Pak-US Joint Research
Project
Swabi, Pakistan: The Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
and the American University of Illinois are launching a
Rs30 million joint research project. This was stated by
the Rector of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, Dr Abdullah Sadiq,
on Wednesday.
Dr Sadiq is the principal investigator along with Prof Dr
Arif Masud of the University of Illinois.
He said the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, had
approved the funding for the Pak-US Joint Research Project
proposal entitled “Development of Computational Mechanics
Infrastructure and Human Resources for Advancing Engineering
Design Practices in Pakistani Industry”.
A review panel of the project recently completed the evaluation
process. He said this project was one of the 11 selected
projects among the 112 applications that had been submitted
to the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Science
and Technology, and USAID for funding.
“This proposal deals with establishing state-of-the-art
computational mechanics program at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Institute to produce needed human resources for advancing
engineering design practices in the Pakistani industry,”
he said.
Dr Sadiq added that the three-year project, which would
continue till 2008, would help the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
to establish a state-of-art computation facility for carrying
out engineering calculation of interest to the local industry.
He said that the facility would be initially used for analyzing
seismic data of the areas affected by the recent earthquake
to study the safety of large structures such as dams.
He said that the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute would soon
receive budget for the first year of the project.
Funding for the second and third years will be contingent
on adequate progress on project objectives as determined
by the annual report of the Review Panel which comprises
officials of USAID, Ministry of Science and Technology,
and the Higher Education Commission.
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