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Team MembersMaliha Rao

Syed Kazim Ali

Syeda Umme Aeman Kamal

Mahin Khurshid

Syed Jaffar Raza

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Affiliated with NED University of Engineering & Technology

E-NEWSLETTEROct - Dec 16

After over 20 years of building asolid foundation of high qualityengineering and computer scienceeducation and research, both atthe undergraduate and master’slevels, Usman Institute ofTechnology (UIT) is embarking on ajourney to reach the next level ofexcellence. It aims to not justproduce high class engineers andcomputer scientists but professionals and change agents. These agents of changeother than being better human beings and better citizens of our beloved country, wouldbe ready to tackle the problems that beset our country with leadership, ingenuity andthe highest level of moral and ethical values.

In its path to excellence UIT graduates will now get locally and internationally respectedNED University’s degrees in a private, centrally located, serene, apolitical and highlyenriching educational environment. Providing students excellent opportunities toenhance their knowledge and skills and then go out and serve the nation withdedication and high level of professional excellence.

www.uit.edu UIT.NED @UIT_NED

In yet another testament to its pursuittoward academic excellence UIT has wonthe Best Paper Award at a two-dayComputer Sciences & InformationTechnology (CS & IT) conference organizedby the Institute of Business & Technology on30-31 October, 2016.

Beating entrants from the country’s top 16universities, Dr. Muhammad Wasim,Assistant Professor at UIT, won the coveted award for his paper “Dotted Raster-stereography - An efficient approach for face detection.”

The paper discussed the dotted raster-stereography technique, which is more accurateand efficient as compared to the conventional technology i.e. line raster-stereography.This latest technology can help in face detection, object shape recognition andespecially in the field of health for body symmetry and spinal cord disorders.

Team MembersMaliha Rao - (Convener - PR Committee)

Engr. Syed Kazim Ali

Syeda Umme Aeman Kamal

Mahin Khurshid

Syed Jaffar Raza

Dr. Wasim wins Best Paper Award atCS & IT moot

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l UIT hosts SS12 Asia

l PNEC-NUST Olympiad 2016

l Nisar Ali invited in InternationalConference

l Fast Computation of FourierTransform – FFT

Editor’s NotesGreetings and a warm welcometo our very first issue of newsletterUIT Times!

We couldn’t be more excited tohave made it to this point. Pleasetake some time to get to know thelayout of our newsletter. Insideyou’ll find a mixture of news,features and regular columns ona wide range of technical andscientific topics.

I hope you enjoy this first issueand do let us know if there are anytopics you’d like to see covered inthe future.

Happy reading!

Director’s Message

UIT’s extracurricular Committee organized “PinkDay” especially for female students on Monday 19thDecember in order to spread the awareness aboutthe breast cancer desease. The renownedGynecologist Dr Rumha Tabbasum from DowUniversity was the chief guest, who spoke about thecauses of Breast cancer in women. Girls performeddramas on stage and participated in singing, Q/Asession, and Fancy Dress show etc.

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UIT hosted the renowned “SS12 Asia:Age of Innovation” and won the BestProject Award at the national levelcompetition, strengthening its statusfurther as a leader in technologyeducation and mover ofinnovation initiatives in thecountry.

Eight leading engineering andtechnology universities fromacross Pakistan took part in thesocial innovation competitionaimed at ‘enhancing the qualityof life through Innovation’.Besides UIT, other sevencontenders included, Sir SyedUniversity of Engineering & Technology(SSUET), Bahria University, MehranUniversity of Engineering & Technology(MUET), Jinnah University for Women,Institute of Industrial ElectronicsEngineering (IIEE), NED University ofEngineering and Technology andNational University of Sciences andTechnology (NUST).

While beating the six strong

competitors, two groups ofUsman Institute of Technology(UIT) and SSUET won the‘Best Project Award’ for their

p r o j e c t s“Automation of Fabric inspectionmachine using Digital ImageProcessing” and “An Innovative UltraViolet Light Incubating Blanket for InfantCure”, respectively. The UIT project thatwon the award was a system thatreduces human errors for qualityinspection of fabric; such systems wereneeded in order to compete withinternational companies.

UIT Director Dr. Zahir Ali Syed, while

delivering the end note speech,announced the names of the winners,and also appreciated the dedicationand hard work of the participants andthe organisers.

UIT hosts SS12 Asia,bags Best Project Award

UIT celebrates Pink Day

UIT organized a seminar on character building for its students andfaculty. The first session of the character building series, titled, ‘Topqualities employers look for in you’ dealt with encouraging positivepersonality traits in students. Seasoned author, Mr. Bashir Jumma wasthe guest speaker of the session who talked about positive personalitytraits, ethical and moral values employers look for in prospectiveemployees in addition to technical skills. He apprised students of waysto transform into professional who are more likely to be picked at jobinterviews as well as emerge as successful professionals in their lives.Around 150 Students and Faculty members attended the session tobenefit from the knowledge and experience of the veteran scholar.

Seminar on Character Building

The Football Patti Tournamentwas organized by Engr. AsadHussain Jafri (Deputy Conveyer ofExtra- curricular) and a group ofstudent volunteerson 10 November,2016, held at UIT.10 teamsparticipated in thetournament.

Zubair (15B-104-SE) and AbdulRehman (15B-078-SE) won the finalmatch.

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For the first time in the history of UIT, Engr. Talha AhmedKhan (Convener); Engr. Fauzan Saeed (General Secretatry);Muhammad Misbahuddin (Media Cell Head); Engr. ShaheerAhmed (Deputy Convener) and Engr. Zohaib Jawaid (SportsCoordinator) of Extracurricular committee, along with theirdedicated and energetic group of volunteers took theinitiative to send both male and female students to partakein the mega event of sports PNEC_NUST Olympiad, held on28-31 October 2016 at NUST.

UIT female students participated in mainly two sports: Throwball and Table tennis. Both male and female groups were ledby students of Electrical Engineering (Electronics).

PNEC-NUST Olympiad 2016 (Inter-University Event)

UIT Extracurricular committee organized “All UIT CricketTournament” on Thursday 20 October, 2016. Engr. ZohaibJawaid (Sports Coordinator); Engr. Shaheer Ahmed (SeniorDeputy Convener);Engr. HammadMunami (DeputyConvener) and Engr.M.Umair Usmanmanaged the eventwith a group ofvolunteers underthe supervision ofEngr. Talha AhmedKhan (Convener ofUIT Extracurricular committee). Total 20 teams participatedin the tournament. The matches were played in two groundsi.e. Eastern Cricket Ground near KMDC and Public Groundnear Nagan Chowrangi. Teams W11 and Eleven Star qualifiedfor the final match.

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Muhammad Swaleh, thestudent of ElectricalEngineering, secured 1 stposition (Gold Medal) in40th Junior NationalTaekwondo Championshipon 12 November 2016 heldat Alliance FranchiseKarachi, organized byWorld TaekwondoFederation (WTF), underthe supervision ofInternational Senior GrandMaster and President ofPakistan TaekwondoChampionship.

UIT Cricket Tournament

Star ofTaekwondo

All UIT Football Patti Tournament

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A very dynamic and activity-filled daywas observed on Saturday 24December, 2016 at UIT, Pakistan’spremium technology institution, wherethe ACM Karachi Student Congress2016 (AKSC ’16) was held with greatfervor.

A collaboration between Association ofComputing Machinery (ACM), theworld’s largest educational andscientific computing society, and UITComputing Society (UITCS), an active

student chapter of the ACM, the eventfeatured various workshops,competitions and seminarsencompassing digital technology,cyber-security, engineering ethics,games/app development and more.

Mr. Mohammad Ebrahim Hasham,Managing Director & ExecutiveDirector at Mehran Sugar Mills Ltd.attended the event as the Chief Guest.

The daylong event was inaugurated by

Dr. Zahir A. Syed, followed by awelcome speech by the Chief GuestMr. Mohammad Ebrahim Hasham. Theactivities that ensued included threeworkshops on app, game and webdevelopment, five competitions aboutprogramming, innovation, ethics andvideo games, and two seminars oncyber-security and engineeringprojects & community service. Allactivities were moderated by theleaders in their respective industries.

If one is asked for a loan, of a fewthousand rupees by one’s neighbor,then it will be done if the neighbor is areliable person. To judge, whether theneighbor is reliable, one would recall hisdealings in the past many days.

• If I have been purchasing rice from acertain shop and I found that theshopkeeper is honest , then next timewhen I go to purchase rice , I will go tothe same shop as in my view theshopkeeper is reliable.

• Most people purchase electric bulbsof a Brand, which in their opinion is areliable brand.

• In a similar way if a certain gadgethas worked efficiently upto a date sayupto (26/12/2016) then the chance (OrThe Probability) is that it will workefficiently even after this date. If “t”denotes the time instant (or date) up towhich a certain object has worked,then Reliability is denotedmathematically by

• Probability(that it will work even afterthe instant t). In mathematical notationit is:

• Reliability = Probability

(Time of working )

• To determine a numerical value ofReliability, we need to collect data forhow long a collection of objects (say200 objects) worked and afterwardsfailed. This data will provide a value ofReliability.

Reliable and ReliabilityProf. Masoodul Haq

Head of Humanities & Sciences

ACM Karachi Student Congress 2016

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UIT faculty member from Humanities and BasicSciences Department, Mr. Nisar Ali wasespecially invited to present his history basedmathematical research paper entitled“Population Distribution of Mega Cities inPakistan: Karachi as a Dynamical UrbanSprawling City in Asia” in the 24th InternationalConference of Historians of Asia: Asian History,Culture and Environment: Vernacular andOriental Paradigms which was held on 5-9December, 2016 in Islamabad, Pakistan. It was organized by Quaid-e-Azam University(QAU), HEC and National Institute of Historians and Cultural Research (NIHCR) incollaboration with PEDA – International People Empowering Development Alternatives.

Faculty Mushaira was organized by Extracurricular committee ofUIT on November 1, 2016 in order to promote the Urdu literature.Fifteen faculty members participated and recited poems. Somerecited their own poems and others read renowned Urdu poets’works such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz; John Eliya; and Ghalib etc. Allfaculty and staff members attended the event. at the end, Dr.Zahir Ali Syed, Dirctor-UIT, in the concluding speech, appreciatedthe initiative taken by the committee.

All UIT Faculty Mushaira Season1

Around 30 students of Electronic Engineering went for the industrial visit of TRI-Pack Films. This visit was organized byEngr. Syed Kazim Ali, Manager, Directorate of Industrial Liaison and Placement Bureau and Abdul Moeed, UIT Alumnus.

ENGR. PARAS LATEEFI did my Engineering in ComputerSystems from UIT in 2008. Aftercompleting my studies, I got jobin Federal Banking MohtasibPakistan as an officer.

In the recognition of my sheerhard work and diligence indischarging my duties, I wasawarded “Best Employee” andwas also promoted as DeputyAssistant Director-Investigation(Cyber Crime) in 2016 by themanagement of Federal BankingMohtasib Pakistan.

Paras LateefDeputy Assistant Director Investigation

(Cyber Crime)

Alumni Corner

Industrial visit at TRI-PACK FILMS Especial thanks to our Alumnus Abdul Moeed Bhatti

CPD Training Sessions in UITUsman Institute of Technology organizes ContinuingProfessional Development (CPD) activities, not onlyfor its students and faculty, but for all professionalengineers across Karachi under the supervision ofPEB (Professional Engineering Body) coordinatorEngr. Haris Zikrur Rehman, along with the help ofEngr. Asad Jafri and Engr. Naveed ul Haq.

All the Continuing Professional Development (CPD)sessions are accredited by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), and as per theimplemented CPD system, 0.5 CPD points are awarded to all the registered professionalengineers of PEC who participate in these sessions.

Nisar Ali invited in InternationalConference of Historian of Asia

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In electrical engineering, while studyingsignals and systems for the purpose ofanalysis and/or design, FourierTransform is the necessary ‘evil’ whichone comes across frequently. Actually,this a strong mathematical tool whichcreates another view of the signals andsystems under study, in addition to theusual time-or space-domainrepresentation. This other view isspectral i.e. in frequency domain whichhugely facilitates one’s understanding ofthe concepts like bandwidth, filteringetc. This frequency-domain perspectiveis created by calculating FourierTransform of the function under study,be it a signal or response function of asystem.

With the development of technology,the practical implementation of systemsdoing processing of signals hasbecome primarily digital. Digitalsystems are inherently discrete i.e. they

deal with and process functions in theform of discrete samples or numbers.Thus, the Fourier Transform which iscalculated on paper as a continuoustype function, becomes a sequence ofcomplex numbers in a digital systemlike processor. This sequence of FourierTransform samples is called DiscreteFourier Transform (DFT).

Thanks to the pioneering work ofCooley and Tukey in 1965 -- whoseobjective was to develop fast algorithmto analyze the seismic data arising fromthe Soviet nuclear tests -- therespawned Fast Fourier Transform (FFT),the fast algorithm to compute DFT. Thisfast algorithm, which implements thefundamental butterfly computationrepeatedly, reduces the complexity ofcalculating DFT from O(N2) to O(N log2N) where N is the size of DFT. It was dueto the development of this fastcomputing algorithm only that

frequency-domain processing becamethe preferred technique in many caseswhile implementing signal processingsystems. Today FFT has wide rangingapplications in engineering andmathematics like spectral analysis,block filtering of long data, computingof long polynomial multiplication etc.Owing to its importance, FFT wasincluded in the ‘top 10 algorithms of20th century’ by the IEEE journal ofComputing in Science & Engineering inits Jan/Feb 2000 issue.

Fast Computation of Fourier Transform – FFTEngr. Dr. S. Talha Ahsan

Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

The progress of a country dependsupon the level of education in thepopulation, including both men andwomen. Unfortunately, it seems thatPakistan has not been able to graspthis important fact yet. For thebetterment of the country, theeducational system should be givenfirst priority, especially the technicaleducation of women. This educationwould enable women to become moreactive members of the society.

Time has proven that women are hardworking and technically sound. Theyconsistently produce excellent resultsin the educational field, which showstheir talent and integrity. Now, they areworking in different fields as doctors,engineers, architects, designers,programmers, researchers, air-craftengineers and even as pilots. Women

aircraft engineers are very well knownin air lines because of their excellenttechnical knowledge and devotion totheir work. Some of the technicalinstitutions are headed by womenengineers and their progress isexcellent in all respect.

In the field of medical research, aPakistani women scientist hasdeveloped quite effective methods tokill cancer cells without damaging thehealthy cells of the human body.Research of this magnitude couldgreatly benefit a large population ofpatients and help in defeating thisserious disease.

In the field of pharmaceutical research,patents for different medicines havebeen prepared by research scientists,mostly the Pakistani women. Besidesthat, the study of different materials and

their use in the fabrication of devicesare also performed by Pakistani womenengineers. Women engineers arecapable of handling many responsiblepositions at a time because of theirability to multitask and handledifficulties with patience and hard work.

In conclusion, women and men are likethe two wheels of a nation’s cart, butwith one wheel jammed, the nationcannot move forward. Now, is the righttime to redouble our efforts to correctthe past mistakes and include womenin national building activities,particularly in the important technicalfields. If the vital role of women isrecognized by our society, it could leadto a better and successful future forPakistan.

The Role of Women in Technical EducationEngr. Nasreen NaqviAssociate Professor