SPOTLIET

Monthly News Journal of IET UET Chapter

Outline:

IET Welcome Ceremony

Brainiac’14: Compete the Smarter

Brainiac’14: CircuitMania

IET Project Day

Nobel Prize 2014

Article of the Month

News & Science This Month

The Institute of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading

professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET

has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North

America and Asia-Pacific. The mission of IET is to build an open, flexible and

limitless global knowledge network supported by individuals, companies and

institutions and facilitated by the IET and its members.

The IET UET Student Chapter is a robust and highly functional sub-unit of IET

PAKISTAN (along with IET GIKI, IET UET and IET NED etc.) Network supervised

by Dr. Tahir Izhar providing the engineers with a comprehensive exposure

platform in accordance with the following the agenda:

Vision Sharing and advancing knowledge throughout the global Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) community to enhance people’s lives around the world. Mission

To build an open, flexible and limitless global knowledge network supported by individuals, companies and institutions and facilitated by the IET and its members.

IET UET Chapter has taken the initiative to publish the “SPOTLIET” every month

and this is the 2nd volume. It will cover information regarding the current and

future events arranged by IET UET Chapter. This newsletter will also let the

readers take a brief review of the events that were recently conducted by IET in

UET. “SPOTLIET” team hopes that this journal would prove to be a reliable

source of news for all of the stakeholders: students, faculty, industry, sponsors

and international community.

EDITOR-in-CHIEF: ASIF HANIF [Chair Person Documentation Team] ASSISTANT EDITORS: MAHNOOR ABBASI [Co-Head Documentation Team]

SAMIA ZAFAR [Special Correspondent SPOTLIET]

Issue Number: 002

Date: January 9, 2015

Islamic Date: 17 Rabi-ul-Awal, 1436 ھ

IET sends its new year greetings to all readers. May this year bring happiness

and success in every one’s life.

IET WELCOME CEREMONY IET UET Chapter arranged welcome ceremony named as “Freshers’ Night” on

December 11, 2014 for new members in the lawn of Electrical Engineering

Department. It was a great experience for attendees to join this memorable

evening. Many funny tasks and tidbits were arranged and audience was

involved in this fun. They rejoiced to participate in these funny activities.

Three honorable guests also adorned

this evening with their presence. Invited

guests were as follows: Maha Amin

(former vice president operations IET),

Hassan Raza (former vice president IET) ,

Zain-ul-Abideen(former chief finance

officer IET).

Main objective of this ceremony was

to familiarize new members with

traditions, structure and family of IET.

This event provided them a chance to

get some free time from their hectic

study and spend time in an enjoyable

environment. In this ceremony IET

core committee announced some

appreciation awards and certificates among the members to encourage them for

their work. The list of the award holders is given below:

Best Performance Award: Waneeza Zaheer

Best Member Award: Amna Fazal

Best Core Team Award: Documentation Team

Brainiac’14: Compete the Smarter IET in collaboration with ICOSST arranged an IQ test on December 18, 2014. This

event was made successful by the efforts of IET Event Management team. More

than 70 students from different departments participated in this quiz competition.

An amalgamation of difficult and easy questions was given in this quiz test.

The winners of this competition are shown below:

Brainiac’14: Circuit Mania IET UET Mechatronics team in collaboration with ICOSST organized a competition

named as “CircuitMania” on December 18, 2014. It was based a on circuit solving

and tough competition following team was declared winner of the event. IET

congratulates winners of “CircuitMania”.

Winner Team Members:

NOBEL PRIZES 2014

This is the list of Nobel Prize holders of year 2014.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled

bright and energy-saving white light sources"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner

"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014

John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser

"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014

Patrick Modiano

"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human

destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai

"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for

the right of all children to education"

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2014

Jean Tirole

"for his analysis of market power and regulation"

Article of the Month In 2nd edition of SPOTLIET, we are publishing best article of the month. A formal

procedure was adopted to collect articles from community. After reviews

following article has been selected for publication.

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CONCEALED DISCOVERIES OF GRAHAM BELL

By: Naina Emmanuel (UET Taxila)

of whom died from tuberculosis. Alexander was homeschooled by his mother,

who instilled in him an infinite curiosity about the world around him. He received

one year of formal education in private school and two years at Royal High

IET wishes new members

successful and a unforgettable

career in society. It will be a very

good learning experience for new

comers to stay with seniors and

get guidance from them in IET.

This beautiful evening ended with

a delicious dinner and music.

problem. Different teams got

themselves registered for

this competition. One and

half hour was given to

participants with a kit

containing circuit elements.

They were asked to patch

that circuit efficiently in in

given time. After evaluation

Jawad Qamar

Hira Murtaza

Tehrina Ismail

Alexander Graham Bell: a distinguished

scientist, innovator and the originator; known

chiefly as the inventor of the ‘Telephone’, was

born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

For most of his life, the younger Alexander was

known as "Aleck" to family and friends. He had

two brothers, Melville and Edward, both of

whom died from

School from which he dropped out.

In 1864 Bell began work as a teacher at Elgin's Western House Academy. In

1871, He opened school for the teachers of deaf in Boston and in 1873 became

professor of vocal physiology at city's university. In 1876, at the age of 29, Bell

invented his TELEPHONE. He devised over fifty other inventions that were well

ahead of their time. In 1877, he formed ‘Bell Telephone Company’, where he’d

make millions; becoming one of the richest men alive during his life and in the

same year married Mabel Hubbard and had two daughters. His rare

intellectual inquisitiveness kept him regularly searching and striving through

a long and productive life. “CONCENTRATE ALL YOUR THOUGHTS UPON THE

WORK AT HAND. THE SUN'S RAYS DO NOT BURN UNTIL BROUGHT TO A

FOCUS.” By Alexander Graham Bell.

Among one of his first innovations after the telephone was the "photophone,"

a device that enabled sound to be transmitted on a beam of light. Bell

regarded the photophone as "The greatest invention I have ever made;

greater than the telephone”, He later improved this and produced a device

called a telephone probe.

Bell had begun experimenting with propellers and kites. His work led him to

apply the concept of the tetrahedron to kite design as well as to create a new

form of architecture. In 1883 Bell invented the graphophone, the first practical

system of sound recording. In 1898 Bell became president of the National

geographic society. In his later years Bell took a keen interest in aeronautics.

In 1919, he produced a hydrofoil craft. He was a remarkable person whose achievements encouraged young scientists. He devoted his life to the benefit of humankind. He worked in the fields of medicine, marine engineering, genetics, electrical science, sheep-breeding, artificial respiration, desalinization, water distillation and greatly, advanced the methods of teaching deaf people to communicate. One of his most famous students Helen Keller, who came to him as a child unable to see, hear and speak; attributed its occurrence to bell "The door through which I should pass from darkness into light”. Bell died in Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2nd August, 1922.

IET Project Day To bridge the gap among juniors and seniors, IET Living Library conducted a two day event; “IET Project Day”. In these two sessions, seniors guided all attendees about their project. Audience shared their technical problems with instructors and sought help from them regarding their semester projects. According to the feedback of participants, this event proved to be very helpful for them and assisted them in the completion of their projects. Best projects of the seniors were also displayed in the hall to inspire juniors for hard work.

Proverb of the Month

"The pen is mightier than the sword." Trying to convince people with ideas and words is more effective than trying to force them with violence.

Science This Month

Bioengineers take the first step toward printing replacement tissue. Could

tomorrow’s surgeons create customized replacement tissue for patients just

by hitting print? Two teams of Harvard bioengineers made big strides toward

that goal in 2014, reporting two new 3-D-printing methods that help

construct rudimentary blood vessels. Each year, thousands of people die

waiting for tissue and organ donations, which are scarce. For that reason,

tissue engineers are working to build replacements, and they’ve managed to

do it for sheet like tissues.

Google’s car is the face of future robots. Google’s self-driving car prototype

represents a cuddly vision of th e robot future that is almost the complete

opposite of what most dystopian science

fiction films have imagined. The

vehicle’s headlights combine with a pert

“nose” to give the impression of a

wide-eyed baby confronting the

world for the first time. Wired has described

the car as “an egg with the face of a koala. ” Cartoonist Matthew Inman,

creator of the popular website The Oatmeal, dubbed the Google cars

“adorable Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots.” In other words, Google’s car

has a face that wordlessly people to trust it when they see the driverless

vehicle ambling down the road.

species — they were larger, and brown with yellow and white spots. But its

two left wings were smaller and darker, with splashes of green, blue and

purple, a pattern characteristic of males.

IET NEWS & UPDATES IET pays tribute to former executives of society by posting their sentiments

on official facebook page of IET UET Chapter.

IET Women Networks arranges first ever competition on designing of Google

forms in UET Lahore.

IET UET ROBOTICS team provides opportunity for students to make full

funded projects related to robotics.

IET Living Library’s project on “IET Digital Library” is under process. Your

participation is required in this regard.

Human resource (HR) team makes new good looking local membership form.

Date for new induction will be announced soon.

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Stalled global warming linked to

North American drought. Strong

Pacific Ocean winds blamed for

the global warming effect also

boosted the odds of severe

drought in the southwestern

United States.

Kepler telescope discovers another

554 possible planets.

Extra year of Kepler telescope data

adds 554 possible planets and eight

confirmed ones that might be able to

host life. Dam demolition lets Elwah river run

free. Removing a dam involves more

than impressive explosions.

Releasing a river like Washington

state's Elwha transforms the

landscape and restores important

pathways for native fish.

Rare butterfly is half male, half female.

Chris Johnson, a retired chemical engineer

from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was

volunteering at the exhibit when he

stumbled across the unusual sight.

Johnson noticed that the insect's two right

wings were typical of the females of its