For more details visit : http://sconest.hamdard.edu.pk/
Students who are interested in attending the conference (as participant) need to register asap.
IEEEXtreme coming to Habib University
IEEEXtreme coming to Habib University this year.
We would like to thank IEEE Karachi Section for their support.
IEEE R10 SAC CHAIRS, COUNSELORS AND MENTORS MEET IN Karachi SECTION
Reported by: Ahsan Qamer Sheikh
IEEE Karachi Section is one of three sections along with Malaysia and Bangladesh Sections in Region 10 who was selected to host this year’s IEEE R10 SAC CHAIRS, COUNSELORS AND MENTORS MEET IN SECTION. IEEE Karachi Section successfully managed to host this meeting during the 10th Edition of IEEE Pakistan Student/YP/WIE Congress that took place from 29th September till 1st October 2016 at IEEE NUCES Student Branch, Karachi. Agenda of the meeting is listed below:
Welcome Note, Introduction and targets of the meeting – Mehvish Zahoor (RSR R10)
Future Backwards Exercise and Discussion – All
R10 Opportunities for – SBs
Karachi Section Student Activity Updates – SAC/SSR
Lahore Section Student Activity Updates – SAC/SSR
Islamabad Section Student Activity Updates – SAC/SSR
IEEE MGA Perspective – IEEE Staff/RSR
This meeting was moderated by IEEE Region 10 Student Representative Ms. Mehvish Zahoor and assisted by Region 10 Section Student Representative Coordinator Mr. Mujtaba Anwar Chaudhry. In total there were 35 attendees that included 2 SAC Chairs, 2 SSRs, 9 Counselors and 20 Student Branch Chairs. Meeting began with the introductory note from Ms. Mehvish, she introduced herself to all the attendees, defined the meeting goals/objectives and asked them to introduce themselves as well. She started with the overview of R10 SAC team and their goals for 2016. After which, she divided them in the groups and give 10 minutes to discuss the current matters of IEEE in their SBs and section, future backwards exercises and what sort of support or help they expect from Region or HQ. She listened everyone’s objective and answered them effectively. Meanwhile Counselors guide manual was also distributed among attendees. The meeting then progressed with the presentation from IEEE Islamabad Section, SSR Ms. Umay Salma presented the activities report and give briefing over the student activities, SIGHT group formation, and Student Branch chairs meeting, Awards, Pre- University event SPARK and role of SAC Islamabad Section. She was assisted by SAC Chair Mr. Ahsan Farooqui. Following them, Ms. Mehvish invited IEEE Karachi Section to present their report, SAC Chair Mr. Murtaza Hanif talked about student member engagement program and strategy, Gold award on membership recruitment and retention, initiatives, competitions, local funding opportunity, international participation and shared one successful story of student branch revamping mission. He was assisted by SSR Mr. Ahsan Qamer Sheikh. Later, IEEE Islamabad SAC & Karachi SAC answered the queries of all attendees. After SAC sessions, Coordinator SSR Network Mr. Mujtaba Anwar Chaudhry give a brief overview about CLE – Center of Leadership Excellence including volunteer training, courses and leadership skills. He also talked about Xtreme Competition, Resume Lab, regional awards and vtools update. Q/A Session Counselors Attendees Page | 3 At last, Ms. Mehvish took feedback from the attendees and gave her concluding remarks on the meeting, she asked SAC Chairs to resolve student branches matters at earliest and express satisfaction over the proceeding of sections student activities committee. She applauded IEEE Karachi Section for their efforts in organizing this meeting and presented token of appreciation to Mr. Murtaza Hanif, Mr. Ahsan Qamer Sheikh, Mr. Ahsan Farroqui, Mr. Mujtaba Anwar Chaudhry and certificates to all the attendees.
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MD report JULY
IEEE Student Members: Humanitarian Design Proposal
The IEEE-MySIGHT4Rehab will be organizing a Special Session on Humanitarian Technology in 2016 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences to be held from 04th to 08th December 2016 in Kuala Lumpur.
To inculcate, and introduce humanitarian efforts championed by IEEE, the committee has decided to offer a proposal competition opened to all IEEE Student Members.
For further information, kindly visit http://www.iecbes.org/ss.php?section=humantech&offset=-50. Check the brochure attached with the email.
Closing date will be on 30/09/2016.
Newsletter 2015-2016
Technical Seminar Series: Electrical Energy Optimization – Part III
The third lecture of series “Electrical Energy Optimization” by IEEE Karachi Section was organized at DHA Sunset Club on 25th May 2016. Speaker for the session was Engineer Tahir Saleem, C.E.O of United Engineering Services and Vice President IEEEP (South). 35 years in electrical design, maintenance, instrumentation, energy audit, safety audit and technical trainings.
Mr Tahir Saleem discussed that currently our transmission lines are unable to withhold the load and the power that is being added to the system will take a lot of time. Therefore, he emphasized on importance of conserving energy and optimizing energy without hindering the primary goal of the project.
One of the major chunk of Electrical Power is consumed in lighting and we have seen people changing over to LED lamps and reducing the light load. The speaker focused that the energy need to be conserved without compromising on LUX level and quality of lights. He explained that many residential and commercial buildings are designed without maintaining the required LUX level. People tend to keep their stairways and passageways at high lux level and the rooms at lower just to create the ambiance. This is not only harmful for human eyes but also a waste of energy.
During the seminar, he also gave a practical demonstration using an android phone to calculate the lux level of the conference room at different point and as expected it was not maintained. He showed how easily a person can calculate the lux level of a room and make sure that proper lighting is achieved.
Moreover, he focused that industries in order to conserve energy focus on lighting. While only 15-20 % of energy is consumed in lighting of industry. It’s not always feasible to invest in new lighting system and changing over to LED lamps, because it has a very small impact on the bill.
Mr Saleem advised that we should focus on efficient and automatic control of lighting. He gave examples that at many work places, many lights are controlled just by a single switch. This leads to wastage of energy especially when only few people are working and the whole office is lit up. He also emphasized by automatic control of lighting such as automatic switching depended on the presence of human can be a very efficient way to conserve energy. He further advised to use efficient light fixtures and reflectors to make the most out of the lighting and explained how using inefficient fixtures for the sake of beautification leads to wastage of energy and also prevents achieving the required LUX level.
As the seminar proceeded on the speaker explained that the major chunk of electricity used in industries is for operating the motors. Most of the industries in Pakistan use over sized motors. The required torque by the industries is often low and are generally running at 50% of the load, which is quite inefficient and leads to huge energy wastage. Moreover, when motor gets old there efficiency decrease with time and often fixing them again and again lead to further decrease in efficiency. It is important that old ones should be replaced by new ones once they start consuming excessive power. One can easily calculate the consumption of efficiency using just the power meter and RPM meter to calculate the efficiency of motors.
Engineer Tahir Saleem focused on importance of the driving system of the motors. Effective control system should be implemented in the driver circuitry of the motors. Methods like VFD and HFMS should be implemented and Voltage optimization should be done. It is also important to maintain a voltage balance. Moreover, he explained when the required torque is low one can easily use lower voltages and save power by remaining in the tolerable limit.
The guest of the seminar appreciated the advises and information delivered during the seminar. It was also decided that people are given the awareness regarding energy conversation, efficiency and voltage optimization to not only reduce the cost but leading to a greener environment.
Congratulations to all the IEEE Karachi Section Members !
We have met our recruitment and retention goals for the 2016 membership year !
The membership development goals were developed based on Karachi Section’s four year performance. All IEEE Karachi Section volunteers are to be commended for continuing to grow IEEE membership in the Karachi Section. Their efforts in both recruiting and retaining members is truly making a difference both locally and in the overall growth of IEEE.
Current Membership statistics of IEEE Karachi Section
Associate Members = 7
Graduate Student Members = 57
Life Member = 1
Member = 110
Senior Member = 7
Student Member = 575
Total Members = 757
Note: Above figures are accurate as of latest by May 25th, 2016
VOLT 2016
Volunteer Leadership Training Program 2016 by IEEE Karachi Section SAC Committee, Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi
Reported By: Eisha Bint Khalid
Volunteer Leadership Training 2016 was started with the recitation of Holy Quran.
Volunteers from student branches with in Karachi Section participated in the program. Student Branches at NED-UET, UIT, NUCES-FAST, HIT, DSU, NUST-PNEC, PAF-KIET, IIEE, ISRA University, MUET, IBA Sukkur and NHU are to name a few.
SSR Karachi Section, Mr. Ahsan Qamar Sheikh hosted the event. SAC Chair, Engr. Murtaza Hanif began the training by giving a welcome note. He told participants about various international and national activities in which IEEE Karachi section actively participates which includes PSYWC and other regional conferences and congresses. He also informed about the funding opportunities which IEEE volunteers are eligible to apply. He further guided participants how they can indulge in local IEEE activities and shared some social media platforms on which they can interact with other IEEE volunteers.
Proceeding with the program, Treasurer Karachi Section, Engr. Sarang Sheikh was invited to discuss the the strategies which student branch leadership can imply in order to revamp their student branch. He informed participants about various kinds of activities which student branches can organize under IEEE platform. He also discussed the strategies to increase or maintain membership count in a student branch.
Engr. Sarang Shaikh at VOLT 2016
After this interactive session, MD Chair Karachi Section, Engr. Ahsan Saeed was invited who briefly told participants about IEEE JOB Site, IEEE.tv and IEEE Academics. He also informed participants about various awards and IEEE Regional Student Paper Contests and encouraged the audience to apply for awards and research papers presentation.
Next, SSR, Ahsan Qamar Sheikh gave his presentation on how to file petition for any society. He told participants about various societies within IEEE. He informed participants about the IEEE regional and sectional Newsletter format and submission processes. He further encouraged the student branches to form their own websites. Proceeding, IEEE Newsletter (2015) team was presented with appreciation certificates.
Engr. Murtaza Hanif giving certificates to Newsletter 2015 team members
Proceeding further, SSR. Elect. 2017 and ambassador for MadC at Karachi Section Hesham Ali gave presentation on IEEE MadC, which is a global mobile application development contest open for all the IEEE student members across the globe. He added about IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition and IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge.
Continuing with the event, South Asia Young Professionals Coordinator Rabeet Sagri was invited to tell the audience about IEEE young professionals. He also guided participants about SPAC / SPAV / SPAA, which are student career development activities.
SSR Karachi Section was presented with token of appreciation for his contribution in the formation of new student branch at Nazeer Hussain University, Karachi. The token was presented by the newly formed student branch Leadership.
Lunch break was given at 1:15 pm. The Program resumed at 2:30 pm. After lunch Chairperson Karachi Section, Dr Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry addressed the participants and encouraged them to volunteer.
Dr. B.S. Chowdhry while motivating students at VOLT 16′
After this motivational speech two parallel sessions started one was IEEE Vtools workshop and other was Basic Designing on Photoshop. session were conducted by Engr. Murtaza Hanif and Amaad Soomro who is Graphics Designer at Region 10 Young Professionals. For Vtools session, the chairperson and vice chairperson of student branches were taken in a separate room. Meanwhile, in the Auditorium, Amaad Soomro guided participants on basic designing on Photoshop. He discussed modern trends in Photoshop including color schemes and background aesthetics.
Engr. Hassam Mughal was then called to brief about IEEE Computer Society.
An activity session was also carried out in which two universities had to group up and plan a unique event. Proposed event should be in line with the vision of IEEE. It was announced that karachi section will give funds to the winner group for the execution of the proposed plan. Judges panel heard the representative of each group detailing their plans. The judges asked questions and marks were assigned based on creativity, scope and use. The group of HIET and IIEE were said to have the best score.
Participants during an activity at VOLT 16′
After this energetic session, Member SAC Karachi Section Ebad ur Rehman presented the last presentation about PES society.
The event was ended with thoughtful speech of Past chair and SIGHT coordinator of Karachi section, Engr. Parkash Lohana. His speech ignited participants with motivation to volunteer . A photo session of all the participants was held in the end.
Participants along with Karachi Section Volunteers at VOLT 16′