SSUET to hold convocation on March 14

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The preparations are in full swing for the 18th Convocation of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, to be held on March 14 at the Karachi Expo Center. 

The arrangements for the coveted occasion were reviewed at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Vice Chancellor, Prof Dr Syed Jawaid H. Rizvi, and attended, among others, by Registrar, Engr Syed Abrar Ali, Dean of Engineering, and Chairpersons of various departments, Controller of Examination. 

The Vice Chancellor reviewed the arrangements, specially the security matters, besides administrative measures and issued necessary directives for holding the convocation in a befitting manner. 

Dr Rizvi pointed out that the SSUET graduates were serving in various countries of the world on high and important positions and were engaged in making new breakthroughs, not only in Pakistan, but also in European, American and other continents. 

He expressed his satisfaction that, since its inception, the SSUET has distinguished itself as a prestigious institution of the country dedicated to the promotion of science and technology. Its degree programmes, he said, are accredited by the Pakistan Engineering Council and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, and internationally it has full membership of Association of Commonwealth Universities and the UNESCO sponsored International Association of Universities. 

The Sir Syed University has collaboration with world famous universities like San-Jose and Johns Hopkins of USA and the University of Ottawa of Canada besides collaborating with three American and five leading British universities with students having the privilege of getting a degree from them, after studying in those Universities for only two years.