ITU To Establish Innovation Lab: Umar Saif

The Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab has planned to establish an innovative lab at its state-of-the-art purpose-built main campus

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Dec, 2017 ) :The Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab has planned to establish an innovative lab at its state-of-the-art purpose-built main campus, Pakistan's first focused research University being constructed at Lahore.

Dr Umar Saif, founding vice chancellor of ITU, said this while chairing the 7th meeting of the ITU syndicate, here Tuesday. The meeting was informed that ITU has acquired a `W' category ranking from the National Computing Accreditation Council and an endorsement from the HEC, the highest ranking a university can achieve with regard to academic and research prowess and awarded only to those institutions which meet the requirements as proposed by the governing bodies.

The ITU has planned to increase the present number of 900 students to 1,500 by next three years with the completion of it's main campus being constructed over a period of 18-24 months on 180 acres area with a cost of Rs 5 billion.

Presently, the ITU is currently running 10 degree programs with 80 faculty members. The meeting also discussed the details regarding the first convocation of the graduation of its first batch of students enroled in the undergraduate bachelors programme of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, scheduled on December 17, 2017.

The matters pertaining to the institutionalising of Lahore Technology Award and sources for research funding also came under discussion. The Registrar ITU Zaheer Sarwar and the members attended the meeting.