Director's Message
Prof. Zulfiqar Ahmad
It is a matter of immense privilege and pride to arbitrate the significance of the Office of
Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) that is in fact a source of educational
upheaval, inspiration and establishment of industrial linkages between the industries and
University of Wah (UW). Industries of all kinds including oil and gas, refineries, pharmaceuticals,
telecommunications, defence production, bioremediations, heavy mechanical industries, and
renewable and cleaner energy etc. are the backbone of boosting economic growth of a country
and play a pivotal role to establish industrial linkages with the universities. University of Wah
was established in 2005 under the patronage of Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF). UW is
offering degree courses in five Engineering disciplines, Basic Sciences, Social Sciences, and
Computer Sciences. UW offers undergraduate and graduate programs while some new
postgraduate and PhD programs are being introduced beginning September, 2017.
The mission of ORIC is to develop, expand, enhance and manage the University’s research
programs and to link the research activities directly to educational, social and economic
priorities of the University. ORIC is also responsible for assuring quality of research, submission
of research projects, introducing research culture and raise stature of the University among the
world’s best research institutions.
In pursuit of this mission ORIC has the responsibility of guaranteeing that all research programs
and policies reflect the core values of academic freedom, professional integrity and ethical
conduct and fully compliance with all policies, legal requirements and operational standards of
University of Wah (UW) and Higher Education Commission (HEC).
We at UW keep our faculty abreast by disseminating the latest information through emails about
internships, scholarship programs, funding and sponsors. Most of the information is sought from
HEC Portal. Simultaneously, we are striving hard to establish a strategic partnership framework
agreement with Chinese institutes to get CPEC benefits and streamline University of Wah’s
existing disciplines, besides faculty exchange of our younger faculty, and opening of new
disciplines in demanding fields.
ORIC has also been making endeavors for student’s conferences at national level and aiming to
launch an international conference in the near future. This would in turn facilitate students to
enhance their educational skills and gain experience of presentation on a platform to foster
academia-industry collaborations, and to evaluate emerging technologies and latest
developments in the related fields.
ORIC is determined to achieve the laudable goal of crafting industrial linkages, research culture,
and new innovation of wining projects from HEC, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), Pakistan
Ordnance factories (POF) and international collaboration with foreign Universities. UW will lead
to a forum of international standards and will co-opt all prerequisites mandatory to become a
leading University in the region and abroad Insha Allah.