Pabna Textile Engineering College is a government educational institution in

Pabna Pabna () is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District. It is on the north bank of the Padma River and has a population of about . Etymology * According to the historian Radharaman Saha ...

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that offers a bachelor's degree in

textile engineering Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful good ...

. It is operated by a department of the

Ministry of Textiles and Jute Ministry of Textiles and Jute (, Pronounce: ''Bostro ō pāṭ Montronaloy'') is Bangladesh's governmental parent agency for the country's Department of Textiles (Bangladesh), Department of Textiles and Directorate General of Jute (Bangladesh), ...

, and an affiliated college of the

Bangladesh University of Textiles Bangladesh University of Textiles, commonly referred to as BUTEX, is a public university in Bangladesh, situated in Tejgaon, Dhaka. It is the only public university in Bangladesh to teach textile engineering. The institution established educatio ...

History

Pabna Government Weaving School was established in 1915. It was one of five such outlying schools affiliated to the Serampore Weaving Institute. The school offered a course three to six months in duration, given in

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, that taught "practical weaving, design and analysis of cloth, yarn calculation and drawing". By 1921, it was instructing 22 students, the sons of weavers, on 14 fly-shuttle looms. When the Department of Textiles (DoT) was established in 1978, it took over operation of the school. The DoT also oversaw the public sector textile mills, and expected demand for more mid-level supervisors and skilled technicians in the industry. In 1980, a two years certificate course was introduced. In 1995, that was replaced by a three-year diploma in textile engineering, at which point the school was renamed Pabna Textile Institute. In March 2010, the

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approved a 450 million

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($6.4M as of 2010) project to upgrade Pabna Textile Institute to Pabna Textile Engineering College. It then offered a four years B.Sc. in textile engineering in affiliation with the

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, and had 80 students. By 2019, it was an affiliated college of

Academics

PTEC offers a four-year B.Sc. in Textile Engineering under the affiliation of

( BUTEX). Concerned departments of the college are given below: # Department of Yarn Engineering # Department of

Fabric Engineering Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods s ...

# Department of

Wet Process Engineering Wet Processing Engineering is one of the major streams in Textile Engineering or Textile manufacturing which refers to the engineering of textile chemical processes and associated applied science. The other three streams in textile engineering ar ...

# Department of Apparel Engineering

Number of seats

The number of seats for the four-year bachelor's degree in textile engineering program is given below.

Admission

Admission into this college is competitive and needs a high academic attainment at the SSC and HSC examination. Selection of the student for admission is made through an admission test. Only science students can apply for the admission test. Admission circular is published in the national dailies, college website and website of the Department of Textiles (DOT). Department of Textiles (DOT) offers 4 years of BSc in Textile Engineering Degree. A single examination was organized by Department of Textiles (DOT) for 8 textile engineering colleges under the affiliation of

(BUTEX). Colleges which conduct exams together are: CTEC (2006), PTEC (2006), TECN (2007), SARSTEC (2010), JTEC (2016), DWMTEC (2018), SRTEC (2021) & SHTEC (2022) The admission test is conducted on the basis of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Students have to answer Physics, Chemistry, Higher Math & English in the admission test. Students can get admission in certain college based on merit list and college preference list.

References

{{Reflist 1915 establishments in India Colleges affiliated to Bangladesh University of Textiles Education in Pabna District Engineering universities and colleges in Bangladesh Textile schools in Bangladesh Colleges in Rajshahi Division Universities and colleges in Pabna District

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