MUET stands Runners up in NASCON’12 Organized by Fast-

National University, Islamabad

FEECE TEAM

Dr. Fahim A. Umrani

Engr. Kehkashan Asma

Memon

Engr. Saadullah Kalwar

Mr. Ahsan Memon

(10TL)

Mr. Abdullah Khan (ES)

FEECE-MUET eNewsletter

MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, JAMSHORO

Volume 2, Issue 9

June 2012

NASCON’12 1

UIT WORKSHOP 2

MUETians at 27th

IEEEP 4-5

WORLD TELECOM

DAY 6

BOOM YOUR CA-

REER 7

WHAT SUCCESS

ACTUALLY IS 8

MOTIVATIONAL

TIPS 9

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: PATRONS: DR. B.S CHOWDARY; DR. MUKHTIAR UNAR; DR. AFTAB A. MEMON

NASCON, National Solutions Convention 2012 was an event organized by FAST Student Societies in April 2012.National Solutions Convention 2012 aims at solving the problems of Pakistan by giving direction to the youth in aligning their passions with their academia to secure a brighter future.

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MUETians receiving prize at NASCON’12

MUETians with their project

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NASCON is an annual technology event where students, academia and industry professionals cherish the talent concealed within the youth of Pakistan. Organized by FAST Student Societies as a com-bined effort, this mega event seeks to encompass competitions and contests in major technical fields including Engineering, I.T and management bonded by social and youth empowerment events. It is held every year at FAST-NU, Islamabad with focus on instilling the practical experiences from the industry, the visionary leadership of the faculty and the vibrant energy of the students through relevant talks and workshops. In the Event of NASCON’12 three categories of events took place relating to Engineering, Business and Various Social events. The stu-dents of Electronics department of Mehran UET, Jamshoro partici-pated in the Engineering Project based Competition in which univer-sities from across the country participated with their latest and fu-turistic hardware based Projects and they were judged depending upon the market compatibility of their engineering projects, and their innovative thinking. The Engineering Project based Competition was held on 21st of April 2012 in FAST-NU Islamabad campus. In the starting phase of the contest the participants were asked about the technical perspective and their novel work in the project. In second phase the judges asked about the cost and the application of the presented projects. The first prize went to FAST-NU, Lahore Project which was “MATLAB based Color Following Robot”, and Mehran UET, Jamshoro won the Runner up prize and there project was “GPS based Autonomous Car with Wi-Fi Controlled”. The Students of Mehran university that won this prize are from 08 Electronics batch namely Syed Assad Ashraf 08ES113 (Group leader), Syed Zeeshan Ali 08es108, Abdur Rehman Afridi 08es11, Zawar Khan 08es103, Talha Hyderie 08es116, and Qazi Mohammed Jawwad 08es107 and they were super-

WORKSHOP ON SIMULATION OF COMMUNICATION

SYSTEMS USING MATLAB & SIMULINK

IEEE Communication Society in collaboration with Usman Institute of Technology (UIT) & Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) organized a One-Day Workshop on "SIMULATION OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING MATLAB AND SIMULINK" on 2nd April 2012 at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi at 10am. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Fahim A. Umrani (Associate Professor, MUET) and Engr. Syed Zafi S. Shah (Lecturer, MUET) and was facilitated by Engr. Shiraz Lateef (Assistant Professor, UIT).

Dr. Fahim A. Umrani (TL)

Having discussion!

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As in other scientific areas simulation techniques play an important role in the design and evaluation of communication networks and systems. Often their complexity and size or sim-ple economic reasons prevent studying them in reality. Thus many tools and programming class libraries exist for simulation purposes in the range of communication networks. The event was attended by the students from all over Karachi and also by the faculty mem-bers of UIT, Karachi. The main objective of this workshop was to teach the participants basic simulation techniques in the field of Communication Systems. The workshop also empha-sized to have the basic understanding of the theoretical concepts of communication sys-tems. The tool that was used for simulation is MATLAB and Simulink.

Presenters, organizers and participants group photo of WSWC at UIT, Karachi.

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sion of Students’ Seminar. Technical papers were re-ceived from different univer-

sities like MUET, Punjab Uni-versity Lahore, SSUET, Hamdard University, Usman

Institute of Tech-nology, Pakistan Navy Engineering College and many others.

The author and participant students from BM, ESE and CS department of MUET attended the seminar. The Dean Faculty of Elec-trical, Electronics & Com-puter Engineering, Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chow-dhry accompanied MUET students and also chaired a Technical Ses-

The 27th IEEEP All Pakistan Student Seminar held on 28th February, 2012, organized by IEEEP in collaboration with Hamdard University, Karachi emerged to be the event of novelty and thoughts in the field of Engineering. Cluster of Talented Students came from different Universities across Pakistan presented their research papers and al-so remained the source of inspiration for other students

to portray their aptitude and intellectuals. Continuing the practice of uphill struggle and passion to win, students of MUET again succeed-ed in showing their de-votion towards Research in Engineering and Sci-ence. They recognized themselves by win-ning 2nd position in the competition of IEEEP Students’ Seminar.

presented by a postgraduate student of Electronic System Engineering & an undergrad-uate student from Bio-Medical Engineering. At the end of seminar, IEEEP an-nounced results and honored 6 POSITIONS among these15 papers.

After meticulous scrutiny, Seminar Authorities short listed only 15 research papers from all over Pakistan, among which MUET students avowed two research papers. One paper was presented by undergraduate students of Computer System Engineer-ing and another paper was

After meticulous scrutiny, Seminar Authorities

short listed only 15 research papers from all over

Pakistan, among which MUET students avowed

two research papers

Ms. Sanober presenting her paper

Dr. B. S. Chowdhry delivering his talk

Noteworthy Achievement of MUETians in 27th IEEEP

All Pakistan Student’s Seminar

Engr. Sanober Memon (ES)

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2nd POSITION, Gold Medals, 14,000 /Rs cash prize and certificates were won by Engr. Sanober Farheen Memon (B11 ME ESE 50) and Shah Faisal (08BM26) from the Department of Electron-ics System Engineering and Bio-Medical Engineering, MUET. Their paper was enti-tled as “Electronic based Vis-ual Aid for Blinds (e-VAB)” under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Dean Faculty of Electrical, Elec-tronics and Computer Engi-

neering.

The event was eagerly cov-ered by local and national print/electronic media such as the Engineering Review Magazine, the Busi-ness Recorders, the Media partners, Radio partners, and the Nation & PC world as technical media part-ners. The Technical Con-vener of Seminar, Engr. Parkash Lohana, distributed the appreciation certificates among the participants of the seminar.

MUETians receiving prize from pro-

vincial minister Ms. Shazia Marri

Random pictures of 27th IEEEP Student Seminar

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WORLD TELECOM DAY

World telecom day continued its trend for the thirty second time in the world, which was cele-brated, for the first time in Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro.

According to ITU, the purpose of World Tele-communication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is to help raise awareness of the possi-bilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. 17 May marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunica-tion Union.

This event mainly focused on the role of women and girls in ICT. Enlightening their achievements in telecom sector, specially to girls who were selected for different scholarships abroad, such as USEF Pakistan and Erasmus Mundus.

In addition to that, there was a certificate distri-bution ceremony for the organizers of IMTIC’12 and lunch to conclude the session.

The conference program started with recitation of verses from Holy Quran By Shehroze Sufian . After the inau-gural speech by Vice Chancellor, key-note speaker Dr. Faisal Karim Shaikh presented on Internet of things. After the keynote speech, souvenirs were given to girls who had got scholarships and went on various ex-change programs to European coun-tries. Next phase of the event was certificate distribution ceremony.

Certificates were awarded by Chief guest Ms. Kulsoom Chandio Mem-ber Provincial Assembly Sindh and Vice chan-celler Prof. Dr. A.Q. K. Rajput. Concluding re-marks were given by Pro-Vice Chancel-lor.

After the session ended at M.D Hall, teachers

proceeded for lunch in Teachers common room

which was arranged by newly appointed and

recently promoted faculty members.

Engr. Saad Kalwar (TL)

Prof. Dr. BS Chowdhry, Dean FEECE and Chief Organizer of the event, Dr.

AQK Rajput Vice Chancellor MUET, Madam Kulsoom Chandio MPA, Sindh,

Dr. MA Uqaili, Pro Vice Chancellor, and Dr. Aftab A Memon, Chairman Tele-

communication Engineering department, MUET

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To provide alternate choices for prospering careers and futures for youth has always been a tre-mendous option in order to make better diversions so that they may select proper and suit-able choices to carve their fu-ture paths. In the series of it, Bachelors, Masters and PhD Scholarships (BMPS) in collabo-ration with Mehran UET success-fully arranged a seminar “Boom Your Career” for Mehranians of CS,ES, SW, BM and PG depart-ment, held in Computer Systems Dept and Electronics Dept, MUET, Jamshoro under the su-pervision of Prof. Dr. B. S. Chowdhry (DEAN - FEECE), Prof. Dr. M. A. Unar (Chairman, Com-puter Systems Dept, MUET ) , Dr. Wajiha Shah (Electronics Dept, MUET) and other respected per-sonnel. The aims of this seminar were:

To aware students about their final year projects with comparison and relevance to world wide development in science and technology

To aware them how to map and achieve good and fully funded scholarships present-ed by developed countries on merit basis

To motivate students to be a part of world leading engi-neering councils and pro-grams to shape their skills in good way to get closer to

international engineering community

To make them sure how they can enhance their inner potential to have influential presentation, motivation and interpersonal skills

To guide them how they may commence their re-search work during their under graduation period to participate in International conferences.

Also to provide a proper platform to have career counseling session for the students.

We have received a tremendous response from students and reg-istered 70+ students for this seminar in just few days. It has made us believe that such activi-ties to prosper the careers of students are well- appreciated not only by the Heads of Depart-ments but also by the students that is why there are upcoming other plans and events to be organized in next semesters. The speaker for this seminar, “Engr. M.Bilal Shaikh”, who is the grad-uate of MUET, (nowadays pursu-ing research), presented his thoughts about agenda of semi-nar and made participants aware about upcoming challeng-es and literate them how to cop with them.

Overall, it was a good experi-ence with sheer learning related to motivation, scholarship op-portunities, research paper writing, career counseling and skill development. With the be-lief that such events will be shared with all departments and all Mehranians in upcoming se-mesters, we will be able to achieve the milestone of eradi-cating the differences between a Pakistani and International Engi-neer. We are pleased to thank Prof. Dr. B. S. Chowdhry (DEAN - FEECE), Prof. Dr. M. A. Unar (Chairman, Computer Systems Dept, MUET ) , Dr. Wajiha Shah (Advisor, Electronics Dept, MUET) and whole team of BMPS for contributing and mak-ing these events possible for students in MUET. We expect that their efforts and opinions will make us able to contribute more in upcoming events or seminars in MUET.

BOOM YOUR CAREER Abdullah Khan (09ES18)

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What Success actually is in my point of view…?

Muhammad Awais Memon (09-ES-123)

When the word success comes in our mind we think to having comfort in our life is a success, but actually it is not!!! To me success is about to have satisfaction by our activities… How?? Whatever we earned or what we did is makes us satisfy or not? If not then try to satisfy ourselves or try to com-promise on it… Many people say to look on past is time wasting, because we cant change it…I partially don’t agree with them…Because I think to looking past is can make corrections in our present which cause better results in future… We see many peoples in our daily life compro-mising with their dreams for having success… But what if we plot our success graph with re-spect to our dreams… I’ve quoted an example of one of the successful mans in this century…. Steve Jobs plotted seven rules for achieving suc-cess with respect to his dreams…let see what they are! Do what you love. Jobs once said, "People with passion can change the world for the better." he said, "I'd get a job as a busboy or something until I figured out what I was really passionate about." That's how much it meant to him. Pas-sion is everything. Put a dent in the universe. Jobs believed in the power of vision. Put a dent in a universe means that you have to have a big, bold, clear, concise vision. I like to say that your vision should -- fit in a Twitter post," Consultant Carmine Gallo says. Gallo referred to John F. Kennedy's "man on the moon" declaration: "We will put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end

of the decade." "John Kennedy, in 1961, had a clear, concise vi-sion. If Twitter had existed that day, he could have tweeted it," he says. 3. Make connections,’ Kick start your Brain’ by doing something new: Doing new things helped Jobs, in the word's of Apple's own slogan, "think differently." Jobs once said crea-tivity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. He took calligraphy classes that didn't have any practical use in his life -- until he built the Macintosh. Jobs traveled to India and Asia. He studied design and hospi-tality. Don't live in a bubble. Connect ideas from different fields.

Steve Jobs

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4. Say no to 1,000 things. When jobs re-

turned in Apple in 1997, he took a compa-

ny with 350 products and reduced them to

10 products in a two-year period. Why? So

he could put the "A-Team" on each prod-

uct.

Simplicity also extended to Jobs' personal style,

says Robert Cringely, who worked with Jobs since

1977.

"In later years, he decided he would wear the

same outfit every day, so that he, you know, didn't

have to think about it, no one had to think about

it, there were no decisions," Cringley says.

5. Create insanely different experienc-

es. Jobs also sought innovation in the cus-

tomer-service experience. When he first

came up with the concept for the Apple

Stores, he said they would be different

because instead of just moving boxes, the

stores would enrich lives. For Jobs, it was-

n't just about selling 29 million iPads this

summer but entertaining the customer at

the same time

6. Master the message. You can have the

greatest idea in the world, but if you can't

communicate your Ideas, it doesn't

matter.Consultant Carmine Gallo says Jobs

wasn't born a naturally gifted presenter --

he was visibly nervous during his first live

television interview in the 1970s -- but he

improved over time.

"In 2007, he actually gave what I consider the

greatest presentation I've ever seen -- the intro-

duction of the iPhone," he says.Others can learn

from Jobs' secrets, Gallo says. Consider, he says,

asking yourself what Jobs might do in a given

situation."When you start asking yourself what

Steve would do, it's a high bar to reach," he says.

"But it's worth reaching."Jobs was the world's

greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply

delivering a presentation like most people do, he

informed, he educated, he inspired and he en-

tertained, all in one presentation.

7. Sell dreams, not products. Jobs captured

our imagination because he really under-

stood his customer. He knew that tablets

would not capture our imaginations if they

were too complicated. The result? One

button on the front of an iPad. It's so sim-

ple, a 2-year-old can use it. Your custom-

ers don't care about your product. They

care about themselves, their hopes, their

ambitions. Jobs taught us that if you help

your customers reach their dreams, you'll

win them over.

Message: What I got from jobs rules and secrets of

success story, that jobs was a common man as we

are, he had dreams as we have but the difference

is he worked to make his dreams comes true and

we compromise with our dreams.

Pakistan has a bulk of talent, but we usually spend

our time to think ,”Is it Possible?” and sometimes

we get answer “no its not…” we don’t start work-

ing we only start thinking…Don’t think for possibil-

ity start working on what you want ,Result is in the

Hand of Allah, Being a Muslim I believe it… In Last: Start thinking on whatever you want to do, not to what people expect from you… References:

Consultant Carmine Gallo, the author of "The

Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be

Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience" Robert

Cringely, who worked with Jobs since 1977.

Motivating Tips!

Moiz Rahman Memon (08TL06)

Tip #36 Set the bar high.

Tip #35 Make it a mystery.

Tip #34 Project- and problem-based learning.

Tip #33 Setting goals.

Tip #32 Reward them with recognition.

Tip #31 Build work check into your teaching.

Tip #30 Link academic achievement and workplace success.

Tip #29 Publish students' work online.

Tip #28 Encourage interaction.

Tip #27 Tap into students' desire to make a difference.

Tip #26 Guest speakers bring energy.

Tip #25 Keep it real!

Tip #24 Making parents proud.

Tip #23 Students learn as they teach.

Tip #22 Ask students' opinions.

Tip #21 An occasional reward won't hurt.

Tip #20 The devil's in the details.

Tip #19 Introduce emerging technologies.

Tip #18 Manipulatives make maths easier to handle!

Tip #17 Know your students!

Tip #16 A winning idea!

Tip #15 Keep them busy.

Tip #14 Invite them to solve real problems.

Tip #13 Teacher excitement is infectious.

Tip #12 Make assignments and expectations clear.

Tip #11 Celebrate students' accomplishments.

Tip #10 Engage them through active participation.

Tip #9 Offer them choices.

Tip #8 It's the homework wave!

Tip #7 Make 'em sweat!

Tip #6 Tie in to their interests.

Tip #5 Grab their attention with props (to support the weak).

Tip #4 Establish a sense of community.

Tip #3

Create enthusiasm with yearlong themes.

Tip #2 Teach them the steps to success.

Tip #1 Treat them with respect.

Students go on Summer Vacations from 3rd

June 2012.

The classes will resume from 16th of July.

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