Industrial Liaison Department Services
Industry Academia Linkages plays a vital role in development of any country. It helps in coming up with solutions to problems being faced by the industry and the nation, exposing students and faculty to the needs of the industry, development of programmes and curriculum that meets industry needs, finding employments for graduates in the industry, coming up with improvement of the Final Years Projects of the students, knowledge sharing and skills enhancement for both the industry and universities, etc.
UIT's Industry Liaison Department (ILD) is aggressively working to take these linkages to the highest level. In this direction it is working on the following aspects:
- Industry assistance in the Final Year Projects (FYP) of UIT's student
- Undertaking joint projects with the industry to solveproblems being faced by the industry
- Industry assistance in developing meaningful internships for UIT students.
- Industry to take part in the Job Fair and conducting interviews at UIT for giving employment to UIT graduates.
- Industry for arranging relevant and meaningful Industrial Visits for students, graduates and faculty of UIT.
- Industry to assist in Faculty Industrial Exposure/Placements.
- Industry to also place its staff in UIT for a specific period.
- Industry to assist in arranging lectures/workshops/seminars/conference by industry experts.
- Industry to assist in arranging board of advisors for industrial Linkages enhancement.
- Industry to assist UIT in starting new programs and assist in curriculum development/changes in new/existing programs as per industry needs.
- Industry to help in providing career consultancy and polishing CV's of the students l UIT to arrange trainings for Industry's staff as per Industry requirements.
ILD in the previous year arranged internships for 200 students and arranged industrial visit in diverse organizations such as SIEMENS Pakistan, Toyota Indus,PSO, Pakistan Cables, K-Electric, Descon Engineering, PARCO, Electro Dynamics Works, Lucky Cement, Thatta Cement, Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGC), KINPOE, KNPC, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) Pakistan Steel Mills, Younus Textile Mills, K-Electric Azm Learning Institute, Pakistan Cables Limited, K-Electric Bin Qasim Power Plant-1, Engro Vopak Field, Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd (PARCO), The Automators, General Tyre & Rubber, Company (GTR), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Pakistan Broadcasting, Corporation (PBC) etc.
ILD also counsels students on career planning and preparation of CVs.