National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Motto	Who has taught (the writing) by the Pen, Has taught man that which He Knew not.
Established	July 1, 2000
Type	Private
Chancellor	Senator Wasim Sajjad
Rector	Dr. Amir Muhammed
Students	Over 6,000
Location	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Campus	Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Faisalabad
Nickname	Fastians
Affiliations	Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Engineering Council
Website	http://www.nu.edu.pk/

The National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES or FAST-NU) is a university in Pakistan with headquarters at Islamabad and campuses at Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, and Mathematics.

Its history dates back to 1985 when the Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology set up institutes for computer science in the cities of Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan. Later on campuses were set up in the capital city of Pakistan (Islamabad), and Peshawar also.

NUCES is recognized as one of the top engineering universities by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) as well as by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

The National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences received its charter in 2000 in the Federal Area (capital). It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

Departments

The university has four departments in each of its campuses. These are:

• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering (Lahore Campus)
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Management Sciences
• Department of Humanities and Sciences

Campuses of NUCES

The university has campuses at Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar.

Karachi Campus

NU-FAST Karachi Main Campus

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The Karachi Campus is divided into the Main Campus and City Campus. The Karachi Main campus is spread over a 9-acre (36,000 m²) site. It has separate buildings for the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering degrees. It is located in Shah Latif Town on National Highway, 10 km east of Karachi airport. The staff and students commute to the campus in transport arranged by a private contractor. The Head of Department for the Computer Science department is Dr. Zubair A. Sheikh, previously the director of the campus, and Dr.Shahid Sheikh is the head for the Electrical Engineering (EE) department. The director is Dr. Asim Ur Rehman.

Notable Alumni

• Shehper Hasan, works very hard at Salsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Earlier directors are:

• Dr.Zubair Ahmed Sheikh (2004–2010)
• Dr. Hilal Qureshi (1991–2004)
• Prof. Javed Qureshi (1987–1991)

Islamabad Campus

Islamabad campus is located in sector H-11/4, next to International Islamic University. The director is Dr. Waseem Ikram. The campus has four departments.

• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Science
• Business Management
• Accounting Finance

Headquarters of FAST-NU, Islamabad

NU-FAST Islamabad

Peshawar Campus

The Peshawar campus was established in 2001. It is housed in an impressive building, which has an architectural design similar to that of the Lahore and Karachi campuses. The green, well maintained lawns that surround the building add to the scenic beauty of the whole setup. The Campus covers an area of 4 acres and is located in the Industrial Estate, Hayatabad. The satellite town of Hayatabad flanks it, which is an ideal place for students to find residence in privately run hostels. The historic Khyber Pass is within an hours drive from the Campus.

The Campus has all the physical facilities that a modern educational institution should have. It has an excellent Intranet facility with a site for the students to inform them about their class attendance, grades and other academic information. The campus has fully air-conditioned, multi-media installed classrooms and lecture theatres, a hall, a library and Computer/ Engineering laboratories that have latest equipment. The library has a collection of over 6,000 books and subscribes to 35 journals, magazines and newspapers. It has computers for students to do online searches for study materials. It also has the distinction of being one of the first libraries in the province to be computerized.

The campus has facilities for co-curricular activities. There are courts for volley ball, basketball and badminton. In addition, there are arrangements for playing indoor games and separate air-conditioned cafeterias for the male and female students. The students have a number of societies/clubs where they can learn and exhibit their talents.

Since this campus is the youngest of all the four campuses, it is in its growing stage with regard to student strength, which is presently one of its positive qualities. With a smaller number of students there is an atmosphere of friendliness. The faculty members know all students by name and give them individual attention. The traditional hospitality of the area also makes the students feel at home.

Degree Programs

The Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar campus offers the following degree programs:

• Bachelor of Science
  • Electrical Engineering with specialization in Telecommunication, Electronics and Computer (new program from 2009)
  • Civil Engineering (Lahore Campus is offering new program from 2011)
  • Computer Sciences
• BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration)
• Bachelor of Accounting Finance
• Master of Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Networking (Karachi Campus)
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Software Project Management
  • Mathematics
• MBA (Master of Business Administration)

• PhD
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Electrical Engineering

PEC Accreditation

Electrical Engineering programs of all campuses are accredited by the Pakistan Engineering Council.

Festivals

Tamasha (Islamabad)

Avaaz(Tamasha'12) - an event, under a student society of FAST Islamabad. Tamasha is an attempt to provide the youth with a platform, where they can express their thoughts through various mediums. This three-day event would channelize the enormous energy present in those who would participate.

This national event covers all means of expression like theatre competition, movie competition, photography, sketching, visage canvas, list goes on and social events encompassing Musical Evening, Mushaira, Comedy Night, Sham-e-Chiraghan, and Formal Dinner. Along with Seminars and Workshops, this event tends to provide a thought-provoking platform for discerning students, to refresh the true essence of their emotions and sensitivity with agility and brain-power.

Digitaleyez (Karachi)

An all-Pakistan inter-university photography, media and design competition, Digital eyez is a photography event that was held at FAST, Karachi in the year 2008. It was attended by photographers from universities around the country. The event held competitions in animation, web designing, on spot layout, and quiz.

SOFTEC (Lahore)

SOFTEC (SOFTware Exhibition and Competition) is a software competitions in Pakistan. SOFTEC is organized every year at the Lahore campus of NUCES. It mainly comprises a software competition and programming contest with the collaboration of ACMs NUCES Chapter, Engineering Project Competition with the collaboration of NCS (NUCES Circuit Society), Micro Controller Interfacing Competition in collaboration with NUCES Circuit Society, G3n.x gaming competition, Ideas Xtreme (where students from Grade School display their ideas), G3n. X (Generation Xtreme) Gaming Competition and book festival.

The 6th International and 16th National SOFTEC was held on 9–10 April 2011.

PROCOM.net (Karachi)

PROCOM started as the software Programming Competition that is organized every year at the Karachi campus. PROCOM comprised two main competitions, Programming and Software competition. Students from all over the country are invited to take part in these competitions.

In 2005, the scope of PROCOM was extended to include hardware and gaming competitions. PROCOM.net '05 received recognition and appreciation from the offices of the President and the Prime Minister.

In April 2006, the 7th annual PROCOM.net event was held. The 8th PROCOM.net was held in April 2007.

In 2011, PROCOM.net plans to broadening the event to 19 competitions along with the introduction of social gatherings in the form of fun evening, art exhibition, IT Cafe and formal dinner.

NUTEC (Peshawar)

NUTEC, National University Technology Competition, is an annual event at FAST National University (FAST-NU) Peshawar. Various competitions are held in this event such as Engineering Quiz, Gaming, Programming and exhibitions are also held in engineering and software.

Marketing Mavericks (Islamabad)

This is a marketing event held biannually at the Islamabad campus., "Marketing Mavericks" unites business students, professionals, entrepreneurs, consultants and academicians to debate on marketing issues, trends and opportunities in Pakistan. The winning group of the event is awarded the trophy, "The Jolly Marketer" and the best performer of the event is awarded with "The Green Jacket" and "Marketing Mavericks Medal of Honour". Awards are distributed to organizations in the areas of Service Quality Excellence and Marketing Innovation. The event is sponsored by corporations, local and multinational.

Student organizations

FES(Fast Engineering Society)

FAST Engineering Society is currently based at Islamabad Campus.

ACM Student Chapter

acm Student Chapter -> nuces-acm.

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter was established on 12 April 2001, by Junaid Haroon Siddiqui and Agha Adeel Saadat. The chapter advances the science of information processing. ACM Chapter is part of programming, software, gaming and quiz competitions organized in the university.

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter hosts international, national and local competitions in the fields of software project, software quiz, programming and gaming. It has received participants from most countries in the region, and from all major educational institutions in Pakistan.

NUCES-ACM organizes programming, software, quiz and gaming competitions, short courses, workshops and seminars for the students of the university throughout the year. The Chapter is responsible for sponsoring and organizing all student trips to other educational institutions in the country and abroad. There are 200 registered members of the society.

IEEE Student Branch

The IEEE Student Branch is a IEEE student entity, under which the university can organize seminars, conferences, congresses, lectures and invited talks of professionals, academicians and researchers. Three independent IEEE Student Branches exist in its three campuses - Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. IEEE NUCES-Karachi organized IEEE PSC 2007 on July 6–7, 2007, ProCom.Net 2009 on May 2, 2009 and number of seminars and workshops. They also participated in IEEE PSC 2008 on August 16–17, 2008, IEEE KSSC 2008 on December 26, 2008, IEEE PSC 2009 at IEEE SEECS, NUST, Islamabad during May 29–31, 2009 and IEEE PSC 2010 at Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi on October 29–31, 2010.

The Webmasters

The Webmasters is a student organization of FAST-NU Karachi. The function of the team is the development and maintenance of the Karachi campus portal khi.nu.edu.pk with features including Courses Forum, Student Blog, Career Centre, Campus News and Graduate Profile.

FASTRising

FASTRising is a group of people (students, faculty members and alumni) from FAST NU, Lahore who believe in the supremacy of law and the rule of meritocracy. They belong to diverse ideological and political backgrounds and have collaborated to form this platform to:

• Strive for the restoration of the constitution as it was in the early hours of 3rd Nov, 2007
• Raise the level of political awareness of the FAST-NU family members (students, faculty members and alumni)

See also

• Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)
• FAST Institute of Computer Science
• Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing

External links

• Official website