University of the Punjab

Public Administration is the general field of study for understanding what governments at different levels and their partners and contractors do, how public policies and programs are determined, designed, and implemented, how public funding is generated and public resources allocated among competing priorities. Public administration encompasses how governments and their partners at different levels plan, organize, provide, produce, distribute and assess the roles and responsibilities and the alignment of public services in their efforts to improve societal well-being.

The resulting programs and functions must also keep pace with unprecedented rapid change in an environment now driven by the dynamic forces of globalization, technology, marketization, and eco-sustainability. As a discipline, public administration integrates bodies of knowledge across many fields—intergovernmental relations, organizational theory, political economy, public policy analysis, public management, and constitutional and administrative law—that transcend the conventional and highly functional public administration subfields in public finance, budgeting, human resources, contracting, and program management and evaluation.

Public Administration seeks to enhance governance at all levels—both in international terms, to promote understanding of public policy and management in different states and economies around the globe, and in multi-jurisdictional terms, to promote trust and effective relationships among different stakeholders and partners across the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

Finally, public administration is deeply concerned with ensuring that its practitioners (and researchers) understand and exemplify the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct and lead the movement for organizational social responsibility and sustainable development to protect our environment.

Learning Objectives

To develop student’s ability to critically engage with intersections between state, governance and development
·       To develop student’s familiarity with problems of governance, development and his/her ability to exploit this knowledge and analyse our administrative systems
·       To develop the foundations of core public administration concepts and theories, and the foster the ability to critically appraise and apply them to our context.

Democracy has three major organs that include legislature, judiciary and the executive. This course is about the executive branch of a democratic government. We will study it in the context of current practices in western countries particularly. We will understand how the executive branch in Pakistan manages the Public affairs in our local context, through an applied approach to learning. Newspaper reading and following talk shows on national channels would be of particular importance. 

The course provides an introduction to econometric techniques used in the analysis of financial data. Students will be introduced to the problems arising when using financial data and by the end of the course they will understand and critically evaluate financial models.

Complete course content:

• Natural gas reserves: indigenous and global.
• Natural gas composition, its properties and location in the underground rock layers.
• Non-renewable and renewable fuel sources.
• Harmful aspects of flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
• Flue gas emissions control and the effect on overall plant efficiency.
• An informative discussion on CNG.
• Absorption and Stripping.
• Natural gas cleaning through Physical and Chemical Absorption.
• The Amine Sweetening Process for natural gas.
• Various drilling equipment used for natural gas.
• Drilling setup used during drilling.
• Different drilling methods used to procure natural gas.
• Off-shore and On-shore drilling.
  

The objective of this course is to give the understanding of designing of commonly used chemical reactors. This course will provide in-depth knowledge of the application of laws of thermodynamics and reaction kinetics for the economical design of chemical reactors.

At the end of this course, student will be able to

1. Explain chemical reaction engineering related terminologies

2. Develop the rate equation with concentration and time data using integral and differential methods

3. Derive the performance equations of ideal batch and flow reactors to size the ideal reactors (homogeneous and heterogeneous system)

Fluid types, statics and Applications of Bernoullis and continuity equations, Nature of fluids, flow patterns, shearing characteristics of a fluid Friction losses through pipes, ducts and fittings, Piping network analysis, Isothermal, non-isothermal and adiabatic flow of an ideal gas in a horizontal pipe and flow of non-ideal gases. Pressure and flow measuring devices, U-tube/inclined manometer, pressure guage, Pitot tube, Orifice-meter, Venturi meter, Rotameter, Nozzle, Notches and Weirs. Magnetic flow meters and Ultrasonic flow meters. Pumping of Fluids: Pumps and valves, Gas compressors, Power requirement calculations, Pipe network and fittings. Motion of Particles in Fluid: Introduction, Drag force on spherical/non-spherical particles, Accelerating motion of a particle in the gravitational field, motion of particle in centrifugal field. Fluids mixing: Introduction, Mixer types and applications, separation of immiscible liquids, sedimentation in a centrifugal field and centrifugal equipments.

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to

Distillation, Liquid Liquid extraction, Gas Absorption, Leaching etc.

Advanced Separation and Product Purification principles and applications.