Chapter 7: Facilities & Infrastructure (Criteria 6)

NED University has state of the art IT infrastructure and allied facilities for supporting various

research and educational activities of faculty members & students. This includes high speed

internet access through a secure VPN, access to the PERN network, a video conferencing facility

for domestic & foreign virtual collaboration. The University also provides LAN access to online

journals through the HEC Digital library program.

The Department has highly benefited from the implementation of NED Smart University WiFi

and global EDUROAM WiFi projects in collaboration with HEC. This provides high speed,

secure Internet access to faculty and students with full carpet coverage within indoor and outdoor

premises and will improve the academic learning experience. In addition to above NED

University is also offering its users EDUGAIN services under European consortium GEANT to

share large data sets and files securely and officially resulting in improved research and

collaboration opportunities.

High Performance Computing Centre has been established by the University to facilitate students

and researchers in performing simulation and modeling activities over cutting edge HPC

Clusters. The Centre also provides University wide access to licensed engineering software like

MATLAB, Pro Engineer, ANSYS etc.

The Communication & Network Centre (CNC) of NED University provides state of the art

LAN /WAN services including website maintenance, I.T. support, inter and intra departmental

connectivity along with a variety of online database management services through portal. It

comprises of three sections namely:

 1. Network Section

2. Portal Section

3. Web Section

The Communication & Network Centre carries out operation and maintenance of University

Network through Network Operation Centre (NOC) that is part of Network Section which

includes the centralized management of the Global as well as Campus wide connectivity and

provision of robust Internet service in addition to all sorts of timely I.T. hardware/Software

support and corporal management of the links between the departments.

NED University has a dedicated Portal Section which develops and hosts an integrated Students

Attendance Information System, Human Resource Management System and Financial

Information System. These systems play an important role in providing the needed information

in a timely and efficient manner. NED Portal makes possible accessing user related information

from the data sources spread across the University in a unified, secure, personalized web based

interface, by which faculty members and students can access their job related or academia related

information in a precise manner. Management Information Systems (MIS) which are backbone

of portal are Finance, Library, Attendance Information System (AIS), Student Information

System (SIS) and Human Resource management System (HRMS).

The Textile Engineering Department has fiber-optic connectivity and access of Wi-Fi network.

The department has the facilities and infrastructure to support new trends in learning. All

conference rooms, laboratories and class-rooms provide support for learning and faculty

members have been using these facilities. The department has the following facilities exclusively

dedicated to undergraduate students.

Textile Computer Laboratories

Department have two general purpose computing facilities (labs) where students are allowed to

perform general activities concerning their course work.

1. Textile Computer Lab

2. Soorty Computer Lab

The Textile Computer lab is equipped with forty (40) higher configuration PC’s along with six

multimedia projectors. Licenses are also available for Textile Weaving & Jacquard design

software like Design Scope Victor and YXENDIS.

New Soorty Computer lab has been developed with the generous contribution by Soorty

Enterprises Pvt Ltd. The facility was inaugurated by the honorable Mrs. Nargis Soorty and Mr.

Asad Soorty, Directors Soorty Denim, Pakistan along with Vice Chancellor Dr. Sarosh H.Lodi.

The well-furnished laboratory has been equipped with forty (40) high-end HP Workstations,

Samsung 55” UHD Display and Cisco Network Infrastructure.

These above mentioned labs are also used for conducting practical work of various courses and

trainings requiring the use of CAD software and powerful workstations. The above laboratories

are maintained by two qualified and experienced IT Managers with the support of three staff

members, who ensure the adequateness and smooth running of the Departmental IT

infrastructure.

List of Software available

The University has High Performance Computing Center (HPCC)

(https://hpcc.neduet.edu.pk/Resources). The HPCC Centre serves as a software repository for the

whole university which can be accessed by both faculty as well as students. The center houses

various licensed software repository. The list of currently available software is mentioned in

Table 7.1:

Table 7.1 List of Software

S. No. *Software Application Area

1 CADWorx Computer Aided Design & Drafting
2 SolidEdge Software
3 CODECALC
4 PVELITE
Desalination Design Analysis Fluid Mechanics & Thermal Engineering
5 Tools
6 DEEP
7 CAESAR Pipeline Engineering
8 GHWindFarmer
Renewable Energy
9 WASP
10 HVAC Design Software Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning
11 LISA Stress Analysis
12 Aspen HYSYS Process Industry
13 PVSYST Photovoltaic System
14 Fluent
15 Flowlab CFD Software
16 Gambit
17 AASHTOWARE Darwin
Transportation Engineering
18 Soil Vision
19 GPS-X
20 WATSYS Waste Water Treatment
21 Sansys
22 Visual MODFLOW
Ground Flow
23 Quantum GIS
24 SOLUTRANS
Contaminant Transport (3D)
25 Swift 2000
26 InfoNet
27 InfoWorks-WS(Water Supply) Impact Assesment
InfoWorks-WS(Collection
28 System)
29 MPI/PRO System Software
30 Cadence Chip & Circuit Designing Software
 S. No. *Software Application Area
31 FPGA Advantage
32 MultiSim
33 OrCAD
34 Quartus II
35 Sonnet
36 Xilinix
37 GNS3 Networking Software
38 Maple
39 Mathematica
40 Visual Fortran
General Purpose Software
41 MATLAB & Simulink
42 Design Expert
43 Solid Converter
* The center strictly observe the license policies as described by the software companies

Library Facility

The Engr. Abul Kalam Library is a well-equipped and fully computerized library

(https://library.neduet.edu.pk/). The library collection includes general circulation books,

reference books, encyclopedias, handbooks, periodicals, research journals, government and

archive documents. It provides specialized services in the university campus utilizing

computerized retrieval of bibliographic databases containing references to thousands of articles,

books, proceedings, technical reports and statistics.  The library possesses an up-to-date technical

collection relevant to the program and is adequately staffed with professional personnel.

Library Equipment

Sufficient facilities are available in the library and are listed in Table 7.2.

Table 7.2 List of Library equipment

 S. # Name of Item S. # Name of Item

1 Personal Computers 10 Barcode Readers

2 Network Server 11 Multimedia Projector

3 Database Server 12 Micro fish printer / reader

4 UPS 13 Photocopy machine

5 Laser Printers 14 Hubs

6 Dot Matrix Printers 15 Switches

7 Heavy Duty printers 16 DVD/CD players

8 Flat Belt Printers 17 Library Security system

9 Barcode Printers

HEC Digital Library

NED University of Engineering & Technology has access to various databases through HEC

digital library program (http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/Index.php). The details of accessible

databases are as follows:

E - DATABASES

Subject-specific resources

1. American Chemical Society (ACS) (http://pubs.acs.org/)

2. American Institute of Physics (AIP) (http://journals.aip.org/)

3. American Mathematical Society (AMS) (http://www.ams.org/)

4. American Physical Society (APS) (http://publish.aps.org/)

5. American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) (http://ascelibrary.org/journals)

 6. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) (http://www.acm.org/dl)

7. Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/)

8. Institute of Physics (http://journals.iop.org/)

Base resources

1. ASTM

2. Institute for operations research and the management sciences (INFORMS)

3. IMF e-library

4. NRC research press journals online

5. PROQUEST dissertations & theses

6. SPRINGERLINK

7. TAYLOR & FRANCIS

8. SIAM

9. WILEY - BLACKWELL Journals

10. ELSEVIER Science Direct

11. JSTOR

12. SCOPUS (For HEC Only)

13. EMERALD

14. ISI WEB OF SCIENCE

15. OVID

E-Books

1. Project Muse E-books (http://muse.jhu.edu/)

2. Springer e-books (www.springerlink.com/books)

 3. eBrary (https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hec-ebooks/home.action)

British Library DSC

The BLDSC collection (https://www.bl.uk/) is probably the world's largest database, devoted to

the provision of remote document delivery. It covers every aspect of science, technology,

medicine and humanities, in many languages. It holds journals, books, conferences, reports,

patents, theses, official publications, music scores and images.

Journals and Magazines

1. International Dyer

2. Colourage

3. Coloration Technology

4. AATCC Review

5. Melliand International

6. Pakistan Textile Journal

Moreover, the department has its own Library called TIPC, where the final year design projects

of the students are displayed. Textile Books, Journals, Magazines and Newsletters are also kept

here.
Digital Library Section at Engr. Abul Kalam Library

The Digital Library section started as an initiative of the HEC in 2006 with 15 computers to

facilitate university students to use the digital resources such as e-journals and e-books provided

by the National Digital Library Program. Standard software such as Microsoft office, Adobe

acrobat and commonly used software in engineering disciplines such as AutoCAD, MATLAB,

Microsoft project and Microsoft Visio are available to facilitate students.

Academic Buildings

Buildings

The department is located in the building (J-2). It includes;

1. Chairman office

2. P.A to Chairman Office

3. Offices for Faculty

4. Textile engineering laboratories

5. Conference room

6. Girl’s common room

Besides this building, newly build class room block comprising of four class rooms, two rooms

are dedicated for textile testing labs, and separate buildings for each Textile Yarn manufacturing

laboratory and Textile Fabric manufacturing laboratory are also available.

Class Rooms

Class rooms are adequately equipped and faculty offices are adequate to enable faculty to carry

out their duties. Separate rooms are allocated to each class for undergraduate and postgraduate
studies. The average size of each section for theory class is 40 students. The average size of each

class (group) for practical is 18. For practical, students work in groups of 4-5 students. Details of

the classes, laboratories and office equipment are listed in Table 7.3.

Table 7.3: Class Room and Office Equipment Available

Items Available

Class Rooms 04

Labs 11

Faculty Offices 11

TIPC 01

Conference room 01

Latest PC’s
Xerox Machine
Office Equipment
PA System
Multimedia Projectors
Overhead Projectors

Laboratory Facilities

Laboratory manuals/documentations/instructions for experiments are available and readily

accessible to faculty and students. Laboratory manuals/instructions for experiments are provided

on the first day to all the enrolled students of the respective year. These instructions are kept with

the Lab Instructor of the concerned lab so that it may easily be available to faculty members as

well as the students. The detail of the labs and staff are given in (Annexure G).
Summary of recreational facilities

Hostel Accommodation

The University has two residential Hostels for boys situated adjacent to the Main Campus

named: Muhammad Bin Qasim Hostel I & II and one Hostel for girls situated adjacent to the

Staff Colony in Main Campus. The capacities of hostel are;

 35 dormitory rooms and 20 cubicle rooms (Muhammad Bin Qasim Hostel I)

 72 dormitory rooms and 48 cubicle rooms (Muhammad Bin Qasim Hostel II)

 20 dormitory rooms (Girls Hostel)

The hostels have the following common facilities: Common Room, Prayer Hall and Warden’s

Office.

Convocation Hall / Auditorium

1. A Large Convocation ground of 5000+ capacity

2. A central auditorium having a seating capacity 550.

3. A seminar hall having a seating capacity of 90.

4. A video conferencing hall having a seating capacity of 170.

Sports Facilities

Sports Section was established at NED University in 1978. The facilities provided by the section

are: boys gymnasium, girls gymnasium, squash complex, two outdoor basketball courts, one

tennis court, cricket ground with turf wicket, football ground and boys fitness center.

Student Transport

University has a fleet of 20 buses, which operate on different routes in the city.
Other Facilities

Boys’ common room, Girls common room, Staff Centre for faculty members, Health Care

Centre with male and female physicians, Mosque, kiosks for edibles are located at different

places. Student cafeteria and a staff canteen are also available.