MS Nanoscience and Engineering Program

Nanoscience and Engineering Program is an Interdisciplinary Program of Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences (CIRB), Centre for Advanced Electronics & Photovoltaic Engineering (CAEPE), the Department of Physics hosted by Faculty of Sciences

Introduction

Nanoscience represents an exciting and relatively new area of study that combines several different scientific disciplines, including engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology. Nano technology involves the advancements of a very small size materials and their application to efficient devices. Nano technology is the emerging field focused on the study, development, and refinement of materials at nanoscale.

The word “nano science and engineering” is often used synonymously with the more general term “nanotechnology.” But Nano science and engineering technically focuses more closely on the engineering aspects of the field, as opposed to the broader science that is encompassed by nanotechnology. Nano engineering encompasses fabrication, characterization, design, and modeling of small structures and devices, and their integration into engineered systems. When dimensions shrink unique properties can result such that the fundamentals of thermo-physical processes deviate from the traditional macroscopic behavior. A large portion of current engineering research is focused on nanotechnology as it is one of the most important emerging technologies today.

Objectives

The objectives of the Nanoscience and Engineering Program are:

To provide a top-quality and broad multidisciplinary aspects in the established and the emerging field of nanoscience and engineering.
To provide specialization in one of the sub-disciplines of nanoscience and nanotechnologies.
To provide excellence in education in a field of strategic importance for Pakistan.
To enhance the profile and visibility of the higher education in Pakistan in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Scope

Nanoscience is an emerging field of study engaging chemists, physicists, biologists, material scientists, and engineers all under one roof and provide an opportunity to function as a multidisciplinary team to identify, formulate and solve societal problems. An ability to communicate effectively broad education is necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. In recent decade, nanotechnology becomes the need of every field.

Nanoscience is the study of materials at the nanoscale to take advantage of their enhanced properties and light weight. It is involved in various important industries: Textile Industry, auto and aerospace industries, biotechnology, medical field and pharmaceuticals, food science (quality control and packaging), environmental monitoring and control, agriculture, forensic industry, and Aerospace. In future, nanotechnology could also enable objects to harvest energy from their environment. New nano materials and concepts are currently being developed that show potential for producing energy from movement, light, variations in temperature, glucose and other sources with high conversion efficiency.

Strength Areas

Advanced Nanoscale Electronics
Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials
Nano Remediation and Treatments

Admission Criteria

Title of the Degree:
Master of Sciences in Nano Science and Engineering

Degree Duration:
MS/NSE degree will be conferred after completion of minimum 2-years of studies that includes course work, and an original Dissertation of Research.

Entry/Admission Requirements for MS
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MS Degree Completion Requirements

Total Credit Hours: 30
MS Core Courses: (06 credit hours)
MS Elective Courses: (18 credit hours)
Research Dissertation (06 credit hours)

Scheme of Studies

Proposed scheme of studies for MS program.

1^st Semester
Course code	Course Title	Lecture Hrs.	Credit Hours
NSEXXX	Core Course-I	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course I	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course II	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course III	3	3
Total Credit Hours		12	12
2^nd Semester
Course Code	Course Title	Lecture Hrs.	Credit Hours
NSEXXX	Core Course-II	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course IV	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course V	3	3
NSEXXX	Elective Course VI	3	3
Total Credit Hours		12	12
3^rd Semester
Course Code	Course Title	Lecture Hrs.	Credit Hours
NSEXXX	Thesis	—	3/6
Total Credit Hours			3/6
4^th Semester
Course Code	Course Title	Lecture Hrs.	Credit Hours
NSEXXX	Thesis	—	6
Course Work and Thesis		22	6
Total Credit Hours		30

Contact Persons
Dr. Shamaila Sajjad Associate Professor / SA-CIRB Email: [email protected]	Dr. Habib Ahmad Assistant Professor / CAEPE Email: [email protected]	Dr. Rehana Riaz Assistant Professor / Department of Physics Email: [email protected]