Contributors

3 In the News
Explore through the news and events organized by IEEE PNEC during February and March

Note from Editor-InChief

I am really pleased to continue the tradition of publishing Perspective on a quarterly basis. This tech magazine is serving as platform for students in PNEC to promote their research across the world. This edition focuses on a theme on controls engineering. Hope you find it a good read.

5 Approaching Zero Gravity

Learn about magnetic levitation and its techniques

By Hassan Idrees

7 Segway meets PNEC

Learn about the design and fabrication of a self balancing vehicle

By Abdullah bin Azhar

9 Neonatal Incubator
A low cost neonatal incubator being developed in PNEC which can be used in third world countries

11 Catching Up
Read the exclusive interview of the first chairman of IEEE PNEC who is now a research assistant at Imperial College, London

By Wajahat Ali and Zaigham Khalid

10 CNC Milling Machine

A computer numeric control machine that would perform your tasks of milling

12 Misc News
The upcoming IEEE conferences, news from Pakistan WIE Forum, IEEE PNEC across the virtual world and member news as they represent PNEC at various places

By Hammad Zafar Usmani

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Following is the account of all the happenings and occasions at IEEE PNEC since February 2012.

An Interactive Session On Wind Energy

Mr. Waqar Qureshi, a PhD student from the University of Auckland, New Zealand conducted a session on Wind Energy as an alternate source on February 3, 2012. Mr. Waqar Qureshi talked about Power Generation with Wind Power Energy. He described the process, feasibility and compared the output and pros and cons of different generators such as induction and synchronous. Moreover, protection measures and the concept of smart grid and the differences between the different renewable energy sources available to us were also discussed. Mr Qureshi focused on an interactive session, addressed queries side by side and used graphs and figures to explain the functionality and outputs of the various kinds of wind farms. The session was attended by students from all the disciplines due to the interest of students in the emerging technologies of renewable energies.

Annual General Meeting

17th February 2012, was marked as one of the most memorable days in the history of IEEE PNEC Student Branch. The Annual General Meeting of IEEE PNEC was held this day. The occasion was graced by the presence of IEEE members, prestigious faculty members, Dean EPE- Capt. Syed M. Babur TI (M), the Commandant-Rear Admiral Syed Imdad Imam Jafri SI (M) and the Vice Chair IEEE Karachi Section- Mr. Prakash Lohana. The highlights of the event include a recollection of the year 2011 and the activities of IEEE PNEC in it, the oath taking by the officers of the Executive Committee 2012, distribution of awards to volunteers of IEEE PNEC in recognition of their abiding efforts a promise by the new chair to take the society to a new height by constant effort and determination.

You are wrong for this job! An Interactive session

IEEE PNEC held a session on You know you are wrong for this job by Mr Ali Asad, Ex. Chair of IEEE PNEC, on 17th Feb. 2012. The speakers elaborated on DOs and DONTs of writing a CV. All-important points such as ones CGPA and outstanding achievements should always be written in bold. On the other hand, one should avoid wasting space on ones CV with achievements from before bachelorettes degree. The audience was told to give a good portion of their CV to elaborate on projects they have worked on. A CV is to be taken as an extract and a reflection of personality to differentiate one from 100 million other in the world.
Ali Asad is currently an Instrumentation Engineer at Engro Pvt. Ltd.

Robotics Workshop
IEEE PNEC conducted a comprehensive robotics workshop, conducted by Mr. Rameez Qasim, student of semester 8 Electronics. The workshop covered sensors, motor drivers, AVR micro-controller, ADC and PWM in AVR and PCB designing and fabrication. It was attended by a large number of students from all across Karachi including PNEC, NED, IIEE, UIT, Bahria University and University of Sindh, Jamshoro. A special thanks to Mr. Rameez Qasim for conducting such an enlightening workshop.

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The Scavenger Hunt 2012
The Scavenger Hunt 2012 came with all of its hype, excitement, mystery and buzz. With the posters put up all over the college, groups made on the social media, the Scavenger had once again captured everyones attention completely. Taking place on 2nd March 2012, about fourteen teams from all over the college participated. All teams were to decipher 7 clues hidden all over the PNEC Campus. The hunt took off at 3pm and continued till 6pm when team DARK GREEN successfully located the last clue and were consequently declared the winners. The IEEE PNEC Branch once again won every ones delight and presented us all with a great way to let our hair down in the usual tough routine we follow.

APNA MUQAAM PAIDA KAR

Seminars that are based on motivating and encouraging students have always been a crucial part of the curriculum at PNEC, NUST. IEEE PNEC Student Branch arranged such a seminar on 9th March, 2012 at the Jauhar Auditorium, Pakistan Navy Engineering College. Titled Apna Maqam Paida ker, the guest speakers of this motivational Speech were Mr. Saadi Mukhdoom and Ms. Nazia Ramzan, turning officers from Torque-The Turning Force. Ms. Ramzans session revolved around the fact that life always gives a lot of opportunities to achieve success and one should never miss them. She emphasized that a person can find their unique talent if they adapt a distinct lifestyle that defines them. The speaker, Mr. Makhdoom, used the art of storytelling to inspire the audience to take on challenges of life. He told the audience to never give up and live life to the fullest. As a piece of advice, he told the listeners to live in their Magical Moments. Both the speakers kept the audience engrossed throughout the session. IEEE PNEC was much obliged to the speakers, Mr. Mujtaba Saadi Makhdoom and Miss. Nazia and the audience for such an over-whelming response!

SPARKLE
IEEE PNEC continued with its SPARKLE Talks this term. First in line was Dr. Sajjad Zaidi, with Hybrid Vehicles- Past, Present and Future. Dr. Zaidi briefed on the reasons why today, countries like the United States are investing heavily on Hybrid Cars and how it has extensive possibilities for research. On 2nd March 2012, Dr. Sameer Qazi, spoke on Alternate Path discovery in the Internet. Reasoning the need for alternate paths, Dr. Qazi told about the intercountry Internet protocol named BGP and modern techniques used to curb its issues. In the end, he told about the use of multi-homing technique. The next two sessions were conducted by Dr. Athar Mehboob, HoD Computer Science, on Embedded System Programming Using C Language. An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system, often with real-time computing constraints. Dr. Athar explained that these embedded systems use processing cores, which are preferably programmed in C language. Short for System Providing Access to Research, Knowledge, and Learning & Education, Sparkle Sessions are held every Thursday aspiring to encourage a research culture among the under-graduates.
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Approaching Zero Gravity
Written by Hassaan Idrees (VIII Electrical)

IGH-SPEED rail has proven to be a very practical source of long-distance transportation. The first high-speed train line opened in Japan in 1964, connecting Tokyo and Osaka, travelling at speeds up to 200 km/h [2]. Current high speed rail technology can achieve speeds of about 270-350 km/h [1,3], making it comparable to air travel in terms of speed over short distances of about 700 km [1]. In fact, trips on high-speed rail are often shorter than trips by plane, because rail trips are not delayed by weather. More importantly, high-speed rail is an environmentally friendly mode of transportation, using only a fraction of the energy planes and cars use, and using clean electricity instead of fossil fuels as its source of energy [1]. Even in conveyor belt mechanisms used in industries, maglev technology has potential to challenge the present wide-spread role of PLC-based motor-belts. Yet despite the huge success high-speed trains have achieved throughout the world, researchers are still trying to develop new technologies that would make rail travel even faster and more efficient. Maglev trains have been the technology of interest that researchers have been looking into. They were first proposed in the 1960s by two physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose vision led to huge research projects in Japan and Germany [1]. Since then, maglev test tracks have been built in countries all around the world, and the first commercially operating maglev train opened in Shanghai in 2004 [4]. Magnetic levitation (also called maglev) is the process of levitating an object by exploiting magnetic fields. It is the process of suspending a body in free space by counteracting the force of gravity acting on it. Maglev is defined as a family of technologies in which a vehicle is suspended, guided, and propelled by means of magnetic forces [1]. In simpler words it may be termed as the stable suspension of an object against gravity. Generally, magnets and electromagnets are oriented so that the train levitates off the track just enough to avoid friction contact. This same magnetic system or another one is also used to propel and guide the train. The major advantage of maglev trains is speed (up to 580 km/h [3]), which increases the range in which rail travel is comparable to air travel. Other advantages include incredible efficiency, since levitation eliminates all friction that is normally created by rails; reduced noise pollution, again due to reduced friction; and faster acceleration, which further improves the travel time. The major disadvantage, which has been the primary reason for a lack of maglev projects throughout the world, is cost, because unlike with conventional high-speed rail, completely new infrastructure must be built. The cost for this can total up to $100 billion [3]. This project was chosen to develop a novel magnetically levitated linear motion system for position control applications. Unlike passenger transportation systems, the linear motion system is comparatively smaller in size with a small carrier load. The motion system is targeted for industrial automation machines. Basically, there are three types of magnetic levitation. In electromagnetic suspension (EMS), electromagnets on the train produce repulsion to repel the train from the track, in electro-dynamic suspension (EDS), the electromagnets mounted on both train and track pushes the train away from the track. The third is the hybrid electromagnet suspension (HEM), where magnetic repulsion is obtained using permanent magnets, which also incorporates inductrack, a means where Neodymium (Nd-Fe-B) rare earth magnets are used in Halbach arrays to create magnetic field and the passive track system allows the lifting force to be located on the train, and once the transition velocity is reached magnetic drag re-

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Neodymium is present in its natural form as Neodymium-Iron-Alloy

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duces exponentially. Our proposed system employs a Brushless DC linear machine structure which uses four coils for levitation and three coils for propulsion. The picture on the right shows our design layout. And below is a side view of the set-up of magnetic levitation by attraction. Over the passage of time, we have developed structure diagrams on Pro-E the software, perfected our electromagnets by trial and error in the absence of precise equipment, and used various control system schemes including analogue and digital PID controllers. At this stage, our circuits incorporate the magnetic Hall Effect sensors A-1301, Darlington pair transistors TIP 122, microcontrollers, H-bridges, which uses MOSFET transistors IRF 640N which are driven by MOSFET driver ICs IR 2110. However, currently, we are encountering a few obstacles. Firstly, the magnetic cores of the electromagnets available in the market have high magnetic retentivity, and are not the best choice for magnetic levitation and propulsion. Secondly, magnetic propulsion is possible only with Neodymium magnets: carbon magnets do not produce enough horizontal forces to overcome the static friction of the cart. Moreover, Neodymium magnets of required strength and shape are unavailable in Pakistan, for which we need at least 80 (0.5) square Nd-Fe-B magnets costing more than $16 each, making our finances shoot up like anything! These problems notwithstanding, we hope to achieve a workable version of maglev by the end of May and this will serve as an excellent prototype and also be used for demonstration purposes in teaching control systems.

References: [1] Tony R. Eastham, High Speed Rail: Another Golden Age? Scientific American, September 1995, Scientific American Archives, http://search.ebscohost.com/ (accessed 25 January 2009) [2] Encyclopedia Britannia Online, s.v. Sinkansen, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/540806/Shinkansen (accessed 29 January 2009) [3] Japanese Maglev, 581km/h, online video, (2006), Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSrLvCVoVk&feature=related (accessed 30 January 2009) [4] Maglev Monorails of the World - Shanghai, China, The Monorail Society, http://www.monorails.org/tmspages/MagShang.html (accessed 29 January 2009) [5] David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Kennieth S. Krane, Physics (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002)

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Segway Meets PNEC
Written by Abdullah Bin Azhar(VIII Electronics)

HE future of human transportation might be flying carpets and we would probably drive them by our thoughts, but not yet. The scientific community is continuously striving for environment friendly alternatives to our everyday vehicles. A vehicle, energy efficient, and pollution free which takes up no more space than a pedestrian, can change the way we think about human transportation. Another challenge is to follow the user's natural means of expressing and feeling movement rather than cumbersome user interfaces. Are we there yet? We are moving towards personalization of every device as technology progresses further and this fashion is now in the field of vehicles too. In 2001, a US inventor and entrepreneur, Dean Kamen founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology), invented a scooter that eventually became what is known today as the Segway. It has a top speed of 20 km/h and was codenamed Ginger and Reinventing the wheel. Segway created a lot of hype and speculations as many notable experts envisioned it as a society-revolutionizing product. Although it did not have as much of an impact as expected, it remains to be an engineering marvel. In 2008, Toyota Motors showed off a new standup scooter - the Winglet - that could one day be seen zipping alongside the Segway on the personal-transporter superhighway. Honda took a step forward in 2010 and unveiled its U3-X where U stands for unicycle and universal. Elektor also has an Open Source People Vehicle project. The common attribute in all of them Self Balancing. Control systems aim for one enormous goal: Stability. An inverted pendulum is a classic control systems problem which is inherently unstable, and must be actively balanced in order to remain upright. A simple demonstration is that of balancing an upturned broomstick on the end of one's finger. Put this concept in a dynamic environment and you have a balancing platform that moves around carrying a person. About Self Balancing Vehicles They normally have two parallel wheels on the sides and controlled by moving body weight. The rider stands on a platform between the two wheels holding on to a handlebar. To move forward/backward the rider will simply lean and the vehicle will sense and start moving in that direction. When weight is equal in both directions, it will remain static. Similarly, a left or right tilt will turn the vehicle. Standing on the platform, the rider feels completely in control of their movements, using it is totally intuitive. It is the combined effort of human mind and the vehicle controller that makes it stay in balance. How it works It balances by detecting the tilt, then moving forward or backwards automatically to regain balance. The tilt, is the main control variable

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here. It is the angle difference from the balanced condition. The corrective action the vehicle takes will depend on how far it is from balanced, how quickly it is changing and how long its been that much unbalanced. This, in effect is a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller. How its done Measuring tilt used to be a difficult task and state-of-the -art technology was used in aircrafts and ships until Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) got cheap. This paved the way for hobbyists to make DIY Segways and soon enough, we followed their elegantly simple methods. An accelerometer which is commonly used in mobile phones these days (but you cant ride an iPhone) and a gyroscope are needed for this purpose. The accelerometer measures acceleration and continually determines the direction and magnitude of gravity it is sensing. With that and a little trigonometry, we can use our microcontroller to estimate the angle of our platform. But once our vehicle starts moving, there are new accelerations involved and estimated angle becomes inaccurate. Now, a gyroscope, which measures the rate of change of angular displacement (d/dt) gives us readings which we can numerically integrate to get the platform angle while moving. Gyros, however, are not reliable when static and their integrals are likely to drift over time. Since none of them alone can be trusted to give a precise angle always, a simple sensor fusion technique known as the complementary filter is employed. Once we have calculated the angle, a PID controller generates and sends a Pulse Width Modulated Signal to the MOSFET driver circuit which adjusts the speed of the DC Motors by switching them at a high frequency. Steering commands are translated into equal magnitudes being added and subtracted from speed of each motor respectively. This way, the vehicle can even spin around on its axis like a tank. What good it will do Technology is expensive and these vehicles will not be zooming around overnight. Such kind of vehicles can be used to travel indoors within airports, shopping malls, offices etc. Dean Kamen imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. Andits fun. Such vehicles will ultimately make way to our country as well. How our society and cities will react to it, we dont know. The engineering community, however, encouraged and appreciated this one small step we took in this direction. For details on the project, visit http://subukraftar.blogspot.com

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Design and Fabrication of a Neonatal Incubator
Written by Zaigham Khalid, Syed Wajahat Ali (VIII Electronics)

OME people might argue that there is no point whatsoever in re-inventing the wheel. Well, their claims might be justifiable to some extent but what if you are not only just making a wheel but are also concerned about its smooth movement, its ability to sustain itself in rough conditions, the cost involved in making it and suddenly it is its whole new dynamics you are talking about. The point which I am trying to make is that there is nothing new about this project. Neonatal Incubators have been available in the market, both local and international, which range from Rs 40,000 to a few Million Rupees. Besides, it has been attempted by number of students in Pakistan and all around the world, including Students from PNEC. So what exactly was the reason behind us opting for this project? Well, the impetus behind choosing this project as our senior design project was the necessity of Incubators having advanced features at reasonable prices in Pakistan. The whole idea was to develop a prototype which could be used by local vendors in Pakistan. Most incubators in Pakistan which are available at a price of 40K are only incorporated with two features and those are Temperature Control and Humidity Control. Adding a single feature means adding another 40k to the expenditure. That is why it is often seen that most hospitals in Pakistan are not at all equipped with this facility and as result hundreds of infants die on a yearly basis. With that in mind, we have set out to achieve something that hasnt been done before. And as we now stand mid-way through our journey, we can give a pat on our back on what we have achieved so far. Enough with the background let us now delve inside the project to know what it is all about. To begin with, the approach we adopted for making this incubator was a modular one. It was a very unique idea in various ways. Firstly, not even a single vendor on earth makes Incubator using this approach. But that was just the commercial side of it. The reason why it stood out immediately in our Supervisors eyes and among others was the fact that each module could be plugged or unplugged at any time. Amazing! Isnt it? This also means that each individual module could function as a stand-alone unit. This also led us to think in yet another dimension, i.e., the patenting of individual modules, but more on that later. Features which we intend to incorporate in our incubator are as follows air temperature control and measurement, weight measurement, humidity control and measurement, skin temperature measurement and oxygen concentration control. As of now, Air Temperature Module and Weight Module have been implemented. Remaining features in the list are in the process. The measurement of resolution achieved in those implemented modules is enough to leave a PNEC-ian in awe. The precision for Air Temperature Module is 0.1C and that for Weight Module is 4g. Were still not done yet on Weight Module as we aspire to make it 1g. Sensor used for measuring temperature is PT-100. For measurement of weight, a decent sensor was giving a sharp hike in our budget so we decided to hack an existing weighing scale, which we bought in Rs 700. Admittedly, thats a colon and a capital p moment but engineering is all about having your thinking cap on and being creative. To validate our designed electronics, we bought an out-of-order incubator so that we may be able to meet the commercial standards. Its dissection was a tedious task and although it took a little time to get acclimated but boy! That was some experience. On the safety front, extra emphasis has been laid down. The whole thing has been divided into three layers; dual hardware and a software layer. This was just to ensure that we have covered all our basis and are erring on the side of extreme caution. The protocol used for communication is SPI. When all of the control parameters will be implemented, we also wish to add wireless based data acquisition on-the-base-station functionality which means that Incubator will be transmitting all its data wirelessly to a central computer on which a person will be able to monitor it. All of this might seem exaggeration but these are real things, some of which have already been implemented while some are still in the process. Besides, we have quoted these things in front of a PNEC-Panel in our defense proposal so you can understand that its everything but hyperbole. Coming back to that patenting, we wish to make each of our module patents as all of the designed electronics is original and no plagiarism had taken place from any kind of source. Take this as an advice too, i.e., to get your work patented. Trust me! It adds huge value to your CV.

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CNC Milling Machine
Written by Hammad Zafar Usmani (VIII Electronics)

SUALLY when one hears the word Computer Numerical Control, it is assumed that it is implemented on a large scale. But we, as final year students, took up the project, CNC Machine, on a small scale with an objective to do similar job as a normal CNC Miller.

Today, we see everything around us evolving from manual towards automatic. So this is what CNC does, i.e. Computer Numeric Control. It is the automation of an old-school milling machine that one sees in workshops. These manually operated Millers not only require peace of mind but also complete concentration to work with. Slight carelessness, for instance slipping of the hand around the drill machine, could lead to the design being ruined and result in severe injury to the operator. Our project consists of the automation of the milling machine using computer based software, Mach3, and translating it for our end machine. Hence the task in hand was to automate a machine so that after a few settings and the final click of a button, one can conveniently play Counter-Strike on the PC, while an obedient machine processes the work piece very accurately. Firstly, Mach3 is provided with a CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawing after converting it into CAM. This is done by the software and a G-code is produced. This G-code is an easy and a user friendly language that directly corresponds to the tool path. Tool is the end effector that moves on the work piece. In our case it is a drill machine that would be used for accurate drilling and milling/engraving. We as Electronic engineers basically made a translator interface between the computer and the stepper motors that are coupled with the 3 axes of the machine. We have an interface board consisting of a Microcontroller, and a bridge circuit designed for the end operation of the motors. Usually we have an exposure to 4phase uni-polar or bi-polar steppers that have a very simple circuit, feeding power levels to it. But for our project we have some special 5-phase pentagon connection steppers installed that have quite a complicated design but at the same time a good torque and a more superior step-size in its rotation. To run them we need a setup of half-bridges that feed 3 logic states to it; high, low and impedence states. We have gone through a lot of learning on the 5-phase steppers due to the complexity of the circuit and programming logics delivered by the Microcontroller. We also found that only a few people try to design the driver themselves, and almost all reside by the branded drivers available in the market at high prices, in order to save the hassle. This project in particular as well as automation in general has a high demand in the market/industry outside, and therefore quite beneficial for us in terms of hands-on experience in the field of automation. We hope to see it serve our University in the near future, as we try our best to make it robust and reliable.

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Catching Up
Mr. Anas Imtiaz is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). He was the 2nd Chairman of IEEE PNEC in 2006. Completing his MSc in Analog & Digital Integrated Circuit Design and currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering-both from Imperial College London, Anas Imtiaz is currently working as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London. He is also the proud developer of Islamicity Quran Search, a software where one can search the Quranic verses and phonetics with voice recognition. perience as the IEEE PNEC SB chairperson has been more of learning experience. I failed to resurrect the SB during my stint at the top but that made me realise what skills were lacking in me hence giving me an opportunity to work on those as I moved forward. We tried our best to do many things and the only success was the first issue of Perspective, all thanks to Ali Allawala from whom I learned a lot during that time. cific field. On the contrary I have found that given the right environment and exposure to technologies broadens the horizon and different ideas begin to pop up in the head. Selecting the FYP should be based the learning ability provided by the project and (strictly) not by the possibility of getting good grades or easygoing supervisors. Q. In your opinion, how significant is research for an under-grad student? AI: For an undergrad student, exposure to research is very important to learn what is happening in his/her field. IEEE caters nicely to undergrads by publishing easy-to-comprehend articles in magazines such as Pulse, Circuits and Systems Magazine, Signal Processing Magazine and many more. This knowledge allows the undergrad to understand why exactly they are studying the complex theorems which may seem futile at first glance and equips them with the right kind of information to decide on their future field of work.

Q. How has IEEE helped you reach where you are today? AI: IEEE is the driving force behind my research interests. It has helped me by opening my eyes towards the application areas of engineering generally not taught in classrooms. I use its extensive cache of top-notch research publications almost everyday to learn what others are doing. In a way IEEE has motivated me to become a researcher.

Q. How does it feel to represent NUST in the foreign land?

Q. How was your experience as the IEEE PNEC SB Chairperson and how important do you think are extra curricular activities in the development of an individual? AI: Extra curricular activities are extremely important and they shouldnt be regulated by the College/University but must be left at the hands of students. This allows them to develop a sense of balance and responsibility while participating in both classroom and extra curricular activities. My ex-

AI: NUST is a well-known name in top universities worldwide, thanks to the number of brilliant students who have been already there. It feels great to be Q. What would be your advice to part of the same family. the young engineers on how to balance academics and extraQ. How did the idea of Quranic curricular activities? Verse Identification System spring up and what should be our criteria It is certainly not easy to strike a balance between these two. Having said to select the Final Year Project? that every student should strive to AI: Quranic Verse Identification Sys- take part in whatever activities they tem is one of the three side projects can after giving sufficient time to their that I am keen to work on. It is an ap- studies. This helps to demonstrate plication of speech recognition (digital desirable skills such as confidence, signal processing in a broad sense) networking and time management to and one of my secondary research in- prospective employers. Academics and terests. There is a common myth that extra curriculars supplement each research confines you to a very spe- other and one should aim to graduate with a good show in both.

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Topic
2012 IEEE Control and System Graduate Research Colloquium 2012 International Conference on Emerging Techologies International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence TENCON2012 International Conference on Control Engineering and Communication Technology 2012 International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and it's Applications (iFUZZY)

Date
16-17 July 2012 8-9 Oct 2012 22-23 Oct 2012 19-22 Nov 2012 7-9 Dec 2012 16-18 Nov 2012

Location Paper Submission Date

Malaysia Pakistan EME College, Pakistan Phillipines China Taiwan 12 May, 2012 15 May, 2012 25 May, 2012 1 May, 2012 1 June, 2012 15th Aug, 2012

IEEE PNEC across the virtual world

IEEE PNEC webpage is all set to compete in the IEEE Global Website Competition and there have been several developments and up gradations in the last quarter. With day-to-day happening of the student branch updated, it is undoubtedly one of the most active student branch sites out there. WIE IEEE PNEC celebrated Womens day, 8th March 2012, by paying a tribute to Arifa Karim, the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional and conducting a general survey of women from different fields. On 14th march, known as Pi Day in the Geek-world, IEEE WORLD was launched where links to all IEEE Sections, Student Branches and Societies were made available. IEEE PNEC launched a new initiative by the name, Ambassadors of Progress with the aim of recognizing those individuals who contributed significantly to the world of science and technology but were never given the recognition and credit they deserved for their work and an everlasting impact on our lives. We started with a tribute on Nikola Tesla. The tribute can be found at http://ieee.pnec.edu.pk/nikola-tesla.

Pakistan Women in Engineering Forum - PWF

As IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum enters into its second year, the Executive Committee PWF for 2012 is announced. We wish the new Ex-Com, and Chairperson, Rabia Khalid, a rewarding year ahead! With its objective of Gender Equality and Awareness, PWF committee visited Government Kindergarten School for a motivational session on 2nd December 2011. PWF continued with its Discover WIE sessions with the 3rd one being held at UIT and 4th at Bahria University, Islamabad. Its main goal was to create awareness about benefits of IEEE Membership.

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Our members make us proud!

Rabia Khalid, IEEE PNEC Consultant, becomes Pakistan WIE Forum Chairperson. Congratulations Rabia! Bilal Muhammad Zaki, currently the IEEE PNEC Consultant, presented his research paper in 27th IEEEP Student Seminar. Kanza Basit, Chair WIE PNEC, is all set to represent Pakistan Navy Engineering College - NUST in Shell Eco Marathon, to be held in Malaysia in July 2012 as she is leading her team.We wish her all the luck! Iqra Sajid, Vice Chair-WIE PNEC, becomes the WIE Mission to Progress PNEC Coordinator. Rameez Qasim grabs the first Prize in a Robotics Competition ROBONIVAL in EME Olympiad. Muaaz Bin Sarfaraaz annihilates the opposition and becomes the Chess Champion at EME Olypiad.

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