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IEEE UET Executives Message
The Tragedy of Aaron Swartz WiE UET Events IEEE UET Events
IEEE DAY 2012 WEB DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP IEEE Xtreme 6.0 WIE DAY 2012 WIE AWARENESS PROJECT QUAD COPTER PRESENTATION AVANCEON SEMINAR FOR FYP FUNDING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SEMINAR ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WEBINAR ON GRE
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Message from IEEE UET Branch Counselor IEEE UET Executive Committee WiE UET Executive Committee Aaron Swartz - A Tragedy HAARP Technology Resume Writing - Dos and Donts Wireless Power Transmission Event Coverage
TECHNOFEST 2012 ENGLISH AND GERMAN CLASSES PAKISTAN STUDENT CONGRESS 2012 ORIENTATION WEEK IEEE DAY 2012 WEB DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP IEEE Xtreme 6.0 WIE DAY 2012 WIE AWARENESS PROJECT QUAD COPTER PRESENTATION AVANCEON SEMINAR FOR FYP FUNDING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SEMINAR ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WEBINAR ON GRE
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Science Facts!
There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg.
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Students are able to apply whatever knowledge they have gained through out their years of education and experience. Engineering is a field of applications where knowledge alone has no power and IEEE provides students a hub from where they can organize and conduct events like workshops, technical and non -technical events, conferences, meetings, seminars by local industries and organizations and tours to industries. This years highlights include the event -packed Technofest 2012 and the IEEE Lahore Sections Annual General Meeting, where IEEE UET was awarded the Student Branch of the Year Award. It was great to see that the students who had put in extra effort into organizing events and holding meetings to come up with new ideas had been recognised and awarded with this precious and prestigious award. IEEE UET student branch, now having been present in UET for the past 30 years, continues to be one of the most active societies in University of Engineering and Technology. Its been a pleasure being the branch counsellor and seeing students work for the betterment of this community. Keep up the good work team!
Editor: Amna Ejaz Chaudhry Did you Know? Snippets by Aneeqa Zehra Pictures Courtesy of IEEE UET Student Branch Members
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The two years spent in association with IEEE and WiE, it wouldnt be wrong to say, were the most significant events included the very and memorable in my life. It is much more than a mere successful workshop Web organization to me. It made me what I always wanted to be; confident, creative and cooperative. It provided a Development Workshop and chance to the leadership skills inside me to pop to the WiE Day, celebrated for the surface and prove to the world that there is more to me than academics. It opened me to a variety of audience, first time in Pakistan. WiE introduced me to new people and broadened the provides women engineers spectra of my mind. The journey wasnt simple though. It taught me how to to spread awareness about tackle challenges, divert problems and find my way engineering focusing on through a maze of issues. Working for days tirelessly to assure the success of the event, even staying late to female youth. This year WiE get the work completed and then expecting the wrath UET started a project in of my parents to land on me but still. Seriously, it gave me a glimpse how my professional life is going to be which professional female like. So yeah, I would say I am already experienced. There are no words with which I can engineers went to elemendescribe the extent of internal satisfaction I would get on receiving appreciations from unknown people. I would say, they were the best moments of my life, and those expressions tary schools across Lahore of gratification paid back all the efforts I had put in. and told them about engiI would say WIE is great platform for the women to come up, to portray their talent, and to neering and developed their reveal their skills because there no reason I see for the feminine gender to stay aback in such activities in this male dominated world. Show up, theres a whole world of opportunities interest in technology. waiting for you. IEEE, I owe you BIG time.
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IEEE Wins IEEE Lahore Sections Student Branch of the Year Award
In December 2012, at the IEEE Lahore Sections Annual General Meeting, IEEE UET was awarded the Student Branch of the Year Award by Dr. Khavar Zia, a senior IEEE member and also the Lahore Section Chair. 2012 has been the most active year by far for IEEE UET, with Technofest 2012 among the highlights with a total of ten events.
Science Facts!
Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine. 65% of those with autism are left handed. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
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Science Facts!
Wireless communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
HAARP Technology
Written by: Muhammad Umar Tahir
About ten years ago I and my cousin were planning to pull a plane through a large magnetic field and control the atmospheric conditions for our purpose and become a superpower. To rule the world anyone wants to get control on those things which are in the control of nature. For example, to change the weather conditions of any country, this is called HAARP technology. HAARP is actually High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Let us try to understand what this technology is! This is an American program in which they try to control the weather of earth for their own interest. With the help of this technology, air at miles of height can be stopped or its direction can be altered. When this happens, the atmospheric conditions of that particular area change. HAARP technology consists of a lot of radios, antennas and transmitters. These antennas are nearly a 100 feet high from where millions of megawatts of electrical energy can be emitted in the form of radio waves towards the protective layer of the Earth. This layer is called the ionosphere. It is at a height of 40-1000 miles around the earths surface which protects us from the ultra-violet radiations from the sun. This layer is heated up via electromagnetic waves which are thousand times hotter than lightning strikes. It highly excites Ionosphere by increasing its temperature. Then these electric waves come back towards the Earth in the form of extra low frequency (ELF) waves. These ELF waves penetrate into earth or oceans. We can target the earths surface through the uppermost atmospheric layer of earth with huge energy and can bring water storms, heavy rain which may cause floods, fires in forests by increasing the areas temperature. By increasing or decreasing the pressure of air in any region we can converge or diverge the clouds. ELF antenna can emit waves penetrating as deeply as several kilometers into the ground, depending on the geological makeup and subsurface water conditions in a targeted area. HAARP uses a ground penetrating radar (GPR) to beam pulses of polarized high-frequency radio waves into the ionosphere. These pulses can be finely tuned and adjusted so that the bounced ground penetrating beam can target a very specific area and for a specific length of time. Beaming a very large energy beam into the ground for an extended period can cause an earthquake. After all, an earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in Page 14
the Earths crust that creates seismic wave resonances. The same array of antennas that is used by HAARP for ground penetrating tomography can also be used to penetrate deep into the ground and cause an earthquake and volcanic eruptions anywhere around the World. Other than the missiles of enemy that they can destroy with ELF, they can also make the people of a particular region blind, can destroy all the electronics equipment of any city. When these waves transmits from earth towards ionosphere, reflects back towards the earth after striking and this phenomenon can see as a rainbow from the earth surface. On the basis of HAARP technology, five centers on the earth are working where the research is being carried out regarding this technology which include Alaska (USA), Tromso (North Norway), Russia, Alaska (USA) II and Tokyo (Japan). In the case of a possible third world war, these radio waves can become a dangerous weapon which can cause more destruction and deaths than atomic bombs. How do these ELF waves cause so much destruction? Well, in classical music, there are 7 tones and 36 chords. In the court of Mughal emperor Akbar, Taan Seen's song caused fire. And the chord of Milhar caused rainfall. How was this possible? Actually these chords were a series of particular frequencies which caused these effects. Work on the HAARP Station began in 1993 but Nikola Tesla, a Serbian scientist, had worked on creating artificial earthquakes in 1940. He also once built and tested a seismic experimental device which created an artificial earthquake that wreaked havoc in his neighborhood city (New York). He had to smash the device with an axe to stop the earthquake. In the near future, the visual effects seen in many Hollywood movies will no more remain a fiction and will be turned into reality. HAARP Technology has some useful aspects as well. Deserts can be turned into living areas by inducing heavy rainfall in them. In this way, the fertile land and the forests can be saved which are now being cut down to be transformed into residential colonies. Consequently, the Green House Effect can be prevented and a clean atmosphere can be preserved which in turn can save us from cancer and respiratory diseases. The rainfall can be induced in famine struck areas and hundreds of lives can be saved. Similarly, the climate of intense cold areas can be made moderate by increasing the temperature of these areas through radiations. The developed countries are spending millions of dollars to carry out research on HAARP Technology. The stress should be on using this technology for the benefit of mankind and not for the devastation of humanity.
will enable you to highlight your skills. iv. The dates are important. If there are any significant gaps between jobs , it is a good idea to insert a brief explanation. v. Consider this: you are one among a thousand candidates. Why should they pick you? Give them a good reason to! Any awards you have won, scholarships and important positions you have held could go on to back up your application. Dont forget to include them in the right section. Whether you are just entering the job While the above points will help you make market or looking for greener pastures and sure your resume comprises of the right better jobs, a resume is a tool that you should elements, make sure you are aware of these always use to your advantage. The basic DONTs when you are preparing one: aim of a resume is to get you an interview i. Remember thing like your birth date, call. In this day of recession and lack of marital status and hobbies are not suitable jobs, it is imperative that your exactly relevant to your employers. Do resume not only enlists your capabilities but not enlist any extra details unless you make you stand out in a good way. thing they will be of importance in the job So what are the things that you can you are applying for. do to ensure your potential employers dial ii. Do not use I even though you are your number. Here is a concise list of DOs: required to write in first person. You can i. Everybody knows that there are easy to simply state your objective. edit templates online. The employers iii. Do not exaggerate your titles. A job title have seen them and they are what most at your current workplace may not of the other applicants are using. So try exactly be generic. Companies run not to use these generic templates and background checks and if it is found out go for something that is creative while that you have exaggerated details still easy to edit. regarding your level of responsibility at ii. There are a lot of jobs that now require your previous work place, you could do a you to submit your resumes via email. serious damage to your credibility. You need to keep in mind that in order to iv. Do not enlist any reasons for leaving your preserve the formatting, it is best to save previous jobs. your resume as a PDF file. Remember these tips when you are iii. The right format will help you get the job. preparing your resume and we have you get The main aim is demonstrate exactly how a great job soon! capable you are. If you are a beginner, go for functional resume formatting which
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audacious he hid it initially even from J.P. Morgan, the financier who was bankrolling the operation. Tesla wanted to use the tower for wirelessly transmitting not just signals but also useful amounts of electrical power. Tesla never did quite finish the enormous tower, according to Jane Alhorne, President of Tesla Science centre at Wordencliff. He told Morgan that he needed more money and was doing more than just sending messages. I am also going to be able to send energy and when Morgan inquired where would he put the seeders and how much would they charge for this energy Tesla said This is going to be free for anyone who would tap on it. That was something that Morgan had nothing to do with for he wanted to be able get something that he could charge for so he cut off funds and pulled the plug. Tesla had the tower almost to completion before he had to abandon it. But he did fire it up and sent very large sparks flying up in the air which startled people. This was supposed to be his crowning story, the big thing he was working on. While the world was setting transmission lines he was going far beyond it. The radio city was supposed to be the major achievement of his life. In 2006, exactly 100 years after Tesla laid off his employees on Long Island, another immigrant from Croatia surprised America with a proposal for sending power through the air. Physicist Marin Soljacic, along with several of his colleagues at MIT, performed a theoretical analysis of a system for projecting useful amounts of power wirelessly using electromagnetic induction.
In 2007, Soljacics team went further and published an article describing hardware that could light up a 60-watt incandescent lamp using power transferred between two coils separated by a little more than 2 meters. Resonance enables efficient energy transfer, says Soljacic. Its not a new idea: Teslas eponymous coils use that very same principle. This action of an electrical transformer is the simplest form of wireless power transmission. The primary and secondary circuits of a transformer are not directly connected. Energy transfer takes place through a process known as mutual induction. Principal functions are stepping the primary voltage either up or down and electrical isolation. Mobile phones and electric toothbrush battery chargers, and electrical power distribution transformers are examples of how this principle is used. The main drawback to this basic form of wireless transmission is short range. The receiver must be directly adjacent to the transmitter or induction unit in order to efficiently couple with it. The application of resonance increases the transmission range somewhat. When resonant coupling is used, the transmitter and receiver inductors are tuned to the same natural frequency. Performance can be further improved by modifying the drive current from a sinusoidal to a nonsinusoidal transient waveform. In this way significant power may be transmitted between two mutually-attuned LC circuits having a relatively low coefficient of coupling. Transmitting and receiving coils are usually single layer solenoids or flat spirals with series capacitors, which, in combination, allow the receiving element to be tuned to the transmitter frequency. "It is not hard to imagine that in the next few years, you go to a coffee shop, sit down in a chair, sign into a power zone, and charge your phone or laptop," said Richard Martin, editorial director for Pike. Strangely enough, even before Soljacics work appeared in print, others at MIT had been looking into the problem of how to send power wirelessly over short distances. Jeff Lieberman, then a graduate student in MITs Media Lab. wanted to create an intriguing piece of arta levitating light bulb that lit up. Recently in 2008, Intel reproduced the MIT group's experiment by wirelessly powering a light bulb with 75% efficiency at a shorter distance. Power transmission via radio waves can be made more directional, allowing longer distance power beaming, with shorter wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, typically in the microwave range. A rectenna may be used to convert the microwave energy back into electricity. Rectenna conversion efficiencies exceeding 95% have
been realized. Power beaming using microwaves has been proposed for the transmission of energy from orbiting Generating power by placing satellites with giant solar arrays in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit and transmitting the power as microwaves to the earth, known as Solar Power Satellites (SPS), is the largest application of Wireless Power Transmission. Another application of WPT is moving targets such as fuel free airplanes, fuel free electric vehicles, moving robots and fuel free rockets. The concept of Wireless Power Transmission system also offers greater possibilities for transmitting power with negligible losses and ease of transmission than any invention or discovery heretofore made. Dr. Neville of NASA states You dont need cables, pipes, or copper wires to receive power. We can send it to you like a cell phone call where you want it, when you want it, in real time.
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TechnoFest 2012
Technofest has made its name as one of the biggest technical events in Pakistans academic arena. No other technical event in Pakistan has received the kind of attraction and allurement that Technofest has. Season 1 has really been a revelation, in which UET academia achieved something which it had been attempting to for decades. It was probably the only occasion when academic crux from all over Pakistan mustered beneath one roof. All the major universities of Pakistan were on the guest list of the event. After the successful conclusion of season 1, commencement of Technofest season 2 was a tough ask. It had to contain the legacy of season 1 not to mention the pride that UET already had achieved during the first season. This job, being a major one, called for all veterans to sit together and organize this mega event. IEEE and other societies of UET namely IET, ASME, ACM, ASHRE were assigned the responsibilities to manage this gigantic task. Under the patronage of KICS these societies worked day in and out to make this event as successful as one can imagine an event to be. Initial phase was difficult, as expected, but dedication and will power of the organizers nullified all the difficulties and problems. Owing to excellent management and exceptional team work, Technofest season 2 organizing body managed to pull off an event that was even a bigger success than Technofest season 1. The following are some of the statistics of Technofest season 2. The participating universities included UET Faisalabad, University of Faisalabad, GCU Faisalabad, NFC Faisalabad, UET Taxila, BZU, COMSTAS, Air university, NED Karachi, IST Islamabad, Punjab university, IUB , UET Peshawar, University of Lahore, University of South Asia and UMT Lahore, Number of Participants: 1500 Number of Competitions: 32 Number of Technical Competitions: 10 Number of Non-Technical Competitions: 15 Number of Business Competitions: 2 Number of Conferences and Seminars: 5 The events organized by IEEE UET included: Break the Logicians Code Conceptualize the Notion Control the Controller Dodge the Snake Engineering Marathon Install the Stall Minute to Win it Snap the Idea Page 18
Student Professional Awareness Conference IEEE UET organized three technical events, five nontechnical events and one conference.
expand their lingual skills. Mr. Muhammad Talha, an electrical engineering graduate of UET and working as a blogger for "The News", one of the leading newspapers of Pakistan, offered his valuable set of time and knowledge for this sole purpose. Mr. Muhammad Talha intended to hold only the first session, which was held from 1st September, 2012 till 20th September, 2012 during the summer vacations but because of the great success of the program, the classes were held again to facilitate the students who had missed out on them earlier. The number of students attending the sessions tallied to twenty five. Mr. Talha ensured that each student was given individual help and helped students practice pronunciation exercises to get a hold of the British and American accents and differentiate between them. The session concluded with two written tests, one for the English syllabus and the other for the German syllabus. The students who passed both of the tests were rewarded with certificates and were encouraged to give the IELTS and TOEFL soon. The students attended the classes regularly and punctually, providing a positive feedback at the end of the session and appreciating Mr. Muhammad Talha for his continued effort to teach them.
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"Race to Innovation". These teams were: Muhammad Arslan Chaudhry and Sharjeel Qureshi (Team 1); Syed Muhammad Qasim Sarfraz and Hussain Mohsin Awan (Team 2); Dawood Sajjad and Omar Ashraf Chaudhry (Team 3) and Basim Bin Naseem and Ghyour Danish (Team 4). This competition was a special module arranged by IEEE GIKI, consisting of two rounds. A total of 60 participants showed up for this event. The first round presented the participants with some IQ, Logical and Digital Logic Design questions. In the first round, Team 1 got the highest score and the other teams from UET also did well. In the second round, the participants were provided with an electronics circuit and a set of detailed logic question about the working and the connections of the circuit. Team 1 was the only team to get through the second round, making them the winners of the competition. All participants were given a total time of two hours to get through both rounds. A recreational activity that IEEE UET actively participated in was the Scavenger Hunt, in which teams were assigned with 25 tasks ranging from finding certain things to accomplishing and performing certain tasks around the campus. The teams had a great time participating in the Scavenger Hunt, which moved them to explore the campus located near Tarbela's beautiful landscape. Another event that the student branch got the chance of participating in was the Programming Competition, in which students were provided with problem statements each of which they had to solve using the popular programming languages of C or C++. The teams, comprising of two participants each, put up a good competition for each other. IEEE WIE UET also sent its representatives to Pakistan Student Congress 2012 for the annually held IEEE WIE Congress. Hafsa Muqaddus and Mahwish Nazir Zafar participated actively in the congress by attending all the meetings and participating in the WIE Video Contest. In this contest, different WIE Student branches all over Pakistan were required to make and present a video about the accomplishments and achievements of their respective student branches as well as how they had made a difference through their existence. IEEE WIE UET's video was appreciated but did not win the competition due to crossing the time limit for the video. Nevertheless, it represented the growth of IEEE WIE UET very well, earning the student
branch the Most Active WIE Affinity Group. Mahwish Nazir Zafar, IEEE WIE Vice-Chair UET student branch, and Hafsa Muqaddus, IEEE WIE Secretary for UET student branch, participated in the popular Social Innovation Contest, which was about encouraging and boosting students to come up with a product or information or a strategy to help social entrepreneurs around the country to help advancement towards a better future. The contestants were required to present their idea in the form of a presentation or a video. Both Mahwish and Hafsa did an amazing job with Mahwish securing the fourth position in ranking. Mahwish appreciated and commended the idea of this contest and said it was a great learning experience for her, as she was exposed to many new ideas from which the organization could benefit from. Participants also enjoyed the hiking trip arranged by the hosts. A closing ceremony was held towards the end and the winners were presented with their awards and participation certificates by the chief guest, Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, a renowned Pakistani scientist. The ceremony was followed by dinner for everyone.
Moreover traditions of fooling and ragging by seniors make more sense to dissolve the person into disorientation. There is a huge gap between university life and the life in high school. Taking all these problems into consideration, IEEE UET Student Branch initiated an event named Electrical Orientation (also known as Orientation Day). This Orientation Day was organized and designed by diligent team of 2010 session IEEE members. The structure of this event was divided into four days to begin with, each day for one section in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. A detailed presentation was contrived after a steamlined brainstorm amongst seniors. This presentation covered all the problems and difficulties that seniors had to grabble on their own when they were freshmen. Starting with basic knowledge like the purpose of this orientation to the acute guidance by fresh graduates, this event covered majority of the thoughts that muster ones mind when introduced to totally new and challenging environment. Now the details of the proceedings will follow, every section was provided with the same presentation and discussion. Page 21
IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 the survival guidelines which came to seniors as a crux after spending a part of their lives in this environment. Newcomers were made aware to all of them so they can see each problem coming their way and can definitely handle them. At the end, Hassan Tariq, a fresh graduate from EED (Session 08), UET Lahore came to enlighten the students with some practical points which can be definitely useful for an EE student. He advised students about the selection of final year projects and the basic purpose of being an electrical engineer. The presentation started with an Overall, Orientation Day was introduction by Urwa Shabir, an IEEE appreciated by freshman. They enjoyed the student member and lead organizer of the friendly experience with their seniors. IEEE event. Students were asked to feel at home and share their thoughts and questions. Mehwish Nazir Zafar (IEEE student EED, 10) came up with a complete description of the GPA System. Freshmen were briefed with the details of GPA and CGPA equation and how it works. Introduction to relative grading system and general trends in GPA variation was also given by Mehwish. Urwa explained concisely, the subjects being taught in 1st Semester and the purpose behind these subjects being in very first semester. Utilization of these subjects and true importance of these subjects was explained quite meaningfully. Introduction to different technical and non-technical societies was presented by Faizan Anjum (IEEE Student member EED, 10). He raised the level of awareness by describing the purpose of societies and their affiliations. Societies like IEEE, IET, ASM, BDS etc were introduced to the students. Later on, Syed Muhammad Qasim Sarfaraz (IEEE Student member EED, 10) came up UET Student Branch provided newcomers a with the inspirations and role models these platform where they can communicate with entrants could follow. They were told that seniors and effectively remove their graduates from EED, UET Lahore have gone hesitation. to numerous places around the world. Brief academic records of some of these graduates were brought up to instill some sense of dedication among these students. Date: 13th October, 2012 Huge names like Dr. Shahid Bukhari, Venue: National Library of Muhammad Sabieh Anwar (Rhodes Engineering Sciences, University Scholar), Dr. Asim Loan, Zuhaib Mehmood of Engineering and Technology, were coined to stir the thoughts of the future. Later, Faizan came up with an Lahore, Pakistan electrical engineering students immediate Written by: Amna Ejaz Chaudhry needs like notice board awareness, The IEEE UET student branch bookstores and book banks on campus. All started off their academic year by celebrating these things were followed by additional one of the most widely celebrated events by details like Library card initiation procedures all student branches all around the world. etc. Various scholarships offered with time The day was hosted by the branch members, were also briefed to these students. Sumbal Gardezi and Syed Muhammad Each one of the seniors told them Shah. Filled with informative presentations about how to basically balance their social and interaction amongst the students and the life and study hours, which is the former students and now successful requirement of university life. These all were engineers, some professors and some CEOs of leading companies, everyone enjoyed theevent and was thrilled to be a part of IEEE. The event started off with the recitation of a few Quranic verses by Ahmad Hassan, an active member of IEEE UET, followed by an introduction about IEEE, its history and why it is so widely spread and represented by its members across the globe. The hosts emphasized on how IEEE is open to all professionals and students around the globe and that no such ground exists for its members on which they are evaluated with political, religious, racial or social influences. The large number of conferences organized by IEEE along with other educational interfaces for students, professionals and entrepreneurs all over the world is one of the many reasons of its continued growth throughout the century. This introduction, much appreciated, was followed by a presentation by Ali Ayyaz, former Chair Documentation Team, IEEE UET student branch, on how students can prepare themselves for the professional world that awaits them after graduation. This presentation gave a great insight to students about the difficulties that lie ahead after graduation during job hunting and further education. He accentuated how important communication skills are for each and every person who is to be successful in the real world and the ground provided by IEEE to promote communication and interaction amongst its professionals and students does a great deal in preparing its members in facing the many challenges that are to come. Dr. Khavar Zia, the Director Academics at BeaconhouseInformatics Computer Institute, Lahore and one of the honorary guests who joined us on IEEE day, spoke a few words about the prestigious organization, widely acknowledged around the world. He pointed out the reasons for IEEEs success in maintaining its entirety and bringing professionals together for the advancement of technology for the better of humankind; IEEE is a neutral body, free of all political, social and religious influences and it does a great job in looking after its professionals. He mentioned that there are numerous branches of IEEE around the world and congratulated IEEE UET Student Branch on being the first branch in Pakistan and continuing to be one of the most active branches in the region. Next, the CEO of Vahazay Technologies Limited, Mr. Imran Zia, presented the members with awareness about being attentive and alert about internships and job before graduation, which enable students to familiarize themselves with the professional
world and the conduct of a workplace. He emphasized on making the right career choices early in life so that whichever field one goes into, one always feels the tendency to learn more about it by gaining interest and insight. He also highlighted the necessity for students to experiment and doing hands on work in the field that they plan on going into. In order to get work done, the teams must communicate with each other in an effective manner, and that is what companies look for in its employees when they are hiring, Mr. Imran Zia added. The student members of IEEE day felt strong and confident after these presentations and found them to be very informative and encouraging to remain a part of IEEE. A group of students performed a comedic act on the happenings in the student branch at
UET. A branch presentation outlining the achievements of IEEE UET Student Branch the previous year and the goals that community plans to accomplish in the coming year. The achievements included the successful multi-event extravaganzas, Technofest 2011, Technofest 2012, Brainiac 2011 and the recent Web Development Workshop, and many more. The goals for the future consisted of increasing and improving the quality and number of technical events organized by the branch. The commemoration ended with the cake cutting ceremony and a delicious BBQ feast, which all the attendees enjoyed. The audience gave a great applause to the organizers of the event for bringing all members together Page 23
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IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 and helping everyone to develop a co - following the concepts and would be able to operative relationship with each other as well implement them. The event was held for 2 hours everyday for three days, starting at 3 as the senior members of IEEE. pm and ending at 5 pm each day. Students interacted with different tools used for web development and attended all three days puntually. The attendees, consisting of fast learners, asked many questions as they worked their way through the tasks assigned to help clear their confusions. Most students were from University of Engineering and Technology while a few who came were from other universities in Lahore. Even graduates came to attend this Date: 9th - 11th October, 2012 workshop. Assignments were given for the Venue: SUPCON Laboratory, first two days to sudents to help them Department of Electrical exercise the skills they had learnt. Engineering, Univeristy of Refreshments were provided to the attendees along with WIE Magazines to Engineering and Technology, spread awareness amongst the students. Lahore, Pakistan feedback from students was Written and edited by: Amna Ejaz taken in The written forms, asking them how they Chaudhry rated the workshop overall in its quality and One of the most well organized and organization, what could be done in the highly praised events was held in fall of 2012 future to help improve the workshop next by IEEE UET WIE Student Branch. The time and any suggestions on what kind of workshops should be held in the future. The workshop aimed at providing its attendees feedback was positive in majority and with an introduction to developing a basic students praised the teacher and her website for example, displaying text on a communication skills and rated the workshop website, creating and displaying tables, at an average of 9 out of 10. The organizer, Bushra Nayab, Chair inserting images and hyperlinks, etc. A lot of people registered for the event and even IEEE UET WIE Student Branch, was pleased when the maximum limit of 60 participants with the results and the smooth flow of the workshop sessions. Ms. Hina Khalid, was was crossed, some students begged to just appreciated by all and presented with a attend the workshop to learn. shield and certificate of excellent conduction The well-known instructor, Ms. Hina by the IEEE UET student branch. She said Khalid, possessed great presentation skills she would gladly participate as an instructor and moved the audience from the very first for another workshop in the future. day till the last. She made sure that each and every participant was up to pace and was
Webinar on GRE
Date: 12th October 2012 Venue: SUPCON Laboratory, Department of Engineering and Technology, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
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IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 The importance of GRE was emphasized and demonstrated through examples like that of Shahid Bashir himself. Most of the students are unaware of the opportunities scattered all around the world for them. GRE is one such blessing for people who have excellent academic profile and want to go abroad for further studies. Most of all students get a chance to stop relying too much on external factors and start helping themselves. According to Jahan Ali, another UET alumnus (91 session) and good scorer of GRE. Much emphasis was put onto the hard work students should put in during their undergraduate studies, preparation of GRE and continuation of their passion for excellence. Time they spend studying rigorously pays back in much better terms. Students should help each other and spend their time in a beneficial manner. One must devote himself towards a better and better engineering rather than adopting such habits like complaining and whining about things. Mr. Shahid Bashir also announced scholarships for competitive GRE scorers from 1st January, 2012 to 31st December, 2012. He announced Rs. 50, 000 for the top scorer from UET; Rs. 30, 000 for the second highest scorer and Rs. 10, 000 each for the third and fourth highest scorer. Students were requested to send copies of scores at bicsol@gmat.com by Feb 15th, 2013. Undergraduates of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore were encouraged to take GRE exam, get into a good university and be a role model for the society and family. Further, Mr. Shahid advised that students should setup a forum for GRE discussions and if they are competent enough they should help others prepare for GRE, support IEEEs GRE efforts and further arrangement of such activities to expose students towards a better engineering future. At the end a question and answer session was held and students participated actively in it. Questions about where to prepare GRE test from, how to apply, the minimum score required to get into a good university and many more were asked by the students who attended the webinar and the issues were discussed to the satisfaction of the students. The whole session lasted approximately an hour, and students took back a much better understanding of GRE and procedure of applying for admissions in foreign universities. All in all, the webinar was of much practical benefit and importance for the young to be engineers hoping to seek the best possible education. explanation of how the quad copter operates using its propellers and balances itself during flight. Students listened attentively and showed great interest in the project. Dr. Muhammad Tahir explained the concepts involved in a very understandable and well comprehended way so students would develop an interest in working on the same projects, such as tricopter, in the future. They enthusiastically watched the demonstration and asked many questions. The quad copter presentation was a source of insight and inspiration for the students of Department of Electrical Engineering as it provided them with a platform for the practical implementation of the concepts obtained over the span of four years which engineering students spend in undergraduate programs in universities. Students appreciated the event and were intrigued by the quad copter. The quad copter, which is going to be further enhanced by a group of students from UET of session 2009, is present on university premises, is a victim of interest for many students now. The presentation given provided students with a real life example of a control system, corresponding to which the 3rd year electrical engineering students are currently studying a course, called "Control Systems". The students attending the event were impressed by the understandable language and jargon used by Dr. Muhammad Tahir and left the hall with contentment that they had indeed learnt something of value to their career. field of engineering is inevitably one of the primary sources of technical advancements. So, as to create this indispensable awareness amongst the students of Pakistan, IEEE-UET Lahore branch made an excellent move through its sub-committee, Women in Engineering (WIE), and met a great success. A session of one hour was conducted for this purpose. Miss Bushra Nayab, Chairperson SESSION 1 WIE, hosted the event and Miss Ghazal Date: 28th November, 2012 Javaid Farooqi, Manager Electronics and Time: 08:30 am 09:30 am Communication SUPARCO (also a UET Electrical Engineering graduate), was the Pakistan Standard Time chief guest of the session. She addressed the Venue: Crescent Model Higher youngsters; throwing light upon how Secondary School, Lahore engineering is a dynamic field to opt for and Wriiten by: Samia Shafique Khan explained the details of its importance in The swift pace of this technological present and in the future. world has characteristically caused the increased requisition of technical minds; the Page 27
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IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 The number of students attending the seminar was about 300, all heading towards the very critical point of their lives, choosing their career paths. They were gratified for the career counseling by WIE and this effort tapped their minds and widened their paradigm about making the right career choices and how and why engineering should be preferred, especially for the women. A fulfilling Question and Answer session was held at the end. Thus, the day ended with eminence of developing new thoughts and a good understanding about the field of engineering in young minds. The event started with recitation of a few verses from the Holy Quran followed by WIE Training session by WIE Lahore Section, in which all branches shared their upcoming ideas and activities and problems they faced in running their respective WIE branches. Miss Javeria, treasurer WIE Lahore Region and Miss Adila Shaukat ,Secretary WIE Lahore Region answered all questions and removed any ambiguities that may have made the exercising of the branch operations difficult. After this discussion every branch gave a summarizing presentation about their branch activities and inspired everyone. Miss Farhat-ul-ain gave a lecture on CV-writing and research paper writing which turned out to be very helpful to attendees. The event ended with a cake cutting ceremony and an appreciative feedback by the attendees.
SESSION 2 Date: 4th December, 2012 Time: 08:30 am 09:30 am Pakistan Standard Time Venue: Victoria Girls Higher Secondary School, Lahore
Another one hour session was conducted by Miss Bushra Nayab, Chairperson WIE UET, and Hafsa Muqaddas, Secretary WIE UET, in Victoria Girls Higher Secondary School. They explained to the female students the need of engineering in the present and its ever her life to the ever expanding field of growing importance in a promising future. engineering. And also that engineering involves a versatile type of working environment and is the foundation of technology. There was a Question and Answer session conducted at Venue: Seminar Hall, the end as well which gave the students a Transportation Department, chance to clear their confusions. The University of Engineering and number of students attending the seminar Technology, Lahore, Pakistan was about 50. The whole dynamic session Date: 1st December, 2012 provided a streamline to the unclear minds of Time: 12:00 noon 03:00 pm young pupils about their career choices.
SESSION 3 Date: 10th November, 2012 Time: 01:30 pm 02:30 pm Pakistan Standard Time Venue: Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Lahore
A session of approximately an hour was also conducted in Government Girls Higher Secondary School. WIE members first gave the introduction of WIE to the young girls present there and then told them about the different fields of engineering in the world and how engineering is a growing arena of education and opportunities and how girls can play their part in the progress of their country through engineering. Miss Ghazal Javaid Farooqi gave her valuable time to the young aspiring girls and inspired them to follow her example of an independent driven woman who dedicates Page 28
This year WIE UET came up with the exciting idea of celebrating "WIE Day" for the first time in Pakistan, where all WIE branches were invited and provided with the chance to interact with one another for a better and secure future. The event was a huge success in bringing all branches under WIE Lahore section together and gave them a chance to join hands and participate in the creative activities organized by the teams. Many professionals were invited as guests to share their working experience as female engineers. Their addresses motivated the audience and they were encouraged to participate in future WIE activities. Miss Mehwish Zahoor, Vice Chairperson WIE UET Lahore student branch, Miss Farhat-ulain working at a renowned software house and Miss Sahar Idrees, counselor of WIE UET were the chief guests of the ceremony. Page 29
IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 and 4th year of B.E. from the Department of Electrical Engineering. Mr. Muhammad Rafay Chugtai, from Engineering Operations in Avanceon gave an introductory presentation. The presentation included the vision statement of the company and its motives. They described Avanceon as a friendly company which gave its employees a strong platform to bring forward new ideas and projects which may be good for the company. In other words, the employees were "well socialized with." Forms were provided to the students which required students to fill out the details about their final year project including what their project's function will be, the components required and the expected expenditures. The seminar ended with a question and answer session, where students were allowed to ask the representatives of the company any questions they had. Overall the seminar was a very informative and interactive session. Students attending the workshop felt that that Dr. Imran did a wonderful job at creating an interactive environment amongst the attendees and presenting the concepts with clarity unparalleled. Overall students left with a mind full of renewed and simplified concepts about the diverse and ever-growing field of wireless communications.
His areas of research are energy efficiency of wireless communication systems, physical layer communication techniques and fundamental limits of communication systems and channels. He has published numerous research papers in prestigious journals about the field of communications and has secured the funding of 3.2 million GBP in the last three years. The first session held on 28th December consisted of the basic concepts of wireless communication, in which Dr. Imran focussed on different channels and mediums of communications and their characteristics. Many professors including senior IEEE members, Dr. Muhammad Noor Sheikh and Dr. Muhammad Tahir joined the audience and participated actively in discussions with Dr. Imran and the students. Other professors including Dr. Asim Lone and Dr. Imran Sheikh also joined the session. The session for the first day ended with a discussion amongst students and the professors about the topics covered. The second day Dr. Imran covered the areas of MIMO OFDM, diversity and multiplexing trade-offs and cooperative cellular communication. Once again, Dr. Noor and Dr. Imran along with Dr. Tahir indulged in an intense discussion with them trying to clear out vague concepts and ideas with the students witnessing with awe. Other topics included antenna sizes, types of modulations, advantages of OFDM over other types of modulation techniques and challenges in the communication field.
IEEE UET NEWSLETTER 2013 Technologies for a chance to win an Android phone, which can be used for developing apps and testing them. He said they would get the credit for the app they would submit and their app would be launched with the label of his company, Eccentrica Technologies. At the end of the workshop, participants were introduced to the eDirAP Challenge. The exercise is aimed at gathering contributions to e-DirAP, which is a crowd-sourced resource on ICT practices and policies in Asia. It is a four-week online forum to update the content of the Pakistan chapter on the site and to hold a forum discussion about Smart, new ways in using the Internet to make higher education in Pakistan a more interesting and worthwhile learning experience.
All these features are selfexplanatory that how holograms are way more different and advanced than traditional photographs. Holograms provide complete 3D view of the object as already mentioned. Another very alluring quality that holograms possess is that they can retain the optical properties of glass materials like optical lens; so if an object is placed in front of a lens it will appear larger like it does in front of a real lens. Now if we visualize everything on a macroscopic level it will actually be possible to see somebody sitting thousands of miles away in front of us, their image projected supposedly on some surface we would like to see them on! Imagine an actual sized image of your friend standing right in front of you in their non-tangible form. Not only will you be able to communicate verbally but also be interactive physically like playing games using this awesome feature. Probably boxing with your big brother or racing with a friend! Holograms hold a very bright future prospect but it doesn't mean they cannot be seen in action today. In some form or other, holograms are being used, like in medical records for teaching and documentation, security applications like credit cards and identification cards and display of artifacts in Museums all use holography. So let's anticipate the day when we shake hands with a friend sitting two continents away. Teaching complex molecular models won't be a pain anymore and watching movies will be like experiencing everything hands-on!
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