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FEECE-MUET e-NEWSLETTER

Patrons: Dr. B. S. Chowdhry Dr. Aftab Memon Editor: Fahim A. Umrani Sub-Editor(s): Aakash Makhijani 06TL02 Raheel Junejo Mr. Saad Kalwar 07TL21 Mr. Zubair Ahmed Ms. Zunera Aziz

Being a passing out student of 05 batch I learnt many things from our university apart from academics. For last two months I and my group member were stuck with our hardware project that was one of the two FIRST TIME PLC BASED HARDWARE projects of MUET and after its matters Alhumdulillah yesterday we submitted and presented it successfully. Before that I have never done any hardware project not even a small one in any semester, reason was not my laziness or lack of ideas but it was the problem of availability. Many times I rose up with different ideas but when I found that for ordinary ICs, and components I have to take out some time go to Karachi and buy that stuff, and this simply results with something else. That if we have budget of 5000rupees semester project it rises to 10000rupess or may be more and if any of the components that you bring from Karachi doesn’t work then would you like to change them from same travelling and same shop by spending few more thousands to complete some hundreds rupees project.

I heard some people calling it that is called the hard work. I always thought them limited thinkers or people with no understanding. Why we cannot have our own components shop in MUET having all basic ICs for use with semester, final year and any other project. The shop should be associated with university and be given on contract to any electronics ICs vendor in Hyderabad or Karachi. And ICs can be placed for ES, TL,BM, SW, EL & CS departments. Shop should have all ICs possibilities and if he hasn’t had it, he could provide that particular component on advance booking or order basis. That’s the way it can be helpful for teachers and students as well. Then we can have every semester a project from every student on his own idea or any other. We need our honorable Chairmen for all respective departments and respected teachers to make it possible. All students will always say yes and admire to such positive efforts. Since hardware practical work can teach a lot what a theoretical work cannot.LET’S MAKE ENGINEERS NOT KIND OF ENGINEERS

ELECTRONIC

COMPONENTS

SHOP IN MUET

By Raheel Ahmed Junejo

Let’s make engineers not  kind of engineers

In this issue: • Electronic

Components Shop in MUET

• Mehran UET Students Team

• 52 or 40 Classes? • Campus News

Monthly newsletter15th Feb 2009 

MEHRAN UNIVESITY STUDENT TEAM (MUST)

Help forum is now renamed as "M.U.S.T" "Mehran University Students Team" "providing auspicious services for mehranians…” Mehran University's candidates have brought some revolutionary ideas that shape in M.U.S.T The acute and primary task of M.U.S.T is to understand the student's educational critics and provide them the solutions of respective subject's ambiguities. M.U.S.T is currently in progress by the support of ALL TEACHERS of concerned departments, efforts of its ALL MEMBERS and appreciable Student's Corporation of various disciplines. M.U.S.T has now targeted the 09 & 08-BATCH of ELECTRONICS, TELECOMMUNICATION, BIO-MEDICAL & SOFTWARE and providing its maximum services to troubleshoot the different problems of students. It will be heading through out the MUET… If you, your crew or your class has some problem in understanding any subject, feel free to contact us. We will bring an appropriate solution by the help of our TEAM and TEACHERS.

“We take nothing but give you a lot…”  This has now come up with its own yahoo group and a webpage group: must_muet@yahoogrou ps.com All the current members as well as those want to join the forum can join group Webpage: http://must.cfsites.org For any query about the forum please contact: Saad kalwar 07TL21 Umair Mujtaba 07TL16 Bilal Sheikh 06ES

M.U.S.T‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐We take nothing but give you a lot…

By Saad Kalwar 07TL21 edited by Aakash Makhijani 06TL02

In most universities of world, each subject is normally allocated 40 theory classes. In Mehran UET, however, we have 52 official classes and if we add extra classes then every semester we have to take up to 60 classes per subject! Now the questions arise “Is it because we like to study more? Or there are some other reasons for this huge number of classes per subject? Why did university decide to change old school 40 classes into 52 classes per semesterand it is better for us or simply overloading us?” Before we start talking about 40 classes, first we should know the pros and cons of 52 lectures that whether this system is right or it should be changed in the interest of students. If we have 52 lectures in a semester, it means we’ll have a total of 4 lectures per week, which is not a very large number and not very difficult to conduct. And ifwe look at our lengthy syllabus, 52 lectures are really required to complete all those topics. But on the other hand, if there will be 40 classes for a single subject in a semester, then there will be 3 lectures per week, which results in a less number of classes and students will get spare time to indulge in other useful activities such as projects, sports, recreation and research etc. However, the spare time can only be efficiently utilized by the students if they are supported with other facilities like: • 12 hour (if not 24-hour access) to

libraries and laboratories wherestudents can go and study in free time.

• Hygienic and inexpensive diet spots are available to students, and

• Societies must be established with official support which regularly arrange sports event, recreational tours to boost up the energies of students.

But having an eye on ground facts, our students neither have an easy access to the central library in their free timing as it is too far from most of the departments (ES, TL, BM) and majority of students live in the Hyderabad city which is very far from Jamshoro! Nor appropriate facilities are provided which attracts the

interested students to spent extra time on the campus after classes. That’s probably the reason why unlike leading world universities, our university gets deserted immediately after the points take us back to our sweet homes. Moreover keeping the lengthy syllabus in our mind, it is quite difficult to cover the whole syllabus in 40 classes. 40 classes’ll also put the pressure on our teachers to wind up the syllabus in hasty manner. Before the system of 52 lectures introduced in our university, there used to be a total of 40 classes and in that system every week 3 theory and 3 practical classes used to take place. No need to point out that in 52 class system, we have 4 theory and 2 practical classes every week. The point to note here is that in 40 classes system we can have extra hour of practical’s every week! It could be a great decision in a place where more emphases is on practical, but in our university we have more emphases on theory that’s why we have 2 classes of practical, and even then our practical is mostly performed in an hour or a few minutes more. The same thing will happen in the practical class of 3hours. Let me share my own experience with you. Once I came across the timetable of a class of 09 batch. They were having 3 continuous practical classes of a subject on Friday (which is half day) and I was shocked when I came to know that their practical was over just in half an hour and then they all were free for whole day. Had they came from homes to study for half an hour? Now these are the things which should be considered before we decide to switch back to old system of 40 classes per semester. We all hope that when new CL building starts workingasap, it will provide a nice place for those students who wish to spend their free time achieved through 40 class system in studying and other useful activities.

52 or 40 CLASSES?? By Saad Kalwar 07TL21 edited by Zunera Aziz 07TL88

In most universities of world, each subject is normally allocated 40 theory classes. In MUET, however, we have 52 official classes and with extra classes included they reach up to 60 classes! Is it because we like to study more?

Campus News   

Please support this e-newsletter by reading and contributing:

1. Activities/News of the MUET (with focus on ES, TL, BM, CS, SW and EL Deptt:)

2. Project Proposals (for junior and senior level undergraduates)

3. Achievements of Students (Curricular or Extra-curricular)

4. Recommended websites, books, places 5. Student Issues and problems. 6. Descent Entertaining/Funny but creative stuff 7. Your feedback will also be very much appreciated. 8. Etc,

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• The students didn’t send any news-stories. Probably because all of them are sleeping and there is not much happening in their lives (just kidding!) But don’t forget to post activities next time…(Not kidding this time!)

• A new help forum is created by the students of TL and ES departments named “Mehran University Student Team (MUST)”, which aims to cater the academic needs of students.

• A new team of FEECE-MUET e-NEWSLETTER is being created and very encouraging response is received from Students.

• 11th Convocation of MUET took place on 24th of January 2009. Various degrees ranging from PhD to bachelors were awarded. Once again high ranking officials like President/Prime minister/Chief Minister/Governor ignored our university. They found it enough to send a senior minister.

• Few students like Asha Aswani and Muhadisa Barat have submitted their research papers in upcoming conference of IEEEP, we wish them good luck!

• Many students took their final presentation and viva voce exams and now are Official engineers. We also congratulate all of them and wish them very good careers. Those who couldn’t clear, must remember that life does not end here.

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