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A Historical Perspective
The Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology (BUET) is the oldest institution in
Bangladesh for the study of Engineering and
Architecture. Its history dates back to 1876 when
Dhaka Survey School (DSS) was founded at Nalgola,
Dhaka, to train Surveyors for the then Government of
Bengal of British India. Time has witnessed the
transformation of DSS into Ahsanullah School of
Engineering (ASE) offering three-year diploma
courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering.
In 1948, ASE was upgraded to Ahsanullah
Engineering College (AEC) as the Faculty of
Engineering under the University of Dhaka offering
four-year Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees
in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and
Metallurgical Engineering. AEC followed a glorious
path of development - it was upgraded to the
status of a university, East Pakistan University of
Engineering & Technology (EPUET) in 1962. EPUET was
named Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology or BUET in 1971 when Bangladesh became an
independent country.
BUET now offers undergraduate and post-graduate
degrees in 12 engineering and architecture
disciplines, and post-graduate degrees in four other
related disciplines. Today BUET can take pride in
the fact that its graduates have, for many years,
been in the forefront in shaping the future of our
beloved country, Bangladesh. Over and above, more
and more BUET alumni are contributing to the
development of the various sectors of the economies
of a large number of countries in the west and the
middle-east of which they are residents or citizens.
Alumni of most well-recognized universities in
developed countries and many in developing countries
are known to play highly useful roles in the various
aspects of their alma mater. In India, the alumni
associations of most of the IIT's have made
tremendous contributions to furthering the programs
of the Institutes and to enhancing their images home
and abroad. The need for forming an alumni
association of BUET was felt by many for a long
time. But for a variety of reasons this idea did not
materialize earlier.
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