News Desk
LAHORE: Punjab Minister of Higher Education, Raja Yasser Humayun Sarfraz, inaugurated the Workshop and Design Center at UET, Lahore on Wednesday.
The center has been established to promote design and fabrication-based final-year projects by students of engineering programs. It has been completed with funding from the federal government through HEC. The center is housed in a dedicated building and contains a machine shop, fitting shop, welding shop, heat treatment shop, and flexible manufacturing system.
Students can themselves design and fabricate using the facilities provided in the center while working independently. It will promote practical skills and aims to produce employment-ready graduates.
Computerized numerical control (CNC) machines and robot-based sorting of machined components based on quality have also been provided in the center. The sorted jobs can be placed in a storage bin or can be sent back for re-processing.
“This finite state machine (FMS) system is one of the latest models and students can create various real scenarios to optimize the working of a manufacturing system,” said the education minister.
He encouraged the faculty to put a concerted effort to manufacture imported items locally in order to reduce the import bill. “This state-of-the-art facility is one of a kind in the country where students will get hands-on experience of using the latest machinery and be industry-ready,” said Vice Chancellor Dr. Syed Mansoor Sarwar.
