• Imperial College London, UK.
• Texas Tech University, USA.
• La Trobe University, Australia.
• Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra India.

Visit:
http://mancef.org/COMS/ for details of scholarship
http://www.giki.edu.pk/pakmems/ for details of activity in GIKI MEMS group

You can download the Research Proposal here.

Originally from: http://www.giki.edu.pk/controlpanel/viewnews.php?id=57

via The News

Unveiling the figures of the students, the academic staff said that since the induction of the first batch in 1993, the number of the students had been increased slowly and gradually. They said that the institute was the first choice for talented youths from all over the country and children of expatriate Pakistanis.

The academic staff said that due to devastating flood in the country it was decided that grand ceremony like the previous years would not be held. However, parents of the fresh students from all over the country were invited to visit the institute along with their children and see the environment and educational facilities provided to their wards for acquiring quality education.

Jehangir Bashar, Rector of the Institute said: “We grieve with the nation and decided not to hold the formal commencement ceremony for the new batch this year, which has long been a tradition of the Institute. However, we feel we must not jeopardize the future of our students by disrupting the academic schedule. Classes will, therefore, start as announced.” The induction of a new batch in GIK Institute is always a very significant occasion for the Institute and the student community.

Original source: the Nation

Securing 1st position with their project, “Traffic Analysis and measurement system in IPMPLS Environment” the 5-member team from GIKI was thrilled. The team representing NUST University took the 2nd position, with their project, “Inter-city video conferencing system” while the 3rd position was taken by the team from FAST University with their project, “Automation of physical distribution of E 1s”.

An inter-university contest involving teams of students from the leading engineering universities of Pakistan, Mobilink Super Engineer Competition provides the students the chance to work on a real life project with technical experts from Mobilink’s team. The projects were evaluated by a senior Mobilink jury having representation from different Technical departments against a pre- defined criterion of innovation and creativity, project presentation, meeting the timelines and meeting project objectives.

Rashid Khan, President & CEO Mobilink, awarded the teams with shields and certificates in the presentation ceremony held at the Mobilink head office. He appreciated the efforts of the participating teams and assured the winning team of opportunity of employment assessment within the Technical division at Mobilink.

Khan shared, “Mobilink believes in nurturing the intelligence of progressive youth and innovators of our nation. We recognize this as a very hands-on field and this is why the Super Engineer Competition was packaged as a project based drive. We were confident that with adequate support, our youth can indigenously develop modern technologies and truly innovative systems. The outcome of the participating teams has confirmed that.”

Thanking Mobilink’s Technical team for their support, Hafiz Zeeshan from the winning GIKI team shared, “This was a true test of what we had learned. Having the chance to work with experts in the field and being recognized for it has given us a renewed confidence in our ability. We will never forget this experience and opportunity.”

In addition to mentor programs, Mobilink also provides grants at Bachelor and Masters level for students of LUMS and GIKI. Mobilink also launched an innovative SMS Literacy project for rural women in partnership with UNESCO to improve the reading and writing skills of semi-literate women using cellular technology.

Zahid Irfan (FCSE Faculty) Adds:

I had the honor of attending the prize distribution ceremony.

Its with immense pleasure to announce that a team comprising students of Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering has won the Mobilink Super Engineer Competition 2009. The competition was initiated in Jul-2009 and the students were given various information technology based projects to show case their skills. GIK Team was assigned the project to develop a software for “Monitoring and Analysis of MPLS/ IP Network”. The students performed exceptionally since universities from all over Pakistan participated and at the end it was ONLY GIKI’s team which completed the project within the stipulated time frame. FAST and NUST teams also completed the projects but rest of the teams were not able to even complete the project and they dropped out.

The evaluation procedure was very stringent and the projects were evaluated by Mobilink experts in the area. I met Mobilink jury and mentors during the prizes distribution ceremony yesterday and they were all praise for students of FAST and NUST that they did well to complete the projects but for GIKI students they reserved words like amazing, creative, fast learners and extremely dedicated.

The President and CEO Mobilink  Mr. Rashid Khan was present at the ceremony. He was also extremely pleased with the performance of university teams and specially the GIKI team. He congratulated all the teams and hoped that such industry-academia linkages will be continued in future.

Here I would like to mention the contributions of the students Ayesha Altaf, Hafiz Zeeshan Wasim, M. Razzaq Chishty, Nasreen Shayeq and Syeda Hifsa Kazmi, They worked diligently on the project and they did all this during their final year and did not let this project suffer their academic performances (one of them got 4.0 GPA) and Final Year Projects.

And the end I think that this all would not have been possible without the active involvement of Dr. Ajmal K Bangash and the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering GIKI. I would also like to thank the Mobilink Staff specially Mr. Hassan Arshad and Mr. Imran (the mentor of GIKI Team from Mobilink).

Thanks for the input Irfan!

Teams from GIKI and LUMS were earlier selected to represent Pakistan by the Debating Society of Pakistan. GIKI fielded two teams in the competition.
Imaad Rashid (Debating Captain) and Waqar Nayyar and Mustafa Khan. 1) Mohsin Mansur and Abdul Ghani
3) Waqas Burney
Raheel Adnan Janjua (Coordinator LDS) was the chief adjudicator from Pakistan. A close fight in the initial round finally gave GIKI-A a victory over LUMS in the semifinal which earned them the right to represent Pakistan in the final.

In the final GIKI – A beat RAMJAS College Delhi, the best debating team in India at the moment, by a walloping margin of 7-0.
Imaad Rashid (Batch-13), captain of the GIKI debating team, was declared as the best speaker.

Waqar Nayyar was the 2nd best speaker of the competition. GIKI-B finished 5th in the competition. The winning team got a cash prize of 9,000 Indian Rupees, while the Best Speaker got a cash prize of 3000 Indian Rupees.

The honor and glory brought to Pakistan and GIKI by the GIKI team is highly commendable. Lets hope this momentum continues and GIKI teams continues to lead us into such victories.

Alumni of GIKI are spread throughout the globe and a sizeable section of them is constantly on the move. It is therefore not feasible to expect them to be at some physical location at all times. Therefore we needed to provide a framework where they can remain constantly in touch with each other, with GIKIAA, as well as receive latest news from the GIK Institute .

What is now in front of you is the very incarnation of that idea. The idea is to have a strong and tighly knit community of the Alumni of GIKI. Through GIKIAA and through this virtual home we strongly hope that meaningful contact will get established and maintained among all involved.

Among other things, this portal provides ability submit pictures, latest news from around the world from GIKIANs, discussion forms (dubbed, Sharing and Caring) and a special forums for job postings. It also provides the ability to search registered alumni using different search criterias and an ability to keep information about current and past Faculty members.

This portal will also be used to manage different programs run by GIKIAA, e.g the financial aid program currently being run by GIKIAA Executive Committee.We need your feedback in order to better serve you and to serve the constantly evolving needs of this growing community.

GIKI Alumni Portal Team

Saad Fazil was one of the participants of a bicycle marathon which started from Seattle, Washington and ended at Portland, Oregon in the Western United States. Saad trained with and raised funds for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Participation in this event required Saad to generate a sum of $3500 through donations. He underwent a 5-month training conducted by the Society. The funds raised are used by The Leukemia & Lymphoma  Society to find cure for blood related cancers.

1) Send us pictures.

This portal has a picture gallery where alumni can post pictures which may interest Alumni. For example, pictures of any get togethers, contests where GIKIANs took part or even personal ones which you might think others will like.

2) Send us info about Alumni Achievements

If you or any Alumni (including students of GIKI) have achieved something which is worth sharing, do let us know. At the very least you can send us contact information of that particular person and we will take it from there to get the story out from him/her and present it through this site.

3) Job postings

If there is any jobs you would like GIKI Alumni to know about post them in the "Jobs" area of discussion forums.

4) Events updates
If there is any upcoming event that you think Alumni should know about, let us know and we will post its information on this portal. All future events are automatically shown below the news section on the front page.

5) Faculty Info

If you there is any faculty member you have contact info of and which is not listed in the Faculty section please let us know so we can update it.

6) General Feedback
Let us know what is good, what is bad and what is ugly about this site and we will try our best to address any issues related to it.Thanks a bundle for your help!
GIKI Alumni Portal Team

Please consider donating to the GIKIAA Financial Assistance Program to help promising students complete their education. Instructions on how to donate can be found here.

Here are some caveats to consider while looking at these numbers:

Donations that are in flight to Pakistan and the amount has not been reported to us yet are not in here.
If you donated your amount and dont see yourself in here, then maybe I assumed and put you in the wrong batch. Please shoot me an email and I will rectify.

Here are the current statistics of the fundraising drive.

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