Nooruddin Ahmed (born 6 January 1941) is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 8th

vice-chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, commonly known by the acronym BUET, is a public technological research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1876 as the Dacca Survey School, it is the oldest institution for the study ...

(BUET).

Education

Ahmed passed matriculation examination from

Armanitola Government High School Armanitola Government High School is a secondary school for boys in Armanitola, in the old part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It celebrated its centenary in 2004. History This school was established in 1904 by the British government, as an experimental ...

and intermediate examination from

Dhaka College Dhaka College ( bn, ঢাকা কলেজ also known as DC) is the oldest secular educational institution of Bangladesh located in Dhaka. It offers higher secondary education ( HSC). It has Honours and Masters programs as well which are aff ...

in 1955 and 1957 respectively. He earned his bachelor's in chemical engineering in 1961 from the Ahsanullah Engineering College. Ahmed obtained his master's and Ph.D. from the

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in Canada in 1964 and 1968 respectively under Commonwealth Scholarship. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the NASA Interdisciplinary Materials Research Centre and

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(RPI) in the United States from 1968 to 1969.

Career

Ahmed joined East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology (EPUET) as an assistant professor of chemical engineering in 1969. He was appointed a professor in 1976. Ahmed served as the vice-chancellor of BUET from October 14, 1998, until August 30, 2002. In December 2008, Ahmed was appointed chairman of Bangladesh Accreditation Board.

References

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