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Date of event: Wednesday, 11^th July, 2018

Venue: ZUFEST Auditorium

Speaker: Mr. Sharafat Ali (CMS and Software Developer)

ZUFEST hold multiple workshops/seminars for faculty members, students and staff  for  hands on training on training current trends of Engineering Education in Pakistan i.e. Outcome Based Education (OBE).    Prof. Dr. Munaf Rashid, organized 4^th interactive workshop on development of Campus Management System for Outcome Based Education OBE implementation. Representatives of   Biomedical, Civil, Electrical and Software Engineering Programs, along with the heads of department, and representatives from IT department Mr Omer Farooq and Mr Shannan Varind were present in the training session.

The speaker Mr. Sharafat Ali presented different modules of Campus Management System (CMS) required in the handling of  OBE. .  The speaker emphasizes on handling of entire OBE system parameters in a very efficient, automatic and collective manner, which can meet the requirements of Pakistan engineering Council (PEC). Further he had given many suggestions in mapping Program Learning Outcomes (PLO) to Course Learning Outcomes (CLO), and how activities are planned against each CLO. Mr. Sharafat Ali also shows the capability of campus Management System in handling of Bloom’s Taxonomy levels in each CLO and PLOs and their order in courses with pre-requisites.

The speaker practically demonstrated those parts of Campus Management System (CMS) which manages the examination and academic activities on Out Come Based Education (OBE) frame work, i.e.  Assessment types, Marks distribution, Course Learning Outcome (CLO), Programming Learning Outcome (PLO), CLO-PLO attainment summary as well as different graphs and charts of multiple functions were also managed by the system.

Overall the session was very informative and based on experiential learning for the faculty members of ZUFEST who are working on OBE System.

In order to produce and built green environment, an activity regarding Plantation entitling Green Day had done at Link Road Campus on Monday, 25^th June, 2018. The activity was planned by Department of Civil Engineering, ZUFEST. All faculty members have placed their own Neem plants (Total 7 plants) at particular place in campus which is basically one step forward and vision for clear and unpolluted environment for our beloved city Karachi. The activity was started from the plantation works by our respected chairpersons Engr. Prof. Dr. Ghulam Bashir Pirzada and Engr. Zubair Iqbal Rao then other faculty members and students of Civil Engineering Department has participated individually in this green environment activity.

Ziauddin University in Collaboration with Indus Hospital organized Blood Donation Camp at Ziauddin University Faculty of Engineering Science and technology on July 11,2018.The event started with the awareness session delivered by Mr. Ahsan (Assistant Marketing Manager, Indus Hospital) on the importance of blood donation by the significant contribution that a individual can make towards the society by donating blood.

Dean ZUFEST along with the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering Department, Software Engineering Department & Biomedical Engineering Department visited the camp & encouraged the students.

Faculty & Students of ZUFEST showed great interest & actively participated in the activity after the complete monitoring of their basic parameters by the allocated team of Indus Hospital.

Date of event: July 9, 2018

Time of event: 12:30PM-2:00PM

Venue: ZUFEST (auditorium)

Number of attendees: 60approx.

Speaker: M.Ayaz Khan

On July 9, 2018, ZUFEST held a seminar in the auditorium by the efforts of Engr.Umer Ahmed and Student Council that includes Patron Engr.Adnan Baig, President Luqman Bawany, Vice president Areeba Shakeel, General Secretary Hamza, Treasurer Hafsa Ghazal,Executive Director Marketing Tamima Imtiaz and Executive Secretary Nimra Mehmood. The speaker focused on the methods to acquire foreign scholarships especially in USA and European countries.

The program startedat 12:40 PM with Qirat .Areeba Shakeel hosted the program .The program proceeded with the audience of about 60 people with the faculty members who included Dr .Munaf (Acting Dean&Chairperson Software Engineering Department),Dr .Sarmad Shams(Chairperson of Biomedical Engineering Department),Dr. Iqbal Bhatti, Engr. Salman Marfatiya,Engr. Sidra Agha,Engr. Ali Asghar,Engr. Nazia Ejaz,Engr.Talha,Engr.Adnan and Engr.Umer Engr.Ashfaque.

The speaker was Dr. M. Ayaz Khan, who is Clinical MR Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.He discussed about his higher education, PHD in MR in radio imaging and post docs.He informed the students about the methods to acquire foreign scholarships, the need of higher education and the importance of knowing yourself before choosing a career. The session ended with highly interactive question answer session with the students.

At the end Dr.Munaf gave a thanking note and the guest speaker was given a souvenir with warm wishes from faculty and the student council. There was an arrangement of refreshment for the guest and Head of Department while the student attendees were provided with the juices. Our photographers Hasnain Ali Rizvi and Aneel John Edger captured these important moments.

It was a great honor to have a soft skills training session in Ziauddin University [North Nazimabad]. Students were very enthusiastic and keen to learn more. We will conduct more sessions to inject more skills into our youth to have a better career and successful life.

Communication skills are essential for the successful professional career. In today’s competitive world, communication skills in business are the most sought after quality of an educated person. Regardless of your field and area of working, it is important for everyone.

Students of universities and colleges are working hard in their academic and getting degree with remarkable performance. Everyone is working on their progress on hard skills (technical skills).So therefore; we can’t ignore the need of soft skills as we not always deal with machines but also with human being.To have an edge over others and get on the spot light we need to train ourselves in the excellence of soft skills.

Pearson’s Education has arranged the Workshop on Higher National Certificates (HNC) and Higher National Diploma (HND) program Quantification level 4 and 5. The primary objective of this workshop is to train faculty members on Higher National Qualification standards as well as giving the centre approval to ZUFEST based on HN Global resources.  The 3 days Workshop (April, 1^st 2018- April, 3^rd 2018) was conducted by Mr. Mark Shenton serving as Senior Standards and Chief Examiner – BTEC Engineering Programs at Pearson.

The training/workshop was attended by the Chairman’s / Co-Chairman and Senior Faculty members as well as of all the Departments of ZUFEST; Dean ZUFEST also attended the said training.

Dr. Muhammad Asif                             (Chairperson, Electrical Engineering)

Dr. Muhammad Munaf Rashid              (Chairperson, Software Engineering)

Dr. Sarmad Shams                                (Chairperson, Biomedical Engineering)

Engr. Zubair Iqbal Rao                         (Co-Chairman Civil Engineering)

Engr. Sidra Abid Syed                          (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering)

Engr. Mehwish Faiz                              (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering)

Engr. Salman Marfatiya                        (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering)

Engr. Syed Waqad Ali                          (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering)

Engr. Syed Faraz Jafri                           (Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering)

Engr. Hira Zahid                                   (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering)

Engr. Khawaja Sheeraz                         (Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering)

Engr. Vanesh Kumar                            (Lecturer, Software Engineering)

An article entitled Importance of Road Safety Education has been published in Ezine Articles, a leading database for intellectual articles on diverse topics and variety of issues. The article was published by Engr. Khawaja Sheeraz, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, ZUFEST. Based on the credibility of the topic, the author has been identified as an Expert author. The complete contents of this article are published and available on their high traffic home page. This publication is one of the important achievements of the Civil Engineering Department.

ZUFEST organized its first Alumni Meet on 21 April 2018. The Meet was attended by the alumni of batches that graduated in year 2014(First Graduating Batch) to 2018.More than about 50 alumni from this group attended the Meet. It was a great pleasure to know about their accomplishments in professional lives. Most of them were visiting their Alma Mater for the first time since their graduation, and naturally were thrilled to see the transformation of College of Biomedical Engineering into Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology with the induction of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, and Electrical Technology Departments.

The Chancellor Ziauddin University Dr. Asim Hussain was the Chief Guest of the function of the Alumni Meet and Syed Abdul Qadir Shah Ex chairman PEC, Engr. Mukhtar A Sheikh, Vice chairman Sindh PEC, Dr Ghulam Raza Bhatti, Member planning and operation HEC and Engr.Javed Memon, Director HEC regional center Karachi were the guest of honor for the event.  All the dignitaries appreciated the arrangement and expressed their feelings that Alumni are the brand ambassadors of the Institution and a very vibrant relationship must be established and nurtured.

A feedback was also collected from alumni regarding the Vision/ Mission and Program Educational Outcomes of the Department and their suggestions for improvement. The Alumni Meet closed at a very emotional note. However, everyone appreciated the efforts by the Dean ZUFEST, Dr Samreen A Hussain, in organizing the Meet for the first time. Everyone departed with the resolve to visit again and spread the message amongst all who could not visit this time

Ziauddin University awarded 504 degrees to its graduating students of different disciplines at its 15th convocation held at the Expo Centre here on Wednesday.

Addressing the students, Sindh Governor Muha­mad Zubair, the chief guest on the occasion, emphasized the importance of quality education and praised the efforts of university chancellor Dr Asim Hussain for the institution.

Read full story on Dawn: https://bit.ly/2I4gLc8

Students of BME visited link road campus Offered Fateha for Dr. Tajammul Hussain