Summaries of Activities

2008

GOLD Activity

The GOLD Chapter has been active during this year. The new GOLD Chair Rafael Chaudhry has actively pursued to promote GOLD in the graduating classes. He has also supported the Membership Development Committee in attracting young graduates.

Professional and Continuing Education Activities

The following invited talks were arranged during the year.

• Systematic Literature Review in Software Engineering, Dr. Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, 21-Apr-08
• Computer Processing for Pakistani Languages, Prof. Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Centre for Research in Urdu Language Processing, FAST National University, Lahore., 14-Jun-08
• Designing Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 27-Jun-08
• SAPI: Speech Application Programming Interface, Maryam Mustafa, Adjunct Faculty, CS Dept. LUMS , 21-Jul-08
• Cognition and Security in Wireless Networks, Prof. Akbar Sayeed , Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 15-Oct-08
• Designing Wireless Embeded Systems, Syed Hussain Gilani, General Manager, Mentor Graphics, San Jose, USA., 3-Dec-08
• Challenge of Change, Dr. Anwar Khrushid, LUMS, 17-Dec-08
• Product Management, Junaid Basir, Microsoft, 19-Dec-08

• Ditto - A System for Opportunistic Caching in Multi-hop Wireless Networks”, Fahad Dogar, Graduate Student, ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 23-Dec-08

Other major technical events organized were:

• Codinguru Programming Competition, , LUMS, Mar-08
• Pakistan Student Congress & Tech Fair, , GC University Faisalabad, 16-18 Aug 2008
• IEEE CIIT Lahore C/C++ Quiz Competition, 4-Dec-08

The Lahore Section technically co-sponsored the following conferences this year:

• Second International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE 2008, UET, Lahore, 25-26 March 2008
• International Networking and Communication Conference INCC 2008, LUMS Lahore Cantt., 1-3 May 2008

Recognised Educational Programmes (REPCOM)

No progress in this regard has been made this year.

Student Activities

Our Student Branches have been very active and progressive. Many new members were enrolled and retention level is good. They have been organising IEEE seminars in other teaching institutions, especially with IT and Computer related subjects, with positive results. One of the very active branch during the current year has been that of GC University Faisalabad. The members of the student branch participated in the national as well as international events, organized a number of technical talks and workshops, and conducted awareness and marketing campaign to successfully motivate students to join their student branch. In the Tech Fair around 350 students from 40 different universities participated. The Pakistan Student Congress was attended by 44 delegates from 14 universities. Amir Zahoor, Chair IEEE Student Branch Faisalabad got the IEEE outstanding leadership award for the year 2007.  He was also selected as the Section Student Representative of the Lahore Section.

E-mail and Newsletter Activities, Home Page

The Section Secretariat was not able to publish a Newsletter in the year 2008. However the Section tried to have an online Newsletter. The work on this activity is under way.

The Website for the Lahore Section was launched in August 2001. This website is being upgraded. A new version of the Lahore Section Website can be accessed at http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/lahore.

Awards

In the past the Section has given awards to the Best Volunteers as incentives for the outstanding work done by them for promoting the cause and function of the Section in particular, and the IEEE in general. The awards are normally beautiful plaques and certificates in case of students. This year to commemorate the 125^th anniversary of the IEEE the Lahore Section is recognizing the contribution of its founding members.

Chapter Activities

PES/IAS Chapter -

Computer Society – The Computer Society held a seminar on “Computer Processing for Pakistani Languages” by Prof. Dr. Sarmad Hussain, from Centre for Research in Urdu Language Processing, FAST National University, Lahore., on 14-Jun-08 in UET Lahore. The Computer Society has planned a number of other activities for the year 2009.

Communication Society – The Communication Society held Second International Networking and Communication Conference in May 2008. Apart from that it arranged seminars in the area of congestion control and network security.

GOLD and WIE Chapters

• GOLD chapter was not very active in 2006. The GOLD representative was sent to attend the GOLD congress held in Beijing in 2006.
• The first chapter of WIE was established at NUCES Lahore campus during 2005. The second followed in the region under Islamabad Section. Lahore WIE chapter is active and it regularly holding activities for women. NUCES Lahore campus is the hub of all their activities.

Professional and Continuing Education Activity

• This has indeed been the star activity for Lahore Section. Visiting faculty members and professionals from US, Canada, European Union and Australia were requested to deliver lectures. Thirteen (13) technical, professional and educational lectures were arranged with varying attendance.
• Lahore Section also provided technical sponsorship to a two days international conference on Open Source Technologies (ICOST) organized by KICS, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in December 2006.

Student Activities

• The main three student branches in Lahore Section, namely UET branch, NUCES branch and LUMS branch were very active in 2006. A collaborative event between the three branches was coordinated by NUCES student’s branch. It was the IEEE week. It spanned a week full of activities ranging from competitions, presentations, keynote speakers in the opening and closing sessions, electronics projects display and many more technical and professional activities.
• LUMS branch has made its event of coding competition titled CodinGuru an annual event. This is a popular competition with teams from different institutions participating.
  UET branch has been most active in student’s technical competency development. They held workshops and educational lecture series for their members.
• GCU branch in Faisalabad held a project competition besides organizing student competency development activities.

Awards

• Annual awards were given during the annual general meeting in December 2006. The list of awardees are the following:
• Volunteer of the year 2006: Dr Shafay Shamail
• Student’s Branch of the year 2006: NUCES Lahore Branch
• Lifetime Volunteer Award: Engr Abdul Aziz
• All student branches officers were given certificates.

GOLD and WIE Chapters

• GOLD chapter was quite active in 2005. They arranged numerous talks with graduating classes of University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore and National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) Lahore.

• The first chapter of WIE was established at NUCES Lahore campus during 2005. The second followed in the region under Islamabad Section.

Professional and Continuing Education Activity

• This has indeed been the star activity for Lahore Section. Visiting faculty members and professionals from US, Canada, European Union and Australia were requested to deliver lectures. Eleven (11) technical, professional and educational lectures were arranged with varying attendance.

Student Activities

• The main three student branches in Lahore Section, namely UET branch, NUCES branch and LUMS branch were very active in 2005. A collaborative event between the three branches was coordinated by NUCES student’s branch. It was the IEEE week. It spanned a week full of activities ranging from competitions, presentations, keynote speakers in the opening and closing sessions, electronics projects display and many more technical and professional activities.

• LUMS branch has made its event of coding competition titled CodinGuru an annual event. This is a popular competition with teams from different institutions participating.

• UET branch has been most active in student’s technical competency development. They held workshops and educational lecture series for their members.

• Newly emerging branches like UMT student’s branch has been active in developing membership base.

Awards

• Annual awards were given during the annual general meeting in December 2005. The list of awardees are the following:

• Best Volunteer: Dr Zaeem Jafri

• Best Student’s Branch: NUCES Lahore Branch

• All the outgoing executive committee members and officers were awarded souvenirs.

• All student branches officers were given certificates.

Conferences and Workshops

• INCC (International Networking & Communication Conference) 2004 --- the first conference held by a Lahore Section Communication Society chapter. 250 participants
• INMIC (International Multi-topic Conference) 2004 --- this was an outstanding success with a record number of papers and with 22 foreign countries representation.
• Workshop on Software Graphics: Software Graphics - A Necessity for Learning; Conducted by Mr. Qazi Hamza; hosted by IEEE LUMS Student Branch

Seminars

• Impact of Recent U.S. Laws on Global IT Solution Providers by Mr. Naeem Hashmi, Founder and CTO, Information Frameworks, USA; Hosted by Lahore Section and ComSoc Chapter.

• Research Trends in Data Mining by Mr. Ahsan Abdullah; Hosted by Lahore Section, ComSoc Chapter and LUMS Student Branch.      

• Space Time Signal Processing for Wireless Systems by Mr. Asad Rehman Ch.; Hosted by IEEE UET Student Branch.
• Latest Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering by Professor Muhammad Ali Maud; hosted by IEEE LUMS Student Branch.
• Starting a New Venture – An Example from Silicon Valley by Mr. Waqar Shah, Sr. VP Operations, Raza Microelectronics Inc., USA; Hosted by IEEE Lahore Section and TiE.
• Recovery Oriented Computing by Dr. Waheed Qureshi, Founder, Chairman and CTO Zenprise Inc.; hosted by IEEE Lahore Section and ComSoc Chapter
•  Distinguished Lecture: Extending Moore's Law with Silicon Nanotechnology: A Perspective from Semiconductor World by Dr. Tahir Ghani Logic Technology Development, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro; hosted by IEEE Lahore Section and ComSoc Chapter.
• Next Generation Softswitch Based Telecom Networks  by Mr. Nahil Mahmood, General Manager, Telecom, WorldCall Telecom Group.
• Talk on Internet Entrepreneurship by Mr. Monis Rahman CEO, Naseeb Networks; Hosted by IEEE Lahore Section and TiE.

• Creating Winning E-Business Strategies: The Role of Trust by Prof. Dr. Fareena Sultan, Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University; hosted by IEEE Lahore Section, TiE, and CMER.

• Strategies for Technology Development by Mr. Shahzad Imran Baqai, Director of Corporate Strategies, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; hosted by IEEE Lahore Section and TiE.

REPCOM

• Got PEC (Pakistan Engineering Council) successfully registered with IEEE as the valid accreditation authority for engineering education in Pakistan.

Student Support

• Sent a delegation of student Reps from UET, FAST & LUMS to the Student Congress 2004, Hong Kong.

 Student Activities

• A Lahore Section team made it to the top 10 finalists of CSIDC (Computer Society International Design Competition) 2004 held at Washington DC.
• The Codinguru Competition: 50 teams participated; hosted by IEEE LUMS Student Branch, the ComSoc Chapter  and the LUMS CS department.
•  Enterprise Software Architecture: Tiered Architecture and JSPs by Mr. Umair Javed,   Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University; Hosted by IEEE LUMS Student Branch.
•  SOFTEC 2004 was held by the Student Branch of NUCES- FAST. This well publicized and very successful event was well attended by professionals, students and the general public.  
• R10 Student Congress, Hong Kong: This was attended by 4 representatives, including two girls, from IEEE Lahore Section student branches and provided the youngsters a very interesting regional networking experience.

GOLD

• Reactivated.

Other

• Lahore Section participated in the 1st R10 internet conference.

• Outstanding Volunteer Award process devised and implemented. 

Conferences and Workshops

• Students Conference & International Workshop ISCON 2002 organized by student branch OPSTeC at Avari Hotel, Lahore from August 14-15.
• Half-day workshops arranged by IEEE Lahore Section on “Wireless Communication”, “Digital Signal Processing” & “Software Engineering”

Seminars

• Impact of globalisation on software industry by Jamal Burki, Engineering Manager, Motorola Inc. Chicago, USA.
• Remote sensing & hydrocarbon exploration, production and distribution by Dr Khalid A Soofi, Conoco, Houston, USA.
• Pakistan Internet Exchange by Engr M Amir Mehmood, Network Administrator, PIE, Lahore.
• Starting and Building a High-Tech Company by Dr Akram Chowdry, Entrepreneur, USA.
• Scalling CMOS Transister Technology to the Limit: Current status, challenges and future options by Dr Tahir Ghani, Principal Engr and Integration Manager, Intel Corporation, USA.
• Future Direction in IC Design by Dr Kamran Malik.
• Studying in Germany : A paradigm shift to thinking process by Mr Mudassar Farooq.
• Starting an Entrepreneurial Venture: The story of align technologys by Mr Zia Chishti, Co-Founder of Align Technology and Chairman of the Board.
• Applications of Optical Fiber Technology by Dr Awais Kamal, Chief Executive OptiWave Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.
• Design Patterns in Software Engineering by Ms Qudsia Jaffery, Director Project Management at HRsmart, Plano, Texas, USA.
• The Art of Teaching by Dr Altaf H Khan.
• Latest Trends in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Opportunities and Challenges by Dr Irfan Saadat.

Student Activities

• Short courses arranged by the student branches on “Digital Signal Processing”, “C++”, “Java Programming”, “Networking”, “Software Engineering” etc.
• Job Placement seminars were held at UET and FAST student branches.
• Entrepreneurial Seminar arranged by FAST student branch jointly with IEEE Lahore Section and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur, Lahore Chapter)
• SOFTEC 2002

Establishment of Computer and Communication Societies

• “Computer Society” has been established in Lahore Section (awaiting final approval).
• “Communication Society” has also been in the establishment process.

Other

• The Section was represented in Region 10 Committee Meeting by Chair, Region 10 Student Congress by Students and Section Congress by Chair.