TechnoMoot 2009
EMCOT – TechnoMoot 2009 at CIIT Abbottabad (Electrical Systems, Micro-Controllers & Telecommunications)
11-12 May 2009
The Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad organized EMCOT (Electrical Systems, Micro-Controllers & Telecommunications) on May 11-12, 2009 under the umbrella of Technomoot 2009.
Like previous years, EMCOT 2009 was aimed to develop an environment of academic collaboration where different institutes could exchange their expertise in their respective fields. The program for EMCOT included along with the project competition, a number of seminars, a panel discussion and talks by eminent scientists and academicians on cutting edge Electrical and Electronic Engineering technologies.
As in the past six EMCOT events, EMCOT 2009 intended to provide the students of CIIT as well as all other participating universities a platform to interact with other members of their community as well as the industry. Representatives from various industrial organizations were also invited. The exhibition acted as a stage where students showed off their efforts and new ideas in all areas related to Electrical systems and Micro-controllers.
This year, in EMCOT, 87 projects were on display and 23 renowned universities participated from all corners of the country.
EMCOT Organizing Committee:
The team that made it a great success:
Dr. Abdul Rashid
Dr. Saleem Farooq Shaukat
Dr. Laiq Khan
Dr. Kamran Laiqat Bhatti
Mr. Atiq-ul-Anam
Mr. Bilal Khan
Col. (R) Anjum Hussain Shah
Col (R ) Mukhtar
Miss Saira Habib
Mr. Aamir Islam
Mr. Sagheer Ahmed
Mr. Aftab Ahmad Jadoon
Mr. Arshad Mehmood
Mr. Irfanullah
Mr. Tufail Habib
Mr. Tahir Khan
Participants Institutions:
UET Peshawar
NWFP UET Abbottabad Campus
Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering Karachi
U.E.T Taxila
IIUI(Islamic International University) Islamabad
Quaid-e-Azam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Nawabshah
Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology
College of Electrical &Mechanical Engineering, NUST
Wah Engineering College
Military College of Signals, NUST
Pakistan Navy Engineering College
Dawood College Of Engineering & Technology, Karachi
NIME Peshawar,Hayyatabad
Peshawar College of Engineering affiliated with N.W.F.P UET Peshawar
Air University , Islamabad
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Campus
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad Campus
University of Management and Technology, Lahore
NFC Institute of Engineering & Technological Training, Multan
Federal Urdu University, Islamabad
UET, Lahore
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore Campus
Panel Discussion:
A Panel Discussion was also conducted as part of the EMCOT program under the supervision of Dr. Shahid Khattak, Head of Electrical Engineering Department, CIIT Abbottabad. The panel consisted of Dr. Ismail Shah and Dr. Imtiaz (MAJU). A large number of senior faculty members, researchers and students were present in this panel discussion. Discussion was carried out on the topic “Coordinating Research Activities within Universities in Pakistan”. A number of valuable suggestions were brought forward during this lively discussion that included the following:
Research and development projects with industries.
Focus on Implementation of research.
Creation of implementation capabilities and having implementation engineers.
Seminars at EMCOT
Day 1
A Seminar was conducted by Dr. Syed Ismail Shah. He delivered a very informative lecture on High Speed Packet Access (HSPA). Dr. Syed Ismail Shah holds the degrees of Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from NWFP UET, Peshawar, Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is currently working as Head, Department of Computing and Technology, Iqra University, Islamabad.
This presentation was attended by senior and junior faculty members and the students working on communication projects.
Day 2
On the second day of EMCOT 2009, another seminar was organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, CIIT Abbottabad. Dr. Aamir Iqbal Bhatti delivered a talk on “Control systems and industrial applications; a local R & D perspective”. Dr. Aamir Iqbal Bhatti is serving as professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad. He has specialized in Control Systems Design and Digital Signal Processing. He has more than nine years of teaching and research experience in algorithms design and implementation for engineering applications.
He started his presentation with examples of practical applications of Control Systems and continued to discuss modeling of dynamic systems. An overview of the presentation is given as under:
Motivation
Control Vocabulary & Methodology
Modeling of Dynamic Systems
Design and Analysis Tools
Advanced Topics in Control
Control Applications in Industrial R & D. pave
By sharing video clips of his recent research projects, Dr. Bhatti made the session more interactive. At the end, question answer session was also conducted in which the audience asked the speaker different questions about the said topic. The speaker gave very comprehensive answers to those questions by giving many examples. At the end, Dr. Bhatti gave a brief introduction about his research group CASPR at MAJU.
Talk by Prof. Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan
Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan, Dean, Fcaulty of Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology talked about the Vision of the Electrical Engineering Department of CIIT. Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan has made great research contributions and has published more than 40 research papers in International Journals and Conferences.
In his presentation he discussed some of the future plans of the Department that include commencement of the graduate program in Engineering at various campuses. He briefly went over some of the requirements of the department including the establishment of new labs and discussed the steps and measures being taken to achieve these objectives. Dr. Shahid Ahmed Khan also informed the audience about the upcoming Faculty Development Program and announced that 500 foreign scholarships will be awarded in the next few years to faculty members for their post graduation.
EMCOT Prize Winners
First Prize: |
Unmanned Air Vehicle |
Federal Urdu University of Arts Sciences and Technology, Islamabad |
Adnan |
Second Prize |
Improved Secure Network Authentication Protocol for WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) |
CIIT, Islamabad |
Raheel Maqsood, Arooj Mubashara and Memoona Jabeen |
Third Prize |
Trajectory Control of Robotic Arm Using Kinematics |
MAJU, Islamabad |
Ihtaram-ul-Haq, Zain Munir Bin Tariq |
Consolation Prize |
Design and Implementation of Switch Mode Power Supply |
CIIT, Abbottabad |
Faisal Khan |