Post-Graduate Programs

Offered Programs:

M.Sc. Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering

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M.S.c in Chemical Engineering

The Department offers M.Sc. degree courses in Chemical Engineering in the following four specializations:

  • Process Engineering
  • Energy Engineering
  • Biochemical Engineering

The following two routes are available to qualify for the award of M.Sc. degree:

Both M.Sc. by Coursework and M.Sc. by Research are offered as part of the M.Sc. Chemical Engineering program. By the end of first semester, the students are required to submit Preference Form for Focus Area of Research clearly mentioning:

  • Whether M.Sc. by Coursework or M.Sc. by Research is chosen
  • Order of preference (at least 3) from the departmental focus research areas
  • If the student is opting for M.Sc. by Research, the Preference Form must also be signedby a potential supervisor.

M.Sc. by Coursework

The students opting for M.Sc. by coursework are required to pass any two (2) of the following courses:

  • Core courses not already taken
  • Specialization courses not already taken
  • Courses from any other area of specialization
  • Additional postgraduate courses

In addition, the students are required to undertake a non-credit, term project in their final semester.

M.Sc. by Research

The students opting for M.Sc. by Research are required to undertake a supervised research project.

There are 60 seats for masters’ students and for PhD students the department has no limit, in fact encourages the PhD students. Yearly break down of graduate students and average student to faculty ratio is presented below;

                   Table 1.3:  Detail of enrollment of students

Session

M.Sc.

Ph.D.

2018

44

4

2019

47

2

2020

23

1

2021

18

25

2022

13

3

PhD in Chemical Engineering

For PhD degree, the students undertake supervised research work for a minimum period of 3 years. Original research contributions are expected for the successful completion of this degree. On completion of research work, a thesis has to be submitted. Ph.D. degree is awarded after international preview approval of thesis by board of examiners.

The list of postgraduate faculties and their research interests are shown below:

SR.NO.

DEGREE / NAME

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

COUNTRY

1

Engr. Dr.–Ing. Naveed Ramzan

(Professor)

Process Safety / Risk Analysis and

Optimization

Germany

2

Engr. Dr. Saima Yasin

(Professor)

Polymer & Nano Dispersions / Nano composites

UK

3

Engr. Dr. Hafiz Muhammad

Zaheer Aslam

(Professor)

Water Treatment

KSA

4

Engr. Dr. Muhammad Faheem

(Associate Professor)

Catalysis / Kinetics

USA

5

Engr. Dr. Muhammad Azam Saeed

(Associate Professor)

Renewable Energy

UK

6

Engr. Dr. Usman Ali

(Associate Professor)

Post Combustion CO2 capturing

UK

7

Engr. Dr. Umair Aslam

(Associate Professor)

Gasification

Pakistan

8

Engr. Dr. Farhan Javed

(Associate Professor)

Environmental Engineering

Pakistan

9

Engr. Dr. Sidra Jabeen

(Assistant Professor)

Chemical Engineering

Australia

10

Engr. Dr. Humayun Wali

(Assistant Professor)

Biochemical Engineering

Pakistan

11

Engr. Dr. Ayesha Irshad

(Assistant Professor)

Process Engineering

UK

12

Engr. Dr. Hirra Anjum

(Assistant Professor)

Nanotechnology/wastewater treatment

Malaysia

13

Engr. Dr.–Ing. Muhammad Wasim Tahir

(Assistant Professor)

Battery Modeling / CFD

Germany

14

Engr. Dr.–Ing. Umer Afzal

(Assistant Professor)

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Germany

15

Engr. Dr. Asif Akhtar

(Assistant Professor)

Gasification

Australia

16

Dr. Saira Bano

(Assistant Professor)

Nanoindentation of Polymers

Hydrocracking of Heavy Oils

Pakistan

17

Ms. Sobia Anwar

(Lecturer)

Waste Water Treatments

Pakistan

18

Dr. Farhan Ahmad

(Assistant Professor)

Plasma Catalysis

Australia