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By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) will extend its full support for engineering programmes organized by the engineering forums like the one held at the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) with the collaboration of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pakistan (IEEEP). This was announced by Engr I A Usmani, Senior Vice-Chairman, PEC, while speaking as chief guest at the concluding session of 32nd National Engineering Students Competition-2017 at SSUET's campus on February 23.  He said that besides the PEC, the support of the industry will also be sought as it is vital for projects developed by SSUET and other similar forums.  "We need to promote technologies for promoting engineering programmes", Engr Usmani, a gold medallist in Civil Engineering, stated adding that it is a good sign that our engineering forums are growing. The engineers, he pointed...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) Jawaid Anwar has said that significance of educational institutions in development of students in the wake of emerging technologies, has always been the foremost driving force as well as their position to help students form character.  "This was the belief that moved Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys' Association (AMOUBA) of Pakistan to establish “Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology”, he said in a message on the occasion of 32nd. IEEEP National Engineering Students Competition-2017 (NESC-17) held at the SSUET in collaboration with the IEEEP. The university, he said, has been imparting graduate and post graduate education in engineering technologies and equipping the young generation with the most modern knowledge in the scientific disciplines that are essential in the development of industry and technological inf...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services)    The 32nd IEEEP National Engineering Students Competition-2017 was inaugurated on February 22 by the chief guest, Dale Sinkler, Chief Generation and Transmission Officer, K-Electric, who called upon the upcoming engineers to utilize their engineering talents to make Karachi a smart city through their innovative projects.  The event is being organized by the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEEP) in collaboration with the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) at the main campus of the university.  The NSEC’17 is in continuation in series of IEEEP All Pakistan Students seminar held each year and this year it has been organized in collaboration with SSUET. The competition includes final year engineering projects competition and Hack Town, the theme for smart city.  Dale Sinkler, while referring to present day condition of Karachi city, said t...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The State Minister and Chairperson, Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Marvi Memon visited the village of Baqa Dahiri in Sindh’s district of Shahdadpur where she offered condolence with the heirs of Siddique Dahiri and Raja Khaskheli who lost their lives in Sehwan suicide blast earlier in the week. On behalf of the Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, Marvi Memon expressed sympathies with bereaved family members and offered Fateha for the departed souls.  Talking to the media corps outside the residence of deceased Raja Khaskheli, the State Minister strongly condemned the suicide blast at the shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalanad and termed it a cowardly act of those who were playing with the lives of innocent people.  She remarked that the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had been engaged in combating terrorism with iron hand and soon the peace would be prevailed in all over the...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) secured second position in the All Karachi Inter-Universities Sports Gala, organized by the Pakistan Marine Academy (PMA).  They won three of the five events in which they participated. The SSUET won gold medals in hockey, football and volleyball but crumbled in the semifinals of cricket and basketball tournaments.  The Sports Gala was held at the spacious Pakistan Marine Academy's complex at Hawkesbay and was participated by Karachi's 18 universities.  The universities took part in eight male and six female competitions with the SSUET having taken part in five events and winning gold in three of them. In the hockey final, SSUET easily trounced PNEC 3-1 with Nadeem Akram, Taha Raza and Anis Siddiqi scoring the goals for the winning side.  In volleyball, none of the universities could withstand SSUET who comfortably d...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Imagine a hospital designed by a child, for a child. Instead of white walls, there are imaginative paintings and vibrant images all around the hospital. Uninspiring waiting areas are replaced with kids’ entertainment zones where children play and learn, and the hospital’s atmosphere is specially designed to make children feel at home. That’s what a children’s hospital of the future looks like; according to children, doctors, nurses, engineers, entrepreneurs, architects and other professionals who came together to design a kids’ healthcare centre of the future at the first-ever paediatric hackathon hosted by Aga Khan University (AKU), Hack Paeds 2017.  The three-day event saw over 110 participants of all ages and a variety of disciplines collaborate to develop innovative proposals that could be introduced at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH)’s planned 12-storey Children’s Hospital.  The par...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Nigraan, an innovative research and capacity building project, has been extended to a second district in rural Sindh, Mirpurkhas, under the project name, Nigraan Plus. The Nigraan Plus project was formally launched by the Sindh health secretary and AKU’s Community Health Sciences (CHS) Department at an event. The initial phase of the Nigraan project in Badin has helped Lady Health Workers and Lady Health Supervisors to manage potentially fatal diseases in children such as pneumonia and diarrhea, which lead to over 140,000 child deaths a year equating to 46 per cent of all child deaths in Pakistan before the age of five.  Since the majority of deaths from these two diseases occur in the home, Nigraan focused on boosting the knowledge, skills and performance of Lady Health Supervisors (LHSs), who supervise the performance of Lady Health Workers (LHWs), and LHWs who provide relevant home-based health servic...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Glowing tributes were paid to Engr Mohammed Zakir Ali Khan, the late Vice-Chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) and the Secretary General of the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association (AMUOBA) on the occasion of his fifth death anniversary held at the Aligarh Institute of Technology (AIT). The anniversary was observed in a programme whose arrangements were made by Anwar Ali, Vice-President, AMUOBA, and Convener, AIT.  On the occasion the services of late Zakir Ali Khan were recalled, particularly for the cause of education which led to the establishment of the iconic institutions like the AIT and the SSUET as well as for the promotion of activities of AMUOBA.  A large number of students of the AIT, besides its Principal and academic staff and some Aligarhians including the General Secretary of the AMUOBA, Arshad Khan, attended the gathering and par...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services)  The Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, has announced admissions in one and half year Graduate Diploma in Management Sciences.  According to the SSUET notification, it will be an evening programme which may lead to MBA in Human Resource Management; Islamic Banking and Finance; Banking and Finance; Marketing; Supply Chain Management; International Relation and Management; Media and Communication Management and Labour and Social Management.  The qualification for admission has been described as 16 years of education from the HEC recognized institutions with minimum of second division or equivalent.  The university is already offering Masters programme in Electronics, Telecom, Civil, Bio-Medical, Computer Engineering and Computer Science and offering PhD program in Computer and Electronic Engineering.  The SSUET is planning to offer PhD programme ...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi, had a very busy sports month in January with the start of new year 2017 with its teams participating in different sports events in a big way. According to the SSUET Director Sports, Mubbashir Mukhtar, the their outfits participated in cricket, football and table tennis competitions during the month of January, having emerged successful as the champion in the Inter-University Cricket Tournament organized by Bahria University.  SSUET had clinched the trophy by dethroning Indus University in the final.  The SSUET had another achievement when it, for the first time, organized the HEC Football Tournament (Zone G) in a most successful manner.  The tournament was participated by as many as 15 universities with the University of Karachi becoming the champion of Zone G alongwith IBA as the second qualifier. Both teams will...