More than 200 graduates were received their Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees in the combined convocation of NUST held at NUST main campus Islamabad.
Graduates were enrolled in the disciplines of Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design, NUST School of Chemical & Materials Engineering (SCME) and NUST School of Art, Design & Architecture (SADA).
Rector NUST, Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI (M), (Retd), graced the NUST convocation as chief guest.
Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI (M), (Retd) in his convocation address felicitated the graduates, their parents and faculty. Besides bestowing a few pieces of advice upon the graduates, he, inter alia, apprised the audience that NUST is the only university in Pakistan offering MS and PhD programmes in the field of Nanoscience and Engineering at its School of Chemical &Materials Engineering.
He maintained that Nanotechnology is being harbingered as the next enabling technology that will redesign the future of existing technologies, products and markets.
He also highlighted that SADA is one of the leading filers of Intellectual Property (IP) applications amongst NUST Institutions and also leads nationally in the number of Industrial Designs awarded to any design school.