The SAC IEEE Karachi Section, on 13th September 2017, was invited to the Institute of Business Administration Karachi by Dr. Imran Rauf who had endeavored to open a Student Branch at IBA Karachi.

IEEE Karachi Section’s Executive Committee members, Mr. Sheikh Muhammad Anas and Syed Hesham Ali visited the IBA to guide the faculty and students on the procedure of opening a student branch at their varsity. On being asked about the benefits that IEEE has to offer, Sheikh Anas vividly described all the fore deal of joining IEEE. Hesham Ali highlighted several projects and discussed numerous events such as IEEEXtreme, IEEE madC, IEEE TAP and StudPro ’17.

The Section Student Representative IEEE Karachi Section, Mr. Sheikh Muhammad Anas was invited to the revival ceremony of the IEEE Bahria University Branch on. The IEEE Karachi Section’s ExeCom member, Mr. Prakash Lohana was also an esteemed guest at the event.

Mr. Prakash Lohana highlighted the importance of volunteering and why it is imperative that a student branch volunteers. He also elucidated their project at a remotevillage on the outskirts of the urban population of Sindh, Revi-ji-Dhani. The project titled IEEE SIGHT was an initiative to at least install basic electrical facilities in the homes of the remote village. The project was deemed a success as each house had lighting and ventilation installed by the end of the project tenure. This gave the students a new sense of motivation to work for the betterment of their country.

The SSR, Sheikh Muhammad Anas inculcated the benefits of IEEE and how students and professionals both can claim these benefits. He also enunciated as to why join IEEE and how it is unique from other societies.

A cake cutting ceremony marked the conclusion of the ceremony with concluding remarks by the Director of Bahria University and the Head of Department of Computer Science.

ICICT Conference MOU

ICICT is a biannual event and is entering its second decade of disseminating quality research in the disciplines of information and communication technologies. Papers are invited each time in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, social computing, wireless sensor networks, e-learning, computational science and other emerging topics. This year’s conference theme was Innovative, Smart and Social technologies. We hope you enjoyed the traditional Pakistani hospitality at ICICT 2017, Karachi.

This year IBA is organizing 7th ICICT with the collaboration of IEEE KHI.
For this MOU Ceremony was organized at Habib University 2nd June 2017.

Participants of IBA : Dr Shakeel Khoja, Dr. Imran Rauf, Dr. Imran Khan and Mr. Waseem Arain
Participants of IEEE Karachi Section : Dr. B.S Chowdhry (Chair IEEE Karachi Section), Dr. Shahid Shaikh (Vice Chair Karachi Section), Dr. Sadiq Khan (Chair IEEE Computer Society Karachi Section, Dr. Perkash Lohana (Chair IEEE SIGHT Karachi Section), Dr. Muhammad Ali (Chair IEEE PES Karachi Section) and Shaikh Muhammad Anas (SSR Karachi Section).

Download the form  and send to [email protected]

The Call for Section Student Representative for the Year 2018 is live and all the student volunteers who are interested in applying for this new position are required to fill the form by visiting the link attached below.

LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/pJbRM9hWrZcYv4NL2

Eligibility Criteria for the candidate:

• Must be an IEEE Student Member.
• Must be a member of IEEE Student Branch of IEEE Karachi Section.
• Must be willing to resign from the office bearer position of the Student Branch, if applicable.
• Must be in fourth, fifth and sixth semester of Engineering/Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT/IS or relevant degree.
• Upon filling the form, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview or further process.
  Deadline to fill the form is: Wednesday, 20th December, 2017

As IEEE Karachi Section has to hold next year INMIC.  The deadline for Proposal Submission is November 10, 2017.  Because we will review all of the proposals for INMIC 2018 in our next ExCom Meeting to be held on November 15, 2017 at PAF-KIET, Karachi Main Campus during the conference (INTELLECT 2017) Day 1.  We need to see following things in your proposal:

1. Conference Dates and Number of Days
2. Expected Acceptance Rate and Number of Papers
3. Organizing Committee having IEEE Members
4. Infrastructure Details [Hostel, guest house, transportation, etc.]
5. Past IEEE Conference experience and reconciliation
   
6. Past HEC Conference Funding Experience
7. Expected Budget Details
8. Detail Income including Registrations, Sponsors, Host Support, HEC Support
9. Expected Sponsors and their amounts
   
10. Detail Expenses including Guest Room Charges, Transportation Costing, etc.
11. IEEE Student Branch Status in 2017 and 2018 expectations
12. Any other thing you want to add

We congratulate Mr. Murtaza Hanif, SAC Chair IEEE Karachi Section on becoming the Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Karachi and wish him every success in carrying out his new missions!