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IMPULSE

MOTIVATE.INNOVATE.TECHNOVATE!

THE OFFICAL MAGAZINE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTNED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

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Hi guys! Welcome to the official magazine of your very own Electrical Department. Impulse doesn’t really need an introduction. If you belong to Electrical, which I’m sure you do because

you’re holding this magazine in your hand right now, you are very well aware of the prestige this magazine holds. The entire team Impulse has worked tirelessly, day & night, to assemble yet another exciting edition of Impulse. We hold great pride, utmost pleasure and immense gratitude for having this opportunity. So here you go on the nail biting roller coaster ride! Keep those pages turning cause yeah, we got great surprises for you in every page.

SURPRISE ALERT! We have set a theme for this magazine. And guess what it is? It’s Technovation!! Interesting, no? Now do the 2+2? YES! You got it right, Technology+Innovation=Technovation! Okay now, we deserve some credit don’t we? It could be a tedious topic like Electricity Generation, or worse, Circuit Theory. But yeah, give it to us, Technovation does sound cool. And alas! We just created a new word in the English Dictionary. Only because we love you guys. Some appreciation would be great.

Moving on, I’m just as curious about this magazine as you are. What to expect? That you will know only when you read the next article, and then the next and the next and so on till the very last page. We hope this truly be a roller coaster ride of emotions and intellect, so hop on guys. Happy reading!W

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HIERARCHY2015

HEAD CREATIVITYM.AAMIR KHAN

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Maryam ImranSE

Junaid AhmedSE

Kiran JawaidSE

Munazza KhanSE

Bushra NajamSE

AatikhaSE

Aroob KhalidTE

Narmeen AamirTE

Roomela AnwarTE

Fatima WaheedTE

Zafeed Khalid TE

Hassaan Ahmed SE

Mashaal Khan SE

Affan Khan FE

Taimoor Afzal TE

Muhammad AdilBE

Rubab Bashir TE

Rehan Lodhi TE

HEAD GRAPHICSMUJAHID SAEED

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EDITOR IN CHIEFMARYAM MUJTABA

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kishmala KhanTE

Maria ShanTE

Moatter siddiquiTE

Saba FatimaTE

Sehrish RehmanTE

Owais FuziTE

Saifullah FidaSE

Shiraz KhanTE

HEAD MARKETINGSHAUN MALBARI

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HEAD EDITINGM.SHERAZ KHAN

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Afifa Rasheed BE

Ashar Nawaz TE

Hamza Tariq FE

Hasan OsamaTE

Isra Hasan SE

Muzna Shibli TE

Qurait-Ul-Ain Shabbir TE

Sana Ahmed BE

Saniya Ambreen BE

Sara Abdul Razzaq BE

Talha Mshtaq SE

Tooba Zaman BE

HEAD PROMOTIONKhawar Mukhtar

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TEAM PHOTOGRAPHY

Fahad jawaidTE

M.Ahsan ImtiazTE

M.Aamir KhanHead Creativity

M.Sheraz KhanHead Editor

Khawar MukhtarHead Promotion

I believe that success comes from a relentless

focus on meaningful inno-vation and execution .from just being a member to the head of creative team I saw many ups and downs of impulse and finally over-coming all the hurdles and producing 2015 edition of IMPULSE . the main objective of creative team was to provide a better and more appealing layouts.so as to make the tradition-al magazine more trendy, I appreciate the efforts of all the team members and everyone who contributed towards making this year ‘s edition possible. I hope that you all will be greatly info-tained by this year’s edition.

Impulse has been a good experi-ence so far, it’s not just a magazine

for me but a world of words where I can escape during the hectic days of a semester-a world where I can twist and turn those words and make myself dream and feel the tranquilness of holding these pag-es at the end of the year. I won’t say I am a leader, all that I learned was from the people around me espe-cially Rabeea Hasan (last year’s editing head), she will always be an inspiration and then there was my team. I would say it’s diffi-cult to manage than to write and I am thankful to the whole team that they could understand how I wanted them to mingle with their words and cope with the nagging me and my aberrant demands. So here along with my team I present to you the 7th edition in hope of being successful in making you dream to innovate. Kudos to ev-eryone, DREAM ON!!............

When a gifted team dedicates itself to

unselfish trust and combine instinct with boldness and effort,it is ready to climb and unleash an aura of cre-ativity engulfing every be-ing it touches and instill into them the art of dreaming

Saqib AdnanHead Photographer

Mujahid SaeedHead Graphics

Shaun MalbariHead Marketing

It has been an amazing experience working at

Impulse. As the head of photography, I got the op-portunity to capture the Electrical department in a creative style. The entire team truly deserves to be appreciated for the great effort they have put up.

Embarking on the journey of IMPULSE 2015 as head

of graphics was undoubt-ed an uphill task. Crossing all the hurdles and facing all the challanges in due course was only possible with sin-cere dedication I appericate the efforts of my team mem-bers and everyone who con-tributed towards making this year’s edition possible.

I wish team Inpulse all the best for future editions.....

Changing our mind from the printed copy of IMPULSE

2015 in your hand right now to keeping it as an E-copy of IMPULSE would have been a matter against my moral obliga-tions and a valid point to prove the incompetence of my mar-keting team. I OWE IMPULSE, this was the reason behind my strenuous efforts and months of dedication that we managed to accomplish our goal for this year. I would like to thank the team of IMPULSE 2014 to see that potential and actually be-lieving in me to complete this task. I would not take a few names from team of IMPULSE 2015 as a special mention, in-stead I would cordially ap-preciate the efforts of anyone who worked even a little for it. HAIL ELECTRICAL!HAIL IMPUSLE!

Greetings and a warm welcome to our seventh issue of Impulse Magazine!I couldn’t be more excited to have made it to this point. First off, I would extend my deepest gratitude to Chairman Electrical Department-Sir Ali Memon and Ms. Arjumand Samad-our faculty Advisor without whose support none of this would have been possible. We as a team started off a bit shaky in the start due to certain unavoid-able issues but with these hardworking talented bunch of people we overcame all odds. The theme this year was set as “Technovate” so that our readers could become famil-iarized with the latest trends in the world of electrical engineering along with getting ideas for projects and future plans. This magazines serves as a platform for en-gineers-to-be to show their creative and artistic side and promote themselves. Along with topics related to the theme we also have the Campus diaries-a must have section, that showcases the student life in a positive and honest way! I am honored to share the work of so many committed, creative and thoughtful peo-ple. I hope the readers will appreciate our work and have a good read! We are overwhelmed by your support and are so happy to have you all as a reader of Impulse Magazine.With warmest thanks,Mariam MujtabaEditor-in Chief

MARIAM MUJTABAEditor in Chief

Students of electrical engineering department are of course one of the most genius breed and are not only assets of their families but are also one of the most important human resources of

this nation and country as well. You need to realize this fact and groom up your personalities and expertise accordingly continuously throughout your life so that you can be model human beings and the true professionals, who have the ability to diagnose national problems and give proper

solutions. You need to safe guard our true traditional social/cultural values and think twice before adopting any social/cultural values which may impact us negatively in future.

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MuhammadAl i Memon

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Dr. Chairman Electr ica l Engineer ing Department

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Impulse in the field of Electrical Engineering is known as a signal, though of extremely short duration, but which brings life to a static system.

The Impulse magazine – now in its seventh issue – has lived up to the definition. Each ‘Impulse’ magazine has brought out flood of talent from our students, has sparked several others to follow

suit, and has helped create several memories.The best thing is that every team has moved one step ahead of their seniors. I hope this issue

too provides sound reflection of the Department of Electrical Engineering and truly encompasses student life on campus.

I am glad that the Team Impulse has put in immense hard work for editing a balanced yet entertaining and interesting issue – congratulations to them.

My advice to readers: Go ahead, read and enjoy it!

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SaadA. Qazi

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Prof. Dr. Dean (ECE)


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Messages04. Dean05. Chairman06. Co-ordinator07. Editor in Chief08. Heads

Technovation18. Technovation20. Innovative ways of producing electricity 22. The Little Big Things26. The Innovative Mojo29. The Next IT Thing31. MasterPiesce 32. Smart Grid-The Future Ahead

Campus Diaries52. Comic54. M-U-N is F-U-N58. Athletes60. Rakshaw Drivers Interview62. Baji nose it all

Sketches64. Sketches

Introduction10. Team Hierarchy12. Introduction

Technovation34. The Internet Of Things36. GAMING- TODAY AND BEYOND38. 3D Printing40. The Matter with Antimatter 42. Nano-Technology.

Impulse Kahaniyan46. Kahaniyan Colage48. Confession

InterView44. Dr.Muhammad Mohsin Aman

Reverie13. The ‘Success’ Conundrum14. A Beautiful Mind

Entrepreneurship

50. Let the Success Stories of These Ambitious Entrepreneurs Inspire You

Reflection68. THE FATHOMLESSLY MERCIFUL MASTER70. Studying Abroad: Things You Have to Know Along with Study

Reflection72. Aggression in youth75. Hope76. Is your Time More Valueable

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light. Just like an impulse signal, solar impulse 2 has managed to ac-commodate in itself a lot: The desire of its manufacturers, the

silver lining to make the world a greener and cleaner place, the promotion of green technology, broader aspects of engineer-ing and technology and of course, a world tour to act in the same manner as to top a cake with a beautiful, glistening cherry.True that this plane is a product of evolution of technology, but it rightfully claims the la-bel of being a revolu-tion too. The most in-teresting aspect of the entire project is that it carries the spirit to promote green tech-

nology and the use of renewa-ble resources.“This project is a human project, it is a human challenge”, said Mr. Borschberg ; and rightly so.With innovations like these, we can definitely hope for a cleaner and greener world in future. So,Let’s wake up to the dream of fly-ing in a plane that isn’t burning tons of fuel polluting the atmos-phere. A plane that makes both its passengers and the air that it travels through, happy. A plane that releases no hazardous sub-stances in our atmosphere.

Flying high above in the sky on March 10th 2015, right above the heads of many

Pakistanis was the first ever so-lar masterpiece- solar impulse 2. The plane spent six hours soaring high in the airspace of Pakistan. Rippling swiftly through the air, this heavy-weight, which isn’t that heavy with its weight of just 2300 kg- more or less the weight of a car ,left an impression on many pro-solar energy brains around the globe. Hashtags appeared left, right and center on social media, the one being used for Si2(Solar Im-pulse 2) seems just the ideal one, which was, #RTW, the Round-The-World solar aircraft; since the plane attempted a trip around the globe between March and July 2015. A Round-The-World trip sounds just the ideal thing for this masterpiece. The strategy de-vised for this ad-venture is to fly at 8500 meters during the day let-ting the solar cells supply power to the plane and si-multaneously, re-charge the lithium batteries that will provide power at night when the plane will be lowered to a height of 1500 meters. Our big hero is being piloted by Andre Borsch-berg the co-founder and chief executive of the solar impulse project-, along with Bertrand Pic-card in this exotic trip. The pilots of the aircraft left no stone un-turned in making the Round-The-World venture successful. While rigorously training for it, the pi-lots learnt yoga and self-hypnosis that allows them to sleep for du-rations as small as twenty minutes

but wake up feeling refreshed. It took 13 long years of research and testing before Borschberg’s and Piccard’s dream could ma-terialize. The construction of this

masterpiece required the use of appropriate electrolytes, Material science’s nanotechnologies and carbon fibers(the plane owes its being light in weight to these fibers) along with sheer determi-nation, hard work and rigorous efforts.Si2 is a single-seater plane having a 72 meter wingspan with 17,000 solar cells built into it. The plane, also, has four electric mo-tors that are supplied by renewa-ble energy. The lithium batteries installed into the aircraft weigh about 633 kg and provide power to the plane in absence of sun-

By: Annie Shabbir TE (EE-130)

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The Next ‘IT’

The rapid advancements, to the point of saturation in some cases, really leave you wondering as to what

new things to expect in future. The sci-fi movies may get your imagination stimulated, but their absurdity is sometimes too hard to ignore. Giant robots built fortte sole purpose of battling equally big robots? SERIOUSLY?!!

Technology is rapidly being so widely explored, that there remains no room for improvement. This is ex-actly what happened with Gordon Moore, the ge-nius behind Intel. In the 1970s, when everybody ex-perienced a huge decrease in the size of electrical machinery due to advancements in transistor tech-nology, Moore proposed that the number of elec-tronic components (transistors, diodes etc) in a dense integrated circuit are to double, every two years. This prediction can be named as one of the most im-portant breakthroughs of the last century. We saw computers being brought down from the size of huge rooms to just a small hand-held machine. The computer processors started becoming smaller and faster. In the 1970’s processor speeds ranged from 740 KHz to 8MHz. This figure kept on doubling until it reached 1.3 GHz in 2000. After, the chip density and the consequent processor speed experienced a slow increase in pro-cessor speed increasing only to 2.8 GHz in 2009 and then to 3.5 GHz in 2014. This implies that Moore’s law is no longer a law and the speed of processor wont double every two years. In more simpler words, you may not be able to buy a faster handset next year.

That being stated, let us dwell into the cause of the slow failure of Moore’s Law. Transistors became so tiny that electrons could easily pass through them, even when the transistors were supposed to be off. This lowered de-vice reliability. The cost of printing circuitry onto chips is also increasing by nearly 10% each year, but as chip size has been simultaneously decreasing at a rate of 25%, the cost effectiveness of chip increased over the years. This may not be true in the near future, as chip size is no longer going to see an exponential decrease in size.So what is going to happen next? Moore’s Law is go-ing to be morphed into newer forms of integrated cir-cuitry. Earlier, the logical unit of the processor was kept on a single chip while the non-logic functions stayed disparate. The non-logic and logical functions are going to be united on a single chip in the near fu-ture. Chip designers will be adding sensing function-alities onto the same chip. They are already looking into micro electro-mechanical systems, which can be used to make tiny sensors, actuators and relay logic. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) may also trump their hard-wired counterparts. This is be-cause with the size of component brought down to the atomic scale, FPGAs can arrange the physical layout of the circuitry to avoid problems previously discussed.The path forward is not as predictable as Moore proposed in the 1970s. The newer chip designing techniques may guar-antee money to the manufacturing industries, but there is not much tangible proof as to what to expect tomorrow.

By :Muzna Shibli Farooqui TE (EE-73)

Necessity is the mother of invention. But, there are other family members too. First of all or rather second of all (first being the mother necessity) in the list is innovation, the father. Because it is not merely need that results into an invention but also a desire to change or in other words the desire to innovate. Next comes the lazy brother luxury and the ever-encouraging sister competition which always are present and help invention to grow and prosper. An i nv e nt i o n , thus, cannot just be to fulfill a necessity but to create c h a n g e , to define ways, to improve and/or to destroy.The most important aspect among those mentioned is innova-tion. The desire to innovate and the abili-ty to do so have evolved the world around us and will continue to do so. It is like magic happening every day. Unfortunately, in our country innovation is frequently limit-ed to being tech-savy, buying the latest and chic gadgets produced by other global innovators. We are look-ing closely as Google introduces Wifi clouds, as Apple.inc advances in wearable technology but the problem is we have been looking and looking and not implementing for quite a long time now. Increasing and encouraging the development of local electronic and electrical technology ,here, is the need of the day. Funding stu-dent research projects and financial aid for start-ups can be stepping stones in this direction. Coming back to innovation, well, although as depicted in movies 2015 is still not the year of hover-cars and aliens coming to earth but some very interesting advances have been made in the field of engineering technology. Here are a few ideas that created a stir recently.

Wireless Electricity (Witricity)

After wireless internet and telephone it is now time for

electricity to go wireless so that appliances need not to be

shackled to the sockets. The technology utilizes a plug-in

coil that creates magnetic field to power objects as far as

8ft. The idea, on a small scale, has been tested in Toyota

electric cars and Intel PCs.

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By: Saniya Ambreen BE( EE-169)

High Beta Reactor Nuclear Reactor (Con-trolled Fusion Reactor)While we are still struggling to achieve a steady load shedding and failure free electrical grid the nations around us are pros-pering in a whole new direction. To those who do not know, almost entire nuclear energy in nuclear power stations is being produced by nuclear fission owing to controllability of the reac-

t ion.

Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, can generate magnanimously more energy as

compare to fission but a controlled fusion reactor is still a theoretical phenome- non. Remember the

fusion reaction in Spiderman 2? Although the ‘metal attracting visual’ was exaggerated, the destruction of

an uncontrolled fusion can nevertheless be any small. In October 2014, Lockheed Martin claimed that it has

achieved a technological breakthrough of achieving a controlled fusion reactor. This technology will utilize

‘magnetic mirror confinement’ to control the reaction. If this becomes usable it will rightly be

the called Holy Grail in power system technology.

Power felt: energy storing fabric:

Good news for the fashionable geeks now

you can replace your ordinary denim and

jackets with those made of power felt fabric,

which is capable of charging small equipments on

the go, that too uing the heat from your body. All you need is a quick sprint on the

spot and voila you have generated enough electricity to charge your phone. Alternatively the fab-

ric can be integrated on a mobile phone cover and make the phone charge itself.

3D Printing This is one of the most magical breakthroughs of the era. It is literally a machine that builds anything. 3D printers can be used to build ma-chines using the blue prints usually by layering plastics or other ma-terials. The technology is being utilized in generating accurate proto-types for educational purposes and most importantly scientists have printed 3D tissues for human organs.

V2V Com-

municationsIn February, US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it will begin taking steps to enable vehicle-to-ve-

hicle (V2V) communication technology for light vehicles. This technology would allow vehicles to “talk” to each other and ul-

timately avoid many crashes altogether by exchanging basic safety data, such as speed, braking status and steering wheel position.


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N POWER PEG

A person generates mechanical power daily by just walk-

ing around and unless he/she is too lazy this could be

around 100W equivalent electrical power. Using this con-

cept, which is really Faraday’s law of induction applied

cleverly, Tremont Electric have produced the N powerpeg

which can then be used to charge small equipments using ki-

netic energy of a walking human to generate electric power.

ALUMINUM ION BATTERIES

After the dawn of Smart phones there came the problem of charging them. Improvements are being made gradu-ally to tackle the problem of battery storage and recharge time. A innovation that can help ease the pain of Smart-phone users has been proposed by the Stanford Universi-t y

scientists in the form the aluminum ion battery. They are ul-tra-fast rechargeable, durable in terms of charging cycles, long l a s t i n g

and most importantly economical since it basically uses aluminum. ]

LASER GUIDED BULLETSThe bullet chasing the target from Tom and Jerry series is now near reality since two engineers from San-

dia laboratory have proposed a laser guided bullet that

can glide and change its trajectory with the help of fins

which are controlled by micro sized laser sensors and ac-tuators.

This might become the new milestone in the warfare technology.

ULTRA PRIVATE SMART PHONESTake away someone’s phone and observe the panic. Better yet tell someone that you have been secretly monitoring their sms, whatsapp or messenger data and overhearing their personal calls. With the ease of communication came the vulnerability of data. Silent circle, designed by a cryptologist, is an encryption system with dedicated servers that ensures data security and

privacy by decrypting the data on the phone itself and providing transmission via its servers

The list goes on and the race continues with new racers every day. We are happy merely with the status of being a nuclear power. We are behind technologically because we do not understand the significance of innovation in our lives. We do not accept change pleasantly be it in our culture, traditions or socio-political systems. The thirst for innovation is what will lead to inventions and from that day we will be a leading player in the aforementioned race.

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1. Arduino

On top of the stack is the open-source Arduino platform designed to meet a formidable challenge of teaching students how to speed up the electronics. In its simplest form Arduino consists of a hard-ware board and a programming environment or IDE that runs on your computer. Arduino can in-teract with the analog world via a huge variety of sensors. It can interact with buttons, LEDs, motors, GPS units, Cameras, PCs and even smart phones, tablets and TVs. The projects that can be built using Arduino range from simple Heart Rate Monitors, Desktop CNC mills to Quadcopters and even 3D Printers. Arduino is for artists, designers, hobbyists, stu-dents and anyone who dreams gadgetry. It takes away all those messy details of programming and masks them with a simple technique to program interface based on C++ with a taste of processing. A large number of li-braries contributed by the online community in addition to the

THE LITTLE BIG THINGS

The interactions between the analog and the digital world have been made effort-less to a large extent by an array of credit card sized computer boards that can be pro-

grammed into interactive objects to sense and control the physical world. These little devic-es are the hot potatoes of the online Do-It-Yourself (DIY) community, tinkerers and digital makers. Taking full advantage of the sophistry offered by these little devices, a large num-ber of really cool, cost-effective and easy to develop DIY projects are surfacing each day.

Kids playing with colorful kites and paint brushes are now the days of past. In an initia-tive to develop a new generation of tech pioneers, designed to be fun and easy to use ver-sions of these mini boards have been developed to inspire digital creativity in the new generation and train them in the art of software writing such as BBCs micro:bit, again a pocket-sized codeable computer which is to be given free to every child across UK.


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2. Raspberry Pi

standard libraries makes the Arduino project community driven. The programming environment is very simple, intuitive and easy to learn yet powerful. In addition to the standard programming through code environment, the online community has written graphical programming environ-ments that allows one to program the board via flowcharts and blocks like Ardublock and Scratch. The idea is to write a few lines of code, hook up a few electronics components to the hardware of choice, observe how the hardware runs the code then maybe add another sensor or two and pro-ceed with the coding. This process of programming is called sketching with hardware and it is very quick for exploring a lot of ideas, refining them and producing prototypes in an iterative manner. Unlike many other programmable boards, Arduino doesn’t require a separate hardware for down-loading programs to the chip, a USB cable is all that is required. This is because, the on-board chip comes pre-burnt with a program called the Bootloader that allows new programs to be burnt with-out an external programmer. An Arduino can also be used as an ISP programmer for a raw chip.

Arduino provides a standard form-factor that presents the capabilities of the micro-controller as more accessible. The Uno is the popular Arduino flagship board and more suitable for beginners. Other versions like the Arduino Nano, Micro and LilyPad are designed for embedding boards into the projects. The capability of an Arduino can be further extended by the use of additional hardware called “shields” that can fit on top of the board. Lastly since it is open-source, this means anyone can

Raspberry Pi developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a low-cost I.D card sized computer that can be plugged into a monitor or TV and uses a standard mouse and keyboard. There are technically two models of the original board, the Raspberry Pi A and Raspberry Pi B. The duo is further classi-fied into SD versions (models A and B) and MicroSD versions (models A+ and B+). The Pi (model B) has a 700MHz ARM processor on-board with 512MB of RAM and graphical capabilities and it needs an operating system to run. Pi runs various flavors of Linux but the official OS is a version of Debian Linux called Raspbian. One of the few things not included on the Pi is storage. You need an external SD or MicroSD card with the Linux OS image loaded to it. Every Pi is also equipped with a built-in Ethernet interface with a 100 Mbit speed, two standard USB ports, a HDMI output for HDTVs, an analog RCA connec-tion for old TVs and a set of 26 Gen-eral Purpose I/O Pins (GPIO) equiv-alent to the digital I/O pins of an Arduino. However unlike the Ardui-no whose digital pins run on a standard

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TECHNICAL5V, the GPIO pins of a Pi run on 3.3V. This makes the Pi incompatible for direct interfacing with most of the sensors, but one can always hookup an Arduino to the USB port of Pi and combine them if required.

Another feature that feels missing from a subjective point of view on the Pi is an on-board ADC. All micro-controllers come with an ADC which is good enough for most practical purposes except if one requires simultaneous sampling or very high sampling rates. However from an objective point of view, since Pi is meant to be a mini-computer, it is fair enough to not include an exter-nal ADC which would otherwise increase the package size. That being said, if your project de-

3. Wiring

4. C.H.I.P

Wiring is an open-source programming framework for micro-controllers. It comes with an elec-tronic sketchbook and electronics hardware much like Arduino. It can be used to create interactive objects, to practice creative coding and for all kinds of physical experiences e.g. Robots. The Wiring framework is developed keeping in mind researchers, hobbyists and art-ists and anyone with a taste for elec-tronics. Like Arduino, Wiring also works in the same fashion of “sketch-ing with hardware”. Its program-ming environment is also based on Processing programming language.

The Wiring boards are available in different flavors like the Wiring Mini, Wiring Sparkfun, Wiring S and the new generation Wiring M, Wir-ing XS and Wiring L. Wiring is much like a brother to Arduino in its look and feel and the way they are coded, even the program files for the Wiring IDE and Arduino IDE are called Sketches.

If C.H.I.P could be described in one phrase it would be ‘A $9 Raspberry Pi killer’. The Next Thing Co’s upcoming portable computing solution is relatively inexpensive in comparison to a Pi. The tiny board is home to a 1GHz CPU, 512MB of Ram and 4GB on-board storage which power a light-weight Linux OS with additional capabilities of built-in WiFi and bluetooth.


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5. LaunchPad

CHIP can be connected over composite (built-in), VGA or HDMI video ports (requires additional hardware). It is mostly aimed at electronics tinkerers and DIYers and. Sadly, its GPIO I/O pins are still waiting for some serious attention since CHIP is currently in pre-production stages and therefore a hands-on review is not possible; however a lot of hype is already surrounding this tiny newcomer. The world’s first $9 micro-computer is available for pre-order and is expected to be shipped this December.

Launch Pad is actually an above-ground platform from which rocket powered missiles take off vertically. Seriously!....OK, but today we are talking about Texas Instruments’ LaunchPad devel-opment kits. The LaunchPads come in a variety of flavors and all kits include everything that is needed to develope projects in minutes. That’s right get start-ed and blink all those LEDs and spin those motors in minutes. The flagship LaunchPad is the MSP series which boast ultra-low pow-er micro-controller units. This gives the MSP series an edge over its big brothers and even other cousin product lines in low-pow-er projects. LaunchPads can be coded either via Energia, a simple code editor which is open source, community driven, based on the popular wiring framework and of-fers a large number of easy-to-use functions or via Code Compos-er Studio, which is a full-featured, eclipse-based professional development environment.

This sums up a short review of some of the most popular tiny programmable boards. These lit-tle-big things have enabled a fast addition of objects to the Internet of Things (IoT) and experts estimate that IoT will expand to consist a whopping 50 billion objects by 2020. So go grab one of these, follow the KEEP CALM & MAKE ON trend and become a Zero-to-Maker in no time.

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By: Umar Afzaal BE(EE-167)

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Every day, the world produces carbon dioxide that is released to the earth’s atmosphere and

which will still be there in one hundred years’ time. This increased content of Carbon Dioxide increases the warmth of our planet and is the main cause of the “Global Warming Effect”. One answer to glob-al warming is to replace current technologies with alternatives that have comparable or better perfor-mance, but do not emit carbon dioxide. This leads to the advancement in small-scale generation tech-nology which when coupled with growing environ-mental concerns creates a change in energy market. Today there are thousands of individuals and com-panies across the globe who are working hard to de-velop alternative energy solutions for future gener-ations and we are going to discuss a few of them.

THE SPHERICAL SUN POWER GENERATOR:Finally after long time, our generation is moving from our typical use of solar energy that is to create “solar aachar” to creating electrical energy with it, but how? We all know about solar panels and have inkling on how they covert solar energy into electri-cal energy but it doesn’t end there. German Archi-tect Andre Broessel believes hehas a solution that can “squeeze even more juice out of the sun”, even

during the night hours and in low-light regions. His company Rawlemon has created a spherical sun pow er generator prototype called the “betaray”. His technology will combine spherical geometry principles with a dual axis tracking system, allow-ing twice the yield of a conventional solar panel in a much smaller surface area. The futuristic de-sign is fully rotational and is suitable for inclinedes, walls of buildings, and anywhere with access to the sky.

TREE SHAPED WIND TURBINES:Wind is everywhere, even when we don’t feel it, it is there. A French company called New Wind’s found-er, Jérôme Michaud-Larivière came up with this idea

when he was strolling in Paris square, upon observ-ing he “saw the leaves tremble when there was not a breath of air.” He hopes the trees can be used to exploit small air currents flowing along buildings and streets, and could eventually be installed in people’s yards and urban centers. He succeeded in his aim and now his company is currently installing tree-shaped wind turbines at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, FranceHe is the first to admit the efficiency of the trees is low compared to more consistent currents higher up,

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but believes the trees turbines are more viable and less intrusive than ‘monstrous’ conventional wind tur-bines. The 26 foot high trees, which use tiny blades in-side the ‘leaves’, could potentially be profitable after a year of wind speeds averaging 7.8 mph. They can generate electricity in wind speeds as low as 4.5 mph.

MAKANI ENERGY KITE:Do you remember back in the days when kites were just a cheap toy, enticing kids and some adults to play with it in galli or muhal’a? Well not any-more. In 2013 Google purchased a company called Makani, creators of the Energy Kite. Their goal is to make wind energy pricing competitive with fos-sil fuels, and they believe a new approach is need-ed. The Energy Kite is a new type of wind turbine, designed to generate more energy using 90% less materials. “Makani’s energy kite uses the same aero-dynamic principles as a conventional wind turbine, but replaces tons of steel with lightweight elec-tronics, advanced materials,andsmart software.”

The kite is launched from a ground station using the rotors as helicopter blades until it reaches 800ft above ground. Once airborne, the system generates power by flying in large circles up high where the wind is stron-ger and more consistent. Rotors mounted on the kite wings drive generators that produce electricity. The kite’s flight path is guided by a flight computer, which uses GPS and sensors to make thousands of calcu-lations and adjustments in strong and steady winds.

ON THE DANCE FLOOR:Do you know we generate tons of energy in our day to day task.That’s right, we generate Kinetic form of en-ergy when created due to the virtue of motion. Many companies all over the world are trying to exploit this to create an alternative mean to generate electricity and they are doing just that. They are using a very famous effect called the piezoelectric effect, which produce the motion of charge when stress is applied.

Now, the kinetic energy generated by our everyday tasks is under the spotlight as underground sta-tions, footpaths, nightclubs and gyms begin to utilize piezoelectric harvesting technologies such as a piezoelectric sensor, which is a device that uses the piezoelectric effect, to measure changes in pressure,

acceleration, temperature, strain, or force by convert-ing them to an electrical charge. The accumulated electrical energy can be used to power services within the same building or area, or routed to a new location.

POWA WATER GENERATOR:Do you know you can wash your cars and water you lawn and can still generate electricity? The innovative device designed by Vandenbussche made that pos-sible. POWA Water Generator, is just a small turbine that is placed in between the hosepipe used to wash to cars or water the lawn. As the water rushes through the pipe, the blades of the small turbine turn which converts mechanical energy to rotational energy and thus generate Electricity. This company envisioned the system to charge the batteries of the electric cars but this electricity can be used for other purposes also.

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TECHNOVATION“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Albert Einstein

The above line speaks wonders about the intellect of humans. Drawing a line of comparison between the time of the birth of universe to the present age, one will be spell bound. It’s the imag-ination of humans that has enabled us to advance from the dark ages to the modern age where now humans rule. If humans would not have im-agined about a world of their choice

then the evolution of the apes into hu-mans would have been impossible.Technovation, the word that has brought a revolutionary change in the world since a very long time. In simple words it is the development of new ide-as, products and services that exploit technology. Moreover, it is a disruptive change that causes major leaps in the

way things are done. For example years before, no one ever asked for a phone that is smart but APPLE created one an-yway bringing a disruptive change and now we see that our lives are incomplete without it and now further new ideas are being implemented in that same tech-nology making our lives far better and easier than before. So we can see how the imagination of Steve Jobs brought a change in the world and this is not it, there are numerous examples around us. The creation of the means of com-munications, transportations, internet, life saving machineries, laser technol-

ogies, advanced computing hardware and software etc are now a part and par-cel of our lives. It is not wrong to say that humans have captured time and space. The knowledge of humans has increased manifolds and it hasn’t stopped growing. Everyone is blessed to have the luxury of the internet that is empowering us to create new ideas, learning from the pre-vious ones and this is the reason why this world is advancing by leaps and bounds.Isn’t it appalling that once we had to oc-cupy a large room to store small amount data and now we are able to carry tera bytes of data on small chips? Isn’t it ap-


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palling that how the doctors are able to bring back a person to life from the jaws of death? Isn’t it appalling that how we are able to communicate with people liv-ing at large distances? Isn’t it appalling that once we just dreamed of travelling to space and now we have the details of

a number of stars, planets and other ge-ological bodies that are light years away from us? Isn’t it appalling that once we just thought of printing 3D objects and now we have 3D printers? Isn’t it appall-ing that now we can transfer ones intel-lect to multiple brains using nano tech-nology? This and much more, all has only been possible due to the constant chan-

ges of the imagination of humans and that has only increased our hunger to go for more and here we are satisfying that hunger.Signing off my article by urging all to fol-low their dreams, convert them into real-ity and be the change.

By : Muhammad Bazal Siddiqui SE (EE-I5)

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

He climbed into the car beside his father with an unusual reluc-tance. He was on the brink of an intimidating experience. His parents were unable to wipe out his fears of starting a new

school. He nervously stepped into his new school but his mind was else-where. Instead of mingling with the students, he counted the hours and minutes and seconds left for the school to be over. Instead of reading the new books, he looked outside; lost in his memories at home, oblivious of what was going around. And this is how the first day passed.With the passage of time, he saw his fears becoming true. The teacher would regularly scold him for not paying at-tention or not doing his home-work. The parents seemed to lose hope too, when the teach-ers told them, “If he can’t speak properly, how can he study?”He felt helpless, now even his classmates started to mock him for the grades he scored or how hesitantly he spoke. The dreams of the boy seemed to shatter and he couldn’t find any savior to take him out of this abyss. Ultimately the inevita-ble happened, he was expelled. Seeing the concerns of his par-ents, he gave an entrance exam for another school, but without any success. Unhappy with the endeav-ors of getting into a school, he turned to a course of personal study outside of school.

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Despite of all the odds, he never ceased to be a dreamer he was. A dream to

change the world. And with the passage of time he mastered physics and mathemat-ics. His interest in the subjects grew ex-ponentially. Meanwhile his father passed away. The barriers appeared to become tougher as he concentrated more on pursu-ing his dreams. The hardships didn’t end here; he was also rejected by a universi-ty as a lecturer. But these obstacles were minuscule compared to how passionately curious he was in his subjects.He wasn’t the one who would give up on his dreams. He finally suc-ceeded in proposing many theories which were incomprehensible for many scientists of the time, who rejected them. But later did the world realize, how intellectual he was. His name was Albert Einstein, the one who stunned the world with his theory of relativity. The person who achieved noble prize for dis-covering the photoelectric effect. From discovering the logics behind Brownian motion to discovering the ever so famous equation E=mc2

Einstein is still a source of inspiration to many. The one who was doubted to even pass the school educa-tion changed the perspec-tive of the world about modern phys-ics.

The true sign of imagina-tion is not k n o w l e d g e

but imagination – Albert Einstein.

By: Syed Hamza Tariq FE (EE-005)



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ConundrumTheThrough my sensational innate lens!!!!

description of ultimate success and ultimate failure than the one given by Elizabeth Gilbert, a prolific writer of many sell-outs such as ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, which was a massive hit, critically acclaimed all over the globe. She defines the intriguing and strange unlikely connection between how our body reacts to great success and failure. According to her, great failure catapults us abruptly to the blinding darkness of disappointment and let down from our metaphorical ‘Home’. Well, home is not place where you just live and

drop by. For her, it is thing you love doing more than you love yourself, something you dedicate your

most time to. It could be creativity, family, art, music and so on. It is something that drives you crazy,

something you cherish the most in life. For me it has al-

ways been playing profession-al cricket and hoping to repre-

sent Pakistan at international level in near future to give you a hint what your ‘Home’ could be. Just as great fail-

ure, great success also cata-pults you in the same way as

failure but just as abruptly as far, in the light of acknowledge-ment, praise and recognition. Our subconscious is completely

incapable of discerning the differ-ence between bad and good. The

only thing it is capable of feeling is the value of this emotional equation,

the exact distance you have flung in both cases. There is danger of getting lost in

the dark in both cases. Whenever in life you happen to strike by great success or great failure, just remember you have got

to find a way back ‘Home’, as swiftly as smoothly as you can. If you get somehow

vaulted out of your house by either of them, just remember to go back to your metaphorical ‘Home’

and perform with diligence, reverence, dignity and utmost integrity.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappoint-ed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones

you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”– Mark

Twain.By: Umair Anwar TE (EE-192)

Nothing lured me more than unfolding the alluring intricacies of massive success in the childhood bliss then, and, perhaps, in adolescent angst still. Instant thoughts, wildly provocative and contagious, emerging in my wildest imaginations would pause to wonder what the eternal success in life was all about. What sort of implications do people have to suffer in the pro-cess of chalking up massive and accredit-ed success? In short, how do people even get famous and renowned? There has to be something that is strikingly admirable in them which made them look different from the medi-ocre ones out there. Maybe, I was too young to comprehend that they were a totally different breed altogether.

In our ancient times, our pro-genitors and ancestors late-ly, had a predominant and shared life purpose … To sur-vive. They never choose to have extravagant life goals, or invigorating aims to strive for in life. I always thought of them as totally ignorant and luna-tic ones, to be blunt, who just ex-ist as an absolute mess and never imagined the unthinkable, never lived up to their potential creativity, or authentic potency. My mind could not comprehend a life without an aim which would not thrive you to get further in life and closer to achieving ‘The Ultimate’ hap-piness – that is doing what you love and mak-ing money out of it. Little did I know that I was, maybe, overly dismissive about their personal decisions in life. As the evolution marches on, we inevitably developed more effective ways of living in this world and humanity became face to face with what I call the conundrum of success.

“If you get somehow vaulted out of your house by either great success or great failure, just remember go back to your metaphorical ‘Home’ and perform

with diligence, reverence, dignity and utmost integrity.”

For me, success has always been a thing looming in my head all the time. It provokes you into thinking that you can succeed. I could not have come across the better

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Batch 2011-12 are leaving their be-loved NED with

teary eyes and smiling faces. Everyone has their own plans after graduation. Some plan to get a job, some want to take a break, some are going to get mar-ried ;) ;) and some are determined to go abroad for Post-graduation and PhDs- which is, by far, the most popular choice.There are many reasons

people want to study abroad. The reasons may be to come across new people and their cultures, places or get their hands onto a better standard of education. Most people choose it for the latter as they are not crazy enough like me to go for the first and play life in “Hard mode”. :P“Studying abroad- pfft,

easy peasy, unless you are a Momma’s girl/boy or a cry baby. Get admitted, ace all the exams and come back with a precious degree in hand”, you may think. But studying abroad is NOT only about STUDYING, It is much more than that. In fact, studying is the part you should worry less about than other things. Yeah, you read

that right. Studying abroad and more importantly in a place where you never have been before is very challeng-ing but exciting and requires efforts in things that are not directly related to studies.The first thing is- deciding

where you REALLY want to study. My advice would be to not take it lightly and choose by certificate val-ue ONLY, you are going for higher studies and it’s im-possible unless your mind is at at peace in the first place. So take sufficient time to un-derstand the environment, weather, culture and customs to sort out if you can handle everything well. Remem-ber- your family or friends will not be there with you to console you in your bad times and chances are you will be too busy in work and study to even get to them. And let’s be honest, every-one will be too busy to tol-erate your whining. You do not understand the value of having these people around until you leave them behind.Secondly, try to choose

countries with easier and better official system. Be-cause paper work can be a big headache if the officials, may that be of desired universi-

ties or countries, are not sin-cere or assisting sufficiently as expiration of your papers (visa or passport or any kind of registration related to these two) may take you on a deportation ride or at least cost large sum of money for fine, not to mention the running around, humilia-tion and unbearable anxiety.Next comes honey, sorry,

I mean money. Decide how you are going to cover your expenses, will it be your family assisting you in that matter or will it be you on our own. And if you choose the latter, you may have to look into your options- do-ing part time jobs (a.k.a. odd jobs like in restaurants etc.) or being a T.A. or R.A. If you are going on a schol-arship, make sure you know if that scholarship is going to cover all your expenses including tuition fee, resi-dence fee, living cost, day-to-day cost. If you are deter-mined to work and earn by yourself then double check the availability of such jobs and the permitted working hours for foreign student at your desired destination.After that, choose a univer-

sity YOU are interested or inspired by. Do not, I repeat,


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DO NOT choose one based on your family members’ or relatives’ opinion. Specially if you are a girl, most of them will try and get you to enroll in a university based on how “Culturally Conservative” it is or how far your relative’s house (if there lives any) from the university is. What controls you is your heart and If you are “wild” at heart and have a desire towards

bad, you can do it anywhere. Trust me, I have seen enough people go crazy living in their own town and enough to live a reserved life being far from home. If you are not capable of taking care of yourself and strong enough to restrain yourself from harmful peo-

ple and things at this point of life, you aren’t a grown up and may not be worthy of studying abroad. Take ac-count to those people’s ad-vices who have been to those places already and for girls (or to be precise, their par-ents) who are worried about personal security, countries like Germany, Norway, USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan etc. are far more safer than any

third world country, in those countries, it all depends on you. So be bold and strong and rock the world. If you are going to a coun-

try which has quite a few stu-dents from your country, try to maintain good contacts with them, “Desi” is the way to go :p Also keep in touch

with the consulate of your own country in that city/country as they will always be there to help you through any legal complications (at least they should as it is in-cluded in their job). Use your common sense, sensible rea-soning and rationality to sort

out the good and the bad ones.And last but the most im-

portant point- PRAY. No matter which religion you are from, pray to your God routinely as it’ll keep you calm and give you strength in need. Remember, God is the only one who can work mir-acle and turn any situation in your favor, no matter how di-sastrous it may seem to you.Studying abroad will teach

you more about life and peo-ple than study itself. Confi-dence and determination are the main keys. So, best of luck to everyone no matter what your plan is after graduation. May ALLAH bless us all. :D

BY: Fardin Rahman Tiha BE EE-054

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THE FATHOMLESSLY MERCIFUL MASTER By: Swaleha Arshad TE(EE-111)


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For a moment my mother’s tears made me heavy heartedAs the apple of her eye has just departed.

But the angel’s greetings and words comforted me,‘Now no sorrow or fear shall befall upon thee!’

I saw many lightened faces with flowers and wreaths in their hands,

They gifted me one by one, on my arrival they were glad. They showed me my eternal abode, just a glance of it,Where rivers were flowing and everything was perfect!

They took me with honor to my Lord,It was the moment I was waiting desperately for.When I reached His domain, all I saw was light

I followed the angel with ecstasy and fright.Fear engulfed me as I was standing in front of The Lord of all

thrones,I felt my palms sweaty and shiver through my bones.

My eyes were down casted as I couldn’t look towards Him,I was standing in utmost respect and perfect prim.

I thought to myself, ‘Have I been forgiven on my intensions?I didn’t perform a single deed up to the mark of satisfaction!’

Contemplating profoeard my Master say,‘You are forgiven because you served my beings night and day’

And for obligations you have been excused,As your Lord knows your intensions and everything you do.Suddenly then I remembered how I had severed humanity,

Never held grudges or treated anyone in vanity.I wasn’t astonished at His verdict, as all my life I had this faith,

He doesn’t abandon who trust Him, one day I’ll walk through Eden’s gate.

I couldn’t help myself, but to bow down in gratitude,Only His mercy was capable of forgiving my mutinous attitude!

He ordered me to get up and dwell till eternity,In the mansions of tranquility, in the gardens of serenity!

of serenity!

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BAJI

NOSE IT ALL!Well, well, well.. your favorite Baji (who nose it all, never to forget :D ) is back yet again to reflect upon the most complex of issues that all her amazing fans are facing out there. Baji is, once again, bombarded with too many interesting *cough* questions and of course, Baji is ever so ready to answer them for her fans. So here it goes. Ride Along, sweet people.

1 Assalam-o-alaikum Baji. This is an utterly perpexed soul writing to you. Baji, they tell us that we have to give mids and then they tell us we also need to give a pre-mid and of

course how can everything be just perfect unless we give a post mid too -_- These exams after exams have left me stressed and depressed. Please suggest some remedy to this issue. [sincerely, the Relief seeker]

2Hey adorable, beautiful Baji! Words fall short when I think of praising you. You are certainly an amazing person. I don’t admire anyone this much except you. Baji, it’s my

10987th attempt to get your number. Can I please have it this time? ;) (with

love, your CONSISTENT admirer)

3Hi Baji, I had been thinking about a very im-portant issue lately. They teach us equality, they tell us everyone is equally entitled to their rights, then why, WHY BAJI WHY, do I

get to leave the front rows for girls in class?? Isn’t this plain denial of the principle of equality?? (from a vic-tim of ‘Haathi k daant, khaanay k aur, dikhanay k aur’ )

4 Baji, I feel so sad about this issue. Why doesn’t our department get its proportion-ate share of beauty. Why does our neigh-boring department gets to have the lion’s

share?? (searching for an eye candy ;))


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5Assalam-o-alaikum revered Baji! Usually, I find the answers to confusing and complex questions myself but this time it looks like, I’m unable to sort out the issue. Baji, can you tell me a convenient method of running a software that requires 64 bit processor on a 32 bit processor??

6 Baji, I recently came to know that the new idea these days is to store your data into a virtual cloud and not into physical disks, I would like to know should we be scared of data loss in case it rain

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Story of a Rickshaw Driver

Q1. How much do you know about NED Universi-ty?Ans: I’ve been providing taxi service outside this uni-versity for a very long time now. I know that engineers are made here. Any person related to this place is usually found very busy or in a hurry.

Q2. For how long have you been picking passen-gers, from NED University?Ans: As I said earlier, I’ve been picking here for a very long time now. I don’t remember exactly how many years but my daughter was in 5th grade when I started picking passengers and now Masha Allah she’s in Inter-mediate. So around 7-8 years.

Q3. If you don’t mind, would tell us how much do you earn daily?Ans: There is not a fixed sum since there are days when I get a lot of passengers and others when i get only a few. People of NED are good at bargaining so it varies from day to day.

Q4. How is providing services outside NED Uni-

versity different from the regular rickshaw driver job?Ans: It’s very different from being a regular cab driv-er, since majority of passengers which use my rickshaw are educated and soft spoken people. They know how to pay respect to everyone even if it’s a rickshaw driver.

Q5. What’s your opinion about students of NED?Ans: Students of NED are definitely better than stu-dents of other universities. They are a lot more studi-ous. Students traveling with me are usually found car-rying heavy book and opening their books to read even while in the rickshaw. They’re good at Mathematics, so they always know how much change is due.Q6. Have you ever provided pick and drop to stu-dents from any other university; if yes which?Ans Yes I have; but the experience was not very thrilling so I started standing outside NED University. If you want me to specify then KU, Sir Syed, Usman and other institutes on the university road. I still return to them, whenever NED University has a day off.

Q7. How are students of NED different from oth-er passengers?


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Ans: NED students are the well-mannered and their personalities reflect their high level of education. They’re somewhat better than all the other students I have picked from this road. I have uttermost respect for them.

Q8. Would you want your children to study in NED?Ans: It’s my dream that my daughter gets a chance to study in this university. I think it will be a blessing to our family if she gets admitted here.

Q9. Was there ever an incident which made you dislike students at this university? Ans: There are always incidents which leave a negative on a particular place because of a few irre-sponsible people. As the wise have said a bad fish spoils the entire pond; so I can’t blame everyone for the mis-demeanor of some people. Q10. Would you like to advice something to stu-dents of NED University?Ans: I would suggest all young pupils never to tell

a lie. If they adopt this one trait all their troubles will vanish. It’s something they should never compromise on.

Q11. Was there an incident which you won’t be able to forget?Ans: I’m thankful to God for all the wonderful expe-riences I have had in my life; like the time my daughter was born it was the most precious moment of my life. Was there an event which occurred related to this university? Once there was this girl, one of my regulars; she of-fered me cake and told me that it was her birthday that day. I never forgot her act of kindness.

Q12. Would you want to live their life, why?Ans: Not at all, I have a wonderful life. My God has given me everything without even asking; and I have no regrets about anything so far. I do believe that stu-dents of NED are fortunate to have the opportunity to be studying in this university, but I won’t change my life for theirs.

Interview conducted and compiled by: M. Talha Mushtaq Khan, SE EE-11 Interviewee: Zameer Khan (CNG Rickshaw Driver)

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When Leonardo da Vinci created his Vitruvian Man, he showcased how the human form embodies the principals of architecture at its peak of perfection. He also revealed that the body and its abilities are just

as vital to intelligence as is the mind. University sports embody this concept: It showcase athletic intelligence alongside academic victories. Athletics has been a mainstay of the NED University for decades. Today, the field has merely expanded, encompassing an even greater variety of competitive options for male and female students alike. Every year hundreds of Pre-engineers strive to get admission in NED in order to achieve their academic goals. Alongside them, there are some who seek to showcase their athletic abilities as well and make the univer-sity proud.Electrical department has always proved to be a factory for producing such sportsmen who have made depart-ment proud at every step. Electrifiers have always been an integral part of every sports team of NED whether it be Volleyball, cricket, badminton, football or any other sport. To say that, no team is complete without an elec-trical engineer making his place in it and carving their names on the trophies with their constant hard work and excellence. Among those numerous students, here are some who stand out among others:

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Talha Rajput of BE Electrical has been an integral part of the departmental sports and a valuable asset for the department over the past few years. He has won Gold medals in basketball, javelin, shot-put and silver medal in distance throw in athletic events. Being the departmental sports coordinator and a mo-tivating senior, he not only strives alone but has been a moral support for the others. He represents NED cricket team and is also the captain of departmental cricket team. Under his lead-ership electrical department consecutively won the general tro-phy for the second time and is also the athletics trophy holder. He participated in IBA Hall of fame champion 2015 and was PIMSAT runner up for NED University. His contributions to the department have not been only medals but also arranging various sports events and encouraging others to be a part of it to showcase their hidden talent. He is surely a shining star of our department.

Muhammad Ammar Memon of third year electrical has partici-pated in sports since his arrival at NED and has won every major event he participated in. This guy with his unparalleled abilities in badminton is national ranking gold medalist in badminton (2013), national junior champion, has been Pakistan’s number 3 in badminton and has also won bronze medal twice in Sindh games. He has also won a Gold medal in All Karachi Intervarsity tournament (Badminton, 2013 and 2014), Gold in NED inter-de-partmental tournament (2013 and 2014) and a gold medal in IBA sports league (Badminton, 2014).He has also represented NED as the team captain in all Pakistan inter university tournament.


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Kazim Abbas of final year electrical has been a shining star of electrical over the past few years. He has won Gold medal for his outstanding performance in bas-ketball and is representing NED basketball team at the IBA Hall of fame championship. He also participated in ASME cricket tournament where his team stood runner up.

Muhammad Usama Qureshi of first year electrical is anoth-er emerging athlete of electrical department. He has won 1st position in 400 meter race, 1st position in 800 meter, 1stposition is 1500 meter race at interdepartmental level. He also participated in basketball tournament and his team bragged first position. He looks forward to the future and aims to make his department and university proud in up-coming years.

Sidra Arshi of Final Year electrical has been into athletics from college life and has amazed everyone with her particular set of skills and a list of never end-ing achievements. In 2009-2010 , she represented P.E.C.H.S women's hock-ey team in intercollegiate women's hockey tournament and also represented B.I.E.K women's hockey team in inter board hockey tournament held in Lar-kanaand received a runner-up shield in both tournaments. She was also a part of SINDH team in 26th, 27th and 32nd National women's hockey tournament held at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad respectively. She received a gold medal in 2012 Sindh games where she represented Karachi division women's hock-ey team. She led the Malir district team in PSO Karachi games in 2012 and earned a gold medal which is a glimpse of her leadership skills. She represent-ed electrical department in interdepartmental athletics tournament and won a silver medal in relay race, stood 3rd in Shot put, 2nd in javelin throw and 1st in Discus throw. President ship of NED Photography society is another feather in her cap.

Electrical department won the inter-departmental basketball tournament 2015 when they defeated Industrial & manufacturing department in the final. Its team mem-bers included Kazim Abbas (Captain) – BE, Nabeel Afridi – TE, Muhammad Usman Siddiqui – SE, Syed Akif Ali – TE, Ali Abid – SE, Murtaza Abbas Jaffery – FE, Muhammad Usama – FE, Talha Rajput – BE, HarisJaved – BE, Abdul Wasay – BE.

We hope that these shining stars of electrical will keep making us proud in future and more new comers will add to the glory of our beloved department by displaying their hidden talent and hard work.

Muhammad Nabeel Khan Afridi of Third year has been representing NED university in basketball and has won a gold medal in IBA sports league in basketball.

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MUN IS FUNWhat IS MUN?It’s not the “Mera MUN krta hai” wala MUN..:D as one of my cousins would say “kia kr ne ka MUN hai ?” so better read it M-U-N :PMUN stands for Model United Nations, also known as Model UN. It is an educational simulation and an academic competition in which students learn about diplomacy, inter-national relations, and the United Nations. MUN involves and teaches research, public speaking, debating and writing skills in addition to critical thinking, teamwork, and lead-ership abilities. Participants in Model UN conferences, referred to as delegates, are placed in commit-tees and assigned countries (even if u hate the country, you HAVE to speak well of it as if it’s the most beloved place for you :D), or occasionally other organizations or political figures(multiple personality disorder alert!! :D), where they represent members of that body. They are presented with their topic or topics that their committee will discuss. Delegates conduct research before conferences and formulate positions that they will then debate with their fellow delegates in committee. At the end of a conference, the best-performing delegates in each committee, as well as delegations, are sometimes recognized with awards. These awards are BD (best delegate award),SP(special men-tion) and HM(honorary mention).WheN dId It Start?It is disputed which conference was the first Model UN conference held in the world, with the major claimants being Berkeley Model United Nations (BMUN), Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN), and National Model United Nations (NMUN NY). However, it is clear that the first was held sometime in the early 1950s.In recent decades, Model UN has spread to East and South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa, with major conference organizers such as Harvard and THIMUN establishing additional conferences in these regions to meet burgeoning demand.

What happeNS IN a MUN?The first step in a MUN is to know your assigned country and then choose the commit-tee you are interested to speak in.


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Committees at Model UN conferences can simulate a variety of bodies. From the more commonly simulated six main committees of the United Nations Gen-eral Assembly and the UN Security Council, to corporate executive boards and national cabinets, Model UN com-mittees reflect the diversity of the dele-gates who participate in them.

• General Assembly committees (such as DISEC, SPECPOL, and ECOFIN)• Other UN bodies (such as the Security Council, the ICJ, and ECOSOC)• Regional bodies (such as organs of NATO, the OAS, or the EU)Model United Nations committees may be modern, historical, futuristic, or fantastical.A special committee that does not have a parallel in the actual United Nations which deals with a crisis is known as a ‘Crisis Committee’. In this committee, a crisis is given to a team of students and the teams must come up with solutions. This committee calls out for some great problem solving amigos.It may focus on a single historical event. The event may be fictional or non-fictional.Next is the Position Paper that you have to bring along with you on the first day of MUN. Here, you tell about your country’s stance,frankly speaking, you tell the chair of the com-mittee “Hey there,main yeh yeh chahta hoon(make it How youu doin? if chair’s a lady :D)”.The Position Paper is a one or two page document that is essentially a summary of your knowledge of the topic and the position your country plans to take when it enters commit-tee. It typically contains three sections: Background of Topic, Past International Actions, and Country Policy & Possible Solutions.An Opening Speech is made by each delegate on the first day. The Opening Speech typ-ically lasts about 1 minute or 1 minute and 30 seconds and is the first speech you give to the committee. It is the best opportunity for you to explain your country policy and the key sub-issues you would like the committee to focus on.Now here comes a great piece of information: never use “I” while addressing the commit-tee…always say: “the delegate of (your country) believes that…”or “the delegate of (your country) would like to say that…” I know it’s a bit difficult job to say that again and again…even I did it wrong in my first MUN. Not once but numerous times. And it was hilarious se-riously..:PDifferent sessions follow the opening speech. MUN committees can be divided into three general sessions: Formal Debate, Moderated Caucus, and Unmoderated Caucus.Every time a debate or general speakers list is to be initiated, the chair of the committee asks: “Are there any points of motion on the floor?” the members of the committee raise their placards(it has your country name written on it. You can even have your fellow dele-gates comment about you on it at the end of MUN. #sweet memories you know )Anyone can raise a motion and once it has been raised properly, the chair announces “Motion is in order”.

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During this time, delegates talk to the entire committee. They make speeches, answer questions, and debate on resolutions and amendments. If there are no other motions, the committee goes back to formal debate by default. There is usually a time limit. In a moderated caucus, anyone may speak if recognized by the chair. A vote on a motion is necessary to go into a moderated caucus. There is a comparatively shorter time limit per speech. In an unmoderated caucus, the delegates informally meet with other delegates and the staff for discussions.This caucus is the one which is always passed clearly with majority(who wouldn’t want a little relief :D)the chair usually goes out of the room and you can do (almost) whatever you want..(You can even have a sleep :D but beware!! You are being marked!)What are reSolUtIoNS?Resolutions are the basis of all debate. They are considered the final re-sults of conversations, writings, and negotiations. Resolutions must go through a draft, approval by the dais, and consequent debate and modification.That’s it for a MUN. Resolution passed and you are done!Wait! wait! wait! I forgot the most awaited session..Yes..I am talking about the entertain-ment session(almost all the MUNs have this ,thankfully!! :D).It’s the only session you get to see the true side of everybody, even the chair :D. It’s like throughout the whole session you’ve been thinking of your chair as the most “bezaar” and lifeless human being on the planet and then you see him in the entertainment session and you go like “aryyeh hasta bhi hai :D” .I’ve even seen some chairs dance for the committee!! :DMUNS IN paKIStaN :-The first Model United Nations conference in Pakistan was the LUMUN hosted by La-hore University of Management and sciences. Since then, Model UN has become in-creasingly popular in Pakistan.The prominent MUNs in Pakistan are listed below:LUMUN BMUN KUMUNIUMUN NEDMUN GMUNKIETMUN MUNIK RYMUN NedMUN:-MUN made its debut appearance to NED in 2012 and the first ever MUN to be car-ried out in NED university was on December 21st ,2012.The students from not only NED but various other universities like iqra university,PAFKIET,bahria university,Karachi university,FAST,sirsyed university and usman university joined the NEDMUN as dele-gations. NEDMUN-I was organized under the umbrella of IEEE WIE NEDUET Affinity Group 2012 where a group of seasoned debaters from NED envisioned a debating platform “The Public Speaking Forum of NED University” helped NEDians keep track with all the public speaking competitions happening in Karachi and Pakistan. The fo-rum was founded in 2011 when these students organized NED Parliamentary Debat-ing Championship for the first time in NED. Since then the forum has expanded and


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they have started creating NED’s name in the debating circuit of Karachi. This can be judged by the fact that NED University won a winning award at Parliamentary Debating Competition Rotate 2.0 and has won many awards in MUNs around the recent years. Their aim is to provide dedicated training to all who are interested and to provide them a platform to polish their skills.NED University Model United Nations (NEDMUN) was established in the year 2012 by the undergraduate students of NED University of Engineering and Technology, with an idea that envisaged upon providing a competent platform to students to further enhance their skills of public speaking and also acquaint them with various issues of international affairs that are affecting the world peace and prosperity. Furthermore, they would come up with relevant and applicable solutions that would resolve these problems which would ultimately lead towards their annihilation from the facet of this world.Taking place at the main campus of NED university of Engineering and Technology from 17th to 20th December 2012, NEDMUN 2012, was the inaugural edition of Model United Nations conference held at NEDUET with five committees and an enthusiastic secretar-iat, attracting a horde of budding students willing to replenish their love for international politics and to portray their diplomacy skills at one of the most revered genres of public speaking.After successive flourishing of the Public Speaking Forum and winning streaks of ro-bust debaters breeding from NED, NEDMUN-II found its way with a more aesthetic, adept version of blending in international affairs of science, space, economy and politics and calling all fresh and seasoned debaters from the metropole, to be held on January 29th, 2015 under the banner of NED Debating Society. The second installment collab-orated with finest debaters from the metropole to judge and train the delegates for an engrossing debating environment.The best part of NEDMUN-II was the global village. Students participated enthusiastical-ly and enjoyed a lot. We also had new committees in NEDMUN-II namely “the galactic committee:UNGC” and the “special summit on science and technology:SSST”

I’ve Never “MUNNed” beFore!!!If you have never been in a MUN before, believe me! You’ve been missing a great fun. Make up your mind for a MUN and you are about to embark on a life-changing journey that will help you develop confidence in leading others, a stronger awareness of global issues, and the chance to make new friends. Model UN is a valuable experience that can help you find your first job, and become inspired to change the world and most importantly, M-U-N is F-U-N! It’s important to dive right in because Model UN is an activity that can only be learned through participation.So the next time you find a MUN, don’t miss it! Give it a try!

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Inspire You!Fiza Farhan Sets out to Light up A Million Lives Right Here in Pakistan

With so many distressing news around us, we Pakistanis tend to ignore the good things

in life. We miss out on the amazing accomplish-ments of hard working and patriotic fellow citizens. Only when some international newspaper or magazine recognizes their work and talent do we wake up and finally see them.One such outstanding Pakistani is Fiza Farhan. Co-founder and CEO of Buksh Foundation and Buksh Energy, Farhan has achieved much in a small span of time. At the age of 28, she has made it to Forbe’s list of “30 under 30 Social Entrepreneurs” this year.The Buksh Foundation aims to take the ignored and under-privileged Pakistanis out of the darkness (literally and fig-uratively). The foundation started as a micro finance insti-tute and is involved in many important projects currently.Fiza Farhan has a degree in economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences and a masters de-gree in entrepreneurship from Warwick Business School. Farhan is a brilliant entrepreneur leading projects like “Lighting a Million Lives” based on a Nobel Prize Win-ner social advancement initiative. The project aims to provide electricity to far away rural areas and make them fully independent to produce their own energy. We all have seen and heard of many such projects. What I felt different about this one is that it encourages the concerned people to own the project. In Farhan’s own words, “They need to own the project or else we scrap it.”

Another distinguishing feature of the project is how they empower women. The project requires that a lo-cal female operate it under the name of “roshna bibi”. Other noticeable proj-ects under her organi-zation include Drop of Sun-A Solar Water Fil-tration Plant Project, So-lar Mobile Charging Sta-tion, Productive Loans, Transportation Loans and Clean Energy Loans (CEL) for poverty alle-viation, enterprise cre-ation, women empow-erment and uplifting the general living standard of the under privileged.With her immense effort, dedication and brilliant lead-ership and planning skills Farhan has collaborated with PPAF, KIVA, Deutsche Bank, IFC, Grameen Capi-tal India, local commercial banks and financial insti-tutions of Pakistan to keep the institution running.

Bas Lansdorp and His Project Mars OneI’m sure most of us are familiar with the crazy idea they show in movies that humans will start living on other planets in the future. Doesn’t sound possible, right?


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Try telling that to Bas Lansdorp. I don’t think you’d be successful though. Even NASA couldn’t convince him!Bas Lansdrop is a me-chanical engineer by profession with a mind more imaginative than any artist. His first ad-venture was Ampyx Power the first airborne wind energy compa-ny. His next is sim-ple out of the world.So, what’s his plan? Col-onization of humans on Mars by 2027! Yes, real-

ly! Lansdrop was the successful owner of a wind energy project back in 2011. He eventually sold a big chunk of this project to fund a new venture he likes to call Mars One.He speaks about his idea, “This involves all of mankind around the first manned flight and set-tlement of Mars. It’s all about exploring a new world and conduct revolutionary research.”The idea here is to train some candidates for at least 8 years on Earth. Then starting from 2027, they will be sent in a group of 4 to the red planet. Once there, the candidates will try to survive on their own. They’d be engineering, constructing, learning medicine and farming to name a few of the necessary tasks.It would take them about 8 months to get fully settled there and after that, the next troop will join them on Mars. The project aims to make the inhabitants self-suf-ficient. It also claims to settle them there permanently.Question is, that is it possible for humans and so few of them to survive on a planet known for its ra-diation levels , scarcity of oxygen and water and temperatures as high as 67 degree Fahrenheit?Even if we assume they’d manage, how will they deal with the injuries from dust storms and meteor showers that are as common as sunlight on Mars. They didn’t name it after the Roman God of War for nothing, you know. Reputable names in the space technology like NASA, MIT and ex-general dynamics engineer who built Atlas have tried to tell him that he is aim-ing to high. They question the feasiblity of his plan and the practicality too. But it seems like nothing will stop Lansdorp from achieving what he wants.Lansdorp has already raised $317,000 for the proj-ect with brilliant minds on his team. These include Mason Peck, NASA’s former chief technologist; and Ester Dyson, a leading angel technology investor.Well, who knows he might just succeed in his plan!

Elon Musk Taking Tesla Batteries to the Next Level

Elon Musk is the second entrepreneur from Silicon Val-ley to found three companies and owning a market of $1 billion. He is the cofounder of PayPal, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and chief product architect of Tesla Motors.He has a bachelors degree in Physics and Economics from University of Pennsylvania. Musk is a South-African British who immigrated to USA. He isn’t just a physi-cist, he is also an engineer, innovator and an inventor. In 1995, he co-founded Zip2, an IT company. It was later bought by AltaVista in $340 million. Then in 1999, he came up with the idea of an electron-ic payment system we all know today as PayPal.In 2004, Musk invested $70 million in a company that aimed ot free the car users from the dependency on oil. The company was called Tesla Batteries and worked on making efficient and marketing competitive electric cars. He himself contributed in the design of the first electric car produced by the company. He showed incredible leadership skill by saving the company from a heavy loss due to m i s c a l -culation of the price of the car. N o w , in May 2 0 1 5 T e s l a Batteries has an-nounced Tesla Energy. The company has announced wall-mount-ed batteries for solar cells available for commer-cial and home users. The company claims that it has received pre-orders that surpass their capacity. Powerwall and Powerpack orders have reached a startling 38,000 and 2500 orders respective-ly. The company says that it can’t meet this huge demand even by the mid of next year!It’s safe to say that the success story of Elon Musk has not stopped just yet. Aren’t you ea-ger to know what’s his next plan? I know I am.Reading the stories of these successful entrepreneurs makes you want to ask how do they do what they’re doing? It’s simple, they know that dreams don’t work unless you do! If you too want your name to go down in his-tory just like them, remember that to be in-spired is great, to inspire is incredible!Aim as high as you can because there truly is no boundary to creativity and imagination. And who knows you just might hit a jackpot and change the world altogether. So keep dreaming my friends and show the world what you can do!


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How did you get selected for the PhD program? Surely because of the prayers from my mother, my friends and my students…!! I randomly emailed to one of the pro-fessor and he recommended me to apply for Bright Spark Scholarship Programme of University of Malaya, Malaysia. My academic record was impressive; throughout A-1 grade and 4.0 CGPA out of 4.0 in M. Engg. Additionally I start-ed my research independently in NED University just after completing my M. Engg. I published two papers, one con-ference and one journal paper in 2010. That was also a pos-itive point in my PhD’s selection process. My PhD scholar-ship was not only a scholarship, it was a bet…!! There was a very strong Key Performance Indictors (KPI) for my PhD. I need to publish 10 journal papers to finish my contract with University of Malaya, Malaysia.

How has the journey been? The journey of my PhD was very good but very tough. There were many hardships other than the research burdens in-cluding food problem, finance and home sickness. But overall it was a wonderful experience. I learnt many things including time management, cooking, driving and financial management. If I grade my educational career, PhD’s study time was the best time among school, bachelors and master’s time.

In your opinion, how important are research publications for development of new technology?We are getting benefits from written books; books are taking references from authorized published work (either journal or conference papers). You must recognize your work ei-ther in terms of patent or journal publications or conference work. Without proper documentation in research, the work is like a baby without the identification of parent. The best example is written form of books available from God, e.g. if there was no written form of holy books like Quran, we could easily lose the right path.

Research work in Pakistan, especially in government sector universities, is not up there with other countries. What, in your opinion, is the cause for this deficit in research and what is the solution to this problem?Problem is priority setting. Currently priority of the gov-ernment and priority of universities are quite different from other developing or developed nations. Our main problem is law and order situation in the country. Currently foreign universities are investing billions of dol-lars to get a top ranked position in the international univer-

sities ranking. They are investing in multi direction like in-frastructure development, research, marketing or publicity, capacity building, human resource development and others. They want to get a top ranked position and attract foreign students. From foreign students, universities earn millions of dollars not only in terms of fees, as a tourist also. Most of the time, you travelled from their air lines, you used their resources during your stay in their country. Let suppose if NED University invests millions of dollar and it is ranked no. 1 in the world, what could be the benefit to the country or university itself? There will be some benefit but very less. Our main problem is law and order situation, we should target that thing first. Our prime product is stu-dent from our bachelors programme, our students are well serving the entire world because of their knowledge they earned from NED University. We should focus on them.

But it does not mean we should stop research, meanwhile (till the country start progressing in a positive direction) we could strengthen our foundation of research base studies by infrastructure development and capacity building. HEC is doing a great job in terms of capacity building. InshAllah soon our country will start progress in a positive direction, law and order situation will become better and we can start competing with other nations. Many foreign students will come to Pakistan from Saudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sau-dia Arabia, Dubai and other countries like in past, before 1990.

Which of your research projects has been the most chal-lenging?My PhD was overall very challenging, managing time, man-aging resources and managing people including family and friends. Research is a sort of drug, the more you will think about the topic, the more you will find it interesting and I cannot express my feelings when the desired results and tar-gets are achieved. Research is a serial game of failure, mo-tivation and results. This cycle remains continue, there is no end of research. In my opinion, a failure is a real failure when you give up. I did not find any difficulty from my re-search point of view, whatever I started I completed.

Have any of you research publications been implemented commercially?It is very difficult to say, I did not patent any work. Most of my research is open research; more than 200 people have cited my papers in their own research. They have used my

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research in solving their power system problems. 50% of my research is related to planning of power system. Power util-ity company can use this research to improve the efficiency of their system.

Some of your work is based on exploring the potential of renewable energy resources. Do you think that they are capable of replacing the existing fuels used for power gen-eration?No doubt renewable energy is the best gift from God. But here we forget one thing, if we have oil resources we should extract those resources first. If the nature has blessed us with coal we should take maximum benefit from coal. Because such power plants have proven to be of higher efficiency. Solar and wind could be a great source of energy for de-veloping country like Pakistan, if we have a technology to develop solar panels and wind farms locally. If we are im-porting solar and wind panels from other country for our commercial use, there is no benefit in long run.

What is your advice for students who have passion for a career in research? How can you prove the common mis-conception that research’s not as fulfilling as a commer-cial 9 to 5 job to be wrong? The rule is very simple, if you think you can lead. You can lead an industry; you can lead any research project. If you cannot lead, you should try to become a good follower and a very good listener. Research and Teaching is a 24 hours job, you need to think all the time. It is not a 9 to 5 job. Re-search is good for those who can accept challenges. I cannot work on the same topic regularly; I left my previous two jobs in industry because that work was the repetition on a daily

basis. In industry the horizon is quite small; in research the horizon is quite big. It is up to the person, how much he explore.

Yours has been a very inspirational journey so far. How do you plan to take it a step further in future? Do you have any advice for new generation?Journey should always be beautiful and memorable. Do not focus on the peak, enjoy the journey. No doubt, there were many hardships in my entire life from nursery to PhD.

My future plan (Ahhhh..!!) it will depend on the situation. I never make a very long term plan in my life. I am a very realistic person. I have achieved what I intended. If someone wants to take benefit from me, I am available. I will continue to serve this world.

I will recommend or suggest new as well as old genera-tion, give maximum effort to any work, you are assign or engage, either you are studying or doing professional job. Allah will reward you, people cannot reward you. Your work and your knowledge is your real worth. I will advise, respect your elders and particularly your parents and teach-ers. Don’t respect individuals, respect the society.

Thank you so much sir..!!!

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TechnologyN a n o

All of us know about the term “nano” which refers to the metric prefix 10-9. It means one billionth of something. To give you an idea of how long a nanometer is, a printed page is about 75,000 nanometers thick.• A human hair is about 80,000nm in di-

ameter.• Our fingernails grow at the rate of 1nm

per second.Let’s have a journey of strange world of na-no-science and nano technology.Nano Science is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at atomic, molecular scale where properties change drastically from those at larger scale. You will be wondered that silver at larger scale is non toxic whereas it is capable of killing viruses at nano level. Similarly copper which is bendable at normal condition, their nano particles smaller than 50nm are super hard. Things which we see around us have con-stant physical macroscopic properties but as we move to nano-scale the principles of classical physics are no longer capable of de-scribing material behavior e.g energy, move-ment etc. At these dimension principles of quantum mechanics are applicable. Nano-technology originates from a word meaning dwarf, it basically is “Engineering at a very small scale” which can be applied to many areas of research and development, medicine, textile, cosmetics etc.Since the pool of nano technologies is so deep therefore, here I would put forward only few applications.

Self Cleaning Surface Investigations into the surface using reflection electron microscopy (REM) have shown that the surface of the leaf is not especially even but has specifically special roughness. On research it has been observed that there are system-atically arranged, water repellent, nano-size wax crystals. Similar to nip-ples not greater than few nano meters. Combin-ing of wax with water repellent properties make such struc-tures that cause lotus leaf to be extremely non-wettable. If the leaf tips in the slightest, the water drop immediately rolls off, taking the dirt particles with it.

Self Cleaning Glass Tired of cleaning windows? If yes, then here’s the solution Pi-likington developed self cleaning glass using na-no-technology. The Coat-ing on the glass reacts with ultra violet light giv-en off by the sun. Reac-tion loosens dirt and when rain falls the coat-ing not only removes dirt but also cleans away wa-ter droplets.

Carbon Nano-Tubes-Miracle Material of 21st Century Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are tubular cylinders of carbon atoms. CNTs are recently developed material with unique electronic, thermal and electrical properties. Its electrical conductivity is as high as copper and thermal conductivity as greater as diamond. Having extra ordinary me-chanical properties-they are 100 times stronger than steel while one-sixth of the weight. Carbon nano tubes are opening new ho-rizons of amazing future nanoelectronic devices. Due to its amazing properties it can be used for stronger but light-er military materials, bullet proof vests, electric blankets to heata-ble aircraft wings that no longer ice up.


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Medical Treatment is no more a HeadacheHave you ever observed that cure irritates more than the disease itself. Then Targeted drug therapies or smart drugs are the solution. Nano Technology is enabling much faster and precise diagnose of diseas-es. These new drug therapies are adopted to cause fewer side effects and be more effective than tradi-tional therapies. Accurate targeting of disease is done by specially designed drug-carrying nano particles which is going to give a great relief to the patients of cancer.

Space Elevator:Do you have an idea of space elevator? It’s a proposed type of space transportation system. An earth based el-evator would consist of a ribbon like cable called tether, anchored on the earth’s surface near the equator and the other end in space beyond geo stationary orbit. I know you must be thinking that how would this elevator balance itself when it’s going to be tall-er than the tall-est… The forces of gravity which is stronger at lower end and the centrifugal forces strong-er at upper end would result in the cable being able to hold up but the humanity has to put it at back burner until we do not achieve success in building stronger materials. According to Dan Piponi, one of the researchers said, such a space elevator would require a building material “at least a hundred times stronger than the strongest steel that we have” — and the only material that comes close to that is carbon nanotubes.

Energy Harvesting Nanogenerators Give 130 Volts at the Touch of a FingerIn winter when air is drier almost every day we encounter triboelectrics, electricity caused by friction. That harvesting energy can be utilized by nano-technolgy instead of zapping your friends. Tribo electric generator consists of two materials one of it is electron donating and the other is electron ab-sorbing material-electro negative material such as sili-con or teflon. These two materials are rubbed together for electricity generation. Since, rubbing them together causes wear therefore special materials were developed. These two surfaces are corrugated. By applying pres-sure these two material are contacting and generating contact electrification. This mode of contact in tri-boelectric generator is more efficient and causes less mechanical degradation. In 2012, first triboelectric na-nogenerator (TENG) was invented in the department of materials science and engineering at KAIST in Korea. The resulting TENGs can produce up to 130 volts. According to reports a TENG simply pressed with a finger can power 45 blue 3-Volts LEDs connected in series.

There is no doubt that nanotechnology has great potential to bring benefits to society over a wide range of aplications but that care has to be taken to ensure these advances come about in as safe a manner as possible.

Last but not the least I would surely agree upon the fact that “The next big thing is really very small.”

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MATTER WITH ANTIMATTER

“No!” Vittoria said from above,

breathless. “We must evac-uate right now! You cannot take the antimatter out of here! If you bring it up, ev-eryone outside will die!” -Angels and De-mons, Dan Brown.Be it Dan Brown’s fascinating take on how antimatter can be the most destructive bomb, or Star Trek’s faster-than-light warp drive, antimatter real-ly does matter when it comes to harnessing energy in an in-exhaustible way. Antimatter is basically the mirror image of matter-something with the same mass but opposite charge. Physics suggests that antimat-ter annihilates matter to release an enormous amount of en-ergy-energy that can be used to put an end to all the fuel shortage and energy crisis that we are struggling with today. Blast to the Past…The big bang theory suggests that matter and antimatter were created in pair. This puts forth a baffling question- why didn’t matter completely annihilate antimatter so that all that’s left is energy? Why does matter exist? What may have caused this big bang blip? Just as there is a matter-based universe, is there an anti-universe too? Common sense would say that there must exist some force of

nature that prefers matter over antimatter; thereby providing a plausible explanation for why matter exists. Science however hasn’t come up with concrete evidence yet. The beginning of time is just a sci-entific paradox that scien-tists are still struggling with.Here comes the point where you realize that ‘in a parallel universe’ is not just some internet jargonto sound funny, scientists be-lieve that gravity pulls the an-timatter upwards and matter downwards. So there could be entire galaxies made of antimat-ter, separate from matter due to this gravitation repulsion.The Curious Case of Left-Over Antimatter:The big bang theory has wild ramifications, for example, if matter and antimatter initial-ly existed in equal amount, where is the antimatter that escaped annihilation from our matter universe? Science has never satisfactorily answered this question. Antimatter can easily be one of the great-est vanishing acts in history.Perhaps the greatest reservoirs of antimatter that scientists

have been able to explore exist in the Van Allen belt surround-ing the Earth. The antiparticles seem to form a thin belt around Earth, gyrating around Earth’s magnetic field lines and bounc-ing back and forth between the planet’s north and south magnetic poles. On a com-pletely opposite level, an aver-age banana, without being too flamboyant about it, produces a positron every 75 minutes. NASA, in collaboration with CERN, has decided to find more of this missing antimatter using the Alpha Magnetic Spec-trometer (AMS). AMS analyses


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MATTER WITH ANTIMATTERcosmic radiation from outer space to locate a n t i m a t t e r . On the contrary, some scientists completely rule out the possibil-ity of antimatter in the universe. They say that a small fraction of antimatter may have decayed before it could annihilate mat-ter and this accounts for the stars and galaxies we see today.Antimatter- Creating it in the Large Hadron Collider, CERN: Putting it simply, LHC is basical-ly designed to recreate big bang and to study the conditions that followed it. It tries to experi-mentally explain how matter escaped annihilation from an-timatter. LHC has also helped shed more light on the exis-tence of sub-atomic particles.However, the production of an-timatter is so insanely expen-sive and inefficient that CERN has never been able to make it in quantities that can be phys-ically analyzed. As of now, the beginning of times, the mat-ter-antimatter asymmetry and possible where-abouts of nat-urally occurring antimatter are

just incomplete jig saw puz-zles. Scientists are still strug-

gling to find that one theory that completes this puzzle.

Powering the Future:Will antimatter ever be used as a viable energy source? Yes, when aliens visit Earth; that is to say

not in the near future at least. Producing antimatter

is expensive. A giga-watt of power can only produce less than a nano-gram of antimat-ter. This antimatter is barely enough to produce energy to light a standard light bulb. You can do the math t o

work o u t the inefficiency.However, if we can somehow overcome the economic con-straints, devise a method that can produce antimatter in a more efficient way and con-tain it without letting it interact with matter , it can be used as a permanent solution to our en-ergy needs. Or forget produc-ing antimatter artificially, we can also use the naturally oc-curring antimatter to our ad-vantage. This is a huge IF, and perhaps the only catch in har-nessing energy from antimatter. The potential in antimatter is

great. Matter-antimatter anni-hilation is a 100% conversion of matter into energy. There-fore, a space shuttle based on antimatter propulsion will use 10 million times less fuel as the one based on convention-al methods. Such reactions will be thousand times more powerful than modern-day nuclear fission reactions. Utilizing antimatter is not some far-fetched idea that sci-entists have left for the future; it is already being used in med-ical imaging. PET (Positron Emission Technology) is ide-al for 3 dimensional imaging. Antimatter is a vastly unex-plored territory. There haven’t

been major developments in studies pertaining to anti-matter, and is therefore a fuel option that we large-ly ignore. With fossil fuel reservoirs rapidly deplet-ing and environmental

pollution a rising concern, may be the breakthrough we

are looking for lies in antimatter. BY: Muzna Shibli Farooqi TE, EE-73

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A REVOLUTION YET TO REVEAL ITSELFA little twist and turn and there, your very own “home-PRINT-ED” ravioli is ready. Yes, this is the future. Printed stuff every-where. Welcome to the world of 3D printing! 3D printing (some-times also called additive manufacturing) is the use of various techniques employed in a 3D printer to make a three-dimensional object. In the said process, layers of different materials, one after the other, are laid down by a printer with the help of a virtual 3D model which is designed using a software.. The software slices the model into a large number of 2D layers which are then read by the 3D printer after which, the concrete object is printed. The ob-ject so printed can have a variety of shapes and designs. Various

3D models may be created by the use of any of these options: A computer aided design (CAD) package A 3D scanner A digital camera and photogrammetry softwareSoftware like netfabb or meshmixer can be used in the ‘fixup’ part of the process to fix errors. The design file must be converted into a .STL or a .OBJ format. A designed model file is then read by a CAM(com-puter aided manufacturing) software.There are a lot of varying processes that can be employed in a 3D printer, each having its own pros and cons, including: selective laser melting(SLM) direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) selective laser sintering (SLS) fused deposition modeling (FDM)

raw materials being used in 3D printing include liquids, powder, paper, sand, metal, chocolate etc. and these are limited only by one’s imagination. The process involves three major steps that are modelling, printing and finishing


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fused filament fabrication (FFF) laminated object manufacturing(LOM)3D printers or additive manufacturing systems are being employed in a wide range of industries like aero-space industry, automotive industry, pharmaceutical firms, fashion industry, architecture, food industry, construction, biotechnology etc. The technology also finds its use in electrical industry; in making mag-netic cores of electrical machines and in making turbines. Until some time ago, domestic use of this technology was much for the hobbyists and enthusiasts but now, it is on the go with more and more people showing interest in buying printers and printing, rather mak-ing, various objects at home. The market prices for 3D printers making their route down to much more affordable prices for general public are simply an add-on to the popularity of this technology. Several proj-ects are being run by companies aiming at making the technology easily accessible to general public, the likes of which are the RepRap project, the Fab@Home project and Peachy Printer.With a 3D printer, ‘to print’ is ‘to make’. Now, how sim-ple is that? Printed food, printed toys, printed jewelry, printed apparels, printed buildings and what not! Soon enough, we might have women flaunting their jewelry, not bought off the shelves of a fashion outlet but printed by themselves at their own homes .. imagine, what peace will that bring to many lives ;)Simply put, through 3D printing, the amalgam of differ-ent materials can be used to print spectacular 3-Dimen-tional objects. The future is here. So, PRINT it and EAT it, PRINT it and WEAR it, PRINT and EXPLORE a new world!

Fun facts about 3D printing Technology In March 2014, a motorcyclist’s face was rebuilt using 3D printed parts by surgeons in Swansea. The motorcyclist was injured in a road accident. A 3D printed foot let a crippled duckling walk again in 2013. A prosthetic beak was made using 3D printing in order to aid an eagle named Beauty, whose beak was badly mutilated from a shot in the face. In 2014, SpaceX delivered the first zero-gravity 3-D printer to

the International Space Station (ISS). On December 19, 2014, CAD drawings for a socket wrench were emailed to astronauts aboard the International Space Station, who then printed the tool making use of its 3-D printer. In the year 2014, a five-year-old girl born with partially formed fingers on her left hand had had the fortune to have a prosthetic hand manufactured with the help of 3D printing technology.

By: Annie Shabbir TE (EE-130)

Whenever we have a hectic day at the university, or “project trouble” or hav-

ing troubles coping with the Pre and Post labs or all of the above (yes, life can be this hard sometimes) our eyes search for something that might con-vince us not to go medieval on the crockery or the people around us. This something for our generation

is usually Play Station 4 and CD of Assassins Creed. This is what gaming means to me: a brief escape from our tough and complicated lives to a world where things are as simple as the press of a button. From the laboratory to arcades and, later, onto shelves and into the c l o u d , video games h a v e rapidly and r a d i c a l l y evolved in the past half centu-ry. Gone are the days when gamers were con- s i d e r e d t o be useless

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lying on a couch all day, these guys have shown that gaming is a tal-ent and that they mean business. Gaming has now become a part of daily life and is a common form of entertainment for youngsters, though the gaming platform may vary from person to person. Some prefer to play on the PC some on consoles, where-as some might prefer to play on their

smartphones. As a smartphone user I believe that if gaming rocks our world then a comparison between smart-phone OS may help us achieve an optimum gaming experience. As far as the availability of games is concerned Apple IOS is the perfect choice. It boasts approximately 250,000 games. Although Google Store (Andriod) also has the same amount of games but Apple’s App Store gets many games before Android and Windows. When it comes to quality The App Store dominates both in terms of graphics and gameplay whereas Win-dows lags behind. Even though smart-phone gaming is fun, gaming con-soles are preferred by more “serious gamers” and so we set out to find our-

selves the best gaming console. Three consoles, namely, the PlayStation 4, X Box One and the Nintendo WiiU have been fiercely competing in the gaming market this year. As far as sales are concerned PS4 has reigned supreme having sold 10 million units with X Box running a second due its poor launching event and other controver-sies, and last WiiU has conquered with

games like Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros U and Bayonetta2. Although PS4 game Destiny was to be, according to hype, ground breaking, it failed to meet the gamers ’expectations. X Box also had its fair share of controversy with Halo. While WiiU gamers are sa-tiate with their gaming performances.The rapidly spreading gaming culture has resulted in extensive research and development in gaming technology and the question on everyone’s mind is “what’s next?” So let’s take a look at the upcoming developments in gaming world. 2015 will be the era of geo-locational gaming i.e. augmented reality games through smartphones and glasses technology. Connection between home consoles and portable

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devices will be more advanced and comprehensive as this type of gaming will require real world interac-tion through the use of portable de-vices. This will lead to a boom in alternate reality gaming which will possess highly life-like simulations due to increasing processing power of consoles. Although, the users will take some time to adapt to this type of gaming and initially some injuries or accidents may occur as the users might forget that they are still out in the real world, thus bringing the safety of geo-locational gaming into question. 2018 will experience a revo-lution in distribution systems as phys-ical media will no longer be used for games distribution and video games will be made available via cloud stor-age directly on your consoles. This will give gamers easier and widespread access to games and will give Indy game developers more exposure as gaming engines and developing tools will become cheaper. Furthermore as a result of emotional artificial intelli-gence gamers will be able to immerse themselves into more challenging and emotionally intense situations. As we move towards 2020 the key features of gaming will include the widespread popularity of e-sports to such an ex-tent that it will be watched publicly. Other entertainment Medias such as game shows will be produced through virtual multiplayer capabilities.Till 2025, the major gaming technique would be augmented reality gaming, but 2025 would introduce virtual real-

ity simulations, which will offer a much life-like and immersive experience forgamer. Some form of static activity such as eye movement, hand move-ment or joystick controller. This real-istic effect will be achieved by non-in-trusive headsets and contact lenses by the virtue of which images will be projected directly onto you retina en-suring a life-like gaming experience. The gamers in 2030 will experience a drastic change in gaming as primary means of input will shift from joystick controllers or motion sensing control-lers to neural signatures by the virtue of which gamers will be able to con-trol the game using only their nerve signals: so just think and it’s done. Games will also be able to adapt to the gamers likes, dislikes, fears and other mental stimuli, allowing it to provide each gamer a unique gaming expe-rience. As we will move on towards 2045 it is predicted that only a few sig-nificant new technologies will be de-veloped and this era will focus more on the development of the gaming techniques mentioned above. Infact, the development of some of the above mentioned technologies has started. For example a new technology by the name of “Oculus Rift” has been devel-oped which is a virtual reality head mounted display which gives a quite an immersive gaming experience thanks to the massive field view (107 degrees), quick-response (ultra-low latency) head-tracking system. Simi-larly another popular development is secondary screens. This allows us to

perform two different tasks simulta-neously for example in a FPS game it enables us to access the map or our inventory without leaving the game field. One such technology in sec-ondary screens is X-Box Smart Glass which is an additional gaming tool to enhance your gaming experience. Open source gaming is yet another development in gaming technolo-gy which is aimed at making games cheap to build and buy. To implement this technology a gaming console “Quya” has been developed which en-ables to play a ton of free to play games and at the same time develop your own games as the console includes a game developing kit. So it can be said that in the coming years will not only witness a vast change in gaming technology but will also make gam-ing an integral part of our daily life. Some say that it might emerge as the most popular form of entertainment. By: Muhammad Hasan Usama TE (EE-202)


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BY: TOOBA ZAMAN BE (EE-014)

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All of us today are pret-ty well acquainted with inter-net. Yeah, the place where we put up selfies, share content, let others know about our views and for the more studious ones where we search for eBooks :P. It’s safe to say that for most of us life would be a mess, a place of utter boredom and simply too dull without internet. The life we live today is worth living as it is a world with unbelievably easy to access information. In short, it is complete in all aspects and there is nothing more that we can hope for. What if I were to tell you that it is about to get more interesting?

The IoT

Believe it or not today’s internet and the way we interact is still to be revolutionized. I’m talking about the one and the only In-ternet of Things (IoT). This new concept is predicted to change our perception of life altogether bringing in more accuracy into our lives. And it has only been possible by the new IPV6 which has enough IP address space so that we can assign an IP address to earth's every atom six times.Now hold on a minute, let me first tell you what the Internet of Things is. In the simplest of words, it is how real, tangible things,

the ones around us are going to turn into a network fully com-municating with each other and capable of taking decisions with-out any human involvement.No, I don’t mean to say that your pencil will start doing your as-signments without you being anywhere around (well, to be honest it might be possible some-day, who knows? :P). You can however expect to be able to know if there is parking space availa-ble near the mall. I mean that we will be seeing machines operat-ing, transmitting data, and tak-ing regular decisions on what to do next and what not to do soon enough. The most amazing part is that they would be doing this all on their own without any op-erator behind them. Reminds me of Skynet really (scary).

When are we going to see this in action?

If you think about it, this is not a whole new thing really. We all have smartphones, we have heard too much about google glass and we all (at least the ones in BE) have heard about or are most prob-ably involved in Smart Grid projects. What are these? These gadgets or devices have many sensors in them. These sensors

collect the specific data and send them to a processor. The processor then analyzes this data and tells the device what its next course of action should be, IoT is exactly that.According to Gartner, a well re-puted IT research and adviso-ry firm, we will have 4.9 billion connected things by the end of 2015. This count points to a star-tling 30% rise from 2014. You see where we are going with this now? We are slowly but surely making our way towards smart homes and cities that were previ-ously, a hard to achieve fantasy.

A little about the peers of IoTIoT can also be viewed as an up-grade to M2M or a sub-portion of IoE. M2M is the latest gig in business today, where ma-chines are communicating with each other to collect more precise data and determine the man-agerial and operational effi-ciency. This helps business per-sons to safely take decisions. IoE (Internet of Everything) on the other hand, is the ultimate goal of IoT. It has three parts: the things, the internet of things and the analysis of data collected by the IoT. But for us to get that high we need to see how IoT works out.

• You get to save time on many things. For instance, you will no longer have to check if you are running out of sugar or if your cookies are baked.

• This will provide you with lots of ways to save money. Like, if you know exactly what items you are about to run out of, you can buy them all in one trip to the supermar-ket.

• Child and elder care will no longer be a problem. These smart devices will insure their safety and keep them supplied with what they need.

• You will be able to tag and monitor everything around you. This means better and cleaner surroundings.

• The major concern of researcher and con-sumers all around the world is privacy and secu-rity risks that come with IoT. How many of us are willing to put our trust on the internet for the security of our houses, cars, and other private ob-jects? Not many.

• So before it goes up for public, one would like to see proper foolproof laws and regulations for the use of such private and important data. With-out it there are sure to be more cyber crimes than ever. Not to mention the new methods that will pop up real world crimes.

• A well-known example of data leakage is that of smart LED bulbs that were found to give off Wi-Fi passwords.

• Then there is the compatibility issue that the devices are sure to face. No standard has been devised to unify the communication of such de-vices.

• The systems will become more complex as more things get interconnected which raises the question of what will happen if the system fails.

That’s about all there is to Internet of Things. Of course, new up-dates are sure to come so for that keep an eye out and keep your-self informed of how your life is about to be changed once again.


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T he grid was born over a century ago, at a time when our needs were simpler and our de-mands much lower. More mul-tifaceted needs are putting a heavy strain on the aging infra-structure, which is why we need to innovate and update our grid so that it’s ready to meet present day demands, the smart grid makes this possible. This tech-nology is not a single silver bullet but somewhat a collection of ex-isting and incipient technologies functioning together, resulting in more reliable electricity for consumers. It is not only about utilities and technologies; but about giving us the information and utensils with which we need to chose our energy usage. Imag-ine managing our electricity in a similar way to how we man-age our activities like personal banking using home computers.Several technologies employed in manufacturing and telecom-munications are being adapt-ed for use in smart grid oper-ations. In general, smart grid

technology can be grouped into following key areas: Integrated communications; which allows for real-time control and data exchange to enhance system consistency, Sensing and mea-surement; which comprises ad-vanced microprocessor meters (smart meter), wide-area mon-itoring systems etc. Advanced components such as flexible al-ternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices, high temperature superconducting cable and composite conduc-tors, advanced control i.e. Pow-er system automation, which enables rapid identification of and precise solutions to explic-it grid disorders or outages.Around the world, each coun-try has its own distinctive defi-nition of what a Smart Grid is, based on their own objectives (economic, societal, energy re-lated, etc.). Therefore, every country’s approach in achieving a Smart Grid is a little different. In Pakistan, K-Electric Lim-ited has signed an agreement with InfoTech Pakistan Limit-

ed (IPL) to implement a Smart Grid Technology Platform. This platform will help in improved monitoring of the overall elec-trical network which will reduce energy losses further, manage recoveries, enhance distribu-tion planning capability and improve outage management. This will also have a positive im-pact as far as customer service is concerned. The initial phase of the project will be to imple-ment Smart Meters for approx-imately 10,000 customers across a few specific areas of Karachi within a year, and then con-tinuously roll out across a ma-jor portion of the city of lights. The concept of Smart Grid be-gan to emerge in the early 2000s. Since then, there are currently several efforts under way to im-prove the architecture of smart grid and improve its efficiency. An important novelty which is tend to be made in smart grid technology is Incorporating Electric Vehicles and Renew-able Energy into the Grid. Smart grid technologies coupled with


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smart meters and appliances, can play an important part in managing potential problems that may arise from increased loads caused by electric vehi-cles and sporadic generation from renewable energy sources. Small amounts of energy may be pulled back from the batteries as needed to balance local fluctua-tions in demand or recompense for small local supply problems.Lately, ideas have been pro-vided to roll out a major fiber infrastructure on the distribu-tion system which will facilitate SCADA for additional network equipment. Furthermore, it will facilitate the enlargement of the following Smart grid initiatives such as the optimi-zation of losses on the Distri-bution Electrical network and reactive Power management.Along with the salient features of the Smart Grid, cyber security arises as a critical issue because

millions of electronic devices are interlocked via communi-cation networks throughout critical power facilities, which has an immediate impact on reliability of such a widespread infrastructure. To deal with this issue, Quantum key distribution (often called as quantum cryp-tography) is being considered as the solution. It enables two parties to produce a shared ran-dom secret key known only to them, which can then be used to encrypt and decrypt messages.Solid State Transformers are expected to play an important role in future smart grid oper-ations. Add some communica-tion capability and the entire package is often referred to as a smart transformer. When SSTs are implemented, they will be-come integral components in the future Smart Grid - en-abling it to direct power from any source to any destination by

the most efficient route possible.Hardware and software ven-dors are vying to turn the smart grid technology into manage-ment services. According to a forecast, the global market for this will grow from $1.7 billion in 2014 to more than $11.1 bil-lion in 2023. I personally think that the market for IT solutions will be one of, if not the larg-est categories among all of the components of a smart grid.Smart Grid is evolving, piece by piece, over the next decade or so. It will take some time for all the technologies to be per-fected, equipment installed, and systems tested before it be-comes fully operational. Once established, the smart grid will bring same kind of transforma-tion in our lives as the internet has already brought to the way we work, live, learn and play.

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It all happened on a hot Saturday afternoon, when I was on my way to buy groceries and complete other

weekly chores. The main road was blocked due to VIP movement and hence I got caught in a bad traffic

jam for about half an hour. Now, this norm in Pakistan or maybe throughout the world is taken calmly

and even I considered it as an insignificant event. The usual time it takes me to reach the market is ten

minutes and I was already late for another engagement. Unfortunately on that day it took a lot more than

that and left me with a hardship tale to tell!

As I liberated from the road block, I took a deep breath and recalled all the work that was pending due to

the road block. I rushed my car so that I could ‘save’ some minutes and BAAAMMM!!! I had slammed my

car into a red Khyber. Such a situation created when this red Khyber was pulling in the centre lane with an

extremely slow speed, I was so frustrated and preoccupied because of the time lag that I tried to overtake

him from the left and as I accelerated my car, the driver turned to extreme left without an indicator. After

the adversity, I tried to open my door to ‘negotiate’ but soon realized it couldn’t open properly as my front

right fender was badly damaged. I stepped out of the car and all I found was another ‘bafflement’: my

head light falling off. The other driver was an elderly man who came out and argued over the overtaking.

Contradictorily I argued on his dead slow driving in the middle of the road and turning extremes without

any indicator. ‘Fortunately’ as my father would say, the other car just had a dent on the back door and no

more which the driver wasn’t even bothered about.

I immediately made my mind to rush to my mechanic and get the damage fixed as soon as possible and

to delay my prior commitments. The summarized cost, the mechanic gave me was three thousand rupees

and 6 hours for the denting services and new headlight fixation.I handed him the keys and decided to use

public transport for the day.

Most of you may not be able to imagine the plight I was in and the cost I had to pay for the work, some not

completed on time and some not completed at all, my stress increased exponentially with time and I had

only one answer for numerous questions: “not yet” and at that moment I made a decision that I will write

an article to make people realize how extremely important time is!

BY: Owais Ahmed, TE EE-


In the third dimension we are bound by one physical quantity which we can measure but not control:

Time. Now this significant property remains unrealized by majority and hence they are clueless of the

reasons behind their failure.

“Just the accurate usage of time by the common man can literally change destiny of a nation.”

However in our beloved country, based on the current circumstances, it can be easily analyzed that value of

time has become dependent upon the ‘class’ of an individual. This leads to deterioration even to the value

of life. It is very common and I am sure that even you would have met individuals who just because of their

poverty tend to WASTE their time just so the rich may get their job done. This sense of justice remains

indecipherable to me.

I acknowledge the fact that in all countries, government officials, army personnel, VVIPs and other high

profile do get an esteemed protocol. As per my understanding it is designed to keep them safe and escort

them quickly and comfortably to their destinations, so they may continue to give their services to the coun-

ty with more dedication. However now this protocol is sheer fashion and it seems that any rich individual

can keep guards, sirens and even block the road if he/she pleases. There are even certain vehicles on the

road to whom the traffic regulation rules don’t apply and a simple being can’t even imagine crashing into

them.

At public offices it is very common that stretched cues for the lower and middle class people. Even the gov-

ernment officers try their level best to harass such people just because they know that these ‘poor’ people

don’t have financial background to accuse the government offices and neither have they the time for it. Just

when you can’t get enough of the environment, walks in a guard or ‘spokesperson’ of an upper class family

and gets the job done before you and leaves. Well to most people since this a norm they just fail to even

realize this or they just curse within their minds and soon forget about it. Just the similar occurrence is at

Judicial offices, courts etc. The ‘less privileged’ either don’t get the justice at all or either receive it after a

very long period of time when the amiability to freedom has been lost.

Surely it is known that until a person doesn’t receives such luxuries he boasts against it and the moment

he achieves it he forgets that even he once boasted against it. Therefore I humbly appeal to all the current

high profile individuals and soon to be, please realize that your luxuries should not kill the time of any-

one else. Furthermore with the current law and order situation I am familiar that it very easy to break

the rules and regulations but for the sake of the country and humanity don’t violate them.These

noticeable individuals have great authority in their domain so at least in there domain they

should consider this “time killing” a violation and they should even discourage other powerful

personalities to refrain from this act. If such realization is made I firmly believe that the whole

nation would be more productive and prosperous throughout the world. Most of all it would

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The youth of today is the future of tomorrow. Youth are the representative of energy, happiness and freshness. Life is the synonym for youth. They are innovative and always ready to face challenges. Shams ur Rehman said “Youth is the time to join war, youth is the time to fall in love” this quotation highlights the two very distinct faces of a coin. Young generation is considered as a symbol of aptitude but even they have some imperfection. As citizen of our country, today’s young gen-eration is tomorrow’s guardian, tomorrow’s directors. If they failed to fulfill their duty to-wards our society, our next generation will be the ultimate sufferer. To secure the future of our next generation youth should made con-cerned about their duty. They should be guid-ed properly. To build a nation one should build its youth and only this way our country will gain respect in the world among other nations.Our Pakistani society has fallen into the pits of misery, corruption, unemployment. This has giv-en birth to aggression in our youth. Aggression among youth has gained pace due to the lack of opportunities provided to them. Our youth is a large portion of our population and it has

great potential but it is not channelized properly and hence it is not able to gain a lot but it’s losing a lot. There are a number of factors which have caused this aggression among Pakistani youth.

Unemployment is the major source of stress in our country. Unemployment has created frustra-tion and the root of which is increasing illiteracy rates in our country. Through education only, we can help save our youth from the clutches of pov-erty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and to help safeguard our Nation’s prosperity for generations yet unborn. Amidst all governmental hope about giving priority to education there is still a stark dif-ference of quality education provided in private schools and in public school, this difference has caused hatred among people forming the sta-tus quo. This leads to brain drain, as there simply isn’t room to accommodate a large part of our educated youth. And what is more unfortunate is that most of our talented and educated stu-dents end up doing menial jobs here or abroad.

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There is nothing but worries for most of the peo-ple in our country. Numerous stories of corrup-tion, loot and massacre across the country are heard all day long. There is no one with a clean past to run the matters of the state. Intolerance, arrogance, hypocrisy is plenty in our country. Kidnappings and killings are rampant. Suicide bombings and target killings have also become a common culture. Most serious crimes are com-mitted in our country yet we rarely see people being punished for those crimes. This law or no law and order situation has made it difficult for the youth to earn an honest and fair income.

An air of pessimism and misery has devel-oped in the country. This has caused our youth to turn towards drugs, alcohol and smoking in order to rescue themselves from the frustra-tions and adverse of the society. They lose re-lationships and live miserable lives. And when no hope or way of escape remains the youth enters the path of crime to overcome their de-pressions and helplessness. Recently the suicide rate among youth has also increased tremen-dously and the most common cause of this is aggression which leaves no option but to take one’s own life to free itself from the never end-ing frustration and hopelessness of the society.

We being the youth need to work for the bet-terment of our country instead of forming ag-gressions and grudges against it. We the youth need to find a way out of this intricate web of corruption and aggression for ourselves and for our future generations. It’s a fact that we lack the ideal situations and the ideal leaders which will lead to betterment in society. Plus the con-ditions aren’t welcoming enough, but this was more or less the case with everyone. No one has ever had everything handed over to them in a silver platter. No one is ever provided with the ideal situations for the best outcomes.

Changes never happen overnight, they take time. Indeed there is always light at the end of the tunnel, if only we have the will and patience

to go through it we find the light. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. said: “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”

We the youth are undoubtedly the biggest asset of our nation and it’s our duty to serve the pur-pose of educating and enlightening our country. The aggression in the youth is caused due to the lack of opportunities because of which Pakistani youth is misguided and lost. Now it’s our duty to explore newer horizon and to get out of this aggression simultaneously pulling our fellows along us. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving for-ward.” Martin Luther King Jr. The condition of our youth can be very easily and beautifully be related to this quote that even though we lack opportunities we should keep moving in or-der to excel slowly yet gradually then only we can reach our desired goals and aspirations.

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Campus Diaries

Hope-a word that stretches you and takes you beyond the norms of this world, we take most of the things in life for granted but there are those who only got hope of having those things. Rising youth has been an or-

ganization giving away this precious thing to the needy and holding their hands so they could learn to walk again. Rising Youth founded in 2012 has been an Event Management Company. Presided over by Mr.Shahzad Ahmed, Rising Youth has arranged a number of “Youth Loved” Events. Over the years, the management of the organiza-tion watched the increase in poverty and decline in social values. Thus, in 2014 it was decided that the compa-ny will open a sub-unit named “Shama Foundation” to voluntarily help the needy people in all means provided. The company welcomes coordinators to voluntarily work in the welfare from all educational institutions to bring smiles in the chaos of this time. The organization is funded by donations which are collected on monthly basis. Shama Foundation is an initiative to lighten the lives and aims to provide a proper way of living to the needy and under-privileged portion of society. This can not be accomplished by just giving them food for few days but to make them stand on their own feet. RY’s vision isn’t just to help poor meet their demands but to assist them to get out of their miserable condition and this can only be achieved by spreading quality Education along with health and shelter. So for this purpose Shama Foundation’s primary aim is to build some Schools, orphanage and hospitals in areas where they are more needed. It’s been a year of activities from providing rations to deserving families to arranging marriage setup for an or-phan girl. Solving hospital cases and the dastarkhuwan project in which the members served 30 days in different poorly off areas were two tiring yet blissful events of the year. ‘Helping humanity and spreading smiles’ was the motivation with which the members worked days and nights for the projects they were all so enthusiastic for. Different visits at edhi old home and orphanages were also arranged to share the smiles with the less fortunate ones. The organization has awarded the students with certificates for volunteering in the projects. It’s notable how the students managed their pre-cious time with their studies for an even greater cause. May their good deeds be accepted, and may the poverty vanish. Talking about RY and not mentioning our very own Khawar Mukhtar would be injustice to his ef-forts and dedication to this organization. It was his words and vigorous endeavour that pulled a lot of peo-ple towards helping others and sharing the inner peace of putting smiles on the faces of those who are less privileged than us. He has been the focal point of this team leading them at every event, from organizing das-tarkhuwan and managing every other member to finding time during eid and being at edhi old home and orphan-ages with the team to comfort those who were left by their very owns and even arranging marriage setup for an or-phan girl. Signing off we hope many of us be a part of something like this and be a source of inspiration for others.

By: Hamza Tariq FE(EE-05)

Hope-a word that stretches you and takes you beyond the norms of this world, we take most of the things in life for granted but there are those who only got hope of having those things. Rising youth has been an or-

ganization giving away this precious thing to the needy and holding their hands so they could learn to walk again. Rising Youth founded in 2012 has been an Event Management Company. Presided over by Mr.Shahzad Ahmed, Rising Youth has arranged a number of “Youth Loved” Events. Over the years, the management of the organiza-tion watched the increase in poverty and decline in social values. Thus, in 2014 it was decided that the compa-ny will open a sub-unit named “Shama Foundation” to voluntarily help the needy people in all means provided. The company welcomes coordinators to voluntarily work in the welfare from all educational institutions to bring smiles in the chaos of this time. The organization is funded by donations which are collected on monthly basis. Shama Foundation is an initiative to lighten the lives and aims to provide a proper way of living to the needy and under-privileged portion of society. This can not be accomplished by just giving them food for few days but to make them stand on their own feet. RY’s vision isn’t just to help poor meet their demands but to assist them to get out of their miserable condition and this can only be achieved by spreading quality Education along with health and shelter. So for this purpose Shama Foundation’s primary aim is to build some Schools, orphanage and hospitals in areas where they are more needed. It’s been a year of activities from providing rations to deserving families to arranging marriage setup for an or-phan girl. Solving hospital cases and the dastarkhuwan project in which the members served 30 days in different poorly off areas were two tiring yet blissful events of the year. ‘Helping humanity and spreading smiles’ was the motivation with which the members worked days and nights for the projects they were all so enthusiastic for. Different visits at edhi old home and orphanages were also arranged to share the smiles with the less fortunate ones. The organization has awarded the students with certificates for volunteering in the projects. It’s notable how the students managed their pre-cious time with their studies for an even greater cause. May their good deeds be accepted, and may the poverty vanish. Talking about RY and not mentioning our very own Khawar Mukhtar would be injustice to his ef-forts and dedication to this organization. It was his words and vigorous endeavour that pulled a lot of peo-ple towards helping others and sharing the inner peace of putting smiles on the faces of those who are less privileged than us. He has been the focal point of this team leading them at every event, from organizing das-tarkhuwan and managing every other member to finding time during eid and being at edhi old home and orphan-ages with the team to comfort those who were left by their very owns and even arranging marriage setup for an or-phan girl. Signing off we hope many of us be a part of something like this and be a source of inspiration for others.

By: Hamza Tariq FE(EE-05)

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