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Karachi Campus
City Campus
LLC Language Learning Centre
Management Science Research Centre
Business Games & Simulations
Dr Zubair Shaikh
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Karachi Campus



The Karachi Campus provides state-of-the-art facilities on two campuses, a brilliant and exceptional faculty, a secure and healthy environment, and a wide variety of extracurricular activities, student clubs, committees and societies to encourage the intellectual and social development of all students.


The Main Campus is located on a six acre site in Shah Latif Town on the National Highway, ten kilometres East of Karachi airport. The Campus has spacious fully air conditioned classrooms, laboratories, auditorium, seminar rooms and a modern library. All Engineering Labs for Electronics, Electrical, Control Engineering, Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Networking, and Multimedia are state-of-the-art and fully equipped. Computer labs on Campus feature the latest technology computers and workstations that use Linux and Windows-based environments. The Campus is fully networked and provides wireless hotspots. The Campus has a vibrant Research and Development culture. Each faculty member is a part of a Research Group. Weekly research seminars, local IEEE, ACM and IET chapters’ meetings and seminars and an annual International conference are regularly held.A separate Student Activities block includes a cafeteria and sports facilities for indoor games as well as playgrounds for Cricket, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Badminton, Volleyball and Tennis courts. Main Campus also has a Mosque. The Main Campus has made arrangements for efficient and comfortable transport services for students and staff to commute easily from varied locations throughout the city. The University also offers separate hostel facilities for boys and girls at Karimabad and Gulshan-e-Iqbal, respectively in main Karachi City.


A dedicated Academic Placement office at Karachi Campus facilitates students in Job Placements, and Internships through its industry relations. The office arranges various recruitment related events both on campus and in companies’ premises. It also provides career and skill development counselling to students, students’ skills in CV making, approaching job Market, soft skills, goal setting etc. The Campus also has a state of the art Language Lab to teach students English and other foreign languages and prepare them via video cameras, and round table discussions, for both National and International employability.


To supplement the academic activities of the Main Campus, the City Campus on main Shahrae Faisal (near Nursery) houses the Business School and School for Graduate Studies. This Campus also has the Microsoft Innovation Centre (MIC), the first such centre established by Microsoft in Pakistan. The City campus has air conditioned, contemporary classrooms; up-to-date computer labs; canteen; and a Seminar Hall ideal for seminars, lectures and functions. The City Campus library is fully linked with the library of Main Campus. All the facilities and services at Main Campus are equivalently accessible for the students of City Campus.

In addition to the University sponsored financial assistance and scholarships, Karachi Campus also receives scholarships for position holders from the Boards of Sindh and Baluchistan, Sindh Endowment Board Scholarship (40% urban and 60% rural quota, every year up to 40 scholarships), Baluchistan Endowment Board Scholarship, Memon Welfare Association’s scholarship, HEC-JICA scholarship and other scholarships and aids for meritorious students.



The Karachi campus offers following degree programs at its two campuses:


Main Campus

(Shah Latif Town, on National Highway)
  • BS (Computer Science)
  • BS (Electrical Engineering)
  • PhD (Computer Science)
  • PhD (Electrical Engineering)

City Campus

(22-G, Block 6, PECHS)
  • BBA
  • BS (Accounting & Finance)
  • MBA (1½-year)
  • MS (Computer Science)
  • MS (Software Project Management)
  • MS (Electrical Engineering)


Research Centres



Centre for Research in Ubiquitous Computing (CRUC), Karachi

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Ubiquitous Computing (computing everywhere for everyone) promotes the idea of integrating computation into the environment, rather than having computers in daily life. The idea will enable people and machines to move around and interact with information and computing in informal way, to sense changes in their environment and to automatically adapt and act based on these changes.


CRUC was established in March 2006 under the patronage of Dr Zubair A. Shaikh. The Centre has several faculty and student members including 10 Ph.D. fellows working on diverse projects and ideas within this domain. More than 40 research papers are published in International conferences and Journals by the Centre in last 2 years. The Centre has active collaboration with researchers and faculty members of universities of Australia, China, USA, UK and UAE. The Centre has funding by Microsoft and support from European Union, ICT R&D and HEC.

The CRUC has also offered several Doctoral and Graduate level courses to equip students with latest challenges of computer science. It is regularly arranging seminars and workshops on different areas where researchers present their ideas. At least one research conference is arranged at each year where graduating students present their findings.

Under the umbrella of Ubiquitous Computing, we are working in the areas of Augmented and Virtual Reality, Human Computer Interaction, Multi Agent Systems, Grid and Cloud Computing, Robotics & Sensor Networks, Workflow Systems, Provenance Systems and Agri Informatics.

Thesis/Projects:

Following are the ongoing theses and projects at CRUC:
  • A Framework for Multi Agent Systems in .NET Environment
  • Sindhi & Arabic OCR System
  • A Provenance System for Open Distributed Systems in Collaborative Environment
  • AgriGrid: Context Aware Sensor Grid Framework for solving Agriculture Problems
  • Designing Context-Aware Workflows
  • Community Algorithm: Classification of Users and their Roles in a Community by their Level of Interaction
  • Data Management Framework for MANETs and VANETs
  • Automated User Interface Evaluation
  • Building a Smart University using RFID Technology
  • Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks for Irrigation Control Systems
  • Smart Workflows for Procurement
  • XYLUS: Virtual Development on the Web
  • FAST Ontology Builder
  • CSCW Models for Project Management and HR Development
  • Educational Frameworks in SecondLife.com
  • VR Models in Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Soccer Playing Robots
  • Socially Green Computing

Members:

Prof. Zubair A. Shaikh, Prof. Mohammad Shahid Shaikh, Prof. S. Zafar Nasir

Abu Zafar Abbasi, Ally Raza, Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Asma Sanam Larik, Daud Channa, Ghulam Ali Mallah, Irshad Nazir, Javed Ahmed, Javaid Siddiqui, Mehwish Aziz, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Rafi, Muhammad Shahab Siddiqui, Nadeem Kafi, Noman Islam, Noor A. Shaikh, Saleha Raza, Shaukat Wasi, Syed Imran Jami and Waseem Mufti.

LLC Language Learning Centre


FAST-National University lays special emphasis on the ability of the students to effectively communicate their professional abilities. In order to augment their soft skills—communication adeptness, leadership talent, and managerial capacity—LLC, established at the Karachi campus is equipped with twenty five work stations, provided for by state of the art hardware and most modern Interactive Language Software, and other allied pedagogical tools and techniques. The exquisitely furnished Centre affords students an opportunity to polish their language and communication skills both in English as well as foreign languages. Apart from offering lab sessions as course components of regular courses, i.e., English Language, the Centre also holds workshops, training courses, and activities in other Foreign Languages as well. The Centre also offers short courses for professionals from industry and students within in English and foreign languages like Arabic, Chinese, French, German and Korean.


This computer assisted language learning centre with video camera recording and discussion arenas, trains students in basic presentational skills, group discussions, interviews, communication and perception, creative and innovative thinking skills, etiquettes, public speaking, model speaking through movie sessions and live television programs, spoken English, phonetics and phonology, pronunciation, sound and spelling, stress and intonation, word focus, and Language Varieties( British and American).


Management Science Research Centre


Karachi is the hub of major business and economic activities in Pakistan. A large number of business centers and industries are spread all around the city. Karachi port, stock exchange and a cluster of multinational companies are providing unique opportunities of international trade and business here. Management Science Research Centre aims at providing a platform to offer research-based academic solutions of business and economics problems prevailing in today’s organizations. The centre has collaborations with local entrepreneurs and international companies.


Some of the activities of the Centre are:

Projects: Student members have picked up real life issues of business, economics, and banking etc. as their final year project to research and provide solutions of these probleMs

Seminars: various seminars have been conducted by foreign consultants, top mangers of multinational companies, and other key personnel of different organizations.

Workshops: Two training workshops have been conducted in risk management, and total quality management.

Training & Development: The centre has provided the training to its students and faculty in most modern skill development areas.

Business Games & Simulations: The centre is currently engaged in developing different business games and simulations to be utilized in classrooms teaching and assessment.

Case Study Development: Currently the centre is working on a number of case studies related to various pedagogical theories and practices to assist in learning and teaching.


The centre encourages faculty and students to take up research and provides them help to access organizational data, support, and other logistics to carry out research activities.


The Director

Dr Zubair Shaikh


Professor and Director

HEC approved PhD Supervisor

PhD (CS), Polytechnic Univ., New York (1994)

MS (CS), Polytechnic Univ., New York (1991)

BE (Computer Systems Engg), MUET, Jamshoro (1989)