QEC was first established in 2001 under the name of ISO 9000 Cell, as Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro decided to enhance quality of education by implementing ISO 9000 Quality Management System (QMS). The university has ultimately achieved ISO 9000 certification in 2003 and the course continuous to include additional areas for quality improvement and the directorate was renamed as Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) in 2007.
Today QEC coordinates between Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and MUET Jamshoro primarily and also includes quality personnel of different institutes of Pakistan to promote quality at MUET Jamshoro. The basic activities carried out to cover quality parameters of HEC and ISO 9000 include conduct of Self-Assessment (SA), Institutional Performance Evaluation (IPE), Postgraduate Program Review (PGPR), Internal Quality Audit (IQA), Management Review (MR), Anti-plagiarism, seminars, workshops, conferences and Surveillance.
