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5th CAC Meeting

2.5 Years in Progress

NUST

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

• 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

Major Developments at NUST

Program for BRIGHT children from families

with income group <15000/= PM will be offered in August @ Rs 500/= per child

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

Action takenLast CAC meeting (08 December 2007)

– Industry seminars/workshopsA 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.

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)

Industry Seminars/ Workshops

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

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

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

Industry Seminars/ Workshops

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 R&D Fund) for funding

HRD Efforts – IT Students Intake

HRD Efforts-OSP Students Progress

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 6:00 pm to 3:00 amTraining 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

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

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

Typical University

UniversityStudent Professional

• Ethics ?

• Creativity ?

• Independent thinking ?

• Ability to apply knowledge ?

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

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

Government

Politics and economy

Environment, culture, tradition, national character

Society

Collaboration

Policy Policy Technology Policy

Economic Infrastructure

Education

Labor Policy

Science and Policy

Create knowledge base Improve education level

Improve productivity

MarketMarket

Knowledge base

Policy

Industry Innovations Demand

Product and Services

Develop SocialTax and Financial

Produce KnowledgeHuman resourcesDevelopment and supply

Universities

Utilize Knowledge

Productive Sectors

University Role in National Development

Knowledge Base

Research

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

• 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

Extended Scope of SEECS

New Lab/ Research Facilities

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 AREASData 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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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

State of the Art Electronic System Design & Automation Research Centre

Front View

Front – Side View

Front Entrance

Class Room

Laboratory

Center Dom

• 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’

Conclusion: Together We can make a Difference

Thank You

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