ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is holding a three-day meeting to finalize the curriculum of Chemical Engineering being taught at engineering universities at graduate and postgraduate level.

According to a press release, a meeting of the HEC’s National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) started at the commission’s regional centre in Lahore to finalise the suggestions/comments received from concerned universities regarding curriculum of Chemical Engineering formulated in preliminary meetings.

The committee, in this meeting, will develop a draft curriculum of the discipline, which will be forwarded to the related universities for implementation.

Prof Dr A. K. Salariya, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, is the convenor of the meeting. Meanwhile, other experts attending the meeting are: Dr Mohammad Ibrahim Pathan, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro; Dr Mohammad Saleem Chaudhry, Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi; Mohammad Tariq Raja, POF Institute of Technology, Wah Cantt; Dr Mardan Ali, Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Islamabad; Arshad Mahmood, NDC, National Engineering and Scientific Commission, Islamabad; Manzurul Haque, Monitoring Evaluation and Implementation Cell, Karachi; Syed Nasir Abbas Abdi, NFC Institute of Engineering and Technological Training, Multan; and Farooq Ahmad, NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar.