Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (also referred to as GIK Institute or GIKI, pronounced JeeKee) is an engineering institute in Pakistan.

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

History

The GIK Institute is a private educational institution, named after former Pakistani president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. 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 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.

Location

GIK Institute from the Clock Tower

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.

Faculties

GIKI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in six engineering disciplines:

• Electronic Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
• Computer Systems Engineering
• Computer Software Engineering
• Engineering Science

International Advisory Board

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.

Student societies

• Professional societies: each faculty in the institute supports a professional organization, devoted to advancing theory and practice of their fields.
• Non-professional societies: these societies are created for non-technical purposes and do not represent any particular faculty.

List of societies

• ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
• Adventure Club
• AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• ASM/TMS – The Mineral, Metal & Material Society/American Society for Materials
• ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• CDES – Cultural Dramatics and Entertainment Society
• GEAS – GIKI Environmental and Awareness Society
• GSS – Graduate Students Society
• Horizon Publication Society
• IET Institute of Engineering and Technology – GIKI Students Chapter
• IEEE – GIKI Chapter
• LDS – Literary and Debating Society
• Media Club
• NAQSH Arts Society
• NETRONiX – Society of student administrators maintaining GIKI’s local area network
• GIKI Mathematics Society
• Project Topi
• Science Society
• SOPHEP – Society for the Promotion of Higher Education Pakistan
• SPIE – Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• WES – Women Engineers Society

GIKI web development team

The GIKI website is designed, developed and maintained by a group of undergraduate students called the GIKI Webteam.