Islamic University of Science and Technology
Coordinates: 33°55′35″N 75°01′07″E / 33.926322°N 75.018506°E
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| Type | State University |
|---|---|
| Established | 2005 |
| Chancellor | Chief Minister of J&K State |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Mushtaq A Siddiqi |
| Students | 4000 + |
| Location |
Awantipora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir,  India33°55′35″N 75°01′07″E / 33.926322°N 75.018506°E |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Martinique and White |
| Nickname | IUST |
| Affiliations |
UGC AICTE AIU |
| Website | islamicuniversity.edu.in/iustlive.com |
The Islamic University of Science & Technology is a public university located in Awantipora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. The university has been set up as a centre for higher learning for the people of the Jammu and Kashmir State and its neighbouring regions. The Islamic University of Science and Technology has been established through an Act No. XVIII of 2005 dated: 7th November 2005 passed by J&K State Legislature and notified by the State Government, through Jammu & Kashmir Government Gazette dated: 11-11-2005. While the university started functioning in November, 2005 the teaching programme was started in July 2006. The Chancellor of the University is the Chief Minister of J&K State and the executive authority of the University is its Executive Council with the Vice Chancellors of University of Jammu, University of Kashmir and Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University as members .
- Vision
- The University strives to build a campus and nurture an environment of learning where students can develop, cultivate and support an academic culture that values interdisciplinary learning which is socially responsible to all sections of society – local, regional and global.
- Mission
- Conduct and promote studies and research and prepare trained manpower aware of their social and cultural obligations and contemporary issues who would effectively participate in all developmental processes of the nation.
The University aims to build the broad personality of its students, in-fusing in them a sense of belonging and responsibility as constructive members of the society, guided by the norms of universal brotherhood, scientific temper and prepare them to take up the mantle of leadership in all professions of modern world.
Develop adequate linkages and appropriate methodologies to promote contemporary knowledge and to put in place a system that thrives on the concept of competitiveness. The moving spirit in the exercise is to create opportunities for the youth of the state by laying foundation of a knowledge society.
Location
The University is located in Awantipora, a small picturesque town situated on the main National Highway (NH1A) in Kashmir approximately 30 km south of the capital city of Srinagar and just adjacent to the shrine of Syed Hassan Mantaqi. This historically significant town was capital of Kashmir during the reign of Raja Awantivarman.
The spectacular campus has the Himalayan mountain range on one side, the Jhelum River on the other and a beautiful grove of almonds cradling the main campus.
Schools of Study
The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the following schools of study:
- School of Technology
- School of Technology (SoT) is the largest School of study in the University with around 1600 students on roll and in the coming year the roll shall be around 2000. The School of Technology comprises more than 20 lecture theatres, 22 modern well established laboratories, workshops, fully networked computer laboratories with internet access of 100 MBPS and online solar power backup for uninterrupted academic work. The School has also the largest number of highly specialized academicians and engineers which is more than 90, and expected to go beyond 100 in a year or so. The SoT laboratories are manned by qualified technicians and skilled personnel. The School of Technology has also been provided funds under FIST by the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi for modernizing the Laboratories with latest equipment, software and also in providing quality electric power for the Science & Technology departments.
Undergraduate Programmes:
- B. Tech Civil Engineering
- B. Tech Electrical Engineering
- B. Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering
- B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering
- B. Tech Mechanical Engineering
- B. Tech Food Technology
Postgraduate Programmes:
- Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)
- M.Sc. Information Technology (M.Sc. IT)
- M.Sc. Food Technology
- School of Business Studies
- School of Business Studies(SBS) is one of the founding Schools of Islamic University of Science and Technology. It was established in 2006 for the 4-semesters AICTE approved programme of MBA only. Subsequently in the following year, the 6-semester undergraduate programme of BBA was started. The SBS continued its forward movement of growth and development and launched the prestigious research programme of PhD in January, 2013. Later an innovative job-oriented programme of MBA (international Business) was started from 2014. The core objective of this School is to foster a better business world by grooming professionals who are able to make a positive difference to the organizations they work for. SBS believes in inculcating standard business acumen in students, who can positively change the course of their organization through their marketing skills, accuracy in accounting and finance, vision in HR, which together aim at building the society. The emphasis is to provide a sound theoretical and practical foundation in business and build on that through case- based teaching methodology, Industry internships, real- world projects and industry- oriented course curriculum. The degrees are developed keeping in view the future prospects so as to provide an edge in the job market.
Undergraduate Programmes:
- Bachelors in Business Administration (B.B.A.)
Postgraduate Programmes:
- Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.)
- Masters in Business Administration- International Business (M.B.A-IB)
Research Programmes:
- Integrated Ph.D in Business Administration.
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Islamic University of Science and Technology while emphasizing and promoting studies in Science and Technology believes that the same needs to be complemented with education providing insight into the social and cultural dimensions at local, regional and global levels. The school of Humanities and Social Sciences was established with a vision of facilitating inter disciplinary dialogue for meaningful human existence.:
Postgraduate Programmes:
- M.A. Arabic Language and Literature
- M.A. Islamic Studies
- M.A. English Language and Literature
- M.A. Journalism & Mass Communication
- M.A. International Relations (Peace and Conflict Studies)
Research Programmes:
- Integrated M.Phil-Ph.D in Arabic.
- Integrated M.Phil-Ph.D in Islamic Studies.
- Integrated M.Phil-Ph.D in English Language and Literature.
- School of Sciences
Undergraduate Programmes:
- B. Sc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics.
Postgraduate Programmes:
- M.Sc. Chemistry
- M.Sc. Physics
- M.Sc. Statistics
- Government Polytechnic Pulwama, IUST Campus
The University has started diploma courses from year 2012 in the fields of:
- Diploma in Civil Engineering
- Diploma in Electrical Engineering
- Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
University Centers
- International Centre for Spiritual Studies
- The Centre is conceptualized & established to encourage studies & research on various aspects of spirituality, and to provide a spiritual response to the growing ideological conflicts and cultural and intellectual challenges of the world. ICSS is an academic & research oriented Centre with a mandate of working on such issues that have largely marginalized the spiritual development of the present day human being. Besides, engaging with diverse spiritual traditions of the world along with a focus on such traditions that have been enriching the spiritual heritage of Kashmir, the Centre, aims at exploring issues in comparative religion and mysticism.
- Rinchen Shah Center for West Himalayan Cultures
- Rinchen Shah Center for West Himalayan Cultutes (RSCWHC) has been conceived as a research center to help the State’s citizens better understand their immediate surroundings from an ethnographic, linguistic, anthropological and cultural perspective. The center defines “West Himalaya” as the regions known to us today as Kullu-Manali, Lahul-Spiti, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, Jammu and the hill tracks. RSCWHC will research, document and catalogue the human communities in this region and study how they bound together by geography and language and have overlapping ethnic and linguistic affiliations that create a continuum of frontiers cultures.
The Center has published a book and several research articles on the area. The Center is working on a Major Research Project titled: Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan relations sponsored by the UGC.
The Center and Kargil Social and Cultural Organization have signed Memorandum of Understanding, whereby, the Rinchen Shah Centre shall provide expertise to the Kargil Social and Cultural Organization. Such expertise shall include academic, conceptual, logistical, and infrastructural assistance to the project of Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum, undertaken by the Kargil Social and Cultural Organization with the aim of establishing the first ever museum of its kind in Ladakh of Central Asian Trade and Kargil arts and artifacts.
- Mantaqi Center for Science and Society
- Mantaqi Center for Science and Society aspires to combine research and education in natural sciences with the insights of social sciences and humanities in order to utilize fresh perspectives on major public issues involving science and technology.
The Center will bring together natural scientists, social scientists and policy makers to engage in innovative and interdisciplinary research projects and make science relevant to our community and future generations. Through conferences, workshops and publications the Center will disseminate outstanding work and encourage scientific enquiry skills critical to future innovation.
The Center’s Reach Out And Mentor (ROAM) tutoring program for children of a neighboring seminary is going well and the children are learning math, science, English and computers from volunteer faculty and staff of IUST. These children come from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds and have no opportunities for formal education.
- Advanced Centre for Information Technology (ACIT)
- The initiative of establishing ACIT & e-Gov. is to act like a partner, providing widespread information support system, technology driven academic & administrative effectiveness and assistance in decision making with the aim to realize the strategic goals of the Islamic University of Science and Technology. Living true to the vision of the university, ACIT & e-Gov. should permeate everything we seek to do at the Islamic University of Science and Technology as an essential tool that is always available and seamlessly integrated into our activities – to address the global pressing problems of our time. The key aim of this center is to provide a computing environment for the university community; capable of meeting the challenges posed by the unprecedented requirements of the university. It is a central assumption that these needs can best be met by harnessing distributed computing power & storage capacity efficiently and transparently. Information and Communication Technology(ICT) is a very helpful tool for providing good governance to the University and its associated institutions that brings promising change in their working. The objective of introducing the ICT is to provide the University with a fully integrated management system that will allow it to deliver & support the highest quality educational services to its student population, utilize resources in most optimum manner and support the regulating authorities in carrying out the timely decisions. This initiative will promote and aid in the transformation & standardization of University-wide administrative processes as well as centralize & standardize data storage throughout the institution.
- Design Innovation Centre (DIC)
- Islamic University of Science & Technology in partnership with the University of Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia, and School of Planning & Architecture (New Delhi), has established a Design Innovation Centre (DIC) under the MHRD scheme of 'National Initiative for setting up of Design Innovation Centres, Open Design School & National Design Innovation Network'.
The basic purpose of setting up Design Innovation Centres is to promote a culture of innovation and creative problem solving, to serve as a place that imparts design based education and practice and to create an ecosystem facilitating students and faculty to take their innovative ideas from classrooms/labs to market/people.
We at IUST are in the process of creating the basic infrastructural facilities at DIC, and invite any suggestions that any student/faculty may have regarding specific projects focusing on product design.
Community initiatives
Besides, imparting formal education to the younger generation, the University realizes its role for community development especially given its rural setting. We take every opportunity possible to reach out to the local community and seek means and mechanisms to connect to it.
In this direction, IUST with the help of many expert individuals / organizations has made various efforts to reach out to the local community and raise awareness, make their grievances reach the authorities, apprise them of the latest technologies and trends to make their work easy and more attractive. So far the University has organised camps for seed distribution, health camps, workshop on new techniques in pottery etc.
While identifying the need of modern education to underprivileged children, the university makes efforts at its own level to reach to them in the immediate vicinity of the campus. This is being done under Reach Out And Mentor (ROAM) tutoring program started by the Mantaqi Center for Science and Society. The center has drawn volunteers from students and faculty who teach students of a nearby seminary basic computer courses and other subjects that are part of formal system of education.
The University has also started ‘Pesh Kadam’ a joint initiative of the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) and PANOS India in December 2009 which is successfully going on. The capacity of IUST with its department of Journalism and PANOS’ experience in working on radio were brought together in this endeavor for a community based initiative using radio as a tool. The program is aimed to create a space for development of youth in the area, use radio as a tool or communication in voicing issues relevant to the community and to provide a technical training for the journalism students of IUST and youth of Awantipora area. With a full-fledged studio and equipment, the program also acts as a part of a complete and rigorous technical training regime of the University as far as broadcast journalism is concerned.
With the support from Ministry of Food Processing, Government of India, University has established Food Processing and Training Centre (FPTC) for training of educated unemployed youth of the state to facilitate them to start their own processing units in rural areas. This will also help entrepreneurs to improve their technological skills. Special training programmes are identified for rural women folk.
Outreach
In order to supplement and complement the academic cooperative participation within the broad frame work of its vision and objectives and to promote and further the cause of IUST in developmental process of the state, it has established linkages with various Universities and other institutions of higher education across the globe. This among other things includes sharing of mutual facilities, faculty and curricular development programmes, consultancy, training, internship and placement programmes of the students in areas where such facilities may be required. This is of crucial importance in the initial developing stages of the University.
Islamic University of Science and Technology signed a tripartite MOU on 20-10-2011 with Delhi University and University of Kashmir for mutual cooperation for the promotion of academic excellence.
IUST has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Japan (TUFS) in order to achieve its common academic objectives. Besides, facilitating exchange of faculty and students, scholarships to the IUST students under the MoU, TUFS has installed Video Conferencing Equipment enabling the students to take lessons from international experts via video conferencing.
Other Universities / Institutions with which effective linkages have been developed include SKUAST-Jammu, University of Jammu, Jamia Hamdard -New Delhi, Bharti Vidyapeeth -New Delhi, Shiv Nadar University, Noida, Chaudhary Charan Singh University - Sirsa.
Affiliation/Accreditation
Islamic University of Science and Technology is recognised by the UGC and AICTE and is a member of AIU.
The University crossed another milestone in 2015 when National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) declared the University as accredited with Grade ‘B’ securing a CGPA of 2.52 out of 4. In the four letter assessment grading system of NAAC ‘B’ denotes ‘good’. The accreditation preceded by the visit of NAAC Peer team from 7th to 10th September 2015. The Peer team appreciated the quality of students/teachers, well maintained infrastructure, effective leadership and a supportive management with social commitment. The committee was impressed with innovative initiatives of the University. [1]
Library
The IUST Library system at IUST operates as a centre for print information sources and services and a gateway to electronic resources available on-line to provide a quality library support to the university fraternity to accomplish their goals of study & research smoothly. The library offers a conducive environment to provide access to quality information resources that enables a diverse community of learners to think critically, communicate effectively, and engage in lifelong learning. It is sufficiently equipped so as to help students excel and realize their full potential as the youth of the twenty-first century. The library system thus serves as a key to intellectual resources that support the teaching, learning and research goals of the university.