| Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology | |
|---|---|
| Motto | رَبِّ زدْنيِ عِلْماً (Arabic) O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge |
| Established | June 1, 1988 |
| Type | Private |
| Rector | Mr. Jehangir Bashar[1] |
| Academic staff | 93[2] |
| Students | 1200 |
| Location | Topi, Swabi, Pakistan |
| Campus | 400 acres (1.6 km2) |
| Affiliations | HEC, PEC |
| Website | www.giki.edu.pk |
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (also referred to as GIK Institute or GIKI, pronounced JeeKee) is one of the top ranking engineering institutes in Pakistan.[3][4]
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The GIK Institute is a private educational institution, named after former Pakistani president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Pakistani scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was one of the founding members of the institute and was once registered as a professor.[4] The institute was registered in 1988 by its parent body, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST). Khan, while president of Pakistan, was elected the president of the Society for life and Mr. H. U. Beg was appointed its honorary executive director. The ordinance of the institute was promulgated by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government in March 1993, and the first batch of students was inducted the same year in October.
Major founding donors include nouman Benevolent Community Care, Infaq Foundation, Chiniot Anjuman-e-Islamia, Dawood Group of Industries, and the Government of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which has donated land at Topi.
The university is situated beside the river Indus in the mountains of Tarbela and Gadoon-Amazai, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa near the town of Topi and in proximity to the lakes of Tarbela and Ghazi.
Its campus is in the mountains of Tarbela and Gadoon-Amazai, and is a residential campus with accommodation for students. Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.
GIKI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in six engineering disciplines:
The advisory board consists of scientists, engineers and academicians who monitoring the institutes' standards of education and research. It comprises faculty members from Kansas State University, Kyoto University, McGill University, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other institutions.
The GIKI website is designed, developed and maintained by a group of undergraduate students called the GIKI Webteam.