The main objective of the SQUARES project is to bridge the educational skill gap between HEI, industry, and the professional employment market in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan in the fields of engineering education and quality management in universities in two main areas:

1. Introduction of transversal skills that are actually missing in the fields of energy engineering, civil engineering and industrial engineering.

2. Improvement of the quality management system in targeted HEIs, both in terms of the course of study development and institutional management.

The main direct target groups of the project are students, teachers and trainers, as well as administrative staff and HEI management. The project would also indirectly benefit the larger society with the improved employment potential of graduates empowered with modern skills introduced by the project. 140 students will be directly trained at partner universities, and 350 more trained with a help of Distance Experimental Lab (DEL), which is an innovative didactic system to participate in experiments with equipment and appliances they might not have at parent university.

Meeting objectives and expected outputs

1. Review of the contracting progress and activities
2. Conference on course creation and study curricula
3. WP3, Development of courses and preparation of the teaching materials for students
4. WP4, Working Status and next steps

Venue

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad. Board Room (Jinnah Auditorium)

Contacts

• Prof. Dr. Javed Iqbal: [email protected]
• Prof. Dr. Muhammad Irfan: [email protected]