issue xxi

Issue XXI Tuesday, 25 July 2008 Copies : 700 Pages : 8 Printed at : Printing Press-EME College

Editors of Campbuzz Maj Kashan Siddiqui Tel : 0321-2616547 Maj Ateeque Nawaz Tel : 0321-5145604

Disclaimer : All contents of Campbuzz are the writers’ / contributors’ personal views and are not to be taken as official opinion / policy.

Defining Futures

Ladies Club fFarewell

N E R C - 0 8 winners

Youth Crimes– Contributed Article

NUST Ap-pointments

U-Fone

He izz Muscu-lar

I N S I D E THIS ISSUE

Special Thanks

Brig Akhtar Nawaz (HOD) Maj Iftikhar (GSO-II) Maj Saqlian (OIC Press) Maj Adnan (Trg Offr MED) Maj Ali Iftikhar (Coy Comd) Capt Shahid (Coy Comd)

‘Mechatronics Engineering has found widespread acceptance in the world’, says Rector NUST

NERC—2008

HOD MTs Office: Na-tional Engineering and Robotics Contest (NERC-2008) was held at College

of E&ME on 5 July 2008 under arrangements of DMTS.

See details on page 4

Adieu DGEME

Maj Gen Fazl-i-Ilahi, HI(M) turned many challenges into opportunities Retires after having rendered over 36 years of service to the Corps of EME (Details page 3)

The shine of

new brass

Rank wearing ceremony held on 25 July 2008 A Q O f -f i c e : N e w ranks w e r e f o r -mally put on by two pro-moted Colonels, two Lieu-tenant Colonels and one Major in a sumptuous tea break held in ante room.

Continued on page 3

P r e p a r a t o r y Classes for wards of Shu-hada and war disabled sol-diers culmi-nates

HOD BS&H Dept Of-fice: NUST arranged four weeks long entrance test preparatory classes for children of soldiers who rendered their lives in service of their mother land. Classes were run for five basis subjects of FSc here in EME Classes un-

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Campbuzz, The Fortnightly Newsletter of College of E&ME

Ladies Club fare-well function

Maj Shoaib Blessed with a baby girl

See off students for Actuarial Sciences

Farewell NS Zulfiqar Ali Raja

Editor Desk: NS Zul-fiqar Ali Raja, a mag-nificent student of de-partment of Mechanical Engineering widely known for his expertise in Engineering Statics, has secured admission in Actuarial Sciences (Risk Management) in CASP Business School UK which is ranked

number 2 as far as Ac-tuarial Science is con-cerned across the globe. He would be proceed-ing to England in Au-gust. The Editorial board wishes NS Zul-fiqar Ali Raja a very Bright future and suc-cess with flying colours.

AQ Office: Cute Maira Saman, first child of Maj Shoaib ex EED, got birth on 7-7-08. The sober couple is really happy to have a baby child amongst them. Probably this was amongst the last bless-ings which the college tenure showered on new father before he leaves

for his new appointment in Mangla. During his stay here he got mar-ried, got a brand new car and completed his classic house in Wah. Editors campbuzz, on behalf of all of its read-ers, offer the blessed couple and their child the best of everything.

GSO-1 Office: Active ladies club of EME Col-lege arranged a farewell tea break for the lady wives of the out going senior offrs on 19th Jul 08 in college Ante room. Lady wives of maxi-mum officers participated and wished the out going families a very blessed future. Dastkari school stall, established in parallel also became centre of attention for the attending ladies as its colourful embroidery work looked classic.

N E W S B i t s CMAO E-mail

AQ Office: Now for the first time inquiring queries about DSOP have been made easy. CMAO can be emailed about DSOP at [email protected] for instant reply on all sorts of queries on DSOP.

TOTSC Starts

CI MEG Office: A four weeks science term for staff college participants for the year 08/09 started from 21st Jul to 16th Au-gust in Command and Staff College Quetta. CI MEG Brig Nawar, GSO-1 Lt Col Saeed Gill and SI LMD Lt Col Saeed Gill have already stationed themselves there. Opening address for the science term was delivered by Commandant EME Col-lege.

JNC Finishes

GSO-2 Office: A 24 week long course for the techni-cians of EED, Junior NCO Course finished last Satur-day. It is run twice a year for all electronics trades.

Dr Shoaib’s Book on DSP being published

Editors Desk: Dr Shoaib’s first book titled ‘Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems: A Practical Approach’ is being published by Wiley (UK). The contract has already been made and soon the book will be in

CampBuzz Article Writing Competition Result

Editors Desk: Campbuzz is likely to announce re-sult of its first ever com-petition in its next issue. The results were delayed because of the change of the judges panel. Due to non availability of the judges it was decided to change the panel and pro-ceed further. Short listing has already been carried out and articles for final selection are under study.

New Security Eqpt

MT Dte handed over new security eqpt incl cctv cameras, scan gate, dvd recorder to college.



The officers included Colonel Ikhlaq Khattak (Bn Comd), Colonel Javed Iqbal (DMTS), Lt Col Abdul Rahim, Lt Col Nadeem Ahmed Saeed and Maj Mansoor. The

much awaited ceremony of putting on more brass on the uniforms of newly promoted officers was attended by entire college faculty including military and civilian staff .

Rank Wearing Ceremony Continued from page 1

T h e F a r e w e l l D i n n e r

“The Longest reigning DG EME will be remembered for a lot of things”, says Maj Gen Jamshed

All Lt Cols and above of the Rawalpindi and surroundings areas were invited. Several retired Generals also attended the mega farewell dinner held here in Col-lege of E&ME

The Old and the New

AQ Office: Maj Gen Fazl-i-Ilahi, Col Comdt EME Corps and DG EME, was dinned out in a spectacular dinner function arranged here in college on 4th of July 08. The General retired after serving for more than 36 years. The New DG, in his farewell speech, gave a brief account of a very illustrious and glittering career of the Retiring Gen-eral. He mentioned, “Gen Fazl-i-Ilahi was commissioned in 20 EME Bn/FWO from where he posted to 80 EME Bn/6 Armd Div and College of E&ME as instr Cl ‘C’ and then served in 502 Central Wksp EME. The Gen Offr got sel for secondment to Saudi Mil Msn, Yemen. On return he was posted to 93 EME Bn/37 Div. Subsequently he served as Dy Asst Dir ITD, Assistant Director ITD and then proceeded abroad for MSc at USA. On prom to the rank of Col he was posted to EME Dte as DDEME. On completion of his asg at EME Dte, the Gen Offr was posted to HIT where he had a tenure of 3 years as Dir HIT, The Gen Offr also served as Dir ITD before assum-ing the appt of DG ITD. In 2002 he was appointed as DG EME which he continued till todate.”. He further men-tioned his major extra ordinary contributions towards bet-terment of Corps of EME in particular and for the army in general. “He resisted the unconsidered and ill-conceived measures of restructuring with short term and limited

benefits to Army. His one of the landmark achievements has been getting the con of the prime input of spare parts, against all odds and resistance from many quarters. The short sighted and imprudent moves to dismantle the 4th line repair capability of Corps through closure, merger or drastic reduction in size of Base Wksps were successfully resisted by the Gen Offr and besides proc of modern machinery for B Wksps there has been unprecedented induction of Rec VEhs, Shop Vans and Mob Wksps in EME thus enhancing the potential of the Corps.”. The Accompanied Dinner was attended by large no of serving and retired officers of EME Corps which, in addition to an excellent acknowledgment of Gen Fazl’s services, proved to be a very good get together.


N E R C — 2 0 0 8 D e p a r t m e n t o f M e c h a t r o n i c s E n g i n e e r i n g

HOD Mts Office: Na-tional Engineering Robot-ics Contest 2008 was or-ganized by STEM Career Project, HEC and NUST at the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineer-ing (EME) Rawalpindi on 5th July 2008. The Head of Mechatronics Department Brig. Dr. Ak-htar Nawaz Malik, in his opening address, wel-comed all the teams and honorable guests. He stated that Mechatronics is a fast growing discipline of engineering with wide-spread applications in industry and that the con-test is aimed to train the individual for engineering services in Pakistan. The Chief Organizer of the contest Lt Col Dr Javaid Iqbal informed that 78 teams from different Engineering Universities, Colleges and Institutes from all over the country participated in the qualify-ing rounds. The teams who qualified for the final round were:- Scorpian EME Hitman IIU

ACE EME Tornado EME Tom Cat UET, Psr Smartoo-II EME Four Three EME Bis Bis I EME 27 Cavalry EME Meg@tron CASE The Fang EME Thundercat BAHRIA COLLEGE Robo-x WAH ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Choudhry Saab EME Sheesh EME Transparent EME Alpha Bravo Charlie EME Da Devilz Cry II UET TAXILA Turbo Cat EME Main Hoon Na UET, Psr RKR EME Pacifier CITY SCHOOL S & S EME Sieg Heil EME

3:16 EME The Commandant wel-comed the honorable Chief Guest Rector N U S T , L t G e n Mohammad Asghar HI (M). In his address the commandant congratu-lated the qualifying teams of the heats. He presented an overview of college organization and recent activities like Comppec, Open House and all Paki-

The Mega Event of Robotics all over Pakistan

“Rector NUST has doubled the prize money for today’s winners”, announced HoD during the over heated finals of NERC-08 CEO Adam Motors also joins the rail by vowing to double the prize money for NERC—09


N E R D e p a r t m e n t o f M e c h a t

r o n i c s E n g i n e e r i n g

stan Software Competition. The Honorable Chief Guest Rector NUST, Lt. Gen Mohammad Asghar HI (M)

said “Since every machine these days is a blend of several tech-nologies, Mecha-tronics Engi-neering as a new discipline has found wide-spread accep-tance in the world, including a large number of developing countries”. In his speech the Chief Guest con-gratulated all the participat-ing teams, faculty of Mechatronics Department and the college to make this contest a success.

Winner NERC 2008 Shield with cash prize of Rs.100, 000 “S&S” of “EME College NUST”

1st Runner up NERC 2008 Shield with cash prize of Rs.60, 000

“3:16” of “EME College NUST”

2nd Runner Up NERC 2008 Shield with cash prize of Rs.50,000 “Scorpion” of “EME College NUST”

Best Engineering Design Awards with cash prize of Rs.40, 000 each

“RKR” of “EME College NUST” “Sieg Heil” of “EME College NUST”

Winner NERC 2008 Lego Award with cash prize of Rs.20, 000

“Pacifier” of “City School”

Runner Up NERC 2008 Lego Award with a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 “Thunder Cat” of “Bahria College”

Youngest Participant Award with cash prize of Rs.10,000

“Maazullah (Class 8th)” of “St. Marry Academy”

4 x Participation Awards (Less NUST Students) Rs. 20,000 each “Robo-X” of “Wah Engineering College”

“Pick-n-Dunk Master” of “Sir Syed UET Karachi” “Hitman” of “International Islamic University”

PRIZE WINNERS


Rector NUST Presenting College-NERC momento to CEO Adam Motors Mr Feroz Khan

NERC 09 Theme

Announced Visit

www.ceme.edu.pk



Officers dined out Continued from page 8

varying from a capt to a colonel got posted out. And incidentally all AQs of the college are included in this list. The dine out of the posted out Lt Col/Cols was hosted by college on 16th of July here in beau-tifully decorated campus officers mess. These offi-cers include Lt Col Riaz moving to Karachi, Lt Col Abid moving to Peshawar on promotion, Lt Col Sha-hid Muzaffar moving to Quetta on promotion, Lt Col Khalil-ur-Rehman to I of A on promotion and Lt Col Shehbaz Sohail to Kohat. It was an accompa-nied dinner and was com-plemented with the very warm wishes and excel-lent comments by the commandant in honour of the posted out officers. Lt Col Riaz, SI ASG, being

senior most thanked eve-ryone for being there and wished the college, a pros-perous future. Other junior officers who have been posted out will be dinned out at depart-mental level by the re-spective chief and senior instructors. These officers include Maj Syed Mu-hammad Saqlain Zaidi, Maj Kawan Iqbal going to Karachi, Maj Mu-hammad Ali Iftikhar going to Avn setup in Rwp, Maj Khurram Sher leaving for Gujran-wala, Maj Muhammad Shoaib for Mangla, Maj Adnan Mehboob for Hyerabad, Maj Imran Shafi for Avn Setup in Rwp and Maj Bilal Ir-shad Malik for Gujran-wala.

Needless to say, youth crime is rampant in our society today. Unfortu-nately though, the modus operandi in dealing with it has simply been to shove it under the carpet because the crimes that relate to the youth are usually of little tangible conse-quence, and ‘matters of greater national impor-tance’ are there to attend to. Sixty or so years should have taught us that although ignoring such a matter might appear insig-nificant in the short run, such a policy should ac-crue disastrous results become the future. The obvious and some-what natural response to crime is punishment. Pun-ishment serves as a lesson to the perpetrator and acts as a deterrent to everyone else from committing the crime. All fine, but what of the punishment that never attempts to set things right? What of pla-cebos that are given as placebos? Clearly, there is an urgent need to under-stand things right: Punish-ment is al good and fine when dealing with recidi-vist criminals, given that the intention is to provide justice, but when dealing with juvenile crime, it is imperative to deal with the issue in a different light. To understand the causes of youth crime in carving out a proper scheme to deal with youth crime is

not merely expedient, but absolutely essential. The causes of youth crime are quite many and equally diverse: from ob-ject poverty to widespread corruption to a lack of education and literacy. Out of Pakistan’s popula-tion of around 165 mil-lion, almost half or 49% are under the age of 18 years while 22% are ado-lescent (10-18 years of age). A vast majority of this segment of the popu-lation lives below the pov-erty line. With even-increasing inflation rates and an expanding divide between the rich and the poor, the situation for the poor makes them all the more vulnerable. Poverty can even make man do often unimaginable things; looking for shortcuts, however morally and le-gally wring, is by no means unimaginable. Frustration can be vented out in criminal behavior. For the middle class the not-so-round-economy means unemployment, even for young and ener-getic people with degrees. The lack of employment, and need, drives the youth onto the streets as some-what residual members of the society, already vic-timized but troublingly so, predisposed to crime. Similarly, in many s c h o o l s , e s p e c i a l l y madressahs, the teaching techniques employed can

sometimes be quite inhu-mane. When the threat of the cane looms, and a stu-dent just can not bear the brunt of rote anymore, running away is always an option. Interestingly so, many households even, especially in the rural ar-

eas, still prefer to cling to an overly strict interpreta-tion of spare the rod, spoil the child. The problem was not ini-tially addressed and now, whether we like it or not, we have managed to en-trap ourselves in a vicious

Youth Crime – causes and remedies

Excerpts from NS Jawwad Ahmad Article sent to Ministry of Youth Af-fairs Writing Competition, De 29(M)



self-repeating cycle. Given that a youth is re-sponsible for some mis-deed, is punishment on the same lines as those for hardened criminals appli-cable to juveniles as well? The juvenile justice sys-tem should differ from the standard justice system in having the rehabilitation of the juveniles as the primary goal. Sadly, though, implementation on these lines have never been done, Juvenile delin-quents are treated as just other criminals; when this happens, a breeding ground for hardened criminals develops. A yet new strain of young delin-quents is initiated: and we keep going round this sanctimonious circle. All this culminates in the mental health and moral development of the youths

being affected adversely. Children are the invest-ment of any nation for its future but the illiteracy-plagued, corruption-afflicted and poverty-ridden children suffer from the very onset of their lives. Denied basic amenities, food and clean water, the streets turn them into criminals and the justice system makes them professionals that have little to offer to soci-ety except more misery. It is vital that educational and criminal justice sys-tem be revamped as soon as possible. Without it, a change for good can not be expected. However, attitudes must have to be changed. To see a problem as a problem is the crux of the matter, and necessary for further implementa-tion.

COLLEGE APPTS S/No Appt Name CGPA 1 SNS (College) Faizan Razzaque DE - 27 (DEE) 3.92 2 SGS (College) Sunila Saqib DE - 27 (DCE) 3.88 3 JNS (College) Hamza Safdar DE - 28 (DMTS) 3.87 4 JNS (College) Abdul Ghafoor DE - 28 (DMTS 3.78 5 JGS (College) Wajeeha Nafees DE - 28 (DEE) 3.55 SENIOR HOSTEL APPTS 1 SNS (Iqbal) M Awais Jillani DE - 27 (DME) 3.42 2 SNS (Liaqat) Tanzeel Farrukh DE - 27 (DCE) 3.70 3 SNS (Jinnah) Syed Saifullah Shah DE - 27 (DEE) 3.92 4 SGS (Hostel) Nimra Iftikhar DE - 27 (DMTS) 3.25 5 SPC (PC Hostel) Farabi Bin Imran DE - 27 (DMTS) 2.83 JUNIOR HOSTEL APPTS 1. JNS (Iqbal) Ali Mohsin DE - 28 (DME) 3.17 2. JNS (Iqbal) Hassan Bin Aqeel DE - 28 (DMTS) 3.41 3. JNS (Liaqat) Jazel Ashraf DE - 28 (DMTS) 3.22 4. JNS (Liaqat) Jawad Aslam DE - 28 (DME) 3.48 5. JNS (Jinnah) Asad Ghaffar DE - 28 (DEE) 3.15 6. JGS (Girls) Azka Jamil DE - 28 (DCE) 3.10 7. JGS (Girls) Aisha Ahsan DE - 28 (DMTS) 3.00 8. JPC (PC) Nadeem Azam DE - 28 (DME) 3.33

Cadets Bn unleashes NS / PC appointments for the current year

Prep Classes of NUST

Continued from Page 1

der supervision of Basic Sciences & Humanities dept. The teachers were hired from FG Sir Syed College Rawalpindi. Classes started from 30th June 08 to 25th Jul 08. A simple and graceful clos-ing ceremony was also arranged at NUST HQ on 24th Jul 08 which was attended by all the partici-pating students, Comdt and dean EME College and Rector NUST beside all the faculty involved in arranging and teaching the classes. This step of ar-ranging prep has been appreciated by all the par-ents / guardians of these children.

Cadet Bn: A f t e r a n -nouncement of GCs appoint-ments two weeks back, now the cadet bn has also revealed the names of the lucky appoint-ment holders amongst NS/PC students. The basic crite-ria has been the CGPA, Disci-pline and Inliv-ing/ Outliving status. Camp-buzz publishes the list for you.

That day would come one day Kiosk

Editors Dairy: Work on kiosk started in jun last year. The main purpose was to have an eatery right in the middle of the aca-demic blocks and it was expected to start its operation by end of last year. The design was made after due consideration of its location and usage. In nut shell, everything was done in true spirit to get this kiosk on ground and fully functional as soon as possible. But today, even after lapse of seven months there are no signs of its completion. Campbuzz also played an important role in realizing the importance of having an outlet near the class rooms and advertised the kiosk in its initial issues. The Students wish to have it functional as they fall back in October this year.



Five Officers of the rank of Lt Col dined out PMC Office: June had been a month of turbu-lence all over the army with elaborate posting orders coming every other

day. College also became victim of this and a good twenty officers of rank

Continued on page 6

U-fone sponsors 450 chairs for college sports stadium GSO-1 Office: In a pleasant develop-ment Ufone, the one of the largest cellular company around, has sponsored around 450 plastic chairs decorated with the decent monogram of Ufone. The chairs will be installed in college sports ground and near the basketball court. Beside this , they also sponsored an orange col-ored pre-fab fiber glass stage shed in back drop of tall green trees. And they will also decorate the bas-ket ball court with their

trade mark colors. The work is expected to start soon and will serve as the first step of the ladder. Ufone is expected to ulti-mately make sitting ar-rangement for the whole of sports complex beside showing their presence in the crowdy Cafeteria and Utility area in the form of Umbrellas and chairs.

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He izz Muscular , He izz Spectacular

College Sports Officer: A very desperate call for having a gym in YOs Mess, right beside the Young Offi-cers Acco-modation is going to fin-ish as a mod-ern yet smart gym is in making at Block-L. The decision was taken after an elabo-rate meeting at college HQs where different op-tions for the purpose were discussed and finally it was decided to join last two rooms of Block-L. The recent picture shows

the work already done. “More than 50% of work

has already been done. Soon vinyl flooring will be done and weight gain-ing gym machines will be placed”, as stated by Col-lege Sports offr Capt Zeeshan. So the YOs will be mus-cular and spectacular.

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