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Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
غلام اسحاق خان انسٹیٹیوٹ
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (insignia).png
Motto in English
رَبِّ زدْنيِ عِلْماً (Arabic)
O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge
Established 1988 (1988)
Type Private
President Engr. Shams-ul-Mulk
Rector Jehangir Bashar[1]
Academic staff
93[2]
Undergraduates 1533
Location Topi, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,  Pakistan
Campus Urban
Colours Grey, White        
Nickname GIKI
Affiliations HEC, PEC
Website www.giki.edu.pk

The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (Urdu: غلام اسحاق خان انسٹیٹیوٹ‎; commonly referred as GIKI (pronounced JeeKee), is a private research university located in Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. GIKI has six academic departments strongly emphasizing on science and engineering and its 400 acres (1.6 km2) primary campus is located in the vicinity of Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[3]

Founded by civil servant and former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1988, the college attracted country's influential scientists such as Abdul Qadeer Khan, Asghar Qadir, and Shaukat Hameed Khan since its establishment, and played formulating role in transforming the college in elevating as one of world's finest science and engineering college.[4] GIKI is among one of the top institutions ranked by the HEC, and also has a long-standing competition with the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS).[5][6]

History

The GIK Institute is a private educational institution, named after former bureaucrat and former President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan. The project was delegated to Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was one of the founding members of the institute and was once registered as an associate professor of physics.[7]

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Clock Tower at GIK Institute

The institute was registered in 1988 by its parent body, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST).

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GIK Institute Main Entrance

Ishaq Khan, while president of Pakistan, was elected the president of the Society for life and Mr. H. U. Beg was appointed its honorary executive director. The ordinance of the institute was promulgated by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government in March 1993, and the first batch of students was inducted the same year in October.[8]

Major founding donors include nouman Benevolent Community Care, Infaq Foundation, Chiniot Anjuman-e-Islamia, Dawood Group of Industries, and the Government of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which has donated land at Topi.[citation needed]

Location

The university is situated beside the river Indus in the mountains of Tarbela and Gadoon-Amazai, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa near the town of Topi and in proximity to the lakes of Tarbela Dam (world's largest earth-filled dam) and Ghazi.[9] Its campus is in the mountains of Tarbela and Gadoon-Amazai, and is a residential campus with accommodation for students.

Admission

Admission to the university is based on the entry test. The test has MCQs of Physics, Mathematics and English. Eligibility criteria for admission to the university is at least 60% marks in physics and mathematics in FSc or Grade C in A levels. Entry test for the university is very competitive as large number of prospective students compete for a limited number of seats.[10]

Faculties and Departments

Faculty of Chemical Engineering

The Faculty offers a 4-year bachelor's degree licensed by the PEC detailing basic principles & mathematics of process operations in the first two years. Third & final year deal with the advanced level of the trade closely selected to cope the industrial requirements.

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

The Faculty offers courses leading to Bachelor's (BS) in computer engineering and computer science. It also offers Master's (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degrees in Computer System Engineering.[11]

Faculty of Engineering Sciences

The Faculty offers a 4-year degree program leading to Bachelor of Science in Engineering Sciences which encompasses some of the modern fields of engineering such as:

  • Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Semiconductors and Superconducting Devices
  • Modelling and Simulations

The faculty also offers MS and PHD degree programs in applied mathematics and applied physics.[12]

Faculty of Electronic Engineering

It offers four year BS degree program in Electrical Engineering with following specializations:

   -Electronic Engineering
   -Power Engineering

Thrust Areas:

   -Communication and Digital Signal Processing
   -Microelectronics and Asic Design
   -Electric Power and Control Systems

Faculty:

   Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed(Dean)
   Prof. Dr. Khasan S. Karimov
   Prof. Dr. M.Junaid Mughal
   Prof. Dr Zia ul Haq Abbas
   Prof. Dr Adnan Noor
   Prof. Dr. Husnal Maab
   Prof. Dr. Farrah Fayyaz
   Prof. Dr. Muhammad Faisal Khan
   Prof. Dr. Muhammad Umar
   Prof. Dr. Arbab Abdur Rahim

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty:

  • Mykola Bannikov, Ph.D (USSR)
  • Sarwat Mushtaq Ahmad, Ph.D (University of Shieffield, UK)
  • Shaukat Ali, PhD (Ecole dc mines denates, France)
  • Khalid Rehman, Ph.D (Jeju National University South Korea)
  • Muhibullah, Ph.D (INSA de Lyon, France)
  • Massab Junaid, MS (KAUST Saudi Arabia)
  • Ahmad Abbas, MS (GIK Institute, Pakistan)
  • Abdul Wasy, MS (Changwon National University, South Korea)
  • Mujahid Naseem, MS (GIK Institute, Pakistan)
  • Faculty on Study Leave for Ph.D
  • Arshad Khan
  • Engineers
  • Rashid Ali Khan, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Safeer Khan, B.Sc Engg. (UET, Peshawar)
  • Noman Iqbal, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Haris Iftikhar, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Faraz Aziz, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Sulaiman Khan, BS, (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Faheem Ahmad, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Usman Javed, BS (GIK Institute, Topi)
  • Faisal Shahzad, B.Sc Engg. (UET, Taxila)
  • Graduate Assistants
  • Shahbaz Mahmood Khan
  • Muhammad Rizwan Siddiqui
  • Muhammad Abdul Ahad
  • Kashif Ali (NUST Pakistan)
  • Nauman Hanif
  • Nayab Ghani
  • Syed Ehtisham Gillani
  • Muhammad Abbas
  • Shehryar Ishaque
  • shaukat khan

Faculty of Material Sciences and Engineering

The Faculty offers 4 year BS program in Materials Engineering which deals with a broad understanding of materials and the manufacturing of components. It offers following streams:

  • Specialization in Materials
  • Specialization in Manufacturing
  • Specialization in Nanotechnology
  • Minor in mining [13]

Faculty of Management Sciences and Humanities

Degree program at undergraduate level has started from 2013. This Faculty offers 4 year BS Management Science degree with specialization in:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Supply Chain Management

International Advisory Board

The advisory board consists of scientists, engineers and academicians who monitoring the institutes' standards of education and research. It comprises faculty members from Kansas State University, Kyoto University, McGill University, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other institutions.[citation needed]

Labs and Facilities

High Performance Computing Cluster

HPC platform has been donated to GIK Institute by Directorate of Science and Technology (DoST) KPK Pakistan. It is a compute intensive platform and has the following hardware components:[14]

  • Front Node: Dell R815 with 64 CPU cores, 256GB RAM, 1.8TB Secondary Memory
  • 3 Compute Nodes: Dell R175 each with 32 CPU cores/ compute node (96 in total), 128GB RAM/ compute node (384GB in total), 600GB Secondary Memory/ compute node (1.8TB in total)
  • NVIDIA Tesla M2090 Graphical an emerging paradigm of parallel computing which uses GPUs as computing units
  • Dell Power Connect 8024F layer-3 manageable switch: Front Node and the Compute Nodes are connected to each other using this switch. It provides an anormous data transfer rate of 10Gbit/s among the connected entities using fibre channels.

GIK Institute High Performance Computing Cluster 1359869414 DSC 5452

Agha Hasan Abedi (AHA) Auditorium

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The Agha Hasan Abedi (AHA) Auditorium is named after Agha Hasan Abedi.

The Incubator

GIK Institute established its own startup Incubator in 2014. With aim to motivate entrepreneurial skills among the students. Incubator will provide facilities and technical assistance, working space and other services to incubate the startup initiatives by the participants. It will also help them get venture capitalists to convert their fledgling startups into mature ones.[15]

GIKI incubator got a funding of Rupees 10 cores (100 million) from Directorate of Science and Technology, Ministry of ST & IT, Govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa. The grant is given in order to develop Entrepreneurship via Establishment and Strengthening of Technology Incubation center.[16][17]

Student societies

See also

References

  1. Overview of Important Contacts in GIKI
  2. About GIKI - GIK Institute
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