Faculty of Information & Communication Technology

Department of Telecommunication Engineering

Communication is transformed into telecommunication. Telecommunication Engineering Department at BUITEMS is focused on transforming industry and academia and helps you in accelerating in the field of telecommunication. The program is attentive to the cutting-edge research in the emerging technologies of AI, Blockchain, and 5G and beyond, to address the future challenges in the telecommunication industry. The program helps you in availing the available opportunity in the field. We provide students with a platform to showcase their creativity and innovation and welcome the to demonstrate their ideas at the Department.

The Department of Telecommunication Engineering at BUITEMS started its journey in 2005 as an undergraduate program, and the first batch is passed out in 2009. Since 2009 approximately 50 students are equipped with telecommunication knowledge and skill each year. The department features several industrial disciplines such as RF and microwave, satellite communication, Optical fiber communication, Wireless & Mobile Communication and Analog & Digital Communication, that helps student shaping in these areas. The department expended its offering to MS in 2013 and initiated cutting-edge research in the state-of-the-art research fields. We are committed to prepare students for future challenges and impart the practical and theoretical knowledge in telecommunications that helps students in demonstrating their skills and abilities to handle the telecommunications systems.

We provide leading-edge knowledge in the field and equip students for the available opportunities in the field. The program is dedicated to expanding its research capacities and abilities and ensure cutting edge research in the contemporary fields such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence(AI), AI-enabled telecommunication networks & systems, and 5G & beyond networks. We ensure a prominent future for our students and staff through our efforts in research and development in telecommunications.

Admission Requirement

  • F.Sc (Pre-Engineering)/ICS with Mathematics and Physics from any recognized board or equivalent with at least 60% marks.
  • Diploma of Associate Engineer (DAE) in the relevant field securing at least 60% marks.

Degree Requirement

  • Total Credit Hours: 130-145 *
  • Total Courses: 42-44
  • Minimum CGPA ≥ 2.0
  • Academic rules

* For details Program Schema

Program Educational Objectives

The graduates of the Telecommunication Engineering Program will:

  • Investigate engineering problems using modern techniques and propose effective solutions.
  • Manage projects and become effective members of engineering teams through interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrate high moral and ethical values, life-long learning attitude and societal responsibilities.
Program Learning Outcomes

The Telecommunication Engineering program prepares students to attain the educational objectives by ensuring that students demonstrate achievement of the following expected outcomes:

  • Engineering Knowledge: An ability to apply mathematics, science and engineering fundamentals and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex computer engineering problems.
  • Problem Analysis: An ability to identify, formulate, and analyze complex computer engineering problems and to be able to acquire substantiated conclusions using principles of computer engineering, natural sciences and engineering sciences.
  • Design/Development of Solutions: An ability to design solutions for complex computer engineering problems and design systems, components or processes that meet specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
  • Investigation: An ability to investigate complex engineering problems in a methodical way including literature survey, design and conduct of experiments, analysis, and interpretation of experimental data, and synthesis of information to derive valid conclusions.
  • Modern Tool Usage: An ability to create, select and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools, including prediction and modeling, to complex engineering activities, with an understanding of the inherent limitations.
  • The Engineer and Society: An ability to apply reasoning informed by contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to professional engineering practice and solution to complex engineering problems.
  • Environment and Sustainability: An ability to understand the impact of professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts and demonstrate knowledge of and need for sustainable development.
  • Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of engineering practice.
  • Individual and Team Work: An ability to work effectively, as an individual or in a team, on multifaceted and /or multidisciplinary settings.
  • Communication: An ability to communicate effectively, orally as well as in writing, on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
  • Project Management: An ability to demonstrate management skills and apply engineering principles to one’s own work, as a member and/or leader in a team, to manage projects in a multidisciplinary environment.
  • Lifelong Learning: An ability to recognize the importance of and be able to pursue lifelong learning in the broader context of innovation and technological developments.
Program Schema

The BS Telecommunication Engineering is a 4-years (8-semesters) programme in which students are required to complete a specified number of courses:

First Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 HUM-163 Functional English None 3+0
2 MATHP-118 Calculus & Analytical Geometry None 3+0
3 HUM-101 Islamic Studies / Ethical Behavior None None 2+0
4 PHY-205 Applied Physics None 3+1
5 CE-162L Computer Aided Engineering Design None 0+1
6 CS-114 Programming Fundamentals None 2+1
7 EE-103L Electronics Workshop None 0+1
Second Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 MATHA-214 Differential Equations Calculus and Analytical Geometry 3+0
2 HUM-268 Communication Skills None 3+0
3 EE-102 Digital Logic Design None 3+1
4 EE-203 Circuit Analysis None 3+1
5 CS-212 Object oriented programming Programming Fundamentals 3+1
Third Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 MATHA-213 Complex Variables & Transforms Calculus & Analytical Geometry 3+0
2 HUM-102 Pakistan Studies None 2+0
3 ELE-201 Electrical Network Analysis Circuit Analysis 2+1
4 MATHP-111 Linear Algebra None 3+0
5 CS-214 Data Structures and Algorithms (IDEE-I)   2+1
6 EE-208 Electronic Devices and Circuits Applied Physics 3+1
Fourth Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 TE-408 Computer Communications & Networks None 3+1
2 CE-324 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Digital Logic Design 3+1
3 ELE-202  Probability Methods in Engineering None 3+0
4 EE-261 Signals & Systems Complex Variable and Transforms 3+0
5 EE-105 Electromagnetic Theory Calculus & Analytical Geometry 3+0
Fifth Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 TE - 433 Wave Propagation & antennas Electromagnetic Theory 3+1
2 TE-314 Communication Systems  None 3+1
3 HUM-264 Technical Report Writing None 3+0
4 TE-412 Digital Signal Processing Signals and Systems 3+1
5 EE -241 Control Systems Linear Algebra 2+1
Sixth Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 TE-442 Optical fiber communications  None 3+1
2           (IDEE-II)   2+1
3 TE-313 Digital Communications Probability Methods in Engineering 3+1
4 MGMT-202 Entrepreneurship & Leadership  None 3+0
5 TE-415 Transmission and Switching Systems  None 3+1
Seventh Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 TE-432 Microwave Engineering Wave Propagation & Antenna 3+1
2  TE-425 Emerging Wireless technologies and RF planning  None 3+0
3 TE-422  MBC I (Telecom Traffic Engineering) Probability Methods in Engineering 3+0
4 ECON-105 Engineering Economics  None 3+0
5 TE-452L Final Year Project-I   0+3
Eighth Semester
S.No. Course Code Course Title Prerequisite Credit Hours
1 MGMT-304 Organizational Behavior  or Sociology None 3+0
2 TE-423 MBC II(Telecom Policies & Regulation)   3+0
3 TE-441 / TE-409 MBC III (Satellite Communication or Network Security)   3+0
4 HUM-302 Professional Practices None 3+0
5 TE-453L Final Year Project-II   0+3