March 2010 ISSUE 13

Inside this issue:

Prizes secured by ES 1
March 2010
Department
Fatima Fertilizers 4
PATRONS: Dr. B.S Chowdery, Dr. Aftab A. Memon, Dr. Mukhtiar A. Unar
Silent Auditorium 5

Cricket Tournament 7
Achievements of MUET Students SEE 8
By Mr. Ammar 08ES72
Career counseling 10

06ES Presentating 11

The IEEEP (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Karachi chapter in collaboration with Bahria University
Karachi campus, organized 25th All Pakistan Student Research Seminar held at Bahria University Karachi on 3rd March
2010. This seminar has become one of the leading events in Pakistan for students in the field of Science & Technol-
ogy. It is basically a competition where students studying across different universities of Pakistan present their work
in the form of formal presentation and research article. This event attracted student researchers from various univer-
sities across Pakistan like Mehran University of Engg. & Technology, NUST, National University FAST, University of
Punjab, Quaid-e-Awam University, SZABIST, IBA (Faculty of Computer Science), Sir Syed University of Engg. & Tech-
nology, PAK-KIET, LUMS (Computer Secience & Engineering Dept.), Bahria University, Hamdard University, Usman
Institute of Technology, Pakistan Navy Engineering College and many other.
 Page 2 FEECE-MUET

The event was dominated by the students of Mehran UET, department of

Electronics as MUETians managed to score first two prizes. The first position
with a cash prize of 20,000 PKR and gold medal was won by Hammad Khan’s
(07ES29) under the supervision of Ms. Nayab Hamirani. The title of his re-
Top
search paper was “Digital image processing:An agricultural Enlightment”.
Hammad is the same student who also won first prize in PAF-KIET 4th SEE
competition on 22nd Feb 2010. While the second position with cash prize of Notch
12,000 PKR and gold medal was scored by Rafay Mahar(06ES02) who was
supervised by Ms. Attiya Baqai. The title of his research paper was:
“Electronic Hand Glove for wireless control of Appliances”. The minister for
achievements
Human Rights Ms. Nadia Khan Gabool presented the awards to the winning
authors. The event and the winning participants were enthusiastically cov-
ered by local and national print/electronic media such as FM100, TV1 etc. of MUET
It was later revealed by the organizers of the event that overall 82 research
papers were received by the IEEEP and after evaluation only 30 papers were
Students!
short listed for presentation at the seminar. And all the five contributed pa-
pers from MUET were part included in 30 short listed papers.

Campus News
Ψ 2 day Book fair arranged at central library on 17 & 18 March.

Ψ Sun Solaris workshop started on 8th March at ICT.

Ψ CCNA classes start from 8th March at ICT.

Ψ Project Competition launched by 2KES foundation.

Ψ Seminar on Thesis writing held on 10th March.

Page 3 ISSUE 13

Students of MUET get PTA award

The project of “GPS-based railway system” developed by students of the Mehran University of Engineering
and Technology has received five gold medals and Rs. 50,000 cash award from the Pakistan Telecommunica-
tion Authority (PTA).
The project was developed by five students of electronic engineering department namely Naveed Khowaja,
Nasrullah Ghuman, Fahad Rajput, Asad Jafri and Javed Kaimkhani under the supervision of Mehboob
Khowaja and Attiya Baqai.
Gold medals were awarded on the basis of a competition among 18 accredited national universities invited
by the PTA for the best research projects on IT and telecom. The award ceremony was held in Islamabad on
March 11 2010.
The project is based on the calculations of distance and time using two latitudes and longitudes. Under the
project, whenever the built-in system in the train receives an SMS from any user standing at any train sta-
tion, it calculates the distance from that station to the current location of the train and time required to
reach the station from where message is sent, and replies through an SMS to the sender. The system dis-
plays the names of the stations and distance to the coming stations at LCD screens for passengers in the
train. Railway controllers can have information about train services by maintaining a database. The updates
are provided to passengers via SMS on their mobile phones on demand.
Page 4 FEECE-MUET

CAREER IN FATIMA FERTILIZERS

By Mr. Mohsin Siraj

Introduction
Fatima group of company is one of the biggest fertilizer companies in Pakistan. It
has established two fertilizers plants at different locations. One is Fatima Fertilizer located
at Rahim Yar Khan and the other is Pak-Arab Fertilizers near Multan.

Induction or Recruitment System

Fatima group of company inducts fresh graduates by visiting different high caliber
universities including MUET. They conduct their employment test there and the successful
candidates have to pass through a final interview afterwards. The other way of induction is
the usual way of advertising. The job ads can be found on their website
http://www.fatima-group.com/
http://pakarab.brightspyre.com/pakarab.php
Generally they require engineers from the field of Chemical, Mechanical, Instrument
(Electronics) and Electrical Engineering.

Career in Fatima Group of Companies

Salary Package and Chances of Promotion
They initially hire engineers as “Trainee engineers” for the extendable period of one year.
During this time the trainee engineers are paid a monthly stipend of nearly 32 K for the
first six month of training and around 35 K for the rest of six months. Trainee engineers are
also offered Medical facilities and residence. They also enjoy annual bonuses contingent
upon their performance. After becoming permanent the salary jumped to 60K. The career
growth is very high. A permanent engineer also enjoys number of Air tickets to travel
around the country.

Job environment
Job Environment is very friendly. The job responsibility is mainly related to maintenance
and troubleshooting.

Guideline for the test and Interview

The test comprises of both IQ and Technical portion followed by final interview. For elec-
tronics students study of books like Control Engineering by Norman S.Nice, Electronic De-
vices and Circuit by Robert T Paynter, Communication Electronics by Frenzel and any good
book of digital Electronics is worth mentioning.

Concluding Notes
I emphasis that those who like to work in industry and are prepare for working at remote
places must come forward to make it as career. Fast growth is really the attractive charm
of fertilizer companies. I wish everyone the best for their careers.
 Page 5 FEECE-MUET

The Silent Auditorium of MUET

By Mr. Raheel Jonejo

Few days back I was watching a documentary on National Geographic Channel on electric turbines and how first
time electricity was generated. It was so beautifully and intelligently expressive documentary that even being an
Electronic Engineer I was understanding each and everything another guy was sitting next to me, he had social
sciences qualification but he also understood everything of the documentary as I did. By the end of one hour pro-
gram if anyone would have taken exam about electric turbines it was largely possible that we would have an-
swered 90% of that topic relevant questions.
After viewing that documentary I found it a very useful and practical method of educating and clearing concepts
of students in much better manner than theoretical explanation or experiments in over crowded labs which re-
sult in no gain but may be some loss.
With the flow of this idea in my mind I started to think about our university, that how we can induce this method
of teaching and educating. Suddenly a big dome, our auditorium came into my mind, I thought this could be a
place for many new horizons in educating engineering concepts and perspectives with such documentaries or
similar methods.
Our auditorium can be a greater platform, here we can educate through documentaries (may be taken from
NGC, Discovery, AIOU, & other International Universities/ Forums/Internet/ wherever possible), a collection of
documentaries can be safely stored in any place of Central library or by making a small library in auditorium,
documentaries can be in english or urdu rest can be understood easily with help of video.
We all students and administration should understand the importance and benefits of this great place. Here we
can:-
-EDUCATE
-ENTERTAIN
-AWARE
-GENERATE REVENUE
-INVOLVE MEDIA INTERACTION
-ORGANIZE ENGINEERING QUIZ & COMPETITIONS
-CAN CONDUCT INNOVATIVE DISCUSSIONS APART FROM LANGUAGE BINDINGS OF ENGLISH/URDU/ SINDHI.
-CAN INVITE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DELEGATIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS & EXCHANGE OF TECH
VIEWS

On some special occasions and events students can be given a chance to entertain by paying for tickets so that
other mess be restricted. This would also help in revenue generation. In entertainment perspectives should also
have a cultural or institutional reflection in co-ordination with at least Sindhi and if possible other channels as
well.
 In this Era media has a special and prominent role and to be known every platform
needs it, when I was there I made few efforts by requesting higher administration
but unfortunately no move was made. Now MUST forum is there,I wish and hope
that they may bring media exposure to our university so that our university also en-

Our joy the status which other small universities are easily availing.

As students give presentation in the class there should be innovative discussions in

Auditorium auditorium by students in which a student or a small group of students present pres-
entation on projector and speak on microphone addressing the students, one or two
microphones should also be among student audience to ask questions and counter
can question. This will help us to be a better engineer with much better scintific reasons
and capabilities. All students should be allowed to use any language medium since
engineering and communication skills are more important than linguistic merely.

Be
I never saw any quiz competition in university. There should be quiz competitions, it

A enhances the skills of good students and indirectly improves the knowledge of stu-
dent audience.

great We can also call students of other universities of Pakistan and at least SAARC coun-
tries to have similar interactive science/engineering discussions and step into the
world of fame and quality.

platform
This method is applicable to all the fields of engineering.

To All this is possible on minimum funds, like don't organize lunches, dinners or refresh-
ments for students just install few stalls of quality food from any caterer in the city,
educate from students may eat & drink their desired food.

through Now it seems a good plan but most of students may think in MUET its almost not
possible. But its not like that there is Chinese proverb they say "Journey of thousand
miles is started with the single step" so we have to move our steps one by one and
documentaries on priority basis. Two years back there was no student's forum but today there is a
greater and better forum for all students interacting with teachers as well as admini-
stration.

Earlier a long awaited Electronics Components Shop was made possible with many
efforts of our honourable teachers and students but due to no contact with regard to
any proper components dealer the ECS plan went on pending, another reason was its
mechanism which was also bound to fail, in Karachi; university's have separate elec-
tronic components shop outside the department, working independently, just like
any other shop, and this can be the only successful way.
I would Respectfully say that I felt it like a tiny NGO or team of volunteers working at
their own and forcefully making things possible.
Just want to say we need serious considerations and support of higher administration
to take university up to mark.
On main betterment ways university administration should provide moral and required
financial support to the betterment of university's three decades old system.
We need a true vision for commendable results. SILENT
Most of students don't easily get the chance to see the auditorium inside at least by
AUDITORIUM!
2nd year. Let us make it productive and effective on various available and possible
grounds.
Few students and teachers cannot make it possible, administration' s keen interest will
help us to start.

From a silent Auditorium let us make it ENGINEER'S CONVENTION CENTER.

Few students
and teachers
cannot
make it
possible,
JUNIORS CRUSHED SENIORS
NEWS STORY By Mr. Shahid Makhdoom

The first interclass cricket tournament (telecom) organized by MUST in

Lets make it
Feb-2010.Entertainment as well as friendly atmosphere was on full swing
throughout the tournament. Juniors dominated since beginning and this domi-
possible!
nation ended successfully on victory of 10-batch against 09-batch with 8 runs
in final. In tournament 8 teams participated, in every match juniors knocked
out seniors in cricket ground of muet but remarkable thing was that all teams
showed sportsman spirit and made event successful and entertaining. Sir Wa-
heed Umrani came in prize distribution ceremony and distributed prizes in or-
der to appreciate efforts and talents of teenagers of telecom. All batches ad-
mire MUST for organizing such a historical event.
 Page 8 FEECE-MUET

4th Student Engineering Exhibition

By Mr. Ammar 08ES72

I always said that ‘MUET’ is the best and I am proud to be “MEHRANIAN”…Now every indi-
vidual is saying that because some of our colleagues have made us proud by their incredible
performances at SEE (Student Engineering Exhibition) 2010 organized by “PAF Karachi Insti-
tute of Economics & Technology (KIET)”, held in Karachi on 22 Feb. 2010.
The competitions and their criteria are listed below:

Final Year Project Competition

In this competition, Final Year Projects were exhibited by all engineering universities of
“Mehranians” Pakistan. Projects were evaluated by designated evaluators from industries and engineering
institutes. Top three groups were selected from the participants and awarded the prizes.
From MUET in this section, participation was made by:

PROJECT: Finger sensor automatic system.

At Supervisor(s):
Group leader:
Ms. Attiya Baqai (Asst. Professor ES)
RAFAY MAHAR 06ES.
Position: Unfortunately MUET couldn’t score the award here!

Better luck next time guys! You already made our day by representing MUET!

KIET Research Paper Competition

In this competition, all the undergraduates were invited to present their Research Papers.
They were asked to give a formal presentation to the evaluators and audience and submit
the report as well. Again from this section top three projects were selected and awarded
prizes. From MUET in this section, participation was made by:
PROJECT: Digital image processing in agricultural enlightenment
Supervisor(s): Ms. Nayab Hamirani (Lecturer ES).
Group Leader: Hammad Khan 07ES29
Position: First Position!
Congratulations Hammad!
 Page 9 ISSUE 13

Circuit Designing Competition

Teams, in this competition were given a scenario based problem and tasked to design and implement a circuit on spot!
They had to develop a truth table first which was to be followed by a circuit diagram. After that, they had to implement
the circuit. Organizers provided every team the required components and data sheets for the ICs. Every institute was
allowed to send maximum two teams for circuit designing competition, such that each team consisted of only two
members. From MUET two teams participated!

From MUET: Team A: Adil khan(08ES76) and Asad (08ES113)

Team B: Chander(08ES67) and Haresh(08ES51).
Supervisor(s): Ms. Nayab Hamirani (Lecturer ES).
Position: Second position by team A

Good job team A and better luck team B!

 ISSUE 13

Career Counseling Session at ICT.

By Mr. Moiz Rahman Memon 08TL06 NEWS STORY
Mehran University Students’ Team(M.U.S.T) organized a Career Counseling Session at the Department of Telecommu-
nication Engineering, MUET on 24th Feb, 2010 from 1 pm to 3 pm.

Mr. Sohail Babar, Ex-Mehranian(01 ES), presently working as Executive Engineer and Acting Manager, World Call Hy-
derabad was the resource person.
The agenda of the session included the following aspects:
1. Career Aspects:
Career Counseling in general.
2. Technical Aspects:
Internal Architecture of Optical Fibre Cable.
Methods of Excavation of different kinds of soils to lay the Optical Fibre Cable.
Methods of laying the Optical Fibre Cable.
The parameters to be followed.

In the end, the Chief Guest of the event, Prof. Dr. Aftab .A. Memon, Chairman of the Department of Telecommunica-
tion Engineering, MUET praised the efforts of Mr. Sohail Babar and the students’(M.U.S.T) for organizing such an infor-
mative session. He also emphasized that these types of events should be organized in the future and showed his full
support towards the future events.
The certificates of appreciation were awarded to Mr. Sohail Babar, Mr. Noman Palejo(Chief Organizer), Mr. Umair Mu-
jtaba Qureshi(Chief Organizer) and Mr. Saadullah Kalwar(Organizer).
 06ES presentating @ ICT
By Ms. Bushra Shaikh 07TL36 NEWS STORY

A little presentation giving session was held at 6th march under the auspicies of Mehran University
Students' Team (MUST). The venue was a lecture hall at ICT and ICT students were the attendees.
Rafay Mahar 06ES, the Presentator and the Group leader of a runner up team at 'All Pakistan Stu-
dents Research Seminar' exposed and rendered fultoosh presentation on his project 'Finger sensor
automatic system'. The session was effectively interactive due to consistent questioning of Mr.
rafay and interest of the pals attending. Though he didn’t bring up the concrete project but his
presentation was sufficient to entice 07 & 08 batch students to bring up with a remarkable innova-
tion as his. Such more sessions are under the planning map.

The participants of Quiztronics along with Sir Nasrullah Pirzada

To Subscribe for the Newsletter, please join sar_muet@yahoogroups.com

OR
e-mail: fahim_umrani@yahoo.com
 Feecemuet.blogspot.com
Page 12 FEECE-MUET

The FEECE Team

Editor:
Dr. Fahim A. Umrani
Team Members:
Muhammad Mohsin Siraj
Jawad Saeed Abro 06TL48
Saadullah Kalwar 07TL21
Noman Palijo 06TL60
Moiz Rahman Memon 08TL06
Umair Mujtaba Qureshi 07TL16
Aakash Makhijani 06TL02
Kapal Dev 07ES60
Salman Ahmed 08TL16
Bushra Shaikh 07TL36
Zunera Aziz 07TL88
Ammar Ali 08ES72
Shahid Makhdoom 09TL28