R10 IEEE Karachi Section

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PART A - SECTION SUMMARYThe IEEE Karachi Section is located in IEEE Region 10 named as IEEE Asia-Pacific Region. It was formed as Sub-Section on 22 May 1978, and later on upgraded to Section on 17 July 1982. It is one of the three Sections in Pakistan - Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Pakistan also have a sub-section at Peshawar as well. IEEE Karachi Section is located in the Southern part of Pakistan and comprises of two Provinces namely, Sindh and Balochistan. 

The IEEE Karachi Section also have Chapters of Computer Society and Communications Society and Affinity Group of GOLD (Graduates of Last Decade). IEEE Karachi Section have 24 student entities which includes 15 IEEE Student Branches, 5 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Groups, 3 IEEE Student Chapters and IEEE Region 10 GINI Project in the cities of Karachi, Jamshoro, and Quetta.

In 2010, the section is in its 33rd year of working.  Unnoticed Section's birthday on May 22, 2010 (32 Years Old).  During these so many years, Section has seen many ups and downs. The IEEE Karachi Section was very active till December 2004 and then reactivated in May 2008 under the leadership of the then chair IEEE Karachi Section S. Imranul Haque, The IEEE Karachi Section have organized and participated in several national and international events both at Student and Professional levels, which includes seminars, exhibitions, congresses, conferences, poster competitions, website competitions, project exhibitions, and workshops and also organized international conferences in collaboration with different Engineering universities in Karachi.

A.1 Executive Summary – (Please follow the format given below)

Section Executive Committee Member List Parkash Lohana Chair (2011) Mohammad Shahab Siddiqui Vice Chair (2011) Mohammad Qasim Pasta Secretary (2011) Shoaib Feroz Treasurer Shaikh Imran Ul Haque Past Chair Prof. Dr. Bhawani Shanker Chowdhary Chair Communication Society Dr. Mohammad Mohiuddin Chair Professional Committee Dr. Shakeel khoja Chair Computer Society Dr. Shahid Shaikh Member Prof. Ashab Mirza Chair Election Committee Ms. Dania Hanif Chair GOLD Affinity group Mohammad Saad Chair Students activities Committee Ravendar Lal Bhojwani GINI Representative Pakistan Nimrah Hashmi Section Student Representative Section Highlights

Major Section activities

Connect 2010, an exposition for Communication Systems and Information Technology, was held from 8 to 10 May 2010 at Expo Centre Karachi, where IEEE Karachi Section exhibited a stall to establish student-industry liaison and inform the public in general, and students and

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industry professionals in particular, of the rewards and benefits of IEEE Membership. The arrangements for the stall were primarily done by Parkash Lohana, Section Chair, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Section Secretary and Syed Ahmed Fuad, GINI Coordinator. A large number of Student Members from various SBs, assisted by Members of Section Ex-Com, volunteered as stall presenters throughout the three days, skilfully managed by Hassaan Idrees, Section Student Representative, and Muhammad Saad of ComSoc. A very large number of visitors were interested in the IEEE Communications Society, ComSoc, as regards to its involvement with the latest technological developments and the Conferences organised by the Society throughout the year. The various benefits of IEEE displayed on appealing posters and other promotional material caught several eyes and scores of visitors filled on-spot IEEE Membership forms. The IEEE Stall presenters gained valuable insight in the market trends in Communications and IT and interacted with various industry professionals, forging important links. Bilal Husain, a student volunteer, said, ‘Connect2010 gave me an opportunity to interact with different people from various fields. It was a great experience to meet some of our potential future employers.’ Sidra of Bahria University said, ‘The event was a chance to interact with great personalities like IT directors of organisations, professors and students of different universities, and we shared the latest benefits of student membership of IEEE.’ At the end of the three-day event the exhibition organisers presented a shield to the IEEE Members as a token of appreciation.

Karachi’s Quest for Black Gold – road to energy solutionIf all the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia and Iran are put together, they add up to nearly 375 billion barrels, but a single Thar Coal Reserve in Sindh is about 850 trillion cubic feet – more than oil reserves of these two countries!

The truth of these words really struck us when some 20 odd students of IEEE UIT Student Branch and Karachi Section saw for themselves the Thar coal reserves on a day-long trip on 30 July accompanied by the Section Chair Mr Parkash Lohana. The black gold is found in all the four provinces of Pakistan, but the bulk of it is found in Sindh, so the journey was made there in order to gauge by budding engineers how much potential the reserves really bear. On the way, a stop-over was made at Jamshoro, an impressive museum of Sindhi heritage, Sindhology, which is 200 kilometres from the mines and houses exciting specimens of the historic Indus Valley Civilisation, unearthed at Moen Jodaro estimated at being in existence since 3000 BC. After reaching our destination, it was told that these coal reserves are one of the largest of their kind on Earth, located about 450 km from Karachi. Even though a great area was cordoned off for visitors, nevertheless, it was easy to guesstimate the enormity of the deposits. The guide informed the trippers that the economic coal deposits of Pakistan are restricted to Paleocene and Eocene rock sequences and the magnitude of the reserves in this can be quantified by the fact that they encompass one of the world’s largest lignite deposits, sprawling over more than 9,000 square kilometres, and are sufficient to meet country’s fuel requirements for centuries! Recent studies on coal bed methane (CBM) proposed to be carried out in Thar will enhance the value of this deposit. That the appropriate steps are not taken is another story, since to our disappointment we saw that there was minimal excavation or quarrying being carried out on the fields. The knowledge was quite depressing that the country has been facing energy crises despite owning such priceless treasures. Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading countries – seventh in the list of top 20 countries of the world – after the discovery of these huge lignite coal resources in Sindh. Whole-hearted efforts in this regard are really sought to tap the potential of these deposits. Making an excursion to the nearby areas, we also witnessed small-scale endeavours to use renewable source of energy on the site; a few solar-powered workhouses in the vicinity that were indigenously developed.

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Major Events (International, National) Major Chapter Activities

IEEE iTECH 2010 at IEEE FAST-NUCES

The IEEE iTECH 2010 was held from April 12 to 16, 2010, organized for the first time by the collaborating efforts of IEEE NUCES branch chapters namely IEEE Communication Society, Computer Society, Robotics and Automation Society and IEEE Affinity group WIE.

Not only did it give people a chance to showcase their skills in a series of technology related competitions but also gave an opportunity to expand their horizons and excel in their fields. The event comprised of a diverse range of section (Karachi) level competitions, seminars and workshops by professionals, tech talk and recreational activities that includes Sports Gala, Indoors, Gaming Movie Show. IEEE WIE PNEC and FAST Sportics is a collaborating partner in NUCES WIE Sports Gala and Indoors. In this event students participated from different universities like BAHRIA, NED, HAMDARD and NUST PNEC.

Major Student and Affinity Group Activities

FPGA workshop at IEEE NED from 7-15 June 2010; more than 250 students benefited by the workshop. It proved to be the successful event for students willing to learn and grasp knowledge of FPGA.

Seminar on booming Media at IEEE NED on 26 July 2010 with the collaboration of the Broadcast Engineers Society of Pakistan (BESPAK), the only organisation affiliated with the Society of Broadcast Engineers, USA. The prime objective of that seminar was to educate engineers about the future scope of Broadcast Engineering.

CIO Campus Conversation at IEEE SZABIST on 30 June 2010 bridged gap between academia and industry. It was a very successful wakeup call for most students. The event proved beyond a doubt that the education most students receive, interacting with software house professionals and television personalities.

World Usability Day at IEEE SZABIST on 11 November 2010 discussed modern trends and practices of Software Usability Engineering, highlighting the issues faced by the customers as well as the developers and suggesting remedies to address these issues and improve usability in software, focusing on making our work in the world better, making life easy and user-friendly. Guests included prominent PhDs, established IT consultants and Director Engineering of well-known firms.

Video Conferencing Academic Week at IEEE Iqra University on 30 November and 2 December 2010, by lecturers in UK's top ranking universities, on Mobile and Wireless Communication from University of Sheffield and Nano-electronics from University of Manchester. The video conferences were attended and appreciated well by students and faculty.

Seminar Series at IEEE MUET by Dr Fahim Aziz Umrani from UK presented information on all-optical network of the future which may provide high-capacity, low-cost transport for Internet, multimedia and advanced digital services. Seminar on Process and Concurrency Issues in Operating Systems was held in collaboration with Aalborg University and Erasmus Mundus Programme. Seminar on Software Defined Radio Technology on 22 October 2010 was delivered by Engineer Muhammad Farrukh Shahid, IT Associate at Base Camp Data Solution. Seminar on Digital Filter Designing on 9 November 2010 was also in collaboration with Aalborg University and Erasmus Mundus Programme.

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Workshop based on Digital Image Processing using MATLAB at IEEE UIT on 3 June 2010 conducted by Engineer Ghazanfarullah Khan of Computer System Engineering Department marked a successful and thriving event in the nature of a in the Advanced Computing Lab, which was well-attended by various SBs and universities in IEEE Karachi Section.

Pakistan Students Congress (report attached separately)

Pakistan Students Congress 2010 The highlight happening of IEEE in Pakistan, the Pakistan Student Congress PSC ‘10 was a

three day mega-event, having participation of IEEE Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore Sections. A full-blown affair, Pakistan Students Congress (PSC) is an annual gathering of IEEE student members from all over Pakistan to network with other members from all over the country, attend training programs and learn and participate to polish them as better engineers and volunteers. This time PSC was replete with workshops, competitions, networking opportunities, industry-academia commitments and fun. From 29 to 31 October 2010, IEEE Usman Institute of Technology Student Branch played host to this event. This year the theme was Engineering, Research and Innovation for fostering Industry, and was adhered to in meetings, seminars and commitments.

Day one started with introductory speeches by IEEE UIT Chair and other dignitaries. This was followed by steaming tea and networking between students. The annual joint Executive Committee Meeting of IEEE Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore Sections ended the day on a high note with anticipation for a busy next day.

The second day began with IEEE Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad Section Chairs’ addresses to the audiences, with their yearly campaign of activities and pledges for a more rewarding and active year. The next session was CIO Pakistan’s flagship Campus Conversation, with a panel of five highly competent industry professionals in electrical, electronics, IT and software disciplines. These luminaries spoke for a large chunk of the engineering industry. The session was a great mixture of activity, an expert panel, an inquisitive audience and an able anchor. The two-hour long session concluded with individual commitments made by each of the panel member relating to students’ internships, projects, jobs and research plans.

After the absorbing session and lunch, theme talks were delivered by Dr Irfan Haider, Engineer Tahir Saleem and Mr Roland D’Souza, gripping the listeners with the new and emerging technology trends and various projects that linked with the PSC’10 theme.

IEEE Student Ethics Competition was another part of the Congress, where an engineering case study with an inherent ethical dilemma was given to the teams, with a certain allotted time to deliberate on the case study and develop their stand on the issue, isolate the ethical problem(s) and propose strategies to better handle the situation. Finally they had to deliver an oral defence presentation outlining their stance and solutions followed by Q&A with the judges. There was a fierce competition between Bahria Islamabad, FAST Karachi and other universities, with team Bahria eventually notching the top spot.

In parallel, the Women in Engineering (WIE) Session was organised by the Pakistan WIE Forum. This event brought out the best in the budding female engineers of Pakistan, having participation from GCU Lahore, FAST Islamabad, Bahria Islamabad, NED Karachi, PNEC Karachi, JUW Karachi, and other WIE Affinity Groups across the country. The session encompassed an address by Nimra Kazmi, Ex-Chair WIE PNEC, video conference with Durdana Habib of Pakistan WIE Forum, and an activity of planning events for a year.

The second day also brought about other competitions including Circuit Designing, Programming and Gaming. A certified trainer from Microsoft Usama Wahab delivered a workshop to aspiring software developers. This workshop also registered an engaging audience, eager to learn the software secrets. The day closed with a musical night and dinner that was enjoyed by students having a concert by local pop groups and singing talent.

The last day began with a fresh start, as the SB Chairs across Pakistan delivered Branch presentations and told the audience about their achievements and goals, notably SEECS, Bahria, EME, GCUL, GCUF, UoS, IIEE, PNEC and others.

This was followed by an interactive presentation by Rakesh Gopchandani on ‘How to make an Unsuccessful Final Year Project’, outlining the dos and don’ts for an FYP, receiving prompt and feedback from an engaged audience. Later, a one-to-one Q&A session with audience on the Graduate Studies Opportunities for Engineers in the US, with the panel of two comprising Vikash Khatri and Rakesh Gopchandani, employed everyone and counselling was given. The last activity before lunch was video conference with R10 RSR, Om Perkash Batra, who, in his usual jolly mood, was happy to talk to his home Section crowd.

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A seminar by Shireen Naqvi of School of Leadership on the Spirit of Volunteerism was a highlight in the second half of the day. Ms Naqvi hit out on the bitter realities of the life, receiving tremendous acclaim from the audience. The GINI Session was next, managed by Ravendar Lal, GINI Coordinator and Vice Chair Karachi Section GOLD, on the complete overview of the Global Integrated Network of IEEE Students (GINI), and Muhammad Saad, Karachi Section SAC, on the Industrial Relations (IR) facet of GINI. Together, they outlined how this pilot project has already successfully revived dormant SBs, working to collaborate with industry for students and networking SBs with each other.

The entire three-day event culminated in the Award Ceremony and refreshments. Students exchanged heart-felt commitments to keep in touch with each other, and promises to work for their personal development as well as for engineering and technology for the larger interest of humanity.

(The link for the event is www.psc10.com)

Quiztronic at IEEE PNEC on 13 March 2010 was an inter-university technical quiz competition where 20 stringent teams from various SBs and universities in IEEE Karachi Section participated in the rounds based on audio-visual, rapid-fire and an interactive quiz in Electronics, Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electric Power and Microcontrollers and Microprocessors. FAST-NUCES won the event, with IIEE being runners-up. BUITEMS were awarded ‘team spirit award’.

Career Counselling Meet at IEEE-PNEC on 24 April 2010 provided insight to the students about the industry and to provide them an opportunity for internships and careers. Many notable companies including ABB, Avanceon, EngroCorp, Intel, Shell and Telenor gave presentations of their hiring and skill requirements. Many students were offered internships in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, based on tests and interviews.

E-Indus at IEEE IIEE (no report received, sir Ashab knows)

IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies, ICIET 2010, at IEEE FAST-NUCES from 14-16 June 2010 and Doctoral Symposium on June 15, 2010. During the process of review of the conference ICIET 2010 received 260 papers and after two-tier review process under Dr Jawwad Shamsi, 74 papers were selected. Paper presentations and keynote speeches were given including Dr Abbas Zaidi from George Mason University, Fairfax, USA on ‘New trends in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence’. Doctoral Symposium was held where PhD students from different universities participated and their research topics were Tunable Metamaterials, Community Algorithm, Data Management in Ad-hoc Networks, Context Aware Workflows, Data Provenance, and Context Aware Sensor GRID for Agriculture.

Awards

A.2 Financial Report – (Please follow the format given below)

Summary (as per submitted L50) ACCOUNT SUMMARY Opening Balance: 3,326.31 Interest Paid 14.68 Wires Out (1,500.00) IEEE Transfers 4,281.50 Closing Balance: 6,122.49 Any other financial activities

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PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Activities

Total number of active members in the past 3 years. Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to

retention and growth of members

B.2 Chapter Activities

Total number of Chapters in the Section Number of Chapters formed in the current year Number of Active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during

the year) Summary of Chapter activities chapter wise with attachment table / information

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities

Summary of continuing Educational activities including conferences, technical activities, training courses, and distinguished lecture programs with attachment table / information

1) 1st workshop on Advance Digital Design Using FPGA Advantage based on Mentor Graphics EDA tools’ organized by MUET:

Date: 3rd and 4th April 2010

2) IEEE-MUET Student Chapter's Website “www.ieee-muet.com” Inauguration Ceremony

Date: 3rd April 2010

3) IEEE-MUET Organizes Guest series lecture on “Optical Networks: Past, present and future”

Date: 10th August 2010

4) IEEE-MUET organized a seminar on Problem Based Learning at MUET Auditorium

Date: 27th March 2010

5) IEEE-MUET organized a seminar Importance of Thesis and ProjectIEEE-MUET organized a Seminar on "Software Defined Radio Technology (SDR)"

Date: 22nd October 2010

6) Seminar on "Digital Filter Designing. A Practical Approach" organized by IEEE-MUET Student Chapter in Collaboration with Aalborg University, Denmark and Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Program held on 8th November, 2010 from

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10:00 am to 12:00 noon at IICT Video Conferencing Hall, MUET.

Date: 8th November, 2010

7) Seminar on "Process & Concurrency Issues in Operating Systems" organized by IEEE-MUET Student Chapter in Collaboration with Aalborg University, Denmark and Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Program held on 8th November, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at IICT Video Conferencing Hall, MUET.

Date: 8th November, 20108)

Date: 16th April 2010

B.4 Students Activities

Total number of Student branches in the Section Total 15 students branches are working under IEEE Karachi Section Number of Student branches formed in the current year Two branches formed in the current year i.e. IQRA Unviversity and PAF-KIET Karachi Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc) Pakistan Student Congress (PSC’10) held on Oct 29-31, 2010 at Usman Institute of

Technology Karachi Number of Active Student branches (Student branches who have reported required number

of meetings during the year) 14 student branches are active Summary of Student branch activities student branch wise with attachment table / information

B.5 Affinity Group Activities Pakistan student congress is an annual gathering of IEEE representatives from the country’s student branches, to promote collaboration among the students of the branches lying in the territory to share their knowledge and experiences and to learn how to reap benefits of being an IEEE Member. This year, Pakistan Student Congress 2010 was organized by IEEE Karachi Section at Usman Institute of Technology on 29th , 30th and 31st October. It provided a chance for all the IEEE Student Chapters to interact with industry speakers and houseful of learning seminars.Pakistan Women In Engineering Forum in collaboration with Karachi Section and WIE Coordinator Karachi Section organized the Women In Engineering Session PSC’10 on 30th October. It provided a perfect platform to the representatives of the WIE AG from all three IEEE Section of Pakistan to share their events and functioning with each other. Mr. Shahab Siddique, the Vice Chair IEEE Karachi Section, presided over the session. Starting off with a brief introduction of the attendees, we had a WIE GSM (Graduate Student Member) session with Ms Nimra Kazmi, the Ex-Vice Chair IEEE PNEC and Ex-Chair WIE PNEC. She enlightened the female students about the problems that a fresh female graduate comes across when she goes for job hunt. She also highlighted how IEEE platform can help you in establishing contacts with

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the industry personals and how it can facilitate you in getting you a job or at least a chance for being interviewed.

Moving on, Ms Synnia Tanveer, Chairperson IEEE GCUL talked about how things have been working at WIE GCUL and showed us a video that comprised of their activities. Then Ms. Anum Sayani, General Secretary FAST NU Karachi, shared with us her efforts for the establishment of WIE AG at her university and discussed the hurdles coming across.After this an on spot activity was executed in which all the attendees were divided into four groups with representation from Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad section. Each team A, B, C and D were to consider themselves as an affinity group. Among the group members they had to appoint themselves as a Chairperson, Vice Chair, General Secretary, Treasurer and other office bearers. Each team had to come up with a name of their affinity group starting off with the alphabet their team was assigned. On a chart paper they had to sketch out a four month activity plan for their respective group and for each event they were to assign tasks among the ex-com and the office bearers. They were given 30 minutes for their planning and discussion and after that each team was to explain their working strategies and plan of events. Also each team member put in the picture their duties, responsibilities and their role for the implementation of each event their affinity group had planned. The “Alpha team” was declared the winner and the “Bells & Chimes” stood the runners up. It turned out to be a highly effective interactive session in which WIE girls from all three sections worked together and shared ideas among themselves.After this, Ms. Hudaisa Afzal, General Secretary WIE PNEC, put on show a video encompassing the proceedings of WIE PNEC. Following up Ms. Nimrah Pervez, Chair WIE NED showed us all an amazing short film that encircled the activities of NED WIE.Soon after these presentations Ma’am Durdana Habib, Chair Affinity group of Women in Engineering, Islamabad section and the Mentor of the Pakistan WIE Forum addressed the participants of the WIE Session PCS’10 from Islamabad through skype and enlightened them about the grounds of Pakistan WIE Forum, its creation, working, proceedings and missions. She highlighted that involvement of all IEEE Sections of Pakistan, appointment of female coordinators from all sections and to spread the voice of engineering women across Pakistan, are the initial focus areas of the PWF (Pakistan WIE Forum). She also mentioned that Pakistan WIE Forum is currently working on WIE technical paper contest and WIE Pakistan newsletter. Following up, we had a WIE Talk with Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, Consultant WIE-GCUF and Executive Member Pakistan WIE Forum, online through skype from Faisalabad. And finally Ms. Anum Kamran presented token of thanks to the participants of the session.

Last but not the least I would mention special thanks to IEEE Karachi Section, for making this session possible and also the Pakistan Student Congress 2010 team and UIT volunteers for their support and help. Also congratulations to

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IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum, Ms. Mehak Ikhlaq, Executive Member PWF, Ms. Mehvish Zahoor, Executive Member PWF and Ms. Anum Kamran, WIE coordinator Karachi Section for the great success of WIE Session PSC’10.

GOLD WIE Life Member

WIE Affinity Group Activities

Robotics Workshop by WIE NED on 24-25 March 2010 to facilitate the audience with focused and composed information about robot designing techniques and automation encouraging them to pursue this field of study. A total of 103 students attended the workshop from different universities of Karachi. The workshop was conducted by Mr Jamshid Dastur, a genius himself in the fields of Robotics. The students learned a lot from the workshop a lot, and were given certificates at the end of the event. Many of them actually came up with their original robot’s design by the end of the workshop. One of the attendee published a blog for the workshop at http://zaidpirwani.com/robotics-workshop-at-ned/

Multi-Speaker FPGA Seminar by WIE NED on 13 May 2010 was video conferencing seminar at NED University attended by a total of 150 students from various universities all over Karachi. Zeeshan Zia, joined live from Germany and other speakers included two professional from Digitek, Pakistan and three students who have been working on FPGA as their majors.

Seminar on ‘How to shine in your career’ by WIE NED on 3 June 2010 where speaker Misbahuddin, RF Manager at Nokia Siemens Network, NSN was a source of inspiration for the audience. He described the impact of recession on the market of telecommunications, and followed on as how to make the most of what you have and excel throughout. He exhibited great thoughts by sharing his experience, his job-switches from SUPARCO to Ufone then to NSN and the importance of résumé. The event was very productive and immensely inspired various students.

Mentoring Session by WIE NED on 12 July 2010 to instil enthusiasm in the women-in-engineering and spruce up their professionalism. The trainers were Amir Zahoor, IEEE Lahore Section Student Representative, Mehwish Zahoor, IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum executive member, and Hassaan Idrees, IEEE Karachi Section Student Representative. All the three speakers were highly experienced and inspired all, their main objective being to troubleshoot the problems that arise in an Affinity Group, how to plan events and following-up on them. It was a very constructive experience for the entire WIE-NED bench, as they reaped great know-how into organising the best events and planning ahead, to be goal oriented and respectful and honest.

Second Birthday of WIE NED on 22 July 2010 was celebrated by party that included Chair IEEE Karachi section Parkash Lohana, Vice Chair Shahab Siddiqui, Torchbearer SSR Saqib Munawar, Muhammad Saad of ComSoc, Sohaib Qamar of GINI, Qasim Pasta from PAK-KIET University. Interactive talks with the guests were held, emphasising on the importance of IEEE and WIE as creditable platforms for engineers of today and tomorrow. He pointed out the lack of participation and interest by the majority of students to be one of the major hindrances in the progress of engineers. He ensured the future planning for IEEE to have the maximum

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number of creative minds and encouraged the present WIE team to act as mentors so that new comers can seize the lead efficiently.

Workshop on Machine Vision by WIE NED with speaker Zeeshan Zia, PhD from Germany. The first day of the workshop was all about the market and the future the immature field of machine vision holds, the concept of enabling machines with the sense of vision and the intensity of benefit and accuracy it can provide, and image processing done using MATLAB. On the second day of the workshop, the speaker reviewed the previous day and started with practical implication of the usage of histograms in the new phenomenon of content based image retrieval, the idea being to use the intensity per pixels in images with respect to colour in images and using it as input as to find specific pictures like the input. He further explained segmentation and its application as to extract a particular part of an object from the image discarding the unwanted pixels. The speaker being experienced and very practical shared with us the concept of scientific research and terms like professor cum PhD and ways to be taken in by professors hiring PhD students. It was a very informative workshop, inspiring and object-oriented for the new breed of engineers to come.

Box Office by WIE-NED on 9 August 2010 was a short film, animation and scripting competition, sponsored by television channel Style360 and multimedia experts Arena Multimedia. Videos on various themes were seen from amazing animation work to comedy, and thought-provoking awareness subjects. Comments were given by judges to evaluate each entry, and Style360 took the coverage of event during breaks. After a tough competition between 11 entries by students of various universities of IEEE Karachi Section, the judges unanimously gave the first prize to ‘2030’ a futuristic animation by Misbah Ameen a student of ARENA multimedia, the second prize to ‘Blind Date’ a humorous short film directed by Daniyal Asad from SZABIST and the third prize to ‘Xeroderma’ a short documentary by Naveed Ahmed Usmani of NED. The scripting contest was won by Anam Ashraf. The competition ended with a note of encouragement by the chief guest Sabeen Mehmud COO of B.I.T.S. and director of NGO Peaceniche who appreciated the young minds and emphasised on hard work for future projects. Creative heads used for animations were exceptionally encouraged for the potential that they carried.

Slumber party by WIE PNEC on 13 April 2010 saw the females participating actively. The girls watched movies, had dinner, played games, danced, cheered and laughed together, having a really fun. The objective was to promote the feeling of empathy, sharing and determination.

Beach Trip by WIE PNEC on 14 April 2010 was a frivolous activity not only for the WIE members but for the all the female engineering students of PNEC. The girls went to the Manora Beach, tanned themselves in the burning sun, played throw-ball, football, cricket and many other exciting games.

Seminar on Women Empowerment and Circuit Design competition by WIE PNEC was conducted 30 April 2010. Unilever Pakistan sponsored the event, which was composed of various accomplished female speakers including Safoora Basit, Assistant Manager at Shell Pakistan. Mrs Ambreen Imran, Assistant Professor Anatomy, Bahria Medical and Dental College enlightened the ladies on the topic of osteoporosis. Another speaker, Ms Samia Farrukh spoke on marital issues and how to curtail problems in the personal lives of women. An activity was arranged for the mothers to design circuits with help from their daughters. The event was first of its kind in PNEC and received great appreciation.

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WIE Day Celebration by WIE PNEC was celebrated on 27 October 2010 to rejoice the achievements and the efforts of the student body of WIE PNEC. A cake cutting ceremony was held in which all the members of WIE and IEEE PNEC were invited and we had the honour of sharing this celebration with Head of department Electrical & Electronics, PNEC, Mr Nazir Alam and branch mentor, IEEE-PNEC, Lt Cdr Attaullah. The Chair IEEE-WIE AG, Shezana Zulfiqar, gave her speech, appreciating the work of the members and encouraging them to keep working with the same determination.

Web Development workshop using Asp.Net and AJAX by WIE JUW was conducted as a 5-day Training Workshop on Web Development Using ASP.Net and AJAX on 1 July 2010. It was a fifteen-hour long workshop, given three hours each day. It was conducted by Asif Iqbal, Team Lead for Worldcall Telecom Ltd. The whole session was divided into two parts – The Introduction to ASP.NET, Building Web applications using ASP.NET and Introduction to AJAX. On the first day the students were taught the introduction of ASP.NET, installation and configuration in which the theory part was taken first. After the theory session the students got the feel of using Visual Studio. Students also created simple ASP.NET applications and learned application types, structure and file types. The second day covered the controls provided by ASP.NET. The students practised different controls including HTML, server side, and validations controls. On the third day, the topic continued and students were taught some more advanced controls which included navigation and rich server side controls. On the same day, working with master pages was also introduced in detail. On the fourth day students got the introduction of data access and worked with the database connectivity, they learned to manage states at application, session and control levels. Students were excited to learn about the management of users through built in login forms, password recovery, create user wizard. The last day of the workshop was dedicated to introduction of AJAX, and students were thought how to develop AJAX based applications using ASP.NET. On the whole, it was a successful workshop and students got to learn a lot while having lots of fun at the same time. Through this workshop the students got a taste of the exciting and developing field of ASP.NET. The students eagerly look forward to their next workshop, moving towards the ultimate Web Development!

Web Development workshop using PHP and MYSQL by WIE JUW was a 5-day Training Workshop was organized by IEEE JUW on Web Development Using PHP and MYSQL starting on 14 June 2010. It was conducted by Mr Syed Zeeshan Shah, Senior Software Engineer Tradekey Pvt Ltd. The objective of this Workshop was to educate students in developing Web Applications using PHP, MYSQL Database and AJAX. This workshop is designed to deliver several aspect regarding PHP and MYSQL. On the first day the students were introduced to PHP and taught variables and expressions in PHP. PHP operators and flow controls. On the second day of workshop, participating students were told how to perform PHP configurations and to develop functions in PHP. Array and string manipulation techniques were also taught to them. Till third day, Zeeshan Shah had laid the foundation for PHP so the students geared themselves to move further for taking user inputs from forms via PHP. They developed database using MYSQL in the same day. Sessions and cookies introduction were also delivered to them. The fourth day groomed the students to learn file and directory access in PHP. Handling email in PHP also proved to be significant learning on that day. The concluding day familiarised working with AJAX and web services to learners and how to use frameworks in PHP was also included in the practice for that day. From this workshop, students got the opportunity to learn this open source scripting language which is widely used these days and its developers are entertained just like hot cakes in the Pakistani market.

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Development Using Microsoft Silverlight by WIE JUW was a presentation seminar on 31 September 2010. It was conducted by Ms Natasha Zain, Event Coordinator, IEEE-JUW SB and student of Final Year. The objective of this Presentation was to give an introduction to students on Silverlight and how professional developers are using silverlight to enhace interactivity and graphics in their web applications. The presentation was divided into two parts – Introduction and Demonstration on Siverlight. Firstly, the students were given an Introduction of Silverlight, and the major evolution that has taken place from the old Silverlight 1.0 to Silverlight 4. Features of silverlight were explained to the students and what can be developed using silverlight was discussed. After this, they were told what tools will be needed to develop a Silverlight application. After the introduction, demonstration was given on some of the major features of silverlight. The students were taught how to animate simple objects using silverlight technology. After this, students were taught how to take input and display data from a silverlight page. Following this, they were taught how to display data in different charts such as Pie Chart and Column Chart. After the demostration, the students were taught how to display data from a database to a silverlight application using a webservice. Overall, it was a very interactive session as the students were very eager to learn about silverlight and how they can use it as part of their web application.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions for an institute by WIE JUW celebrated IEEE Global day on 7-8 Oct 2010. However presentation sessions and students vocational trainings were conducted whole week. JUW Student Branch office bearers decided to conduct the presentation sessions. First presentation was delivered by Namrah Maham Mirza (Joint Secretary, IEEE-JUW SB) on 29 September 2010 between 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. This interactive session is designed to deliver several aspects regarding ERP and academic institutes’ functional requirements. Students got awareness about different activities held in institutes for their smooth running. Then differences between past and present changes in the institutes were being taught. The presenter also told the students about the general integrated business lifecycle and gave them live examples. On getting the usual examples of routine life students easily understood the business scenarios of the enterprises. Later on, general definition of ERP and its importance were taught to the students. When base for the understanding of an ERP Solution is developed among listeners, then the presenter proposed an ERP Architecture for an institute based on generalized requirements. Presentation ended on highlighting names of some popular ERP Solution providers and developers. Questions between and end of the presentation by students were clearly indicating the interest and their better understanding of the topic. From this session, students got the opportunity to learn another new technology and can able to exercise their brain for future considerations.

Global Integrated Network of IEEE Collaboration Platform

GINI CP

1. Work on preparing documents for Section Student Representative at the Centre for Leadership Excellence CLE Training Centre during September 2010 with Om Perkash Batra, R10 RSR under John Reinert (Chairperson at Centre for Leadership Excellence Committee), Dave Kemp and Arun Gopalakrishnan.http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/officer_training/index.html

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2. Pakistan Student Congress was held from 29 to 31 October 2010 and was a mega event that incorporated all of the GINI Collaboration Platform’s goals. Several groundbreaking achievements happened here like the inclusion of Lahore and Islamabad Section’s members on GINI Pakistan team. From IEEE Lahore Section is their Section Student Representative, Synnia Tanveer of IEEE GCU Lahore and from IEEE Islamabad Section is the Section Student Representative Usama Shahid Khan, along with Shahzada Shahrukh of Bahria Islamabad and Fatma Faruq of EME NUST. These are the newest members in the GINI circle working for better collaboration all over Pakistan. Details are at http://pakistan.r10sac.org/

3. Cornerstone Reform by GINI Karachi: 11 November saw GINI Karachi Section holding a discussion group at Pakistan Navy Engineering College, PNEC. As the Industrial Relations wing reared itself for action, the National University of Sciences and Technology, NUST, Corporate Relations Manager Mr Sikander Hazir was enlightened IEEE student members about the multi-pronged action plan designed to empower them with all the training and tools as to engage in successful careers. The plan initiates with basic offices in each Student Branch with a Career Development Centre (CDC) headed by a proactive faculty/non-faculty member, catering to a wider platform than dealing with just internships and placements. It was decided that regular meetings of various HR managers with CDC Head can result in clarifying the nature of ideal candidates required by industry. This can well provide the foundation for Career Counselling, including résumé, cover letter and interview help. Mr Hazir noted that fresh grads were more often than not academic geniuses and hands-on training pertaining to relevant disciplines on both technical and soft skills development could better shape them, thereby necessitating on monthly grounding to blend them in both. Another aspect which received appreciation was research-based and on-field internships, carved by the CDC in specific industries. Research-based placements would also be a branch to embedding final year projects with engineering companies. The idea of featuring frequent and fruitful industrial visits on the plan gathered thumbs-up as well. And lastly, a step-by-step curriculum overhaul, an amalgam of industry and academe incorporating short courses where necessary, concluded the GINI reform, drawing on a lot of hope from students. http://www.nust.edu.pk/usr/cdo/default.aspx

4. Nokia Mobile Development Workshop with CIO Pakistan and Nokia Ovi Distributors on 15 November 2010 at Sheraton Hotel Karachi, in collaboration with Teemu Kiijarvi, Manager Nokia Middle East and North Africa, and Rabia Nizami, Secretary Nokia CAI Pakistan http://www.callingallinnovators.com/pakistan.aspx

GINI Pakistan Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/ginipakistanGINI Pakistan website https://pakistan.r10sac.org/A look at the statistics for Collaboration Platform of GINI Karachi Section…

Aspect September 2010 January 2011SBs that have at least their Executive Committee members registered on the website

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Total number of registered users in the website 15 29Total Number of reports submitted to website 5 15Number of Student Branches that have submitted reports to website

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Total number of student branches in section 15 15Hits for GINI Pakistan web forum 7815 14100

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B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities

Award constituted by the section Best student volunteer, best councilor, Award(s) received from R10 Larry K.Wilsoan Award, GINI Pakistan Representative Mr. Ravander Lal Bhojwani Award(s) received from IEEE HQ

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.)

Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year) IEEE Karachi Section newsletter – Two issues in a year Home Page of the section (give the URL and frequency which it is updated) http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/karachi/ Other means of contacts with section members

B.8 Community Activities

B.9 Other Organizational Activities

PART C - OTHERS

C.1 Relationship with National SocietiesInstitution of Electrical Electronic Engineers Paksitan (IEEEP) Karachi CenterPeagasus Consultancy

C.2 Special Events

C.3 Problems to be AnticipatedHow to make the financial transactions in Karachi Section??????????????C.4 Best Practices of your section (which you would like share with other sections for the benefits of members) Regular meetings with industry giants to create a close liaison with industry and share the ideas with them. PART D - GOALS AND PLANS

D.1 Continuation of Project/Activity in Progress and Their Implementation PlansWorking closely with industry D.2 Goals and Future PlansTo Create the awareness regarding entrepreneurship among professional members, graduate and student members

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