ABOUT US

1. ABOUT THE SCHOOL

The School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS) has been a school of NSU since its inception. The growth of SEPS parallels NSU’s rise to the top. SEPS, the second-largest and fastest-growing school at NSU, provides a knowledge and skill-based learning environment to its students in the fields of engineering, architecture, and physical sciences. The school originally started its journey in 1993 as the “School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)”. Later, the SEAS was renamed the "School of Engineering and Physical Sciences" (SEPS) in 2014. At present, SEPS is the home of over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students in its eight academic programs offered by four academic departments: the Department of Architecture (DoA), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Department of Mathematics and Physics (DMP). All the engineering programs under SEPS are accredited by the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), and the Architecture program is accredited by the Accreditation Standard of the Institute of Architects (ASIAB). NSU has been ranked the #1 university in Bangladesh for ENGINEERING by the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 (by Subject) with a Global Rank of 301-400. Furthermore, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, our Civil Engineering program is ranked #1 in Bangladesh (Global rank 301-400), the Electrical and Electronic Engineering program is ranked #1 in Bangladesh (Global rank 301-400), and the Computer Science program is ranked #2 in Bangladesh (Global rank 501-600, trailing the University of Dhaka).

2. VISION

The School of Engineering & Physical Sciences (SEPS) intends to be a center of excellence in innovation and technological entrepreneurship by building a knowledge and skill-based learning environment for students in the field of engineering, architecture, and physical sciences with adequate technical competency, social responsibility, communication skill, and ethical standard.

3. MISSION

Our missions are

M1. To maintain international standards in terms of program curricula, instruction style, laboratory and research facilities, faculty recruitment, and student intake.

M2. To provide quality teaching and learning in engineering education that emphasizes innovation and creativity more than classroom teaching, along with better communication skills.

M3. To enhance quality research emphasizing on the greater engagement of practical-oriented study, industry relations, collaboration with reputed universities and research institutes worldwide, etc.

M4. To produce technically competent and socially responsible engineering graduates with the highest ethical standards and human values so that they can serve society holistically.

M5. To gain national and global recognition, it will seek various accreditation and certification as required. 

4. DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS

A summary of the programs currently offered and those planned for future offerings are shown in the following table.

5. STUDENT GROWTH

Over the past five years, the undergraduate student intake steadily grew from 1100 to well over 2000, while the graduate student intake stayed stable.

6. LABORATORY FACILITIES

The existing and planned (2019 - 2023) laboratory facilities of various departments of the school are shown in the following table. 

LEADERSHIP

DEAN

Prof. Dr. Shazzad Hosain

Ph.D., Wayne State University, USA

South Academic Building, SAC 618
Phone: +88 02 55668200, Ext: 1500
Email: shazzad.hosain@northsouth.edu

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Architecture
Dr. Nandini Awal
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Japan
South Academic Building, SAC 801
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext: 1861
Email: nandini.awal@northsouth.edu

Civil and Environment Engineering

Prof. Dr. Md. Nazmul Islam
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Japan
South Academic Building, SAC 731
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext –1982
Email: mohammad.islam@northsouth.edu

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Dr. Rajesh Palit

Ph.D. University of Waterloo, Canada
South Academic Building, SAC 941
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1501
Email: rajesh.palit@northsouth.edu

Mathematics and Physics
Prof. Dr. Mamun Molla

Ph.D., University of Glasgow, UK
South Academic Building, SAC 1039
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1503
Email: mamun.molla@northsouth.edu

ACADEMICS

DEPARTMENTS

Architecture
Civil and Environment Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mathematics and Physics

PROGRAMS

School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at NSU offers the following undergraduate and graduate programs under its four departments.

Undergraduate

BS in Architecture
BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
BS in Computer Science and Engineering
BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
BS in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Graduate

MS in Computer Science and Engineering
MS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
MS in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

OUR PEOPLE

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

PROF. DR. MOHAMMAD SAHADET HOSSAIN
Dean and Professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Phone: +88 02 55668200, Ext: 1500
Email: mohammad.hossain@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 618

PROF. DR. MOHAMMED NAZMUL ISLAM
Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: +88 02 55668200, Ext: 1980
Email: mohammad.islam@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 731

PROF. DR. RAJESH PALIT

Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: +88 02 55668200, Ext: 1501
Email: rajesh.palit@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 941

DR. NANDINI AWAL
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture
Phone: +88 02 55668200, Ext: 1861
Email: nandini.awal@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 801

PROF. DR. MD. MAMUN MOLLA
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Physics
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1503
Email: mamun.molla@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 1039

COORDINATORS

PROF. DR. MOHAMMAD RASHEDUR RAHMAN
ECE Graduate Coordinator
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1507
Email: rashedur.rahman@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 933

PROF. DR. MAMUN MOLLA
SEPS Research Coordinator
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1519
Email: mamun.molla@northsouth.edu

ATIQUR RAHMAN
Undergraduate Coordinator -EEE/ETE Program
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1517
Email: atiqur.rahman@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 1030

AHSANUR RAHMAN
Undergraduate Coordinator - CSE Program
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 6182
Email: ahsanur.rahman@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 914

MS. TANJILA FARAH
Laboratory Coordinator - ECE
Email: tanjila.farah@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 929

FACULTY BY DEPARTMENT

Architecture

Civil and Environment Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mathematics and Physics

STAFF

MD. NURUL ISLAM ZAHID
Office Secretary, SEPS Dean Office
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1536
Email: nurul.zahid@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 620
 

SAIDUR RAHMAN
Senior Program Officer - ECE
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1526
Email: saidur.rahman@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC942

ATIQUN NOOR

Faculty Assistant - ECE

Email: atiqun.noor@northsouth.edu

Ext. 1527

Office: SAC936

SHEIKH FARID AKTER

Faculty Assistant - ECE

Email: sheikh.akter@northsouth.edu

Ext.: 6183

Office: SAC943

JANNATUL FERDOUS SUSMITA

Program Officer - CEE

Email: jannatul.susmita@northsouth.edu

Ext.: 1990

Office: SAC740

MD. ZABEDUR RAHMAN

Department Secretary - CEE

Email: rahman.zabedur@northsouth.edu

Ext.: 1991

Office: SAC740

RUMANA RAHMAN DEEPA

Program Officer - Arch

Email: rumana.deepa@northsouth.edu

Ext.: 1859

ANOWAR HOSSAIN

Faculty Assistant - Arch

Email: anowar.hossain@northsouth.edu

Ext.: 6245

NAHID SANJANA

Program Officer - DMP

E-mail: nahid.sanjana@northsouth.edu

Ext. 1561

Office: SAC1037

FARJANA ABEDIN

Department Secretary - DMP

Email: farjana.abedin@northsouth.edu

Ext: 1560

Office: SAC1037

Advisory Board

Civil & Environmental Engineering Industry Advisory Panel:

Engr. Md. Kabir Ahmed Bhuiyan, President of The Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) and Ex-Chief Engineer, PWD

Major General Abu Sayeed Md Masud, Project Coordinator of Padma Bridge, Special Works Division, Bangladesh Army and DG, SWO(West), Dhaka Cantt.

Engr. Shyama Prosad Adhikari, Chief Engineer, Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Government of Bangladesh

ASM Mainuddin Monem, Deputy Managing Director, Abdul Monem Ltd.

Faizur Rahman Khan, Managing Director, Building Technology & Ideas Ltd (BTI)

Itemad Ud Daulah, Chairman, DIRD Group

M. Firoze, Head-Marketing & New Product Development, Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd. and BSRM Steels Ltd.

Hasin Jahan, Bangladesh Country Director, Practical Action

Abu Saleh Khan, Deputy Executive Director (Operation), Institute of Water Modeling

Mohiuddin Mahmud, Snowy Mountain Engineering Corp., SMEC Holdings Ltd.

Manwar Hossain, Managing Director, Steel & Building Materials Division, Anwar Group of Industries

Malik Fida A Khan, Director, CCSD, CEGIS

Mohammed Zulyaminayn, Senior Procurement Officer, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh Resident Mission

Fahima Shahadat, Head of Infrastructure and Technical Services, Lafarge Holcim Bangladesh Ltd.

Md. Asif Rahman, Managing Director, CHB Building Technologies Ltd.

M. Zulkernine, Superintending Engineer, Development Circle, PWD

Md. Sohel Rahman, Superintending Engineer, Design Circle-1, PWD

Dr. Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Superintending Engineer(RHD) and Director of BRRL

Md. Sabuj Uddin Khan, Superintending Engineer, Dhaka Circle, RHD

Engr. Saifullah Al Mamun, Superintendent of Police (SP), Bangladesh Police

ECE Industry Advisory Board (CSE Program):

Mr. Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, A2I, Prime Minister’s Office

Mr. Mohammad Enamul Kabir, Director (Training & Development), Bangladesh Computer Council

Mr. Syed Almas Kabir, President, BASIS

Mr. Mamunur Rahman, Chairman & CEO, CTrends Software and Solutions Ltd.

Mr. Manjur Mahmud, COO, DataSoft Systems Bangladesh Limited

Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Khan, Senior Executive Vice President (CTO), DBBL

Mr. Ashraf Uddin, CTO, Enosis Solutions

Mr. Minhaz Uddin Anwar, Head of GP Accelerator, Grameenphone Limited

Mr. Shaikh Wahid, MD & CEO, LEADSOFT

Mr. Hussain Elius, CEO, Pathao

Mr. Ajmat Iqbal, CEO, Reve Systems

Mr. Anwarul Haque, Head of Advanced Solutions Group, Samsung R&D

Mr. Adnan Imtiaz Halim, CEO, SHEBA.XYZ

Mr. Forkan Bin Quasem, Managing Director, Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd.

Mr. Habibullah N Karim, Founder & CEO, Technohaven Company Ltd.

Mr. Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Senior Vice-President (R&D), TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd.

ECE Industry Advisory Board (EEE & ETE Programs):

Mr. Md. Aminul Hassan, Commissioner (Spectrum), Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)

Mr. Md. Monjurul Hoque, Chief Engineer, Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO)

Mr. Md. Rabiul Hasan, GM (ICT, Energy and Metering), DPDC

Mr. Rezwanul Kabeer, Director, Energypac Power Generation Ltd.

Mr. Kazi Mahboob Hassan, Senior Director, Head of Transformation, Grameenphone Ltd.

Mr. Md. Kamruzzaman, Regional Team Leader, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd.

Mr. Mohammad Hossain, Director General, Power Cell

Mr. Rezaul Islam, CEO, Power control & Management

Mr. Niaz Rahim, Group Director, Rahimafrooz

Mr. Asif Naimur Rashid, Head of Info Tech / CIO, Robi Axiata Ltd.

Ms. Humaira Chowdhury, Co-Founder & MD, Frontier Technology Ltd.

Mr. Md. Mozammel Hossain, Managing Director, Summit Gazipur Power Ltd.

Mr. Md. Kabir Ahmed Bhuiyan, Ex-Officio Member, Former President, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)

Mr. Enayetur Rahman, CEO, ULKASEMI Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Ariful Ambia, Operative Director, Walton Hi-Tech Industries Ltd.

Research and Collaboration

1. RESEARCH MISSION

SEPS research missions are-

• The School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS) at North South University aims to be the center of excellence in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship through cutting-edge research in the fields of engineering, computing, architecture, and physical sciences.
• The school aims at working in line with Bangladesh’s national research strategy and fostering the achievement of national, regional, and global sustainable development goals.
• In order to achieve these goals, the school will pursue interdisciplinary research to find out practical, economical, and sustainable solutions to society’s critical and unique challenges.
• SEPS will also foster inter-institutional and international cooperative and collaborative research opportunities, spur local science and technology innovation through international research collaboration, and promote and disseminate research outcomes benefitting the national, regional, and global community.
• The school will continue working on enhancing capacity building in research by developing field-specific research groups and centers, as well as university-wide research institutes.

SEPS Research Strategic Plan 2024-2028

2. RESEARCH PRIORITIES:

With a vision to foster the achievement of national, regional, and global sustainable development goals, North South University aspires-

• Cutting-edge research in engineering, computing, architecture, and physical sciences, especially in the fields of machine learning and data science, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communication and signal processing, cyber securities, advanced transportation, urban heritage & planning, biomedical physics, CFD, and computational and applied mathematics.
• Interdisciplinary research to address critical and unique challenges of society, such as Waste materials in concrete production, Biomedical Engineering, high-performance computing (HPC), etc.
• Extend collaboration among SEPS researchers beyond internal inter- and intra-departmental partnerships to include both local and international individuals as well as public and private agencies, such as MOUs with local and international universities and NGOs.
• Promote and disseminate research outcomes through peer-reviewed indexed journal publications and conference presentations for the benefit of the national, regional, and global community.

3. RESEARCH FACILITIES (INSTITUTES, CENTERS, GROUPS)

     SEPS Current Research Facilities:

• A High-Performance Computing (HPC) Facility.
• Center for Applied and Computational Science (CACS).
• Center for Infrastructure Research and Services (CIRS).
• 35 research groups.
• Apurba-NSU R&D Lab (Machine Learning & AI).
• Cyber-Physical System Lab.
• Design Inclusion and Access Lab.
• Mobile Application and Game Testing Lab.
• Optics Lab.
• Machine Intelligence Lab.
• Intelligent Robotics Lab.
• Building Research Lab.
• Architectural Model Making Workshop. 
• Civil Engineering Design and Computing Lab.

Planned Research Facilities:

• Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
• Higher Performance Computing (HPC) Facility (2^nd Unit).
• Urban Heritage and Planning Research Lab (Architecture)
• Energy and Systems Lab (Architecture)
• Fabrication lab (Architecture)

4. SEPS RESEARCH STRATEGY FOR 2024-2028

The core activities of SEPS research are performed by its four academic departments, namely, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), the Department of Mathematics and Physics (DMP), and the Department of Architecture. The core research areas are broadly categorized as Engineering, Technology, Architecture and Physical Sciences (Computer, Mathematics and Physics).

• Enhance Quality Research: Place a priority on interdisciplinary research that creates synergies among the expertise existing across the School while also building bridges to complementary research expertise elsewhere;

• Promote Research Facilities: Consolidate, integrate, and strategically expand the current research projects and develop new facilities for state-of-the-art research across the school. This strategy includes establishing new research labs and research centers; facilitate high-performance computing, internal and external research grants hunting, providing journal subscription fees and conference travel grants, etc.      

• Recruit Research Active Staff: Recruit the most talented research-active faculty and graduate research assistants to contribute diverse and complementary abilities to the work of our School. This strategy includes research-active faculty recruitment, full-time graduate research assistant appointment, engage research active scholars at various academic programs, hire visiting research scholars for short-term period, etc.

• Extend Collaborations: Enhance mechanisms and channels for academic and industrial communication and collaboration. This strategy might include course planning in curricula, industry-based research, internship, invitation of guest lectures, industry visits, 

• Incentivize Research: Recognize and reward achievement across all aspects of the research work of the School and maximize opportunities as recognition of disciplinary and/or inter-disciplinary research contributions from faculty, staff, and students. This strategy includes monetary and non-monetary incentives, such as special increment(s), prize money, course load release, benefits in academic promotion and additional credit in faculty performance evaluation system, etc.

The core research areas are broadly categorized as Engineering, Technology, Architecture, and Physical Sciences (Computer, Mathematics, and Physics). The full-time faculty members of SEPS make up the most research-active pool of faculty at North South University.

The school's targeted research activities are summarized in the following table.

  SEPS Publications Target: 2024-2028

Engagement and Outreach

News & Events

World University Rankings 2023

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 (by Subject) has ranked NSU as the #1 university in Bangladesh for ENGINEERING. THE has further ranked our Civil Engineering program #1 in Bangladesh (Global rank 301-400), Electrical and Electronic Engineering program #1 in Bangladesh (Global rank 301-400), and Computer Science program #2 in Bangladesh (Global rank 501-600).

SEPS Newsletter Issue 01

SEPS Newsletter Issue 02

SEPS Newsletter Issue 03

Contacts

NURUL ISLAM ZAHID
Secretary to Dean, SEPS
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 1536
Email: nurul.zahid@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 620

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