Mehran University Won Accolades

on 06/05/2020

Engineering, of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro along with Dr. Attiya Baqai participated in this two-day event ofDICE-IET 2020. The selected two project details from Mehran University are as follows.
• Ash Braille (Private) Limited (startup, SSBC-Cohort-2-IEC)
Electronic Engineering Department.
Supervisor: Dr. AttiyaBaqai
Team Members: Muhammad Ahmed Malik, Hassan Ahmed Shaikh, Sidra Memon
• Digital Range of Motion (ROM) Measurement System
NGIRI-2019 IGNITE FYP funded
DICE-SHARK winner DUHS-DICE Health Innovation Exhibition
Electronic Engineering Department.
Supervisor: Dr. AttiyaBaqai
Team Members: Anzalna Narejo, Neha Sikandar, Absar Ali
Both projects gained attention at the exhibition and the visitors highly appreciated the efforts of the Mehran University students. Among these projects “ASH Braille”, was awarded 2nd prize of Rs. 60,000 in Project competition category along with shield of appreciation.
The project “ASH Braille” – a startup at IEC- MUET,under supervision of Dr. AttiyaBaqai, was also selected for DICE SHARK session. Out of 10 projects only two got succeeded in grabbing funding from the investors. Smart Wheelchair from Government Postgraduate College For Women Rahim Yar Khan secured funding of Rs. 3 Lac whereas ASH Braille from Mehran University secured total of 6 Lac funding in which Mr. AmerHaiderfrom USA invested 5 Lacs for 20% stake in the company while Dr. Usman Shehzad, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, CUI Lahore invested 1 Lac Rs for needy on nonprofit basis in his mother’s name
The “ASH Braille”team has developed an advanced Braille framework for visually impaired people at very minimal cost. It is a network for a classroom in which several devices can be connected to teacher’s PC and would act as an input media for visually impaired students. The dedicated software is running on teacher’s PC through which teacher can monitor every student performance on runtime, maintains a database of every student and automatically evaluates the writing scores and their writing speed.
The participants and their advisor Dr. AttiyaBaqai are very thankful to the University especially worthy Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Mohammad Aslam Uqaili, Prof Emeritus Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhryand DEAN FEECE Prof. Dr. Mukhtiar Ali Unar for their cooperation, encouragement and financial support. The team said it was their trust in the team and facilitation that the team could participate resulting in thissuccess.