NESPAK organizes international symposium on Polluted Insulators

on 28/01/2020

National Engineering Services Pakistan Pvt Limited (NESPAK), in collaboration with National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), hosted an international symposium on “Polluted Insulators in Various Severe Service Conditions” at a local hotel in Lahore which was attended by renowned international experts along with insulator and silicone coating manufactures.
The conference began with the welcome address by Mr. Wajahat Saeed Rana, Deputy Managing Director, NTDC followed by the opening remarks by Dr. Tahir Masood, Managing Director NESPAK.
The main purpose of this event was to come up with solutions and strategies to cope up with the challenges faced by high voltage transmission network of Pakistan which is mostly confronted with diverse problems of severe industrial and marine pollution in south and high lightning and ice conditions in north. The event especially focused on the envisaged transmission lines for power evacuation from upcoming Bhasha Dam and other hydropower projects in the north and the preventive steps required to be taken in order to overcome the incidents of trippings arising out of severe service conditions in south.
Eminent experts and speakers from all over the world including Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, China, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada read papers along with making presentations and afterwards took part in the interactive session and shared their knowledge and valuable research in the field of HVAC and HVDC insulators and silicone coating techniques. Shields were distributed among the speakers as a gesture of gratitude for their scholarly presentations and hard work.
The session ended with concluding remarks from Mr. Anees Ahmad, Manager Design NTDC and Mr. Nadeem Ashraf, General Manager/Head, P&M Division, NESPAK who appreciated the hard work of all the event organizers and sponsors. Valuable contributions were made by Mr. Raouf Znaidi, T&D Consultant from Tunisia, and Mr. Shakir Hafeez, General Manger, Transmission Line, NESPAK in making this event, a success. Special acknowledgement was given to foreign delegates for visiting Pakistan and participating in the event. Mr. Nadeem Ashraf added that upon return to their native countries, the foreign visitors would surely enlighten their fellow country folks that Pakistan was a safe place to visit with hospitable and friendly people and dispel the false notions about travelling to Pakistan being propagated through media.n

Turkey’s first homebred automobile prototype

on 28/01/2020

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled the country’s first homebred automobile prototype, saying it will realise the country’s long-time dream.
Speaking at the launch ceremony of the automobile in the industrial province of Kocaeli, Erdogan said, “today, we are witnessing an historic day in which we achieve Turkey’s 60-year dream together.”
Stating that over 100 Turkish engineers worked on the project, he said: “We don’t buy a license or permission from anyone, we determine all the technical features ourselves.”
The SUV will be the first car to be certified ‘Made in Turkey’ and is expected to hit the roads by 2022. Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture Group, also known as TOGG, says at least five models will be released by 2030.
Erdogan stressed Turkey will deter all efforts to hinder the production of its own car.
“They managed to hinder the production of Devrim [Turkey’s first homegrown car] but they will not be able to hinder this automobile,” he added.
Following his speech, a red SUV model of the car and another grey sedan one were raised onto the stage, sporting the TOGG label of the consortium that is building them.
‘Zero-emission technology’
Turkey first attempted to produce its own car in 1961, the Devrim [Revolution], but it never made it past the prototype stage.
“Turkey is not only a market for new technologies but has become a country that develops, produces and exports them all over the world,” Erdogan said.
The Turkish president said that the factory for Turkey’s first car will open in Gemlik district of the northwestern Bursa province.
The automobile “will not pollute the environment by working with zero-emission technology”, he said.
Production facilities for the first Turkish indigenous automobile, which also happens to be electric, will open in the country’s northwestern city of Bursa, with over 4,000 people expected to be employed.
Car to come up in five models
Erdogan placed an advance order for the car and later sat behind the wheel of one of the cars. The two models unveiled on Friday are red and white, signifying the Turkish flag.
In June 2018, five Turkish industry giants – Anadolu Group, BMC, Kok Group, Turkcell and Zorlu Holding, as well as an umbrella organisation, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey – joined hands to manufacture an indigenous car.
Turkey has mobilised more than $126 million to fund innovation and regional development, according to the country’s industry and technology minister.
The electric car will have five models, with 175,000 units produced in a year.
Turkey is already a big exporter to Europe of cars made domestically by firms such as Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Toyota, and Hyundai .
The new project, launched in October, will receive state support such as tax breaks, and establish a production facility in Bursa, according to a presidential decision in the country’s Official Gazette.
The project is expected to cost 22 billion lira ($3.7 billion) over 13 years.
Five models of the car will be produced, the statement said, adding the government had guaranteed to buy 30,000 of the vehicles by 2035

16th Annual Convocation 2019 SZABIST Karachi Eleven graduates awarded with gold medals

on 28/01/2020

The 16th Annual Convocation of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Karachi was held in December 2019 at the Expo Centre.
Chief Guest of the occasion was Mr. Saleem Mandviwalla, Deputy Chairman Senate of Pakistan.
Chancellor Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho opened the Convocation. Degrees were conferred to 554 undergraduate students, 602 Masters Students and 7 PhD students by the Deans of each discipline; Management Science, Social Science, Education, Media Science, Bioscience, Mechatronics Engineering and Computer Science.
This is the highest number of degree recipients from SZABIST Karachi Campus in its 24-year old history.
Eleven Gold Medals were awarded and the recipients were Ms. Tooba Mirza (Master Of Project Management), Ms. Maha Lakhani (BBA), Ms. Syeda Fatima Rizvi (BS Biosciences), Ms. Maheen Shamim (BS Biosciences), Ms. Rimsha Erum (MBA), Ms. Sidratul Montaha Khan (MBA), Ms.Sarah Baig (BS Social Science), Mr. Muhammad Mustafa (BS Computer Science), Mr. Abdul Raziq Khan (BE Mechatronics),Ms. Sarah Nadeem Shaikh (Bachelor Of Media Science) and Ms.Rida Fatima Farooqui (MS Management Science). Fifteen Silver Medals were awarded and the recipients were Ms. Anusha Naz Alam (BS Social Science), Ms. Asraa Khan (Bachelor of Media Science), Mr. Bilal Hussain (BS Computer Science), Ms. Zainab Mehdi Millwala (Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies), Mr. Syed Babar Ali (Bachelor of Business Studies), Mr. Mudassir Ali (MBA Banking & Finance), Ms. Camilla Able Dean (MBA), Ms. Noor Ul Ain (Executive MBA), Mr. Daniyal Shaikh (Master of Advertising), Ms. Mehwish Khan (M.A Education), Ms. Kiran Fatima (MS Biosciences), Ms. Laraib Nasir (MS Educational Leadership and Management), Ms. Manisha Kumari (MS Computer Science), Mr. Muhammad Shabbir (MS Project Management) and Mr. Syed Muhammad SarimSajid (MS Media Science) One hundred three students’ names have been placed on the “Chancellor’s Honor List” for securing CGPA equal to or greater than 3.50.
The Convocation Ceremony was attended by more than 4000 people comprising of SZABIST Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, Management, Faculty,Staff, Graduates, Parents, Educationists, Guests, Print/ Electronic Media and Supportive/ Committed Partners.
The Convocation Ceremony was covered by SZABIST Radio broadcasting service (ZABFM). Live coverage of the event was broadcasted on SZABIST official YouTube and Facebook page

Formula to facilitate the unemployed Biomedical Engineers

on 28/01/2020

This article has been penned down to knock the board rooms of the higher authorities of Sindh in general and Pakistan in particular, to register a case against undue employment challenges faced by the Biomedical Engineers right after graduation.
The Biomedical Engineers of Sindh are facing tremendous cases of joblessness and feel betrayed and disappointed by complete failure of the Pakistan Engineering Council in addressing grievances regarding possible short-term internship based employment prospects on contractual basis with the capacity to entertain extended long-term performance-based opportunities for the possible career growth in this magnificent field, promising highest gross income in the other parts of the world owing to a disciplined, corruption-free and merit-based human resource potential extraction mechanism.
Biomedical Engineering is considered one of the top professions in the developed world owing to the latest emerging technological advancements in the field of medicine and industry, thanks to innovation in technology and its implementation. With increasing research prospects in this field, it is expected that Biomedical instrumentation will gain perpetual momentum that ceases to exist. Unlike other countries, Pakistan is facing tribulations in health care delivery. The health system in Pakistan is currently going through several reforms at the federal and provincial level particularly to improve the delivery of health services to the population. Our nation’s health care providers – surgeons, physicians, nurses, and others work hard to provide life-saving and life-improving care to millions of Pakistanis, but the level of quality and efficiency of care varies significantly across the country.
Most of the services provided by Biomedical Engineers in the hospital are assembling, installing, repairing and maintaining machines and instruments. Due to the unavailability of Biomedical Engineers in the hospitals, machines worth millions of rupees are getting wrecked, and hospitals are being converted into graveyards of the equipment. Because of the unavailability of healthcare equipment, the medical staff fails to provide proper medical treatment in government hospitals, so patients have to visit them at private clinics and pay huge fees. Therefore,a suitable and applicable structure is required to bridge the gap between medical technology and patient care in government hospitals.
With growing healthcare awareness andan increase in population and greater affordability for optimized healthcare, the need for qualified Biomedical Engineers is increased in Pakistan. For the sake of optimized healthcare facilities provision at the doorsteps for the people of Pakistan, it is extremely important to inaugurate a foolproof employment policy for the Biomedical Engineers of Pakistan and ensure its unconditional implementation so that human resource potential dealing with Biomedical equipment is available and increasing with regards to the increasing healthcare requirements.
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, and NED University of Engineering and Technology and other public and private universities of Sindh province are offering Biomedical Engineering programs to produce Biomedical Engineering based work function to operate in hospitals and healthcare centers across the province, however, very few of such Engineers are working as gazetted officers in the various tertiary hospital. Approximately four hundred and fifty Biomedical Engineers graduate each year in province Sindh, but unfortunately, only a handful receives employment in the same profession.
In Pakistan, Biomedical Engineers should be employed in universities, industries, hospitals, research centers for education and medical institutions, teaching and government regulatory agencies. The government is requested to start a Biomedical Engineering Regulatory Board and recruit Biomedical Engineers for product testing and safety. Besides establishing safety standards for devices, Biomedical Engineers can provide recommendations and supervision in the selection of medical equipment and they can also manage the performance of the equipment continuously. A well-established hospital cannot offer the quality of healthcare without having the Biomedical Engineering department, particularly hospitals with secondary and tertiary care, because such hospitals are full of medical equipment, instruments, devices, and machinery that can be operated, calibrated and maintained by Biomedical Engineers through the appropriate catalog.
Currently, the status of the Biomedical Engineering field in Pakistan is far from satisfactory. There is no production or manufacturing of Biomedical equipment, machines and instruments at a larger commercial level

Sandhu Engineering & Trading Co.

on 28/01/2020

Sandhu Engineering & Trading Co. (SETC) distributors of Delair in Pakistan, have recently become a service center for the UX11 drone. It will helps our regional customers to get faster response on the ground for UX11 services. Trainer Mr. Baptiste Keller form Delair and Mr. Armaghan Masood form Sandhu Engineering are in picture.
Delair professional fixed wing drones are the ideal tool for aerial data acquisition faster and further. They can cover large surfaces per flight, flying smoothly and stable along the way.
Delair drones provide quality accurate RGB, LiDAR or multispectral data, which is necessary to build the digital twin and get business insights. Delair fixed wing drones can also be the preferred choice for night and day surveillance of infrastructures or sensitive areas