Dr Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq

Based on his outstanding performance in MSc, Dr Atiq earned a full funded PhD scholarship to peruse my PhD (2007-2011) from the world’s top rank university “TU Delft, the Netherlands” (presently ranked number 2 in the field of Civil Engineering). He assisted in teachings as well. He joined COMSATS Institute of Information Technology as Head of the department and established bachelors degree and masters degree programs.

He developed a proposal to establish a Category-II Centre of UNESCO in Pakistan. He joined Capital University of Science and Technology (at that time it was known as Mohammad Ali Jinnah University) in 2014. He endeavored to establish the department with undergraduate and post graduate programs. Multiple research projects, consultancy projects, research collaborations, keynote lectures, workshops, and continual professional development training were carried out. He remained actively involve with the Higher Education Commission and Engineering Council to transform Pakistan’s engineering programs to achieve the Washington Accord status. His role as Outcome-based education expert is evident from the trainings he conducted in various universities as well as the accreditations visit which he conducted as the field expert on behalf of Pakistan Engineering Council.

He has been invited as a guest editor of “Atmosphere” journal. He has an impressive profile of research by publishing in top ranking journals of Water Resources discipline (majority are in Q1) with having best paper awards and editor’s choice award in journal and conference as well. He is an approved supervisor for PhD Civil Engineering programs at Victoria University. Not only the research activities, but he has also been involved in multiple tasks which has high social impacts. He has written a news article in World’s famous News agency ‘Reuters’.

He has carried out several professional consultancy services at higher level. Drainage and flood protection design of various residential areas, surface water supply and ground water potentials have been investigated during various consultancy services. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is the most significant project in Pakistan, he has performed the master revision of the consultancy work for the flood protection and cross drainage works of the Multan-Sukkar Motorway project. Having the most suitable expertise, the task of Vetting Consultant for ‘Master plans for the water, wastewater & storm water drainage of Lahore district for Water and Sanitation Agency Lahore (WASA) and Lahore Development Authority (LDA)’ is also carried out by him. many projects have been performed with City West Water (Now Greater Western Water).