PhD Nanoscience and Engineering Program
Nanoscience and Engineering Program is an Interdisciplinary Program of Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences (CIRB), Centre for Advanced Electronics & Photovoltaic Engineering (CAEPE), the Department of Physics hosted by Faculty of Sciences
 
Introduction
Nanoscience represents an exciting and relatively new area of study that combines several different scientific disciplines, including engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology. Nano technology involves the advancements of a very small size materials and their application to efficient devices. Nano technology is the emerging field focused on the study, development, and refinement of materials at nanoscale.

The word “nano science and engineering” is often used synonymously with the more general term “nanotechnology.” But Nano science and engineering technically focuses more closely on the engineering aspects of the field, as opposed to the broader science that is encompassed by nanotechnology. Nano engineering encompasses fabrication, characterization, design, and modeling of small structures and devices, and their integration into engineered systems. When dimensions shrink unique properties can result such that the fundamentals of thermo-physical processes deviate from the traditional macroscopic behavior. A large portion of current engineering research is focused on nanotechnology as it is one of the most important emerging technologies today.
 
Objectives
The objectives of the Nanoscience and Engineering Program are:

  • To provide a top-quality and broad multidisciplinary aspects in the established and the emerging field of nanoscience and engineering.
  • To provide specialization in one of the sub-disciplines of nanoscience and nanotechnologies.
  • To provide excellence in education in a field of strategic importance for Pakistan.
  • To enhance the profile and visibility of the higher education in Pakistan in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Scope
Nanoscience is an emerging field of study engaging chemists, physicists, biologists, material scientists, and engineers all under one roof and provide an opportunity to function as a multidisciplinary team to identify, formulate and solve societal problems. An ability to communicate effectively broad education is necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. In recent decade, nanotechnology becomes the need of every field.

Nanoscience is the study of materials at the nanoscale to take advantage of their enhanced properties and light weight. It is involved in various important industries: Textile Industry, auto and aerospace industries, biotechnology, medical field and pharmaceuticals, food science (quality control and packaging), environmental monitoring and control, agriculture, forensic industry, and Aerospace. In future, nanotechnology could also enable objects to harvest energy from their environment. New nano materials and concepts are currently being developed that show potential for producing energy from movement, light, variations in temperature, glucose and other sources with high conversion efficiency.

 
Strength Areas
  1. Advanced Nanoscale Electronics
  2. Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials
  3. Nano Remediation and Treatments
Degree Duration
PhD/NSE: As per HEC and university policy
 
Entry/Admission Requirements for PhD
As per Advertisement
 
PhD Degree Completion Requirements
Total Credit Hours: 54
PhD Courses: (18 credit hours)
Dissertation Research (36 credit hours)
 
Scheme of Studies
Proposed scheme of studies for PhD program
  Course code Course Title Lecture Hrs. Credit Hours
1st Semester
NSEXXX Elective Course I 3 3
NSEXXX Elective Course II 3 3
NSEXXX Elective Course III 3 3
Total Credit Hours 9 9  
2nd Semester Course Code Course Title Lecture Hrs. Credit   Hours
NSEXXX Elective Course IV 3 3
NSEXXX Elective Course V 3 3
NSEXXX Elective Course VI 3 3
Total Credit Hours 9 9  
3rd—8th Semester Course    Code Course Title Lecture Hrs. Credit Hours
NSEXXX Thesis — 36
Total Credit Hours   36  
Course Work 18    
Research Work 36    
Total Credit Hours of Degree 54