PAF-IAST take pride in offering the exciting and world-changing Degree Programs of Biomedical Sciences that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge, as well as fostering the commercial use of our research and the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty and students. Though, we have well mechanism to launch various Undergraduate, Graduate (MS and PhD) programs in near future.

Department of Chemical and Energy Engineering is offering an undergraduate degree program in the discipline of Chemical Engineering from fall 2020. The program provides an excellent opportunity for students to engage and interact with relevant industries and organizations. Our faculty enjoys sound international credentials of having participated in several cutting-edge research projects. The presence of state-of-the-art labs, ample learning resources, smart classrooms, and well-equipped lecture halls, make our environment all the more conducive to quality education of a very high order. The classrooms are virtually linked to facilitate lectures and seminars by foreign faculty. Through our integral collaboration with Management Centre Innsbruck (MCI), Austria, our selected will be able spend their final year at MCI. After approval from the accreditation bodies of Pakistan and Partner University in Austria, they will be awarded dual degrees, one from PAF-IAST Pakistan and the other from MCI Austria. We have plans to start in the future other programs at Bachelors, MS, and PhD levels.

1. Inorganic and Organic Chemistry/Analytical and Physical Chemistry/Chemical Process Technology Lab

Lab Description:

The students will learn basic techniques of the Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Lab. The students will become familiar with basic instrumentation, techniques and apparatus and help them master the latest techniques such as, spectroscopy, Chromatography, organic chemical reactions, salt analysis, elemental analysis and catalysis.

The analytical and physical chemistry lab offers students an introduction to physical and analytical chemistry techniques. The application of principles learned in class is reinforced by various experiments. The students have exposure to analytical and other techniques used in chemistry and chemical engineering.

Chemical process technology lab provides hands-on experience for semi-industrial/industrial equipment. Equipment is focused on plant and process design, scale-up, etc. Students have to utilize many different scientific subjects in one assignment, for instance, analytical chemistry, thermodynamics, heat and mass balances, unit operations, kinetics, process control, uncertainty calculations, sampling techniques, safety, and environmental aspects.

Lab Equipment List

1. Tabletop Centrifuge
2. UV/Visible Spectrophotometer
3. Conductivity meter
4. Flame photometer
5. Hot plate with magnetic stirrer
6. Analytical Electronic Balance (100g)
7. Analytical Electronic Balance (3000g)
8. Glass viscometer
9. Ultrasonic Bath
10. PH Meter
11. Furnace
12. Autoclave
13. Water Distillation Assembly
14. Heating Mantle
15. Bomb Calorimeter
16. Water Bath
17. UV lamp
18. Melting point Apparatus
19. Desiccator with vacuum pump oven
20. Mechanical shaker
21. Abbes Refractometer

2. Heat Transfer Lab

Lab Description

In chemical industries, various operations are assisted with heat addition and rejection by using a variety of heat exchangers and reactors whose performance is highly affected through heat transfer. Therefore, heat transfer lab is designed to familiarize the students with the various modes of heat transfer by applying its fundamentals through equipment.

Lab Equipment List

1. Concentric Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
2. Heat Exchanger Service unit with DAQ
3. Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
4. Radiation Heat Transfer Unit
5. Film & Drop wise Condensation Unit,
6. Flow Boiling Demonstration Unit Free and force convention unit Heat conduction Unit,
7. Thermal conductivity apparatus
8. Plate and frame heat exchanger

3. Fluid Mechanics Lab

Lab Description:

In fluid mechanics lab, fluids and their flow behaviors are studied and observed. Pressure variations are calculated through gauges for compressible fluids when they flow through convergent-divergent nozzles. Various theoretical demonstrations of different laws of fluid mechanics are checked through lab equipment.

Lab Equipment List

1. Flow Meter Trainer
2. Fluid Statics and Manometry Hydraulics BenchAQ
3. Osborne- Reynold's Demonstration unit
4. Multi-Pump Test Rig
5. Flexible Impeller Pump
6. Plunger Pump or Reciprocating Pump, Diaphragm Pump
7. Fixed and Fluidized Bed Equipment
8. Centrifugal Fan Demonstration Unit
9. Centrifugal Pump Demonstration Unit
10. Drag Coefficient Apparatus Bernoulli's Theorem Apparatus
11. Free and Force Vortex Apparatus Fluid Friction Apparatus with Hydraulic Bench

4. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Lab

Lab Description:

In the thermodynamics lab, equipment is related to the basic laws and applications of thermodynamics like boiler, refrigeration unit, Joule-Thomson apparatus, and Boyle`s law apparatus. This lab not only allows students to have a thorough understanding of these principles but also develops the basic requirement of a chemical engineer, i.e., to cope with the wide variety of problems such as calculation of heat and work requirement of physical and chemical processes.

Lab Equipment List

1. Expansion Process unit
2. Temperature Measurement and Calibration unit
3. Pressure Measurement and Calibration Unit
4. Saturation Pressure Unit
5. Recycle Loop
6. Mechanical Heat Pump
7. Solar Energy Demonstration Unit
8. Refrigeration Cycle Demonstration Unit with DAQ software
9. Single Cylinder Steam Engine
10. Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus

5. Workshop

Lab Description:

This laboratory is an integral and basic course in machine tool and machining at undergraduate level. The experiments to be performed in a laboratory is ideally be designed in such a way as to reinforce the understanding of the basic principles and practical skills which help the students to visualize the various phenomenon encountered in different applications. The questions provided at the end of each experiment will reinforce the students understanding of the subject and help them to prepare for viva-voce exams.

Lab Equipment List

1. Pillar drill
2. Cut Off Machine
3. Bench grinder
4. Shaper machine
5. Milling machine
6. Lath Machine
7. CNC Machine,
8. Tool Kitt

6. Computer Lab

Lab Description:

The lab facility helps to design, simulate, and optimize different chemical engineering processes. ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software used to predict the impact of fluid flows under different conditions during operations. HyperChem is also used for building new molecules, predicting their molecular mechanics and dynamics. ASPEN Engineering Suite (AES) is extensively used for designing Chemical Process Industries, optimization of existing and new process industries, economic evaluations, and feasibility studies of process industries. There are 50 workstations at the simulation laboratory

Lab Equipment List

The lab will be equipped with all-in-one computer with main specifications such as Intel core i7-9850H (9th generation) processor, 16 GB (DDR4 RAM) and dual pointing Backlit keyboard

7. Electrical Engineering Lab (Shared)

Lab Description:

Electrical Engineering Lab aims to provide basic knowledge of electrical equipment and skills to undergraduate students through various experiments. This lab is focused on the fundamentals of circuit analysis, voltage, current, sources, and Ohm’s law to resolve complex electric circuits. Also gives the solutions for resistive circuits followed by complex elements, e.g., capacitors, inductors and operational amplifiers, circuits with DC sources, and circuits with sinusoidal sources.

Lab Equipment List

1. Digital storage oscilloscope
2. Digital multi-meter
3. Function generator
4. SMD Rework Soldering Station
5. Arduino starter kit
6. LCR Meter

8. Physics Lab (Shared)

Lab Description:

Physics Lab is equipped to serve the primary purpose of giving experimental training in classical and modern physics to the undergraduate students of engineering. Demonstration kits / apparatus are available in the laboratory to illustrate physics principles.

Lab Equipment List

1. Faraday’s Law Apparatus
2. LRC Circuit Apparatus
3. Specific Heat Apparatus
4. Newton’s Laws Apparatus
5. Projectile Motion Apparatus
6. General Purpose Digital Multimeter
7. Inverse Square Law,
8. Coulomb’s Law Demonstrator
9. Universal Digital Multimeter,

1. HSSC stream candidates are eligible to apply for admission on the basis of HSSC Part-I result. Confirmation of their admission shall be contingent on submission of HSSC Certificate or HSSC Detailed Marks Certificate (with the minimum aggregate marks required for the program) before commencement of the respective study program


2. O/A level and other non-SSC/HSSC stream candidates need to submit equivalence certificates issued by Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), Pakistan.


3. Candidates of O/A level and other non-SSC/HSSC stream can apply on the basis of O level/other non-SSC equivalence certificate duly issued by IBCC. Confirmation admission shall be is subject to submission of A Level/ other non-HSSC equivalence certificate before commencement of the respective study program. Submission of a valid O Level/r non-SSC equivalence certificate is mandatory at the time of applying for admission.


4. Candidates can apply on the basis of PAF-IAST Entry Test or SAT or both.


5. For Bachelor of Engineering, as per PEC policy 2% quota is available for admission to candidates possessing Diploma of Associate Engineering (DAE) with minimum 60% marks for the respective technology


6. For candidates in A Level/other non-HSSC (final year), 40% weightage will be assigned to their O Level/other non-SSC equivalence marks on the basis of equivalence certificates issued by IBCC.

1. For Fresh Intake,

The applicant who has obtained the top position (i.e., the highest aggregated marks) in the admission merit list in each program will be offered 100% exemption of tuition fee for the 1st semester.

2. For Continue Students

Two scholarships will be awarded in each program per semester to those students who have achieved the following highest GPA in the previous semester with regular course load.

Course Repetition Fee

The student shall be required to pay the same regular amount per credit hour for the repeated course as well.

Application Processing Fee for Bachelor Programs

Payment of Dues

1. At the time of admission students have to pay the admission fee, security and full semester fees by due date.
2. Tuition fee will be payable on semester basis. Students have to pay their fee by due date before the commencement of each semester.

Fees Refund Policy for all Bachelor Programs

• A freshly inducted student must inform PAF-IAST in writing if he/she finds it necessary to withdraw his/her admission.
• Admission Fee is not refundable under any circumstances.
• Security deposit is refundable at the time of completion of degree or closing of admission.
• Tuition Fee and ECA and other semester expenses are refunded in accordance with the guidelines of Higher Education Commission (HEC), as follows.

In case a student becomes ineligible on declaration of results, he / she will be entitled to get 100% tuition fee refunded provided he/ she applies within 10 days of declaration of result along with the proof of ineligibility.

Withholding Tax

Withholding Tax under section 236I of Income Tax Ordinance 2001 is applicable @ 5% to the entire amount of fee (i.e., Tuition Fee, Admission Fee, ECA and other semester expenses) provided payable amount exceeds Rs 200,000 in a fiscal year (July to June). However, this tax does not apply if the fee is paid by a non-resident subject to following provisions:

• Copy of passport as evidence to show that during previous tax year, his/her stay in Pakistan was less than one hundred eighty-three days.
• Submission of a certificate declaring that he has no known source of income in Pakistan.
• The fee can be remitted directly from a foreign country to the specified PAF_IAST bank account.

Tax collected under this section shall be adjustable against the tax liability of either of the parents or guardian paying the fee. 5% advance tax is deducted in every spring semester. Students eligible to claim waiver of this tax may contact fee section before the due date fixed for payment of spring semester fee.