Muhammad Shahjahan Explained

Muhammad Shahjahan
Office:6th Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Term Start:24 April 1991
Term End:27 November 1996
Predecessor:Musharrof Husain Khan
Successor:Iqbal Mahmud
Birth Date:2 January 1939
Birth Place:Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India
Death Place:Dhaka, Bangladesh
Occupation:university academic, professor
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Education:Ph.D. (civil engineering)
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Muhammad Shahjahan (2 January 1939 – 20 September 2000) was a Bangladeshi academic.[1] He served as the 6th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Education

Shahjahan passed matriculation exam from Armanitola Government High School in 1954 and intermediate examination from Dhaka College in 1956. He then earned his bachelor's in civil engineering from Ahsanullah Engineering College in 1960. He obtained his master's from Colorado State University in 1963 and Ph.D. from University of Strathclyde in 1970.[1]

Career

Shahjahan joined as a lecturer in Ahsanullah Engineering College (later BUET) in October 1960. He served as the vice-chancellor of BUET from April 1991 to November 1996. His second-term reappointment was truncated by a teacher-students-employees agitation.[2] He retired from BUET in January 2000.[1]

Shahjahan died on 20 September 2000 at Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Professor Dr. Muhammad Shahjahan. https://web.archive.org/web/20180220092350/http://www.buet.ac.bd/?page_id=2667. dead. February 20, 2018. July 3, 2016. buet.ac.bd.
  2. News: Inconsistency, thy name is BUET. July 15, 2012. July 4, 2016. The Daily Star. Nizamuddin Ahmed.