and full of perils and obstacles but the journey
promises to be exciting, provided the honesty of the purpose is the guiding
force.
Replying a question, Engr Adil Usman pointed out that
countries in our geo-physical region have become the economic giants. This
stature they have achieved through their progress in science and technology.
The engineers and technologist have played a major role in their progress. In
this age of competition, if we fail to take cognizance of the marathon of
advancements, we will become economically pygmies.
“We pin our hopes in our young engineers. They have
full capacity to rise to the occasion and meet the challenges,” he stated.
The Chancellor recalled the services of late Chancellor,
Engr Z.A. Nizami, and late Engr Zakir Ali Khan and remarked that “I cannot
forget their memories for they were the founders of this great institution”.
