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:
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.