MIRPUR (AJK) - A team of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), comprised its experts, visited the Electrical Engineering Department of the state-run Mirpur University of Science & Technology to assess the curricular and extra-curricular activities in line with the stipulated criteria for granting the reaccreditation for the four-year BSc Electrical Engineering programme in the university.

The PEC team, however, stressed the need for adding more facilities to ensure the dispensation of more quality studies in the MUST campus in line with the modern age as determined by the PEC.
Disclosing details of the visit, MUST Electrical Engineering Department Chairman Prof Mirza Waris Jiraal told reporters that the visit was conducted by the PEC's experts including the team's head Engr Dr M Mansoor Ahmed from Islamabad, Prof Mahmood Ahmed from UET Taxila, and Engr Mujeebur Rehman, Representative of the PEC from Islamabad.
Prof Waris said that the PEC's team inspected all blocks of the faculty of Electrical Engineering and expressed satisfaction over the facilities being provided to the students. During the visit to the MUST, the team also met Vice Chancellor Prof Naib Hussain Chaudhry and Dean faculty Dr Muhammad Sawar and discussed the matters relating to the proposed grant of re-accreditation to the four-year BSc Electrical Engineering Programme. The VC and the Dean apprised the team of the details of the required academic facilities being extended to the students in line with the criteria determined by the PEC.
Besides appreciating the academic facilities being provided to the students, the team also evaluate postgraduate programme of the electrical Engineering faculty.
The team was also apprised of the relevant information about postgraduate programme.
When contacted to seek comment over the quality of education at the university, the students of final-year of BSc Electrical Engineering Muhammad Abdullah and Taimur Khan told that with the passage of time, the MUST was moving ahead successfully through dispensing quality higher technical education to the students in the remote area like AJK. It is a great achievement by the MUST.