Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is the foremost Engineering University in Bangladesh. Located at the heart of Dhaka, the capital city, BUET attracts some of the best students of Bangladesh.

BUET was established in the late 19th century as a survey school for training surveyors. Later, generous grants from Nabab Ahsanullah, a renowned Muslim patron of Education and member of the Nabab family of Dhaka enabled it to expand as a full fledged engineering school. After the partition of 1947, it was renamed as Ahsanullah Engineering College.

In 1961, it was renamed as East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology (EPUET). A partnership with the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (renamed Texas A&M University in 1963) was forged, and professors from A&M came to teach and to formulate the curriculum.

After the liberation war of 1971, Bangladesh became independent, and EPUET was renamed to BUET.

Faculty and Departments

• Faculty of Architecture & Planning
  • Dept. of Architecture (Arch)
  • Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning (URP)
  • Dept. of Humanities (Hum)
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
  • Dept. of Civil Engineering (CE)
  • Dept. of Water Resources Engineering (WRE)
• Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE)
  • Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
• Faculty of Engineering
  • Dept. of Chemical Engineering (Ch.E)
  • Dept. of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering (MME)
  • Dept. of Chemistry (Chem)
  • Dept. of Mathematics (Math)
  • Dept. of Physics (Phys)
  • Dept. of Petroleum & Mineral Resources Engineering (PMRE)
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
  • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
  • Dept. of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NAME)
  • Dept. of Industrial & Production Engineering (IPE)

Trivia

• BUET has the remains of an Indian Mig-21 that crashed in Dhaka in the 1970s.
• BUET has participated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest every year since 1998, achieving the 11th position in 2000.

External link

• Official BUET Web Site
• BUET Linux Users Group