History and Establishment
History and Establishment
The School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences (SINES) was established at NUST in 2007 to set up modeling and simulation facilities for design and development in various disciplines through education, training and research. The centre was founded to act as a platform to integrate design and development efforts by the government, academia and industry. Progress in this direction could only be made through cross-disciplinary research and educational programmes in collaboration with industry and government. Specifically, there was a need for integrating analytical and computational techniques with advances in computer hardware and software.
SINES started its first MS programme in Computational Science and Engineering in Fall 2008, with specialisations in “Fluid Flow and Structures” and “Computational Infrastructures and Visualisation”.
In Fall, 2010, the programme was extended to PhD in Computational Science and Engineering. During the first four years, the educational and research programmes at SINES grew on the foundation of ten interrelated thrust areas, each focusing on mathematical modeling and simulation of a particular domain: structures; fluids; electrical systems; communication systems; computer and network architecture; operations research; and human behavior.
In 2011, computational biology and drug design were added as new concentration areas both in MS and PhD.
In 2012, a Centre of Excellence titled ‘Super Computing Research and Education Center (SCREC)’ was established at SINES. SCREC houses a supercomputing facility and is presently being utilised in computation-intensive research projects in the areas of fluid dynamics and biosciences.
Recently, the education, training and research activities have been divided into two main streams or departments, namely: Sciences; and Engineering. These departments have been further divided into divisions to keep the activities focused, better managed as well as synergised. Sciences comprises Computer Science, Bio-informatics, and Computational & Applied Mathematics. Similarly, Engineering division is divided into Engineering Sciences, Systems Engineering and Operations Research.