The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (or UET Peshawar) is a public, coeducational, university located in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Earthquake Engineering Center of the Civil Engineering department played a key role after the October 8, 2005 earthquake. Its main campus in Peshawar is off the University Road in the University Campus area. In 1952, an engineering college was setup as a constituent college of the University of Peshawar with an enrollment of twenty students (according to the UET Peshawar Annual Report 2006 - 2007). This college was granted a charter to operate as an independent engineering university in 1980 under the name University of Engineering and Technology. UET Peshawar has four campuses. The main campus is in the University Campus area, off University Road, Peshawar, with three satellite campuses in Abbottabad, Bannu and Mardan. The Peshawar campus is the nucleus of the University. The Abbottabad campus was inaugurated in October 2002 at the premises of the old Ayub Medical College. The campus has two departments, Electronics and Architecture. The campus started Electronic Engineering subjects for the first time in UET history.