It is worth to mention that our two faculty members are pursuing their PhD study abroad in Textile Engineering. Textile Engineering Department is also a source center for technical human resources and consultants. This department has also been an approved training center of Rieter Switzerland of Pakistan. Industry personnel of various industries throughout Pakistan joined authorized Rieter training courses on Rieter spinning machines installed in the laboratories of the department.. In order to produce quality product of Pakistan, the laboratories are used to provide testing and consultancy services to the local industry. Currently two Ph.D scholars are registered in this department. Future plans: * * *
Upgradation of existing practical laboratories. Development of knitting Laboratory and Garment Laboratory Accreditation of the department with internationally renowned organizations such as: Textile Institute Manchester UK Society of Dyers & Colorists Bradford UK and Society of Textiles USA
To switch the department to school of excellence; which have various departments such as Yarn Manufacturing, Fabric Manufacturing, Wet-processing, Knitting and Garment. It would offer specialized degree and increased the research activities. Major Areas of Studies and their importance: 1.
Fiber Manufacturing
Pakistan is one of the largest cotton (Natural Fiber) growing country in the world and the synthetic fibers is a byproduct of petroleum. It is very important of our country to produce engineers with adequate knowledge of manufacturing and processing of natural and synthetic fibers so that they can design processes and plan industries for quality production accordingly. 2.
Yarn Manufacturing
As yarn is the raw material of fabric, therefore major factor for the quantity and quality of the fabric depends on the quality of yarns and its manufacturing processes. It indicates that we must have qualified personnel who can study the problems of yarn manufacturing and solve them through technical knowhow and available resources. For this we have modern machinery of Yarn Manufacturing available in our laboratory. 3.
Fabric Manufacturing
The yarns produced from Yarn Manufacturing process, are converted into fabric and for fabric manufacturing we need highly qualified engineers who can produce world class fabric on cheapest rates as well as they can design fabric manufacturing machines by utilizing their theoretical, practical and engineering knowledge. 4.
Wet-processing
It is known to everyone that the world market can be captured and more profit can be earned by introducing the value added textiles into market. To make the grey cloth useable and valuable it needs to be processed through various chemical and mechanical processes. We have to produce engineers with references to Pre-treatment, Dyeing, Printing, and Finishing of fabric to produce value added product.
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