BUET VC Prof A B M Badruzzaman, signing the MoU in presence of from left to right Prof Shayer Ghafur, Dean Architecture and Planning; Prof M Abdul Jalil, Dean Civil Engineering; Pro-VC Prof A Hasib Chowdhury; and Dr Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed, Professor of Architecture. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen academic and research collaboration between the two institutions, says a press release.
The MoU includes cooperation in areas such as joint graduate and postgraduate academic programmes, supervision of visiting research students, project-based collaborative activities, organizing conferences, seminars and academic events, academic staff mobility, and research collaboration.
The collaboration is expected to create new opportunities for academic exchange, interdisciplinary research, and international cooperation for students, researchers, and faculty members of both institutions.
TMU is internationally known for its innovative and research-oriented urban education environment in Canada. The initiative for establishing the collaboration from the BUET side was undertaken by Prof Dr Shabbir Ahmed, and from the TMU side Prof Lisa Landrum and Dean Dr Ahmed Abdelrahman.
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