Category Archives: News & Events

Activity 01:

Departmental Meeting, Civil Engineering & Architecture, ZUFESTM

On 4^th February, 2021, a faculty meeting was organized by Engr. Syed Faraz Jafri, Chairperson, Department of Civil Engineering & Architecture. The main agendas of meeting were commencement of Midterm Examinations (Fall 2020) and resumption of physical classes. Other agendas related to B. Arch program were submission of Midterm papers and Spring 2021 course files along with regular maintenance of attendance on CMS portal.

Activity 02:

Conduction of Midterm Examinations (Fall 2020), Civil Engineering and Technology Programs

The Midterm Examinations of Civil Engineering and Technology programs were held from 8^th February, 2021 to 15^th February, 2021 at North Campus in accordance with COVID-19 SOPs. The students and teachers maintained separation with each other to ensure social distancing during the examinations. Individuals sitting in examination rooms were bound to wear personal protective equipment, such as appropriate masks, and avoid overcrowding all around.

Activity 03:

Recommencement of Physical Classes in compliance with COVID-19 SOPs

The classes of Department has resumed at North and Link Road Campuses of Ziauddin University on 16^th February, 2021 followed by the approvals of competent authority, ending a long closure due to pandemic. According to the SOPs issued by Department of Civil Engineering, wearing masks is mandatory for all students, teachers and lab staff in classrooms and laboratories.

Activity 04:

2^nd Final Year Projects (FYP) Committee Meeting, Civil Engineering, ZUFESTM

Dr. Samia Tariq, Convener FYP, Department of Civil Engineering, arranged 2^nd FYP committee meeting on 18^th February 2021. The main agendas of the meeting were preparation of guidelines for faculty, formalization of student guidelines for preparation of FYP report/ Mid-year and Final FYP presentations in order to provide a uniform and transparent process for the students of BE Civil Engineering Batch I.

Activity 05:

Nominations for OBE Training from Department of Civil Engineering

Two faculty members, Dr. Samia Tariq (Associate Professor) and Engr. Muhammad Kamran (Lecturer), are nominated as representatives from Department of Civil Engineering to work at certain OBE levels in deputed training program at Clifton Campus, ZU. The salient features of program include review of outcomes/objectives, teaching learning and assessment strategies for curriculum mapping and improvement in alignment/ transfer of teaching and assessment data as per Bloom’s Taxonomy on software systems. This activity is being planned to facilitate the process of adapting curricular components as a selected sample which will be helpful to modify existing curriculum document of respective program. The nominations have attended the first session inclusive of learning assignments.

Financial assistance program for merit students is proposed by ZUFESTM in considerations to their needs and previous academic progress. In this connection, assessment/ online interviews for Civil Engineering students are also carried out on 21^st January, 2021 by Chairperson, Engr. Syed Faraz Jafri and Assistant Professor, Engr. Khawaja Sheeraz. Complete assessment sheets on certain norms have forwarded accordingly for further approvals and processing.

Couple of Final Year Project (FYP) applications has been submitted for evaluation by respective groups of undergraduate final year students in NGIRI 2021 under the umbrella of Ignite. The particular FYPs are jointly proposed by Professor; Dr. Abdul Aziz Ansari, Associate Professor; Dr. Samia Tariq, Lecturers; Engr. Muhammad Kamran and Engr. Jahanzaib Sherani. NGIRI 2021 program aims to assist final year undergraduate students studying in institutions by providing them financial assistance for developing prototypes and working models of their FYPs in order to increase creativity, innovation and hands-on Engineering and development skills, and further to promote R&D at grass-root level.

A qualified and experienced faculty member, Engr. Dhanik Vikrant (Lab Engineer), has been appointed within the capacity of Civil Engineering Department on 4^th January 2021. Chairperson of the Department gave warm welcome to him.

As per past practice, OBE team of department executed an OBE discussion on 29th December 2020 with faculty members engaged in teaching courses of BE Civil Engineering and BS Civil Technology Programs against Fall 2020 semester. The points discussed during meeting in order to effectively implement improved OBE mechanism were PLO selection from stream available for courses/ labs and consultation for CLOs selection with theory instructor.

The furniture setting of studios and workshop for B. Arch Program was completed on 14^th December, 2020.

A departmental meeting regarding preparation of the PCATP Zero visit documents was arranged with Dr. Fahad Azim (Dean ZUFESTM), Engr. Syed Faraz Jafri (Chairperson, Department of Civil Engineering & Architecture) and concerned faculty members of Architecture on 11^th December 2020. The meeting was headed by Dean (ZUFESTM) and its main agendas include allocation of course codes, contact hours and mapping of PLOs to CLOs for smooth execution of Bachelors in Architecture Program.

On 7^th December, 2020, an online introductory session with Batch IV students was organized by Engr. Syed Faraz Jafri, Chairperson, Department of Civil Engineering. The purpose of this online session was to provide students with information regarding the rules and regulations and system of instruction and assessment within the department and university. Furthermore, mechanism of online classes on Google Meet was also elaborated by him.

Some qualified and experienced faculty members have been appointed within the domain for Civil Engineering and Architecture:

These include Ar. M. Shahzad Yousuf (Assistant Professor), Ar. Qurat-ul-Ain (Assistant Professor), Ar. Mushtaque Ali (Lecturer), Ar. Jamzadi Lalarukh (Lecturer), Engr. M. Asjad Alam (Lab Engineer), Engr. Farooq Ahmed (Lab Engineer) and Engr. Kashif Rafique (Lab Engineer). Chairperson of the Department gave warm welcome to all new comers.