UET Peshawar and ECO Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, signed a commercial licensing agreement of a project, ‘Performance of confined dry block masonry against blast loading’, funded by HEC under the ‘Technology Development Fund (TDF)’. The ceremony was held with Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Hussain in chair, and attended by the senior officials from the School of Advanced Geo-mechanical Engineering (SAGE), Military School of Engineering (MCE), Risalpur and UET Peshawar.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Yaqoob Khan, CEO ECO Enterprises Pvt. Ltd and Dr. Tariq Khalil, Manager Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) UET Peshawar. Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Hussain said, currently UET secured six projects under the HEC’s TDF of Rs. 64 million which are completed and will also be offered to the industry for commercialization in near future.—Staff Reporter
