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Building a Robust Engineering Career

on 20/06/2023

IEEE PES Chapter Karachi organized a technical Seminar, the third activity of the year 2023.
Following the recitation of the Holy Quran, the chairman, IEEE PES Ishtiaq ul Haq welcomed the participants and shared that IEEE PES is regularly conducting its activities intending to disseminate technical, relevant, and advanced knowledge on products and matters concerned with the engineering community.
Engr Asim Rasheed, the presenter of the moot carries more than 30 years of professional experience in various engineering and Management positions with world reputable Engineering companies in Pakistan and abroad. He is a well-established corporate trainer and management consultant.
The event was attended by more than 27 participants, mostly final-year students, young engineers, faculty members of universities, and senior engineers.
The topic was specially related to students and young engineers who took a keen interest in the topic. Senior engineers also shared their experiences and highlighted the skills to excel in today’s job market which is summarized below:
Analytical thinking, Creative thinking Curiosity & lifelong learning, Technological literacy, Quality control, leadership & social influence, etc
Engr. Asim Rashid mentioned in his presentation that we need to do a lot of work in the above areas in particular as Pakistan is ranked 146 of 158 countries, Pakistan’s score in the skill component of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD’s ) Frontier Technology Readiness Index 2019 is 0.09 out of 1, significantly lower than Indonesia’s score of 0.28, India’s 0.31, etc.
We have to focus on the Technical skill as well as the Soft skills of our young engineers.
In the end, he summarized the key points as a way forward for those who like to build robust engineering careers:
Have strong ethics and integrity, 2. Learn to lead; learn to follow, 3. Respect seniors and juniors, 4. Be a lifelong learner, 5. Develop communication skills, 6. Demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude, 7. Have a growth mindset, 8. Take charge of your career, 9. Business is a team sport and 10. Listen to learn
Engr. Ishtiaque ul Haque Chairman PES thanked Engr. Asim Rashid for his time & effort and for encouraging students and young professionals to join IEEE & PES society to get the maximum benefit of the enormous knowledge available on the platform.

IEEE PES Chapter Karachi organized a
Technical Seminar

on 19/06/2023

The title of the Seminar was “Metal Clad Switchgear – Design & Type Test ”.
Following the recitation of the Holy Quran, Chairman IEEE PES Engr. Ishtiaq ul Haq welcomed the participants and shared that IEEE PES is regularly conducting its activities intending to disseminate technical, relevant, and advanced knowledge on products and matters concerned with the engineering community.
Engr. Moiz Uddin, has decades of experience in switchgear assembling, designing and product research and development and is currently associated with HRA Switchgear Pvt. Ltd as Sr. Manager Production Planning explained the assembly and unit compartments of Metal Clad Switchgear along with the design guidelines, highlighting the main causes of substation equipment failure, and tests that are conducted by various laboratories to ensure quality.
Engr. Moiz uddin, with the help of animated videos, clarified the concept of design and type testing of various required tests conducted on the Metal Clad switchgear.
There were special student groups who attended the seminar from various universities and took keen interest in the topic. Also, among the participants were people from utility companies , academia and industries.
Some of the important questions addressed in the presentation included:
What is the difference between metal enclosed and metal clad switchgear? What are alternate sources of SF6 switchgear? What maintenance interval should there be? What kind of maintenance is needed?
Engr. Ishtiaque ul Haque Chairman PES thanked Engr. Moiz Uddin, for his time and effort. He encouraged students and young professionals to join IEEE & PES society to get to the maximum benefit of the enormous knowledge available on the platform.

UNFAO to set up center to boost crop yield

on 19/06/2023

A high-level annual exhibition based on software, applications, and models developed by the final year students of the Information Technology Centre of Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, in collaboration with Hyderabad Information and Software House Association (HISHA) and Gaxton, while a job fair was also organized by the IT-related private companies of Karachi and Hyderabad to provide internship and job opportunities to the students, which was inaugurated by Tanzeela Ume Habiba, Special Assistant to CM sindh.
Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry a Distinguished National Professor and the Head of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Karachi, Chairman HiSHA said that 5.5 million children are born in the country annually, for the food security, improvement of children’s nutrition, proper use of available resources, and for sustainable agriculture is inevitable.
He said our youth are developing information technology-related projects for business start-ups, and linkages in industry and academia to bring it on a commercial basis, he said we will pay 50% of the fee for 12 members in the IEEE of the SAU.
Florence Rolle, head of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Sindh, said that Sindh Agriculture University is playing a major role in research and extension work in agriculture, and we are offering our services in terms of agricultural development and women’s inclusion in Sindh.
She said that the establishment of the centre will be completed within a couple of months with the support of Sindh Agriculture University for the expansion of production per acre, agribusiness and various programs for students.
Dr Jan Muhammad Marri, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Sub-Campus Umerkot and Dr. Aijaz Ali Khooharo, Dean, Agricultural Social Sciences Faculty said that information technology has changed the world in a few decades and the world’s economic and business activities and markets have moved on.
Mona Shah of HISHA, Mukesh Kumar of SMEDA, Project Head of NIC Syed Azfar Hussain and others addressed and appreciated the projects of the students of the University and emphasized for further enhancement of the technical linkage between academia and industry.
On this occasion, the students of IT have developed health, agriculture software, monitoring systems, tracking systems, biometric systems, quality detection, artificial intelligence, smart health care systems, various monitoring systems for animals and insects.

A Constellation of foreign, Pakistani engineers, professors participate in 5th IMTIC ’18

on 20/06/2018

Technologies for future generations have helped engineers to develop professionalism: Dr. Uqaili

Japanese Dr Hiroyuki talks about technologies altering life Scientific research not a luxury but a must for dev counties: Ghazaly

Vice Chancellor, Mehran University of Engineering (MUET) Prof Dr Aslam Uqaili has said that IMTIC’18 has raised awareness of state of the art research and provided a platform for Pakistani researchers to express their ideas and research interest and effectively developing professional relations with the experts.

Addressing an International Multi-Topic  ICT Conference 2018 (IMTIC ’18) in the university he said the flagship event having a theme of `Techn

ologies for future generations`, has helped engineers in developing the professionalism of ICT by considering quality standards, best practice, training & development for faculty and students.

Due to the technical sponsorship of IEEE, it has provided the opportunity to publish research in IEEE Xplore. He emphasized the need for an indigenous research in advanced technologies which have a significant impact on the economy and national security.

Prof Dr Hiroyuki Sato of the University of Tokyo Japan talked about advanced technologies which dramatically altered life. In his keynote “Internet Trust: Design and Deployment” he presented that as the Internet has become pervasive, the cyber-physical world has obtained its ground in human lives. A problem on the Internet is that all entities on the Internet can be hypothetical, meaning that we do not need any “real” entity in the interactions on the Internet. This kind of anonymity sometimes causes crimes including theft, fraud and spoofing in worse forms than those in our physical society.

For about thirty years, computer science has provided technologies of encryption that have enabled us to communicate in secure ways and to authenticate the counterparts on the Internet. This was the first lodgment for establishing trustworthy communications. Particularly, we can say that we owe the success of e-commerce to SSL.

In order to establish trust in the Internet, we must consider how we design assurance levels, which is a challenge of technologies including risk analysis, and how we deploy the framework of trust, which is rather a challenge of social systems. Various talents for security, audit, privacy and legislation have been and are being collected to establish a framework of trust. That is, we are witnessing the emergence of modern trust engineering for the Internet. We must review the Internet trust for various fields in view of technologies and social systems, and may discuss its future directions.

Guest of honour and keynote speaker Prof Samir M. El-Ghazaly, from University of Arkansas USA said advanced technologies dramatically altered life as they impacted the way people performed daily functions. He said they had a significant impact on the economy and national security. “Scientific research” is not a luxury that only developed countries could afford. It is a vital necessity for every modern society. It is even more essential in the developing countries and for societies aspiring to catch up with advancement, ` he said.

Technical Papers
IEEE Karachi Section Chair Prof Dr Shahid Shaikh appreciated the quality of papers submitted in the conference. He said organizing committee was only able to accept around 34 technical papers out of the total 200 to maintain high technical standards. This represents an acceptance rate of less than 20 percent. He said the conference brought researchers and industrialists together to bring out solutions to problems being faced by this modern society of social media.

Others who also spoke on various topics regarding Design and Optimization of New Generation of Optical Sensors, smart grid, energy solutions, Big Data Management, Machine learning, Power Electronics, Robotics and UAVs social media problems and their solutions, included Prof Dr B.M.A Rahman of City University UK, Dr Tariq Masood of University of Bath United Kingdom, Prof Dr Mohammad Shafry Mohammad Rahim of University Teknologi Malaysia, Dr Fauzia Abro,City University UK, Dr Nadia Yasir Qadri, COMSATS Taxila, Dr Kashif Nisar, University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, Dr. Lorenzo Luini,Politecnico di Milano, Italy,  and general manager (technical) Dr Mohammad Yasir Qadri.

Prof Dr Manzoor Hussain Soomro, President, ECO Science Foundation, Islamabad was the chief guest at the Concluding ceremony.

Two parallel sessions including Innovation and entrepreneurship were also organized at MUET ZAB Campus Khairpur. Highlighting the importance of the event, Prof Dr MukhtiarUnar, Pro Vice Chancellor MUET ZAB Campus said IMTIC’18 is a celebration of achieving academic and research goals. Five years back it coincided with the Golden Jubilee of MUET, Jamshoro; a remarkable journey that started fifty-five years ago for excellence in academic pursuit.

Poster competition
The poster competition was inaugurated by Javed Memon, Director HEC Regional Centre Karachi. There were more than 40 posters participated by students of several universities. Prof Dr Faisal Karim Shaikh, Conference Chair shared the data of  IMTIC18. Around 200 papers were submitted by researchers through online Easy Chair system. The event participation was very huge. More than  500 participants including delegates, authors, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students, IEEE Executive Committee members, and industry professionals participated in the event.

 

IEEE Int’l Conference on ICIEECT from April 5 – 7

on 01/03/2017

The IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Electrical Engineering and Computational Technologies (ICIEECT) will be held 5th to 7th April 2017 by Indus University. The IEEE Karachi Section will provide technical sponsorship to the conference where as the Higher Education Commission Islamabad is providing the patronage to the event. A IEEE communication said the national and international researchers sent 107 manuscripts of which 63 have been accepted after a through peer review process by TPC through easychair. The Conference will be inaugurated by Chairman Pakistan Engineering Council and in the closing session Chairman PTA will be the chief guest. As many as 13 International keynote speakers have confirmed their participation for plenary talks and 26 National Speakers’ Technical Talks have been scheduled throughout from Pakistan whereas the maximum participation of Vice Chancellors, deans and directors, leaders Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, FPCCI, civil bureaucracy, the HEC, PEC, NCEAC and NTC, K-Electric, electrical engineering companies, leading businessmen, electrical contractors and officials are also expected to participate the moot. The Chairman Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, the President and ECO Science Foundation have consented to be the guests of honor. The conference proceedings will be published on IEEEXplore and selected papers will appear in leading electrical engineering Journals. The organizers have invited sponsorships from relevant organizations. They include air tickets and accommodation of foreign speakers, lunch, dinner, Hi-Tea, publications and stationary, air tickets of national Speakers, prizes for the best papers, prizes for the best PhD proposal, prizes for the best technology posters, shields and certificates for authors and speakers and also for fashion show and Gala Dinner. In return, the conference management will provide the companies with free stalls, access to promotional material to all participants, display of standees, exhibitors space in Conference area, display of panaflex, company name and logo on bags and stationary material.