The educational objectives of the Department of Electrical Engineering are to develop professional skills in the students that prepare them for immediate employment in Electrical Engineering. The department aims to develop abilities in the students for the application of the necessary mathematical tools, scientific basics and fundamental knowledge of Electrical Engineering.

The students are provided with an educational foundation that prepares them for leadership roles along diverse carrier paths in large companies concerned with communications, electronics, industrial control & automation, computers and electrical energy. There is hardly any sphere of modern life that is not affected one way or the other, by some aspect of electrical engineering.

Currently Faculty of Electrical Engineering is running two degree awarding programs: B.Sc. Electrical Engineering in Taxila and B.Sc. Electronics Engineering in Chakwal. Electrical Engineering department Taxila has an enrollment of more than 500 undergraduate, 143 M.Sc. and 25 PhD students. The department is housed in a Block that covers an area of 57,500 sq.ft. The department has well equipped laboratories for undergraduate classes and the equipment is upgraded as the need arises. Lecture theatres, classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices etc are all housed in the same Block.