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NUST
5th CAC Meeting 2.5 Years in Progress
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Major Developments at NUST

• Logo Changed to Corporate outlook
• NIIT Assumed New Name SEECS by combining the
  following
• NIIT
• Center for Cyber Tech Spectrum Management
• Institute of Telecommunication
• Research Institute for Microwave Millimeter
  Wave Studies
• Electronic System Design Automation Center
• Institute of Applied Electronics and Computing

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Major Developments at NUST

• NUST-Caltech Collaboration set world record for
  Network Data Transfer
• NUST Stanford Won Research grant in partnership
  with BrightSpire and APPNA
• Nokia Research China Awarded research funding to
  NUST-SEECS
• KTH Sweden-NUST SEECS win research grant

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Program for BRIGHT children from families with
income group lt15000/ PM will be offered in
August _at_ Rs 500/ per child
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LAST CAC ACTION POINTS UPDATE

• More seminars and workshops with the industry
• Establishment of Stress testing laboratory
• IT Human Resource Development
• Projects in partnership with industry

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Action takenLast CAC meeting (08 December 2007)

• Industry seminars/workshops
• A one-day workshop on LabVIEW and National
  Instruments Technology was conducted by Dr.
  Nadeem Lehrasab, CEO of RIMS on 10th March 08
  for faculty and final year students.
• A One-day workshop on Programmable Logic
  Controllers was conducted by Mr. Jawad ul Hassan,
  CEO AH Automation Isb (Pvt) Ltd, for final year
  students.

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Industry Seminars/ Workshops

• IBM Solutions for Next Generation IT Experts
  Mr Adnan Siddiqui --IBM
• Network Security Ms Kanwal -- CISCO
• From Idea to a Successful Business Lessons
  From Silicon Valley Mr. Naeem Zafar --Haas
  School of Business at University of California
  Berkeley
• Transforming the lives of physically challenged
  Information Communication Technology for
  Special Needs Mr. Vickram Crishna -- CEO
  Radiophony (India)

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Industry Seminars/ Workshops

• Lecture on The Concept of Modes in Optical
  Fiber, December 17, 2007
• Dr. Awais Kamal, CEO, Optiwave Technologies
• Workshop on PCB Design Using OrCAD, January 16,
  2008
• ASIC and FPGA Research Group (GRAF) and IEEE NIIT
  Student Chapter
• Impact of SNR Estimation Mismatch in MAP
  Detection, 12th March 2008
• Mr Amir Shehzad, KTH
• "Next Generation IMS based Converged Networks,
  Trends and Applications,
• Mr. Ahsan Ikram, UWE, UK

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Industry Seminars/Workshops

• Workshop on Mobile Application Development,
  Dec 03, 2007 Mr. Sajjad Awan , Tricastmedia
• Lecture on Technology and Market Interaction,
  30th May 2008 Techaccess Private Limited
• Workshop on Nanophotonics and its Application in
  High- Speed Networks, UNCC, USA

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Industry Seminars/ Workshops

• Linux Administration IBM-Linux Competency Center
  
• Workshop on Mobile Programming Tricast Media
• Sun Solaris 10 Intermediate System Administration
  Training Workshop Dr. Aamir Shafi SEECS
• Workshop on Visual Research Tools
• How to Build and Program Supercomputers Dr.
  Aamir Shafi SEECS
• Workshop on Programming using Perl Mohammad Asif
  
• Accounting, Supply Chain Solutions IBM and
  Gillani ERP William Percival. Gillani Syed M.
  Kamal

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Stress Testing Research Center

• Undertook the task identified in last CAC to
  develop a proposal for a stress testing research
  center
• Initial proposal was to establish a stress
  testing lab for industry usage
• Evolved to envision a research center with active
  research into software testing, load testing and
  software quality assurance
• Proposal complete from our side sent to Dr Qasim
  Sheikh (ICT RD Fund) for funding

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HRD Efforts IT Students Intake
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HRD Efforts-OSP Students Progress
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Industry Linkage

• Software Productivity Consultants (SPSnet.com)
• US Washington based software company Specializes
  in Planning , deployment, maintenance training
  of
• IBM Tivoli, HP Openview, Emergency Preparedness
  System (EPS)
• Five consultants of SPS are now operating from
  SEECS
• From 600 pm to 300 am
• Training at SEECS by SPS
• Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) Tivoli Access
  Manager (TAM)
• SEECS SPS Partnership objective
• Produce IBM certified trainers
• make this center as the hub of IBM consultancy
  training activities in South Asia, Middle East

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Industry Linkage

• Pi Sigma Group (PSG)
• Specialized in IBM Technologies, Learning
  Management System and HR Management System
• SEECS PSG jointly are working on customizing
  and deploying world leading University Content
  Management System (CMS) SAKAI
  www.sakaiproject.org
• SEECS PSG partnership Objective
• Develop standard CMS for HEC that can be
  developed in all universities of Pakistan
• platform for academic community of Pakistan

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Industry Linkage

• Electro Control Industry (ECI)
• Vehicle Access Control System (VACS)
• Ikonami Human Capital Management (HCM)
  solution provider
• AT-360, AT-Learning, Penetration testing,
  E-Learning
• LMKR
• RFID based Campus Management System
• TriCast Media

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Typical University
Student
Professional
University

• Ethics ?
• Creativity ?
• Independent thinking ?
• Ability to apply knowledge ?

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Impact of just one institution----MIT

• MIT graduates and faculty have founded 4000
  companies
• Employ 1.1 million people
• Annual Sales 232 billion
• Collectively these companies are the 24th largest
  economy in the World!
• Same is true for Cambridge, Stanford and others

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Specific Experiences

• Prof Kinji Mori
• 400 Billion USD from Autonomous Decentralized
  System (ADS) deployed in Japan Railway
• Gordon Moore (IEEE Spectrum)
• Intel Annual Sales 300 Billion USD
• 7 Billion USD Annual Profit

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University Role in National Development
Research
Knowledge Base
Develop Social
Tax and Financial
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Extended Scope of SEECS

• Bachelor in IT
• Bachelor in Computer Science
• Bachelor in Software Engineering
• Bachelor in Communication System Engg
• Bachelor in Electronics Engineering
• Bachelor in Computer Engineering
• Bachelor in Power Engineering

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Extended Scope of SEECS

• Master in Information Technology
• Master in Communication System Engg
• Master in Computer Comm Security
• Master in Microwave Engineering
• Master in Sensors Instrumentation
• Master in Embedded Systems
• PhD in CS
• PhD in Electrical Engineering

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New Lab/ Research Facilities
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State of the Art Microwave Research Centre

• Microwave Research Lab
• 10MHz 40GHz Vector Network Analyzers
• IC CAP (Precision Semiconductor Parameter
  Analyzer
• Advanced Test Equipment for Microwave components
  of Transmitter/Receiver
• EMC/EMI Lab
• LISN (Line Impedance Stabilizing Network)
• Electromagnetic field measuring System
• EMI Simulator for conducted and Radiated emission
  and harmonics
• Spectrum Analyzer (up to 3 GHz)
• Modular shielded room
• Basic conducted Emission site
• Basic ESD immunity site
• Basic Burst Surge Site
• Antenna Lab
• FAR-FIELD NEAR-FIELD Measurement System
• Agilent Equipment for FAR-FIELD NEAR-FIELD
  Configuration
• Anechoic Chamber (8GHz 40GHz)

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State of the Art Electronic System Design
Automation Research Centre

• APPLICATION AREAS
• Data Acquisition, Interfacing Signal
  Conditioning (Hardware/Software)
• SDR Development (Hardware/Software)
• Virtual Instrumentation
• Lab Equipment
• NI PX - 1042 8- slot Data acquisition and signal
  conditioning
• NI PXI - 5600 RF down converter (high frequency
  signal to IF range)
• NI PXI - 5610 2.7 GHz RF up converter (IF signals
  to high frequencies)
• SDR-1000 Universal Software Radio Peripheral
• SDR development kit with A/D D/A
• NIOS II Development Kits (Stratix Cyclone
  Editions)
• DSP Development Kits

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State of the Art Electronic System Design
Automation Research Centre

• Lab Equipment
• High Speed Development Kits
• MAX II Development Kits
• DIGILAB XA Development Kits
• NI-DAQPad-6016, 16 I/Ps, 16 bits, 200KS/s,
  multifunction I/O with Extended Digital I/O
• NI CVS-1455 Compact vision Systems
• LabVIEW RT vision development bundle
• Vision builder AI and PCI-8254R, lEEE 1394
  Interface board
• NI PXI-7340, 2 Axis stepper/servo Motion
  controller
• Altera design software for unix and linux
  workstation PCS Consisting of Version 2004.06

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Front View
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Front Side View
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Front Entrance
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Class Room
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Laboratory
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Center Dom
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Conclusion Together We can make a Difference

• WE are here to assist Industry
• State of the art laboratories
• 19 PhD 38 MS Foreign Qualified Skilled and
  Motivated faculty
• Joint funding for UIC projects
• Experience from existing projects
• Committed leadership
• WE HAVE THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS, IT IS TIME TO
  THINK ABOUT THE RECIPE FOR MUTUAL SUCCESS

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