EMCOT – TechnoMoot 2010 at CIIT Abbottabad (Electrical Systems, Micro-Controllers & Telecommunications)

11-12 May 2010

The Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, organized its 7th event of EMCOT on May 10-11, 2010. EMCOT 2010 is one of the research innovations that nourish potential engineers in the field of Electrical Systems, Micro-Controllers and Telecommunications.

EMCOT 2010 was held at COMSATS Abbottabad and the 2-day program consisted of project competition, series of talks and seminars/ symposia, technical sessions (inclusive of 15 oral paper sessions) and 2 tutorial sessions.

The technical program was run in 3 sessions in the 8 technical categories namely Embedded Systems & Micro-controller Applications; Networks; Robotics & Control; Power Electronics; Electrical Systems; Telecommunications and Power Electronics.

Tutorial Sessions

The following tutorial discussions were conducted:

• Tuning Techniques for Micro-wave Metamaterials by  Dr. Junaid Mughal, GIKI Topi
•  Evolution of Neural Networks using Cartesian Genetic Programming  by Dr. Gul Muhammad Khan, UET Peshawar

Paper Presentations

EMCOT 2010 received 25 research papers from undergraduate students and about 15 were selected for oral presentation after a thorough review process. A total of 3 sessions were organized for subject presentations with Pakistan’s renowned researcher/scholars as session chairs and co-chairs. All the sessions were quite alive and comprehensive question answer sessions were conducted. These sessions were a clear cut indication of the fact that research culture in our academic institutions is on upward pace.

Project Exhibition

EMCOT 2010 ran an exhibition May 10-11, 2010. A total of 50 exhibitors showcased their cutting edge technologies and the latest applications. Following universities participated in the Project Exhibition:

• UET (Different Campuses)
• International Islamic University, Islamabad
• Quaid-e-Azam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah
• Federal Urdu University, Islamabad
• Air University, Islamabad
• Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering, Karachi
• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
• NUST, Islamabad
• NU FAST
• LUMS, Lahore
• Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
• NIME, Peshawar
• Peshawar College of Engineering, Peshawar
• University of Management and Technology, Lahore
• NFC IET, Multan
• Institute of Industrial Electronic Engineering, Kararchi
• KUST institute of engineering sciences, Kohat
• NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research, Faisalabad
• WAH Engineering College, Wah
• Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
• CASE, Islamabad
• Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad
• KICSIT KRL, Islamabad

Projects Awards

The evaluation and judges committee, chaired by Dr. Laiq Khan, as well as all the reviewers did a great job in selecting the best papers and projects among all possible options.

Hardware Based Projects:

The first place in the project competition went to Sajid Mehmood and Abid Muhammad Jan for project “Auto Helm Control of a sailing boat using fuzzy logic control” from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology. Waqar Hussain and Muhammad Shaheer from Center for Advance Studies in Engineering (CASE), Islamabad won second place for their project "Ayaan Rover".

Software Based Project:

The first place in the project competition went to Waqas Bashir and Uzair Mehmood for project “Optimized Scalable Architecture for DCT Computation Engine using SIMD” from COMSATS Islamabad. Mohammad Javed and Adnan ul Qayum from KICSIT, KRL, Islamabad won the second place for their project "Simulation of Steady Heat Transfer in Different Geometries with Various Boundary Conditions”.

The Consolation prize went to Abdul Majeed and Imran Khalid of CIIT Abbottabad for their project "Design and Implementation of UAV".

Isfandyar Hassan Khan of Pakistan Naval Engineering College Karachi won the best paper award for the paper titled “Single Phase Equivalent model of STATCOM that can absorb or generate reactive power”.