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National University of Sciences and Technology

Military College of Signals (MCS)

Department of Computer Software Engineering

Self Assessment Report (2014)

MS Software Engineering

Submitted to

Quality Enhancement Cell

National University of Science of Technology

Program Representative Team

1. Asst Prof Tauseef Ahmad Rana President

2. Lab Demo. Kabeer Ahmed Member

3. Asst Program Coord Asif Member

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Table of Contents

Contents P #

Department History and Vision 4

Department Mission 4

Criterion 1 Program Objectives and Outcomes 4

Standard 1-1 Strategic Plan to Achieve the Program Objectives 4

Standard 1-2 Program Outcomes 8

Standard 1-3 Results of Program’s Assessment 10

Standard 1-4 Performance Assessment 11

Criterion 2 Curriculum Design and Organization 12

Standard 2-1 Support for Program Objectives 13

Standard 2-2 Problem analysis and Solution Design 15

Standard 2-3 Core Requirements 16

Standard 2-4 HEC Requirements 17

Standard 2-5 Professional Requirements 18

Standard 2-6 Integration of Information Technology 22

Standard 2-7 Communication Skills 22

Criterion 3 Laboratories and Computing Facilities 23

Standard 3-1 Laboratory Instructions 23

Standard 3-2 Support Personals 23

Standard 3-3 Computing Facilities for Program Objectives 24

Criterion 4 Student Support and Advising 33

Standard 4-1 Course Offerings’ 33

Standard 4-2 Integration of students, faculty and Teaching Assistants 35

Standard 4-3 Student Guidance on Courses Selection 35

Criterion 5 Process Control 37

Standard 5-1 Student’s Admission 37

Standard 5-2 Student’s Registration and Progress 41

Standard 5-3 Recruitment and Retention of Faculty 41

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Standard 5-4 Conduct of Classes 41

Standard 5-5 Academic Audit 41

Criterion 6 Faculty 42

Standard 6-1 Faculty Strength and Competency 42

Standard 6-2 Faculty Development 48

Standard 6-3 Job Satisfaction 49

Criterion 7 Institutional Facilities 50

Standard 7-1 Support for New Trends in Learning 50

Standard 7-2 Library Support 50

Standard 7-3 Classrooms and Offices Standard 51

Criterion 8 Institutional Support 53

Standard 8-1 Faculty Support 53

Standard 8-2 Student Strength 53

Standard 8-3 Financial Resources for Maintenance of Infrastructure 53

Appendix-A Seminars/ Workshops 54

Appendix-B Faculty List 56

Appendix-C Surveys 80

Activities Dates Self Assessment Report 2014 85

Executive Summary for SAR 2014 86

Assessment Results Implementation Plan Summary 87

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Criterion 1 Program Mission Objectives and Outcomes

Standard 1-1 Mission Statement NUST

To develop NUST as a comprehensive, research-led university with a focus on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Standard 1-1a Mission Statement of Military College of Signals

MCS, with its innovative outlook, striving to be a modern multi-disciplinary centre for excellence of research and development, will continue to offer quality yet accessible higher education not only in traditional fields but also in emerging and cutting edge sciences and technologies in order to meet the national needs. It will acquire and retain faculty, known for its commitment to creation, innovation and application of knowledge and will provide challenging educational and cultural environment for students selected purely on merit, to acquire high professional competency, and refine their ability to reason and to communicate freely and clearly so as to become responsible, morally equipped, moderate and well-rounded citizens of a diverse world.

Standard 1-1b Mission Statement of Department of Computer Software Engineering

The development of modern information technology is fast-paced and difficult to predict.

Computer science, as a subject, is a driving force in this development and through research and

education it can help society to both master and make use of the new technology. For research,

this means greater flexibility and preparedness for addressing new problems that arise with the

development of new technologies and their use. For education, new technologies require the

continual revision of course offerings and syllabus to address rapid developments.

The mission of Department of CSE to conduct postgraduate (MS and PhD) degree programs

under the supervision of National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) with the

objective of producing competent software engineers and researchers to accept the intellectual

and technological challenges of the 21st century.

Standard 1-1c Mission Statement of Postgraduate Program

1. To train and produce world class human resource in the field of Software design and development

2. To provide resource backbone for the export of Computer Software, so that they can contribute in the development and the progress of Pakistan.

3. To prepare world-class human resource to carry out a high quality research and development task through MS and Ph D programs.

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Standard 1-2 Postgraduate Program Objective and Outcomes

Standard 1-2a Objectives

Software Engineering is the discipline of developing and maintaining Software Systems that

should perform reliably, effectively and are affordable to develop and maintain. After

completing the degree program, the student should have following characteristics:

1. Enter in the industry as a professional and make intellectual contributions to it. 2. Have a vast knowledge in core areas of Mathematics, Computer and Social Sciences,

which include theoretical foundations and fundamentals of systems and software engineering.

3. Have advanced knowledge to establish a foundation for graduate studies along with the fundamental knowledge useful in the rapidly changing software and computing industry.

4. Have an understanding of the processes of research and an in-depth study of an area of study, which will enable them to independently advance the frontiers of knowledge in computing science.

5. Embark on lifelong learning for personal and professional growth.

Standard 1-2b Strategic Plan

1. Design the Curriculum in such a way that it covers a wide variety of subjects covering all possible aspects of Software Engineering degree program along with sound mathematical background and strong oral and written communication/presentation skills. It should also provide an opportunity and guidance for the students to excel in areas of their interest.

2. Concept building through most modern up-to-date curriculum by highly qualified teaching faculty supplemented with extensive research work. Development of theoretical, analytical and research skills should be special features of this program.

3. Students must do research projects on individual basis implement what they have learned ad practice their research skills.

4. In final year of postgraduate (3rd and 4th semester), it should be compulsory for all students to select a final thesis and defend it, in the presence of their supervisor, examiner and class fellows. This requirement will enable them to work in a team and to write a report and present it which in turn will help them in securing a good job or getting admission in higher studies.

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Standard 1-2c Postgraduate Program Objectives’ Assessment

Table 0-1: Program Objective Assessment for MS

Objective How Measured When Measured Weakness

Identified

Improvement

made

Enter in the industry as a professional and make intellectual contributions to it.

Employer Survey

Alumni Survey

After the employment of 6-12 months

Workshops and Short courses.

Workshops/ short courses are encouraged.

Have a vast

knowledge in

core areas of

Mathematics,

Computer and

Social

Sciences,

which include

theoretical

foundations

and

fundamentals

of systems

and software

engineering.

Through assignments, quizzes, and exams

Throughout the semester and scheduled exams

Additional coaching classes of the students

Improved lab facility

Labs updated

Have advanced knowledge to establish a foundation for graduate studies along

Through semester

projects

Final Thesis

At the end of

semesters

CPD activities

a. Number of

seminars are

conducted

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with the fundamental knowledge useful in the rapidly changing software and computing industry.

Have an understanding of the processes of research and an in-depth study of an area of study, which will enable them to independently advance the frontiers of knowledge in computing science.

Through research oriented projects, number of papers published/presented in conferences

Yearly alumni Survey conducted

CPD activities

Updation of lab facility to facilitate the research work

a. Number of seminars are conducted

a. Labs are updated for research

b. Seminars on how to conduct research work are organized frequently.

Embark on lifelong learning for personal and professional growth.

Alumni Survey

At the end of

semesters

More

interaction

required with

Industry during

studies

More visits

arranged to

industry

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Standard1-1a: Outcomes

The students of the program have the following characteristics:

1. Strong practical knowledge of computer science, mathematics and social sciences 2. Are able to write technical documents such as specification and research papers in

proper format. 3. Are able to present technical documents and papers. 4. Have leadership skills to lead a team. 5. Are able to work in interdisciplinary groups consisting of non-technical and

technical members. 6. Have an enthusiasm for the educational and professional progress.

Table 0-2: Outcomes vs. Objectives

Program Outcomes

Objectives

1 2 3 4 5

1

2

3

4

5

6

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Standard 1-3 Results of Postgraduate Program’s Assessment

Standardization based on periodic assessments

Following are the factors, which help in standardization based on periodic assessment.

1. Labs have been improved by providing better equipment and latest software. 2. More and frequent industrial visits. 3. Induction of highly qualified teaching faculty. 4. Out of class more interaction between teaching faculty and students. 5. A teaching faculty member has been assigned to each class as a “course advisor” to

solve their academic and non academic issues. 6. Putting more efforts to arrange internships for the final semester students.

Future Improvement Program

In order to enhance research culture following Research groups have been established:

1. “Pervasive Computing Group” headed by Asst. Prof. Athar Mohsin Asst. Prof. Dr. Awais Majeed.

2. “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Group” headed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saeed Murtaza.

3. “Data/Text Mining Group” headed by Asst. Prof. Dr. Seemab Latif and Asst. Prof. Dr. Hammad Afzal.

4. “Image Processing / Computer Vision Group” headed by Asst. Prof. Dr. Naveed Rao and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asif Masood.

5. “Satellite Remote Sensing and Image Processing Group” headed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fahim Arif.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Program

Strengths

1. Courses and associated labs (if any) are updated on regular bases. 2. Students are trained to work in team and on individual bases as well as result

students are warmly welcomed in the industry, therefore, 92% of all graduates have either jobs or pursuing higher study in Pakistan/abroad.

3. Program is structured according to HEC and PEC’s requirements. 4. Program is accredited by PEC (Pakistan Engineering Council). 5. For two consecutive years PEC has declared Engineer of the year from Software

Engineering discipline of our department. 6. We have total 4 and 8 publications in international journals and conferences,

respectively, for the year 2012-2013.

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Weaknesses

1. Interaction with the Software Industry requires to be enhanced.

Future Development Plan

Following are the factor, which may improve significance of the program.

1. Enhancement and retention of good quality teaching Faculty. 2. Extensive internship program for the students. 3. More industry oriented courses. 4. Establish collaboration with other Universities.

Standard 1-4 Department’s Overall Performance Assessment

Table 0-3: Overall Performance Assessment

Post Graduate

Student Enrollment/ Intake

2010 48

2011 28

2012 36

2013 35

Average SGPA 3.33

Average Time for Degree Completion 17 Months

Attrition Rate 0.5%

Faculty Member Satisfaction 90%

Student Satisfaction 85%

Employers Satisfaction 98%

Research Activities

Journals Publication 4

Conference

Publication 8

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Criterion 2 Curriculum Design and Organization Title of Degree Programs:

Master of Science in Software Engineering – MSSE

Definition of credit hour

A lecture of one hour duration per week per semester for a subject is countable towards a

student’s Cumulative Grade Point Average and will be considered as one credit hour. However,

in case of seminars, tutorials and laboratory work, one credit hour may require two or three

contact hours depending upon the nature of subject.

Definitions and Keywords used in this Section.

1. Pre Requisites: It is the subject or course that is essential to pass before taking the required subject or course.

2. Credits Hours: A lecture of one hour duration per week per semester for a subject countable towards a student’s Cumulative Grade Point Average will be considered as one credit hour. However, in case of seminars, tutorials and laboratory work, one credit hour may require two or three contact hours depending upon the nature of subject.

3. Contact Hours: A lecture of one credit hour duration per week is equal to one contact hour per week and a lab of one credit hour per week is equal to 2 to 3 contact hour per week depending on the subject.

4. Cumulative: Sum of contact hours for a lectures and its essential lab work for particular subject or course.

5. Subject or Course A “Subject” or “Course” means a sequence of topics related to an academic program, which is to be studied by a student for a fixed number of hours during a semester. Each subject will carry a specific faculty code and number.

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Degree Plan

Table 0-1: Curriculum Breakdown

Major Areas CHs

Core Software Engineering 12

40%

Optional Courses 12

40%

Research Work (Final Thesis) 6

20%

Total 30

Table 2.2: Core Software Engineering Courses

Sr. Course Code Course Name Lec/Lab CHs

1. SE-860 Advanced Software Engineering 3+0 3

2. SE-861

Software System Design &

Architecture

3+0 3

3. SE-862 Software Requirement Engineering 3+0 3

4. SE-863 Software Quality Engineering 3+0 3

Total 12

Table 2.3: Optional Software Engineering Courses


1. SE-864 Team-Based Software Development 3+0 3

2. SE-865 Human Computer Interface 3+0 3

3. SE-866 Reverse Engineering 3+0 3

4. SE-867 Formal Methods 3+0 3

5. SE-868 Software Project Management 3+0 3

6. SE-871 Business Process Re-engineering 3+0 3

Total 18

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Table 2.4: Optional Web Engineering Courses


1. SE-876 Web-Engineering 3+0 3

2. SE-877 Software Development for Web 3+0 3

Total 6

Table 2.5: Optional Network Courses


1. SE-825 Adv Computer Network 3+0 3

2. SE-826 Adv Computer Network Design & System Security 3+0 3

3. SE-827 Wireless Communication 3+0 3

4. SE-828 Network Security 3+0 3

Total 12

Table2.6: Optional Artificial Intelligence Courses


1. SE-801 Artificial Neural Network 3+0 3

2. SE-802 Pattern Recognition 3+0 3

3. SE-803 Computer Vision 3+0 3

4. SE-805 Adv Artificial Intelligence 3+0 3

5. SE-807 Machine Learning 3+0 3

6. SE-808 Bio Informatics System 3+0 3

Total 18

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Table 2.7: Optional Data Structure & Algorithm Courses


1. SE-830 Adv Algorithm Analysis 3+0 3

2. SE-835 Algorithmic Graph Theory 3+0 3

Total 6

Table 2.8: Optional Databases Courses


1. SE-880 Adv Database Systems 3+0 3

Total 3

Table 2.9: Optional Operating System Courses


1. SE-812 Adv Operating Systems 3+0 3

2. SE-813 Design of Parallel & Distributed Systems 3+0 3

3. SE-814 Distributed Systems and Resources Optimization 3+0 3

Total 9

Table 2.10: Optional Computer Architecture Courses


1. SE-820 Adv Computer Architecture 3+0 3

Total 3

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Table 2.11: Optional Imaging Courses


1. SE-850 Digital Image Processing 3+0 3

2. SE-851 Wavelet Compression 3+0 3

Total 6

Table 2.12: Optional Research Courses


1. SE-(900-919) Selected topics in relevant Area 3+0 3

2. SE-898 Research Methodologies 3+0 3

3. SE-899 Thesis 3+0 3

Total 9

Standard 2-1 Curriculum’s Consistency and Support in Meeting Program’s Objectives

The insightful knowledge and teamwork skills are enhanced by organizing very competitive

course contents and group/individual projects to solve the industrial/practical problems in the

discipline of software engineering.

Courses

Objectives

Core

Concept

Practical

Knowledge

Team

Work

Research

Advanced Software Engineering


Architecture

Software Requirement Engineering

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Software Quality Engineering

Team-Based Software Development

Human Computer Interface

Reverse Engineering

Usability Engineering

Formal Methods

Software Project Management

Business Process Re-engineering

Web-Engineering

Software Development for Web

Adv Computer Network

Adv Computer Network Design & System

Security

Wireless Communication

Network Security

Artificial Neural Network

Pattern Recognition

Computer Vision

Adv Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Bio Informatics System

Adv Algorithm Analysis

Adv Algorithmic Graph Theory

Adv Database Systems

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Adv Operating Systems

Design of Parallel & Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems and Resources

Optimization

Adv Computer Architecture

Digital Image Processing

Wavelet Compression

Selected topics in relevant Area

Research Methodologies

Master’s Thesis Research

Standard 2-2 Program's Core Material

The program’s core courses help the PG students in attaining the advanced knowledge (with the supportive practical examples) for the essence of software engineering. With the help of this attained knowledge, a PG student would enter in the industry/academia with an adequate theoretical background, a sound analytical skill set and with an ability to design solutions for the software engineering problems.

Courses

Objectives

Theoretical

Background

Problem

Analysis

Solution

Design

Advanced Software Engineering


Architecture

Software Requirement Engineering

Software Quality Engineering

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Standard 2-3,2-4, 2-5 Requirements of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) and Higher Education Commission (HEC)

The curriculum is based on the guidelines of PEC and HEC for Master’s program in Software Engineering.

Program Core Software

Engineering Optional Courses

Master’s Thesis

Research

MSSE Program 12 Cr Hrs 12 Cr Hrs 6 Cr Hrs

Standard 2-6 Information Technology Component of the Curriculum

MSSE program is itself an exercise in Software Engineering; therefore the curriculum contains

adequate Software Engineering courses.

Standard 2-7 Oral and Written Communication Skills Development

Students are taught a course in Communication and interpersonal Skills and learn various

aspects of communication, public speaking and presentations. In addition to this, each

semester project is concluded with a presentation by the student in front of the whole class.

This exercise polishes the presentation skills of the student.

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Criterion 3 Laboratories and Computing Facilities

Standard 3-1 Laboratories at Department of Computer Software

Engineering

Military college of signals encourages the use of computing and network resources to enhance

the learning, teaching and working environment. However, access to the computing and

network environment at MCS is to be used in effective, ethical and lawful ways that support the

values of the College. MCS student have access to a broad range of computing and information

technology services. Computer labs provide excellent computing resources for students.

Department of CSE offers computing facilities with over 250 stations loaded with the latest

software. CSE Department is connected with MIS Cell and other department with fiber optics.

The classrooms are equipped with complete multimedia facilities.

Standard3-1a: Database Lab

This is located at ground floor of CSE Department and its covered area is 1152 sqr ft. This lab is

used for practical work of UG courses only.

Table 0-1: Detail of Equipment in Database Lab

Sr. No.

Equipment Qty

Type Details

1. IBM-Compatible Computer Intel Pentium-IV 3.4GHz 50

2. Switch 3Com 26 Port 03

3. Printer HP-2400 01

4. Multimedia Multimedia Projector 01

Table 0-2 Available Software in the Database Lab

Sr. Software Name Sr. Software Name

1. Windows XP Professional 2. Emu8086 microprocessor emulator

3. Microsoft SQL Server 4. JDK 5.0

5. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional 6. Matlab & Simulink

7. Kaspersky 6.0 Anti-virus 8. MS Publisher 2005

9. MS Office 2003 10. MS FrontPage 2005

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11. WinRAR 2.90 12. MS Visio 2005

13. PaperCut Client 14. MS Visual Studio 6.0

15. Allegro CL 3.0.2 for windows 16. MS Visual Studio.NET 2005

17. Visible Analyst Workbench 18. Rational Rose Enterprise Edition 2002

19. Borland C++ 5.02 20. Electronic Workbench

Support Personals

1. Lab OIC 2. Lab Demonstrator 3. Lab NCO 4. Lab Assistant

Standard3-1b: Operating System Lab

This lab is located at ground floor of CSE Department and its covered area is 1152 sqr ft. This lab

is used for degree projects/thesis of UG and PG students.

Table 0-3: Detail of Equipment in Operating System Lab

Sr. No.

Equipment Qty

Type Details

1. IBM-Compatible Computer Intel Core i7 2.9 GHz 45

2. Switch 3Com 26 Port 03

3. Printer HP-2400 01

4. UPS Alpha 5 KVA 02

5. Scanner HP ScanJet 8200C 01


Table 0-4: Available Software is Operating System Lab

Sr. Software Name

1. Windows XP Professional

2. Red Hat Linux 9.0

3. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional

4. Kaspersky 6.0 Anti-virus

5. MS Office 2003

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6. WinRAR 2.90

7. PaperCut Client

8. Visible Analyst Workbench

9. Matlab & Simulink Support Personals


Standard3-1c: Networking Lab

Located in ground floor of IT Wing and its covered area is 864 sqr ft. This lab is used for degree

projects/thesis of UG and PG students. Moreover, this lab equipped with various research

related tool, multimedia, and application development. Students utilizing this lab can gain the

knowledge and skills necessary to research in their fields.

Table 0-5: Detail of Equipment in Networking Lab

S/No Equipment Qty

Type Details

01 IBM-Compatible Computer Intel Pentium-IV C2D 2.9GHz 33

02 Switch 3 COM 26 Port 02

03 UPS APC 5 KVA Alpha 6 KVA

02

04 Scanner HP ScanJet 8200C 01

05 Priner Hp Colour Jet 4600 03

06 Stabilizer SimTec 02

Table 0-6: Available Software in Networking Lab


1. Sun Solaris 10 2. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional

3. SCO OPEN SERVER 4. Kaspersky 6.0 Anti-virus

5. Matlab & Simulink 6. MS Office 2003

7. C++ for Solaris 8. WinRAR 2.90

9. Ansys Pro for Sun Computers 10. PaperCut Client

11. Windows XP Professional 12. Visible Analyst Workbench


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Support Personals


Standard3-1d: Simulation Lab

Located in ground floor of CSE Department and its covered area is 450 sqr ft. This is designed

for group work and experimentation to support innovative simulations Students working in this

lab can gain practical and valuable hands-on experience with simulation techniques.

Table 0-7: Detail of Equipment in Simulation Lab

S/No Equipment Qty

Type Details

01 IBM-Compatible Computer Intel Pentium-IV 3.2 GHz 15

02 Sun Computer Work Station 08

03 Switch 3Com 26 Port 01

04 Scanner HP ScanJet 8200C 01

Table 0-8: Available Software in Simulation Lab


1. Sun Solaris 10 2. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional

3. SCO OPEN SERVER 4. Kaspersky 6.0 Anti-virus

5. Matlab & Simulink 6. MS Office 2003

7. C++ for Solaris 8. WinRAR 2.90

9. Ansys Pro for Sun Computers 10. Visible Analyst Workbench

11. Windows XP Professional 12. PaperCut Client


Support Personals


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Standard3-1e: Virtual Reality Lab

Located in first floor of CSE Department and its covered area is 395 sqr ft. The students and

faculty uses VR technology in areas such as remote robotic control and factory design.

Table 0-9: Detail of Equipment in Virtual Reality Lab

Sr.

No.

Equipment Qty

Type Details

1. IBM-Compatible Computer Intel Pentium-IV 3.2 GHz 12

2. Switch Hub Intel 16Port 01

3. Smart LED TV ORIENT LED 01

4. LEGO LEGO EV3 Mindstorm Kit with 8x

Expansion sets

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5. UPS APC 5 KVA 01

6. Scanner HP Jet 7400C 01

7. VR Kits Glasses, Head Gear, Joystick 05

Air Mouse with 1GB Flash Drive 01

P-5 Gloves with CD and Manual 03

3D Space Ball 01

3D Space Mouse 01

8. Access Point TP Link 02

9. Router TP Link 01

10. Antenna TP Link 03

Table 0-10: Available Software in Virtual Lab

Sr. Software Name





5. MS Office 2003

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6. WinRAR 2.90

7. PaperCut Client

8. Visible Analyst Workbench

9. Matlab & Simulink

Support Personals


Standard3-1f: Image Processing Center

Located in ground floor of old EE Building and its covered area is 950 sqr ft. This is a research

and development lab establish in 2006 with the aid of Ministry of Science and Technology to

facilitate R& D activities in computer vision and image processing. Application developed IPC

mainly includes object tracking, image segmentation, UAV image analysis and 3D

reconstruction. Presently IPC is planning to startup projects on video surveillance.

Table 0-11: Detail of Equipment in Image Processing Center

Sr. No. Equipment Qty

Type Details

1. Dell TM-490 P-IV 64 bit Dell Systems 06

2. IBM-Compatible Computer P-IV 32 bit BMW &HP System 07

3. Sun Computers Sun Workstation 03

4. Camera Digital Video Camera 02

5. Still Camera Digital Still Camera 02

6. UPS 10 KVA 02


8. Printer HP Laser Jet 2600n 01

9. Scanner HP ScanJet 8200 02

10. Switch 3 Com 4200 Series

D-Link Switch 24 Port

02

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Table 0-12: Available Software in Image Processing Center

Sr. Software Name

1. Matlab & Simulink

2. 3D Stdio Max

3. Corel Draw

4. Lab View

5. MS .Net




9. MS Office 2003

10. WinRAR 2.90

11. PaperCut Client

Support Personals


Standard 3-2 Lab Assistant Details of Personnel Staff

The details of each lab personnel staff is provided below.

Lab Staff Duties

Database Lab Asst Prof Dr Sarmad Sadik

Lab OIC

Arshad Mahmood (B.A)

Lab Demo

Abdul Wahab (BSc)

Lab Asst

M.Zahid Ali (B Tech)

Lab Attd

Operating System Lab

Asst Prof Dr Hammad Afzal

Lab OIC

Mudassar Habib (B-Tech)

Lab Demo

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Ghulam Awais (DAE)

Lab Asst

Irfan bashir (DAE) Lab Attd

Networking Lab Asst Prof Bilal Rauf Lab OIC

Arif Siddique

Lab Demo

Asst Umair

Naseem (ICS)

Lab Asst

Simulation Lab Asst Prof Dr Arif Raza

Lab OIC

Kamran khan Niazi (BE)

Lab Attd

Asst Prof Dr Seemab Latif

Lab OIC

Virtual Reality Lab Umar Mahmood Lab Engr

Shujaat Hussain

(I.Com)

Lab Attd

Image Processing Center

Lt col Dr Imran Touqeer

Lab OIC

Qasir khan (MA) Lab Demo

Asim (BSc) Lab Asst

Table 0-13: Detail of Personnel Staff

Standard 3-3 Instruction for Labs

Standard3-3a: Regulations

The following rules and regulations are implemented so that students have equal and secure

access to the computing equipment, software programs, accessories and workplace:

1. At the start of each session on a computer, students must log on properly and subsequently log off. At the end of the day or week students should turn the computer off.

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2. The computer equipment will be treated with care; any incident and/or damage must be reported to the Lab Supervisors immediately to ensure additional damage does not occur. Students may be held accountable for the repair or replacement costs for damaged or lost equipment.

3. Absolutely no food of any type will be allowed in the computer labs. Getting food and spills from drinks onto keyboards and computers causes expensive damage to the equipment.

4. When leaving the computer lab, users will clean up the area they have used, including the printer area; any paper/test sheets or printed material must be removed or discarded in the bins provided.

5. Only registered authorized users including students and employees are permitted in the computer labs to use computer resources. No guests are permitted to use the equipment unless proper permission of the System Administrator.

6. Students may leave a computer on and unattended for no more than 15 minutes: if a computer is left logged on unattended for more than the allotted time, any student may log off previous user and use the computer.

7. The computer console may be locked if unattended for more than 15 minutes by faculty or staff.

8. It is responsibility of each user to ensure that all transitory storage diskettes such as floppy diskettes or zip drives are free of viruses before these are used with computers.

9. Students will be liable for any intentional damage caused to the computer systems, networks and/or data.

10. Students are encouraged to always practice safe computing and make sure that they have backup of all their important data files.

Standard3-3b: Network Access Policy

1. Unauthorized Access: This may include using unauthorized user names, passwords,

computer addresses, identities or modifying assigned network settings to gain access to

the equipment or data which is not intended for that user.

2. Unauthorized Distribution and Disclosure of Information: Every effort must be made to

prevent the unauthorized disclosure and distribution of information that is the property

of this institute.

3. Sharing of account: The computing resources are allocated to groups and individuals for

specific educational, academic research and administrative purposes. It is not

acceptable to give, sell, or otherwise provide computing resources to other individuals

or groups that do not have explicit permission to use them.

4. Commercial Use: Use of the computer resources for commercial purpose not belonging

to this institution is not permitted.

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5. Personal Uses: The computer resources are to be used primarily for the tasks related to

this institution (e.g., educational, academic research and administrative etc). All users

are responsible to ensure that personal use of the computer resources is minimized and

does not interfere with the normal course of their work.

6. Security Software: Users are not permitted to remove or disable any security software

installed by network team. This includes anti-virus software, workstation management

software, and agent components etc.

7. Software Installation: All software installed on the computers must be licensed to this

institution. Users are not permitted to install software on any computer.

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Criterion 4 Student Support and Guidance

Standard 4-1 Course Offerings by the Department of Computer Software Engineering

During the program, a total of three semesters are offered, the courses are grouped, and will

be offered to the students so that they choose the courses from each group to complete

minimum 24 credit hours. Details are as follows:

Table 4.1: Course offering for MSSE Program

Sr. Group Course Code / Title Cr Hrs

a. Core Software Engineering SE-860 Advanced Software Engineering 3+0

b. SE-861 Software System Design &

Architecture

3+0

c. SE-862 Software Requirement Engineering 3+0

d. SE-863 Software Quality Engineering 3+0

Optional

a.

Software Engineering

SE-864 Team-Based Software Development 3+0

b. SE-865 Human Computer Interface 3+0

c. SE-866 Reverse Engineering 3+0

d. SE-867 Formal Methods 3+0

e. SE-868 Software Project Management 3+0

f. SE-871 Business Process Re-engineering 3+0

g. SE-815 Usability Engineering 3+0

h. Web Engineering SE-876 Web-Engineering 3+0

j. SE-877 Software Development for Web 3+0

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k.

Network

SE-825 Adv Computer Network 3+0

l. SE-826 Adv Computer Network Design &

System Security

3+0

m. SE-827 Wireless Communication 3+0

n. SE-828 Network Security 3+0

o.

Artificial Intelligence

SE-801 Artificial Neural Network 3+0

p. SE-802 Pattern Recognition 3+0

q. SE-803 Computer Vision 3+0

r. SE-805 Adv Artificial Intelligence 3+0

s. SE-807 Machine Learning 3+0

t. SE-808 Bio Informatics System 3+0

u. Data Structure & Algorithm SE-830 Adv Algorithm Analysis 3+0

v. SE-835 Algorithmic Graph Theory 3+0

w. Database SE-880 Adv Database Systems 3+0

x.

Operating System

SE-812 Adv Operating Systems 3+0

y. SE-813 Design of Parallel & Distributed

Systems

3+0

z. SE-814 Distributed Systems and Resources

Optimization

3+0

aa. Computer Architecture SE-820 Adv Computer Architecture 3+0

bb. Imaging SE-850 Digital Image Processing 3+0

cc. SE-851 Wavelet Compression 3+0

dd.

Research

SE-(900-919) Selected topics in relevant Area 3+0

dd. SE-898 Research Methodologies 3+0

ee. SE-899 Thesis 6+0

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Standard 4-2 Student and Faculty Interaction during the Semester

A single faculty member usually teaches each course. In some cases, Lab work is assigned to

other faculty member or Lab Engineers. In addition to this, there is dedicated time period

assigned to each faculty member for efficient interaction with students. This dedicated time

period is referred to as “Student Teacher Interaction” in the respective course’s timetable.

Standard 4-3 Student Guidance

Standard4-3a: Program Guidance On arrival at MCS, students are given an orientation seminar. This seminar covers detailed

information on

1. Program requirements 2. Semester system 3. Graduation requirements 4. Degree program 5. Examination policy 6. F & I Grade 7. Relegation conditions 8. Withdrawal conditions 9. Cheating and plagiarism penalties

Standard4-3b: Student Advisory System 1. A group of faculty members act as course advisors. 2. This role is usually assigned to a senior faculty member who is capable of guiding the

students making the best use of their professional experiences 3. Female faculty members are also part of this group to facilitate the female students 4. A faculty member is deputed with each class to act as official tutor of the class. 5. The tutor formally announces the time of their availability to class for discussing various

issues of concern, updating them on administrative policies and resolving their problems.

6. The students of the class are free to contact their advisor whenever they need guidance from them as and when they may need his guidance.

7. The advisor is responsible to resolve students problems by taking due action. 8. Utmost importance is given to the privacy and personal concerns of the students in such

matters.

Standard4-3c: Membership of Software Society The Software Society is lead by a group of students who are responsible for the arrangement of

academic seminars and extra coaching courses for benefit of students. Besides this the society

organizes co curricular events like fun fair and Techno Buzz every year to revive the spirit of

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students. It is via the Society that the students are able to share their suggestions and ask

queries regarding almost anything related to the institution.

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Criterion 5: Process Control

Standard 5-1 Student's Admission

Admission of students in various disciplines of Postgraduate Programmes will be based

upon GRE (General)/GMAT/MCAT (as applicable) or GAT (General) conducted by NTS, previous

academic record and an interview conducted by respective College/School/Centre. Qualifying

(atleast 50% marks) and positive recommendation in interview from College/School/Centre will

be mandatory for admission.

Eligibility criteria

MS Software Engineering

BSc Engineering/BE in related Engineering discipline from PEC/HEC recognized institute

of Pakistan or abroad.

OR

MCS/BCS (4 years)/BIT (4 years) discipline from PEC/HEC recognized institute of Pakistan

or abroad.

International Scores

International Scores are also accepted for PG Admission, details are as mentioned below

The minimum score required for each subject of GRE (General), conducted by ETS, USA, is:

• Quantitative 650/800

• Verbal 400/800

• Analytical Writing 3.5/6.0

NUST code to receive GRE Score direct from ETS, USA is 7014.

NUST will accept Score of GRE test held on or after 01 August

2006.

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Minimum Score required for GMAT is 50 percentile. NUST code to receive GMAT Score

direct from GMAC, USA is 7035. NUST will accept Score of GMAT test held on or after 01 August

2006.

Minimum Score required for MCAT is 50 percentile. Student is himself responsible for

submission of MCAT result direct from AAMC, USA to Exam Branch, HQ NUST. NUST will accept

Score of MCAT test held on or after 01 August 2006.

Merit Generation Engineering / IT

The merit for admission will be prepared on the weightage of GRE

(General)/GMAT/MCAT/GAT (General)/NAT-II Score, previous academic record and interview as

given under:

• GRE (General)/GMAT/MCAT/ GAT

(General)/NAT-II score

50%

• Previous Academic Record 25%

• Interview* 25%

*Qualifying in interview (at least 50% marks) and positive recommendations of College /

Institute / Centre is mandatory requirement for final selection of a candidate. Selected

candidates for admission will be informed of their selection online or by post.

Merit List:

A list of names (discipline-wise) shall be prepared in strict order of merit called the Merit

list which will be uploaded on the NUST website. Subject to the availability of any vacant seats

next candidates on the Merit List will be offered admission until the commencement of the

academic session.

Security Clearance:

Security clearance will be obtained from the concerned authorities as per the

requirement. Those not cleared will not be granted admission.

Rejection of Application:

The University may reject an application of any student without assigning any reason.

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Cancellation of Admission:

Admission at NUST can be cancelled at any stage of studies if any document /

information provided by the student is found to be false / incorrect or not meeting the

eligibility criteria with no liability on NUST.

Medical Fitness:

In NUST colleges/ institutes, a student is required to be medically fit to undertake the

studies and practical / physical work in the desired discipline. Selected students will be required

to provide medical fitness certificate to NUST along with the willingness certificate for joining

NUST.

Award of Discipline

Selection will be carried out strictly according to merit position and choice of disciplines

exercised by candidates. Discipline of engineering / information technology and medical are

allotted strictly according to merit list and priority of choice indicated by the candidates. A

candidate cannot be shifted from a lower merit to higher merit discipline unless the merit of

higher discipline lowers because of dropouts. However request for transfer from higher merit

to lower merit discipline can be considered if application is received by registration office within

5 days after the receipt of the final selection letter.

The seats as a result of dropouts will be reallocated and filled through the up- gradation

of engineering discipline of students who have confirmed their willingness by depositing the

bank draft. Those candidates who do not deposit the fee will not be considered any further. No

reallocation of emerging discipline and changing of campus will be carried out after the

commencement of the courses. Selection of candidates starts from the last week of May and

continue till the completion of available seats one month prior to the commencement of

course.

The selected candidates on receipt of provisional selection letter will send a bank draft/

pay order in favor of NUST for admission fee, complete tuition fee and health insurance for the

first three month by post or deliver by hand to NUST, Tamiz Ud Din road, Rawalpindi. A

willingness certificate for joining NUST in the discipline mentioned in the selection letter should

also be sent by specified date. The candidate will then wait for the joining instruction from the

concerned College / Institute. The College / Institute will issue joining instruction on receipt of

the details of the selected candidates who submit the bank draft / pay order and willingness

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certificate on due date. Any instruction for pre-course training will be issued by the concerned

college/institute.

For the subsequent semester, the student will deposit the tuition fee of each semester/

term as per college instructions in advance through the NUST accountants at the colleges /

institutes.

Selected student will be issued Registration Cards by NUST, which will also be utilized as

Student's Identity Cards. The admission is liable to cancellation, should the candidate be found

guilty of suppression or misrepresentation of material facts at any stage.

Migration

Under extraordinary circumstances, the Rector on the recommendation of the Commandant /

DG / principal / Dean of the concerned College / Institute may allow migration of a student

from any other college / institute of NUST or from other foreign / Pakistani universities /

colleges / institutes of repute under the following conditions.

1. Student will only be migrated after completion of first year and before beginning of Final year.

2. Only those students who posses academic record comparable with admission requirement of this university shall be considered for admission by migration.

3. Migration within NUST will be allowed to student admitted on the basis of NUST Entrance Test only. Other categories will not be allowed migration.

4. No student shall be admitted by migration from the university / Institute of Pakistan unless he / she produces a 'No Objection Certificate' and good moral character certificate to the effect that the student has not been debarred from taking University examination and suspended or not expelled or rusticated from the university or institution from which he / she intends to migrate and that no disciplinary action is pending against him / her.

Standard 5-2 Student’s Registration and Progress

As per policy mentioned in the NUST statute.

Standard 5-3 Recruitment and Retention of Faculty

As per policy mentioned in the NUST statute.

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Standard 5-4 Academic Audit

Following factors ensure the reliable academic audit

1. Head of department checks the course folder at the end of each month. 2. The respective head of departments reviews Sessionals and term papers. 3. Course revision is done at the end of every semester. 4. Head of department consult the class students after 3 weeks to know about the

commitment of faculty member in the class. 5. Electronic feedbacks are taken from the students twice in a semester. These feedbacks

are reviewed by the head of department and consulted with the faculty member to discuss with him about his weakness.

6. Faculty members are given tasks to give presentations on their field related topics in order to make sure that they remain in touch with the latest works.

Standard 5-5 Process to ensure that graduate has completed requirements

of the Program

Detail already describe in Table 1-1.

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Criterion 6 Faculty

Standard 6-1 Faculty Distribution

Faculty Members resume is attached on Appendix B.

Table 0-1: Faculty Distribution in Program Area of Specialization

Program Area of

Specialization

Courses in the area and

average number of

section per year

Number of Faculty

members in each

area

Number of

Faculty with Ph.D.

degree

Software

Engineering

3/2 5 2

Computer Networks 2/2 4 1

Image Processing 1/1 5 3

Web Engineering 1/1 1 1

Artificial Intelligence 1/1 2 2

Sr.

Name of

Faculty

Member

Designati

on

Date

of

Joinin

g

Natu

re

Details of Qualifications Field of

Specialization Qualificati

on

Year Institution

1.

Dr Fahim

Arif

Assoc

Prof

5th

Oct

2008

Full

Time

PhD

(Compute

r SW

Engg)

2009 NUST, Pak

Digital Image

Processing/Re

mote Sensing

2. Dr

Naveed

Iqbal

Rao

Asst Prof

27th

May

2008

Full

Time

PhD

(Compute

r Science)

2007

University

of

Tsinghua

(China)

Motion

Tracking

3. Dr.

Saeed

Murtaza

Assoc

Prof

4th

Aug

1998

Full

Time

PhD

Physics 1992

University

of

Birmingha

mUK

Mathematical

Modeling and

Simulation

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4. Dr. Arif

Raza Asst Prof

15th Sept 1998

Full Time

PhD (Software

Engg) 2011

University of Western

Ontario, Canada

Software Engineering,

Human Computer

Interaction, Human

Factors in SE

5. Dr. Awais Majeed

Asst Prof 13th May 2008

Full Time

PhD (Informati

cs) 2008

University of

Manchester, UK

Information Systems

6. Dr. Faisal

Bashir Hussain

Asst Prof 26th Dec

2008

Full Time

PhD (Compute

r Engg) 2008

University, Izmir,

Turkey

Sensor Networks, Ad hoc Network

7. Dr.

Hammad Afzal

Asst Prof 11th May 2010

Full Time

PhD (Informati

cs) 2009

University of

Manchester, UK

Test Mining Comp

Linguistics

8.

Dr.

Seemab

Latif

Asst Prof

12th

May

2010

Full

Time

PhD

(Compute

r Science)

2010

University

of

Mancheste

r, UK

Computationa

l Linguistics

and text

Mining

9. Dr. Zaki

Murtaza Asst Prof

12

June

2012

Full

Time PhD 2012

Uni of

Southern

California

Computer

Science

10. Dr.

Sarmad Asst Prof

15

Aug

2014

Full

Time PhD 2010 NUST, Pak

Information

Technology

11.

Athar

Mohsin

Zaidi

Asst Prof

21st

May

2009

Full

Time

MS

(Software

Engg)

2000 NUST, Pak

Network,

Computer

Architecture

12. Bilal

Rauf Asst Prof

25th

Feb

2008

Full

Time

MS

(Compute

r Science )

2006

Omio

University

Sweden

Wireless Lan’s

13.

Muham

mad

Saleem

Lecturer

(RVF)

31st

Oct

2006

Full

Time

MS

(Compute

r Software

1998 NUST Pak

Electrical

Circuits

Analysis &

40

Engg) Computer NW

14.

Muham

mad

Bashir

Bilal

Siddiqi

Lecturer

(RVF)

1st

Nov

2005

Full

Time

MS

(Software

Engg )

1998

SBC,

Preston

University,

Isb

Software

Development

Web

Development

Database

Development

& Designing

15. Rabia

Khan Lecturer

22nd

Jul

2009

Full

Time

MS

(Software

Engg )

2009 NUST Pak

Image

Processing,

Computer

Graphics

16. Kabeer

Ahmed

Lab

Demo

15th

Jan

2005

Full

Time

MCS

(Compute

r Science)

2001

Arid

Agriculture

Uni, Pak

Computer

Network

Web

Development

17. Umar

Mahmud Lab Engr

27th

Sep

2009

Full

Time

MS

(Software

Engineerin

g)

2007 MCS, NUST

AI, SE,

Graphics,

Networks

18. Misbah

Munir Lab Engr

25th

Jan

2012

Full

Time BESE 2010 MCS, NUST

Software

Engineering

19.

Maj

Tariq

Latif

Asst Prof Dec

2010

Full

Time M.Sc 1989

Punjab

University Mathematics

20. Ayesha

Naseer Lecturer

Sep

2011

Full

Time MSCS 2009

UET

Lahore

Computer

Science

21. Farhat

Zaman Lab Engr 2011

Full

Time BESE 2010 MCS NUST

Software

Engineering

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22. Samavia

Mumtaz Lecturer

Full

Time MA 2005

NUML,

Islamabad

English

Linguistics

23.

Dr.

Muham

mad

Hanif

Assoc

Prof

4 Sep

2008

Full

Time PhD 2001

QAU,

Islamabad Physics

24. Adeela

Waqar Lecturer

1 Jan

2013

Full

Time MS 2012 MCS NUST

Information

Security

25. Ahmad

Cheema Asst Prof

30

Sep

2005

Full

Time MS 2006

University

of

Bradford

UK

Internet,

Computer &

System

Security

26.

Lt Col

Ishtiaq

Kiani

Asst Prof

26

Mar

2012

Full

Time MS 2008 NUST

Communicatio

n System

Standard 6-2 Faculty Development

Following steps are taken to make ensure the faculty development:

Career planning:

Sr.

No.

Name Country/

University

Present status

1 Asad Ullah Khan PhD , Tech University of

Braunschweig, Germany

Undergoing PhD Research

Work

2 Tauseef Ahmed Rana PhD Studies under NUST Faculty

Development Program,

University of Manchester, UK

Undergoing PhD Research

Work

3 Ahmed Muqeem Sheri PhD Studies, University of

Gwangju Institute of Science and

Tech, Korea

Undergoing PhD Course

Work

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4 Nabeel Younus PhD Study Computer Science

Department, University of Otago,

New Zealand


Work

5 Fazalullah PhD. University of Tokyo, Japan Undergoing PhD Course

Work

6 Muhammad Faisal

Amjad

PhD USA Fulbright Scholarship,

University of Central Florida

(UCF), Orlando, USA


Work

7 Syed Zulqarnain

Ahmed Gilani

Australia Undergoing PhD Course

Work

Intrapersonal Departmental Activities

Faculty members from a specific department are asked to give seminars or lecture on various

topics (important research areas) to students of the same/different departments. The topic

may be assigned or chosen by the faculty member himself. The seminar duration extends up to

an hour, which is then followed by the questions answers session by the students and other

senior Faculty members. FM is normally asked to give presentation on a topic that has a vast

scope for research. So the undergraduate students may decide on the suitable final year

project. These activities not only help the FM to polish their skills but they also help in

supervising challenging projects.

Workshops

In order to keep our faculty members up to date, workshops and seminars are conducted in

which individuals from outside the College come and present their knowledge to the college

Faculty members. These Seminars highlight the importance of research among the Faculty

members. By organizing such Seminars our Faculty Members get the opportunity to learn new

and varied areas of research from people around the globe.

Higher Level Studies

Faculty members are provided with numerous opportunities for higher studies (i.e. PhD/Post

Doc) at Reputed Foreign Institutions. So that they can learn in accordance to the International

research principles Opportunities are provided at the well know Universities of the world in

order to equip with good and quality of knowledge. So after doing a PhD, faculty member

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should be able to utilize his skills and research experience at the university to promote its

name.

Special Courses Regarding Teaching Methodology

Special short courses are offered during the semester break in the departments to improve the

teaching standards of the faculty members. These courses highlight the necessity of

appropriate teaching methodology. They are also trained to give explicit and non-ambiguous

lectures/quizzes/assignments to the class. Therefore such courses contribute a lot in polishing

the skills of a Faculty member.

ISO Standards

We also follow a standard defined by the ISO. The merit of standard is that everything goes

according to a plan. We got to maintain different folders, which may help us in the next

semester to overview and revise the course if desired. Therefore, we frequently conduct

seminars on ISO for the Faculty Members in order to make them aware about the standards.

This helps them to maintain a systematic approach in maintaining their records everything

systemically. These standards play an important part in training of faculty members i.e. they

can assess the quality of their quizzes, assignments, lectures etc. Hence these standards help in

maintaining the effectiveness of our Faculty Development Program.

Standard 6-3 Job Satisfaction

Following factors help in job satisfaction of Faculty members:

1. Attractive salary packages. 2. Grants to travel and attend overseas conferences. 3. Facility to attend the national workshops 4. Provision of higher degree on the basis of good performance.

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Criterion 7 Institutional Facilities The extensive and growing use of online resources and materials in learning and teaching

presents new opportunities and benefits to institutions. Technology has made the sharing and

re-use of resources easier, and institutions and their faculty/staff can exploit the benefits within

their working practices. Alongside this, institutional policies and processes may need updating

to take into account the corresponding changes in management approach and systems

provision.

Standard 7-1 Managing Intuitional Resources

Institutions reviewing the opportunities to gain from these developments should assess the

benefits of managing and sharing online resources for teaching, learning and research.

Institutional repositories provide a managed E-system where the institution’s resources can be

both stored and accessed. They can give staff private or group areas where they can share

material with their immediate colleagues.

An institutional repository can help in the effective management of resources for e-learning and

should be set up to meet the needs of an institution’s strategy for managing, sharing and re-

using resources.

The storage space is provided on the network and the printing quota for the students is limited

to ensure efficient and positive use of the resources. There is a folder named ‘Assignments’ in

every faculty Z: drives where students will submit their assignments. FMs may delete

assignments after the semester ends to reclaim the used space.

Standard7-1a: CASE CASE (Computer Aided Student Evaluation) is software which is locally developed and carrying

out tests and examinations via e-Learning provides numerous advantages for both teachers and

students. Dynamic Media offers tailored testing environments for companies of all sizes as well

as for educational and training institutions: from high quality simulation based games through

to authoring tools which enable you to create and evaluate your own tests and examinations

quickly and easily.

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Standard 7-2 Library Technical Collection and Support

The Computer Software Engineering Department is maintaining its own E-library. This E-library

is available for faculty and students over the college network. The department’s copies of

Dissertations / Thesis Reports of the ex-students, both from BE and PG programs are also kept

in the library. Moreover, the copies of faculty/student’s papers presented in national /

international conferences or published in national/international journals are also kept for

consultation.

The main or central library of the college is housed in a separate building located conveniently

in the college, for easy access. The central library contains books, journals, and reference

material on CDs (CD ROMs), photocopiers, audio visual and other facilities. The College also has

a section of video library, which contains a number of training / recreational videos as well as

CDs/ DVDs. The Main library also has internet facilities within its premises. Through Higher

Education Commission (HEC), the library has recently acquired the access-rights of the world-

wide digital library. The library is functioning in an efficient and smooth manner in support of all

the academic programs being conducted at the college.

1. Technical collection consists of 52 thousand 2. 75 titles are available (Magazine and journals) 3. Evening shift form 3pm to 10pm and open at Sunday 4. Internet facilities 5. Photocopier facilities 6. Access online e-Resources 7. Computer Catalog 8. Printing facilities 9. CD Writing facilities 10. Individual study room for male and female 11. Training session for student to learn how to search 12. Inter-Library loan 13. Current awareness services

Standard 7-3 Classroom facilities

Military College of Signal, Computer Software Engineering Department consists of four

class/lecture room. These rooms comprise a P-IV computer connected to a data/multimedia

projector. The computer has a range of software including office, multimedia and network

software. This computer is connected to the Department network via Fast Ethernet which

provides for quick access to internet services as well the staff and student file server. This

lectern also contains:

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Overhead transparency projector

Audio CD player

VGA connection for laptops

Stereo amplifier

Multimedia Data projector

Air Conditioner

Computer software available:

1. Graphic a. Adobe Photoshop b. Corel paint Shop pro

2. Multimedia a. Macromedia Flash b. Macromedia Dreamweaver c. Macromedia fireworks

3. Document/Internet Explorer a. MS Office 2007 (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), b. Adobe Acrobat Reader c. Microsoft Internet Explorer

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Criterion 8 Institutional Support

Standard 8-1 and 8-2 Student's Population

CSE Department Military College of Signals, NUST, has typically about 50 x BESE, 25 x MSSE and

3 x PhD students each year. It has about 20 x faculty members all of them Ph D and MS Degrees

and having above 5 years teaching experience. This means that overall the Student/Faculty

ratio is approximately 1:14 at CSE Department i.e. 1 (Engg.) faculty for every 14 (Engg.)

students.

The following table shows the last three years comparison of Student/Faculty in detail.

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Students 43 x MS 37 x MS 82 x MS 28 x MS 36 x MS 35 x MS

Faculty 19 18 18 18 18 19

Standard 8-3 Financial Resources – Infrastructure

Standard 8-3a Library Resources The central library of the college receives budget from General Headquarters (GHQ) as well as

from NUST. Financial details are as under:-

Financial Year NUST Library Grant (Rupees)

2008/2009 0.125 M

2009/2010 0.102 M

2011/2012 1.0 M

Standard 8-3b Laboratories Resources Funds provided by NUST to College headquarter.

Standard 8-3c Computing Facilities Resources Funds provided by NUST to College headquarter.

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Appendix A:

List of publications by Faculty Member & Students

Sr. Name of

Author Status Title of Paper

Submitted to (Name of

National/ International

Conference etc)

Date Place/

Country

1.

Raza, A.,

Capretz, L.F.

and Ahmed,

F.

Publishe

d

Maintenance Support

in Open Source

Software Projects

8th International

Conference on Digital

Information Management

(ICDIM)

Sep

10-12,

2013

Islamabad,

Pakistan

2. Haider, A.

and Raza, A.

Publishe

d

Keyword And Form

Based Semantic

Search Tools And

Their Usability

8th International

Conference on Digital

Information Management

(ICDIM)

Sep

10-12,

2013

Islamabad,

Pakistan

3.

Khan, S.,

Tahir, M.N.,

and Raza, A.,

Publishe

d

Usability Issues for

Smartphone Users

with Special Needs –

Autism

7th IEEE International

Conference on Open

Source System and

Technologies (ICOSST-

2013)

Dec

16-18,

2013

Lahore,

Pakistan

4.

Sabeen Javed, Awais Majeed, Hammad Afzal

A Reputation Framework for Disaster and Emergency Response Operations

15th Conference on

Advanced Communication

Technology. IEEE ICACT

Jan, 2013, Korea

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List of National/International Journals by Faculty Members and Students Sr. Name of

Authors

Title of Paper Submitted to (Name of

National/ International

Journal etc)

Vol Page

No.

Date Remarks

1 Yasir

Mehmood,

Athar Mohsin

Incorporating Business Process Changes in Information System Design",.

Book: ISBN 978-

3659409714. Publisher

LAP Lambert Academic

Publishing Jul 5, 2013.

Apr,13 Published

2 Imtiaz, S., and

Raza, A.

User Centered Design

Patterns and Related

Issues – A Review

International Journal

of Human Computer

Interaction (IJHCI)

4(1) 19-

24

Apr,

2013

3 Varona, D.,

Capretz, L.F.

and Raza, A.

2013

A multicultural

comparison of software

engineers

World Transactions on

Engineering and

Technology Education

WIETE

11(1) 31-

35

Jan,

2013

4 Ashraf, A. and

Raza, A.

Heuristic Evaluation of

Social Websites: For

Blind People

International Journal

of Computer and

Communication

Engineering

2(6) 711-

714

Nov,

2013

5 Tahir, M. N.,

Khan S., and

Raza, A.

Challenges in

Requirements

Engineering for Mobile

Applications for

Disabled –Autism

Journal of Industrial

and Intelligent

Information

1(4) 226-

230

Dec,

2013

6 Hammad

Afzal

A Framework for Semantic Descriptions of e-Science Resources

LAMBERT Academic

Publishing, Germany

Mar,13 Published

7 Hammad

Afzal

The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon:

improving life science data integration with

semantic Web technologies

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

JBS-PMC

4 Feb 13 Published

8 U. Mahmud and

M. Y. Javed Context Inference Engine

(CiE): Inferring Context International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

(IJAPUC)/China

3 13-41 Sep 2012

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Appendix B: Sample of Faculty Members' Resume

Name Dr. Seemab Latif

Personal House # 558, street # 20 Chaklala Scheme3, Rawalpindi,

Pakistan.

Email: [email protected],pk

Experience

2 year teaching experience as Asst Prof at NUST

2 years lab demonstrator/TA experience at University of Manchester. UK

1 year experience as a MAP (Manchester Access Program) tutor, UK.

Honor and Awards a. Award of scholarship for MS from NUST in 2005 b. Award of Scholarship for PhD abroad from NUST in 2006 c. Along with my PhD, I was working as Part-time Teacher’s

Assistant/ Lab Demonstrator at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom from Sept 2007 till Dec 2009. Job responsibilities included conducting undergraduate and postgraduate labs, helping students in doing their assignments and marking their assignments.

d. 2008, I have worked as an Academic Tutor with MAP (Manchester Access Program). Job responsibilities included examining piece of work from the student’s current level 3 studies and providing structured feedback whether or not the agreed intended learning outcomes have been fulfilled.

e. 2004, Won Second prize in 3rd All Pakistan Inter College/University Software Exhibition and Competition in the category of Business Databases held at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and NUST (COMPPEC 2004).

f. 2004, Participated in All Pakistan Software Competition (SOFTEC) held at FAST-NU Lahore.

Memberships NIL

MCS

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Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honour Students

2-MS research Projects

-

1 undergraduate project

-

Service Activity Teaching PhD students

Teaching graduate and undergraduate students

External examiner of MS thesis

Evaluator of undergraduate project thesis

President of Self Assessment of Undergraduate Program

Brief Statement of

Research Interests

Natural language processing, text/ data mining, computational

linguistics, social networking

Publications 1. Seemab Latif, Mary McGee Wood and Goran Nenadic, 2012 “Improving HCCA using Automatic Summarization”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC) IPCSIT vol. 25, Hong Kong, pp. 39-43.

2. Ozair Saleem and Seemab Latif, 2012 "Information Extraction from Research Papers by Data Integration and Data Validation from multiple Header Extraction Sources". In World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS), San Francisco, USA

3. Rabiya Rasheed and Seemab Latif, 2012 "Dictionary

based Urdu Word Segmentation using Dynamic Matching Algorithm". In Conference on Language and Technology (CLT), Lahore Islamabad.

4. Rabiya Rasheed and SeemabLatif, 2012 "Dictionary

based Urdu Word Segmentation using Maximum Matching Algorithm". In 24th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Hanoi, Vietnam

5. Seemab Latif, Mary McGee Wood and Goran Nenadic,

2010 “Improving Clustering of Noisy Documents through Automatic Summarisation”. In Proceedings of the Special Issue: Natural Language Processing and its Applications, Research in Computing Science Vol. 46, Iasi, Romania pp. 253–264.

6. Seemab Latif, Mary McGee Wood and Goran Nenadic,

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2009 “Correlation between Human Assessment of Essays and ROUGE Evaluation of Essays’ Summaries”. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE symposium of Natural Language Processing, Bangkok, Thailand pp. 122–127.

7. Seemab Latif, 2009 “Automatic Summarisation as a Pre-processing Technique for Document Clustering”. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual CLUKI Research Colloquium, the UK and Ireland special interest group for computational linguistics, University College Dublin.

8. Seemab Latif, Mary McGeeWood and Goran Nenadic, 2009 “Novel Technique for Automated Linguistic Quality Assessment of Students’ Essays Using Automatic Summarisers”. In Proceedings of World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, IEEE Computer Society (CSIE 2009) Los Angeles, USA pp. 144–149.

9. Seemab Latif and Mary McGee Wood, 2008 “Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering”. In Proceedings of the Natural Language and Information Systems, 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008) London, UK, pp. 358–359.

10. Seemab Latif, 2008 “Text Pre-processing for Document Clustering”. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium, The UK special interest group for computational linguistics, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

11. Seemab Latif and Shoab Ahmad Khan, 2006 "Correlations and Associations Analysis for Identification and Prediction of Relationships and Their Activeness". In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications (ICTTA 2006 Damascus, Syria) pp. 1855- 1859.

12. Seemab Latif and Ayesha Khalid, 2004 "Distributed Intelligent Network for Recording, Retrieval, and Prediction of Criminal Activities". In Proceedings of IEEE

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International Conference on Software Engineering Applications Islamabad Session (ICSEA 2004 Islamabad, Pakistan).

Research Grants NIL

Other Research or Nil Creative

Accomplishments

a. Jan 2010, my research outcomes were aired on BBC news channel.

b. Nov 2009, my research outcomes were broadcasted by BBC Radio 4 from BBC Manchester, United Kingdom.

c. 2008, I was appointed as a WiSET (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) Student Champion for School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Selected Professional Presentations

a. Nov 2008, I have delivered a seminar on my PhD research at the department of Natural Language Processing, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

b. March 2009, I have delivered a seminar on my PhD research at school of computer science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

c. Oct 2011, Delivered a talk on “How to Manage a Heterogeneous Class” at The City School System, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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Name Asst Prof Athar Mohsin

Personal 429, Main Boulevard Sector A Askari 14 Phone: 0333-5193236 Email: [email protected]

Experience

1. Maj Inst Class B (Jul, 2004 –May 2009) Mil College of Sigs., NUST, Pakistan 2. Asst Prof (May 2009- Till Date) Mil College of Sigs. NUST, Pakistan

Honor and Awards TI(M)

Memberships Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)


Co-Supervisor 6x MS Students Supervisor 2x UG Students

Service Activity Associate HoD 2012-2014

Incharge Curriculum Review Committee

Focal person MCS for Software Engineering Unified Curriculum

Program Coordinator UG/PG Dept of CSE, MCS

Brief Statement of Research Interests

My areas of interest are Software Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering and Software Project Management. Especially I am interested in the development of theory and practice of Software and Information Systems to support various organizations in improving their organizational efficiency.

Publications 1. Yasar Mehmood, Athar Mohsin “Incorporating Business Process Changes in Information System Design", ISBN 978-3659409714. Publisher LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Jul 5, 2013.

2. Athar Mohsin, Tayyaba “MDA for ATM”, International

Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science 28-30 sep 13, Malaysia

Research Grants Nil


Accomplishments

Nil

Nil

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Name Bilal Rauf

Personal KH-966, BILAL STREET, KOTHA KALAN MORGAH, RAWALPINDI

Experience

a. College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCS), NUST Lecturer Feb 2008 present Rawalpindi b. Emerging System Network Engineer May 2007 Nov 2007 Islamabad c. Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Internee Oct 2006 June 2007 Islamabad

Honor and Awards Nil

Memberships


Supervisor 24 x UG Students

Service Activity Course Tutor for Under Graduate courses

Course Advisor of BESE-14 A & B

Worked as System Administrator from May 2008 till March 2010

Working as Department coordinating Officer

Co-Supervised Under Graduate Degree Projects

OIC MCS software Society from March 2010

Member of IDB Project Fund

Redesigning of Networking Lab into General Purpose Lab

Member of Degree Project Evaluation Committee (BESE-12)

Member of Organizing Committee of 17th, 18th and 19th UG Convocation Committee

Member of Organizing Committee of National Software Engineering Conference (NSEC)

Member of Organizing Committee of 2nd International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV-2010)

Prepared the lab Manuals of Data Structure and introduction to Programming

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Computer Networks

Publications 3. Nabeel Younas Bilal Rauf, Kabeer Ahmed Comparative Study of Intrusion Detection System and Its Recovery Mechanism ICCAE-2010, Singapore IEEE Xplore 2 5 627 - 631 26-28 Feb, 2010

4. Bilal Rauf Muhammad Faisal, Kabeer Ahmed Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 DCF in Comparison with IEEE 802.11e EDCA ICITST-2009 London, UK IEEE 4th 1 781 09 – 12th November 2009

5. Kabeer Ahmed Nabeel Younus Khan, Bilal Rauf Efficient and Robust Content Based Searching Based on XML Technology IAWTIC’ 2008 Vienna, Austria IEEE 3rd 1 71-75 10-12th December 2008

Research Grants Nil


Accomplishments

Nil


Nil

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Name Dr. Arif Raza

Personal 23-B, Bilal-e-Habshi Road, Umer Block, Bahria-8, Rawalpindi. Phone: 0301-8128649 Email: [email protected]

Experience

1. Assistant Professor (Sep, 1998 – till date) College of Telecommunications Engg., NUST, Pakistan

Honor and Awards


Graduate Students

Postdocs Undergraduate Students

Honour Students

Supervisor 9x MS Students Supervisor 1 x PhD Student

Service Activity PG coordinator 2013

Course Advisor – MSCS 19/20

President – MS Selection Committee


My areas of interest are Human computer Interaction, Human Factors in Software Engineering and Usability Engineering. My PhD research was on Usability Evaluation in Open Source Software.

Publications Book Chapter 1. Raza, A. ,Capretz, L.F., Ahmed, F. 2013. An empirical study of open

source software usability - The industrial perspective, Open Source Software Dynamics, Processes, and Applications, 1-17, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2937-0.ch001

Refereed Journals 1. Imtiaz, S., and Raza, A. 2013 “User Centered Design Patterns and

Related Issues – A Review,” International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 4(1), 19-24. http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJHCI/volume4

/Issue1/IJHCI-69.pdf 2. Varona, D., Capretz, L.F. and Raza, A. 2013. "A multicultural

comparison of software engineers,” World Transactions on

http://www.igi-global.com/book/open-source-software-dynamics-processes/70672

http://www.igi-global.com/book/open-source-software-dynamics-processes/70672

http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJHCI/volume4/Issue1/IJHCI-69.pdf

http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJHCI/volume4/Issue1/IJHCI-69.pdf

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Engineering and Technology Education WIETE, 11(1), 31-35. http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/Vol.11,%20No.1%20(201

3)/05-Capretz-L-F.pdf 3. Ashraf, A. and Raza, A., 2013, "Heuristic Evaluation of Social

Websites: For Blind People," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 711-714. http://www.ijcce.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&cat

id=35&id=316 4. Tahir, M. N., Khan S., and Raza, A., 2013, "Challenges in

Requirements Engineering for Mobile Applications for Disabled –Autism," Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 226-230, doi: 10.12720/jiii.1.4.226-230. http://www.jiii.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid

=36&id=67 5. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and ul-Mustafa, Z. 2013. Personality Profiles of

Software Engineers and Their Software Quality Preferences, International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change (IJISSC), Accepted, In Press

6. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2012. An open source usability maturity model (OS-UMM), Computers in Human Behavior, 28(4), 1109-1121, July, 2012, (Impact Factor = 2.293), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.01.018

7. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2012. Users' perception of open source usability: An empirical study, Engineering with Computers, vol. 28(2), 109-121, doi: 10.1007/s00366-011-0222-1, (Impact Factor = 0.625), http://www.springerlink.com/content/lh738r6k875g574l/

8. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2012. Usability Bugs in Open Source Software and Online Forums, IET-Software, Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K., IET Softw. -- June 2012 -- Volume 6, Issue 3, p.226–230, (Impact Factor = 0.671). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6232028

9. Raza, A. and Capretz, L.F. 2012. Do open source software developers listen to their users?, First Monday (University of Illinois at Chicago), 17(3). http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/vi

ew/3640/3171 10. Varona, D., Capretz, L.F., Pinero, Y. and Raza, A. 2012. Evolution of

Software Engineers’ Personality Profile, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN), 37(1), 1-5. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2088901&CFID=90070666&CFT

OKEN=49158302 11. Raza, A., ul-Mustafa, Z., and Capretz, L.F. 2012. Do Personality Profiles

Differ In Software Industry and Academia – A Study, International Journal of Software Engineering, 3(4), 60-66,

http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/Vol.11,%20No.1%20(2013)/05-Capretz-L-F.pdf

http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/Vol.11,%20No.1%20(2013)/05-Capretz-L-F.pdf

http://www.ijcce.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=35&id=316

http://www.ijcce.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=35&id=316

http://www.jiii.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=36&id=67

http://www.jiii.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=36&id=67

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.01.018

http://www.springerlink.com/content/lh738r6k875g574l/

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6232028

http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1123

http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1123

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3640/3171

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3640/3171

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2088901&CFID=90070666&CFTOKEN=49158302

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2088901&CFID=90070666&CFTOKEN=49158302

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http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJSE/volume3/

Issue4/IJSE-117.pdf 12. Raza, A., ul-Mustafa, Z., and Capretz, L.F. 2011. Personality

Dimensions and Temperaments of Engineering Professors and Students – A Survey, Journal of Computing, 3(11), 13-20. http://www.scribd.com/JournalofComputing/d/77538464-

Personality-Dimensions-and-Temperaments-of-Engineering-

Professors-and-Students-%E2%80%93-A-Survey 13. Raza, A. and Capretz, L.F. 2010. Contributors’ preference in open

source software usability: An empirical study, International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), 1(2), 45 – 64. http://airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/0410ijsea4.pdf

14. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2010. Improvement of Open Source Software Usability: An Empirical Evaluation from Developers Perspective, Advances in Software Engineering, vol. 2010, Article ID 517532, 12 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/517532. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/2010/517532.abs.html

15. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2013. Addressing User Requirements in Open Source Software: The Role of Online Forums, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Under Review

16. Gill, K.D. and Raza, A. 2013. A Semi-Automated Lexical Term Disambiguation & Streamlined Framework for Open Source Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Engineering, Under Review Refereed Conferences – 2013/2014

1. Raza, A., Capretz, L.F. and Ahmed, F. 2013. Maintenance Support in Open Source Software Projects, 8th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. 391-395, Sep 10-12. doi: 10.1109/ICDIM.2013.6694005 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6694005&isnumber=6693962

2. Haider, A. and Raza, A., 2013. Keyword And Form Based Semantic Search Tools And Their Usability, 8th International Conference on Digital Information Management, Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. 85-89, Sep 10-12. doi: 10.1109/ICDIM.2013.6694011 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6694011&isnumber=6693962

3. Khan, S., Tahir, M.N., and Raza, A., 2013, Usability Issues for Smartphone Users with Special Needs – Autism, 7th IEEE International Conference on Open Source System and Technologies (ICOSST- 2013), Lahore, Pakistan, Dec 16-18.

4. Iftikhar, A., Raza, A., and Sadik, S. 2014, Evaluation of Portable

http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJSE/volume3/Issue4/IJSE-117.pdf

http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJSE/volume3/Issue4/IJSE-117.pdf

http://www.scribd.com/JournalofComputing/d/77538464-Personality-Dimensions-and-Temperaments-of-Engineering-Professors-and-Students-%E2%80%93-A-Survey



http://airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/0410ijsea4.pdf

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/aip.517532.html



http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/2010/517532.abs.html

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6694005&isnumber=6693962




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Document Format (PDF) Interface Readability for Dyslexic People, 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation - ISMS2014, Langkawi, Malaysia , Jan 27-29.

5. Ahmed, A., Raza, A., and Sadik, S. 2014, Evaluation of Portable Document Format (PDF) Interface Readability for Dyslexic People, 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation - ISMS2014, Langkawi, Malaysia , Jan 27-29.

Research Grants Nil

Other Research or

Nil

Creative Accomplishments

Nil


Nil

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Name Dr. Hammad Afzal

Personal 130, New Pira Faqira, Tipu Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Experience

1. Assistant Professor: May, 2010 – Date National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

2. Research Fellow: July, 2009 – Dec, 2009

Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland. (http://nlp.deri.ie/home)

3. Software Application Tester: August, 2008 – April, 2009

Transitive (an IBM company). (http://www.transitive.com)

4. Teaching Assistant: 2007- 2009

The University of Manchester, UK 5. Software Engineer: August, 2003 – Nov, 2003

RnD Establishment, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan

Honor and Awards I have been invited (and fully funded) by the University of Tokyo to participate in BioHackathon 2010 (http://hackathon3.dbcls.jp/) in Tokyo, Japan

Peter Jones Prize of the year 2005, to attain highest grades in all MSc courses in the Department of Informatics, University of Manchester, UK.

Invited as Judge in COMPEC, 2012 and COMPEC 2013 in Information Systems Domain

Full funding for PhD from NUST, Pakistan (2006-2008).

Scholarship from MoST for graduate studies (2000-2003).

Allama Iqbal Scholarship from Rawalpindi Board of Education, Pakistan for top 20 positions in SSC examinations (equivalent O – levels - 1997).

A UG project "HTML Obfuscation", supervised by Dr. Hammad Afzal, won the Rector's Gold Medal for being best UG FY Project.

http://nlp.deri.ie/home

http://www.transitive.com/

http://hackathon3.dbcls.jp/

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Supervisor 2x MS Students (Completed) - 9 Undergoing

SUPERVISED 1XPHD STUDENT

Service Activity Course Advisor: BESE-16

Invited as Judge in COMPEC, 2013 held in EME (been invited last year as well)

Co-Chair Registration and Invitation Committee, NCIA 2014

Presentation Committee (UG Convocation)

Panel Member: MS students induction.

OIC Operating Systems Lab


Natural Language Processing (NLP) (special emphasis on Term Classification; Terminology Management, i.e. Controlled Vocabularies, Ontologies). Linked Data

Publications Book Chapters 1. Hammad Afzal, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic

(2009): Mining Semantic Descriptions of Bioinformatics Web Resources from the Literature, The Semantic Web Research and Applications (2009) LNCS 5554, pp. 535–549, 2009. Publisher: Springer, Pages: 535-549

Journal Publications 1. Hammad Afzal, James Eales, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic

(2013): The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon: improving life science data integration with semantic Web technologies. : Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 4:6. Feb, 2013. 2.54 Impact Factor

2. Hammad Afzal, James Eales, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic (2011): Mining Semantic Networks of Bioinformatics Web Resources from the Literature: Journal of Biomedical Semantics, March 2011. 2.54 Impact Factor

3. Shoohira Aftab, Hammad Afzal, Amna Khalid. "An Approach for Secure Semantic Data Integration at DaaS Layer". Accepted for International Journal of Information and Education Technology, IJIET, 2014

Book 1. Hammad Afzal (2013): A Framework for Semantic

Descriptions of e-Science Resources. Published By: LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-659-36122-7

List of Conference Proceedings 1. Iqra Javed, Hammad Afzal. "Creation of Topic Focused bi-

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Lingual dataset using language classifier" Accepted in 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (ICIIP 2014). Singapore. To be published in International Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

2. Shoohira Aftab, Hammad Afzal, Amna Khalid. "An Approach for Secure Semantic Data Integration at DaaS Layer". Accepted in International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, ICCET, 2014. Korea

3. Amna Khalid, Hammad Afzal, Shoohira Aftab. "Blancing Scalability, Performance and Fault tolerance in structured data". Accepted in 16th Conference on Advanced Communication Technology. IEEE ICACT Feb, 2014, Korea

4. Iqra Javed, Hammad Afzal (2013). "Opinion analysis of bi-lingual event data from social networks" Proceedings of ESSEM: International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: approaches and perspectives from AI (Italy).

5. Sabeen Javaid, Awais Majeed, Hammad Afzal (2013). A Reputation Framework for Disaster and Emergency Response Operations. Published in 15th Conference on Advanced Communication Technology. IEEE ICACT Jan, 2013, Korea

6. Tayyaba Mukhtar, Hammad Afzal, Awais Majeed (2012). Vocabulary of Quranic Concepts: A semi-automatically created Terminology of Holy Quran. Published in 15th International Multi-topic Conference. IEEE INMIC, Islamabad, Pakistan

7. Veena Safdar, Faisal Bashir, Zara Hamid, Hammad Afzal (2012): A hybrid routing protocol for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks, Published in 7th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing ISWPC July, 2012, Dalian China.

8. Hammad Afzal, Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano (2010): Generating Lexical Information for Terminology in a Bioinformatics Ontology, In Proceedings of TKE (Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) Conference, Ireland.

9. Hammad Afzal, James Eales, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic (2009): Mining Semantic Networks of Bioinformatics Web Resources from the Literature, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS), Amsterdam.

10. Hammad Afzal, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic (2009): Mining Semantic Descriptions of Bioinformatics

http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem13/

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Web Resources from the Literature, In Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) on the Semantic Web: Springer-Verlag: 535-549. Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

11. Hammad Afzal, Robert Stevens, Goran Nenadic (2008): Towards Semantic Annotation of Bioinformatics Services: Building a Controlled Vocabulary, In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, Turku, Finland.

Research Grants 0.35 Million PKR

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Name Dr. Sarmad Sadik, PhD (IT)

Personal CSE Dept, MCS, Humayun Road, Rawalpindi Phone: 0333-5192245 Email: [email protected]

Experience

Assistant Professor (15th Aug, 2012 till date) MCS, NUST

Honor and Awards NUST Endowment Fund scholarship

Memberships IEEE, ACM, PEC


Supervisor 8x MS Students Supervisor 15x UG Students

Service Activity Taught 15 Credits in previous year

OIC MCS Software Society

NCIA Workshop – Reception and Conduct Committee

Supplement for Convocation 2014


Areas of Interest include, cloud and distributed computing, ontology based semantic systems, formal modeling, analysis and design

Publications 6. Amira Ahmad, Arif Raza, Sarmad Sadik, “Users' Perspective of Smartphone Platforms Usability: An Empirical Study”, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation, ISMS2014, Jan, 2014, Malaysia

7. Aleeha Iftikhar, Arif Raza, Sarmad Sadik, “Evaluation of

Portable Document Format (PDF) Interface Readability for Dyslexic People”, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation, ISMS2014, Jan, 2014, Malaysia

8. Sarmad Sadik, Mukaila Alade Rahman, Arshad Ali, H Farooq

Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Modeling High Assurance Agent Based Earthquake Management System using Formal Techniques”, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer. Volume

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52, Number 2 / May, 2010, pp 97-118. 9. Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri,

“Honey Bee Teamwork Architecture in Multi-Agent Systems” Book Chapter, CSCW in Design, published by Springer in LNCS 4402, pp 428-437

10. Sarmad Sadik, Mukaila Rahman, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “A Formal Approach for Design of Agent Based Earthquake Management System (EMS)” The Ninth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), Thailand, 2008, pp 99-104.

11. Mukaila Rahman, Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Agent-Based Modelling of Supply Chain Management in a Virtual Enterprise” 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, Thailand, 2008, pp 518-525.

12. Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Policy based Ontology Framework for Mobile Agents”, 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), July 11-13, Australia pp 483-489.

13. Sarmad Sadik, Maruf Pasha, Arshad Ali, H Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Policy Based Migration of Mobile Agents in Disaster Management Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Nov 13-14, Pakistan.

14. Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Using Honey Bee Teamwork Strategy in Software Agents”, 10th International Conference on CSCW in Design May 3-5, 2006 Nanjing, China, pp 620-626.

15. Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, “Policy Based Approach to Enhance Task Execution Performance of Mobile Agents”, The 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06), June 26-29, 2006, USA.

Research Grants Project: Lab Cloud, Sponsoring Agency: ICT R&D Fund under grassroots program

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Accomplishments

SNo Activity Conducted and Organized

Date Held

1 Seminar titled “Application of Formal Methods in Software Analysis & Design”

2nd April 1000

2 WORKSHOP ON ‘DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA ANALYTICS’

4th Nov, 2013

3 Workshop on Developing Semantic Web Applications using Protege

27th Dec, 2013

4 A day with Google apps for education

25th Sep, 2013

5 Microsoft Windows 8 Application Development

12th Sep, 2013


Nil

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Name Ayesha Naseer

Personal House No. 9/5, saghir lines, Rawalpindi cantt. Phone: 0345-6762908 Email: [email protected]

Experience

1. Lecturer (Sep, 2011 – till date) College of Telecommunications Engg., NUST, Pakistan 2. Lecturer (Aug, 2007 - May, 2010) UET Lahore. 3. Research Assistant (April, 2007 – July, 2007) LUMS

Honor and Awards UET Lahore MS scholarship (2007-2009)



Service Activity Final year Project coordinator 2012-till date


My areas of interest are Semantic Web, Databases, Data Mining, and Data Warehousing. My MS research was on Handling duplicates on semantic web.

Publications 16. Umair Naseer, Ayesha Naseer, “Using Page Size for Controlling Duplicate Query Results in Semantic Web ", International Journal of Web and Semantic Techno;ogy (IJWesT), April, 2013, vol 4, No 2.

Research Grants Nil


Accomplishments

Nil


Nil

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Name Mr. Muhammad Usman Tariq

Personal 18-C, Affandi Colony, Satellite town, Rawalpindi. Phone: 0321-5276993 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Experience

1. TVF Military College of Signals, NUST, ( 2014- Present) 2. Operation Manager Training and Consultancy Wing,

Alzafer, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2012-2013) 3. Senior Manager Training and Business Consultant,

QLGC, Islamabad, Pakistan (2009-2012) 4. Management Trainee PTCL HQ, Islamabad (2008-2009)

Honor and Awards

Memberships American Machinery of Computing (ACM), Master Trainer IOQE, UK


Service Activity

Focal person MCS for Certification Center


Management Professional with extensive experience in providing consulting, training, business consultancy and project management expertise to client projects representing a wide range of industries and corporations. Currently responsible for top rated consulting and training firm department, that includes consulting, training, product development, testing, quality assurance. My research interest is management of software and their processes using six sigma and quality management methodology.

Publications 17. Muhammad Usman Tariq, Dr. Fahim Arif, “Enhancement of Risk Management Framework using Six Sigma Methodology: A Case Study Based Approach”, Vol 76, No. 2, Part 2, Feb, 2014. La Pensee Journal France. Impact Factor: 0.063

18. Muhammad Usman Tariq, “ A Six Sigma Based Risk

Management Framework for handling undesired effects associated with delays in project completion”, Vol 4, No. 3,

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July 2013, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Emerald Publishing Group

Research Grants Nil


Accomplishments

Nil


Nil

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Name Mobeena Shahzad

Personal House 3, Street 4B, Sector D, DHAI-Phase 1, Islamabad.

Phone: 0300-5107082

Email: [email protected]

Experience

Lecturer (Sep 2013 – till date) College of Telecommunications Engg. (MCS), NUST, Pakistan

Visiting Faculty (Sep2012-Feb 2013) SEECS , NUST, Pakistan

Part-Time Manager Projects (2008-2010) Innovative Research E-Solutions (IRe-S), Islamabad, Pakistan

Senior Design Engineer (May 2000 – July 2003) Communications Enabling Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan

.

Honor and Awards President’s Gold Medal for Best Performance in Academics – BE (Software

Engg) 2000

President’s Gold Medal for Best Performance in Academics – MS (IT) 2000


Graduate Students

Postdocs

Undergraduate Students

Honour Students

NIL

Service Activity Final year Project coordinator 2014-2014

Brief Statement of

Research Interests

My areas of interest are Web Services, Grid Computing and d Multi Agent

Systems.

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Publications 1. Autonomous Distributed Service System Implementation

Third International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and

Networks (ADSN 2004), Tokyo, Japan

2. Significance of Semantic Language in Multi Agent Systems Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-

Agents (PRIMA 2005), Malaysia

3. Integration of Agents with Web Services and Grid Computing: Design and Implementation

International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology,

Islamabad, 2003

Research Grants Nil

Other Research or Nil

Creative

Accomplishments

Nil


Nil

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Name Umar Mahmud

Personal 68, Lane 7, Askari 2, Chaklala Scheme 3

Phone: 0342-5554877

Email: [email protected]

Experience

1. LE (Sep, 2009 – till date)

College of Telecommunications Engg., NUST, Pakistan

Honor and Awards


Graduate Students

Postdocs

Undergraduate Students

Honour Students

N/A

Service Activity

Brief Statement of

Research Interests

Publications Attached separately

Research Grants Nil

Other Research or Nil

Creative

Accomplishments

Associate Editor IJAPUC


Nil

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Appendix C:

Graphical Representation of Surveys

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Activities Dates Self Assessment Report 2014

Sr Activity Date Remarks

1 Date of Submission of the SAR by the PT 3rd March 2014

2 Date of AT Visit 19th March 2014

3 Date of Submission of AT Findings 9th June 2014

4 Date of AT Exit Meeting with DEAN, PT and Faculty 16th June 2014

5 Date of Submission of Executive Summary 25th June 2014

6 Date of Submission of Implementation Plan 1st July 2014

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Executive Summary for SAR 2014, MSSE (PG Programme) Department of Computer S/W Engg, MCS

This Self Assessment Report (SAR) has been prepared by the department of Computer Software

Engineering, Military College of Signals, NUST, about its post graduate programme, i.e., MSSE.

This report is according to the Self Assessment Manual and deals in detail with all six criteria

given in the manual.

The report very clearly describes the vision and mission of the department. The vision and

mission are in line with vision and mission of NUST. The department is continuously enriching

its human resource, computer labs and infra structure. A list of all faculty members is given in

Appendix – B. According to this SAR the syllabus for MSCS has been improved and now it is of

international standard. In order to develop and train its faculty the department regularly

arranges workshops and seminars. These activities are also very popular in the corporate sector

and the department gets very positive response as the number of participants other than MCS

is growing very rapidly. A list of these activities is given in Appendix- A.

The department also holds regular meetings of departmental board of studies (DBS) to update

curriculum according to the latest trend of market and international standards. The report also

describes that in order to improve and sustain the existing procedures the department remains

in touch with all stake holders, i.e, employers, alumni, faculty and present students by

conducting surveys. At the end of the SAR the result of all surveys is given in graphical form.

These surveys show growing confidence of all stake holders on the policies and functioning the

department. Complete details of all surveys are given in Appendix - C

Therefore, it can be concluded that the department is making rapid improvement in all areas.

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Assessment Results Implementation Plan Summary

AT Finding Corrective Action Implementation

Date

Responsible

Body

Resources

Needed

Fans are noisy in

All Class Room

and Labs

Get all the Fans

check/ repaired

Before Start of

Summer

Coordination

Officer

Department

-

Sound System in

Class Room and

Lecture Hall need

to be working

Condition

Audio system in

Lecture Hall need

maintain while in

Class Room, it

require to be install

Before Start of

Spring 2014

Coordination

Officer and

Training Officer

-

Furniture of Class

Rooms and some

chairs in Lecture

Hall need to be

maintain

Case may initiated

to the cushioning

the benches in

Class Rooms

As Soon As Possible MCS -

Departmental

Library

Need of

departmental

library for

students/ faculty

Jan 2014 MCS -

Neat and Clean

Water

Water Filter June 2014 MCS -

Chairman’s Comments

Name and Signature

Dean’s Comments

Name and Signature

QEC Comments

Name and Signature

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