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Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering
Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Self-Assessment Report
(MS in Applied Physics)
Prepared by:
Program Team (PT)
FES, GIKI
Submitted to:
Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC)
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology
Spring 2017
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Preface
Ever since its establishment in 1993 Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences has become one
of the prestigious engineering institutions of the country and is well regarded internationally also. The
Faculty of Engineering Sciences is one of the Institute’s newer faculties focused on contributing committed
and knowledgeable engineers to the public and private sectors.
This document includes a report of self-assessment of the Masters in Engineering Sciences Program. The
report has been developed by the program team (PT) under the supervision of Quality enhancement Cell.
Hopefully this report will contribute in pointing out the department’s strength and weaknesses so that
actions may be taken to improve the set up.
The Program Team (PTs) consists of the following members: Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi Dr. Dr. Muhammad Zahir Iqbal
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Table of Contents
Criterion 1: Self-Assessment Criteria .............................................................. 6
Program, Mission, Objectives and Outcome ................................................................................... 6
Standard 1.1 ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Mission Statement for GIK Institute: ............................................................................................... 6
Mission Statement for the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute: ..................................... 6
Program Objectives (From now on referred to as Objective 1, Objective 2 and so on) .................. 6
Correlation between Objectives and Features of the Program ....................................................... 7
Program Outcomes (From Now on Referred to as Outcome a, Outcome b etc.) ........................... 7
Main elements of the Strategic Plan to achieve the program mission and objectives. .................. 8
Standard 1.2 – Assessment of Students, Alumni and Employers .................................................... 9
Standard 1.3 ................................................................................................................................... 12
Strengths of the Program:.............................................................................................................. 12
Weaknesses of the Program: ......................................................................................................... 12
Suggestions and Planned Future Improvements: .......................................................................... 12
Standard 1.4 ................................................................................................................................... 13
Criterion 2: Curriculum, Design and Organization ......................................... 17
Program and Course Details: ......................................................................................................... 17
Definition of Credit Hour ............................................................................................................... 17
Degree Plan: ................................................................................................................................... 17
Course Details For The Faculty of Engineering Sciences GIK Institute ........................................... 20
Standard 2.1: .................................................................................................................................. 33
Standard 2.2: .................................................................................................................................. 35
Standard 2.3, 2.4 & 2.5 – Accreditation Issues: ............................................................................. 35
Standard 2.6: .................................................................................................................................. 35
Information Technology Component of the Program ................................................................... 35
Standard 2.7 (Oral and Written Communication Skills) ................................................................. 36
Criterion 3: Laboratories and Computing Facilities ....................................... 37
Standard 3.1 – Availability of Resources ........................................................................................ 40
Standard 3.2 - Personnel Support for Labs .................................................................................... 40
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Standard 3.3 - Computing Infrastructure in Facilities .................................................................... 40
Criterion 4: Student Support and Guidance .................................................. 41
Standard 4.1 ................................................................................................................................... 41
Strategy for Offering Courses: ....................................................................................................... 41
Standard 4.2 ................................................................................................................................... 41
Standard 4.3 – Advising Details ..................................................................................................... 41
Advising and Registration: ............................................................................................................. 42
Advising and Scope Broadening: .................................................................................................... 42
The Dean Student Affairs and the Controller of Examinations:..................................................... 42
Criterion 5: Process Control .......................................................................... 43
Standard 5.1 – Admission Procedure ............................................................................................. 43
Admission Criterion: ...................................................................................................................... 43
Standard 5.2 ................................................................................................................................... 44
Standard 5.3 – Evaluating and Retaining Excellent Faculty ........................................................... 44
Evaluating the Faculty: ................................................................................................................... 44
Retaining Competent Faculty: ....................................................................................................... 45
Standard 5.4 – Meeting Course Targets ........................................................................................ 48
Standard 5.5 – Obtaining Feedback ............................................................................................... 48
Criterion 6: Faculty ....................................................................................... 50
Standard 6.1: Faculty Overview with Reference to the Program .................................................. 50
Standard 6.2: .................................................................................................................................. 50
Standard 6.3: Faculty Morale and Motivation ............................................................................... 51
Criterion 7: Institutional Facilities ................................................................ 53
Standard 7.1 ................................................................................................................................... 53
Standard 7.2 ................................................................................................................................... 53
Standard 7.3 – Classrooms & Offices: ............................................................................................ 54
Criterion 8: Institutional Support ................................................................. 55
Standard 8.1 ................................................................................................................................... 55
Standard 8.2 – Graduate Students................................................................................................. 55
Standard 8.3 – Resources Available: .............................................................................................. 56
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Criterion 9: Conclusion ................................................................................. 58
Faculty Evaluation Forms (See Standard 5.3) - APPENDIX A .......................... 59
Faculty Resumes - APPENDIX B .................................................................... 68
Samples of Survey Forms - APPENDIX C........................................................ 95
Faculty Course Review Reports - APPENDIX D ............................................ 107
Sample of Filled Proforma - APPENDIX E .................................................... 112
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Criterion 1: Self-Assessment Criteria
Program, Mission, Objectives and Outcome
Standard 1.1
a. Mission Statement for GIK Institute:
To pursue excellence in education and research by developing appropriate curricula and
teaching practices, acquiring talented faculty and providing an environment conducive to
teaching and learning.
b. Mission Statement for the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute:
To offer graduate courses and facilitate research leading to MS degrees in the following
emerging fields of science and technology.
Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Lasers, Opto-electronics and Photonics
Semiconductor and Superconductor Technology
Applied and Computational Physics
c. Program Objectives (From now on referred to as Objective 1, Objective 2 and so
on)
1. To produce practicing engineers, researchers and scientists by providing them with solid
theoretical, experimental and computational preparation and exposure to issues and
practices at leading edge of science and technology.
2. Cater for the increasing demand of qualified professionals in emerging fields of science
and technology.
3. Investing in Institute-Industry partnership programs
4. Prepare professionals to design multidisciplinary engineering and scientific systems and
processes.
5. Development and upgrading of research infrastructure.
6. Enable professionals to apply modern computational and experimental techniques used
in industry and R&D organizations.
7. Development of communication skills and individual professionalism in teaching and
research methodologies through participation in seminars and conferences.
8. Prepare professionals able to operate in a global environment.
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d. Correlation between Objectives and Features of the Program :
Objective 1 Through technical courses, research labs and class
presentations
Objective 2 -do-
Objective 3 Through research projects and collaborations having
potential industrial applications
Objective 4 See Curriculum design for details
Objective 5 Via national and international collaborations, local support
and research projects
Objective 6 See Curriculum design.
Familiarizing students with state of art technology and latest
software.
Objective 7 Seminar and conference participations (national and
international).
Objective 8 Student exchange programs
Seminars and conference participation
e. Program Outcomes (From Now on Referred to as Outcome a, Outcome b etc.):
a. The graduates shall have experience in their field and possess solid technical
background.
b. The graduates should be able to find opportunities in competitive organizations and
universities of international repute.
c. Viable connections between the institute and the industry/R&D organizations.
d. The graduates of the program shall have a broad base. They shall have exposure not
only in their own fields but also in allied engineering disciplines.
e. Graduates shall have good experience with modern computational and
experimental equipment in the labs.
f. Graduates shall have excellent communication skills and individual professionalism
along with proficiency in experimental methods, design and technical writing.
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f. Main elements of the Strategic Plan to achieve the program mission and objectives.
Curriculum is revised
New courses are introduced
The following table exhibits the correlation between Objectives and Outcomes:
Measurem
ent of
Objectives
When
Measured How measured
Improvement
Identified/Suggested Improvement Made
1 Fall 2016
Student, Alumni
and Employer
Surveys
2 Fall 2016 -do-
3 Fall 2016 -do-
Efficient utilization of the Alumni
network for a greater Institute-
Industry connection
The Office of Outreach and
Enterprise (OOE) and the
communication between the
faculty and alumni is utilized.
4 Fall 2016 -do-
5 Fall 2016 -do- Persistent upgrading of
infrastructure required
6 Fall 2016 -do-
7 Fall 2016 -do-
8 Fall 2016 -do-
Centralization of external links
needed.
Greater communication with
foreign universities suggested.
An Office of Outreach and
Enterprise (OOE) is now in
place.
Table 1-1: Improvements Made
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Strong Correlation
Weak Correlation
Outcomes
Objectives
a b c d e f
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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Table 1-2: Correlation between Objectives and Outcomes
Standard 1.2 – Assessment of Students, Alumni and Employers Most of the input received from the graduating students, the alumni and the employers and rates the
program as somewhere between uncertain and satisfied. Pro forma 3 was used for the analysis and the
average for each question has been listed along with the standard deviation (Note that for the purposes
of calculations A = 5, B = 4, C=3, D =2 and E = 1. A higher number therefore indicates success on part of
the program while a lower one indicates failure. ‘A’ was understood to be Excellent, B as Very Good, C as
Good, D as Fair and E as Poor.):
Survey of Graduating Students
Questions Regarding Program
Question Number (See Pro forma 3 for Question Details) Average
1. Educative or not 4.25
2. Effectiveness towards enhancing teamwork 3.25
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3. Administrative support 3.25
4. Problem Solving Skill Development 4.25
5. Development of Independent Thinking 3.75
6. Development of Communication Skills 2.5
7. Planning Abilities 2.75
8. Objectives achieved or not 2.75
9. Correlation between Contents and Objectives 3
10. Faculty’s meeting of Objectives 4
11. Environment Conducive towards Learning or not 3.75
12. Departmental Infrastructure 4.5
13. Extracurricular Activities 2
14. Availability of Scholarships 2
Most of the feedback from the graduating batch indicates that they are extremely pleased with the
internship experience. However, their assessment of the program hovers around the Good level.
The results of the survey from the alumni are as follows:
Alumni Survey (See Pro Forma 7)
Question Score
Math, Science and Professional Knowledge 4.10
Problem Formulation and Solving Skills 3.80
Data Collecting 3.80
Linking Theory and Practice 3.70
Designing Ability 4.10
IT Knowledge 4.30
Oral Communication 4.10
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Report Writing 4.10
Presentation Skills 3.90
Team Working 4.30
Ability to Work in Challenging Situations 4.10
Independent Thinking 4.20
Appreciation of Ethical Values 4.30
Resource and Time Management 4.10
Judgment 4.20
Discipline 4.30
Department Infrastructure 4.60
Faculty 3.90
National Repute 4.50
International Repute 3.00
Results of the Employer Survey
Question Score
Math, Science, Humanities and professional discipline 4
Problem formulation and solving skills 4
Collecting and analyzing appropriate data 3.5
Ability to link theory to Practice 4
Ability to design a system component or process 4
Computer knowledge 4
Oral communication 3.5
Report writing 3.5
Presentation skills 3.5
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Ability to work in teams 4
Leadership 4.5
Independent thinking 3.5
Motivation 3.5
Reliability 3.5
Appreciation of ethical values 4
Time management skills 3.5
Judgment 4
Discipline 4
Standard 1.3
a. Strengths of the Program:
As a result of the assessments the following strengths have been identified:
1. The overall faculty environment has been deemed congenial.
2. There is a healthy interaction relationship between the students and the faculty
3. Professional organizations have a high assessment of the graduates.
4. Development of a sense of teamwork
5. Problem solving skill development
6. The program is in compliance with national and international research norms
b. Weaknesses of the Program:
1. There is a dearth of students
2. Based upon the surveys, there is a shortage of funds for financial support
3. The number of workshops, conferences and seminars needs to be increased.
c. Actions taken based on Improvements Identified from Results of Periodic Assessments:
1. Number of Graduate Student intake increased.
2. Number of Faculty Members increased in the specialized research field.
3. New courses are added to increase the depth of the program.
4. Graduate Student Exchange programs have been started with different foreign universities to
improve the research capability of the students.
d. Suggestions and Planned Future Improvements:
1. The number of available scholarships be increased in order to bring in a greater variety of
students to the department.
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2. Though the present links with the outside environment are better than before, the
instantiation of a well-documented feedback connection with the industries would significantly
shorten time delays in getting response from the industries.
3. The establishment of the Office of Outreach and Enterprise is a good step and should be fully
utilized in order to create a good link between the department and the industry.
4. The establishment of well-defined rules to make sure that the faculty tries to remain current in
their respective disciplines.
5. The number of seminars, workshops and short courses should be increased.
6. A process of creating a Faculty Course Review Report should be initiated along with a course
file.
Standard 1.4 Measures Assessment
Student Enrollment
MS = 19
Student/Faculty ratio 19:8
Percentage of Employees Strongly Satisfied
100%
Average Course Evaluation by Students
For Spring 2016: 3.43
For Fall 2016: 3.80
Percentage of Faculty Achieving Excellence in
Student Evaluation for 2016
Average 3.5 and above = 75%
Average b/w 3.0 and 3.5 = 25%
Journal Publications in 2013-2016 82
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Student Satisfaction Concerning the
Department’s Administrative Services
Student Course Evaluation Results
(See Criterion 2 for Course Descriptions)
Course Average
Spring 2016
ES569 3.49
ES533 3.37
Fall 2015
ES531 3.71
ES566 4.00
ES526 4.00
Spring 2015
ES533 4.00
ES569 3.75
Fall 2014
ES531 3.71
ES526 4.00
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Faculty Survey (Proforma 5)
Questions Average
1 Mix of research, teaching and community service 4.25
2 Intellectual stimulation 4.25
3 Type of teaching/research 4.5
4 Interaction with students 4
5 Cooperation from colleagues 4.25
6 Mentoring available 4
7 Administrative support 4.25
8 Clarity about the faculty promotion process 3.75
9 Prospects for advancement 3.75
10 Salary and compensation package 3.25
11 Job security and stability 3.75
12 Amount of time for self and family 3
13 Overall climate at the department 4.5
14 Department’s utilization of experience and
knowledge 3.75
Employer Survey (Proforma 8)
Question Average
Math, Science, Humanities and professional discipline 4
Problem formulation and solving skills 4
Collecting and analyzing appropriate data 3.5
Ability to link theory to Practice 4
Ability to design a system component or process 4
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Computer knowledge 4
Oral communication 3.5
Report writing 3.5
Presentation skills 3.5
Ability to work in teams 4
Leadership 4.5
Independent thinking 3.5
Motivation 3.5
Reliability 3.5
Appreciation of ethical values 4
Time management skills 3.5
Judgment 4
Discipline 4
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Criterion 2: Curriculum, Design and Organization
a. Program and Course Details:
MS Degree:
The courses offered by the FES are categorized as core courses and elective course. A student, specializing
in any area, will be required to take two core courses and six elective courses. The electives may be
selected with the consultation of the advisor.
b. Definition of Credit Hour
The Credit Hour (abbr. CH) is the fundamental unit of course weight. A normal theoretical/lecture based
course consists of 3 Credit Hours while labs normally consist of 1 Credit Hour. However:
1 Course CH = One Hour
1 Lab CH = Three Hours
c. Degree Plan:
Core Courses
Title Name
ES531 Computational Methods for
Engineers
ES569 Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Elective Courses
Title Name
ES511 Solid State Physics
ES512 H.T. Super-Conducting Electronics
ES514 Thin Film Technology
ES515 Two-Dimensional Materials and Devices
ES516 Spintronic Devices
ES517 Quantum Devices
ES521 Advanced Transform Techniques
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ES522 Advanced Fluid Mechanics
ES523 Special relativity
ES524 General relativity
ES526 Analytical Solution of Partial Differential
Equations
ES527 Asymptotic Methods for Differential
Equations
ES532 Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
ES533 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential
Equations
ES534 Numerical Functional Analysis
ES535 Mathematical Modeling of Electrical
Discharge Phenomena
ES536 Free Boundary Problems and their
Applications
ES541 Variational Methods in Mechanics
ES542 Finite Element Methods for Engineers
ES543 Perturbation Methods
ES544 Random Processes
ES545 Mathematical Modeling of Heat Transfer
with Phase Transformation
ES561 Fourier Optics
ES562 Optical Computing
ES563 Electronic Ceramics
ES564 Astrophysics
ES565 Crystal Growth and Zone Refining
ES566 Atomic & Molecular Spectroscopy
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ES567 Physical Principles of High-Technology
Devices
ES571 Electro-Optics
ES573 Optical Fibers and Applications
ES574 Applications of Lasers
ES575 Laser Technology
ES576 Fiber Optic Communications
ES577 Integrated Optics
ES581 Advanced Experimental Techniques
ES610 Laser Probe Techniques
ES611 Advanced Nuclear Astrophysics
ES612 Computational Nuclear Physics
ES621 Advanced General Relativity
ES62X Special Topics in Applied Mathematics
ES631 Numerical Methods in Ordinary
Differential Equations
ES642 Organic Electroluminescence
ES64X Special Topics in Applied Physics
Course Details:
Further course details are given in the table on the next page:
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d. COURSE DETAILS FOR THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES GIK INSTITUTE
COURSE NO. COURSE NAME
(CREDIT HOURS) COURSE CONTENTS
TEXTBOOK
LABORATORY
ES511 Solid State Physics
(3-0-3)
Elementary Excitation, Phonon-electrons, Spin waves, Interactions: Phonon-Phonon, Electron-electron, electron-phonon, theory of metals and semiconductors, transport theory.
Solid State Physics by S.O.Pillai.
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials Laboratory
ES512 High Temperature Super-conducting
Electronics (3-0-3)
Microscopic theory of superconductivity, thermodynamics of superconducting transitions, London Equation, the Ginzburg- Landau theory, magnetic properties of Type 1 and Type 2 superconductors, flux motion.
Materials for High Temperature Power Generation and Process Plant Applications
Strang, A. Thermal Laboratory
ES514
Thin Films Technology
(3-0-3)
Deposition Techniques, Properties, Characterization, Structure, Transport-phenomena and superconductivity in thin films, Applications
Thin Film Technology by Robert-W. Berry, Peter M.Hall, Murray T.Haris
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials Laboratory
ES 515: Two-Dimensional
Materials and Devices (3-0-3)
Introduction of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, Device fabrication techniques for 2D materials and their van der Waals heterostructures, Structural characterization and electrical transport properties, Applications
2 Dimensional Materials
for nanoelectronics by
Michel Houssa et al.
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials Laboratory
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ES 516: Spintronic Devices (3-0-3)
Introduction of spin electronics, principle of spintronic devices Types of magneto resistance (MR), Applications of 2D materials for spintronic devices, Spin valve device fabrication techniques, Magneto transport of spin valve devices and temperature dependence, Types of spintronic devices, spin field effect transistor, hybrid electronics, spin transport in semiconductors, spintronics for next generation innovative devices.
Book (1) Introduction to
Spintronics
Authors
Supriyo Bandiopadhyay
Mark Chahay
Book (2)
Nanomagnetism and
spintronics
Author
Teruya Shinjo
Magnetism & Magnetic
Materials Laboratory
ES 517: Quantum Devices (3-0-3)
Introduction of quantum electronics, Principle of quantum devices, Quantum Hall effect (QHE) and various types of quantum Hall system Weak localization (WL) and weak antilocalization (WAL) phenomena and their temperature dependence, Magneto-transport and remote sensing of microwave reflection in 2DEG systems and 2D layered materials under microwave excitation.
Book: 2D materials for nanoelectronics Authors Michel Houssa Athanasios Dimoulas Alessandro Molle
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials Laboratory
ES521 Advanced Transform Techniques
(3-0-3)
Integral Transforms, Fourier, Laplace, Hankel and Melin transformations and their applications, singular integral
Advanced Transform Techniques by N. Baja Simulation
Laboratory
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equations, Weiner-Hopf techniques, applications of conformal mapping, introduction to asymptotic expansions.
ES522 Advanced Fluid
Mechanics (3-0-3)
Inviscid Flow, growing equation of fluid motion with emphasis on inviscid flow, principle of irrotational flow, mathematical techniques including conformal representation, rotational flow.
Advanced fluid Mechanics by S. Meinhard
Simulation Laboratory
ES523 Special Relativity
(3-0-3)
The postulates of special relativity, the paradox of special relativity, the light cone, simultaneity in special relativity, time dilation and length contraction, Lorentz and Galilean transformations, minkowski’s four-dimensional specetime.
Special Relativity by N.M.J.Woodhousea and A. Qadir
Simulation Laboratory
ES524 General Relativity
(3-0-3)
Manifolds, tensors, derivative operators and curvature, homogeneous, isotropi, cosmology, exact solutions of schwarzchild, minkowski, desitter and anti-desitter, kerr, Robertson-walker and riessner-nordstrom space times.
General Relativity by Robert M. Wald
Simulation Laboratory
ES526 Analytical Solution
of Partial Differential Equations
(3-0-3)
A brief review of differential equations, power series including Frobenius method, canonical forms for hyperbolic, parbolic and elliptic equations, analytical solutions of hyperbolic, parabolic
Applied parital Diffrentlial Equation with Fourier series and BVP by R.Haberman
Simulation Laboratory
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and elliptic equations with and without boundary conditions, separation of variables method, Neumann problem
ES527 Asymptotic
Methods for Differential Equations
(3-0-3)
Green’s Function, asymptotic approximations, regular and singular perturbations, Neumann boundary value problem for a domain with “thin” void, asymptotic model of a solid containing a small inclusion. dirichlet problem, the dipole matrix, boundary value problems in thin domains, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a perturbation problem.
Asymptotic Method for Differential Equation by R. B. White
Simulation Laboratory
ES531 Computational
Methods for Engineers
(3-0-3)
Direct and Indirect methods for linear equations, eigen value problems and eigen vectors, finite difference methods for boundary value problems and partial difference equations.
Numerical Analysis by R. L. Burden and D. Fairse
Simulation Laboratory
ES532 Mathematical Modeling and Simulations
(3-0-3)
Mathematical models and deterministic modeling generalities, model building methodology for differential and difference equations ( lumped process), partial differential equations, methodology for model information strong and integrations, support languages for simulation, hardware
Mathematical Modeling and Simulations by K. Velten Mathematical Modeling by H. Stefan Simulation
Laboratory
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trends and their impact on simulation, case studies.
ES533 Numerical Methods
for Partial Differential Equations
(3-0-3)
Parabolic Equations, explicit and implicit methods, consistency, stability and convergence, hyperbolic equations, method of characteristic and lines, finite difference methods, elliptic equations, finite difference replacements, finite element methods for elliptic problems.
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations by G.D .Smith and M.K Jain
Simulation Laboratory
ES534 Numerical
Functional Analysis (3-0-3)
Sets, metric space, limit, completeness, convergence, contraction mapping, linear space, norm, vector, matrix norm, normed space, Brach space, inner product, Hilbert space, operations.
A First look to Numerical Functional Analysis by S.S. Sawyer
Simulation Laboratory
ES535 Mathematical Modeling of
Electrical Discharge Phenomena
(3-0-3)
Mathematical Models of e.m. and temperature fields in electrical apparatus without switching, phenomena during commutation free boundary problems as a model for the simulations of bridging phenomena, theory of bridge erosion and criteria for optimal choice of electro material, switching electrical arc phenomena and their
Mathematical Modeling of Electrical Discharge by M.R Shabgard
Simulation Laboratory
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mathematical models, mechanisms of arc erosion.
ES536 Free Boundary
Problems and their Applications
(3-0-3)
Statement of the free boundary problems, phase transformation phenomena and their mathematical modeling, analytical and numerical solutions of Stefan problem and other free boundary problems, inverse free boundary problems, heat potentials, integral equations and special functions as mathematical apparatus for the solution, application to the low temperature plasma technologies, electrical contact phenomena, filtration theory, foundry and thermic metallurgical processing.
Free Boundary Value Problem by S.Figueiredo
Simulation Laboratory
ES541 Variational Methods
in Mechanics (3-0-3)
The Euler-Lagrange equation, Ritz’s method, boundary conditions, continuity conditions, Galerkin’s method, minimizing sequence, transformation in variation problems, elasticity, Castgliano’s theorem, and eight values, the finite element method, general use of Lagrange multiplier.
Variation Method in theoretical Mechanic by O. J. T. Reddy
Simulation Laboratory
ES542 Finite Element Methods for
Engineers (3-0-3)
Sobolev space setting, variational form, Ritz and Galerkin’s method, basic coding techniques, application
The Finite Element Method by Thomas J.R.Haughes
Simulation Laboratory
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to engineering problems.
ES543 Perturbation
Methods (3-0-3)
Asymtotic sequences and series, asymptotic expansion of integral, solution of differential equations about regular and irregular singular points, nonlinear differential equations, perturbation methods, regular and singular perturbations, matched asymptotic expansions and boundary layer theory, multiple scales, WKB theory.
Introduction Method for Perturbation Method by H. Mark
Simulation Laboratory
ES544 Random Processes
(3-0-3)
Random function, autocorrelation and cross-correlation function, stationary processes, stochastic calculus, Poisson, Gaussian, Markov Processes with independent increments, spectral density, white noise, cross-spectral density, Linear systems, estimate of the response of linear systems.
Theory of Probability and Random Process by A. Koralov and Yakov Random Processes by Rosenblatt Simulation
Laboratory
ES545 Mathematical
Modeling of Heat Transfer with Phase
Transformation (3-0-3)
Analytical and numerical methods for the solution of heat transfer problem with phase transformations, inverse problems for the ehat equation, heat potentials, integral equations and special functions as mathematical apparatus for the solution, applications to
Modeling and Simulation of Heat Transfer by M. M. A. Rafique
Simulation Laboratory
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welding, electrical arc in apparatus.
ES561 Fourier Optics
(3-0-3)
Plane waves and spatial frequency, Fresnel and Fraunhoffer transforms, Fourier Transforms and Differential patterns, Fourier transforms in cylindrical coordinates, special functions in photonics and their Fourier transforms, Fourier transform properties of lenses, frequency analysis of optical systems, spatial filtering, holography.
e. Diffraction, Fourier
optics, and imaging
Okan K. Ersoy
Lasers and Optics
Laboratory
ES562 Optical Computing
(3-0-3)
Introduction, Light sources and detectors, Optical Processing, Optical Fibers, Optical Interconnects, Optical Switches, Optical memories, optical information storage, retrieval and processing.
f. Optical Computing
Hardware. Optical
Computing
Jürgen Jahns, Sing H. Lee and Sing H. Lee (Auth.)
Lasers and Optics
Laboratory
ES563 Electronic Ceramics
(3-0-3)
Dielectrics in AC fields, Ferroelectrics, piezoelectric, pyroelectrics, magnetic materials, microwave ceramics, quasi crystals, fuel cells.
Grain boundaries and interfacial phenomena in electronic ceramics Lionel M. Levinson, Lionel M. Levinson, Shin-Ichi Hirano
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials Laboratory
ES564 Astrophysics
(3-0-3)
Radiation transfer and internal structure of normal stars, red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, nova and super-novas explosions, nuclear theories of stellar evolution, binary systems and galactic x-ray sources, galaxies, quasars, and cosmology.
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics Book by Bradley W Carroll and Dale A Ostlie
Simulation Laboratory
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ES565 Crystal Growth and
Zone Refining (3-0-3)
Introduction to crystal growth and its theoretical aspects, different techniques of crystal growth, practical consideration, characterization and transport properties, segregation co-efficient, purification of Germanium, growth of laser crystals and characterizations, sintering of nano-size oxide powders as a replacement for laser single crystals.
g. Crystal growth
technology by
Hans J. Scheel, Tsuguo Fukuda
Spectroscopy
Laboratory
ES566 Atomic and Molecular
Spectroscopy (3-0-3)
Introduction, microwave spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, electronic spectroscopy, spin resonance spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, types, instrumentation and applications.
Basic Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Book by J. Michael Hollas
Spectroscopy Laboratory
ES567 Physical Principles
of High-Technology Devices (3-0-3)
The Laser, micromachining with lasers, information storage and retrieval, information displays, high-tech leisure and entertainment, sound in entertainment systems, high-tech domestic appliances, the quantum and Nano-Worlds, Optical computing, plastic electronics, fundamentals of telecommunication,
Physical Principles of Solid State Devices
Roger A Holmes
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
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optical telecommunication, Optical MEMS, Fuel Cells.
ES569 Advanced Quantum
Mechanics (3-0-3)
Overview of basic concepts of quantum mechanics, time-dependent perturbation theory, systems of identical particles and applications, spin and magnetic moment, addition to angular moments, many-electron atoms, the Hartee-Focks method, scattering theory: amplitude of scattering, cross section, phase shifts. Born approximation, quantum theory of radiation, second quantization and many-body theory.
Introduction to Quantum mechanics by Richard L. Liboff
Simulation Laboratory
ES571 Electro-Optics
(3-0-3)
Propagation of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media, birefringence, electro-optic effect and devices, magneto-optic effect and devices, accousto-optic effect and devices, nonlinear phenomena, liquid crystal displays, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers, noise in optical detectors, optical detectors, optical sources.
h. The Infrared &
Electro-Optical Systems
Handbook. Electro-
Optical Components
Joseph S. Accetta, David L. Shumaker
Lasers and Optics
Laboratory
ES573 Optical Fibers and
Applications (3-0-3)
Introduction, Optical fiber wave guides, signal degradation in optical fibers, optical fibers, fiber fabrication and cabling, optical
Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
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sources, detectors, and receivers, coupling, transmission link analysis, optical fiber measurements, applications of optical fibers.
Linn F. Mollenauer, James P. Gordon
ES574 Application of
Lasers (3-0-3)
Metrological, scientific, industrial, medical, military, holography, optical information transmission and storage.
Industrial Applications of Lasers Book by John F. Ready
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES575 Laser Technology
(3-0-3)
Semiconductor diode lasers, heterojunction structures, single mode, broad-stripe, high power arrays, VCSELs, distributed Bragg reflectors, external grating-tuned cavities, Diode-pumped solid state lasers, microchip lasers, tunable solid-state media, ultrafast lasers. Fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers, High power industrial lasers.
Introduction to Laser Technology, by Jeff Hecht, C. Breck Hitz
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES577 Integrated Optics
(3-0-3)
Review of electromagnetic principles, dielectric slab waveguides, cylindrical dielectric waveguides, dispersion, shifting and flattening, mode coupling and loss mechanism, selected nonlinear waveguideing effects, integrated Optical devices.
Broadband circuits for optical fiber communication Eduard Säckinger
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES581 Advanced
Experimental Techniques
(3-0-3)
Different Techniques of fabrication, characterization and analysis in the field of lasers,
Advanced Experimental
and Numerical
Techniques for Lasers and Optics
Laboratory
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superconductors, radiation physics, fiber optics, optical materials and environmental sciences.
Cavitation Erosion
Prediction
Ki-Han Kim, Georges Chahine, Jean-Pierre Franc, Ayat Karimi (eds.)
ES610 Laser Probe Techniques
(3-0-3)
Applications of Optical phenomena and lasers to nonintrusive measurements, absorption and emission spectroscopies, laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy, high sensitivity detection methods using lasers, spontaneous and coherent Raman spectroscopies, Rayleigh and Mie scattering techniques, laser Doppler techniques, gas flow and combustion diagnostics and other applications of laser spectroscopy and light scattering.
Local Probe Techniques for Corrosion Research R. Oltra(Editor)
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES611 Advanced Nuclear
Astrophysics (3-0-3)
Nuclear masses and stability, abundances of nuclei, weak interactions in nuclei, nuclear reaction networks, cosmological nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution, massive stars and their burning phases, gravitational collapse, supernova and its associated dynamics.
From Nucleons to Nucleus Suhonen, Springer 2007
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES612 Computational Nuclear Physics
(3-0-3)
Basics of fortran language, numerical techniques inlow energy nuclear physics, Gamow-Teller strength distribution in nuclei,
M. Vallières, H. Wu (auth.), Prof. K. Langanke, Prof. Joachim A.
Simulation Laboratory
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nuclear shell model and random phase approximation theories, numerical calculations of strength distribution functions, nuclear weak decays in stellar matter, effects of changing model parameters in computational codes on the calculations of distribution function and associated weak decay rates in stellar matter.
Maruhn, Prof. S. E. Koonin (eds.)
ES621 Advanced General
Relativity (3-0-3)
Stationary, axisymmetric solutions, spatially homogeneous cosmologies, algebraically special solutions, perturbations, singularity, time like and null geodesic congruence, conjugate points, existence of maximum length curves, singularity theorems, black holes and the cosmic censor conjecture, general properties of black holes. The charged Kerr Black Hole.
General Relativity by R. M. Wald
Simulation Laboratory
ES631 Numerical Methods
in Ordinary Differential
Equations: Initial Value Problems
(3-0-3)
Algorithms; Runge-Kutta, extrapolation and multi-step methods for stiff problem, analysis: conditioning of initial values problems. Consistency, stability and convergence of numerical methods; asymptotic behavior of error, singular perturbations and stiff problems.
Numerical Methods in Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems by M.K Jain
Simulation Laboratory
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Implementation strategies, software libraries.
ES642 Organic
Electroluminescence (3-0-3)
Electroluminescence in small molecules emission mechanism in organic light emitting diodes, physical properties of organic light emitting diodes in space charge-limited conduction regime, amorphous molecular materials for carrier injection and transport, chemistry of electrominescent conjucated polymers, organic electrophosporescence, past present and future direction of organic electroluminescent displays, organic electroluminescent devices, photoexcited organic lasers.
Organic electroluminescence Kafafi Z. (ed.)
Lasers and Optics Laboratory
ES599 MS Thesis
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Table 2-1: Course Contents
Standard 2.1: The table below depicts the correlation between the Objectives and the various course Divisions.
Group of Courses
Strong Correlation
Weak Correlation
Objectives
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
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Computational and Applied Mathematics
Lasers, Opto-Electronics and Photonics
Semiconductors and Superconducting
Technology
Applied and Computational Physics
Dissertation
Table 2-2: Correlation between Courses and Objectives
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Standard 2.2: The following table taxonomizes the various courses according to their content. Note that it is possible,
within reasonable bounds, for one teacher to emphasize one aspect of the course more than another.
Elements Courses
Theoretical Background ES527,ES566, ES642,ES621, ES523, ES524, ES569
Problem Analysis ES527,ES566,ES642, ES569
Solution Design ES527,ES566, ES526
Standard 2.3, 2.4 & 2.5 – Accreditation Issues: The program is not accredited from any such body.
Standard 2.6:
a. Information Technology Component of the Program
The Internet with its wide variety of resources is now as integral a part of any knowledge based activity as
a pen or a library. It is a fundamental resource for researchers. It is therefore impossible to imagine that
any course can proceed effectively without using this valuable resource. However the following courses
are more heavily dependent upon the internet, the use of computers in general and other tools of
information technology.
ES642, ES566
(Consult the Table 2-1 above for further details about each course)
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Standard 2.7 (Oral and Written Communication Skills) Course Projects:
Within the final few weeks teachers tend to assign various class projects to students. At the end of the
semester the students, either individually or in the form of a group, have to give a presentation related to
their project and submit a written report. These project related activities help the students in organizing
not only their oral and written communication skills. The course project however depends upon the will
of the instructor.
Lab Interaction:
Although there are no lab courses at the graduate level, for students involved in experimental research
oral communication skills are also developed within the somewhat informal environment of the lab where
the researchers and their advisers engage in direct communication.
Class Participation:
It is also not entirely unusual, though not compulsory, for teachers to assign a certain portion of the marks
towards class participation to force the students to overcome their natural inhibition towards direct
communication with the teacher.
Thesis Defense:
Since the writing and the defense of a thesis is mandatory, students have to go through a rigorous
presentation at the end of their program to be able to receive their degree. To succeed the student must
not only have a deep understanding of the subject matter but also the ability to communicate it to people
who may or may not have studied the subject matter in the same amount of depth.
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Criterion 3: Laboratories and Computing Facilities The following table gives an overview of all the laboratories available at the Faculty of Engineering
Sciences.
Laboratory Title
Objectives Adequacy
for Instruction
Courses taught
Softwares Major
Apparatus Safety
regulations
Mechanics Lab
Understanding the basic framework of
Mechanics both linear and rotational
Fair
Introductory
Mechanics
None Varies (See
Below)
Depend upon
Experiment (Mostly
Minimal)
Electricity and
Magnetism Lab
Introduction to Electricity and
Magnetism Fair
Electricity and
Magnetism
(Ph102)
None Varies (See
Below)
Care needed to
handle high voltage
experiment
Circuit Analysis Lab
Analyze basic circuits by
experimental work, simulation and
theoretical techniques
Good Circuit
Analysis-I
Pspice, MATLAB, MultiSim
PC, Trainer Board, DMM,
Oscilloscope
Using properly
grounded systems,
Logic Design Lab
Analyze basic circuits by
experimental work, simulation and
theoretical techniques
Good Digital
Logic and Design
MultiSim PC, Trainer
Board, DMM
Using properly
grounded systems,
Computer Architectur
e Lab
Design and Implementation of Simple as Possible
Computer and Understand the
basic of its Architecture
Fair Computer Architect
ure NONE
Trainer Board, ICs.
None
Microprocessors/Microcontroller Interfacing
Lab
Microprocessors and
Microcontrollers Architecture and
Programming
Very Good
Microprocesors/
Microntroller
Interfacing
Kiel microVisio
n 3.0 PC None
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Engineering Instrumenta
tion Lab
Introduction to Sensors and
actuators, Data Acquisition and
interfacing
Good Instrumentation
Labview, CX
Programmer
PC, PLCs
Simulation Lab
Computer simulation of
physical system Good
Simulation
MATLAB PC None
Semiconductors Lab
Semiconductor
device Fabrication, Analysis and
Characterization
Good
Semicond
uctor Devices
and Applicatio
ns
None
Power
Supplies, Tesla
Meters, Semiconductor boards,
DMM
None
Research Labs
Spectroscopy Laboratory
Spectroscopic analysis of liquid, solid and gaseous samples in transmission as well as reflection mode.
Fair Research Lab
Fourier Transform
Infrared Spectromet
er, UV/VIS/NIR
( Spectrometer Lamda-
19),
Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
Laboratory
Study of magnetic properties of different materials, high temperature superconductors, permanent magnets, soft magnetic materials, ferrofluids, and magnetic tapes.
Fair Research Lab
none
High Filed
Electromagnets, Four-
probe method magneto
resistance and Hall-
Effect
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Table 3-1: FES Laboratories
measurements.
Simulation Laboratory
Complex Simulation Testing, Dynamic system and mathematical models executed in real time,
Good Research Lab
Matlab, SIMUL8,
VC
10 networked Pentium4,
2.2 GHz PCs.
Lasers and Optics
Laboratory
Lasers Operation, Characterization of Laser beam and Lasers Applications
Good
Lasers and Applications & Research Lab
none
He-Ne Lasers, Carbon Dioxide
Lasers,Diode Lasers, Nd-YAG lasers, Lenses, Optical fibers
Safety goggles for
working with Laser
systems
Thermal Analysis
Laboratory
Investigation of kinetic parameters, and change of mass and mechanical properties of various materials with temperature.
Fair Research
lab
Differential Scanning
Calorimeter,
Differential Thermal Analyzer, Thermal
Gravimetric Analyser
and Dynamic
Mechanical Analyser.
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Standard 3.1 – Availability of Resources Explain how students and faculty have access to manuals
There are no lab courses at the Graduate level and therefore there are no semester based lab manuals.
The experimental equipment comes with its own manuals which are present in the labs and are available
to students and faculty at all times.
Bench Mark with Other Institutions to Identify Shortcomings in the Labs:
1. In comparison with other institutions the labs are adequate.
2. Certain labs need more up-to-date equipment in order to improve their standards.
Standard 3.2 - Personnel Support for Labs Each lab incorporates at least three (the number might increase in case of larger attendance) personnel
for guiding the students. These are:
1. Instructor: Normally responsible for the course related to the lab and normally lectures the
students about the procedural details to follow during lab.
Qualification: Masters (Minimum)
2. Lab Engineer: Present in the lab at all times guiding the student with any of the usual problems
that might pop up. Acts under the supervision of the Instructor.
Qualification: BE, BSc.
3. Lab Technician: Responsible for the inspection and maintenance of the equipment and to whom
the students, after consulting the Lab Engineer and the Instructor report any broken equipment
Qualification: F.Sc. (at least)
The performance of the Instructor and the Lab Engineer is evaluated at the end of each semester to
suggest room for improvement.
Standard 3.3 - Computing Infrastructure in Facilities Many of the labs provide an introduction to the various computational resources available in relation to
each course. The Simulation Lab is used if any student requires extra computational power for his or her
research. The computing infrastructure is adequate on the whole. Given the fast moving nature of the
electronic and computing world, persistent effort is required to keep the computing infrastructure up to
date.
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Criterion 4: Student Support and Guidance
Standard 4.1
a. Strategy for Offering Courses:
The core courses are offered regularly. Electives are offered depending upon the interests of students.
The Controller of Examination has the final say on which courses are to be offered.
Courses outside the Department:
All departments follow the same guidelines. Core courses lying outside the department are offered
regularly in a manner similar to that followed for core courses lying offered inside the department.
Electives courses lying outside the department are offered depending upon student demand.
Standard 4.2 Courses Taught by Two Instructors:
Although unusual, such cases do arise especially in case of non-resident scholars and in such cases two
options are available.
(1) Either the course section is carefully divided to describe the jurisdiction of each instructor.
(2) Or one of the instructors is employed only in lecturing capacity. The modalities of course content
become the designated responsibility of the other instructor
Course Taught by One Instructor and One Teaching Assistant:
To achieve proper communication, an adequate division of duties and the development of a hierarchical
order are necessary. The Teaching Assistant (or the junior lecturer) is subordinate to the Instructor and
moulds his part of the course so as to meet any special wishes of the senior instructor. This proper division
of duties helps to create the proper relationship between the instructors and the students. For instance,
Instructor may ask their Teaching Assistants to arrange special problem sessions with the students in order
to help them with their studies.
Given the diversity of human nature, it is important not to over specify these duties. Many of the finer
points that arise in such situations can easily be discussed and settled by the personnel involved in a
healthy and positive way.
Note: These changes however are normally minute. Massive structural changes to the course contents
must have prior faculty approval.
Standard 4.3 – Advising Details Students are required to be well aware of their degree requirements, the amount of course work done
and the amount that is left. The total requirements are concretely laid out in the prospectus.
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a. Advising and Registration:
A student may not register for a semester unless his choice of courses is ratified by an adviser whose job
is to monitor the student’s progress in his studies. The adviser guides the student in formulating the
proper degree plan suited to his or her case, in making correct course choices for the specialization that
the student desires, and even helps in tackling other emotional problems associated with an academic
life. Students lagging behind in their studies normally take less than the normal course load. This may or
may not mean a delayed graduation and therefore it is the duty of the Adviser to guide the students
properly.
b. Advising and Scope Broadening:
To give the students a broader view of their respective fields, the Central Library procures subscription of
various scientific and popular journals related to the fields. Students are encouraged to read these
journals (whether online or in paper form) and to take membership of their associated societies in order
to keep abreast of the challenges of the fast moving modern world. The faculty, and especially the adviser,
can become a suitable bridge in this case between the students and the academicians and scientists
outside the Institute.
c. The Dean Student Affairs and the Controller of Examinations:
Other advisory services are also provided by the Dean Student Affairs (DSA) who tends to the problems
encountered by the students in a far broader perspective: from general academic worries to
extracurricular activities and even in matters of career advising. The Dean Student Affairs also provides
an extra channel to the parents regarding the progress of their children.
Help in a somewhat more academic perspective can also be had from the Controller of Examinations.
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Criterion 5: Process Control
Standard 5.1 – Admission Procedure
a. Admission Criterion:
The institute is open to all persons of either sex and of any religion, color, creed, class or domicile who are academically qualified for admission to the courses of study offered by the Institute, and no such person shall be denied the privileges of the Institute on the grounds only of sex, religion, color, creed, race, class or domicile. Fresh induction to the graduate program is done twice a year in fall and spring semesters. Applications are invited each year in July for fall semester and in December for spring semester. Admission is strictly on the basis of merit. There are no special quotas, reserved seats or admission by donations. Nor is there any arbitrary age limit for the applicants. Admission to the Masters Programs of the Institute is decided on the basis of candidate's score in the admission test and interview. The test which comprises multiple choice questions and has a general as well as a subject component. The test is held on the GIK campus. The venue and general instructions for the test are intimated along with the dispatch of Admit Cards. The results of the admission test are communicated to all successful candidates within a few hours. Eligibility: MS degree program: Graduates in Engineering, Sciences and Physics from HEC recognized institutions who have:
1. Graduates in Engineerin, Sciences and Physics from HEC recognized institutions, with a minimum of sixteen years of education (minimum 130 credit hours) in the relevant discipline.
2. First class (minimum 60% marks) throughout the academic career. 3. Minimum 50% cumulative score in NTS GAT-Subject/GRE-Subject Test. Or candidates have to pass
the GIKI Admission Test. Written test/Interview: Written test (similar to GRE General & Subject types) and interview are conducted by the Institute. The following supporting documents are required for admission:
1. Duly completed application form. 2. Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work completed, to be sent directly to the
Institute by the university concerned. 3. One page summary outlining the applicant’s previous research and/or his/her practical
experience. He/she should also indicate his/her academic and research interest at GIK Institute and work interest after getting his/her degree.
4. Three letters of recommendation duly signed and sealed by the referees who are qualified to vouch for the applicant’s academic record and performance (attached to the application).
5. A statement from the applicant’s University or College Registrar stating his/her standing in the class (required only if this information is not included as part of the official transcript).
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The completed application form, the required supporting material and non-refundable application processing fee of Rs. 1000 or US$100 for foreign applicants, should reach the Graduate Admissions Office by the due date. Transfer with Advanced Standing: A maximum of nine credit hours of graduate course work at a PEC accredited and HEC recognized institution may be transferred with the recommendation of the faculty, provided that:
i. The coursework fits into a logical program for the degree ii. A minimum of grade B has been earned iii. The transfer is approved by the office of graduate studies
Fees and Expenses: The annual tuition fee is payable before the commencement of the session each year. A non-refundable admission fee of Rs. 58,000 is also required to be deposited along with the annual tuition fee. Another Rs. 25,000 will be charged as security, refundable at the time of leaving the institute subject to the clearance from relevant departments. The final year students are charged convocation fee of Rs. 13000.
b. Evaluation of Admission Criteria:
The set of admission criteria is discussed and evaluated every year. Several proposals are discussed to improve its quality and execution. Admission criteria are first discussed in Admissions Committee meetings. If there are serious reservations then it is further discussed in Deans’ Committee meetings and any decisions coming out of it are incorporated in the admission criteria.
Standard 5.2 Students must see an adviser before course registration which however is done online.
Monitoring Academic Progress:
The overall academic progress is monitored with the help of an adviser (See Standard 4.3). Advisers
often contact the parents of the students in order to inform them of the difficulties faced by the
student.
Evaluation and Upgrading:
The procedure is evaluated and improved regularly. In this spirit, the entire registration procedure has
been shifted online.
Standard 5.3 – Evaluating and Retaining Excellent Faculty
a. Evaluating the Faculty:
In order to evaluate the faculty, feedback is received from various official and unofficial channels. The
most critical and the best documented ones are:
1. Course evaluation by the students at the end of each semester.
2. The Annual Academic Record Form filled by the Faculty Member him or herself (See Appendix A)
3. The Instructor Evaluation form filled by the Dean (See Appendix A) which takes into account the
first two. The overall performance of the instructor is then judged in the Dean’s Committee
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Meeting, in the presence of the Rector and the Pro-Rector Academics with the necessary steps
being taken.
b. Retaining Competent Faculty:
There are two sides to the issue of retaining faculty which are as follows:
Intra department methods
These include methods related to the professional life of the faculty which includes both academia as
well as research. These methods may be further divided into two categories.
1. Those Appertaining to Resources:
Issues like the provision of sufficient resources may be tabled under these. It is made sure that
the faculty has access to the latest journals related to their field, that they are provided with
good computation and other electronic facilities, that they have access to latest software. That
those more involved in research have a sufficient supply of students, Graduate and
Undergraduate willing to work with them.
2. Those Appertaining to Environment
These refer to the aura of the department and in this case it is necessary to develop a congenial
environment between all members of the faculty, the students as well as the lower staff. It is
also important to generate a healthy working environment in which the acts of teaching,
learning and researching attain the inspiring heights that they were supposed to attain. If such
an atmosphere is provided to the faculty it will achieve the stability that is necessary for the
working of any institution.
Extra departmental Methods
Since most of the faculty at GIK Institute consists of resident scholars, the need for extra departmental
methods used to retain excellent faculty cannot be ignored. It is attempted to try to develop a high level
of quality of life for the residents of the institute. The development of a healthy environment inside the
institute, in these trying times for most of the countrymen, compels various members of the faculty to
prefer this peaceful institute over the other ones.
Moreover, lucrative pay packages are offered to various teachers, however the package now needs to be
revised in lieu of the fact that inflation rates has been soaring at about 17% for last few months. However
the overall climate of the department is deemed good. Along with the salary, faculty members are entitled
to the following incentives;
Free Medical facilities for self, spouse and children at Campus Hospital (including outdoor
specialized treatment) at the panel hospitals;
Subsidized schooling facilities for children at Campus School up to 10th class.
Contributory Provident Fund (CPF): 10% basic of employees and equal contributed by the
Institute after two years continuous service and subject to the application by the concerned
employees.
Group Insurance Scheme.
Free Shuttle service from Topi to Islamabad/Peshawar on weekends.
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Provision of Faculty club facilities at campus.
Provision of sports and gym facilities at campus.
Internet facilities for research and academic purposes.
c. Appointments of Highly Qualified Faculty
General
1. All appointments in the Institute shall be made in accordance with the prescribed
method.
2. The terms of appointment and conditions of service in the Institute shall be governed by
these Rules.
3. Appointments to various posts in the Institute may be made on a regular contract basis
by direct recruitment or transfer or promotion or deputation or otherwise as prescribed.
4. Appointment on regular basis means appointment for an indefinite period, whereas
appointment on contract means appointment for a specific time period only, but extendible as
long as the services of an individual are required.
5. The officers and staff shall be selected with a view to achieving their stated objectives.
All appointments shall, therefore, be made on merit as determined by the Selection Committee
to be appointed by the Rector
Conditions of Appointment
a. Every appointment in the Institute shall inter alia be subject to the conditions that:
There is an approved vacancy.
b. The candidates recommended for appointment fulfills the minimum requirements
prescribed for a post with regard to educational qualification, experience,
publications (if applicable) and age etc which may be relaxed in exceptional cases by the
Rector.
c. Selection is made through a prescribed Selection Committee; who may seek
letters of references /recommendation from appropriate sources if considered
necessary.
d. The appointment of foreign nationals shall be subject to clearance from the Ministry of
Interior and other agencies, if any, required under the Laws of Government
of Pakistan.
e. The appointment offer shall be in the prescribed manner.
f. The candidate will produce a physical fitness certificate from a Medical Doctor of Hospital
prescribed.
g. The original degrees, certificates and other requisite testimonials may be verified by the
officer in charge of the Establishment Department after joining of the
candidates.
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h. The appointment of each employee shall be notified in a prescribed manner after is
joining the Institute.
i. All contracts shall initially be for period up to three years, which may be extended for a
period not exceeding two years at a time.
Appointment Authorities
Appointments to various posts in the Institute shall be made, on recommendations of
the prescribed Selection Committees constituted by the authorities as follows:
GIK Institute Rules for Selection, Appointment of Faculty Selection and Appointment:
1. The faculty of the Institute shall be selected strictly on merit with a view to achieving its
stated objectives and the basic criteria for their selection shall be the highest standard of
competence, integrity and efficiency.
2. Appointments to the following posts in the Institute shall be made by the President,
SOPREST on the recommendations of the Standing Selection Committee (SSC), subject to
fulfillment of the minimum requirements indicated against each below:
Research Associate: Master's degree in the relevant discipline from a recognized University
abroad or acceptable equivalent
Assistant Professor: Ph.D. in the relevant discipline from a recognized university abroad or
acceptable equivalent, preferably with some publications in refereed journals of international
repute. The applicant should have demonstrated the capability to conduct independent and
original research.
Associate Professor: Ph.D. in the relevant discipline from a recognized university abroad or
acceptable equivalent with five (5) years service as Assistant Professor and six (6) research
publications in refereed journals of international repute. Two years industrial experience in an
organization of international repute will be considered equivalent to one year of teaching and
research experience in the university. The applicant should have demonstrated the capability to
conduct independent and original research.
Professor: Ph.D. in the relevant discipline from a recognized university abroad or acceptable
equivalent with six (6) years experience as Associate Professor and 12 research publications in
refereed journals of international repute or 11 years post Ph.D. teaching and research
experience with 12 research publications in refereed journals of international repute. Two years
industrial experience in organizations of international repute will be considered equivalent to
one year of teaching and research experience in the university. Candidates for Professorship
must have demonstrated that their research achievements have had a recognized impact on the
advance of knowledge in their subject area (s).
3. Doctoral degree is a pre-requisite for appointment to professorial rank. The appointing
authority may, however, in exceptional cases particularly with outstanding research background
of the candidate, on recommendation of the Standing Selection Committee for reasons to be
recorded in writing, relax other conditions prescribed in sub-rule (2) above.
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Incentives:
Free medical facilities for self, spouse and children at Medical Center (including
outdoor specialized treatment) at the panel hospitals.
Free schooling facilities for up to three children at Campus School up to 12th class; Contributory
Provident Fund (CPF): 10% basic of employee and equal contributed by the Institute after two
years continuous service and subject to the application by the concerned employee.
Group Insurance Scheme.
Free shuttle service from Topi to Islamabad/Peshawar on weekends.
Provision of faculty club facilities at campus.
Provision of sports and gym facilities at campus.
Internet facilities for research and academic purposes.
Faculty Evaluation and Promotion:
Once a year each faculty members has to fill “Annual Academic Record” form (attached at end). In this
form the faculty member has to show clearly his/her annual performance. This form is
countersigned by the dean and sent to the pro-rector for further action. This form also has the
student’s evaluation section, which helps in monitoring the teaching capabilities of the teacher.
For promotion to a higher rank faculty member has to fulfill the minimum requirements for that
post. Minimum requirements for the post of RA, assistant professor, associate professor and
professor are elaborated in standard 5.3. Evaluation results are communicated to the respective faculty
member so that he can improve his weaknesses. This procedure is repeated usually once a year.
Standard 5.4 – Meeting Course Targets
In the beginning of the semester it is customary for each teacher to give a brief introduction to the major
strands of thought that will be followed during the course. Such introduction is helpful in setting proper
goals for the students and keeps both the students and the teachers on target. Occasionally a tentative
breakdown of the syllabus in terms of lectures is also given. In broad strokes, the objectives of the course
are decided by the faculty, thus setting the limits within which each instructor may emphasize one point
of the course or another. The feedback from various sources (See Standard 5.5 for details) helps us in
deciding whether it is time to modify the course outlook or not. Normally this is not needed for the
introductory courses, but becomes essential for the latter more specialized ones.
Standard 5.5 – Obtaining Feedback The feedback about the quality level of the students is determined using factors both internal as well as
external. Following are some of the most common indicators.
Feedback from Courses:
The most straightforward way to analyze whether the students meet the minimum level of quality is
obtained from the course results. This information is used to see whether the performance and the
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understanding of the graduating batch are up to the required standard. Some instructors with their years
of experience at hand are also able to provide useful information when they teach the same course to
two different batches of students.
Feedback from Employers:
But this is not the only way to gauge the level of quality of the graduates. Most students manage to find
employment in various leading technical or managerial organizations both locally as well as globally and
feedback from the employers as well as the progression of their careers acts as a suitable indicator. Many
of the companies that used to visit the Institute’s Open House and Project Fair (held in March every year)
also commend the quality of the students that they have hired and cite it as one of the principal reasons
for their regular return to GIK’s Project Fair each year. Earlier, however, this input was not properly
documented and emerged in conversation between the representatives of companies and the faculty.
However starting this year analysis forms have been disseminated to the leading hirers of the students
from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.
Students Going for Further Studies:
A high number of students are deemed competent enough by universities, from around the globe, to be
added to their graduate programs. Some of these students return to Pakistan and often teach in various
universities.
Feedback from Alumni:
The institute’s alumni are actively involved and their forum also provides us with useful suggestions on
how to improve the quality of education in not only academic content but also in terms of academic
atmosphere and aura. Some of the alumni are also currently teaching inside the department.
Suggestions for Improvement:
The procedure, though in place in essence, could do with standardization and greater documentation.
Greater amount of feedback ought to be attained from foreign and local universities where our students
head to. It is suggested that GIK may request the universities, with the consent of the student, for a
transcript of the students to see whether the students lag/succeed in various facets of their studies or
not. For instance it might transpire that certain students lack proper mathematical skills, or perhaps an
experimental background and this information may be used to improve the situation at home.
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Criterion 6: Faculty (See Appendix B for Faculty Resumes)
Standard 6.1: Faculty Overview with Reference to the Program
Course Area Courses in the
area
Number of faculty
members in each
area
Number of faculty
with PhD Degree
Mathematical
Modeling and
Simulation
5 3 3
Computational and
Applied Mathematics 11 2 3
Lasers, Opto-
Electronics and
Photonics
9 3 2
Semiconductors and
Superconducting
Technology
6 3 3
Applied and
Computational
Physics
12 2 2
Table 6-1: Faculty Overview
See Criterion 2 for details on course breakdown.
Standard 6.2: Criteria for being current in the discipline:
No special criterion is in place at the moment. However records show that the entire current Graduate
faculty has research publications in prestigious journals over the last 12 months. Special financial
rewards are given to faculty members with publications in journals of international repute.
Availability of Time to Pursue Research Activities for Full Time Employees:
The work load on a full time faculty member is usually around 5 or 6 credit hours. For classes with
students containing more than 50 students, a Teaching Assistant is also assigned thereby reducing the
work load of the instructor. These considerations, minimal work load and the assignment of supporting
hands in case it exceeds a certain threshold ensures that the faculty members have ample time on their
hands for pursuing their research interests.
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Faculty Development Program:
There is a very clearly defined faculty development program, in which a teaching assistant can do MS
studies in the institute to improve their qualification along with the job. The details of the selection
process and benefits are given below. Moreover, faculty members going abroad for higher studies are
allowed to retain their accommodations free of charge and their families can avail all the allied facilities
on campus free of cost.
Graduate Assistant (GA-1): Graduate Engineer having First class F.Sc and BS (Engg) with minimum CGPA
of (3.00/4.00) or equivalent may be admitted on open merit based on test and interview with full waiver
of tuition fee and single accommodation plus monthly stipend of Rs 15,000. GA will assist the faculty in
teaching and research activities for 20 hours per week in consideration of the stipend.
Graduate Assistant (GA-II): Graduate Engineer having First class F.Sc, BS (Engg) with minimum CGPA of
3.00/4.00 or equivalent and three years’ service in the Institute with annual performance ratings as very
good may be admitted on open merit based on test and interview with full waiver of tuition fee and
single accommodation plus monthly stipend of Rs 20,000. GA will assist the faculty in teaching and
research activities for 20 hours per week in consideration of the stipend.
Standard 6.3: Faculty Morale and Motivation No special intra-departmental program has been instated for this purpose. However since the faculty is
a small one, it is therefore also very tightly knit, thereby producing a congenial and helping atmosphere.
Based on the results of a recent survey, it has been concluded that most of the faculty members are
Very Satisfied at the department. Other results of the survey are as follows:
Questions (Proforma 5) Average
1 Mix of research, teaching and community service 4.25
2 Intellectual stimulation 4.25
3 Type of teaching/research 4.5
4 Interaction with students 4
5 Cooperation from colleagues 4.25
6 Mentoring available 4
7 Administrative support 4.25
8 Clarity about the faculty promotion process 3.75
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9 Prospects for advancement 3.75
10 Salary and compensation package 3.25
11 Job security and stability 3.75
12 Amount of time for self and family 3
13 Overall climate at the department 4.5
14 Department’s utilization of experience and
knowledge 3.75
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Criterion 7: Institutional Facilities
Standard 7.1 Students are provided access to internet within their rooms. Many teachers email the electronic
resources (such as course notes and slides) to students. There is also a departmental website which
provides an additional forum between the teacher and the students.
Common IT facilities provided in the Campus are as under,
Having vast range of Fiber-Optic Local Area Network providing local sharing to Students and
Faculty.
High Speed PERN1 Internet facility having 34 Mb of Bandwidth. PERN2 provisioning by HEC is in
the pipeline.
Wireless Internet covering the residential area of the campus.
In-house e-mail service.
1300 Personal Computers including Laptops for students and Faculty.
Well-equipped laboratories providing technical knowledge to students, such as Personal
Computing Lab, Operating System Programming Lab, Professional Software Development lab,
Graduate Lab, Final Year Project Lab, Multimedia Lab, Software Engineering Lab.
Access to Online Libraries
Internet with a bandwidth of 44 MB.
Latest Video Conferencing equipment capable of connecting 7 sites simultaneously.
Data Centre includes High-end servers.
High Performance Computing having the following specifications.
Master Node of Dell-R8-15 with AMD processor having 64 cores.
Three compute nodes of Dell-R715 with AMD processor having 32 cores.
NVIDIA Tesla 2090 system GPU.
Standard 7.2 Text and reference books are available to all students possessing a library card. The text books however
are normally held ‘On Reserve’ and are not issued to students.
To share resources through interlibrary loan and exchange of databases, it is electronically linked to all
prominent libraries of the country. It also provides reprographic services. The GIK Institute's digital library
provides access to resources of HEC that include databases of journal articles, electronic journals and
reference databases to support the faculty and students community of the Institute. The digital resources
include about 15000 electronic journals, e-books, audio/video materials, IEEE databases on DVDs and
other reference databases. The students and faculty members at the Institute can easily access all the
resources on their desks through http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/giki.html, which provides online access
to IEEE, Science-Direct and other valuable resources.
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Standard 7.3 – Classrooms & Offices: Within FES there is one Main Lecture Hall and four Small Lecture Halls. Rooms in other faculties
are requisitioned if necessary. The MLH has the capacity to hold almost 150 students. The capacity
of smaller lecture halls varies from about 40 to 80 students. The seating arrangement is very
comfortable and the rooms are centrally air conditioned.
All lecture halls are equipped with whiteboards, electronic and transparency projectors and
computers. All lecture halls are in good condition. However, as the trends are towards larger batch
sizes, newer lecture halls might be needed.
The offices are also well furnished and in good condition. The offices are normally, though not
always unshared. Moreover each instructor is given his own computer and his own desk.
Stationery and other items of daily need are available on request.
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Criterion 8: Institutional Support
Standard 8.1 The supporting staff has several years of experience and is considered up to the mark in terms of efficiency and quality. The Institute offers attractive and competitive salaries and benefit packages which are reviewed periodically. The tenure track package is taken as the base line plus free accommodation, free medical and free schooling for children is provided. The normal faculty load is two 3 Credit Hour courses giving faculty members ample time for research. Their research is not only beneficial to the department but also to themselves as their promotion is predicated by their research publications.
Standard 8.2 – Graduate Students Following is the data for the Graduate Students:
MS Students Currently Enrolled 6
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2004 4
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2005 4
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2006 11
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2007 6
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2008 2
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2009 7
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2010 4
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2011 1
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2012 2
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2013
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2014
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2015
Number of MS Degrees Awarded in 2016
2
1
2
3
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Current Faculty (PhD) to Graduate Student Ratio 19:8
Standard 8.3 – Resources Available: For Library:
The department’s library resources are roughly around 200,000 Rs. Overview of Library Resources
Books: 22500
Journals backdated: 17000 vols.
Current Subscribed Journals/periodical: 18
Current free periodical: 22
HEC Digital Library access: ScienceDirect, IEEE, Ebrary.
Faculty Membership of IMech, ACM, JASA, APS, ASME, IOM3,
GIKI Digital Library: Approx. 5000 ebooks+ open access 30,000 ebooks
Audio / Video Materials:
IEEE Communication Society 1953 - 2004 ( 3 DVDs set)
IEEE Signal processing e-Library 1950 -2001
IEEE control system society 1956 - 2001 different collection
IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society 1952-2000
IEEE Computer Society 1997
OPtics Letter Vol. 19 (1994) CD
Translate Ideas into Action (4 DVDs)
The way things work-Bridges, Domes, Dams, Skyscrapers, & tunnels (DVDs)
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REWAS 2008
Design & marketing of new products (DVD)
Vacuum Cleaner: Design and Marketing (DVD)
For Laboratories:
For each Teaching Lab (as opposed to a Research Lab) nearly 250,000 Rs. are allocated. For further
resources further approval must be attained at the Institute level.
For Computing Facilities:
For computational facilities an annual budget of Rs. 500,000 has been allocated.
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Criterion 9: Conclusion The self-assessment report has been very illuminating in pointing out various strengths, weaknesses and
perceptions of the different members of the spectrum. The results of the evaluations are listed in Criterion
1 along with the various suggestions concerning how improvements might be made to the indicators that
are suffering.
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Faculty Evaluation Forms (See Standard 5.3) - APPENDIX A
The following forms are currently used by the Department to assess the performance of a
faculty member at the Departmental level. Evaluation at the student level uses course
evaluation forms:
GHULAM ISHAQ KHAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
ANNUAL ACADEMIC RECORD (TO SUPPLIED BY THE FACULTY MEMBERS)
NAME OF THE FACULTY MEMBER:____________________ FACULTY:_____________________
1. TEACHING:
Year/Sem. No. of
Sects.
Course
No.
Lab.
Hrs.*
Course Title Enrolment Function Student Evaluation
No. of Std. Score
respon.
*Contract hours Senior Project Function: T: Teaching
Summer Training: C: Coordinating
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Year
/Se
m
Hours
Taught
.
Short course Title No of
Participants
Function Instruc.
Evalu.
Course
Evaluation
PART A: STUDENT EVALUATION:
(Source : Student evaluation in courses, graduating student evaluation, evaluation by participants of
short courses, and other sources). Please state your comments, if any , on student evaluation:
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Part ‘B’ COURSE MATERIAL:
(Activities: Organization of course file, development of course material and new courses, adherence to
course syllabus, development and use of Innovative methods in teaching, Instructional laboratories, and
other activities related to course material development). Please list your activities with regard to course
material and comment on them:
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PART C: OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
(Advising, supervising senior projects, summer training and co-op students, initiation and participation
in curriculum development, course co-ordination, and participation in student activities, etc.) Please list
and comment on your other teaching activities.
_________________________________________________________________________________
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II RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP
Report Activities for the past academic year only. However, please not that your research profile for the
past Two years will be evaluated:
A. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
1. Funded research Project:
Status Role Release Time:
C: Completed PI: Principal Investigator Percentage of Time as
IP: In Progress CI :Co-Investigator formally approved
T: Terminated
Project
Title
Funding Agency Start
Date
End Date Status Role Release
Time
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2. Independent Research
Research Title Start
Date
End
Date
Hrs/
Wk.
Expected Output and Date
Journal/Conference publications,
engineering designs, software,
technical report etc.
3. Thesis and Dissertation Supervised:
Degree Role
Msc or Ph.D. S: Supervisor
CM: Thesis/Dissertation Committee Member
Student Name Dept
.
Deg. Thesis Title Start
Date
End
Date
Role
B: PUBLICATIONS FOR THE LAST TWO YEAR
Please list out by separating into the following:
Class:
JP: Journal Publication TRP: Technical Reports & Proposals
CP: Conference Publication PPW: Published Professional Work e.g. Engg. Design
OP: Other Publication RTJ: Publication in Trade journal
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Status:
A: Accepted/Published S: Submitted UP: Under Preparation
Please use AJSE format (example given below):
K.S.Park, “Optimal Number of Minimal Repairs Before Replacement”. IEEE
Transaction or Reliability, R-28 (2), (1979), P-137.
CLASS PUBLICATIONS (FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS ONLY) STATUS
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III COMMITTEES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
A: COMMITTEE WORK
FORMED BY: POSITION TYPE OF COMMITTEE
F: Faculty M: Member S: Standing
I: Institute C: Chairman a: Ad-Hoc
G: Other (state)
Name of Committee Semester Academic
Year
Forme
d By
Positio
n
Typ
e
App. No of
Attended
meetings
Please state your major activities and contribution to each committee (Use additional sheets, if
necessary).
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V TECHNICAL SEMINARS AN PRESENTATIONS:
Title Date Place
V: PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING:
Organization Nature of Work Hrs./Wk Start Date End Date
VI: OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
(List patents received, works reviewed, etc.)
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__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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__________________________________________________________________________________
VII: OTHER ACTIVITIES
Please list any other activity(s) you have undertaken during the Academic Year 19____/ 19____
Date Activity
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The information given in this form is correct, accurate and complete.
Name : _________________________ Signature/Date:_________________________
Faculty : ________________________
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Faculty Resumes - APPENDIX B
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Jameel-Un Nabi, FInstP
Professor and Dean
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Research in Astrophysics, Nuclear physics Computational Physics and Optical Engineering Ph.D. 1999, Heidelberg University, Germany. Postdoctoral Researcher, (i) Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany (ii) Louisiana State University, USA. Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK Member, American Physical Society USA, Member, Institute of Physics UK, Member Advisory Board, NUBA Turkey Member, RUTE Evaluation Process, Romania
Associate Member: (i) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy, (ii) TWAS-UNESCO Associateship Program, Italy (iii) European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, Italy HEC, Best University Teacher Award 2014 Focal Person NRPU, HEC Pakistan E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Nabi has been actively engaged in research, teaching and community services for the last 20 years. Dr. Nabi pursued his doctoral research work in theoretical/computational nuclear physics at Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg. During his Ph.D. work he also worked at the Gran Sasso Lab (Italy) on the Heidelberg-Moscow Experiment. After his Ph.D. in 1999, Dr. Nabi was awarded the prestigious Max-Planck-Society Scholarship and did postdoctoral research in the field of nuclear astrophysics. In 1999, Dr. Nabi was hired by the Department of Energy, USA, for a project in nuclear astrophysics and he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, for three years. He returned to Pakistan and joined GIKI in 2002.
His current research interests include dynamics of supernova explosions, nucleosynthesis calculations, nuclear structure studies, cross sections and related computational physics problems. His interests also include optical engineering including lasers, holography and wave optics. He has availed several national and international research grants and has produced several MS and PhD scholars in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He has published numerous research papers in International journals of repute with high impact factors and citations. He has presented his work in renowned international conferences in Europe and North America
Representative Publications:
1. “β-Decay half-lives and nuclear structure
of exotic proton-rich waiting point nuclei
under rp-process conditions”, J.-U. Nabi
and M. Bӧyükata, Nuclear Physics A
947, 182-202 (2016).
2. “Mass fractions in stellar interior during
presupernova evolution”, J.-U. Nabi, A.
N. Tawfik, N. Ezzelarab and A. Abbas,
Astrophysics and Space Science 361:71,
1-9 (2016).
3. Gamow-Teller strength distributions and
neutrino energy loss rates due to
chromium isotopes in stellar matter", J.-
U. Nabi, R. Shehzadi and M. Fayaz,
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Astrophysics and Space Science 361:95,
1-17 (2016).
4. “First-forbidden β-decay rates, energy
rate of β-delayed neutrons and
probability of β-delayed neutron
emissions for neutron-rich nickel
isotopes”, J.-U. Nabi, N. Cakmak and Z.
Iftikhar, European Physical Journal A 52,
1-14 (2016).
5. “First-forbidden transitions and stellar β-
decay rates of Zn and Ge isotopes”, J.-U.
Nabi, N. Cakmak S. Stoica and Z.
Iftikhar, Physica Scripta 90, 115301
(2015).
6. “Spin-isospin transitions in chromium
isotopes within the quasiparticle random
phase approximation”, S. Cakmak, J.-U.
Nabi, T. Babacan and I. Maras,
Advances in Space Research 55, 440-453
(2015).
7. “Charge-changing transitions and
capture strengths of pf-Shell Nuclei with
Tz = -2 at proton drip-line”, M.-U.
Rahman and J.-U. Nabi, Astrophysics
and Space Science 355, 2142 (2015).
8. “The estimation of neutrino flux
produced by pep reactions in the Sun”, B.
F. Irgaziev, V. B. Belyaev and J.-U.
Nabi, Physica Scripta 89, 084010 (2014).
9. Three-body calculation of the rate of
reaction p + p + e → d + γe in the Sun”,
B. F. Irgaziev, V. B. Belyaev and J.-U.
Nabi, Physical Review C 87, 035804
(2013).
10. “Comparison of Gamow-Teller strengths
in the random phase approximation”, J.-
U. Nabi and C. W. Johnson, Journal of
Physics G 40, 065202 (2013).
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Dr. Muhammad Hassan Sayyad
Professor of Engineering Sciences Research areas include:
Laser Ablation Studies
Investigation of organic
materials for the fabrication
of electric, electronic and
photonic devices
M.Sc.1983, Government College, Lahore Ph.D. 1994, Dublin City University, Ireland Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hassan Sayyad has a vast experience of teaching and
research supervision to undergraduates and graduates. He joined the Faculty of
Engineering Sciences, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and
Technology, Topi, Pakistan in September 2002. At the GIK Institute he is teaching
the specialization of Lasers and Optoelectronics. He is also supervising projects
in the areas of Lasers, Optical Communication, Organic Electronics and
Photonics. Prof. Sayyad’s research focuses on the characterization of organic
semiconductors, conducting polymers, derivatives and nanoparticles of
conjugated organic materials for their potential applications in organic electronic
devices, such as, junction diodes, organic field effect transistor, memories, organic
solar cells, sensors, etc.
He has given talks in numerous international conferences, supervised FIVE PhD
students and published more than 70 research papers.
Representative publications: 1. “Influence of humidity conditions on the capacitive and resistive response of an
Al/VOPc/Pt co-planar humidity sensor” Fakhra Aziz, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad, K
Sulaiman , B H Majlis , Khassan S Karimov, Zubair Ahmad and G Sugandi,
Measurement Science and Technology (2012), 23 (1), pg. 014001.
2. “Fabrication and characterization of ZnTPP:PCBM bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar
cells” S. M. Khan, M. Kaur, J. R. Heflin, M. H. Sayyad, Journal of Physics and Chemistry
of Solids 72 (2011) 1430–1435
3. “Electrical characteristics of poly(methylsilsesquioxane) thin films for non-volatile
memory” Zubair Ahmad, P.C. Ooi, K.C. Aw, M. H. Sayyad, Solid State Communications
151 (2011) 297–300.
4. “Synthesis of Zn(II) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4′-isopropylphenyl) porphyrin and its use as a
thin film sensor” Muhammad H. Sayyad, Muhammad Saleem, Khasan S. Karimov,
Muhammad Yaseen, Mukhtar Ali, Kuan Y. Cheong , Ahmad F. Mohd Noor, Appl Phys
A (2010) 98: 103–109.
5. “Photo organic field effect transistor based on a metallo-porphyrin” M. H. Sayyad,
Zubair Ahmad, Kh. S. Karimov, Muhammad Yaseen, Mukhtar Ali, J. Phys. D: Appl.
Phys. 42 (2009) 105112.
6. “Fabrication and study of NiPc thin film based surface type photocapacitors” M. H.
Sayyad, M. Shah, K. S. Karimov, Z. Ahmad, M. Saleem, M. Maroof Tahir,
Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 10(10), 2805-2810 (2008).
7. “Production and Characterization of Nanoparticle Dispersions of Organic
Semiconductors for Potential Applications in Organic Electronics” M. H. Sayyad, F.
Wahab, Z. Ahmad, M. Shahid, J. A. Chaudry and M. A. Munawar, Proceedings of the
11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, August 15-18, 2011, Portland,
Oregon, USA.
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Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabbir Professor of Engineering Sciences Research in the area of General Relativity M. Sc.1993 Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan. M. Phil 1995 Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan Ph.D. 2001 University of Aberdeen, UK. email: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabbir has long experience of teaching
Mathematics to graduate and undergraduate students in Pakistan and abroad. He started his teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Islamia University, Bahawalpur in 1996. He joined GIKI in Fall 2002. At GIKI, he is teaching Calculus, Heat Transfer and Modeling, Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations. He has published number of research papers in prestigious national and international journals. His research interests include Ricci, Curvature, affine Collineations and Projective vector fields in General Relativity. He has also attended many international and national conferences. He was awarded "The Salam Prize" in Mathematics for the year 2003 on the basis of his research work. He got "The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize" for Young Scientists in Mathematics and "XVIth Star Awad" for the years 2004 and
2005, respectively. Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal was awarded to him for the year 2012 in the field of Mathematics by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS), Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan. He was also awarded Research Productivity Award for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Representative Publications:
(1) Noether symmetries of vacuum classes of pp-waves and the wave equation, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Vol. 13, Article ID 1650109 (2016) 1-10. (2) A note on classification of teleparallel conformal symmetries in non-static plane symmetric space-times in the teleparallel theory of gravitation using diagonal tetrads, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Vol. 13, Article ID 1650046 (2016) 1-8. (3) Proper projective symmetry in the most general non-static spherically symmetric four dimensional Lorentzian manifolds, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Vol. 13, Article ID 1650009 (2016) 1-8. (4) A note on proper projective collineation in special non-static spherically symmetric space-times, Romanian Reports in Physics, Vol. 67 (2015) 318-328. (5) Symmetry structures of a wave equation on some classes of Bianchi cosmological models, Indian Journal of Physics, Vol. 89 (2015) 411-416. (6) A note on classification of teleparallel conformal vector fields in
Bianchi type I space-times in the teleparallel theory of gravitation, Romanian Journal of Physics, Vol. 59 (2014) 79-85. (7) Proper projective symmetry in Bianchi type I space-times, The European Physical Journal Plus, Vol. 128, Article 130, (2013) 1-5.
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(8) A note on classification of teleparallel conformal vector fields in cylindrically symmetric static space-times in the teleparallel theory of gravitation, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 52 (2013) 1182-1187. (9) A note on self similar vector fields in cylindrically symmetric static space-times, Turkic World Mathematical Society (TWMS) Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 (2013) 38-43. (10) Proper projective symmetry in special non-static plane symmetric Lorentzian manifolds, The European Physical Journal Plus, Vol. 127, Article 130, (2012) 1-6. (11) A note on self similar vector fields in spherically symmetric static space-times, University of Politehnica Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series A, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Vol. 74, No. (4), (2012) 177-182. (12) Analytical technique for the two-dimensional stress wave model of memory dampers, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Vol. 26 (2012) 3059-3066. (13) A note on proper teleparallel homothetic vector fields in non-static plane symmetric Lorentzian manifolds, Romanian Journal of Physics, Vol. 57 (2012) 571-581. (14) A note on classification of cylindrically symmetric non static space-times according to their teleparallel Killing vector fields in the teleparallel theory of gravitation, Brazilian Journal of Physics, Vol. 41 (2011) 184-194. (15) A note on teleparallel Killing vector fields in Bianchi types VIII and IX space-times in teleparallel theory of gravitation, Chinese Physics B, Vol. 20 (2011) 070401. (16) “A note on classification of spatially homogeneous rotating space-times according to their teleparallel Killing vector fields in the teleparallel theory of gravitation”, Communications in Theoretical Physics, Vol. 55 (2011) 268-272. (17) “Classification of teleparallel homothetic vector fields in cylindrically symmetric static space-times in the teleparallel theory of gravitation”, Communications in Theoretical Physics, Vol. 54 (2010) 675-678. (18) “Classification of Kantowski-Sachs and Bianchi type III space-times according their Killing vector fields in teleparallel theory of gravitation”, Communications in Theoretical Physics, Vol. 54 (2010) 469-472.
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Prof. Dr. Habibullah Jamal
Professor Habibullah Jamal has served academia
throughout his professional career of 42 years. He started as a lecturer in March 1975 and became Vice Chancellor UET Taxila in Jan. 2001. His administrative experience includes; Vice Chancellor of the university for 8½ years, Dean of the faculty for Six years, Director Students Affairs for more than Seven years and Chairman of Electrical Engineering for Four years. He had served GIKI, Topi previously as a Professor and Dean of Electronic Engineering in 2000 and as General Manager, CTRL Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation in 1993. He retired from UET Taxila on 17.10.2012 as a Tenured Professor. Dr Jamal remained a Fellow/Senior Member of many professional bodies including IEEE, USA. He is a recipient of prestigious national level awards: 8th TERADATA National IT Excellence Awards for Excellence in IT Education – on 12 April 2008; Performance Excellence in Engineering Awarded by The Institution of Engineers, Pakistan on the ‘Engineers Day’ 29 May 2007; 9th Pakistan Education Forum, National Education Award – 2003 and National Book Council of Pakistan Award 1991. . He is an author of two text books and 129 research papers. His research interests include; Signal Processing, the design of Microelectronic Circuits and development of Novel Computer Architectures for telecommunication, National Defense and other applications.
Representative Publications: 1. Habibullah Jamal and F.E. Holmes, "MOS switched
capacitor integrator eliminating operational amplifiers", Electronics Letters, Vol. 17, No. 24, pp. 925-26 Nov. 1981, U.K.
2. Habibullah Jamal and F.E. Holmes, "A bipolar phase locked loop system with programmable speed power characteristic" Int. J. Electronics Vol. 53, pp. 1-15, July 1982, U.K.
3. Habibullah Jamal, "Operational-amplifier-free active SC simulation of LC ladders based on BBD principle", IEE Proceedings, Pt. G. (The new title of this journal is IET Circuits, Devices and Systems with ISSN No. 1751-858X and Online: 1751-8598) Vol. 134, No. 2, April 1987, pp. 111- 115. U.K.
4. Habibullah Jamal, “Roadmap to Nanoelectronics for Developing Countries: A Realistic Approach”, Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, Optoelectronics (MINO '06), March 12-14, 2006, pp. 36 – 39, Prague, Czech Republic.
5. Habibullah Jamal, “And Knowledge is My Weapon”, Invited talk in the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 2006), held on 25 – 27 March 2006 at Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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6. M. MohsinRahmatullah, Shoab A. Khan, and Habibullah Jamal, ““Carrier Class High Density VoIP Media Gateway using Hardware Software Distributed Architecture”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 4, November 2007, pp. 1513 – 1520
7. Habibullah Jamal, Kiran Sultan, “Performance Analysis of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms”, International Journal of Computers and Communications Issue 1, Volume 2, 2008, pp. 30-38
8. Umar Farooq, Habibullah Jamal and Shoab Ahmed Khan, “Transformation to Implement Computationally Efficient IIR Decimation Filters”, Elsevier Journal of Digital Signal Processing, ISSN: 1051-2004, Volume
19, Issue 1, January 2009, pp. 33–44.
9. DurdanaHabib, Habibullah Jamal and Shaob A. Khan, “Employing Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Cooperative Path Planning” The International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, AndonTopalov (Ed.), ISBN: 1729-8806, InTech, 07 May, 2013 in topic ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft Systems’
10. SajidGulKhawaja, MianHamzaMushtaq, Shoab A. Khan, M. UsmanAkram and Habibullah Jamal, “Designing Area Optimized Application-Specific Network-On-Chip Architectures while Providing Hard QoS Guarantees”, PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125230, April 21, 2015
11. M. Muhammad Asrar Ashraf, Habibullah Jamal, Shoab Ahmed Khan, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Iram Baig, "A Heterogeneous Service-Oriented Deep Packet Inspection and Analysis Framework for Traffic-Aware Network Management and Security Systems", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2609398, pp. 5918 – 5936, 6 October 2016
12. Patents:Many classified projects are to his credit
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Bakhadir F. Irgaziev Professor of Engineering Sciences Research in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Few Body Problems in Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Astrophysics M.Sc. 1970 Tashkent State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Ph. D. 1976 Moscow State University, Russia D.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, 1999 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Diploma in English Language 1986, Tashkent, Uzbekistan email: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Bakhadir Irgaziev has been engaged in graduate as well as under graduate level teaching and research for the last 37 years. During this period he has supervised M.Sc., M. Phil. and Ph.D. level research and has taught courses in the diversified areas of the Essential Physics, Theoretical Physics, Nuclear Physics and Mathematics. He has also worked as principal investigator and investigator in the several scientific projects funded by the Uzbekistan Sciences and Technology Center, the Soros Foundation, U. S. National Science Foundation (USA), the DFG, DAAD (Germany), Japan Society of Promotional to Sciences, SCOPES (Switzerland), HEC (Pakistan) Grants.
He has considered and successfully investigated the three body problems in nuclear physics for bound and continuous states including Coulomb interaction between particles. He and his coauthors have estimated the influence of the three body Coulomb effects on the cross sections of the Coulomb breakup of nuclei, “Trojan Horse” for the range of energy where the important data for the nuclear astrophysics can be extracted. He makes the important contribution for solution proton-electron-proton reaction to estimate the neutrino flux from the Sun.
He was member of the organizing committee of numerous prestigious international conferences, gave talks at the international and regional conferences, and has published 59 papers in the refereed journals of international repute and 90 articles in proceeding and abstract of the conferences. He performed his researches in many scientific and educational centers over the world (Russia, the USA, Germany, China, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Italy).
Representative Publications:
1. B. F. Irgaziev, V. B. Belyaev, Jameel-Un Nabi, Three-body calculation of the rate of reaction p+p+e →d+νe in the Sun, arXiv:1212.3882, [nucl-th] (2013).
2. L. Lamia, M. La Cognata, C. Spitaleri, B.F. Irgaziev, R.G. Pizzone, On the inuence of the d-state component of
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deuteron wave function on the application of the Trojan Horse Method, Phys. Rev.C85, 025805 (2012)
3. B.F. Irgaziev, Jameel-Un Nabi, Darwish Khan, Coulomb
breakup of 6Li into +d in the field of a 208Pb ion, Phys. Rev.C , 84, 065809- (2011).
4. B. F. Irgaziev, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, Yu. V. Orlov and L. D. Blokhintsev, Extracting the complex energy of broad resonances by the S-matrix pole method, Bull. Russ. Akad. Sci.: Physics 75,. 511-514 (2011).
5. A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, L.D. Blokhintsev, and B. F. Irgaziev, Reexamination of the astrophysical S factor
for the + d 6Li + reaction, Phys.Rev.C 83, 055805 (2011).
6. M. La Cognata C. Spitaleri, A. Mukhamedzhanov, V. Goldberg, B. Irgaziev, L. Lamia, R.G. Pizzone, M.L. Sergi and R.E. Tribble, DWBA momentum distribution and its effect on THM , Nucl. Phys. A 834, pp. 658c-660c (2010).
7. E.O. Alt, B.F. Irgaziev, A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, Three-body Coulomb interaction effects in the final state of 208Pb(8B,7Be, p)208Pb Coulomb breakup reaction, Phys. Rev. C 71 024605-1, 024605-14, 2005.
8. F.M. Nunes, A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, C.C. Rosa, B.F. Irgaziev, Insight into continuum coupling, Nucl. Phys. A 736, pp. 255-268, 2004.
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Prof. Dr. Sirajul Haq Professor Faculty of Engineering Sciences Research in areas of
Mathematical Models of Defects in Discrete Structures,
Group Theoretic Methods
Numerical Analysis MSc, 1990, (Gold Medal) University of Peshawar, Pakistan MPhil, 1998, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan PhD, 2004, University of Liverpool, UK
Email: [email protected]
Professor Sirajul Haq joined GIK Institute in 2004. Formerly he served as a Lecturer at various colleges in the Government sector. Currently, he teaches undergraduate Numerical Analysis and Calculus. His research activities are primarily involved with Mathematical Models of defects in Discrete Structures, Group Theoretic Methods and Numerical Analysis. He has attended international and nationalconferences. Representative Publications:
1. S. Haq (with A.B. MovchanandG.J. Rodin), 2006, `Analysis of lattices with non-linear interphases', Acta Mechanica Sinica , Vol. 22, No. 4, P. 323 - 330.
2. S. Haq (with A.B. Movchan andN.V. Movchan), 2006, 'Localised Vibration Modes and Stop Bands for Continuous and Discrete Periodic Structures', Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 431, Issues 1-2, P. 175-183.
3. S. Haq (with A.B. MovchanandG.J. Rodin), 2007, ' Lattice Green's Functions in Nonlinear Analysis of Defects', Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 74, No. 4, P. 686-690.
4. S. Haq (with S-U. Islam and Ali, A.), 2008, “A Numerical Meshfree Technique for the Solution of the MEW Equation”, Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 38, Issue 1, P.1-23.
5. .S. Haq (with S-U, Islam, and M. Uddin), 2009 “Numerical solution of nonlinear Schrodinger Equations by collocation Method using Radial Basis Functions”, Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 44, Issue 2, P. 115-135.
6. S. Haq (with S-U. Islam and M. Uddin), 2009, `A Meshfree Interpolation Method for the Numerical Solution of the Coupled Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations`, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 33, Issue 3, P. 399-409.
7. S. Haq (with M. Uddin and S-U. Islam), 2009, " Numerical Solution of Complex Modified Kortewage-de Vries Equation by Mesh-free Collaction Method", Computer and Mathematics With Application, Vol. 58, Issue 3, P. 566-578.
8. S. Haq (with S-U. Islam, and M. Uddin), 2009, `A Mesh-free Method for the Numerical Solution of the KdV-Burgers' Equation', Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 33, Issue 8, P. 3442-3449.
9. S. Haq (with M. Uddin and S-U. Islam), 2009, "A Mesh-free Numerical method for Solution of the Family of Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equations", Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 212, Issue 2, P. 458-469.
10. S. Haq (with N. Bibi,S.I.A. Tirmizi and M. Usman), 2010, “Meshless Method of Lines For the Numerical Solution of Generalized Kuramoto-Shivashinsky Equation”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 217, Issue 6, P. 2404-2413.
11. S. Haq (with M. Uddin), 2011, “RBFs Approximation Method for Kawahara Equation”, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 35, Issue 3, P. 575-580.
12. S. Haq (with A. Hussain, and M. Uddin), 2011, “RBFs meshless method of lines for the numerical solution of time-dependent nonlinear coupled partial differential equations”, Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2, P. 414-423.
13. S. Haq (with M. Uddin), 2011, “RBFs Approximation method for Time Fractional Partial Differential Equations”, Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simulat, Vol. 16, P. 4208-4214.
14. S. Haq (with A. Hussain, and M. Uddin), 2012, “ On the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Burgers’-Type equations Using Meshless
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Method of Lines”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 218, P. 6280-6290.
15. S. Haq, (with M. Ishaq), 2012, “Solution of strongly nonlinear ordinary differential equations arising in heat transfer with optimal homotopy asymptotic method”, International J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 55, P. 5737-5743.
16. S. Haq, (with A. Hussain and M. Uddin), 2013, “ Numerical solution of Klein-Gordon and sine-Gordon equations by meshless method of lines”, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 37, Issue 11, P. 1351-1366.
17. S. Haq, (with A. Hussain, and M. Uddin. and A. Ali), 2014, “RBFs Meshless Method of Lines for the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Sine-Gordon Equation”, Walailak Journal of Sciences and Technology, Vol. 11, Number 4, P. 349-360.
18. S. Haq, (with M. Ishaq), 2014, “Solution of coupled Whitham-Broer-Kaup equations using Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 84, P. 81-88.
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Dr. M. Amer Qureshi Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences Research in, N-body gravitational simulations of Solar system dynamics. MS (Engineering Sciences) 2004, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan. Ph.D (Applied Mathematics) 2012, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Professional Affiliation Honors and Awards: Member of New Zealand Mathematical Society. Scholarship for attending conference in Melbourne, Austrailia, 2011. Scholarship for attending conference in Beijing, China, 2009. Fellowship for Ph.D by HEC, Pakistan, 2007 Gold medal in M.S., GIK Institute, Pakistan. Member of New Zealand Mathematical Society. email: [email protected]
Dr. Amer’s research interests are on the N-body gravitational simulations of Solar system dynamics varying from small simulations of two bodies over short intervals of integration to simulations of large number of bodies over long-term integration. The N-body problem is the problem of predicting the motion of a group of celestial objects that interact with each other gravitationally. Solving this problem has been motivated by the need to understand the motion of Sun, planets and the visible stars. These problem are solved by numerically integrating the differential equations of motion. Most simulations require the numerical solution of an initial value problem of second-order ordinary differential equation. He presented new integration methods intended for accurate simulations that are more efficient than existing methods. These methods include Explicit Runge-Kutta Nystrom methods for second order ordinary differential equations and implicit Runge-Kutta methods implemented on equivalent first order systems. The numerical experiments are done on a variety of Solar System Problems, giving a fair qualitative and quantitative analysis. In addition, these systems being the examples of Hamiltonian systems, are also been investigated in terms of preserving the conserved quantities, e.g total energy and angular momentum etc. for long-term integration.
Representative Publications:
1. Muhammad Amer Qureshi (with Philip W. Sharp), “High order Explicit Runge-Kutta Nystrom pairs”, Numerical Algorithms, Volume 62, Issue 1 (2013), 133-148 .
2. Muhammad Amer Qureshi (with G. Shabbir), “Proper
Projective Vector fields in Schwarzschild metric”, International journal of Modern Physics letters A, vol. 21 No. 23, (2006) 1795-1802.
3. Muhammad Amer Qureshi (with G. Shabbir), “Proper
Projective Symmetry in Spherically Symmetric Static Space-Times”, International journal of Modern Physics D, vol. 14 (2005) 1451-1463.
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Dr. Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences Research Area: Organic Semiconductors, Organic Sensors, Photovoltaics, Telemetry Systems and Instrumentation.
Engr. 2004, Department of Telecom Engineering, Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. MS. 2008,Faculty of Electronic Engineering, GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan. Ph.D 2012, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan. Professional Affiliation Honors and Awards:
Member of Pakistan Engineering Council. HEC Scholarship from 2008 to 2012. Presented research articles in International conferences held in Malaysia, Turkey. Contacts email: [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria’s research interests are primarily in the area of Organic Semiconductors, Sensors, Photovoltaic and Telemetry system applications. These include fabrication and characterization of organic semiconductor based devices (diodes, transistors, field effect transistors, and sensors) and then finds the applications of these devices in telemetry system applications. Fabrication of the devices includes different kinds of techniques like thermal vacuum evaporator, spin coater, drop casting and electron beam evaporation technique. Similarly the device’s material properties are characterized by SEM, TEM, AFM, XRD and their electrical parameters are characterized by using conventional digital multi-meters, LCR meters, Hygrometers. Thick and thin both kinds of samples were investigated. In the field of Telemetry systems, we are trying to imbed organic semiconductor sensors with the conventional silicon technology. In this regard different kinds of circuits have been investigated. We have fabricated short range TX/Rx. Different kinds of communication techniques have also been analyzed. New designs and applications of organic semiconductor devices have been proposed that have improved technical parameters as sensitivity, efficiency and durability.
Journal Publications
1. I.Murtaza, Kh. S. Karimov, Zubair Ahmad, I. Qazi, M. Mahroof-Tahir, T. A. Khan, T. Amin, “Humidity sensitive
field effect transistor” Jounal of Semiconductor, Vol. 31, No. 5, 2010.
2. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, Zubair Ahmad,
“Impedance Hygrometer based on Cellulose and CuPc” Journal of Semiconductor. Vol. 31, No. 6, 2010.
3. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, “Cellulose and PEPC
based Humidity Sensor for Remote Sensing”Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 12, No. 8, p. 1743 – 1746, 2010.
4. Kh. S. Karimov, M. Saleem, T. A. Qasuria, M. Farooq,
“Surface type humidity Sensor based on Cellulose-PEPC for Telemetry Systems” Journal of Semiconductor. Vol. 32, No. 1, 2011.
5. Kh.S. Karimov, M. Saleem, M. Mahroof-Tahir, T.A. Qasuria, Adam Khan and T.A. Khan, “Displacement-
sensitive organic field effect transistor” International journal of Electronics, iFirst, pp. 1-11, 2011
6. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, “Displacement sensitive
organic field effect transistor for telemetery systems applications” Measurements, vol. 45, pp. 41-46, 2011.
7. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, “Organic-Inorganic Ag/p-CuPc/n-GaAs/Ag Temperature Sensor for Remote Sensing applications” (Submitted)
Conference Publications
8. Kh. S. Karimov, I. Qazi, M. Mahroof-Tahir, I. Murtaza, T. Amin, “Opto Electronic Properties of ITO/CuPc/NiPc/Al
and ITO/NiPc/CuPc/Al Double junction Cells”
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Conference Proceeding, ICEENG, Egypt, p.EE014-1-EE014-13, 2008
9. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, Zubair Ahmad,
“Impedance Hygrometer based on Natural Organic Material” Conference Proceeding, WSEAS Application of Electrical Engineering, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 35-39, 2010.
10. T. A. Qasuria, Kh. S. Karimov, “Organic-Inorganic Photoconductive Cell for Remote Senssing Applications”, 3rd International Conference on nanotechnology, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015.
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Dr. Muhammad Usman
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
PhD in Electronics & Communication, Hanyang University South Korea (2015) Research in Light Emitting Diodes, Optoelectronics, Photonics Registered Engineer in Pakistan Engineering Council Member, Optical Society of America. E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Usman Muhammad joined GIKI in 2015 after completing his PhD in Electronics & Communication from Hanyang University, South Korea in the same year. He was awarded scholarship by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan to pursue his PhD studies.
His current research interests include Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Quantum Electronics, Nanoscale structures and devices in Photonics. His interests also include optical engineering and related subjects.
Representative Publications:
“Measurement of piezoelectric field in single- and double-quantum-well green LEDs using electroreflectance spectroscopy”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53, 098002 (2014).
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Dr. Dur-e-Zehra Baig
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences Research in, Modelling and Control of Physiological System
PhD. 2014, School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. MSc. 2005, Department of Electronics Engineering , GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan. Professional Affiliation Honors and Awards:
Member of Pakistan Engineering Council.
APA (Australian Post Graduate Award)
EETS (Excellency Engineering Top up Scholarship
SEA (Supplementary Excellency Award
PRSS funding for attending the conference, Sandiago, California, America.
Contacts email: [email protected] [email protected]
PhD in Electrical Engineering (Major: Control Engineering ) February 2009–April2014
University of New South Wales, Australia
Produced following projects and documents: Two Projects, four conference papers and one arxiv. Thesis Title: ‘Physiological Control of human heart rate and oxygen consumption during rhythmic exercises.’ The contributions of my PhD thesis are divided into two distinct parts as follows: The First Part of the thesis: (HR regulation system during unknown type of rhythmic activity)
Modelling of human heart rate during various types of rhythmic exercises based on the non-invasive measure of the body movements using the Triaxial-acelerometery. Based on the developed modelling approach an indirect adaptive H∞ control technique was developed in real-time.
The Second Part of the thesis estimates and controls the Oxygen Consumption during Rhythmic Exercises A VO2 estimator was designed and implement in real-time that can approximately predict the dynamic and steady state while a subject engages in rhythmic exercise. The developed estimation methodology uses non-invasive and inexpensive measures of the exercise intensities i.e., heart rate, frequency of body movement, respiratory rate to estimate VO2. The developed estimator was implemented and applied to the development of the estimation-based self biofeedback (SBF) control of VO2 during rhythmic exercise.
Publications
1. Dur-E-Zehra Baig, Hao Su, Teddy M Cheng, Andrey V Savkin, Steven W Su and Branko G Celler. Modelling of human heart rate response during walking, cycling and rowing exercises. 32th Annual Conference Proceeding in IEEE Engineering, Medical and Biological Society, 2553-2556,2010.
2. Dur-E-Zehra Baig, Faizan Javed, Andrey V Savkin, and Branko G Celler. An Adaptive H∞ control
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design for exercise-independent human heart rate regulation system. 9th IEEE, International conference on control and automation (ICCA), 2011:1033–1036, 2011.
Extended Paper has been Submitted in the journal of Physiological Measurement. 1. Dur-E-Zehra Baig, Andrey V Savkin, and Branko G
Celler. Estimation of oxygen consumption during cycling and rowing exercises. 34th Annual Conference Proceeding in IEEE Engineering Medical and Biological Society, 2012:711–714, 2012.
Extended paper has been submitted for possible publication in a journal of Medical, Biological Engineering and Computing (MBEC). 1. Dur-E-Zehra Baig, Andrey V Savkin, and Branko G
Celler. Self biofeedback control of oxygen consumption (VO2) during cycling exercise: Based on its real time estimate. 35th Annual Conference Proceeding in IEEE Engineering Medical and Biological Society, 2013:711–714, 2013.
2. Physiological Control of Human Heart Rate and Oxygen Consumption during Rhythmic Exercises. Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Systems and Control (cs.SY). cite as: [q-bio.QM]arXiv:1403.7105.
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Dr. Oleg Artamonov Assistant Professor of Mathematics Research in Applied Mathematics, Topology, Computer Algebra, Mathematical Modelling. Ph. D. 2010 University of Kaiserslautern Germany M. Sc. 1999 St. Petersburg State University Russia Postdoc 2011 ASSMS, Lahore Pakistan DAAD Scholarship 2006 - 2009 “Mathematics in Industry and Commerce” program Email: [email protected]
Dr. Oleg Artamonov has joined Faculty of Engineering Sciences at GIK Institute in 2015, and is teaching the “Calculus” course. He accomplished his doctoral degree in mathematics in the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and got both academia and non-academia research experience. He used to teach mathematical courses in universities (St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg University of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Habib University), work in research institutes (Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute, Kuang-Chi Institute of Advanced Technology) and companies (EP-Research at Royal Dutch Shell, Essex Lake Group LLC). Current research interests are mostly in applied mathematics,
computer algebra, algebraic topology, and mathematical
modelling. His interests also include history and philosophy of
mathematics, calculus, computational topology, differential
geometry.
Representative Publications:
1. O. Artamonov, “Topological Methods for the Representation and Analysis of Exploration Data in Oil Industry”, University of Kaiserslautern, August 2010
2. O. Artamonov, “De Divina Proportione” (On the Divine Proportion), Habib University, April 2015.
3. O. Artamonov, “Finding a Solution to Predict the Days in Hospital Based on Previous Patient’s Statistics”, Advanced Science Letters, accepted on 29-11-2016.
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Dr. Muhammad Zahir Iqbal Assistant Professor Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Research Interests Electronic and Quantum Device Engineering, Spintronics, Optoelectronics, Experimental Condensed Matters Physics, Materials Chemistry, High Frequency Device Applications -Post Doctorate: Georgia State University, USA -Ph.D in Physics, Sejong University, South Korea -Ph.D in Computational & Applied Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain -M.Phil in Physics, GC University Lahore
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Muhammad Zahir Iqbal’s research focuses on the mesoscopic investigation of structural and electrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. These materials include carbon nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride, Mo/WS2 and heterostructures of 2D mesoscopic materials. The distinctive properties of these low dimensional systems are commonly understood by considering quantum effects, optoelectronic and spin transport. The use of modern state-of-the-art device fabrication techniques and characterization are substantial parts of this research. Representative Publications: 1. M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Room temperature spin valve effect in NiFe/WS2/Co
junctions, Scientific Reports (Nature), 2016. (IF=5.578) 2. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al.High-mobility and air-stable single-layer
WS2 field-effect transistors sandwiched between chemical vapor deposition-grown hexagonal BN films, Scientific Reports (Nature), 2015. (IF= 5.578)
3. M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Ultraviolet-light-driven doping modulation in chemical vapor deposition grown graphene, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015. (IF = 4.493)
4. M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Interlayer dependent polarity of magnetoresistance in graphene spin valves, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 298-302, 3(2), 2014. (IF= 4.696)
5. M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Enhanced intervalley scattering in artificially stacked double layer graphene, New Journal of Physics, 083020, 16, 2014. (IF = 4.063)
6. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Tuning the electrical properties of exfoliated graphene layers by deep ultraviolet irradiation, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5404-5410, 2, 2014. (IF= 4.696)
7. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, High frequency impedance of single-walled carbon nanotube networks on transparent flexible substrate, Physica Status Solidi B, 2461-2465, 251(12), 2014. (IF= 1.605)
8. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Spin valve effect of NiFe/graphene/NiFe junctions, Nano Research, 373-380, 6(5), 2013. (IF= 7.392)
9. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, The structural and electrical evolution of chemical vapor deposition grown graphene by electron beam irradiation induced disorder, Carbon, 361-377, 59, 2013. (IF= 5.868)
10. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Formation of p–n junction with stable p-doping in graphene field effect transistors using deep UV irradiation, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3078-3083, 1, 2013. (IF= 4.696)
11. M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Effect of e-beam irradiation on graphene layer grown by chemical vapor deposition, Journal of Applied Physics, 111, 084307, 2012. (IF= 2.210)
12. M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Capacitive tunnels in single-walled carbon nanotube networks on flexible substrate, Journal of Applied Physics, 063712, 111, 2012. (IF= 2.210)
13. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al., Tailoring the electrical and photo-electrical properties of WS2 field effect transistor by selective n-type chemical doping, RSC Advances, 2016. (IF= 3.840)
14. M. F. Khan, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Stable and reversible doping of graphene by KNO3 and photo-desorption current response, RSC Advances, 2015. (IF= 3.840)
15. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Superior characteristics of graphene field effect transistor enclosed by chemical-vapor-deposition-grown hexagonal boron nitride, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 7776, 2, 2014. (IF= 4.696)
16. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Deep-ultraviolet-light-driven performance tuning of WS2 field-effect transistor, Nanoscale, 2014. (IF = 7.394)
17. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al. Edge oxidation effect of chemical vapor deposition grown graphene nanoconstriction, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4207-4213, 6(6), 2014. (IF = 5.90)
18. M. F. Khan, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Improving electrical properties of graphene by chemical doping, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 055004, 15, 2014. (IF= 3.752)
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19. M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Modification of structural and electrical properties graphene layers by Pt adsorbates, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 055002, 15, 2014. (IF= 3.752)
20. M. F. Khan, M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Photo- current response of MoS2 field effect transistor by deep ultraviolet light in atmospheric and N2 gas environments, Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014. (IF = 5.90)
21. G. R. Turpu, M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Relaxation in bi-stable resistive states of chemical vapor deposition grown graphene, Thin Solid Films, 468-472, 522, 2012. (Impact factor = 1.89)
22. M. W. Iqbal, A. K. Singh, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Raman fingerprint of doping due to metal adsorbates on graphene, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 335301, 24, 2012. (Impact factor = 2.546)
23. J. Choi, H. Kim, J. Park, M. W. Iqbal, M. Z. Iqbal et al. Jung, Enhanced performance of graphene by using gold film for transfer and masking process, Current Applied Physics, 1045-1050, 4(8), 2014. (Impact factor = 2.026)
24. N. F.Anglada, J. P.-Puigdemont, J. Figueras, M. Z. Iqbal, et al, Flexible, transparent electrodes using carbon nanotubes, Nanoscale Research Letters, 571, 7, 2012. (IF = 2.524)
25. S. Hussain, M. A. Shahzed, D. Vikraman, M. Z. Iqbal, et al , Controlled synthesis and optical properties of polycrystalline molybdenum disulfide atomic layers grown by chemical vapor deposition, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 369, 653, 2015. (IF = 2.999)
26. A. K. Singh, M. W. Iqbal, V. K. Singh, M. Z. Iqbal, Molecular n-doping of chemical vapor deposition grown graphene, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15168, 22, 2012. (IF= 6.101)
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Mr. Sheharyar
Pervez
Research Associate
of Engineering
Sciences
BS Electronics
2002-2006,
Department of
Electronics
GIK Institute
MS Physics 2008 -
2009
Email:
Mr. Sheharyar Pervez did his Bachelors from GIK Institute in 2006 his Masters in Physics from Indiana University Bloomington in 2009. His area of interest in subatomic physics.
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Engr. Shahid Ahmad Research Associate of Engineering Sciences Research interests: Stochastic Modeling,
Graph Theory, Nonlinear Optimization. MS Applied Mathematics
2005 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA MBA
1998 Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
1984 University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan Email: [email protected]
Mr. Shahid Ahmad has considerable
professional experience in the area of Operations
Research. His research interests span different
areas of Operations Research and Applied
Mathematics especially in Stochastic Modeling,
Graph Theory, and Nonlinear Optimization.
Currently, he looks after “Modeling and
Simulation” stream of Faculty of Engineering
Sciences and teaches basic to advanced level
courses in Modeling & Simulation and Applied
Mathematics & Statistics. He has completed his
MS degree from University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC), USA, and an MBA degree
from Institute of Business Administration (IBA),
Karachi, Pakistan. Currently he is serving as
Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering
Sciences at GIKI since 2005. Before joining GIKI,
he has taught at University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC), University of Pittsburgh, and
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
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Mr. Naveed Ahmed Azam Research Associate of Engineering Sciences. Research Interests Coding theory, cognitive radio, cryptography, commutative algebra and morphological image processing M.Phil in Algebraic coding theory in 2013 from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2011 from Qauid-i-AzamUniversity, Islamabad. Awards/ Affiliations
Chancellor Gold Medal in M.Phil.
Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal in M.Phil.
Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal in M.Sc.
Mr. Naveed Ahmed Azam completed his M.Phil. research work in Algebraic coding theory at Department of Mathematics of Quaid-i-Azam University. During his M.Phil.research he also worked on Cognitive radio and Cryptography. After his M. Phil. in 2013, Mr. Azam was awarded Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor gold medals. In 2013, Mr. Azam served as Lecturer at International Islamic university, Islamabad and University of Wah, WahCantt for different time periods. Mr. Azam joined GIKI in 2014.
Currently, he is working on mathematical aspects of polynomial codes, cognitive radio and cryptography. His interests also include commutative algebra and morphological image processing. Representative Publications: [1] N. A. Azam, A novel fuzzy encryption technique based on multiple right translated AES Gray S-boxes and phase embedding. [Accepted in Security and Network Communication, 2015]. [2] N. A. Azam, Characterization of cyclic codes over {B[X;(1/m)Z₀]}_{m>1} and efficient encoding decoding algorithm for cyclic codes, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 10.1080/00207160.2016.1158815, (2015). (with T. Shah) [3] N. A. Azam, S-boxes based on Affine mapping and orbit of power function, 3 D Research, 10.1007/s13319-015-0043-x, (2015). (with M. Khan) [4] N. A. Azam, Right translated AES Gray S-box, Security and Network Communication, DOI: 10.1002/sec.1110, (2014). (with M. Khan) [5] N. A. Azam, A new transmission model in cognitive radio based on cyclic generalized polynomial codes for bandwidth reduction, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, DOI: 10.1142/S1793830914500591, (2014). (with T. Shah and A. A. Andrade) [6] N. A. Azam, A. A. Andrade, A. Naveed, Spectrum distribution in cognitive radio: Error correcting codes prespective, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/864916, (2014). (with S. A. Hussain and T. Shah) [7] N. A. Azam, Stego optical encryption based on chaotic S-box transformation, Optics and Laser Technology, 61: 50–56, (2014). (with I. Hussain and T. Shah) [8] N. A. Azam, Goppa codes over certain semigroups , International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 27: 65-71, (2014). (with A. A. Andrade, T. Shah and S. A. Hussain ) [9] N. A. Azam, Novel data transmission approach in cognitive radio, 13th International Pure Mathematics Conference, Islamabad, 1-3 Sep. 2012. (with T. Shah)
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Ms. Eram Asghar
Research Associate Faculty of Engineering Sciences BS 2007-2011, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore MS 2012-2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUST College of E & ME Rawalpindi email: [email protected]
Eram Asghar holds her post graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in manufacturing system design. Her research interests are robotics and industrial automation.
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Mr. Zafar Iftikhar
Research Interest Astrophysics, Nuclear physics and Computational Physics.
M.Sc (Physic) Dept. of Physics, University of Karachi. M.S (Engineering Sciences) Faculty of Engineering Sciences, G.I.K Institute. Awards/Scholarships
Graduate Assistantship Award, G.I.K Institute
Philips Gold Medal in M.Sc (Physics), U.o.K
U.o.K Alumni Association, Baltimore Scholarship for 2012.
E-mail: [email protected]
Mr. Zafar Iftikhar pursued his M.Sc from the Dept. of Physics,
U.o.K and gained on hand experience on 5MV Tandem Palletron
Accelerator at Experimental Physics Directorate, National Centre for
Physics during his M.Sc research work there. After his M.Sc in 2012,
Mr. Zafar Iftikhar was awarded with Graduate Assistantship award at
G.I.K Institute and did his M.S research work in 2015 in
theoretical/computational nuclear physics from Faculty of Engineering
Sciences, G.I.K Institute. Mr. Zafar Iftikhar joined the G.I.K Institute
in 2015 as a Research Associate.
His current research interests include dynamics of supernova explosions, nucleosynthesis calculations and computational physics problems. Representative Publications:
1. “First-forbidden β-decay rates, energy rates of β-delayed neutrons and probability of β –delayed neutron emissions for neutron-rich nickel isotopes”, J.-Un Nabi, N. Cakmak and Z. Iftikhar, Eur. Phys. J. A, 52, 5 (2016).
2. “First-forbidden transitions and stellar β-decay rates of
Zn and Ge isotopes”, J.-Un Nabi, N. Cakmak, S. Stoica and Z. Iftikhar, Phys. Scr., 90, 115301 (2015).
3. “First-forbidden β-decay Rates on Zn and Ge Isotopes for
Speeding up r-process Calculations”, J.-Un Nabi, N. Cakmak, S. Stoica and Z. Iftikhar, 1st International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics, 10-14 Feb 2015, Dept. of Methamatics, U.o.P, Lahore.
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Lab Engineers/Teaching Assistants
Umair Zeb
BS (GIK Institute)
Bilal Ahmad
BS (GIK Institute)
Muhammad Ghawas
BS (GIK Institute)
Shah Fahad Farooqi
BS (COMSATS, Abbottabad)
Saim Ali
BS (GIK Institute)
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Samples of Survey Forms - Appendix C
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Proforma: 3
Survey of Graduating Students (To be filled out by graduating students in last semester / year before
the award of degree)
The survey seeks graduating students’ input on the quality of education they received in their program
and the level of preparation they had at university. The purpose of this survey is to assess the quality of
the academic programs. We seek your help in completing this survey.
A: Very satisfied B: Satisfied C: Uncertain D: Dissatisfied E: Very dissatisfied
1. The work in the program is educative.
A B C D E
2. The program is effective in enhancing team-working abilities.
A B C D E
3. The program administration is effective in supporting learning.
A B C D E
4. The program is effective in developing analytical and problem solving skills.
A B C D E
5. The program is effective in developing independent thinking.
A B C D E
6. The program is effective in developing written communication skills.
A B C D E
7. The program is effective in developing planning abilities.
A B C D E
8. The objectives of the program have been fully achieved
A B C D E
9. Whether the contents of curriculum are advanced and meet program objectives
A B C D E
10. Faculty was able to meet the program objectives
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A B C D E
11. Environment was conducive for learning
A B C D E
12. Whether the Infrastructure of the department was good.
A B C D E
13. Whether the program was comprised of Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
A B C D E
14. Whether scholarships/ grants were available to students in case of hardship
A B C D E
Answer question 9 if applicable.
9. The internship experience is effective in enhancing
a. Ability to work in teams (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
b Independent thinking (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
c. Appreciation of ethical Values (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
d. Professional development (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
e. Time management skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
f Judgment (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
g. Discipline (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
h. The link between theory and (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
practice
10. What are the best aspects of your program?
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11. What aspects of your program could be improved?
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You may use additional sheets for questions 10 & 11 if needed.
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Proforma: 5
Faculty Survey (To be submitted on annual basis by each faculty member)
The Purpose of this survey is to assess faculty members’ satisfaction level and the effectiveness of
programs in place to help them progress and excel in their profession. We seek your help in completing
this survey and the information provided will be kept in confidence. Indicate how satisfied are you with
each of the following aspects of you situation at your department?
A: Very satisfied B: Satisfied C: Uncertain D: Dissatisfied E: Very dissatisfied.
1. Your mix of research, teaching and community service.
A B C D E
2. The intellectual stimulation of your work.
A B C D E
3. Type of teaching / research you currently do.
A B C D E
4. Your interaction with students.
A B C D E
5. Cooperation you receive from colleagues.
A B C D E
6. The mentoring available to you.
A B C D E
7. Administrative support from the department.
A B C D E
8. Providing clarity about the faculty promotion process.
A B C D E
9. Your prospects for advancement and progress through ranks.
A B C D E
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10. Salary and compensation package.
A B C D E
11. Job security and stability at the department.
A B C D E
12. Amount of time you have for yourself and family.
A B C D E
13. The overall climate at the department.
A B C D E
14. Whether the department is utilizing your experience and knowledge
A B C D E
15. What are the best programs / factors currently available in your department that enhance your
motivation and job satisfaction:
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
16. Suggest programs / factors that could improve your motivation and job satisfaction?
________________________________________________________________________
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Information about faculty member
i. Academic rank:
A: Professor B: Associate Professor C: Assistant Professor D: Lecturer
E: Other
ii. Years of service:
A: 1-5 B: 6-10 C: 11-15 D: 16-20 E: >20
Name: __________________ Signature: _____________________ Date: ______________
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Proforma : 6
SURVEY OF DEPARTMENT OFFERING Ph.D. PROGRAMS
The following information is required for EACH Department in which a Ph.D. program is offered.
1 General Information:
1.1 Name of Department
1.2 Name of Faculty
1.3 Date of initiation of Ph.D. program
1.4 Total number of academic journals subscribed in area relevant to
Ph.D. program.
1.5 Number of Computers available per Ph.D. student
1.6 Total Internet Bandwidth available to all the students in the
Department.
2 Faculty Resources:
2.1 Number of faculty members holding Ph.D. degree in the
department.
2.2 Number of HEC approved Ph.D. Advisors in the department.
3 Research Output:
3.1 Total number of articles published last year in International
Academic Journals that are authored by faculty members and
students in the department.
3.2 Total number of articles published last year in Asian Academic
Journals that are authored by faculty members and students in the
department.
3.3 Total number of ongoing research projects in the department
funded by different organizations
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3.4 Number of post-graduate students in the department holding
scholarships/fellowships.
3.5 Total Research Funds available to the Department from all sources.
3.6 Number of active international linkages involving exchange of
researchers/students/faculty etc. (Attach Details).
4 Student Information:
4.1 Number of Ph.D. degrees conferred to date to students from the
Department during the past three academic years.
4.2 Number of Ph.D. students currently enrolled in the department.
4.3 Ratio of number of students accepted to total number of applicants
for Ph.D. Program.
5 Program Information
5.1 Entrance requirements into Ph.D. Program (M.Sc. / M.Phil.) Indicate
subjects or M.Sc. / M.Phil.
5.2 Is your Ph.D. program based on research only? (Y/N)
5.3 Maximum number of years in which a Ph.D. degree has to be
completed after initial date of enrollment in Ph.D. program.
5.4 Total number of post M.Sc. (16 year equivalent) courses required
for Ph.D.
5.5 Total number of M.Phil. level courses taught on average in a Term /
Semester.
5.6 Total number of Ph.D. level courses taught on average in a Term /
Semester.
5.7 Do your students have to take/write:
a. Ph.D. Qualifying examination (Y/N)
b. Comprehensive examination (Y/N)
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c. Research paper in HEC approved Journal
d. Any other examination (Y/N)
5.8 Total number of International examiners to which the Ph.D.
dissertation is sent.
5.9 How is the selection of an examiner from technologically advanced
countries carried out?
5.10 Is there a minimum residency requirement (on campus) for award
of Ph.D. degree?
6 Additional Information
6.1 Any other information that you would like to provide.
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Proforma: 7
Alumni Survey (To be filled by Alumni - after the completion of each academic year)
The purpose of this survey is to obtain alumni input on the quality of education they received and the
level of preparation they had at University. The purpose of this survey is to assess the quality of the
academic program. We seek your help in completing this survey.
A: Excellent B: Very good C: Good D: Fair E: Poor
1. Knowledge 1. Math, Science, Humanities and professional discipline, (if applicable) (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Problem formulation and solving skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Collecting and analyzing appropriate data (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4. Ability to link theory to practice. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5. Ability to design a system component or process (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6. IT knowledge (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
II Communications Skills
1. Oral communication (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Report writing (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Presentation skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
III Interpersonal Skills
1. Ability to work in teams. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Ability to work in arduous /Challenging situation
3. Independent thinking (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4. Appreciation of ethical Values (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
IV Management /leadership Skills
1. Resource and Time management skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Judgment (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Discipline (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
V General Comments
Please make any additional comments or suggestions, which you think would help strengthen our
programs. (New courses that you would recommend and courses that you did not gain much
from)
______________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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VI. Career Opportunities
VII. Department Status
1. Infrastructure (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Faculty (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Repute at National level (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4. Repute at international level (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
VIII Alumni Information
1. Name (Optional)___________________________________________________
2. Name of organization_______________________________________________
3. Position in organization_____________________________________________
4. Year of graduation_________________________________________________
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Proforma: 8
Employer Survey
(To be filled in by Employer - after the completion of each academic year)
The purpose of this survey is to obtain employers’ input on the quality of education University of
is providing and to assess the quality of the academic program. The survey is with regard to
University of graduates employed at your organization. We seek your help in completing this
survey.
A: Excellent B: Very good C: Good D: Fair E: Poor
I. Knowledge.
1. Math, Science, Humanities and professional discipline, (if applicable)
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Problem formulation and solving skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Collecting and analyzing appropriate data (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4. Ability to link theory to Practice (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5. Ability to design a system component or process (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6. Computer knowledge. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
II. Communication Skills
1. Oral communication (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Report writing (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Presentation skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
III. Interpersonal Skills
1. Ability to work in teams (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2. Leadership (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Independent thinking (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4. Motivation (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5. Reliability (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6. Appreciation of ethical values (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
IV. Work skills
1. Time management skills (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
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2. Judgment (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. Discipline (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
V. General Comments
Please make any additional comments or suggestions, which you think would help strengthen
our programs for the preparation of graduates who will enter your field. Did you know as to
what to expect from graduates?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________
VI. Information About Organization
1. Organization Name________________________________________________
2. Type of Business__________________________________________________
3. Number of Graduates (specify the program) in your Organization:
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Faculty Course Review Reports - Appendix D
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Proforma 2
Faculty Course Review Report (To be filled by each teacher at the time of Course
Completion)
For completion by the course instructor and transmission to Head of Department of his/her nominee
(Dept. Quality Officer) together with copies of the Course Syllabus outline
Department: ES Faculty:
FES
Course Code: ES 569 Title: Advanced Quantum Methods
Session: Spring 2012 Semester: Autumn
Spring Summer
Credit Value: 3 CH Level:
MS
Prerequisites:
Name of Course
Instructor:
Prof. Dr. Jameel-
Un Nabi
No. of
Students
Contact
Hours
Lectures
32
Other (Please State)
Seminars
3
Assessment Methods:
give precise details (no & length of assignments,
exams, weightings etc)
Assignments/Quizzes (20%), Mid-term (30%)
Final (50%)
Distribution of Grade/Marks and other Outcomes: (adopt the grading system as required)
Undergraduate Originally
Registered
%Grade
A
%Grade
B
%Grade
C
D E F No
Grade
Withdrawa
l
Total
No. of Students 1 student
audited
my class
Post-Graduate Originally
Registered
%Grade
A
%Grade
B
%Grade
C
D E No Grade Withdrawa
l
Total
No. of Students
3
33% 67% 3
Overview/Evaluation (Course Co-coordinator’s Comments)
Feedback: first summarize, then comment on feedback received from:
(These boxes will expand as you type in your answer.)
x
x
x
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1) Student (Course Evaluation) Questionnaires The students enjoyed the course. The nature of assignments and quizzes were to make
the students understand the mathematical foundation as well as physical concepts
behind quantum world.
2) External Examiners or Moderators (if any)
3) Student /staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) or equivalent, (if any)
4) Curriculum: comment on the continuing appropriateness of the Course curriculum in relation
to the intended learning outcomes (course objectives) and its compliance with the HEC
Approved / Revised National Curriculum Guidelines
The course is in a process of evolution. It was only offered twice to very few students. It is
expected that with the increase of students the effectiveness of this course would be more
visible.
5) Assessment: comment on the continuing effectiveness of method(s) of assessment in relation
to the intended learning outcomes (Course objectives)
The student got a feeling as to how the micro system functions. The course was also audited by
an undergrad student and a faculty member.
6) Enhancement: comment on the implementation of changes proposed in earlier
Faculty Course Review Reports
N.A.
7) Outline any changes in the future delivery or structure of the Course that this
semester/term’s experience may prompt
Due to the broad spectrum of students from various engineering disciplines, the instructor had
to devote a considerable time in covering the pre-reqs of this course. In future we may need to
define pre-reqs for this course.
Name: Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi Date: 17-12-2016
Name: Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi Date: 17-12-2016
(Head of Department)
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Proforma 2
Faculty Course Review Report
(To be filled by each teacher at the time of Course
Completion)
For completion by the course instructor and transmission to Head of Department of his/her nominee
(Dept. Quality Officer) together with copies of the Course Syllabus outline
Department: Faculty: FES
Course Code: ES569 Title: Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Session: 2010/11 Semester:
Autumn
Spring Summer
Credit Value: 3 Level:
Prerequisites: 2
Name of Course
Instructor:
No. of
Students
Contact
Hours
2
Lectures
45
Other (Please State)
Seminars
Assessment Methods:
give precise details (no & length of assignments,
exams, weightings etc)
Numerical questions, Mid term exam, Final exam
Distribution of Grade/Marks and other Outcomes: (adopt the grading system as required)
Undergraduate Originally
Registered
%Grade
A
%Grade
B
%Grade
C
D E F No
Grade
Withdrawa
l
Total
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No. of Students
Post-Graduate Originally
Registered
%Grade
A
%Grade
B
%Grade
C
D E No Grade Withdrawa
l
Total
No. of Students
2
1 1 2
Overview/Evaluation (Course Co-coordinator’s Comments)
Feedback: first summarize, then comment on feedback received from:
(These boxes will expand as you type in your answer.)
1) Student (Course Evaluation) Questionnaires
2) External Examiners or Moderators (if any)
3) Student /staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) or equivalent, (if any)
4) Curriculum: comment on the continuing appropriateness of the Course curriculum in relation
to the intended learning outcomes (course objectives) and its compliance with the HEC
Approved / Revised National Curriculum Guidelines
5) Assessment: comment on the continuing effectiveness of method(s) of assessment in relation
to the intended learning outcomes (Course objectives)
6) Enhancement: comment on the implementation of changes proposed in earlier
Faculty Course Review Reports
7) Outline any changes in the future delivery or structure of the Course that this
semester/term’s experience may prompt
Name: ______Dr. Bakhadir__________________ Date: __Dec 2016________
(Course Instructor)
Name: __Dr. Jameelun Nabi_________________ Date: __Dec 2016_________
(Head of Department)
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Sample of Filled Proforma - Appendix E
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Proforma 1
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Proforma 2
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Proforma 3
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Proforma 4
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Proforma 5
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Proforma 6
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Proforma 7
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Proforma 8
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Proforma 9
Faculty profiles are given in the Appendix B
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Proforma 10
