Year 2015
Turkish Professor visits FES,GIK Institute on Mevlana Exchange Program
Dr. Necla Cakmak from Karabük University Turkey has arrived at GIK Institute on 27th April, 2015 as part of the Mevlana Faculty Exchange Program established between the two universities last year. She is the first foreign faculty to visit GIK Institute on this program. During her stay, she would be working in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) and will be conducting seminars / lectures highlighting the features of the Exchange program. She would be teaching Mechanics to the freshmen and would also perform research activities in the Computational Physics Lab, FES in the research group of Prof. Jameel-Un Nabi.
Dr. Necla Cakmak with Rector and Pro-Rector (A&F), GIKI Dr. Necla Cakmak with Pro-Rector (A)
Dr. Necla Cakmak with Prof. Jameel Un-Nabi ...
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30th April, 2015
FES represented at REAP’15
Renewable & Alternative Energy Exhibition & Conference (REAP) was a 3 day event held at the Pak-China Friendship Centre in Islamabad, Pakistan from 2nd - 4th April 2015. This event showcased products like wind turbines, solar PV panels, mini hydro systems, to that of solar water heating products and services associated with this field etc. in the Industrial Products, Power, Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation industries.
A group from GIK Institute, Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) managed to present their Final Year Project (FYP); “Design, Fabrication and Optimization of Renewable Energy Eco-one Car”. The FYP is supervised by Prof. Dr. Habibullah Jamal (FES) and co-supervised by Mr. Aslam Azad (CEO, AGECO Pvt. Ltd.).
This group of five members from FES has worked on a fully automated solar powered car. Group members include Adil Aslam, Ashaa Naveed, Faez Baanuri, Hammad Khan and Shayan Tanwir. They have used 4 panels of 12 V, 120W on the bonnet and the roof of the car. Additionally, they have used panels of 220W at the back of the side doors, making a total of 700W.
The group is working in collaboration with AGECO Pvt. Ltd which is helping the group with the financial and material resources. This project is in light for addressing the current energy issues faced by Pakistan and making this country sustainable. Their main aim is to commercialize this project.
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29th April, 2015
Career Support Seminar at FES
Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) has successfully conducted a career counseling seminar on 20th April, 2015.
The resource person was Mr. Jahanzeb Tariq (Alumnus - ES). The main objective of this session was to enlighten the students regarding career opportunities (particularly for ES students).
This was basically an interactive session; students were encouraged to participate in discussion and different activities. Around 30 students attended the session. Students were highly motivated and they expect such activities to be held periodically. Overall it was an ideal opportunity for the students to get themselves prepared before the Open House 2015. The session ultimately boosted up their confidence and somehow washed-out the ambiguities and insecurities they had regarding ES. ...
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29th April, 2015
Seminar on Signal Processing (0.5 CPD) by FES
Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) organized a seminar on Signal Processing 0.5 CPD points on 23rd April 2015 in MLH, FES.
Engr Rahim Umer, Research Associate, FES, was the key speaker for the seminar. More than 40 candidates had registered for the workshop and among them 20 participants attended the talk.
The seminar was organized in co-ordination with Engr. Taimoor Ali and Engr. Safiullah Khan, Research Associates at FES. ...
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29th April, 2015
LAUNCH PAD AT “THE INCUBATOR”
To create an entrepreneurial atmosphere for nurturing ideas into commercialized products, the Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization under the supervision of specialized faculty and staff, conducted “LAUNCHPAD 2015” at “THE INCUBATOR” on Wednesday, 15th April, 2015. The event was meant for graduates who wish to commercialize their ideas into a full-fledged startup. THE INCUBATOR provides a platform for talented people who think out of the box and are waiting for a platform to work on their ideas.
Teams from all over the country registered and shortlisted teams were provided a platform at the Launchpad 2015. The esteemed jury members from Plan9, NUST and GIK Institute were welcomed by Rector GIK Institute at the Guest House.
Ms. Farah Hamid Khan Secretary ST&IT, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was the chief guest at the event. She appreciated the services and efforts of the GIK Institute for the development of engineering sector and also performed the opening ceremony of:
· High Performance Computing Laboratory.
· Photolithography Laboratory.
The honorable guests visited the Management Sciences and Humanities department and met with the existing Incubation teams. Secretary ST&IT appreciated the work of the Incubation teams working at the GIK Institute’s Incubation program.
Each team presented their ideas and the judges evaluated the participants.
A certificate distribution ceremony was held and each participant was given a certificate for their participation in “LAUNCHPAD 2015” by Secretary ST&IT.
The honorable Secretary ST&IT was presented a shield by the Rector, GIK Institute.
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18th April, 2015
FES organized a Workshop on LaTeX (1.0 CPD)
Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) organized a workshop on LaTeX of 1.0 CPD on 26th March, 2015 in Computer Lab of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME). Engr. Safiullah Khan, Research Associate, FES, was the key speaker. More than 110 candidates had registered and among them 75 participants attended the workshop.
FES expresses its gratitude to the Dean FME for providing the computer lab and to the cooperative staff of FME especially Mr. Muslim Khanfor, the technical assistance in lab, to Dean FES for the cooperation and efforts who encouraged the faculty members in organization of such activity and to FES lab engineers, Engr. Usman Khan, Engr. Seerat-ul-Urooj and Engr. Yousaf Hemani for their support extended in completion of this workshop. ...
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28th March, 2015
Honor for Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Moeen Ghafoor, final year student of Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) has won a travel grant to present his final year project at the International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS) in Croatia. This conference is organized by International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) annually. This year around 250 participants from 32 different countries will be attending this conference.
Moeen along with two other group members named Jibran Abbasi and Badar Naeem completed their Final Year Project which is "Fabrication of Thin Film of Bi-2223 Superconductors through Pulsed Laser Deposition and Their Characterization." under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi and now they will be presenting this project at the conference which is scheduled from 12th August to 19th August, 2015 in Zagreb, Croatia. ...
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28th March, 2015
GIK Institute develops research collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute signed the MOU between the centre of Excellence in Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa through Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabbir. The aim of this MOU is to strengthen the research collaboration and exchange programme between students and researchers.
The collaboration was started in 2012 when Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabbir went to deliver a talk in the International Conference on Symmetries, Differential Equations and Applications on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Evariste Galois in the University of the Witwatersrand. Recently both the universities officially signed the MOU in February 2015. During this period three articles have been published in very good international Journals and four articles have been submitted. ...
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25th March, 2015
FES organizing a workshop on LaTex
Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES) at GIK Institute is organizing 1.0 CPD Activity on LaTeX, a tool for professional writing of research paper, thesis, presentation and other research articles. LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
Engr. Safiullah Khan, Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering Sciences will be conducting this workshop. A demonstration will be given by the recourse person and hand-on practice on the tool will be done by the participants. And after attending this workshop, you will be able to use LaTeX with international technical writing standards for:
· Technical thesis writing
· Research articles / report
· Presentation (Thesis defense/international conference etc.)
Certificates will be given to those participants who will submit the assigned task.
The participant with a technical background who wants to excel in research environment and is interested in technical research writing can attend the workshop. This workshop, however, is equally fruitful for the students both undergraduate, especially 3rd or 4th year, and graduate program.
You may register yourself by Monday, 23rd March, 2015 at following online registration form. A registration fee of Rs. 500/- will be apply to non-GIKI only.
The workshop will be on 26th March, 2015 in Computer Lab at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, GIK Institute, at 02:30 PM.
In case of any queries, feel free to contact:
Research Associate
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
taimoor.ali@giki.edu.pk ...
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16th March, 2015
GIKI represents Pakistan in Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2015
Shell Eco Marathon (SEM) is an annual competition aimed at achieving energy efficiency in the automobile industry with participation coming from university students throughout the world. The competition allows teams to participate in two mainstream categories: Prototype and Urban, which are further classified by the type of fuel they employ to drive their car with options including hydrogen, CNG, ethanol, battery electric and gasoline.
SEM Asia 2015 was held in Manila, Philippines between 25 February and 2 March, and received participation from 132 teams.
GIKI was represented by Kazi Sher Ahmed, Talha Khan and Ashaa Naveed as part of the Team HammerHead in the Battery Electric Prototype category. Ali Yousuf, Malik Abbas and Zaire Hasan were also the part of the team. Elucidating the course of the competition, the team manager, Kazi Sher said, “Conversion of the vehicle into a chain drive with a different motor required a different specifications lithium ion battery which could not be arranged by the SEM e-shop. We were later informed that the car will make it to the track using the lead acid batteries.”
Mentioning the overwhelming efforts the team had to put into the project, Ashaa Naveed said, “We were the smallest team participating in the contest and with pre event preparations including sponsorships and technical aspects of the car being managed by us six only, it really means a lot now that we made through this.”
Substantiating her thoughts, Talha Khan mentioned, “Our resilience took us to being one of the 15 teams to receive international broadcast. Earlier on, we received the Best Design Award of Rs. 2 lakh from Shell Pakistan. I am thankful to Airblue and Levis for supporting us. I am also thankful to Dr. Javed Chattha, Pro Rector GIKI for his support.”
Team HammerHead was sponsored by Airblue and Levis as the travel and merchandise partners respectively.
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16th March, 2015
