MS Program Introduction
KIET’s MS/MPhil program
is a research oriented MS program that fulfills the HEC criteria. Students and
faculty of this program have published more than 35 research papers in national and international conferences and
journals over the last three years. The research emphasis in this program has
been specifically designed in view of the special requirements of the MS
students. Courses offered at the graduate level have a distinctive research
focus due to the inclusions of special research projects and study of research
papers. Independent Study courses then help the
students to make the transition to research orientation in self directed study
in chosen specialized areas under the guidance of supervisors. A team of highly
qualified researchers is available to supervise the students' research through
a structured program. Finally, the Thesis
course takes the students through a uniquely structured experience of
conducting research and publishing it.
Students conduct state of the art
research in various fields of Computer Science, Software Engineering and
Network & Telecommunication. College of computing and Information Sciences
facilitates the research students by providing them access to simulators,
research equipment and the latest research material consisting of electronic
and published journals & conference proceedings of IEEE, ACM and HEC.
PAF-KIET offers MS programs in
different fields to facilitate the need of the IT industry. This includes:
MS Admission Criteria
Ø
For admission in the MS program (Computer Science, Network
& Telecom, Software Engineering) the candidates must possess a 4-year
formal university level education of bachelor/master degree (BE, BS, MSc, MA
etc) from a HEC recognized institution in a relevant field with minimum first
division. Students with backgrounds other than computer science or with 3-year
degrees are also eligible to join MS Program but they will be assigned
pre-requisite courses.
Ø
For admission in the MS Telecom Engineering program the
candidates must possess a 4–year Engineering degree (BE) from
a HEC recognized & PEC accredited institution in a relevant field with
minimum first division.
Ø
The candidates of MS program are required to pass Admission
Test / GRE Equivalent and Admission Interview.
MS Degree Requirements
Ø
MS (MPhil) degree program consist of 33 credit
hours:
·
18 credit hours or 6 courses from the
specialized area. Two of these courses must be independent research courses
·
6 credit hours or 2 courses from non specialized
areas
·
9 credit hours of MS Thesis / research work
Ø Minimum
passing grade for the MS degree program is B grade.
Ø MS
course requirements (including independent research courses) typically take one
year to complete.
Ø On
completion of the MS course requirements, MS students must register for Thesis
(9 credits).
Ø These
9 credits are obtained by enrolling successive in three 3-credit hour courses;
Thesis-1, Thesis-2, Thesis-3.
Unique Features of MS Program
Independent Study Courses
The objective of the Independent Study
(IS) courses is to enable the transition of students from teacher-taught
courses to self-study courses. Independent study coordinators and advisors help
the MS students through this transition phase. The Independent Study courses
enable the students to design a self-study program of research and to follow it
with self-discipline. Students are expected to identify an area of their
interest, develop a program of independent study, and periodically report on
the progress. Students are advised to select an area for independent study that
would help and support their thesis/research work. A judicious selection of
independent study areas can substantially reduce the thesis time. Detailed
guidelines are available with the office of graduate research. The output of
this course is a document in the IEEE research paper format. Many of our
students publish this survey paper in international and national
conferences.
MS Thesis Course
Thesis is a challenging
research effort that adds value to the degree and distinguishes the MS
graduates from ordinary course-based master degree holders. The thesis
components brings this MS degree at par with international research-based MS
degrees offered in USA and elsewhere. Thesis is different from any other academic
activity that MS students may have undertaken as part of their undergraduate or
course-based masters degree. The objective of thesis research work is to enable
the MS student to join the international community of professional researchers
working in the selected area. To ensure this participation, students are
expected to be familiar with published research work, select a problem from the
area of interest, define the problem and develop a solution in a scientific
manner. A successful thesis equips the MS student with tools and techniques of
research that makes the student confident that he can undertake any research
assignment for solving a problem for which there is no known solution. Detailed
guidelines for completing the thesis requirements are available with the office
of graduate research.
- Research work for thesis is supervised by the
Thesis Committee that consists of the Primary Advisor and two other
members. Board of Advanced Studies and Research finalizes the Committee
and may include experts from the industry to serve on the Thesis
Committee.
- Thesis process is well-defined and consists of a
list of deliverable on which the progress of student is measured during
each meeting with the primary advisor.
- Thesis has to be successfully defended in front
of the Thesis Committee to complete the MS requirements.
- MS Thesis can be completed in a minimum of one
regular semester by full-time students. Depending upon the commitment,
regularity and time-effort; a working students may complete the process in
eight to ten months.
- However, a student may extend the research work
(although it is not recommended) for up to a maximum of two years. In that
case, the student must remain continuously enrolled in the Thesis course
(3 credits) in each semester till the completion.
Structured Thesis
An intensive structured
thesis format for research has been designed to expedite the completion of a
research thesis. This format establishes concrete deliverables with specific
deadlines that provides the students and advisors a conceptual framework for
monitoring the progress and achievement of goals. The structure has been
developed as a result of analysis of reasons why thesis students in Pakistan
often take an unreasonably long time to complete their research. Since the introduction
of this structure students’ progress towards their thesis goals has been
expedited.
The structure defines
the deliverables and their deadlines in accordance with the pre-announced dates
in the academic calendar for semester monthly and final exams. The structured
format allocates 9 credit hours of thesis across three courses of 3 credit
hours each; (i) Research Proposal; (ii) Thesis Design (iii) Thesis Results and
Defense. Courses are executed as per the standard KIET format.
All of our thesis
students have been able to publish a paper in national and international
conference or journal.
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MS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (MSSE)
(for students with a 4 year BS or 2 year MCS degree)
SEMESTER 1
SE 5101 Software Requirement Engineering
SE 5102 Software System Design & Architecture
SE 5xxx Elective I
SE 5xxx Elective II (Independent Study I)
SEMESTER 2
SE 5201 Software Project Management
SE 5202 Software Quality Assurance
SE 5xxx Elective III
SE 5xxx Elective IV (Independent Study II)
SEMESTER 3
SE 5x09 Thesis
Students without
relevant background or 3-year degree will be asked to pursue one-year
pre-requisite course work.
List of Elective Courses
Advanced Software Engineering
Business Process Re-engineering
Capability Maturity Model Integration
Design Patterns
Distributed Computing
Distributed Systems
Formal Methods of Software Engineering
Object Oriented Software Engineering
Software Risk Management
Software Costing and Estimation
Software Development Methodologies using Modeling Languages
Software Metrics
Software Processes
Software Quality Assurance
Software Reliability
Software Testing
Software Capability Maturity Model
Software Project Management
Software Architecture and Design
Requirements Engineering
Standardized Exchange of Messages/XML
Enterprise Services and Components
Components and Reuse
Seminar in Software Engineering
Simulation & Modeling
Advance DBMS
Data Warehousing
Data Mining
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MS COMPUTER SCIENCES (MSCS)
(for students with a 4 year BS or 2 year MCS degree)
SEMESTER 1
CS 5101 Advanced Algorithms Analysis
CS 5102 Theory of Computation
CS 5xxx Elective I
CS 5108 Elective II (Independent Study I)
SEMESTER 2
CS 5202 Advanced Computer
Architecture
CS 5264 Theory of Programming Languages
CS 5xxx Elective III
CS 5208 Elective IV (Independent Study II)
SEMESTER 3
CS 5x09 Thesis
Students without
relevant background or 3-year degree will be asked to pursue one-year
pre-requisite course work.
List of Elective Courses
Advance Artificial Intelligence
Advance Compiler Design & Construction
Human Computer Interaction
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Advanced Operating System
Text Processing
Computer Vision
Image Processing
Intelligent Problem Solving
Advanced Graph Theory
Theorem Proving
Intelligent systems
Multi Agent systems
Ubiquitous Computing
Evaluation of Programming Methodologies
Neural Networks
Expert systems
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MS TELECOM & NETWORKS
(MSTN)
(for students with a 4 year BS or 2 year MCS degree)
SEMESTER 1
TN 5101 Advanced Computer Networks
TN 5102 Cryptography
TN 5xxx Elective I
TN 5108 Elective II (Independent Study I)
SEMESTER 2
TN 5201 Network Management
TN 5202 High Speed Network
TN 5xxx Elective III
TN 5208 Elective IV (Independent Study II)
SEMESTER 3
TN 5x09 Thesis
Students without
relevant background or 3-year degree will be asked to pursue one-year
pre-requisite course work.
List of Elective Courses
Network Security
Digital Techniques in Communications
Wireless Networks
Mobile Computing
Fiber-Optic Systems
Design and Analysis of Protocols
Advanced Data Communication and Networking
Information Theory
Design and Implementation of Networks
Internet Services Design
Seminar in Networking
Network Programming
Network Management Software and Tools
Multi-Service Networks
Voice-over-IP Engineering
Spread Spectrum Systems
Source Coding & Data Compression
Ad-hoc Networks
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MS TELECOM ENGINEERING (MSTE)
(for students with a 4 year Engineering degree)
SEMESTER 1
TE 5101 Advanced Data Communication
TE 5102 Microwave Systems
TE 5xxx Elective I
TE 5108 Elective II (Independent Study I)
SEMESTER 2
TE 5201 Optical Communication
TE 5202 Telecom Management
TE 5xxx Elective III
TE 5208 Elective IV (Independent Study II)
SEMESTER 3
TE 5x09 Thesis
Students without
relevant background will be asked to pursue one-year pre-requisite course work.
List of Elective Courses
Cellular Networks
Broadband Communication
Satellite Communication
Network Security
High-Speed Networks
Routing and Switching
Network Management
Digital Signal Processing
Digital Communication
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