NUST eLearning

This course introduces students to the wide range of regional and international destinations, examining their geographic, cultural, economic, and social significance in the global tourism industry. Students will explore the key tourism spots around the world, their cultural attractions, history, and challenges in tourism development. The course will also cover travel planning, itinerary building, and destination marketing strategies.

The course aims to equip students with knowledge and skills relevant to area-based spatial development interventions. Students will be able to identify the strengths and shortcomings of current spatial regional development interventions within the existing legal and socio-economic framework.

On completion of this course, students will, through assessment activities, show evidence of their ability to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of regional spatial development interventions at all levels.
2. Conduct regional spatial analysis through collecting, analysing, and critically evaluating information for informed and appropriate interventions.
3. Evaluate the strengths and shortcomings of different regional development interventions.
4. Design targeted regional development interventions using critical and creative thinking.

Reinforced concrete is a versatile building material to which the present day’s constructions of buildings, bridges and many other infrastructure projects depend on. The course on Reinforced Concrete Design deals with the structural design of reinforced concrete elements. The content of this course includes the elements design such as beams, slabs, columns, foundation, retaining wall, reinforcement detailing and special types of slabs. Here, the word “design” refers to structural design that involves, the sizing of members like columns, slabs, walls, etc., characterization of materials used, provision of number and/or spacing of reinforcing rods at different salient cross sections, based on strength of the members required and the serviceability limits that the members should pass. The recognized code books at the places of design works govern the design philosophy and procedures to be adopted.

The fundamental objective of the course is to comprehend the design principles based on the philosophy that underpins the code of practice and then to independently perform the design of simple structural elements.

This course forms one of the core courses in the curriculum because a civil engineer needs to work with infrastructural project that involves reinforced concrete structural components and need to know about the cause and effect of loads on a structure or structural component, based on which should ascertain whether the member designed can safely withstand the load applied and be serviceable for the intended period.

Course Introduction

Welcome to the e-learning course,Research Methodology  (RML921S). We hope that you will find studying RML921S via e-learning both enriching, enlightening, and exhilarating. RML921S aims to expose postgraduate students to the various advanced research methodologies, theories, designs, tools, principles and procedures so that they can write a comprehensive research proposal, review related literature, develop research tools, collect and analyse data, and present findings.

The major aim of the course is to expose postgraduate students to the various advanced research methodologies, theories, designs, tools, principles, and procedures so that they can write a comprehensive research proposal, review related literature, develop research tools, collect, and analyse data, and present findings. It also relates to the considerations that go into selecting research approaches that include amongst others, qualitative approach, quantitative approach, or mixed methods method approach. The philosophical worldviews, research designs, reviewing the literature, understanding the use of theory, anticipating ethical issues, and developing writing strategies will be covered in this course. We will discuss the process of research as it relates to each research approach. The process includes originating a researchable research topic; developing a research problem; writing an introduction, specifying a purpose statement, and developing research objectives; questions, and/or hypotheses. The course will also discuss the research methods and procedures for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies. In addition, data analysis techniques, which include descriptive, inferential statistics, and qualitative will be explored. Ethical considerations will remain indispensable in this course.

This course aims to expose students to research paradigms and approaches related to new technological developments and emerging trends in the field of Data Science. It seeks to instill a critical analysis of innovative products and research contributions in the field in order to formulate research questions, plan to execute a scientific or technical research project, focusing on applied research Data Science areas of her/his own interest. Through discussions during the seminar series, it will sharpen students’ conceptual, design, writing and communication skills to develop and present a comprehensive individual research project proposal in a specific application domain of the field of study.

This is a Thesis Research Repository