MS Railway Systems Engineering

PAF IAST is nestled in natural mountains that flank its campus from all sides, offering one even the ravishing view of snow-capped peaks of Nathiagali and natural winding trails. To its north-west is Tarbela Lake, a journey of only a few kilometers from the campus. Set in the middle of the campus is a natural lake, fed by the springs of surrounding mountains. The campus is just a 3-kilometer drive from the Hazara Motorway. The ideal setting equally conducive to academic activity and aesthetic sensibilities of the human eye is a serene island of its own kind, far from the chaos, congestion, and cacophony of metropolitan culture. The major cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila, and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

This institute is an emerging center of excellences, with its own technology park. All faculty members hold PhD degrees in appropriate disciplines. By virtue of its wide array of facilities and the facilitation for its students to learn and benefit both from classroom teaching and faculty trained at premier Austrian universities/institutions, the institution is ideally cut out for imparting state-of–the-art engineering and allied education in Pakistan. The institute enjoys close linkages with top ranking universities in Austria and China. We have already concluded with them formal agreements regarding student and faculty exchange programs, provision of dual degrees in certain areas, and the training support from foreign faculty. cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour.

There is a strong synergetic relationship between academia and industry which paves the way for job opportunities for students even in the midst of their studies. PAF IAST will serve as a welcome platform for the industry to share their requirements for a skilled workforce. This will enable the institute to incorporate their valuable inputs in practical vocational training and expose the students to industrial perspectives

It will be a mandatory requirement for every student to do an internship every semester in an appropriate industry. This will garner them practical experience related to their respective degree programs. To crown it all, Technology Park will afford them rare opportunities to apply themselves innovatively and become promising entrepreneurs.

Different types of local and foreign scholarship opportunities are available on need and merit base.

• Transport and railway policy formulation and implementation
• Passenger and freight traffic analysis, forecasting and planning
• Public finance and public accounting
• Financial viability of train operations including capital and operational cost and revenues
• Customer facilitation and management of terminal facilities
• Marketing and customer facilitation through use IT
• Dynamics of different commodities and dangerous goods transportation
• Logistics and warehousing
• Railway asset management
• Rationalization of railway tariff  structures –passenger fare and freight rates
• Public Private Partnership in railways
• Field visits

• Passenger and freight train operations
• Time tabling and train scheduling
• Safety regime and safety of train operations
• Railway signaling and railway telematics
• Line capacity management and control
• Managing marshalling yards
• Train loads, speed and braking distances
• Safety of train operations in hilly terrain
• Accident analysis and safety equipments
• Open Access Track Regime
• Different types of line and installation inspections
• Field visits

• Locomotive assembling, maintenance and operations
• Passenger coaches design, construction and maintenance
• Freight wagons design, construction/maintenance for different commodities
• Mechatronics systems in rolling stock
• Traction systems
• Railway vehicle dynamics and braking systems
• Workshop and equipment management
• Fuel management and efficient fuel consumption
• Power supply and head – end generation systems
• Line inspection

• Recruitment, selection, training and retirement systems
• Organizational structures and career development
• Trade unionism and labor welfare
• Leadership and team building
• Change management
• Litigation and Labor laws, Civil Servant Act, Factory Act, Workmen Compensation Act, Rules of Business, etc.
• Personnel manual including leave rules, hours of employment rules, pension rules, etc.
• Disciplinary action process and methodology
• Pension management, Benevolent Fund and gratuity management
• First aid and Civil Defense organization
• Field visits