University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
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Template:Redirect {{Infobox_University |image=Image:UET.jpg |name=University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore |motto=??? |established=1921 |type=Public |Vice Chanceller=Lt.Gen(r) Akram |city=Lahore |state=Punjab |country=Pakistan |undergrad=6,000 |postgrad=500 |staff= 250 |campus= Urban |mascot= UETian |website=www.uet.edu.pk }} University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, commonly referred to as UET Lahore is one of the leading engineering universities of Pakistan, and the oldest of them all, offering Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines. It is located on Grand Trunk Road, Baghbanpura, Lahore, and is within a distance of a couple of kilometers from Shalimar Gardens. UET is a state university and the Governor of Punjab is the Chancellor of the university. The Vice-Chancellor is the executive head and manages the university functions.
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History
Image:Ali imran uet main block.jpg UET Lahore was established in 1921 as the Mughalpura Technical College. Its more familiar name of the pre-University era, the Maclagan Engineering College, was adopted in 1923 when Sir Edwards Maclagan, the then Governor of the Punjab, laid the foundation stone of the building, now called the Main Block. Finally in 1961, after it was awarded the university charter, the current name was adopted. Although the university's educational and disciplinary climate has greatly improved during the past 8 years, the university was derisively called the 'University of Error and Terror' due to the rampant violence and strikes of different student political associations whose rule held sway over the entire university administrative machinery. Recently, the university has been free from all violence and the educational standards have improved greatly.
Academics
Departments
Image:Ali imran-uet-wall.jpg UET Lahore offers Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in various disciplines. These include:
- Computer Sc.& Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Polymer Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Mineral & Metallurgical Engineering
- City and Regional Planning
- Architecture
- Humanities and Natural Sciences
- Mathematics
- Chemistry
- Physics
The institute is most famous for its undergraduate studies because it is the top priority of higher secondary school graduates of the province. Since only the best students of the whole province are admitted here, Students of UET Lahore are sometimes collectively called the 'cream of the nation'. Almost every student who takes up engineering studies in higher secondary grades wants to get into UET lahore or UET taxila (Which is a competetor to UET Lahore). From a total enrollment of 447 in 1961, the figure has now gone up to about 6000 of which 500 students are pursuing postgraduate studies. The number of female students is more than 1000 at present. Many foreign students, mostly from South Asian, Middle-Eastern and African countries, also come to UET for undergraduate studies.
An alumnus/alumna or student of the institute is popularly referred to as a "UETian".
The faculty consists of over 250 individuals out of whom, more than 80 have doctoral degrees from reputed institutes of U.S. and UK.