বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), BUET, Best Engineering University

 বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় 

(Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), 

BUET

 

BUET Campus

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, abbreviated as BUET, is one of the most prestigious institutions for higher studies in the country. About 9234 students are pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in engineering, architecture, planning and science in this institution. 

BUET LOGO

BUET is the oldest institution for the study of Engineering and Architecture in Bangladesh. The history of this institution dates back to the days of Dhaka Survey School which was established at Nalgola, in Old Dhaka in 1876 to train Surveyors for the then Government of Bengal of British India. As the years passed, the Survey School became the Ahsanullah School of Engineering offering three-year diploma courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In recognition of the generous financial contribution from the then Nawab of Dhaka, it was named after his father Khawja Ahsanullah. It moved to its present premises in 1912. In 1947, the School was upgraded to Ahsanullah Engineering College as a Faculty of Engineering under the University of Dhaka, offering four-year bachelor’s courses in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. In order to create facilities for postgraduate studies and research, Ahsanullah Engineering College was upgraded to the status of a University in 1962 and was named East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology. After the war of Liberation in 1971, Bangladesh became an independent state and the university was renamed as the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

 

 

 Faculties and departments

• Faculty of Architecture and Planning:
  • Department of Architecture (Arch)
  • Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP)
  • Department of Humanities (Hum)
• Faculty of Civil Engineering:
  • Department of Civil Engineering (CE)
  • Department of Water Resources Engineering (WRE)
• Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering:
  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
  • Department of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE)
  • Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME)
• Faculty of Engineering:
  • Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE)
  • Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (MME)
  • Department of Chemistry (Chem)
  • Department of Mathematics (Math)
  • Department of Physics (Phys)
  • Department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering (PMRE)
  • Department of Glass and Ceramic Engineering (GCE)

 

Halls of residence

There are eight residence halls to provide housing for BUET students. The Shahid Smriti Hall is reserved for young teachers who do not have an official quarter in the campus and for the male graduate students. The Chatri Hall is for female students, and the remaining six halls are for male students studying at the undergraduate level. These halls were built in different periods of time, and their designs bear the history and architecture of different times. The administrative head of a residence hall is its provost, usually chosen from the senior teachers of different faculties. 3 Assistant Provosts are also appointed in the hall administration. Most of the halls are named after several eminent figures in the history of Bangladesh. These are listed below:

• Ahsanullah Hall (named after Nawab of Dhaka, Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah)
• Titumir Hall (named after Bengali Muslim revolutionary Syed Mir Nisar Ali Titumir)
• Chatri Hall
• Dr. M. A. Rashid Hall (named after M. A. Rashid, the first vice-chancellor of the university)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam Hall (named after the National Poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam)
• Sher-e-Bangla Hall (named after the 1st Prime Minister of Bengal- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq)
• Suhrawardy Hall (named after the Bengali-nationalist leader and 5th Prime-minister of Pakistan Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy)
• Shahid Smriti Hall (named in memory of martyrs of the Bangladesh Liberation War)

Students who do not stay at halls of residence are facilitated by the university's own commuter buses which cover major routes of Dhaka city.