Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology is a public engineering university on a compact campus in the centre of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and it is placed in the 701-710 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.孟加拉工程技术大学是一所公立工程类大学，位于孟加拉国达卡市中心的一处紧凑校园，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 701-710 区间。

Its history reaches back to the Dhaka Survey School of 1876, it gained independent university status in 1962, and it took its present name after independence in 1971.其历史可追溯至 1876 年创办的达卡测绘学校，1962 年获得独立大学地位，并在 1971 年独立后改用现名。

The university teaches about seven thousand students through eighteen departments, six institutes and eight centres, and its OpenAlex record lists 16,824 works with 522,520 citations.该校通过十八个系、六个研究所与八个中心培养约七千名学生，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 16,824 项、被引 522,520 次。

History

• The institution began in 1876 as the Dhaka Survey School, founded by the British Indian government to provide technical education for its employees in the region.该校的前身是 1876 年创办的达卡测绘学校，由英属印度政府设立，以为当地雇员提供技术教育。

• Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah of Dhaka took an interest in the school and pledged 112,000 taka to upgrade it into an engineering school, chiefly to advance Muslim education.达卡的纳瓦布科瓦贾·阿赫桑阿拉对学校产生兴趣，承诺捐资 11.2 万塔卡将其升格为工程学校，主要意图是推动穆斯林教育。

• Ahsanullah died before the plan was carried out, and his son Nawab Salimullah fulfilled the pledge in 1902, allowing the school to develop as a separate engineering institution.阿赫桑阿拉未能亲见计划实现即去世，其子纳瓦布·萨利穆拉于 1902 年兑现承诺，使学校得以发展为独立的工程教育机构。

• In 1908 the school was formally named the Ahsanullah School of Engineering in recognition of the family's support, a name it kept for nearly forty years.1908 年，学校为表彰该家族的资助而正式命名为阿赫桑阿拉工程学校，此名沿用近四十年。

• The school offered three-year diploma courses in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, first in rented premises and from 1906 in a purpose-built building near Dhaka College.学校开设土木、电气与机械工程三年制文凭课程，最初在租用楼宇中办学，1906 年起在达卡学院附近建成专用校舍。

• In 1912 the school moved to its present site, and it was initially affiliated to Dhaka College before coming under the Director of Public Instruction.1912 年，学校迁至现址；它先隶属于达卡学院，后改由公共教育总监直接管辖。

• Mr. Anderson was appointed the first principal, followed by Shri B. C. Gupta in 1932 and Janab Hakim Ali in 1938.安德森先生获任首任校长，其后 B. C. 古普塔先生于 1932 年、哈基姆·阿里先生于 1938 年相继出任校长。

• After the Second World War the government drew up plans for the industrialisation of Bengal, which sharply increased demand for skilled technical staff in the region.第二次世界大战后，政府为孟加拉的工业化制定了计划，当地对熟练技术人员的需求因而大幅上升。

• A government committee recommended founding an engineering college in Dhaka with four-year degree courses for 120 students, and moving the existing school to the Palashi Barracks for diploma courses for 480 students.政府的一个委员会建议在达卡设立开设四年制学位课程、招收 120 名学生的工程学院，并把原有学校迁往帕拉希营房开设招收 480 名学生的文凭课程。

• In May 1947 the government decided formally to establish the engineering college in Dhaka, with admission examinations held at the Bengal Engineering College and the Ahsanullah School of Engineering.1947 年 5 月，政府决定在达卡正式设立工程学院，并在孟加拉工程学院与阿赫桑阿拉工程学校同时举行入学考试。

• The partition of India in 1947 took most of the school's teachers to India, leaving a small core to which five teachers who had come from India were added.1947 年印巴分治使学校大部分教师前往印度，仅剩少数教师留任，随后又有五名来自印度的教师加入。

• In August 1947 the school was upgraded to the Ahsanullah Engineering College and attached to Dhaka University as its faculty of engineering, with Hakim Ali continuing as principal.1947 年 8 月，学校升格为阿赫桑阿拉工程学院，并作为工程学部隶属于达卡大学，哈基姆·阿里继续担任校长。

• In February 1948 the government of East Pakistan approved the college, which began offering four-year bachelor's degrees in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, agricultural and textile engineering.1948 年 2 月，东巴基斯坦政府批准该学院，学院开始开设土木、电气、机械、化工、农业与纺织工程的四年制学士学位课程。

• Agricultural and textile engineering were later replaced by metallurgical engineering, and in 1956 the college adopted the semester system with a new syllabus.农业与纺织工程其后被冶金工程取代；1956 年，学院实行学期制并采用新教学大纲。

• In 1957 the number of degree places rose from 120 to 240, and in 1958 the college discontinued its diploma courses to concentrate on degree teaching.1957 年，学位名额由 120 个增至 240 个；1958 年，学院停办文凭课程，专注于学位教育。

• T. H. Matthewman became principal in 1951 and Dr. M. A. Rashid in 1954, during a period when the college was run under a joint arrangement with Texas A and M College.T. H. 马修曼于 1951 年、M. A. 罗希德博士于 1954 年先后出任校长，当时学院依照与得克萨斯农工学院的联合管理安排办学。

• Under that arrangement professors from Texas A and M came to Dhaka and contributed to teaching quality, laboratory development and curriculum reform, while some staff were sent abroad for further study.依此安排，得克萨斯农工学院的教授来到达卡，参与提升教学质量、建设实验室与改革课程，部分教师则被派往海外深造。

• The Asia Foundation donated books to the college library and a rental library scheme was started, while the campus had only two student halls at the time.亚洲基金会向学院图书馆捐赠图书，并启动了租借图书馆制度；当时校园仅有学生宿舍两座。

• In 1962 the college became the East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, the fourth university of East Pakistan, and it was renamed Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology after independence in 1971.1962 年，学院成为东巴基斯坦工程技术大学，即当时东巴基斯坦的第四所大学；1971 年独立后，它更名为孟加拉工程技术大学。

• After independence and the change of name, the university held its first convocation in 1973, and further convocations followed in 1976, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 and 2019.独立与更名之后，该校于 1973 年举行首届毕业典礼，其后又在 1976、1992、1993、1997、2001、2004、2005、2006、2011 与 2019 年举行毕业典礼。

Academics

• Teaching is organised through eighteen departments in five faculties, together with six institutes and eight specialised centres, covering architecture and planning, civil engineering, engineering, electrical and electronic engineering and mechanical engineering, with institutes for information and communication technology and biomedical engineering.其教学由五个学院下的十八个系组织，另设六个研究所与八个专门中心，领域涵盖建筑与规划、土木工程、工程、电子电气工程与机械工程，并设信息与通信技术、生物医学工程等研究所。

• Undergraduate admission rests on Higher Secondary Certificate grades in mathematics, physics and chemistry, with extracurricular activity and financial need excluded from the process.其本科录取取决于高中毕业证书中数学、物理与化学的成绩，课外活动与家庭经济状况不纳入考量。

• A screening process allows 18,000 candidates to sit a preliminary admission test, after which about 1,309 students are selected on merit and offered admission.初筛后允许 18,000 名考生参加入学初试，此后按成绩择优录取约 1,309 名学生。

• The admission test carries 400 marks in forty questions worth ten marks each, with thirteen questions from physics, thirteen from chemistry and fourteen from mathematics, to be answered within two hours.入学考试满分 400 分，共四十题、每题 10 分，其中物理 13 题、化学 13 题、数学 14 题，限时两小时完成。

• Twenty-six seats are reserved for foreign undergraduates, with a 200 dollar admission fee, a course registration fee of fifty dollars per credit hour and estimated living costs of about one hundred dollars a month.本科阶段另设 26 个外国学生名额，入学费 200 美元、每学分注册费 50 美元，食宿等开销估计约为每月 100 美元。

• A maximum of ten students from any single country may be admitted at undergraduate level, and applicants must hold Higher Secondary Certificate, GCE A-level or equivalent qualifications.本科阶段任何单一国家的录取人数上限为十人，申请者须持有高中毕业证书、GCE 普通教育高级程度证书或同等学历。

• About one thousand graduate students are admitted annually to master's and doctoral programmes, which require interviews or written tests and lead to MSc, MSc Engg, M Engg, MURP, MArch, MPhil and PhD degrees, with postgraduate diplomas also offered in information technology and in water resources development.其硕士与博士项目每年录取约一千名研究生，须通过面试或笔试，可授予 MSc、MSc Engg、M Engg、MURP、MArch、MPhil 与 PhD 学位，另设信息技术与水资源开发方向的研究生文凭课程。

• Roughly 5,500 students pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies in engineering, architecture, planning and science, with an annual undergraduate intake of about nine hundred supported by around five hundred teachers.校内约有 5,500 名学生攻读工程、建筑、规划与理科的本科与研究生课程，每年本科招生约 900 人，由约 500 名教师承担教学。

• Consultancy and testing for outside organisations are handled by a Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation, which makes the university's laboratories and expertise available to industry.面向外部机构的咨询与检测由研究、测试与咨询局负责，使该校的实验室与专业能力服务于产业。

• Sponsored research at the university is supported by organisations including United Nations bodies, the Commonwealth Foundation, the European Union, the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, DfID and JICA, and collaboration extends abroad to work with the University of Birmingham and BRAC University on vaccine storage and transport in developing countries.其受资助研究由联合国机构、英联邦基金会、欧盟、孟加拉国大学拨款委员会、世界银行、亚洲开发银行、英国国际发展部与日本国际协力机构等支持，合作亦延伸至海外，与伯明翰大学、BRAC 大学共同研究发展中国家的疫苗储存与运输。

• The Research and Innovation Centre for Science and Engineering, known as RISE, was established as a central hub that raises internal and external research funds and operates shared research facilities.其科学与工程研究与创新中心（RISE）作为中央枢纽设立，负责募集校内外研究经费并运营共享研究设施。

• In 2004 the Institute of Information and Communication Technology designed and developed prepaid electricity meters under contract with the Dhaka Electric Supply Company, the first such meters in Bangladesh.2004 年，其信息与通信技术研究所依与达卡供电公司的合同设计并开发预付费电表，是孟加拉国首例。

• In 2009 the same institute designed and manufactured prepaid gas meters for Titas Gas for residential customers in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka.2009 年，该研究所为蒂塔斯燃气公司设计并制造预付费燃气表，供达卡丹蒙迪地区的居民用户使用。

• Bangladesh's first electronic voting machines were designed at the university from 2005 by a team supervised by S. M. Lutful Kabir, and were first used at fourteen polling stations in the Chittagong City Corporation election on 17 June 2010.孟加拉国首台电子投票机自 2005 年起由该校 S. M. 卢特富尔·卡比尔指导的团队设计，并于 2010 年 6 月 17 日吉大港市政选举中在 14 个投票站首次使用。

• During the COVID-19 pandemic researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering developed OxyJet, a low-cost non-invasive breathing support device approved by the drug administration in July 2021.新冠疫情期间，其生物医学工程系研究人员开发了 OxyJet——一种低成本、非侵入式的呼吸支持装置，于 2021 年 7 月获药品管理部门批准。

• Chemical engineering researchers hold Bangladeshi patents for paper-based tests that detect formaldehyde in food, water and biofluids and uric acid in biofluids.其化学工程研究人员持有孟加拉国专利，涉及检测食品、水与体液中的甲醛以及体液中尿酸的纸基检测法。

• Under a 2021 grant from the Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council, a mechanical engineering team designed a standardised battery-run rickshaw, which Dhaka's two city corporations put into pilot service.2021 年，在孟加拉国能源与电力研究理事会资助下，其机械工程团队设计了标准化电动三轮车，达卡两个市政公司将其投入试点运营。

• In August 2025 semi-automated traffic signals built to the university's designs began operating at seven intersections in Dhaka under a pilot programme.2025 年 8 月，按该校设计建造的半自动交通信号灯在达卡七个路口投入试点运行。

• In July 2026 the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering completed the tape-out of Pragati v1, an open-source 32-bit RISC-V system-on-chip for household appliances and Internet of Things devices, designed with open-source tools and fabricated on a 130 nanometre process.2026 年 7 月，其电气与电子工程系完成「Pragati v1」流片，这是一款面向家用电器与物联网设备的开源 32 位 RISC-V 片上系统，以开源工具设计并在 130 纳米工艺上制造。

• Research collaboration extends abroad, including work with the University of Birmingham and BRAC University on vaccine storage and transport in developing countries and a 2025 agreement with Nanjing University.其研究合作延伸到海外，包括与伯明翰大学、BRAC 大学合作研究发展中国家的疫苗储存与运输，以及 2025 年与南京大学签署的协议。

Campus

• The campus occupies a compact site of about 83.9 acres, sometimes cited as roughly 91 acres, in the heart of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.校园占地约 83.9 英亩（亦有约 91 英亩的说法），位于孟加拉国首都达卡的核心地带。

• Its geographic coordinates are approximately 23.7104 degrees north and 90.40744 degrees east, in the Palashi area of the Lalbagh division of Dhaka.其地理坐标约为北纬 23.7104 度、东经 90.40744 度，位于达卡拉尔巴格分区的帕拉希地区。

• The historic chimney of the early engineering school long stood as a landmark near the original teaching building, marking the institution's nineteenth-century origins.早期工程学校的高大烟囱长期矗立在原教学楼附近，成为该校十九世纪渊源的标志。

• Student halls include the main hall, now named the M. A. Rashid Building, and the south hall, now known as the Nazrul Islam Hall.学生宿舍包括主宿舍（今 M. A. 罗希德大楼）与南宿舍（今纳兹鲁·伊斯兰厅）。

• The central library holds 142,913 items, of which 125,066 are books and 17,847 are bound periodicals, and its current subscription list covers 152 journal titles.其中央图书馆藏有 142,913 件文献，其中图书 125,066 册、期刊合订本 17,847 卷，当前订阅期刊 152 种。

• About 1,500 volumes are added to the library each year, and its main reading room seats 200 students for the use of rare and out-of-print books, ready reference and prescribed textbooks, while each department, institute and residence hall also maintains its own smaller library.该馆每年新增图书约 1,500 册，其主阅览室可同时容纳 200 名学生，供查阅珍本与绝版书、即时参考工具书与指定教材；各系、各研究所与各宿舍另设有规模较小的图书室。

• On 8 February 2025 the central library was renamed the Shahid Abrar Fahad Library in memory of Abrar Fahad, a student killed at the university in 2019.2025 年 2 月 8 日，中央图书馆更名为「沙希德·阿布拉尔·法哈德图书馆」，以纪念 2019 年在校内遇害的学生阿布拉尔·法哈德。

• Teaching and research facilities include laboratories for civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, water resources and computer engineering, together with the institutes' specialised equipment.教学与研究设施包括土木、机械、电气、化工、水资源与计算机工程实验室，以及各研究所的专用设备。

• The university's location in central Dhaka places it within reach of the city's government offices, hospitals and industrial enterprises where students undertake placements.校址位于达卡市中心，便于通达该市政府部门、医院与工业企业，学生可在这些单位实习。

• Because the campus is compact and in the city rather than residential in the collegiate sense, students mostly live in the halls of residence or in rented accommodation nearby.由于校园紧凑且位于城市之中、并非书院式寄宿制，学生多住在校内宿舍或附近租赁住房。

• The university's architecture faculty uses the campus itself, as well as the historic urban fabric of Dhaka, as a working laboratory for design teaching.其建筑学院把校园本身以及达卡的历史城区肌理，用作设计教学的现场实验室。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed in the 701-710 band, and it was 282nd in the world in the 2026 QS ranking by subject area, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 701-710 区间；据官方榜单，其在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中位列世界第 282。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 1429th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1001-1200 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1429。

• It was not placed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校未列入软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名。

• OpenAlex attributes 16,824 works and 522,520 citations to the university, giving a strong output for a specialised engineering institution in South Asia.OpenAlex 记录该校 16,824 项成果与 522,520 次被引，对南亚一所专精型工程院校而言产出可观。

• The university is widely described as the oldest and most selective institution for engineering, architecture and planning in Bangladesh.该校普遍被视为孟加拉国历史最久、选拔性最强的工程、建筑与规划院校。

• Its students and teams win international recognition in competitions, including awards at the AIChE chemical engineering challenge and the IEEE signal processing cup.其学生与团队在各类国际竞赛中获奖，包括美国化学工程师协会化学工程挑战赛与 IEEE 信号处理杯的奖项。

• Research funding has grown through sponsored programmes and international donors, with departments winning grants worth tens of millions of taka and support from organisations such as the Wellcome Trust.依托受资助项目与国际资助方，其科研经费有所增长，各系获得数千万塔卡的资助以及惠康信托基金等机构的支持。

• Its graduates hold senior positions in Bangladeshi engineering, infrastructure and public administration, and the university is treated as a principal source of the country's technical elite.其毕业生在孟加拉国工程、基础设施与公共管理部门担任要职，该校被视为该国技术精英的主要来源之一。

• Institutional partnerships with universities in China, the United Kingdom and Japan underpin its research profile and its postgraduate training.与中国、英国与日本高校的机构合作，支撑其研究实力与研究生培养。

• The university's reputation rests on engineering, architecture and planning, fields in which successive national rankings place it at or near the top of Bangladeshi higher education.该校声誉建立在工程、建筑与规划之上，在这些领域的历次国内排名中，它位居孟加拉国高等教育的前列。

Student life

• Student life is organised around five faculties and their departmental societies, with the hall system providing the principal residential community for undergraduates.学生生活以五个学院及其系级社团为核心组织，宿舍体系为本科生提供主要的住宿社群。

• The M. A. Rashid Building and the Nazrul Islam Hall are the older halls, and competitive sporting and cultural contests are held between them.M. A. 罗希德大楼与纳兹鲁·伊斯兰厅是历史较久的宿舍，宿舍之间举行竞技性体育与文化活动。

• Departmental festivals, technical competitions and programming contests are regular features, and the university's teams travel to international competitions in engineering and design.系级节庆、技术竞赛与编程比赛是常态活动，其队伍也赴海外参加工程与设计类国际竞赛。

• Student achievement is a point of institutional pride, with an architecture graduate winning the gold prize at the ARCASIA thesis of the year competition in 2025.学生成就被视为学校的骄傲，2025 年一名建筑系毕业生获得亚洲建筑师协会年度论文奖金奖。

• The residence halls have been the site of political violence: in 2002 Sabekun Nahar Sony, a first-year chemical engineering student, was killed by gunfire in a factional clash between two groups of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.其宿舍区曾是政治暴力的发生地：2002 年，化工系一年级学生萨贝昆·纳哈尔·索尼在民族主义学生党两个派系的冲突中被枪击身亡。

• In October 2019 the sophomore Abrar Fahad was tortured and beaten to death in Sher-e-Bangla Hall by members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the then ruling party.2019 年 10 月，二年级学生阿布拉尔·法哈德在谢尔邦拉宿舍被时任执政党学生组织孟加拉学生联盟成员拷打致死。

• His killing sparked nearly two months of student protests against violent ragging and bullying in the residence halls, which ended after the authorities met the students' demands.他的遇害引发了近两个月的学生抗议，反对宿舍内的暴力欺凌，最终在校方满足学生诉求后结束。

• The university expelled twenty-five students for life over the killing, expelled fifteen more from their halls, issued suspensions and warnings, and adopted new penalties for ragging and political activity.该校就此事永久开除 25 名学生，另将 15 人逐出宿舍，并作出停学与警告处分，同时针对欺凌与政治活动制定了新的惩戒规定。

• Under an ordinance dating from 1962, organisational politics are banned at the university, and after the 2019 killing the vice-chancellor Saiful Islam banned student politics and political organisations on campus altogether.依 1962 年的一项条例，该校禁止组织性政治活动；2019 年事件后，校长赛义夫·伊斯兰更进一步禁止校园内的学生政治与政治组织活动。

• Graduates retain ties through a large alumni network that spans the Bangladeshi engineering profession and the civil service.毕业生通过覆盖孟加拉国工程界与公务员体系的大型校友网络保持联系。

• Because admissions are highly competitive, undergraduate culture places weight on academic results, and the university is a frequent subject of national attention on examination outcomes.由于入学竞争极为激烈，本科文化重视学业成绩，该校的考试结果也常成为全国关注的焦点。

Notable people

• Fazlur Rahman Khan, who studied engineering at the institution, became one of the twentieth century's most influential structural engineers, pioneering the tubular design used in tall buildings.曾在该校学习工程的法兹勒·拉赫曼·汗，成为二十世纪最具影响力的结构工程师之一，开创了用于高层建筑的筒体设计。

• Khan's work shaped landmark structures including the John Hancock Center and the Sears Tower in Chicago, and his design principles were later applied in supertall towers worldwide.他的工作塑造了芝加哥的约翰·汉考克中心与西尔斯大厦等地标建筑，其设计原则后来被应用于全球的超高层建筑。

• Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Nawab Salimullah were the benefactors whose donation in 1902 enabled the school's transformation into an engineering institution.纳瓦布科瓦贾·阿赫桑阿拉与其子纳瓦布·萨利穆拉是捐资者，其 1902 年的捐赠促成了学校向工程教育机构的转变。

• Dr. M. A. Rashid served as principal from 1954 and is commemorated in the name of the university's main hall.M. A. 罗希德博士自 1954 年起担任校长，学校的主宿舍以他的名字命名。

• Hakim Ali was principal from 1938 and continued in that role after the institution's upgrade to the Ahsanullah Engineering College in 1947.哈基姆·阿里自 1938 年起任校长，并在 1947 年学校升格为阿赫桑阿拉工程学院后继续担任该职。

• Janab Hakim Ali and Shri B. C. Gupta were among the early principals who shaped the school's teaching in the colonial period, and T. H. Matthewman presided over the college during its joint arrangement with Texas A and M College.哈基姆·阿里先生与 B. C. 古普塔先生是殖民时期塑造该校教学的早期校长之一，T. H. 马修曼则在学院与得克萨斯农工学院联合管理期间主持校务。

• S. M. Lutful Kabir of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology supervised the team that designed Bangladesh's first electronic voting machines from 2005.其信息与通信技术研究所的 S. M. 卢特富尔·卡比尔指导了自 2005 年起设计孟加拉国首台电子投票机的团队。

• Saiful Islam, as vice-chancellor, banned student politics and political organisations on the campus after the killing of Abrar Fahad in 2019.赛义夫·伊斯兰在担任校长期间，于 2019 年阿布拉尔·法哈德遇害后禁止了校园内的学生政治与政治组织。

• Abrar Fahad, the student killed in 2019, is remembered in the name of the university's central library, renamed in his honour on 8 February 2025.2019 年遇害的学生阿布拉尔·法哈德，其名字被用于该校中央图书馆的命名，该馆于 2025 年 2 月 8 日为此更名。

• The university's graduates populate Bangladesh's engineering faculties, its construction and energy industries and its administrative service, and its faculty and alumni include engineers who have led national infrastructure projects, designed public service technologies and advised government on technical policy.该校毕业生遍布孟加拉国的工程学院、建筑与能源产业以及行政体系；其师生与校友中包括主持国家基础设施项目、设计公共服务技术以及为政府技术政策提供咨询的工程师。