Time for IEEEP to rise!

Now that the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pakistan (IEEEP) is bracing for electing new councils, the performance of outgoing leadership which is open for scrutiny now depicts an unimpressive picture.
The institution besides the center has two notable chapters such as Karachi and Lahore and both, as the perception goes have nothing impressive to speak about but a handful of activities round the year and that also has largely become intertwined with personal rather than institutional interests.
Two years ago Engr. Irfan Ahmed, heading IEEEP Karachi chapter had expressed his resolve to expand the role of the institution in the changing environment. After assuming the office, he looked determined to extend help to young engineers in the country.
Ahmed believed the institution should play its proactive advisory role so that the governments should be able to address deepening issues relating to engineering in the country. “We are contemplating to change the aims and objectives of the institution to adopt a new role. At present, dissemination of knowledge and encouraging professionalism fall in the ambit of the institution as per its existing