June, 2011 Newsletter Vol: 3 Issue: 6 Nishan-e-Imtiaz conferred on Wasim Sajjad, President FAST, Chancellor of NU Senator, Wasim Sajjad, Leader of Opposition in the Senate of , President, FAST and Chancellor of the University has been conferred upon Nishan-e-Imtiaz by the , Mr. at a special investiture ceremony held on March 23, 2011 at Aiwan-e-Sadar, Islamabad, in recognition of his services and work on the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and for strengthening d e m o c r a c y a n d d e m o c r a t i c institutions in Pakistan. Nishan-e-Imtiaz is the highest honor given to any civilian in Pakistan based on the achievements Nishan-e-Imtiaz is being conferred on Wasim Sajjad by President that caused world recognition for Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadar on March 23, 2011. Pakistan or/ for an outstanding service for the country. Annual Job Fair/Open House held at Islamabad Campus Over 60 firms/companies and institutions participated The annual job fair/Open House students are interviewed and usually address said that this year the for the year 2011 of FAST-NU was evaluated on the basis of their Final Islamabad Campus is sending around held at Islamabad Campus on April Year Projects for possible employ- 350 students into the industry. Of 26, 2011. This event was organized for ment. these 140 are from BS Computer the placement/recruitment of graduat- Dr. Amir Muhammed, Rector in Science and 90 from BS Telecom ing students of BS & MS (Computer his address said that essentially this Engineering. Graduating batch also Science), BS (Telecom Engineering) event will give the corporate sector an includes 60 students from BBA and 50 and BBA & MBA. opportunity to judge abilities and from MS and MBA. Dr. Amir Muhammed, Rector of competitiveness of the upcoming Senior Management representa- the University, was the chief guest on generation. tives of more than 60 prestigious the occasion. This Open House aims to preserve firms/companies and institutes from The Open House provides an the talent we have and encourage all over the country participated. They opportunity to the industry to interact companies nourish it into professional observed and evaluated students' with the graduating students for the brilliance, he added. projects and also interviewed the purpose of recruitment for their Dr. Waseem Ikram, Director graduating students for possible respective firms/ companies. The Islamabad Campus, in his welcome recruitment for their organizations. June, 2011 Recruitment Drive of Game View Marketing Studios at Peshawar Campus Mavericks Cyber Game View Studios (GVS) On May 13, Haroon Akhtar gave Company has hired two final year one hour presentation to introduce his Syndrome 2011 students of FAST-NU Peshawar company, its objectives, achieve- The 8th event of the Marketing Campus - Sarmad Ahmed and Fida ments, developments and the recruit Mavericks series, 'Marketing Mavericks Cyber Syndrome 2011' was held at FAST-NU Islamabad Campus on April 20 and 21, 2011. The event was attended by senior executives from various local and multinational organizations, academi- cians, business students, entrepre- neurs and consultants. As many as 105 FAST School of Business students participated in the event with their real-time industry based marketing projects. A total of 14 awards were distributed among the students. 16 national and multinational companies sponsored the event.

Hussain of Batch-2007, by conducting ment process. The presentation was on spot interview when these students followed by a written test for inter- were on visit to FAST-NU, ested students. 85 students appeared in Campus for SOFTEC-2011. Looking the test and 60 (25 CS and 35 Telecom) at the performance of these two were shortlisted for interview. students during interview, the com- Interviews by the visiting team were pany's CEO requested the Director conducted till late evening on May 14, Peshawar Campus to allow the 2011. Before leaving the Campus, company to have a recruitment drive Mr. Haroon said that based on the at Peshawar Campus. Their request written test interviews of the candi- was acceded to and their team, led by dates, the company would decide Haroon Akhtar (Solution Engineer), about their appointment and result to visited FAST-NU Peshawar Campus be communicated in about three on May 13 and 14, 2011. weeks time.

Participants of Marketing Mavericks Cyber Syndrome 2011 held at Islamabad Campus June, 2011 UNILYMPICS-2011 held at FAST-NU BS (EE) student Karachi Campus expresses gratitude for grant of loan M.Bilal Junaid, a student of BS (Electrical Engineering), Department of FAST-NU Islamabad Campus and currently in the last semester of his graduation expressed his deepest g r a t i t u d e t o t h e FA S T- N U Administration for granting him loan for studies. In a letter to Rector, FAST-NU Dr. Amir Muhammed, he said that four years ago no university was ready to give him admission because he could not afford the expenses. A t w o - d a y s p o r t s e v e n t ball, basketball, throw ball and table But, FAST-NU was the only 'UNILYMPICS-2011 was held at tennis during the event which was university to accept him by granting FAST-NU Karachi Campus from organized by SPORTICS, a sports the loan. April 4 to 5, 2011. The students from society of FAST-NU. Bilal Junaid has recently received different universities participated in The students of FAST-NU excelled the best university award and the one five sports including futsal, volley- in volleyball. of the best rated projects in AL-Zayed IT international competition in Abu FAST-NU Peshawar Only qualified Dhabi 2011. He has attributed his success to the wins cash prize students get FAST-NU and its administration. The Electrical Engineering He has also won the PTA-Ericsson D e p a r t m e n t S t u d e n t s t e a m scholarships: HEC mobile excellence awards in 2010, comprising Mushin Ali, Imran Khan, As many as 2,045 Pakistanis are gold medals in different semesters and and M. Rizwan has glorified the currently pursuing their higher many other national events. FAST-NU Peshawar Campus in one of education in various foreign the most prestigious event, Electrical universities through the Higher Paper accepted for Engineering Hardware Project Education Commission (HEC). Competition "EMCOT" was held at During the last eight years, a total of publication COMSATS Abbottabad on May 9 and 674 students returned to the country A paper titled 'Topology of Plane 10, 2011. The team attained second after completing PhDs. Most of the Curves and Discreminants' by Dr. position beating almost 70 teams from students seeking higher education in Zahid Raza Assistant Professor of 13 different national universities foreign universities are pursuing their Mathematics at Lahore Campus has participating in the event. studies in natural sciences including been accepted for publication in The project title was 'Sending Text physics, biology, chemistry, Bulletin Mathématique de la Société Message using Brain Waves'. It was engineering and medicine. Other des Sciences Mathématiques de highly appreciated by all the visitors fields include social sciences, Roumanie, an ISI journal with impact and faculty members. The project is business and public administration. factor of 0 .554. supervised by Mr. Khalilullah, and co- Most of the students selected by supervised by Dr. Asmatullah Khan the Commission for scholarships hail and Rehmatullah Kundi. from developed areas of the country. EE FYP wins prize Apart from this achievement, The Commission has set criteria that EE FYP group of FAST-mobile altogether four EE Students groups students need to meet for scholarships (Solar Car) has won the first prize participated in the event. All the four in foreign universities, which is why (including Rs. 10,000) in the hardware teams were offered full support by students mostly from developed areas project exhibition of NUTEC-2011 in Continuing Engineering Education of the country end up qualifying. The Peshawar on April 30 and May 01, Center (CEEC) UET Peshawar to turn Commission has relaxed its rules to 2011. The team had previously won a their projects into a finished facilitate students from Tribal areas prize at APTEC-2011 at COMSATS, commercial product. and Balochistan. Lahore in April this year. Page 4 June, 2011 ‘Eden Housing limited’ PROCOM.NET’11 ‘Event of Year 2011’ selected for an Int'l PROCOM. Conference Net 2011 was held at FAST- The case study written by Assistant N U K a r a c h i Professor, Talha Salam, FAST School Campus. More of Business, Lahore has been selected t h a n 6 0 0 for presentation at 1st International p a r t i c i p a n t s Conference on Case Study to be held from the city at LUMS, Lahore in May 2011. This and all over the conference is being organized by globe attended Asian Journal of Management Cases t h e e v e n t . (AJMC). Cricketer turned This case study titled, 'Eden p o l i t i c i a n , Housing Limited' chronicles a Imran Khan was marketing management situation the chief guest faced by the organization. It offers at the opening insights into real estate sector of c e r e m o n y . Imran Khan addressing audience at PROCOM.Net Pakistan and is among very few Competitions, seminars and exhibi- various univers ities graded penned about this sector, which is tions were main attractions for the PROCOM.NET’11 ‘Event of the Year considered to be an informal sector. participants. The participants from 2011’. CIO CAMPUS Conversation Talk held at Karachi Campus The CIO- Campus Conversation Assistant Professor, FAST-NU develop the consensus and to reduce took place on April 19, 2011 at the Karachi Campus, Zia Babar–CIO, the gap between industry and acade- main campus of FAST-NU Karachi Tameer Bank; Nabeel Nawaz-Head of mia. Dr. Zubair A. Shaikh in his Campus. The title of event was IT KESC; Ghalia Naseer-FAST speech said that the seminars of these Packaging Innovators. CIO-Pakistan Alumini; and Rabia Nizami, Solutions kinds help students to draw the hosted this conversation to bridge the Manager- Nokia Forum. This event roadmap for the success in their life if gap between industry and academia. was attended by more than 50 stu- they do hardwork, teamwork and Among the Panelists were Dr. Asim ur dents. This was the second seminar of show commitment, devotion and, Rehman, Director, FAST-NU Karachi CIO CAMPUS in FAST-NU Main dedication which are essential for Campus, Dr. Jawwad Shamsi, Campus and its objective was to success in life. FAST-NU Karachi's winning streak continues at NASCON The students of FAST-NU, e x h i b i t e d i n t h e S o f t w a r e evaluated by judges and critics from Karachi Campus took part in the event Competition. uAssist clenched the various organizations. NASCON'11 organized by FAST-NU first position along with touchBook at Osama Khalid, Syed Asim Hassan Islamabad Campus held on April 16 the third position. and Ali Aziz secured second position and 17, 2011 and brought laurels to uAssist, which is a remote i n D y n a m i c P r o g r a m m i n g the University. assistance application for Mobile Competition. More than 800 teams took part Phones, is supervised by from all across the country. The event Ms. Khadija Rohail and is comprised competitions in Computer developed by Osama Science, Engineering and Business Khalid, Tasmiyah Iqbal, areas. Hassan Ahmad and Hassan The students of FAST-NU Karachi Ahmed . Campus participated in two major touchBook, developed categories of Computer Science - by Oun Abbas, Mohammad Software Competition and Dynamic Rafi Raza, Mohammad Programming Competition and once Zohaib and Ali Maisam is a again topped the charts. digital library on a Multi- Three projects from FAST-NU touch table (surface) and is Karachi Campus namely, uAssist, supervised by Qublai Khan. RTSMS and touchBook were The projects were Contact: Dr. M Latif Virk, Registrar, FAST House, Rohtas Road, G-9/4, Islamabad Email:[email protected] Phone:051-2855072-74. Edited & designed by: M. Asghar