Khulna University of Engineering & Technology

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
খুলনা প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Former names	Khulna Engineering College (1967-1986); Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna (1986-2003)
Motto	প্রভু আমায় জ্ঞান দাও।
Motto in English	Oh Lord! Bestow me with Knowledge
Type	Public, Coeducational, engineering Technological
Established	1967
Endowment	$8 million (2016)
Chancellor	President of Bangladesh
Vice-Chancellor	Quazi Sazzad Hossain
Academic staff	320
Administrative staff	557
Students	5682
Undergraduates	4635
Postgraduates	967
Address	Teligati,PhulBari Gate, Khulna 9203, Khulna, Bangladesh
Campus	Suburban, 101 acres (0.41 km²)
Nickname	KUET
Website	kuet.ac.bd

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Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (Template:Lang-bn, pronounced [kʰulna prokouʃɔl o prodʒukti biʃːobiddalɔe̯]) commonly known as KUET ([kue̯ʈ]; Template:Lang-bn), formerly BIT, Khulna, is a public engineering university of Bangladesh emphasizing education and research on engineering and technology.

History

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology has a background of historical significance. Although this institution has completed an era as a university, its laying foundation began 49 years ago. This university was established in 1967 as ‘Khulna Engineering College’ under the University of Rajshahi. But during the period of the liberation war, the development activities of the Erstwhile Engineering College was suspended. After the Independence of Bangladesh in the year of 1971, the development works were started again in swing full. Overcoming all the constraints, the academic activities of the institute were virtually started from June 3, 1974 as per special direction from the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Despite some limitations, the college was affiliated as a faculty of Engineering under Rajshahi University. The academic and administrative activities were controlled by the university authority and the Ministry of Education, respectively. The physical infrastructures were constructed by the public works department, while teacher recruitment was accomplished through Public Service Commission. Owing to multiple authorities, the co-ordination became complicated and hence the college authority faced many problems to run it smoothly. Even the admission of new students was stopped in one session due to the scarcity of teachers. In these circumstances, through a collective effort organized by the students, teachers, officers, staff and professional bodies, the four Engineering Colleges of the country including Khulna Engineering College were converted into autonomous Institutes named Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT) from July 1, 1986.

BIT, Khulna became Khulna University of Engineering & Technology with the other BITs as per act passed by the National Parliament effective from September 1, 2003.

Academics

Academic structure

The academic division of KUET is organized in 20 departments under three faculties.^[5] Sixteen departments offer undergraduate courses. Among the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management ( IEM ) provides an Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) degree to the undergraduate students.

Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering ( CE )
- Department of Urban and Regional Planning ( URP )
- Department of Building Engineering & Construction Management ( BECM )
- Department of Architecture (ARCH)
- Department of Mathematics ( MATH )
- Department of Chemistry ( CH )
- Department of Physics ( PH )
- Department of Humanities ( HUM )
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering ( EEE )
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering ( CSE )
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering ( ECE )
- Department of Biomedical Engineering ( BME )
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering ( ME )
- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management ( IEM )
- Department of Leather Engineering ( LE )
- Department of Textile Engineering ( TE )
- Department of Energy Science and Engineering ( ESE )
- Department of Chemical Engineering ( ChE )
- Department of Mechatronics Engineering ( MTE)

Number of Student

Department	No. of Student
Building Engineering and Construction Management	60
Civil Engineering	120
Electrical & Electronic Engineering	120
Mechanical Engineering	120
Computer Science & Engineering	120
Electronics and Communication Engineering	60
Industrial Engineering and Management	60
Biomedical Engineering	30
Materials Science and Engineering	60
Architecture	40
Urban and Regional Planning	60
Leather Engineering	60
Textile Engineering	60
Energy Science and Engineering	30
Chemical Engineering	30
Mechatronics Engineering	30

Institutes

There are three institutes at KUET for advanced research:

Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT, KUET).
Institute of Disaster Management (IDM, KUET).
Institute of Environment and Power Technology (IEPT, KUET).

KUET journals and research bulletins

Journal of Engineering Science

Admissions

The admission process in KUET is highly competitive. Each year it opens about 1065 seats for undergraduate programs. About 10,000 applicants are invited to appear on an admission test. This preliminary filtration is done based on H.S.C. grade points in physics, chemistry, mathematics and English. The admission test is standardized to evaluate student ability to understand concepts of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and English language. Admission is offered to successful applicants on a merit basis, based on their scores in the admission test.

Students are admitted to a specific undergraduate academic program specializing in any of the 16 engineering tracks (e.g., CSE, EEE, ME, ECE, CE, IPE, BECM, TE, LE, URP, BME, Arch, ChE, ESE, MSE,MTE). Students may not change their track (major) once a few weeks of classes are passed.

Admission is open to mainly to Bangladeshi nationals. There are 5 reserved seats for "small ethnic group" students who have to undergo the same admission process. A few seats are also open to international students. The international admission process is separate from local admissions

Campus

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) is at Fulbarigate, the northwest part of Khulna City (the third-largest south-western divisional city in Bangladesh). The campus is about 15 kilometers from the zero point of Khulna City.

The KUET campus covers 101 acres. It is divided into four functional zones: residential zone for students; residential zone for faculty and staff; academic zone for academic buildings and workshops; and cultural-cum-social and recreational zone for students. Being square in shape, the third zone is midway between the two residential zones to reduce walking distances.

The main academic building accommodates the teaching and research facilities. Each department is a separate entity with a courtyard around, and all the departments constitute an integrated complex. Heavy engineering laboratories are on the ground floor or other separate workshops. Light laboratories, classrooms and project rooms are on the upper floors. Separate offices for every member of the teaching staff are next to his/her laboratory.

Library

KUET central library runs in two sections: the General Library and the Reference Library. The General Library provides in-house reading and short-time borrowing of books and other reference material. The Reference Library provides an in-place reading.

The General Library system has 50,635 books, journals and periodicals. A library automation project to modernize and to improve administrative control over the collection of books, journals, proceedings, theses, etc. has recently been completed under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project.^[6] Moreover, the library is enriched every year by collecting recent books and journals.

Besides the general library system, each academic department maintains a rent-based library from which students can borrow textbooks at a nominal rate for the semester. Recently, KUET library has entered into a full automation system.

Medical center

The on-campus, two-storied KUET Medical Center provides primary and basic health care facilities to its students free of charge. 8 full-time MBBS doctors, 2 nurses, 1 Medical Technologist, and 2 staff provide the care. For specialized consultation on complicated cases, medical center refers the patients to specialists through ambulance.

Transportation

For the convenience of the students, faculties, officers, and staff KUET operates its own Shuttle Bus Service between Khulna City and the campus. On weekends special services are also provided for meeting the weekend recreational and other needs.

Central computer center

The central computer center (CCC) of KUET was established in 1988 under the supervision of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with six IBM desktop computers donated by BEXIMCO. To provide a fully integrated set of information support to the teaching, research and administrative functions, in 2006 it became us on independent center of KUET in a newly decorated building under the supervision of a nominated chairman from the university.

The CCC has served over the years as the hub for computer-related services in the campus with the commissioning of the university-wide network.

It has strong IT infrastructure with around 256 Mbit/s broadband line from BTCL and BdREN with 1 Mbit/s from other ISP as backup for Internet facility, routers for routing, a firewall for internet security, five high configuration server as mails server, proxy server, database server, seven midlevel configuration of workstations for other servers and backup server, a core switch, several manageable and unmanageable switches for intranet connectivity. It is planned to increase the bandwidth and to expand and renovate the optical backbone network including student halls of residence and teacher residential area secure access of the academic and research materials very soon.

Recently KUET has started a WiFi network in its Director of Student Welfare (DSW) and CCC arena for students and at the departments of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Electronics, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Communication Engineering (ECE) for teachers.

Student life

Halls of residence

There are seven residential halls (one female, six male). The administrative heads of a hall are its provost and assistant provosts. Usually, the halls have a single provost and one or more assistant provost(s).

The residential halls provide facilities for the students, for example, hall library, prayer room, TV and recreational room including daily newspapers and magazines, etc. Generally, four students live in a room except for the two-seat rooms in Amar Ekushey Hall arranged for graduate students. These halls have dining rooms (Amar Ekushey Hall has two dining rooms) where monthly prepaid lunch and dinner are offered to the students.

Bangabandhu Shiekh Mujibur Rahman Hall (named after founding leader of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman)
Amar Ekushey Hall (named in memory of martyrs of the Language Movement )
Fazlul Haque Hall (named after the 1st Prime Minister of Bengal- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq)
Lalan Shah Hall (named after the Lalon Fokir, Lalon)
Khan Jahan Ali Hall (named after Muslim Sufi Saint, Khan Jahan Ali)
Dr. M.A Rahsid Hall (named after M. A. Rashid, the first vice-chancellor of BUET)
Rokeya Hall (named after Begum Rokeya Social activist, writer, Muslim feminist)

Sports facilities

KUET has a large playground at the eastern periphery of the main academic campus. It is used as venue of annual athletics competition of the university as well as cricket, football competitions. Students can access the facility all year round. KUET has tennis court in the main academic area. It also has a gymnasium near halls of residence where students can do gymnastics.

Scholarship

KUET Excellence Scholarship
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
Arif Ahmed Scholarship
KUETian@Qatar Scholarship
Dr. Naseem Uddin Scholarship
Dr. Ramiz Uddin Mollah Scholarship
KCC FSM Scholarship Programme
Scholarship for PhD students from "Prime Minister's Research and Higher Education Fund"
Scholarships from Indian Government 2019
New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship,2019
Teaching Assistantship or Fellowship

Clubs of KUET

Every club of KUET aims to enhance the skill of the current students that later help them to shine further in their professional life. Most of the clubs have marked their footprints in several Inter-Varsity Competitions , Fests , TV and Radio Programs so far to exert their expertise beside academic activities , moreover gained appreciation and accolades in different years

Based on Co-curricular activities :

KBEC - KUET Business and Entrepreneurship Club
KUET Math Club
CADers
FABLAB KUET
SGIPC (Special Group Of Interest in Programming Contest)
HACK (Hardware Acceleration Club of KUET)
KUET Debating Society (KDS)
Robotics Club of KUET
LOOP(Control Engineering club of KUET)
KUET Rover Makers
KUET Career Club
Spectrum
DISK (Design Integrated Society of KUET)
PRISM (Professional Skills Development Club)

Also ,CAD Entity, IEEE KUET Chapter, ICE KUET Chapter, IMeche KUET Chapter, ESAB -KUET Unit Face , ABC-Advanced Bio Engineering Club of KUET, BTECH IRCC (IEM Robotics & CAD Club) IDC (IEM Debating Club), MEC (Manipulators of Electron Club), CDS (Civil Debating Society), KUET Textile Club are there which are based on certain departmental aims to enhance their capabilities on different spheres

Based on Extracurricular activities :

Protiddhoni - Musical Association of KUET
KUET Theater
Dhrupodi - Dancers’ Association of KUET
"অ" -আবৃত্তি সংগঠন ( Reciters' Association of KUET)
OKS - Organisation of KUET Sports
KUET Adventure Club
KUET FILM SOCIETY
KUET Photographic Society
DREAM - A Voluntary Blood Donation Club of KUET
TRY - Social Service Club of KUET
কুয়েট সাহিত্য পরিষদ (Literature Association of KUET)
CYBORG - Cyber Gaming Club of KUET
KUET Cyclists
KUET Radio
গুঞ্জন

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "About KUET". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
^ "History". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology.
^ As of July 02, 2016. "KUET sanctions Tk 60 cr budget". The Daily Observer. 2 July 2016.
^ "Administration". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology.
^ "Departments of KUET". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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[about_KUET-1] "About KUET". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2017.

[2] "History". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology.

[3] As of July 02, 2016. "KUET sanctions Tk 60 cr budget". The Daily Observer. 2 July 2016.

[admin-4] "Administration". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology.

[acad-struct-KUET-5] "Departments of KUET". Khulna University of Engineering & Technology. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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