IEEE CIIT STUDENT BRANCH REPORT JAN TO JUN 2013
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore 1.5 KM Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore, Pakistan. BRANCH CODE: STB02131 EMAIL: ieee@ciitlahore.edu.pk WEB-SITE: http://ieee.ciitlahore.edu.pk http://sites.ieee.org/sb-ciit Office Bearers for the Academic Year 2013 2014 Chairperson Mr. Ahmed Daud +923337411321 Vice-Chairperson Mr. Jawad Ali +923347357738 Secretary Mr. Asad Raza +923454738296 Treasurer Mr. Hussain Tariq +923135922117 Counselor Dr. Sobia Baig WIE Office Bearers Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary Treasurer Counselor Ms. Rija Fatima Ms. Ayesha Izhar Ms. Maryam Iqbal Ms. Ayesha Jamil Dr. Sobia Baig Report of JAN 2013 - JUN 2013 is as follows: Office Bearers for the Academic Year 2012 2013 were: Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary Treasurer Counselor Mr. Muhammad Abdullah Mr. Numan Khokhar Mr. Mobin Ahmad Mr. Usman Dr. Sobia Baig WIE Office Bearers Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Ms. Sania Arshad Ms. Rija Fatima
Secretary Treasurer Counselor Ms. Maryam Iqbal Ms. Ayesha Izhar Dr. Sobia Baig Activities/seminars conducted during January June 2013 IEEE/WIE Introductory Seminar 2013 INNOFEST 2013 Introductory seminar on Importance Of Workshops Seminar on Robotics Symposium on Emerging Technologies (SET 13) New Website launch IEEE/WIE INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR 2013 An Introductory IEEE and WIE Seminar was organized by the IEEE CIIT Lahore Student Branch. The purpose of the seminar was to create awareness among the junior students about the importance IEEE can play in their professional as well as student life. The seminar also urges the girls to brace themselves freely in the friendly environment of WIE-CIIT. Type: Non-Technical Date: 15 th February, 2013 Attended by engineering students. No. of IEEE members attended: 40 No. of non IEEE member attended: 80
The seminar was hosted by Miss Rija Fatima and Miss Syeda Kanwal The main agenda of the seminar was to introduce the new comers to IEEE and WIE team. Miss. Sania Arshad-Chairperson WIE CIIT gave presentation on the importance of joining IEEE-WIE. After that there was interactive session and help desk was arranged to solve the queries of the students
INNOFEST 2013 INNOFEST 2013 was the competition to bring out the innovative insight of the students and was organized under the same motto. Various teams from the engineering universities of Lahore were invited to take part in this. Three from UMT and UET registered for the event. Type: Technical Date: 20 th March 2013 22 nd March 2013 Attended by students of various engineering universities
No. of IEEE members attended: 20 No. of non IEEE member attended: 30 The series of competitions includes: IEEE excode Programming Challenge IEEE Circuitix, the Circuit Designing Competition IEEE Microcontroller Interfacing Competition (MIC) WIE Brain Quest Photography and Poster Design Competition Focusing on the theme of Earth Hour IEEE e-gaming Competitions INNOFEST 13 comprised of number of technical events to bring the best out of the students. For this purpose we offered students an effective platform to take part in the CIRCUIT HOPPERS, MIC- Microcontroller interface competition and a gaming competition. The event was organized as a part of CIIT Students week activities. The Head of Department of EE Department CIIT-Lahore was the guest of honour for the event. He inculcated amongst the students to thrive for technological advancement. He quoted several examples from his experience and explained how IEEE has helped people in staying up to date with technology. Furthermore, he infused amongst the participants the zeal and zest to take part in such activities to put their theoretical knowledge to test.
The counsellor IEEE-CIIT Lahore also spoke at the opening ceremony. She informed the guests and the participants about the various activities of IEEE-CIIT Lahore student branch. She praised the Ex-COM for conducting such events and motivated to them keep working with such incentive and enthusiasm. The circuit hoppers completion problems were designed by Mr. Usman. The students were given various designs which they had to implement on the breadboard. The fastest to implement the circuit was declared the winner of the competition. The gaming competition included FIFA 2013, Counter-Strike and Tekken 3. Several rounds were held and the winners were decided after a tough battle amongst the participants.
MIC was the microcontroller Interface competition and for that participants then proceeded to the labs for the commencement of the competition. Mr. Usman Ali and Mr. Owais Javed were the faculty members who invigilated the Micro-Controller Interface completion. The problems given to the students were designed by Dr. Omer. He then concluded the results and the standings of the team amongst each other and appreciated the students for their good effort.
INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR ON IMPORTANCE OF WORKSHOPS A seminar on IMPORTANCE OF WORKSHOP was organized by the IEEE WIE CIIT Lahore. The purpose of the seminar was to create awareness among the students about the scope of engineering and how to pave ways for the jobs in future. Type: Non-Technical Date: 29th March 2013 Attended by Engineering and Computer Science students No. of IEEE members attended: 15 No. of non IEEE member attended: 40 The seminar was hosted by Mr. Osama Yousaf
The main agenda of the seminar was to create awareness among the students about importance of workshop in universities. There were two invited guests, Ahmed Ali, who is analyst of marketing and business at Mobilink also the former Chair of IEEE CIIT Student branch Lahore and and IEEE Gold Member. Salman Farrukh was one of the former Chairs of IEEE CIIT Student branch Lahore, who is now a days the owner of software company and IEEE Gold Member. Our guest speakers had an interactive session with the audience about the workshops and jobs related to engineering fields.. They shared their experiences amongst the audience and boost their enthusiasm. At the end of the seminar Dr. Ejaz Ansari HOD Electrical Engineering Department distributed certificates among the winner of the event INNOFEST 2013 held at CIIT, Lahore.
SEMINAR ON ROBOTICS Introductory seminar on world of robotics and its importance in today s world. Introduction of the theme of robotics competition RoboSprint 2013. Discussion on the recommended solutions. A brief lecture on digital image processing to demystify the image based guidance method. Type: Technical Date: 4 April 2013 Attended by Electrical Engineering students of 3rd and 4th year No. of IEEE members attended: 30 No. of non IEEE member attended: 50 Speakers: Muhammad Yaqoob Javed, Lecturer muhammad.yaqoob@engg.ucp.edu.pk Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi, Lecturer tahir.rizvi@engg.ucp.edu.pk Students got knowledge of the fantastic world of robotics and got the basic idea how to make a simple robot
to participate in robotics competition RoboSprint 2013. SYMPOSIUM ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (SET 13) The objective of the symposium was to provide a forum to discuss and investigate the emerging technologies and research problems associated with them in the areas of Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Telecommunication, and Networking. A major emphasis of this event was to bring together various research groups working in similar research directions within the academic institutions as well as industrialists of Pakistan. This symposium provided a forum where researchers in the community, including young researchers presented their recent research findings in the form of posters. The inaugural event of SET 13 focused on the invited talks in the following research directions. Event type: Technical Date: May 20 th 2013 1. Embedded & Ubiquitous Computing Systems 2. Telecommunications and Networking Attended by Electrical Engineering students of 3 rd and 4 th year No. of IEEE members attended: 35
No. of non IEEE member attended: 70 The Set 13 event was inaugurated by the Dr. Mahmood A. Bodla, Director, COMSATS Lahore campus. On this occasion, Dr. Bodla appreciated the effort of EE department and IEEE CIIT Student Branch in holding such an event, where academia and industry could exchange ideas and work for the solution of numerous problems faced by Pakistani society, in particular the energy crisis. This was followed by the keynote address delivered by Dr. Arshad Hussain, Director FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. Dr. Arshad emphasized the need to revisit the basics to solve complex problems using engineering based approach, in his address. The first session of Embedded Systems and Ubiquitous Computing was opened by Dr. Amir Qayyum, Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, ISB, who gave an enlightening talk on Mobile and Adhoc Networking. He shared with the audience some of his research projects, and their results, which he s doing with national and international collaboration. This was followed by a detailed talk by Mr. Zeeshan Altaf, Senior Manager Engineering Operations on real time operating systems and virtualization at Mentor Graphics Pakistan. He also highlighted various applications and industrial aspect of these systems.
The second session of Telecommunication and Networking was opened by an eminent professor Dr. Noor M. Sheikh, from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. Dr. Noor presented an overview of wireless communications, its historical background, basics, current and future applications and standards. This session s second talk was from industrial point of view, delivered by Mr. Farhan Chaudhry, General Manager, Satellite Research and Development Center, SUPARCO, Lahore. There was active participation of undergraduate students of the Electrical engineering Department, who were intrigued by the new technologies and their application in our everyday life. The event also hosted a poster exhibition, highlighting the research activities of the PhD faculty and their MS/PhD students. The event was closed by Dr. Sobia Baig, Assistant Professor, EE Department, who delivered a note of thanks
and summarized the events of the day. She expressed her gratitude to the Director, CIIT Lahore on behalf of the organizing committee of SET 13, for his patronage of SET 13. She thanked the organizing committee members for their hard work and the support of CIIT IEEE Student branch. IEEE Student Branch setup a promotional help desk at the event to motivate student to join IEEE. NEW WEBSITE LAUNCH Launch of our student branch website on IEEE entity web hosting in parallel with our existing website on our university domain. Current website: ieee.ciitlahore.edu.pk New IEEE domain website: sites.ieee.org/sb-ciit Launch date: 1 st June 2013