The department of Textile Engineering was established in 1993 with the aim to provide education at par with international standards, providing qualified graduates, those will contribute towards the development and modernization of Textile Industry of the country. As a matter of fact, the department was the second textile institute built in Pakistan at that time after NCTE Faisalabad.

From the start the department was offering Four Years full time Bachelor of Engineering program.  The course covers a combination of Theory and Practical subjects, related with various segments of Textile Engineering supplemented with various management and allied engineering courses.

The department has already started the M.E. course in Textile Engineering, full time evening program and about 25 students are enrolled in first two batches. It is anticipated that the course would attract more professionals working in different textile industries from the country.

It is worth mentioning here that currently five faculty members of our department are on study leave for Ph.D in Textiles, and they are expected to re-join the department as soon as they complete their studies.

Textile Engineering Department is also a source center for technical human resources and consultants. This department has also been an approved training center of Rieter Switzerland of Pakistan. Industry personnel of various industries throughout Pakistan joined authorized Rieter training courses on Rieter spinning machines installed in the laboratories of the department.. In order to produce quality product of Pakistan, the laboratories are used to provide testing and consultancy services to the local industry. Currently two Ph.D scholars are registered in this department. 

Future plans:

• To upgrade existing facility.
• To develop new laboratories  such as:
  • Knitting Laboratory
  • Garment Laboratory.
• To get accreditation by various international textile organizations such as:
  • Textile Institute Manchester UK
  • Society of Dyers & Colorists Bradford UK and
  • Society of Textiles America

To switch the department to school of excellence has various departments such as Yarn Manufacturing, Fabric Manufacturing, Wet-processing and Knitting and Garment department. That will offer specialized degree and increased research activities.

Major Areas of Studies and their importance:

Fiber Manufacturing 
Pakistan is one of the largest cotton (Natural Fibre) growing country in the world and prominent countries that have got petroleum reservoirs and the main source of synthetic fibers is by-product of petroleum. It is very important of our country to produce engineers with adequate knowledge of manufacturing and processing of natural and synthetic fibers so that they can design processes and plan industries for quality production accordingly.

Yarn Manufacturing
As yarn is the raw material of fabric, therefore the major factor for the quantity and quality of the fabric depends on the quality of yarns and its manufacturing processes. It indicates that we must have qualified personnel who can study the problems of yarn manufacturing and solve them through technical know how and available resources. For this we have modern machinery of Yarn Manufacturing available in our laboratory.           

Fabric Manufacturing
The yarns produced from Yarn Manufacturing process, must be converted into fabric and for fabric manufacturing we need highly qualified engineers who can compete and produce world class fabric on cheapest rates as well as they can design fabric manufacturing machines by utilizing  their theoretical and engineering knowledge.

Wet-processing/Value addition to Fabric
It is distinguished to every one that the world market can be captured and more profit can be earned by introducing the value added textiles into market. To make the grey cloth useable and valuable it needs to be passed through various chemical and mechanical processes. We have to produce engineers of fabric with references to Pre-treatment, Dyeing, Printing, and Finishing of fabric produce value added product.

Textile Testing and Quality Control
Quality of textile products may be maintained through its evaluation. For this reason, it is necessary to have knowledge of quality standards and testing instruments used for textile testing. Our graduate Engineers must have appropriate knowledge of operating these textile testing instruments, and solved the problems of industries.