Research and Innovation Achievements. Seminar on Intellectual Property, Patents And Trade Mark

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1 Seminar on Intellectual Property, Patents And Trade Mark The Directorate of Human Resource Development, BUITEMS in collaboration with ORIC- BUITEMS and Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan (IPOP) organized one-day seminar onintellectual Property, Patent & Trade Mark on April 18, 2017 at Pink Seminar Hall, BUITEMS Takatu Campus. The objective of the seminar was to create awareness among the faculty members/ researchers of all five faculties about the importance of intellectual property, especially IP as a tool for economic growth and wealth creation. The seminar helped in generating a better understanding of the potential of IP system and its importance in the modern times. The following resource persons delivered their lectures and provided useful information on the subject:

2 1. Prof. M. Naeem Shahwani, Director ORIC, BUITEMS 2. Syed Nasrullah, Deputy Director, IPOP 3. Ms. Urooj Fatima, Patent Examiner, IPOP Mr. Nasrullah, Deputy Director IPOP discussed the intellectual property and trade marks in detail. After this Ms. Urooj Fatima, Patent Examiner IPOP, explained the need of patents and how it can protect research/ invention rights. She explained ways and means as to how the researchers need to secure their work by patenting their product / procedures. IPOP, she highlighted, is working for this purpose. Prof. Shahwani delivered a comprehensive lecture on The Role of Patent Information in Promoting Innovation. Afterwards a questions answer session was held. At the end Prof. Dr. M.A.K. Malghani, addressing the participants, admired the efforts of Directorate of HRD and ORIC for arranging an informative seminar and thanked the resource persons who came from IPOP Karachi for sharing ideas and procedures with BUITEMS researchers. The ceremony ended with a vote of thanks and distribution of shields and certificate among the participants and resource persons.

3 BUITEMS Textronics & Carl Laboratory Team Wins 2 nd Place in 2 nd All Pakistan Dice-Textile Innovation Event 2017 A team from BUITEMS TEXTRONICS and CARL (Control Automation and Robotics Lab) participated in the All Pakistan DICE-Textile innovation event 2017, held on 28 th and 29 th March, Muhammad Junaid Sultan and Surjeet Kumar from TEXTRONICS Laboratory and Zulkafil Abbas from CARL presented their research on smart textile fabrics and their applications, and secured 2nd place in the competition amongst 100 industry and university projects from all over Pakistan. The smart textiles project is an ongoing collaboration between the Department of Electronic and Textile Engineering, BUITEMS, headed by Dr. Anayat Ullah Baloch and Dr. Syed Zameer Ul Hassan. DICE Textile 2017 is a focused strategic initiative of DICE Foundation USA, led by National Textile University (NTU) Faisalabad in close collaboration with consortium universities, textile Industry, and government. The major objectives of DICE Textile platform are to grow indigenous textile industry in Pakistan by providing a common platform for Academia, Textile Industry, Government and Expatriates to promote and collaborate on innovations related to textile sector, commercialization of innovations, textile engineering capacity building leveraging knowledge of expatriates around the world, providing access to Pakistan textile industry to international markets leveraging extensive expatriate network and to help Government of Pakistan in textile policy making

4 2 nd Prize Winner in All Pakistan DICE Textile 2016 Innovation Competition National Textile University, Faisalabad in partnership with DICE Pakistan and Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) has organized oneday event All Pakistan DICE-Textile 2016 Innovation Event on March 21 st, 2016 at NTU Faisalabad. Textile departments of all the national Universities, textile associations, representative of HEC, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Textiles and more than 200 delegates from all over the Pakistani industry participated in the event. The project presented from BUITEMS, was a joint venture of "Textile Engineering" and "Electronics Engineering" departments. Two students from each department namely Surjeet Kumar & Muhammad Junaid (Electronics) and Syed Bilawal Raza & Wasim Ali shah (Textile) under the supervision of Dr. Syed Zameer Ul Hassan, Associate Professor (Department of Textile Engineering), Participated in this event. They presented their work under the title Design and development of textile based strain sensor for technical textiles applications focusing medical and sports textiles. BUITEMS managed to win the 2 nd Prize of Rs. 60,000 in this national mega event. The team was awarded the cheque and a shield from the chief guest.

5 SATHA Award 2016 On May 4-5 th, 2016 Prof Dr. M. Naeem Shahwani, Director ORIC-BUITEMS received South Asia Triple Helix Innovation Award on the occasion of SATHA Awards 2016 of 1 st Invention to Innovation Summit Balochistan held at University of Balochistan, in recognition of his global achievement in research on Establishment of technologies for growing exotic grape vine nursery plants under controlled hydroponics conditions with supplementing artificial nutrition and growth hormones in a short time span compared to conventional. Nawab Muhammad Khan Shahwani (Minister S & GAD Balochistan) and Dr. Javed Iqbal (Vice Chancellor University of Balochistan) for his achievement at the closing ceremony held at Quetta club on May 5 th, 2016.

6 Young Development Leader Award Dr. Abdul Wali Tareen, Associate Professor Department of Biotechnology, was awarded the Young Development Leader Award at the award ceremony of 2 nd anniversary of vision The ceremony was organized by Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform held at Islamabad on August 11 th, The event was attended by Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Information Mr. Pervez Rasheed, State Minister for Education Mr. Balighur Rahman, HEC Chairman Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed and people belonging to different fields of life. The Young Development Leader Awards were given to thirteen high achievers in different sectors including agriculture, engineering, information technology, entrepreneurship, community services, science, biotechnology, education, energy, arts and culture, health, innovation, and emerging sciences. Dr. Abdul Wali Tareen was given the award for his excellent achievements in the field of Biotechnology.

7 HEC Best Paper Award for BUITEMS Scholar Ceremony for 4 th outstanding research awards was held on March 13 th, 2015 at Higher Education Commission (HEC) Islamabad. Awards were conferred upon researchers under various categories including lifetime academic achievement award, best innovator, best book publication, best research paper and best young research scholar. The winners, belonging to six different disciplines including Biological Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Basic and Applied Sciences, Management Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, were awarded with cash prizes in an auspicious ceremony organized by HEC. The award for the Best Research Paper was conferred upon Professor Dr. Jamil Ahmad in "Biological Sciences" from Faculty of Life Sciences and Informatics BUITEMS. Dr. Jamil Ahmad was awarded with a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 50,000. Congratulating the award winners, the Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions Lt. Gen (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch proposed to the researchers and scholars to pay attention towards the areas which can contribute to the development of the regions in which their respective institutions are located.

8 Life Time Achievement Award for BUITEMS Teacher Dr. Mohammad Nawaz, Professor of Mathematics BUITEMS was awarded Life Time Achievement Award by National Mathematical Society of Pakistan on March 16 th, 2016 in a ceremony held at Lahore. Prof. Dr. A. D. R. Choudary, founding Director General of Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, GCU Lahore was the chief guest at the occasion. Dr. Mohammad Nawaz has over 40 years experience in education consisting of teaching, research, assessment and evaluation, curriculum development, administration and training. His areas of research interest include Quantiles, Localic Groups, and Non-Classical Logics. In the same ceremony, the first Abdus Salam Shield of Honour (ASSH) was awarded to Prof. Dr. Hassan Azad. The evaluation committee for ASSH was chaired by Professor Cedric Villani (Field Medallist). The Abdus Salam Shield of Honour was created by the National Mathematical Society of Pakistan in April 2015 in order to take the Pakistani Mathematical community on track of quality research. The main research interests of Prof. Dr. Hassan Azad are Lie Groups, Algebraic Groups and Algorithms related to these fields.

9 SPE 2016 South Asia Student Paper Contest SPE ISM (Indian School of Mines) Chapter, established by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in 1984, is committed to help students learn about the industry by encouraging the exchange of ideas with others, and enhancing their knowledge through a variety of educational events. SPE 2016 South Asia Student Paper Contest was organized by the SPE ISM Chapter on March 16 th -18 th, 2016 at Dhanabad, India. Mr. Kamran Khan, BUITEMS student of BS Petroleum and Gas Engineering 8th semester presented his paper titled Hydraulic Fracturing in Tight Gas Reservoir in addition to Nano Technology and stood 1 st in the Undergraduate Division. SPE International has invited him to present his research in another international conference Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (ATCE) to be held at Dubai, in September 2016.

10 All Balochistan Intervarsity Software Competition On June 1 st, 2016, Department of Computer Science, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women s University Quetta organized All Balochistan Intervarsity Software Competition. Students of BUITEMS belonging to various departments namely Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, Biotechnology were led by Ms. Waheeda Jabbar, (Assistant Professor) and Ms. Sara Ayub (Assistant Professor) from Computer & Electrical Engineering department. A Project from Computer Engineering Department KINECTOR: A Communication App for Dumb and Deaf People, secured Second position, and Robust detection of Glaucoma using CDR and hybrid features from Department of Biotechnology secured Third position in the Competition.

11 Pakistan has hardworking engineers, says UK expert Pakistan has hardworking and qualified engineers, as the country is making progress in various fields of engineering, said British expert consultant Martin Smith on Saturday. He was addressing the concluding session of the 8 th International Cinvil Engineering Congress at the IEP(institute of Engineers, Pakistan) Convention Centre on Shara-e-faisal. The inaugural ceremony of the two-day event was held at the NED University of Engineering and Technology on Friday. Smith said he was returning home with a positive message for other countries, including the UK, and had enjoyed his brief stay in Karachi. It is a very beautiful place with peace loving people. The consultant encouraged local engineers to participate in such events to share their ideas, designs and projects with experts for their reviews and suggestions. He told the young engineers about new methods and technologies being used in building mega projects around the world, stressing that civil engineering could resolve many problems of Karachi. Forty-five research papers were presented by engineers from the US, the UK, Iran, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Malaysia, while Anwar Hazoor from Quetta was awarded a shield for submitting the best research paper, which was on transportation engineering.

12 THE BIZZ 2015 Award BUITEMS has consistently gone above and beyond its compliance with the evaluation criteria for business excellence, namely: business leadership, quality of its goods and services, management systems, innovation and creativity, corporate social responsibility, and its achievements. For the above reasons, BUITEMS has been selected as a winner of the world s most important business excellence award THE BIZZ 2015 award. THE BIZZ award gathers and recognizes leading businesses from different regions that contribute to the daily growth of their local economy and the world economy. THE BIZZ was created by World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB), to offer the global business community a range of benefits that further enhance their development. WORLDCOB is an international business organization with ten years at the service of the worldwide business community. It has approximately 3,000 members in over 100 countries throughout Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia. On behalf of BUITEMS THE BIZZ 2015 award was received by Director QE&A, Dr. Zahid Rauf, and then later on presented to the Vice Chancellor, Ahmed Farooq Bazai on March 22 nd, 2016.