Military College of Engineering (Pakistan)

Military College of Engineering (MCE)
Established	1948
Type	Military
Rector	Afzal mehmood.
Major General	Major-General Javed Bukhari
Enrollment	700-1000
Faculty	50
Courses Offered	Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Transportation Engineering Construction Engineering Geotechnical Engineering System Engineering Environmental Engineering Project Management Engineering Economics Water Resource Management
Affiliations	Higher Education Commission Pakistan Engineering Council
Website	http://www.mce.edu.pk/
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Military College of Engineering is located at Risalpur, in Nowshera District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Military College of Engineering was established by Pakistan Army.

About the college

Military College of Engineering, Risalpur, is one of Pakistan's premier civil engineering institutes, and is one of many educational institutues that come under the umbrella of National University of Sciences and Technology NUST. Its students, upon graduation, are hired by some of the finest construction and engineering firm in Pakistan, and the world.

Location

The College is located in Risalpur, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, and is located right next to Pakistan Air Force Academy. Its located 5 km from Nowshera and 30 km from Peshawar which is Pakistan's 6th largest city. The remote location of the college as often posed a lot of problems for the students, since not many shops are located nearby, and cellular phone signals of some providers are also pretty weak in the region. Besides, It is very advantageous in the sense that it forms a sort of University town where Civil Engineering related faculty, students and professionals live together. This develops an everlasting link between these professionals throughout their careers.

Grading system

The college, like all constituent colleges of NUST, follow the US semester system, in which a GPA of 2.00 or more is required to stay in the college, if the GPA falls below 2.00 the student get demoted to the previous semester and is put under probation, and if his GPA still doesn't improve, then the students is expelled from the college. Besides, if four subjects of a students are accumulated which he cannot pass or he was unable to appear, he is withdrawn from the college. Such system makes sure that only those are passed out of this premier college who are really eligible. System is relative and absolute mix, on average C is awarded to the students. Out of 100 students in a class, 4 are given A, maximum 10 are given B+, then from 10-15 are given B and C+, on average C or D is awarded, and a bunch of students are awarded F grade to improve the quality of education and competition in MCE, any student having his aggregate 60 is given F grade according to absolute system, and other F holders hold this grade due to relative grading system. A=4 B+=3.5 B=3.0 C+=2.5 C=2.0 D=1.0 F=0.0

In some cases those students are awarded with good grades who give 100% good feedback to the teachers, and Army students are always favored in grading. So this system makes the students go crazy often. Every now and then students go to mad house after graduating from here.

Student categories

• NC (NUST cadet) Civilian students selected through the NUST entrance test, join the university as NCs, they don't deserve to undergo any sort of military training, as they are paying, civilian students,
• PC (paying cadet) Students whose parents were or still are members of Pakistan Army, can join the college as civilian students by passing NUST entrance test at high merit, and not required to undergo any sort of military training.
• ASC (Additional Selected Cadets) Student who get high merit positions in NUST entrance test, and are also sons of Army personnels. They pay full NUST fees, and they may or may not join Army later.
• TC (technical cadet) Students who are enrolled in Pakistan Army. The enter the college after qualifying the ISSB armed forces selection test. Upon graduation from the college, the students spend one year at the Pakistan Military Academy to receive officer ranks. TCs don't pay any fees, and undergo strict military training.
• Officers(Captains) These are those student who get selected first in Pakistan Military Academy they get training there and then those who selected Engineers Corps, they join MCE for Engineering. They get comission from Pakistan Army and don't pay any college fees.

MES School

MES school is an establishment & training center of E-in-C Branch GHQ for the professional training & development of Military Engineering Service (MES) officers. It is also located at Military College of Engineering (MCE) and Commandant MCE is an administrative head of this Officer training school.

Discipline

Since it's a military college, the college has a strict discipline policy, which includes uniform inspection every day, course drills and fall ins twice a day, compulsury sports for technical cadets, and military protocols. Civilian students are screwed for nothing all the time. They are considered inferior and worthless.

Faculty

Faculty comprises both civilian and military faculty. They include professors who are graduates from worlds leading universities like Michigan State University and Illinois Instituite Of Technology in the field of civil Engineering and who have also gone through various command and staff courses from leading universities like National Defense University, Islamabad. The different wing of MCE provide ultimate training in civil engineering as well as combat engineering. Teachers have got the right to fail anyone they want even if he deserves A, specially Civilian students priority in this case.