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NESC’17 concludes


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 out, are nation-builders and the country should promote them for national development as well as development of technologies. He was full of praise for the SSUET, describing it as an institution of great pride, having been named after great reformer and educationist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.

Referring to the theme of the event, Hack Town, the first-ever Urban Development Hackathon, Engr Usmani talked about DHA City being developed on 12,640 acres and said that it will emerge as Pakistan's first Smart City as designed by his organization and which has already won an international award . 

He congratulated all the students who submitted their final year projects for their skill, talent and research work and observed that during the two days of the event all components of the topic must have been discussed threadbare along with presentation of viable solutions. 

Earlier the SSUET Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dr Jawed H. Rizvi, in his welcome address, said that it’s for the first time that the SSUET had organized this 32nd National Engineering Students Competition (NESC) with the IEEEP collaboration in which students from all over Pakistan demonstrated their engineering talent while the event provided them a forum to them. 

The NESC Convenor, Moona Kanwal, disclosed that in all 110 technical papers were submitted by students from 20 universities of the country and of them 48 were accepted.

She said that Hack Town theme was selected so as to make students aware of community problems and to come up with projects for resolving the same. 

The event ended with a vote of thanks by the SSUET Registrar, Syed Sarfraz Ali. 

On the occasion judges announced the results of the competition while the running trophy, sponsored by SSUET, was won by NUST and will be awarded on the occasion of IEEEP's international symposium to be held on March 15-16. 

The Vice-Chancellor Dr Jawed H. Rizvi presented souvenirs to Engr I.A. Usmani and Engr Asif Siddiqi, Chairman IEEEP. Awards were also presented to members of winner and runner up teams.
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