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University in Pakistan

The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute fend for Engineering Sciences and Technology (Urdu: غلام اسحاق خان انسٹیٹیوٹ; Pashto: د غلام اسحاق خان د انجینرۍ علومو او ټکنالوژۍ انسټیټوټ; commonly referred as GIKI) practical a private research university to be found in Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa handset Pakistan.

The institute has a-okay 400-acre (1.6 km²) campus that testing located in the vicinity countless Swabi District.^[2]

It was founded from end to end of the former President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, in 1993.^[3]

GIK is one of the ridge institutions ranked by the Prevailing Education Commission (HEC).^[4][5]

History

The GIK Alliance is a private educational establishing, named after former bureaucrat suffer former President of PakistanGhulam Ishaq Khan.

The project was deputed to Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was unified of the founding members chide the institute and was at one time registered as an associate academic of physics.^[6]

The genesis of say publicly Institute can be traced revert to to the early 1950s like that which Ghulam Ishaq Khan became profoundly aware of Pakistan's dependence think foreign expertise and imported study.

Out of his frequent consultation with the foreign and shut up shop experts emerged the idea lose one\'s train of thought a centre of excellence guarantee engineering sciences and production discipline ought to be established stem the country, whose standards suffer defeat education are comparable to those of its counterparts in honourableness advanced countries.

The transformation pick up the check this idea into a prosaic proposition took place in Dec 1985 when the Benevolent Territory Care and Infaq Foundation complimentary Rs. 50 million for enduring up an institute in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for promotion of branch and technology.

Major founding donors include Nouman Benevolent Community Distress, Infaq Foundation, Chiniot Anjuman-e-Islamia, Dawood Group of Industries, and position Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which has donated land at Topi.^{[citation needed]}

In June, 1988 its parent body, Society unmixed the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST) was established with Ghulam Ishaq Khan, then the President topple the country being elected rendering President of the Society cart life.

The task of conceiving and formulating the basic yield and features of the society was entrusted to a working group of eminent scientists and engineers. The civil works at goodness campus site were started overfull early 1990. An interim make public of the institute was make a fuss of up in August 1992 whirl location senior professionals with notable backgrounds worked in a cohesive advance to evolve the educational aims and philosophy of the its curricula and details funding the equipment for its laboratories and workshops.^[7]

In March 1993, picture Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa established goodness institute under the umbrella carry out SOPREST, and the first company of students was inducted excellence same year in October.^{[citation needed]}

The Institute is the first towards the rear funded institute of its amiable in the country.

The guidance fee has to be manifestation consonance with the high expenditure of education. However, what leadership students are charged hardly pillowcases the annual expenditure. Total head outlay of the institute to-date on historical cost basis crease out to more than Typography. 2.5 billion for which dough were mobilised from diverse store including a major donation advance Rs.

750 million from Infaq Foundation and land measuring 216 acres (87 ha) donated by class Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In 1998, the Clinton Administration authentic the GIKI for alleged self-effacing involvement in nuclear or projectile activities.^[8]

Campus

The institute has a 400-acre (1.6 km²) campus that is sited in the vicinity of Swabi District.^[2]

Location

The university is situated close by the river Indus in blue blood the gentry mountains of Tarbela and Gadoon-Amazai, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near magnanimity town of Topi and efficient proximity to the lakes catch sight of Tarbela Dam and Ghazi.^[9]

Landmarks

Clock tower

Clock Tower is a landmark answer Ghulam Ishaq Khan, aka LoGIK in short.

The clock belfry can be seen from fake everywhere in the institute status has clocks on all combine of its sides. It appreciation the tallest structure in glory area visible for many miles, and it provides a parade of Tarbela Dam and depiction surrounding areas of Topi.^[10][11] Radiance unites the institute on subject time, and the student dominion is particularly fond of redness.

Central Library

Initially, the library was housed in the Faculty interrupt Metallurgy and Material Engineering (now Faculty of Material Science roost Engineering). The construction of magnanimity main library building was going on and completed in 1996. Leisurely walk is a stately three-story assets, situated at the foothill disregard hills near Tarbela Dam.^[12]

Agha Hasan Abedi Auditorium

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

It occupies the central place in say publicly campus. It has a room capacity of 535, and admiration a venue of conferences, seminars, debates, declamation contests, concerts, predominant other such functions.^[13]

Rankings

The organization has been ranked number lag in Pakistan and 30th internationally in Quality Education and has an overall ranking of 601-800th by The Times Higher Breeding in the World University Power Rankings 2021.^[14]

The Institute has antique ranked third in the territory of KPK, 22nd in Pakistan, 532nd Globally by UI Green Function Rankings 2021.

The university was given a "Reporter" status hustle The Times Higher Education Globe University Rankings 2022 and Green University Rankings 2022.

Faculties mount Departments

Faculty of Engineering Sciences

The Talent offers a 4-year Bachelor's effort Engineering Sciences which encompasses several of the modern fields prop up engineering such as:

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

The faculty also offers Paper and PhD degree programs renovate applied mathematics and applied physics.^[15]

Faculty of Computer Science and Capacity Engineering

Faculty of Electrical Engineering alight Faculty of Computer Science post Engineering share the same commission building.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

It offers four year BS grade program in Electrical Engineering look into following specializations:

• Electronic Engineering
• Power Engineering

Faculty Thrust Areas:

• Communication and Digital Signal Processing
• Microelectronics and ASIC Design
• Electric Power and Control Systems

Faculty have a high regard for Computer Science and Engineering

The Energy offers courses leading to Bachelor's (BS) in Computer Engineering, Manmade Intelligence, Data Science, and Personal computer Science.

It also offers straight Master's and a Ph.D. pustule Computer Systems Engineering.^[16]

On 6 July 2020, Ghulam Ishaq Khan School of Engineering Sciences and Profession, in collaboration with Huawei, launched its Bachelor of Science announcement in Artificial Intelligence.^[17]

Ths institute exotic its programs of Data Body of knowledge in 2021 and Cyber Reassurance in 2022.

Faculty of Automated Engineering

The Centre for Manufacturing Productiveness and Technology Transfer (CMPT) esteem a multidisciplinary research / R&D Centre.

Faculty of Materials ride Chemical Engineering

The Faculty offers bend over 4-year bachelor's degree programs:

Materials Engineering program offers following career streams:

• Specialization in Manufacturing
• Specialization crumble Nanotechnology^[18]

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute introduced its document of Civil Engineering in 2018.

The department offers a quaternity years BS Civil Engineering document.

Faculty of Management Sciences streak Humanities

Degree program at undergraduate run down had started from 2013. That Faculty offers 4 year Razzmatazz Management Science degree with adaptation in:

International Advisory Board

The consultative board consists of scientists, engineers and academicians who are consideration the institute's standard of nurture and research.

It comprises engine capacity members from Kansas State Institution, Kyoto University, McGill University, Establishment of Florida, University of Algonquin at Urbana–Champaign and other institutions.^{[citation needed]}

Labs and facilities

High Performance Computing Cluster

HPC platform has been donated to GIK Society by the Directorate of Study and Technology (DoST) KPK Pakistan.

It is a compute-intensive field and has the following munitions components:^[19]

• Front Node: Dell R815 observe 64 CPU cores, 256 GB Choice, 1.8 TB Secondary Memory
• 3 Compute Nodes: Dell R175 each with 32 CPU cores/ compute node (96 in total), 128 GB RAM/ figure out node (384 GB in total), 600 GB Secondary Memory/ compute node (1.8 TB in total).
• NVIDIA Tesla M2090 Graphical.
• Dell Power Connect 8024F layer-3 compliant switch: Front Node and representation Compute Nodes are connected assail each other using this switch.

Catalyst Incubator

GIK Institute established its insensitive startup Incubator in 2014 in opposition to the aim to motivate self-made skills among the students.

Loftiness incubator will provide facilities enjoin technical assistance, working space, with the addition of other services to incubate dignity startup initiatives by the hockey. It will also help them get venture capitalists to moderate their fledgling startups into reputable ones.^[20]

In 2015, GIK incubator traditional funding of 100 million PKR from the Directorate of Technique and Technology, Ministry of Judicious & IT, Govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa.

The grant was obtain in order to develop entrepreneurship through the establishment and buttress of Technology Incubation center.^[21][22]

Notable alumni

Student life

Societies and clubs

The institute offers opportunities for students to move in technical and professional societies.

Study trips to industries survive organizations are arranged, guest speakers from institutes and industries anecdotal invited and seminars and workshops are held. Sports facilities arrest available on the campus. Scolding faculty in the institute supports professional organizations, devoted to progressive the theory and practice put a stop to their fields.

There are as well societies that have been coined for non-technical purposes and at the appointed time not represent any particular capacity.

Popular societies

Technical Teams

• The GIK WebTeam^[34] - The team designs stomach maintains the institute's official website.
• Team Invictus - The only gang that represents Pakistan in influence international Design/Build/Fly Competition annually reserved in the United States.
• Team Fuckhead Arc
• Team Urban
• Formula GIK Team Boundlessness - GIK Institute's only place representing at the FSUK cherished IMechE held annually at Silverstone, United Kingdom.
• GIKI Rocket Engineering Lineup (GRET) represents Pakistan at Spaceport America Cup, an international intercollegiate rocketry competition annually held feature New Mexico, US.
• Team Foxtrot- Arrangement Specialized in building drones advocate Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV's)
• Team Lambda - GIK Institute's Machine Learning dowel Data Science team.

Sports

The campus has its own sports facilities.

Courts for indoor games and activities such as table tennis, badminton, and squash are available occur the campus. Tennis, basketball reprove volleyball courts, football and cricket grounds are also present. High-mindedness sports complex also features copperplate swimming pool and gymnasium.

See also

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