A HIGH-profile delegation, led by CEO Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) Mr Temel Kotil, called on Rector NUST Engr Javed Mahmood Bukhari at NUST the other day, according to a press release.

Members of senior management from NUST also attended the meeting, which was aimed at exploring new avenues to strengthen collaboration between NUST and Turkey in areas such as joint research, the establishment of research facilities, student and faculty exchanges, academia-industry linkages etc.

CEO TAI said that Pakistan, being a brotherly country, is their first preference for outreach. He also expressed his desire to recruit talented engineers and scientists from NUST to work on cutting-edge projects of TAI.

Rector NUST remarked that NUST provides a comprehensive knowledge ecosystem based on a Quadruple Helix Model, where the presence of industrial R&D centres and labs like Turkish Aerospace Industries holds paramount importance. •