Monthly E-News Letter

JULY 2011

PATRONS: Dr. B.S Chowdery, Dr. Aftab A.Memon, Dr. Mukhtiar A. Unar

Volume 2, Issue 4

THE FEECE TEAM Editor:

Dr Fahim A.Umrani Members: Mr Saadullah Kalwar Mr. Shahjahan Memon Mr. Mohsin Siraj Mr. Muhammad Naveed Mr. Shahid Makhdoom Mr. Moiz Rehman Mr. Salman Ahmed

WORKSHOP ON SIMULATING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING MATLAB BY : Muhammad Naveed (08TL19)

Some people avoid sitting idle and always try to keep themselves busy in certain useful activities and arrange some events which bring positive results on society. If these events are about technical knowledge then these events become a school of knowledge especially for those young aspirants who are about to start their technical career. One such event was organized in Telecommunication Department of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and called as WORKSHOP on Simulating Wireless Communication using MATLAB held on 12th and 13th April, 2011. The instructor of this workshop was Dr. Fahim Aziz Umrani. It was successfully completed with the help of volunteers from the Mehran University Students Team (M.U.S.T) and effective co-ordination of Engr. Hyder Bux Mangrio. Among participants, along with the senior undergraduate students, the faculty members from faculty of electrical, electronic and computer system engineering were also present. And I am very glad to share this information that many faculty members attended this workshop which is enough to explain their eagerness of knowledge. In this workshop, the instructor focused on the simulations of basic wireless communication system and introduced basic techniques by which one can imitate the effect of different components used in wireless communication. The instructor tried to develop the skills in participants that what should be known to one before simulating any system.

Inside this issue: Workshop On Simulating Wireless Communication Using Matllab In search Of A Smile Splendid Event Of MicroMaze MESPEC 11 Techno Post Galleria Seminar On USEFP Sports Week Photos Of Month 1

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This workshop was also important since it not only involved teaching the principles of simulating communication systems but also included some sessions in which tasks were assigned to the participants so that they could practice on what they were learning throughout the course. This workshop was equally effective for junior students as it was for final year students. I want to share here some questions which were raised from some circles like how one can be completely aware of simulations within couple of days knowing the subjects breadth and vastness. So I want to answer them that the main objective of this workshop was to initiate a trigger about simulating the wireless communication. And I think this task was successfully accomplished in this workshop by the instructor.
It was very short workshop but was very informative and learning. Such events always enhance the students skills

During the final session of this workshop, all participants were awarded certificates by Dr. Aftab. A. Memon, Chairman of Telecommunication Department. Dr. Aftab also gave very encouraging remarks in his concluding speech about the workshop and pledged his constant support to continue such activities in the future.

In the end I want to conclude my article and upgrade with these lines that although it was very short workshop but was very informative their knowledge and learning. Such events always enhance the students skills and upgrade their knowledge level. I hope such events will regularly take place in future as well so that level students have this wonderful opportunity to learn and benefit themselves. As small drops combine together to form a large ocean in same way one day these events will convert into large international events which will become the cause of shinning name of MEHRAN in technological circles.

In Search of a Smile
BY : Muhammad Mohsin Siraj
It was a pleasant weekend Sunday; in the morning when I was in a superstore to collect groceries, I saw a furious customer arguing with the shopkeeper, the quarrel lasts a little longer and as usual I became one of the spectators enjoying the sight. Such similar incidences are becoming too frequent in our society. Whether you are in any public place or in any office or university you will often observe this kind of boorish and aggressive attitude of people around you. This belligerence and frustration in our society are becoming more and more common now. In my daily routine I hardly find any smiling face.

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The reasons of these choleric attitudes are very obvious. It is always hard to smile in appetite weather it is the hunger or the insatiable desire and avarice of more of what one has. I agree that plethora of social and economic problems have left people destitute. The penurious class always suffers the most; they are not only deprived of the basic necessities of life like food, money and home but most important they are not being given the self respect every human deserves. The insecurity of life and property, today, has adversely affected the situation. There comes the second category comprises of those middle class to aristocrats who at least enjoy different amenities in life. But still they are in panic too. Why? It is just because we people follow our never ending wish list. It has become a practice in our society to go after the person of higher class. This greed makes one unsatisfied with ones life, which is extremely deleterious to the individual and the main cause of this frustrated society. In fact we have become too materialistic that now our purposes and priorities in life are different. I remember a crack which I rather find didactic; Ones a heavy vehicle thrashed a person standing near his new Mercedes Benz, the person starts shouting at driver of the heavy vehicle that you have ruined the door of my pristine Mercedes, the driver apologizes and says sir dont you feel the pain, your hand is badly injured? The man saw his broken hand and cried Oh God my new Rolex watch!! There are such kind of many real stories which you would also find around you, it all delineates that materialism is at its apex in our society. The consequences and impact of this irritation and frustration are awful on society. The loving congenial surrounding is somewhere lost in this fast journey of time. People dont know about their neighbors now. We are near the debacle of friendly and affable environment which we used to have in past. It is also affecting our economy indirectly; the productivity by any human, from an ordinary laborer to any erudite scholar, is declined if he doesnt have peace and composure of mind. How a country will progress whose common worker is suffering from thousands of problems? On the larger picture the growth of any country is contingent upon the welfare of its people. The scale to judge the development is how many of people are satisfied with their lives in any country.

How a country will progress whose common worker is suffering from thousands of problems?

If you cant make a crying face happy at least give him a shoulder to weep on.

Besides that the government should take corrective measures to facilitate its people, a significant difference can be felt if we withdraw ourselves from the race of gaining money and power. It is said things are to be used and people are to be loved, but here the people are being used and the things are being loved. We must thank ALLAH for everything we are blessed with, bend down our heads and egos, prostrate with deference in His will. It is worth mentioning the sublime submission of Hazrat Imam Ghazali in ALLAHs will, when he was complaining ALLAH that he doesnt have shoes to wear and suddenly he saw a beggar who even didnt have feet to walk. Try to be positive and learn to observe positive aspects of any outcome in life. If you cant make a crying face happy at least give him a shoulder to weep on. May be this assuages the situation and then hopefully there would be some smiling faces among my people.

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SPLENDID EVENT of MICROMAZE'11

Report Compiled By: Engr. Maria Jan & Engr. Attiya Baqai
The first Micromaze11 signpost at the Department of Electronics Engineering, Mehran UET Jamshoro held on 21ST April 2011 (in collaboration with 08ES, 09ES and MUST organizers) was another eye-catching and startling event that encompassed both the hardware projects exhibition/competition amongst the students of 08ES and 09ES Batches and On-spot Software Programming competition within the students of final year Electronics. This Event provided a platform for the students to come forward and present their hardware projects that had an incredible approach and also prove their robustness in the field of programming i.e. with microcontrollers and interfacing techniques by overcoming all possible hurdles to reach the assigned target in a pre-defined limit of time. The event was arranged in four labs of Electronics department. Hardware Projects were presented in Digital Electronics & Microprocessors Lab and Telematics Lab where as On-Spot Programming & Simulation session was arranged in Advanced Computer Lab and Interactive Cyber Lab. The students displayed & demonstrated their projects in the 1st session of the competition and were appreciated and valued by everyone who visited the event. During the 2nd session of competition, a design task was given to the students to program, make the schematic, compile and perform simulation task effectively on Proteus software within a specified time limit of 30 minutes. Each team with utmost four members were given 2 PCs to work in parallel on programming & schematic and merge in the end to solve the task at a fast pace. The evaluator panel comprised of Dr Khalilur-Rehman Dayo, Dr. Wajiha Shah, Engr Kamran Kazi, Engr Ghulam Mustafa in hardware session, Engr Ghulam Mustafa and Engr Mehnazar in software session all from ES Department of MUET. After successful assessment of all projects displayed and the programming session, results were compiled and announced at the closing ceremony in Audio Video-conferencing room, IIT Building after the refreshment, provided to all the organizers, participants, judges and chief guests. A total of 18 teams participated in hardware and 16 teams in software category. A huge amount of 17,500 /Rs in total- was given as prize money among the winners.

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In Hardware Projects, 1st Prize of 5000/Rs- was given to INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIAL PROCESS USING CONVEYOR BELTS WITH ROBOTIC ARM by M. Zakir Shaikh, Madiha Shah, Muqadas Khursheed & Irshad Raheem (09ES). 2nd Prize of 3000/Rs- was a tie between two projects, one was "AUTONOMOUS ROBOT MUET BOY by Abdul Sattar Noonari (08ES25), Mansoor raza (08ES19), Sajad Ali Memon (08ES09), Anwar ul haq Khoso (08ES110) & Himat Kumar (08ES27) and the other 2nd prize of 3000/Rs was taken by EEG BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR PARALYSED PATIENTS by Adil Khan(08ES76), Zaheer Abbas, Hameer and Imran Ali. 3rd prize of 2000/- wasCAR MONITORING & RESCUE SYSTEM by Mehran Khan, Kishore Kumar, Faizan Mateen and Agha Sarfaraz of 09ES. In On- Spot Programming & Simulation, 1st prize of 2000/Rs- was awarded to Azam rafique (08ES33) & Abdullah Ansari (08ES03). 2nd Prize of 1500/Rs- to Haresh Kumar(08ES51), Naeem Ahmed Memon (08ES72), Ammar Ali (08ES55), Ameen Khuwaja (08ES80) and 3rd prize of 1000/Rs was achieved by Faraz bhatti (08ES16) and Muhammed Ahmer Khan (08ES05).

The winners were awarded cash prizes, shields and certificates, shields and certificates to the teacher organizers, whereas certificates were given to all the participants, student organizers & judges. Bouquets were presented to the worthy chief guests for their honorable presence in this event. Prof Shoaib Hassan zaidi, Dr. Attaullah Khuwaja and Dr. B. S. Chowdhry expressed their encouraging views in the award distribution ceremony about the impressive & great hard work done by the Micromaze Team along with the student participants. Engr. Attiya Baqai concluded the ceremony with a vote of thanks to all the Organizers, judges and guests for making possible such an exemplary event. She said that Mehran UET is fully capable to organize such events/competitions/ exhibitions and requested the faculty members, students and authorities to come forward in arranging and hosting such events at national level. The participants got a colossal encouragement from the visitors and faculty members of different departments of Mehran UET on their persistent endeavor and success eventually especially the Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr Aslam Uqaili, Dean FEECE Dr B. S. Chowdhry, Prof. Dr. Syed Shoaib Hasan Zaidi Chairman Electronics Department, NED University Karachi and co-chairman Electronics Department, NED University, Karachi Prof. Dr. Attaullah Khawaja. The event was organized by the unflagging efforts of the Faculty Members Engr. Attiya Baqai, Engr. Kehkashan Asma, Engr. Maria Jan and Engr. Mehnazar of the Department of Electronics Engineering, Mehran UET, Jamshoro. The Micromaze team is very thankful to Dean FEECE Dr B. S. Chowdhry for his efforts to support this event in every possible way and to get the approval of 5000/Rs from university to support this mega event.

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Mehran Electronic Students Project Exhibition and Competition (MESPEC' 11)

Report Compiled by: Engr. Saba Baloch
Electronics department, Mehran UET once again succeeded in achieving a milestone by arranging MESPEC11, a project exhibition and competition for 3rd year electronic students. The event was all about providing students a chance to showcase their talents by overcoming possible technical hurdles and re-inventing the sense of competition. The competition took place in the Advanced Telecommunication & Telematics Laborotory and the Digital Electronics and Microprocessors Laborotory in the department of Electronics, MUET on 14th April 2011. A spectacular collection of hardware/ software projects were displayed. Covering most sub-fields of electronic engineering including control engineering; signal processing, communication, microcontrollers as well as hardware interfacing. The students put in an applaudable effort and via these projects not only did they present new and innovative ideas but also proposed and modelled different practical solutions to many untackled problems in this advanced era. The projects were evaluated in terms of perception, presentation, hardware/software and applications by the evaluation team which was led by Dr Hameedullah Kazi Chairman Electronics and Vice Dean of Isra University including Dr. Khalil Dayo, Dr. Wajiha Shah and Engr. Attiya Baqai who are all Assistant Professors at the department of Electronics Engineering MUET. After accumulative compilation of the results the consolation prize was awarded to the project Automatic Railway Tunnel Light Control System, the 2nd runner up project was Car Monitoring and Rescue System 1st runner up project was Object Tracking/Detecting System Using Image Processing and winning project was Modern Industrial Process Using Conveyer Belt with Robotic Arm. The participants were enormously encouraged and appreciated by numerous guests and visitors from different institutes and walks of life. The Vice Chancellor Dr. A. Q. K. Rajput, ProVice Chancellor Dr Aslam Uqaili, Dean FEECE Dr B. S. Chowdhry, Dr Aftab Memon Chairman Telecommunication Department and senior faculty members from MUET also visited the exhibition; they highly appreciated the students for their hardwork and thoughtfully guided them for future endeavors. The event was made possible by the untiring efforts of the co-ordinators Engr Yasmeen Naz Panhwar and Engr. Saba Baloch, both working as lecturers at Department of Electronics and the organizing team from 09ES comprising of Agha Sarfaraz, Asif Hameed, Ayub Laghari, Faizan Mateen, Mehran Khan Memon, Mudasir Hussain, Nouman Naseer, Sara Rahman and Sundus Solangi. The closing ceremony was held in the Advanced Telecommunication & Telematics Laborotory. The winners were awarded with cash prizes and certificates and the organizers were awarded with certificates of appreciation by the honorary guest Dr Hameedullah Kazi. A shield on behalf of the co-ordinators was also presented to Dr Hameedullah Kazi.

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"TechnoPost Galleria" presented a unique tribute to Islamic Renaissance

By: Shahjahan Memon (08TL81)
Keeping the norms intact for setting new trends in organizing events, Department of Electronics Engineering, Mehran University of engineering and technology has won the contest again by organizing the unique mega event of Technopost Galleria on 25th April, 2011. The glaring event took place in the Advance Electronics Laboratory and Electronics laboratory of the same department. The event was solely organized by 10ES batch in collaboration with their supervisors namely Engr. Farida Memon (Assistant Professor), Engr. Shakila Memon (Lecturer) and Engr. Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah (Lecturer) under the admirable support of Dean Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering Prof. Dr. BS Chowdhry. The Event was organized to provide a chance to the students of Electronics Engineering discipline to exhibit their Technological and Artistic work and efforts, they have especially made, to present a memorable tribute to Islamic Renaissance for its significant contribution in the development of modern scientific world. Technopost Galleria comprised of two parts, in the first part, students displayed term projects which reflect their technological work, while in the second part they showcased their artistic work in the form of Posters of renowned Muslim Scientists, whose research and innovation provided the basis for Modern development in the field of science and technology. It was pleasant to observe that the twenty groups of students from 10ES batch, who participated in the TechnoPost Galleria presented more than eighty hardware project from the field of Digital Electronics, Amplifier and Oscillator, and Measurement and Instrumentation along with more than twenty two posters of Muslim Scientists. Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, Vice Chancellor Mehran UET, Jamshoro, inaugurated The Technopost Galleria with his look on the documentary played to highlight Islamic Renaissance. His visit added hundreds of stars in the success of event as he not only gave his full concentration to every group participated in the exhibition but also appreciated the level and quality of the work by students. Prior to that student of 10ES Batch warmly welcomed the respectable Vice Chancellor and presented him bunch of fresh flowers. A team of judges comprising of senior faculty members including Dr. Wajiha Shah, Dr. Khalil ur Rehman Dayo, Engr. Abdul Sattar Ansari, Engr. Farzana Rauf Abro and Engr. Tufail Ahmed Waseer from the department of Electronics Engineering evaluated the project and posters on the basis of application, complexity, research, background knowledge and presentation. In project category Group-10 having member Sumaiya Laghari 10ES82, Ms. Maria 10ES76, Ms. Madeeha 10ES75 and Ms. Zirwa 10ES68 secured first position. Second position was secured by Group-6 with members Yugal Kishore 10ES48, Pawan Kumar 10ES81, Mukesh Kumar 10ES46, Madhu Mukesh 10ES47 and Sabir Ali Magsi 10ES72 while the third position received by Group-11 whose member were Naeem Sharif Chandio 10ES78, Irfan Ali Memon 10ES44, Kifayatullah Kalhoro 10ES69, Pirah Saba 10ES123 and Nadia 10ES56. Likewise in poster category Group-C with members Umema Tasleem 10ES22, Sumbul Naqvi 10ES11,

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Faiza Shaikh 10ES19, Marvi Jamali 10ES15, Habiba Halepota 10ES16 and Koonj Tagar 10ES23, Group-7 with members Asma Katiar 10ES136, Tuba Muneer 10ES86, Mehwish Malik 10ES83 and Javeria Khan 10ES143 and Group-8 with members Nadia Karim 10ES57, Zubair Ali 10ES63, Jamal Khan 10ES58, Rabia Tahir 10ES65, Andleeb 10ES66 and Aliza Mir 10ES67 were declared first, second and third respectively. Meanwhile, Mr. Saddam Hussain Chandio 10ES13 was given the award of best organizer for his enthusiastic and untiring efforts to make the event possible. Prof. Dr. B S Chowdhry Dean faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Mehran UET Jamshoro and Mr. Muhammad Alam Halepoto, Member Senate Mehran UET Jamshoro, jointly being the chief guest of the event not only paid a detailed visit to the event but also distributed the awards, cash prizes and certificates among the participants and organizers in the concluding ceremony of the event that took place at Video Conferencing Hall of Mehran UET Jamshoro. Mr. Alam Halepoto in his speech said that skill is the art of utilizing knowledge for meaningful results. He also recognized the efforts of students and their supervisors in arranging such unique event in educational history of Pakistan. Dr. BS Chowdhry in his concluding remarks highlighted the importance of such events. In addition to that he also announced the exhibition of same posters in Sindh Museum Hyderabad on 14th August of this year. Finally on behalf of organizing committee Engr. Farida Memon paid the vote of thanks to honorable guest, teachers, judges and students for their valuable contribution in making the event successful.

Seminar on (USEF) Fulbright Scholarships

Source: MUET website
Mehran University of engineering & Technology Jamshoro has organized seminar on Fulbright scholarships program. On this occasion Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) gave detailed presentation to a huge audience of students and faculty members with regard to Fulbright Masters and PhD Scholarships announced by the Fulbright Commission this year. Professor Dr MA Uqiali Pro Vice Chancellor MUET (L-R), Professor Dr BS Chowdhry Dean FEECE, Prof Dr AK Baloch, former Dean and Senior Fulbright Scholar, Dr Abdul Hafeez Memon, Director Continuing Education and Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) Addressing on the occasion of Seminar on Fulbright Scholarships at Mehran University of engineering & Technology Jamshoro. He informed that United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP-popularly known as Fulbright Commission) is currently doing an outreach for the Fulbright Scholarships for 2011-2012 to make students and faculty members of public universities more aware about the fully funded scholarships offered by the Fulbright Commission every year .
Prof Dr Uqaili Pro Vice Chancellor MUET is presenting book Career Roadmap Guide for Engineers edited by Prof BS Chowdhry to Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) during his seminar at MUET.

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THE BATTLE INSIDE MEHRAN (Sports Week)

By: SHAHID HUSSAIN MAKHDOOM(09TL28)
The Importance of sports can never be neglected; these play a significant role in our lives as Sport is a preserver of health, however we cannot help admitting sports as important as studies but we must try to have balance between our hours of work and play, which help to keep us fit and fine and fill us with a competitive spirit. We remain physically and mentally alert and active so that our energies are put to constructive use for society. If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is. The above quote by R.G. Briscow completely justified the importance of sports. In order to provide chance of full on entertainment and healthy activity MUET administration also arranged sports week from 28 Feb-3rd March 2011, under the supervision of Directorate of Sports, Engr. Najeeb-ur-Rehman Channa .The 17 departments of M.U.E.T participated in event where boys and girls showed their athletic talent and creativity in sports separately. About 6 sports and games were played named as Cricket, Table Tennis, and Throw ball (for girls), Shooting Ball (for boys), Tug of War, Oefened dynamically their tilteustrialas de led them on this victoryabble so made ters was quite encoraging hes academic seMarathon (for boys) while Mini Marathon (for girls). One more remarkable thing was that the role of administration was very supportive not only in grounds but as well as academic sessions, during whole week the classes were on and teachers taught with same enthusiasm as before, however it becomes difficult situation for bosom friends of participants, because at one end the matter is attendance and new topic while on other the question of friendship is raised and also chance of fun and fully entertaining matches may be missed, but as it is said friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold, so how they can wait end of class, therefore number of students also bunked classes to watch their friends in live action. The department teachers who were performing duties of selectors and mentors were looked as professional which is quite encouraging for future events, decisions were made by them was totally on merit, great cooperation by both sides of students and teachers were seemed from practice session till the last minute of game, thats why the event was full of suspense and real action (like Boom Boom) in M.U.E.T grounds. The whole event seemed to be like a battle and the participants like soldiers, to fight for the sake of dignity of their respective departments, even I never saw before such a division among mehraninas, when question of winning is concerned every student supported their department teams but must say that lesson of sportsman spirit was not forgotten by any single player in any moment, Tom Canterbury said The trouble with referees or umpires is that they just don't care which side wins, so because of well judged event, it also made friendly and peaceful environment.

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In play there are two pleasures: The one is winning, and the other losing. It depends which one you choose. The details of matches are as follows: The Enthusiastic Telecom Girls just rocked and the event was totally stolen by them as they won 4 sports from 5 including cricket, table tennis, tug of war, mini marathon only one sport could be snatched from TL girls by SW girls which was throw ball, however this remarkable performance by TL girls also gave General Trophy to them, All girls gave credit of victory to their mentor Mam Shahnza Shaikh, According to them her cooperation and friendly attitude led them to this historical victory. In Sports one makes history, other breaks history but also some elements repeats history as on boys side, event goes to EL, they won two sports event including cricket, table tennis and got 3 times consecutively General Trophy, The final match of cricket played between EL and TL, the match was very interesting and tenacious and goes up to over, at the end the clash ended as EL team defeated TL team by 12 runs ,boys of El also thanked to their mentors Sir Mansoor Soomro and Sir Latif Samo who encouraged them to repeat history and thats why they defended dynamically their titles, Shooting ball won by Civil after having a tough match with Industrial, Marathon also clinched by student of Civil department, while trophy of Tug of War achieved by metallurgy department, However sports week has ended but yet its memories are preserved in our private literature, this event was appreciated by every single person from boys and girls, older to younger, juniors to senior, teachers to students, they all demanded this sort of events must be celebrated on regular basis.

PHOTOS OF MONTH

Workshop on "Simulating WCOM using MATLAB"

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Sports week

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