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This case describes the various mechanisms and initiatives that NUST has set up for engagement with the community, industry and government. It offers an opportunity to understand the factors that need to be addressed, and the concepts that can be leveraged, to set up meaningful and effective university-community-industry linkages
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This case describes the journey of a premier university of Pakistan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) as it has evolved over a period of quarter of a century into an institution spanning seven fields (Engineering, IT, Medicine & applied biosciences, Basic Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, and Art, Design & Architecture) with over 100 undergraduate and graduate programs, almost 15,000 students and over 1100 faculty members.This case describes the various mechanisms and initiatives that NUST has set up for engagement with the community, industry and government. It offers an opportunity to understand the factors that need to be addressed, and the concepts that can be leveraged, to set up meaningful and effective university-community-industry linkages. The issues that the students have to address in this case are the challenges associated with setting up an institutional mechanism for sustaining the engagement with stakeholders. A number of demonstration projects had also been initiated in the energy sustainability area but it was not clear as to how these projects could be leveraged to promote the cause of sustainability in the country. NUST had set up key performance indicators for various groups that were engaged with the stakeholders and related initiatives, but had yet to devise a meaningful way to ascertain how much measureable progress was being made towards achieving its vision and mission. All reviews completed and no. assigned.
