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IEEEP launches Local Center at QUEST Nawabshah

on 19/06/2023

The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pakistan (IEEEP) has opened a new chapter in Nawabshah, a central district in Sindh province. This will be the second chapter after Karachi. The institution’s latest chapter is located in Quaid-E-Awam University of Science & Technology (QUEST) Nawabshah. Engr. Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Saand has been selected as Chief Organizer and interim chairman of this Local Centre.
A statement sent by Dr Saand said the new IEEEP Local Centre at Nawabshah was launched at Electrical Engineering Department Quaid-e-Awam University of Science & Technology campus on 7th Feb 2023.
Prof. Dr. Sohail Aftab Qureshi, President IEEEP inaugurated the new centre. Engr. Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samo Vice Chancellor Quaid-E-Awam University of Science & Technology Nawabshah presided over the ceremony held in Engr. Prof. Dr. Abdul Qavi Qazi Memorial Senate Hall.
A large number of faculty members, engineers and students of the university participated in the event. Delegates from IEEEP Local Centre Karachi, Lahore and Jamshoro were also present.
A memorial library in memory of Late Engr. Prof. Dr. Abdul Qavi Qazi
Ex- Vice Chancellor and one of the pioneers of Quaid-E-Awam University of Science and Technology has also been setup in the Electrical Engineering Department of the university and was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Sohail Aftab Qureshi and Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samo The ceremony was also witnessed by Prof. Dr. Abdul Qavi Qazi’s daughter Engr. Fauzia Kazi and his wife, who travelled all the way from Karachi participated in the memorable event.
Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Saand, the Chief Organizer and interim chairman of IEEEP Local Centre Nawabshah presented the welcome address.
Arshad Chughtai, Coordinator of the event, gave a detailed background of the formation of the centre and specially urged the youth to fully participate in the activities of IEEEP with full vigor and spirit. Engr. Arshad Chughtai also informed the moot that two eminent engineers from Nawabshah have recently passed away therefore the house offered condolence for late Engr. Jamal Uddin Mughal SE (R) WAPDA and a graduate of Sindh University Engineering College Jamshoro 1967 Batch and Engr. Rao Abdul Jabbar, Chief Engineer (R) WAPDA and a graduate of Sindh University Engineering College Jamshoro 1972 Batch. It was decided that a message of condolence to the bereaved families will be communicated by IEEEP Local Centre Nawabshah.
GR Bhatti Vice President South addressed the ceremony and termed the event to be a new milestone in the history of IEEEP, that the centre has been created in the middle of the province and will go a long way to promote the cause of IEEEP.
Former IEEEP KLC Chairman Engr. Asif Siddiqui also spoke on the occasion and extended his heartiest congratulations to IEEEP and the local organizers.
Khalid Pervez, Chairman IEEEP Local Centre Local Centre Karachi offered every possible assistance and support on behalf of the Karachi Centre and hoped that the new centre will soon succeeded.
Tahir Mehmood Chaudhary, CEO PIE, also addressed and congratulated IEEEP Management and the QUEST University organizers for holding such a remarkable event and prayed for continued success.
Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samo, the Vice Chancellor, in his presidential address expressed his gratitude to Engr. Prof. Dr. Sohail Aftab Qureshi, President IEEEP and other distinguished delegates to grace the occasion and assured IEEEP his University’s absolute support to make the centre fully functional and operative. He declared the university would pay the Membership Fee of all eligible undergraduate students of QUEST. He lauded the efforts of Engr. Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Saand and other members of the organizing team worked so devotedly in initiating the steps to the new centre.
Chief Guest Engr. Prof. Dr. Suhail Aftab Qureshi, President of IEEEP, formerly declared the new centre open and announced the list of office bearers and members of the new council. He also announced that IEEEP will also establish a computer centre in the office of the newly formed centre and invited the members of IEEEP Local Centre Nawabshah to visit IEEEP Lahore HQ. The president of IEEEP also announced the first IEEEP student branch as the Quaid-e-Awam University Nawabshah. He congratulated the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samo, Engr. Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Saand and other faculty members to raise the new centre in such a quick time and termed it as a dire need of time and believed that in times to come the centre will boost the IEEEP activities in the region.
Prof. Dr. Suhail Aftab Qureshi, the chief guest, and Engr. Prof. Dr. Saleem Raza Samo, Vice Chancellor QUEST, the president of the ceremony, distributed shields and the annual excellence award certificate to the professional engineers and academicians and also decorated with traditional Ajrak and Cap-Capa for eminent participants and guests.
Prof. Dr. Abdul Sattar Saand was nominated as the Chairman of IEEEP Local Centre Nawabshah, Vice Chairman Engr. Prof. Dr. Erum Pathan, General Secretary Engr. Shahid Hussain Qureshi, Joint secretary Engr. Dr. Toufique Ahmed Soomro and Treasure Engr. Riaz Hussain Memon.

9th IEEEP Fair 2018 A successful show sans in-depth analysis

on 27/08/2018

The 9th IEEEP Fair held in Karachi’s Expo Center concluded with a positive note and the organizers must be happy with the targets they expected to achieve from such an impressive show.

But still, the fair brought in focus many aspects which should be considered by the leadership of the institution and also by engineering community in Pakistan at large. A genuine analysis of the outcome of such a congregation is a must.

First the bright side! The fair unveiled itself for three days in 4 halls of the Expo Center was well organized and it depicted how Badar expo has transformed into a hardcore organizer of such kind of exhibitions in Pakistan. Also, it showed a comfort level between IEEEP, Karachi Center and its event organizer but some analysts find a slight imbalance indicating a minimizing role of the institution in the organization of the event.

The institution deserves appreciation that it eyes at what Pakistan requires in the future for its engineering sectors as well as its economy.

The technical sessions of the event were well focused and aiming at Electrical vehicles was applaudable as the participants came to know the History of Impediments in introducing locally manufactured EVs in Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Abid Karim from Usman Institute of Technology (UIT) was there to talk about it.

Then, Prof. Dr. Nasim A Khan’s talk on the ‘EVs for Pakistan make economic sense at any time’ synchronized with the world and of course with the national demand moving towards a sustainable future, of which emission-free cars are among its major ingredients.

On Renewables & Distributed Generation front, Dr. Cao’s talk about ‘Modern Wind Technology for achieving better grid stability in Pakistan’, Engr. Mayura Botejue’s talk on ‘Wind and distributed generation in Pakistan’ and Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan’s talk in the panel discussion on ‘Net Metering’ was just splendid.

The recommendations of the session would surely help policymakers to incorporate many ingredients that the conference highlighted throughout the technical sessions.

The activity outside the conference hall provided an opportunity to electrical, electronics and allied industry alongside with other engineering sectors to interact with each other and talk about rapid developments taking place in the electrical, electronics and allied engineering technology around the world.

Right there where a constellation of Pakistani and foreign companies was present, the absence of some known companies such as Siemens, Sh. Wilayat Ahmed & Sons, Ameenjee Valeejee & Sons (AVS), Pakistan Cables, ABB and others which used to be the part and parcel of the fair was felt. Many vigilant visitors wonder why such reputable companies decided to stay away from the event.

Although the fair had in attendance many local manufacturers, they did not make a big share among the exhibitors and, thus foreign companies, especially from China or Pakistani dealers of foreign companies, seemed to steal the show.

Ironically, the more foreign companies seem to participate in the exhibitions and make them a success, the more local companies confront the issues of their survival. Why is that so is something the institution should come up with an in-depth analysis.

Also, there were many exhibitors who were not happy with the level of the participation by the consultants. We look at them for our products which affect our products positively in the market, says one among them.

They also point out a trend of students’ participation which is on the rise and it does not go well with the exhibitors. The participation of the students may be realized because of their respective universities which made a prominent presence in the fair this time. However, they do not affect the business of the exhibitors.

Poverty of ideas, Mediocrity, Killers of Engineering: Naheed Memon

on 11/07/2018

SBI chairperson believes Pakistan can never become a heavy industrial center in the region.

Chairperson Sindh Board of Investment (SBI) Naheed Memon has no qualms as to what Pakistan can realistically achieve in engineering and industrial sector.

 Also, she has guts to put her views bare at open forums like she did in an IEEEP, Karachi center moot in Karachi where she categorically said Pakistan could never become a heavy industrial regional power. “No! It’s not possible,” she said.

She raised a question if Pakistan could develop to be a light engineering, smart and trading hub. Yes, she believed and suggesting “we should utilize our energies for achieving such a goal”.

Memon who presided over a pre-event gathering of the IEEEP Karachi where some senior engineers appeared critical of Pakistan’s inability to develop local engineering base which once existed in the country. One of them recalled Pakistan used to manufacture electronic components in the 1960s besides other engineering products. They criticized the policies of successive governments which pushed the country to outsource and thus the local set up suffered in the country and eventually came to an end. Naheed Memon said the lack of skilled human resource was the biggest hurdle and also there was a dearth of ‘ideas’ in Pakistan. She believed Pakistan’s entrepreneur sector was taken over by mediocrity saying both factors stop the country from marching towards development. She does not stop here, saying she hardly meets those who want to be rich; they want to earn the money only and also lack resolve to move forward.

She said it was a misconception that no one wanted to do anything in the country and lacked interest. What we require was to rise and get rid of mediocrity. She said whatever happened in the past was due to the policies based on ad-hocism which prevented the country from local manufacturing and also no attention was paid to promote local industry.

Naheed recalled she had participated in hundreds of the moots on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which all of were of no worth and just a waste of her time. She found same mediocrity and absence of ideas there too.

She advised the IEEEP to pay attention to making their conferences and moots smart so that the participants take something worthwhile back home.

We shall work for restoring self-respect of engineers: Engr. Irfan Ahmed

on 02/01/2018

IEEEP set to expand its role

With its new leadership, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of Pakistan (IEEEP) is set to expand its role in the changing environment and determined to extend help to young engineers in the country.

Engineer Irfan Ahmed who has assumed the office of the Chairman of the IEEEP, Karachi Center believes the institute should play its proactive advisory role so that the governments should be able to address deepening issues relating to engineering in the country.

After the new office bearers took over the charge, Engineering Review talked to Engr. Irfan Ahmed to know how he and his team will assert the institute so that engineering and engineering community is benefited in Pakistan. “We are contemplating to change 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 aims and objectives,” he said.

“We believe these aims and objectives are not sufficient as the environment has changed”, he observes.

Institutions in the country have been eroded which has resulted in emergence of personalities and thus personal interests have superseded institutions. This atmosphere, he feels has affected IEEEP too. This needs to be addressed, he believes.We are now moving towards framing new aims and objectives so that young engineers are extended with help. We shall soon constitute a subcommittee in local council with the task of forming new aims and objectives which will be presented before the central council for approval.

Engr. Irfan seemed resolute to make endeavors to restore self-respect of engineers. “The non-engineer bureaucracy has an upper hand in most government engineering agencies which is against the PEC rules under which no non-engineer can supervise the work of engineers. It is violation of the act of the parliament”, he said. “We want to work for discouraging such a practice in the country. We are thinking to organize a panel discussion on CPEC in the symposium. But CPEC is not the only issue. Instead, each and every agreement that the government has reached at with other countries and which does not favor engineers is our issue. The issue which infringe our rights is our issue and we would like to talk about it. We believe that job creation should be the prime objective of any investment in Pakistan so that the engineers, skilled people and labor should benefit. The government has signed some agreements which do not favor our people. He however did not name such agreements in which the interests of local people have been compromised.

Energy crisis in Pakistan is over?

The technical data that we have received from federal government departments says the energy crisis will remain for few years more. There is a lot of information which is not shared publically, he says. I don’t know how the government claim the energy crisis is over. What is the basis of such a claim? We don’t know. But whatever is evident cannot be denied. Load shedding continues as yet. No matter you name it load management but it is load shedding. I think the way things are moving crisis would remain.

32nd IEEEP NESC 2017 Change with out-of-box approach only: Dale Sinkler

on 01/03/2017

Lack of coordination among developmental organizations is a major handicap, points out Arif Hassan

Chief Operating Officer (Generation and Transmission), K-Electric, Dale Sinkler has said it was high time for upcoming engineers to come out with innovative ideas to transform Karachi into a smart city. Speaking as the Chief Guest in the inaugural session of The 32nd IEEEP National Engineering Students Competition (NESC) 2017 in Sir Syed University he said ,
the engineers needed to step out of the box and to look outside to bring the desired change.

“There would be no change if you are reluctant to look forward to bring the change. This is your city. You have to plant the first seed to make fruit to come.”

He urged them to do different things to get different results in relation to “Hack Town” concept. The event was organized by the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEEP) in collaboration with Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET). The NESC’17 was in continuation with regard of the series of IEEEP All Pakistan Students’ Seminar that is held each year. The competition included Final Year Engineering Projects and Hack Town – the theme for smart city.

Dale Sinkler called upon the upcoming engineers to utilize their engineering talents to make Karachi “Smart City” through their innovative projects. Earlier Vice-Chancellor SSUET, Prof. Dr. Jawaid H. Rizvi, welcomed the chief guest and the keynote speaker, organizers and participants and described the event a high profile thematic subject concerning every one. He hoped that the competitors would utilize their mettle to come up with innovative ideas to achieve the desired results. Eminent architect engineer, Arif Hasan, shared his views and concerns about “Hack Town” concept and said that the results will remain unachieved unless the planning broadly consists of a number of closely inter-connected subjects like demography, social and physical infrastructure and management, economy, environment, ecology and now environment of the citizens. Arif Hasan pointed out that the major handicap is the lack of coordination among the organizations that develop and manage the ingredients of urban planning and they are totally unaware of each other’s activity. In this regard he cited the example of university road.Karachi Development Plan 2000 was made to link the Karachi Master Plan Department with KMC, KESC, Karachi Gas but it failed because of not using modern technology, initiating training programmes for the staff members and scarcity of trained/skilled staff. The session ended with a vote of thanks by Registrar SSUET, Syed Sarfraz Ali. Chairperson IEEE Karachi Chapter Asif Siddiqui and Convenor Mona Kanwal also spoke on the occasion.