 During this time, the military members of Navy and other branches continued to attend the college while civilians taught courses.The PNEC was shifted to its present location in 1982 and commissioned as "PNS Jauhar" as an independent unit of Pakistan Navy.In 1995, Pakistan Parliament passed legislation to rename the school as "Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC)", making the school a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) based in Rawalpindi.