P.2 H.o.D. Message P.3 Signing of MoUs P.5 Departmental Activities P.6 Industrial Open House P.8 FYP Students’ Achievement in TechnoVate’14 P.9 Seminars by IEEE Students P.15Industrial Trips P.16 INNOFEST’14 P.18 Professional Training Courses by EESINT P.20 New Labs P.21 Farewell Party P.22 Faculty Dinner (EE Department) P.23 New Faculty Joining P.24 Faculty Leaving for Higher Studies P.25 National/International Activities P.26 Punjab Youth Festival, 2014 P.27 University President Forum 2014, Malaysia P.29 Research Activities P.30 International Research Activities P.32 Faculty Research Publications P.33 Faculty Research Projects P.34 Final Year Projects (FYPs) P.35 Patent By Dr. Naeem Awais

E.E. Newsletter Newsletter of Electrical Engineering Department

January 2014 - September 2014

By;

Mrs. Amna Arif

Ms. Tabassum Nawaz Bajwa

Mateen Ashraf

Arsla Khan

Message from the HoD(EE)

Dr. Sobia Baig

H.o.D. EE Department

CIIT Lahore.

With the grace of Allah (SWT), we have successfully completed Spring 2014

semester and after renewing energies in the summer, we are now entering into

Fall 2014 semester. In this period of time there has been significant progress in

departmental activities and achievements. I would like to congratulate the Elec-

trical Engineering (EE) department on its consistent performance throughout

this period. The EE faculty and staff members are the ones whose continuous

effort and dedication has kept the EE flag flying high. However, we need to en-

ter into the new academic year with new zeal and fervor. We all have to per-

form our duties with sincerity and dedication with full efforts to reshape the

lives and personalities of our students.

With the passage of time all processes need refinement and improvement and the same is true for the

teaching and learning processes in which all of us are involved day in and day out at Electrical Engineering

Department. Incorporating new techniques in our teaching methodology and motivating our students to

think and find out of the box solutions on their own should be our goal while delivering lectures and as-

sessing them in class rooms and laboratories. Moreover, allowing the students to propose their own solu-

tions in small semester projects will enhance their critical analysis skills and will also help them in creating

their Final Year Projects (FYPs) as well.

Senior and junior faculty members need to integrate their energies and expertise to improve their per-

formance in research activities in research groups. Individual research can be enhanced when it is ex-

panded and jointly done by all the members of a research group. FYPs can be utilized in the same man-

ner, thus involving our students at the undergraduate level in departmental research activities.

Industrial collaboration especially for an Electrical Engineering Department is of vital importance. The

global approach towards a knowledge based economy, contribution of academia in industrial progress is

highly significant. We aim towards linking our research activities with industrial problem solutions. Since

every journey is started with first small steps and therefore, EE department has started its efforts in this

reference by signing an MoU with Electrical Engineering Solutions Internationals (EESINT)and with HW

Communications Ltd. Lancaster and progress with National Instruments (NI) is also mentionable. We

would like to expand this base to other industrial collaborations to address various pressing issues in in-

dustries through our faculty expertise.

In the end, I would like to thank all senior and junior faculty and staff members who continue to contrib-

ute in their capacities in the department and hoping for their cooperation for the betterment of depart-

ment in future as well.

Signing of MoUs

On 11th Mar, 2014 the EE department has signed an MoU with EESINT (Electrical engineering solutions

international) Pvt. Ltd. Lahore. EESINT is a major player in the industrial automation. The company is

based in Lahore and covers all regions of Paki-

stan. EESINT and EE department of CIIT with

mutual consent has set up a training facility at

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,

Lahore, where EESINT is provided with latest

facilities. EESINT in collaboration with Siemens,

aims to provide training to the students of CIIT

and provide industrial liaison for R&D projects

leading to exposure of new technologies. This

step will help students in augmenting their

theoretical knowledge with practical work and

help in providing manpower which is ready to

deliver in industrial environments. The main objectives of the MoU includes:

Delivering the experience of industrial environments through internships, projects and specialized

courses.

Promoting the university industrial linkage.

Initially a lab is setup by EESINT in A block of CIIT Lahore. The supporting equipment i.e. PCs and soft-

wares are provided by EESINT whose estimated cost is 7.0 million. Suitable lab space is provided by CIIT

to start the activity for 15 to 20 students per batch. The training courses fee will be shared as under af-

ter immediate evaluation of expanses in first week. The training courses to be conducted are formally

approved by HoD, EE.

EESINT will extend its services in the following areas:

Help to arrange industrial projects for students.

Arrange study visits to industries for students.

Help in arranging internships for CIIT students.

Help in arranging suitable job placement for the graduates of CIIT.

Director CIIT, Lahore signing an MoU with EESINT

Signing of MoUs (Cont.)

A memorandum of understanding is signed between HW Communications Ltd, Lancaster and CIIT La-

hore on 1st of May, 2014. The aim of both parties are to cooperate by entering into the MoU with the

following provisions:

Collaborate in research and development (R&D) projects by utilizing the resources and research ca-

pabilities of CIIT-Lhr faculty and student body and to nurture joint business opportunities.

HW Communications would provide methodology, project management expertise, mutually agreed

collaborative research/work area and solutions that would be exposed to CIIT-Lhr coordinating fac-

ulty member who would be responsible to inculcate and monitor the progress of the same.

Both parties will explore the possibilities of collaborative research projects, with a view to promote

the image of both institutions as disseminators of the state-of-the-art knowledge.

Director of CIIT, Lahore Campus signing an MoU with HW Communications Ltd. Lancaster

Departmental

Activities

Industrial Open House

Electrical Engineering department COMSATS institute of information technology, Lahore organized In-dustrial Open House on 16th January, 2014. Representatives from several organizations attended the event. The purpose of organizing Industrial Open House was to give graduating students of engineering an opportunity to interact with technical minds from industry and to provide a platform where students can present their skills.

The Industrial Liaison Committee at Elec-trical Engineering department has used its resources to effectively organize a suc-cessful event. Through collaboration and help from faculty, the department man-aged to welcome representatives from following organizations:

Creative Group Of Industries

PTCL

ACA Premier Cable

Mentor Graphics

Electro Traders

Alien Lab

Digital World Pakistan

SUPARCO

National Instruments

Huawei

The event was inaugurated by honorable chief guest Mr. Mian Sultan Mehmood, CEO Creative Group of Industries. Graduating students of Electrical Engineering department presented their final year projects in Electrical Engineering department.

The project display was followed by a seminar which was hosted for honorable guests. After recitation of the Holy Quran, Dr. Sobia Baig, head of Electrical Engineering department presented overview of CIIT Lahore, its educational structure, its faculty, departments and achievements of the institute to foster educational environment. Afterwards, Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Farooqi, Program Director Dual Degree Program CIIT, Lahore shared his views about academia-industrial linkage and its importance.

The chief guest, Mr. Mian Sultan Mehmood, was invited to share his views with participants. Mr. Sultan appreciated the work done by Electrical Engineering department and aptitude of students. He insisted that academia-industry linkage needs to be enhanced so that its true benefits can be achieved which are crucial for economical development of the country. Mr. Sultan offered 10 job positions for students of electrical engineering department which reflected successful efforts of university.

Dr. Talat Bodla, Dr. Mohammad Ahmed Farooqi (DDP Program Director), Dr.

Sobia Baig (HoD, EE), Muhamman Mohsin (Event organizer) and Mr. Mian

Sultan Mehmood (CEO, Creative Group of Industries) inaugurating Industrial

Open House

Industrial Open House

Final Years Students demonstrating their FYPs to Dr. Hassan (Director

Partnership, Lancaster University)

Dr. Sobia Baig (HoD, EE) presenting a souvenir to the chief guest Mian

Sultan Mehmood (CEO, Creative Group of Industries)

Mian Sultan Mehmood (CEO, Creative Group of Industries) addressing EE Faculty and Students in Open House

Final Year Project Students’ Achievement in TechnoVate’2014

Final Year Projects (FYPs) of EE Department, CIIT Lahore, entitled “Kinect Based Autonomous and Gesture Controlled Robo-Soccer Testbed” won the first position and the project Hand Gesture Based Robotic Mobile Loader got the fourth position in IEEE Lahore Section FYP competition at FAST Institute on 23rd August 2014.

Winning team of "CIIT" in "Technovate '14".

Imroz Aslam

Farooq Hassan

Yasir Rathore

Adil Ilyaz

TechnoVate ‘14 at FAST-NU CIIT, Lahore winning students receiving their certificates

Winning team of CIIT, Lahore in TechnoVate ‘14

Seminars Arranged by

IEEE Students

Training Session on NI-LabView

IEEE CIIT Lahore Student Branch and Control Automation and Power Engineering (CAPE) research

group organized a training session on “NI-LabView” presented by Mr. Ahmed Khalid (National In-

struments) held on 3rd and 4th of February, 2014 in Graduate Lab, CIIT Lahore campus. The main

theme of this training is to facilitate and enhance the LabView skills of researchers/students in their

research and industrial projects.

There was a distribution of certificates of NI-LabView for the students and faculty member by the

National Instruments (NI).

Training session was divided into the following parts:

Introduction to LabView

Control Systems based concepts using NI

Communication Systems based concepts using NI

Brochure of NI-LAB VIEW Training LABVIEW training session by Mr. Ahmed Khalid

Seminar on SUMICO Technologies

IEEE CIIT Lahore Student Branch organized a seminar named as “Seminar for Final Year Students” by

SUMICO Technologies in collaboration with Control Automation and Power Engineering (CAPE) re-

search group at Electrical Engineering Department. The seminar was held on 26th February, 2014 in

Seminar room, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore campus. The main theme of

organizing such a seminar is to introduce a professional training program regarding plant condition

monitoring and other hands on practical experiences among the fresh undergraduate of University.

Seminar on SIMCO Technologies

The presenters from SUMICO Technologies giving introduction

about plant monitoring systems IEEE CIIT Lahore Student Branch

Seminar on LTE

The seminar was organized to give the students an insight as to what the new technology holds in store

and to familiarize them with the use and the working of the technology from an engineer’s perspective.

The timing of the seminar was crucial as the industry has just stepped into a new era and our engineers,

who are graduating in the near future, have to get themselves acknowledged to the new system.

The seminar started with the speaker addressing the audience about the gradual evolution of the mo-

bile industry in Pakistan from the very beginning of the industry to the present day. Long Term Evolution

(LTE) is the pinnacle of telecom industry, a technology that is currently in operation in some of the most

advanced countries of the world and Pakistan now has access to fast speeds and bandwidths thanks to

4G LTE. Warid Telecom introduced this technology to the Pakistani Market after other mobile operators

got their licenses for 3G and 4G operations.

LTE Presentation by Farhan Pervez Faculty and students attending the seminar

The ending note from the speaker included the brief illustration of how big this new technology really is,

and the new horizons that this will open up, not only for the users, who will be the main beneficiaries no

doubt, but the engineers as well. New installations will have to be put in and a ton of new jobs will be

created in the telecom sector, which saw a boost when GPRS came to Pakistan a while back. In the same

way many Telecom Engineers will get jobs where they will be working with some of the fastest tech-

nologies available anywhere in the world.

Seminar on Techniques for BIG DATA

IEEE CIIT Lahore Student Branch organized a seminar named as “Techniques for BIG DATA Analysis” by

Ahmed Ali from TERADATA held on 16th April, 2014 in Seminar room, COMSATS Institute of Informa-

tion Technology (CIIT), Lahore campus. The main theme of organizing such a seminar is to introduce a

professional training program regarding data analysis using database among the undergraduates of uni-

versity.

Students as well as the faculty of Electrical Engineering department were invited to attend the Seminar.

The Seminar formally started by the introduction of TERADATA by Mr. Bilal and after that Mr. Ahmed

Ali came and started with the introduction about data, its importance and use in industry.

The audience showed their interest during seminar and asks many questions from the speaker regard-

ing data transferring, also how to analyze it, manage it as well as where to store data. Then he talked

about variation of data and its velocity during Nano seconds of time, after that he told the importance

of database in today’s industry and advised young engineers that they must develop such type of skills

as well.

Seminar on Big Data Analysis

Presenter Explaining Big Data Analysis

Seminar on Career Counseling

A seminar on career counseling wad held on Thursday, 15 May 2014 at Seminar Room, A - Block, CIIT

Lahore in collaboration with WIE Lahore. This seminar was hosted by Ms. Rameesha Fatima.

The seminar started with the recitation of the Holy Quran by Mr. Ahrar Ahmed. The main agenda of this

seminar was to help the students to understand their selves and the world of work in order to make

good progress in career, educational, and life decisions.

Mr.Saad Zafar, who was the guest speaker by WIE Lahore Section, shared his views about the impor-

tance of “Career Counseling”. He also addressed students how to achieve high goals in life. He told the

importance of CV to the audience that how it affects someone’s career and also told to write an effec-

tive CV now a days to impress the boss.

Chairperson WIE Lahore Ms. Sania Arshad also attended the seminar. She appreciated the hard work of

WIE-CIIT members. Mr. Haad Akmal, IEEE Department Liaison Officer, presented the souvenir to

Mr.Saad Zafar. We are thankful to both the guests to come at CIIT Lahore to address the students.

Seminar on Career Counseling Mr. Saad Zafar explaining career counseling to faculty and students

Industrial Trips

On 4th November, 2013 the students of Electrical department visited PEL (Pak Electron Limited). PEL is the pioneer manufacturer of electrical goods in Pakistan. It was established in 1956 in technical collabo-ration with M/s AEG of Germany. In October 1978, the company was taken over by Saigol group of companies. Since its inception, the company has always been contributing towards the advancement and development of the engineering sector in Pakistan by introducing a range of quality electrical equipment and home appliances and by producing hundreds of skilled workers and technicians through its apprenticeship scheme and training programmers. The company comprises of two divisions:

Appliance Division

Power Division

Among appliances the company manufactures refrigerator, split air conditioner, microwave oven, washing machine, water dispenser and generator. The power division manufactures power trans-former, distribution transformer, dry type transformer, switch gear and energy meter.

The students were welcomed by the officials of the company. The officials also demonstrated the manufacturing processes and arranged a guided tour of the company for the students. The department representatives thanked the officials for their cooperation during the trip.

On 11th November, 2013, the students of Electrical department visited Packages limited Lahore. Estab-lished in 1956 as a joint venture between the Ali group of Pakistan and Akerlund and Rausing of Swe-den. Packages limited provides premium packaging solutions for exceptional value to individuals and businesses. There are over 3000 employs and had sales of over US $257 million in 2011. The company use wheat straw as a raw material for paper and board manufacture. The company’s vision is to meet the challenges every new dawn and to become a regional player of quality packaging, paper, paper-board and consumer products. Smart governance, conservation and customer satisfaction are the core values for the company. The products of the company are listed below.

Paper and board

Folding cartons

Flexible business unit

The attractiveness of any company’s corporate environment can be gauged by the employees it hires and retains. An impressive 42% of the company’s employees have been working for 10 years and al-most 26% for more than 20 years.

INNOFEST’14

The competitions organized under the umbrella of INNOFEST’14 were a mix of knowledge and applica-

tion of spontaneous skills, all at the speed of thought. The mega event will consist of the following

events:

IEEE ExCODE

IEEE CircuitX

IEEE eGaming

JUNK ART 2.0

SCAVENGER HUNT

SPEED MARKETING COMPETITION

MINUTE TO WIN IT

GALA NIGHT

INNOFEST’14 Competitions

Dr. Sobia Baig (Head, EE Department) inaugurated INNOFEST’14 along with Mr. Haad Akmal (Chairman

IEEE), Mr. Muhammad Mohsin (Faculty, EE Department), Mr. Ahmed Daud (President, IEEE student

branch) and with other members of IEEE student branch at Bara Dari, CIIT Lahore Campus.

Inauguration Ceremony of INNOFEST’14

INNOFEST’14

IEEE eGaming Junk Art 2.0

IEEE CircuitX Scavenger Hunt

Gala Night

Professional Training Courses on Industrial Automation

Professional Training Courses on Industrial Automation

Electrical Engineering Solutions International (EESINT) offers professional training courses on PLC, HMI and introduction to SCADA in Industrial Automation Lab at CIIT, Lahore. Until now four batches, have successfully completed their training.

Industrial Automation Lab

New Labs

The department keep its labs up to date so that students become familiar with the latest technology. In this regard Siemens Automation PLC Lab, Control Lab, Measurement and Instrumentation Lab and Re-search & Simulation Lab are newly set in the Electrical Department. Two more labs i.e Power electron-ics Lab and Industrial electronics Lab are established and will be soon functional.

MS students work in the Research & Simulation Lab which is equipped with the latest computers and internet connection. Access to various research journals is available in the Research and simulation Lab so that students can focus on their research . In addition to that latest simulation software are also in-stalled in the lab computers for assisting students in simulating their research ideas.

In the Siemens Automation PLC Lab, Electrical Engineering Solutions International (EESINT) is offering short courses for professionals and for students. The courses include PLC, HMI and SCADA trainings. Two batches have already completed the course in the Industrial Automation Lab.

Control Lab

Research and Simulation Lab Industrial Automation Lab

Farewell Party

The students of Spring 11 session organized a farewell party for the passing out batch (Fall 10) on 30th

May, 2014. Different skits were performed by both the batches. Pleasant memories were shared in the

speeches of class representatives. Dinner was served during the party. At the end active participants of

the farewell party were given certificates of appreciation by the head of department, Dr. Sobia Baig,

who at the end of the ceremony shared her feelings with the students. The party was organized by the

extra co-curricular committee of the Electrical Engineering department.

Farewell Speech by FALL 10 Batch

Dr. Sobia Baig , Head of EE Department, distributing certificates

Faculty Dinner (EE Department)

A departmental dinner was arranged in Lahore Gymkhana on Tuesday, 9th September, 2014. Dr.

Farooqi (Programme Director, DDP ), Dr. Hassan (Coordinator DDP) and Mr. Afzal Baig (Manager Works)

also graced the occasion.

EE Faculty Dinner party at Gymkhana, Lahore

New Faculty Joining

5) Abdul Moeed Amjad

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (Power)

Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia

BS (Power)

UET Lahore, Pakistan

4) Husnain Kashif

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (Radio Communication)

Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola Karlskrona, Sweden

BS (Computer Engg) CIIT Lahore, Pakistan

6) Nisma Saleem

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (Power) UET, Taxila

BS (Electrical)

NFC IEFR Fsd, (UET Lahore)

7) M. Usman Iqbal

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (DSP) NUST, Islamabad

BS (Electronics ) BZU, Multan

8) Salman Ijaz

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (EE), UET Taxila

BS (Electronics) BZU, Multan

1) Dr. Mubeen Masud 2) Mian Ahmed Yasir

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Qualification Qualification

PhD (EE) NDSU, USA MS (Electronics and Communications) UET Lahore

MS (Wireless Systems) KTH, Sweden BS (Electrical) U.E.T. Lahore, Pakistan

BS (Electrical) U.E.T. Lahore, Pakistan

3) Amir Bilal Asghar

Lecturer

Qualification

MS (Control Engineering) GC University, Lahore

BS (Electronics )

The Islamia university of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Faculty Leaving for Higher Studies

Arooj Mubashara Siddiqui

Tabish Niaz

Mudassir Ashfaq

Syed Safdar Raza

Rizwan Asif

Mukhtar Hussain

CIIT granted fully funded MS scholarships to the following faculty members:

Subhan Khan

Ramsha Bukhari

Muhammad Mohsin

National/International

Activities

Punjab Youth Festival

The students of Electrical Engineering Department participated in the Punjab Youth Festival which was held in Expo Centre, Lahore from 28th Feb to 3rd Mar, 2014. The students displayed their final year pro-jects in the festival which were supervised by Dr. Mujtaba Jaffery. A very encouraging response was ob-served from the academia and industry people. The projects displayed include:

S.No Project Title Students Name 1

PC based control of RC helicopter

Adil Qayyum Mahrukh Navid Ahmed Sohail Filza Tariq

2

Mind wave controlled wheel chair

Usman Shahid Omer Mubeshir Shahryar Humayun

3

Design and control of the twin rotor testbed

Neha Butt Hira Saleem Rabia Masood Jawad Ahmed

4

Simulation for testing and validation of control laws

Umair Ahmed Arif Eisha Murtaza Mubasit Wasi Hamza Zaidi

5

Autonomous and human machine interaction based Robo-Soccer test-bed.

Imroze Aslam Malik Syed Farooq Hassan Adil Ilyas Yasir Jamil

University President Forum 2014 at Universiti Teknologi, Johar Behru, Malaysia

A delegate of COMSATS Lahore, Dr. Sobia Baig and Dr. Abdus Sattar Abbasi, represented COMSATS In-

stitute of Information Technology at the University President Forum (UPF), in UTM, Johar Bahru Malay-

sia from 21st to 23rd May, 2014. This was a gathering of Presidents and Vice Chancellors of selected uni-

versities which aimed to provide a platform to discuss current and pertinent issues related to higher

education and strengthen collaboration among participating universities, especially in the area of aca-

demia and research.

The topic of the forum was “Global Collaboration Opportunities in Knowledge Creation and Innova-

tion”. University Presidents Forum (UPF) aimed at the interaction between participants of the forum, in

order to:

1. Discuss current issues relating to higher education 2. Outline strategy and action plan to improve collaboration and cooperation amongst participating

universities

The purpose of the forum was to identify common issues and opportunities for research universities

that would further strengthen the roles and relevance of universities. Presidents or Vice Chancellors of

the selected universities were invited to present their diverse views, insights and experience on global

education and research. The objective was to forge an international network of universities that would

strengthen the efforts of the participating universities and create active and effective alliances in re-

search and education through this forum.

Representatives of universities attending the forum

Dr. Sobia Baig Representing CIIT, Lahore in UPF

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology was introduced by Dr. Sobia Baig, Head, Electrical Engi-

neering Department, CIIT, Lahore in her presentation to the participants. The focus of presentation was

to give an overview of the Institute, highlight its achievements and ranking and highlight the interna-

tional collaboration and research output. The participants were much impressed by the progress made

by the Institute in a very short span of time. Dr. Sobia Baig emphasized the fact that CIIT already had an

MoU with UTM, Malaysia and many of its staff members were graduate students at UTM. She high-

lighted the fact that CIIT is open to research collaborations and International partnerships with the par-

ticipant universities in areas already presented in her presentation.

In addition to CIIT, twelve other universities gave brief presentations, some of which included Military

Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Dhaka, Universitas Padjajaran, Indonesia, Japan Science and

Technology Agency (JST)-Singapore, Hanyang University, Korea, etc.

Dr. Sobia Baig, HoD, EE presenting CIIT, Lahore in UPF

In this background, COMSATS Institute delegate planned to present the Institute’s profile before the fo-

rum of universities, to network with other participating delegates and to engage UTM faculty members

and international office in productive and long lasting collaboration, so as to strengthen the existing

Memorandum of Understanding and enhance it to a Memorandum of Agreement.

Research Activities

Dr. Khurram Bhatti, Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Depart-

ment, CIIT Lahore is pursuing his post-doc studies on Marie-Curie Research

Fellowship, ERCIM ABCDE Fellowship since October, 2013. He is focusing

on “Parallel computing systems and their performance analysis”.

Parallel computing systems promise higher performance for computation-

ally intensive applications. Performance analysis is therefore central to en-

suring performance-portability and predictability of target applications. In

performance analysis, the composition and execution of target applications

is mainly analyzed to derive guidelines usable by the middleware to pro-

vide portable and predictable performance.

During the fellowship, his research activities were mainly focused on performance analysis of target ap-

plications and design of the scheduling algorithms in order to predict performance within the ARTEMIS/

EU project PaPP (Portable and Predictable Performance on Heterogeneous Embedded Many cores,

web: http://www.papp-project.eu/). This project aims at making performance predictable for parallel

applications on heterogeneous parallel platforms.

Post-doc Research Fellowship by Dr. Khurram Bhatti

In order to provide a solid ground for the NI-CIIT collaboration, Dr.Mujtaba Jaffery attended the NI-

Days 2014 in Beirut. The major aim of this visit was:

Get familiarization with the NI-organization structure

Develop a ground work for the development of NI-Academy in CIIT, Lahore

Explore possibilities of joint venture in the field of engineering and research

Gain support from NI to provide technical training support in research activities

It was an excellent interaction to facilitate Academia-Industry linkages in engineering/

technology.

Keeping in view the progressive growth of CIIT, Lahore and its affiliation with Lancaster University (LU),

NI had shown keen interest in the development of NI-Academy at Electrical Engineering department,

Lahore.

NI-CIIT Research Collaboration attended by Dr. Mujtaba Jaffery

International Research Activities

International Research Collaboration by Dr. Asim Ali Khan

Dr. Asim Ali Khan was invited in August 2014 to visit Microwave and Communica-

tion research Group, University of Manchester (UoM) UK. This visit was planned in

context of on-going research collaboration since June 2011. Dr. Khan has been

involved in developing radio frequency interference rejection techniques since

2012 with Prof. A. K. Brown of UoM for the potential target application in Square

Kilometre Array-Aperture Array Verification Program (SKA-AVPP). This work is

mostly focused on antenna arrays with inter-element spacing greater than one wavelength also

known as sparse arrays. This type of antenna array finds applications in radio astronomy, radars and

other radio frequency imaging receivers. In these applications the overall performance is challenged

by the presence of interferers e.g. a cellular transmitter site may interfere with signals that are of

interest to radio astronomers or presence of brighter object in the vicinity of the object of interest.

The proposed technique has shown to have capability of narrow and wideband and wide sector in-

terference rejection. This research has been published in top tier journal and international confer-

ences.

Faculty Research Publications

1) Asim Ali Khan, “ Null Steering in Irregularly Spaced Sparce Antenna Array using Aperture Distrib-

uted Subarrays and Hybrid Optimiser” IET Microwave Antennas & Propagation, pp: 86-92, Vol :8.,

Issue: 2, Impact Factor : 0.84.

2) Ejaz. A. Ansari, “ Computing Cross and Auto-Correlation sequences of Output WSS Real Random

Process in Linear Time:, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Science International Lahore. Pp: 205-

209, Vol:26, Issue: 1, ISI.

3) Ejaz. A. Ansari, “ Obtaining Time Domain Expressions of Band Limited Signal Pulses for Zero ISI”, En-

gineering and Applied Sciences, Science International Lahore. pp: 169-173, Vol:26, Issue: 1, ISI.

4) Ejaz A. Ansari and Saleem Akhtar, “ Real Versus Complex Gaussian Distributions for Digital Commu-

nication:, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Science International Lahore., pp: 85-89,Vol:26, Issue:

1, ISI.

5) Sébastien Bilavarn, Jabran Khan, Cécile Belleudy, Muhammad Khurram Bhatti,” Effectiveness of

power strategies for video applications: a practical study.”, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing,

pp: 1-10, Vol:1, Impact Factor: 1.156.

6) Jabran Khan, Sebastien Bilavarn, Muhammad Khurram Bhatti, Cécile Belleudy, “ Energy Analysis of a

Real-time Multiprocessor Control of Idle States”, PECCS, pp: 125-130, Vol:1.

7) Abid Farooq, Moinuddin Ghauri, Mujtaba Hussain Jaffery and Khurram Shahzad , “Effects of Cata-

lysts(Mg and Fe) on Kinetics of Biomass Gasification Using CO2 as Gasifying Agent “, J. Basic Appl.

Sci. Res., pp: 494-502, Vol: 31, Issue: 41, ISSN 2090-4304.

8) Abdul Moeed Amjad, Zainal Salam,” A review of soft computing methods for harmonics elimination

PWM for inverters in renewable energy conversion systems”, Renewable & Sustainabele Energy Re-

views, pp: 141-153, Vol:33, Impact Factor: 5.627.

9) Arooj Rashid, Abdul Rashid, Nayab Pervez,” Analysis of Breakdown Voltage and Cost Reduction of

Transformer Oil by Using Nomex Paper and Filler”, The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering,

AJSE-D-12-01722R1, Impact Factor: 0.385.

Faculty Research Projects

The faculty research projects which are under review are given below:

Wearable sensing and communication system for telemedicine and surveillance applications.

This project is proposed by Dr. Asim Ali Khan & Dr. Ali Nawaz Khan.

Passive millimeter wave imager for concealed object detection. This project is proposed by Dr.

Asim Ali Khan.

Approved project include “Simulation study of novel space time block coding using rank codes

and efficient decoding”. This project is proposed by Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Asif.

Other submitted projects include

The research proposal entitled “Highly broadband transmission line based on surface wave”

for which approximately Rs.3 million funds are demanded. The proposal was submitted on

May 12, 2014 to HEC NRPU office. The PI and Co-PI are Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Asif and Dr. Asim

Ali Khan respectively.

The research proposal entitled “VLC transceiver design and coupling of VLC-PLC systems” for

which approximately Rs.9 million funds are demanded. The proposal was submitted on Jun

02, 2014 to NICT R&D office. The PI and Co-PI are Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Asif and Dr. Sobia Baig

respectively.

Student Final Year Projects

The students of Electrical Engineering department participated in the EMCOT which was held in CIIT, Abbotabad campus from 12-13th May, 2014. The following projects were displayed in the event:

Monitoring and control of Autonomous Robotic Loader, group members include:

Humayun Khan

Aisha Batool

Room automation system with energy saving through human body sensing, group members in-clude:

M. Irfan Ali

Zarak Khan

Design and development of autonomous mobile robot for navigation in hazardous and unknown environments, group members include:

Mohbat

Muhammad Zubair

Usman Ghani

Zeeshan Rasool

Design and analysis of visible light communication, group members include:

Aazib Gilani

Asma Siddique

Nimra Munir

Smart grid consumer side management system, group members include:

Shahzaib Hassan

Sajid Afzaal

Muhammad Uzair

First prize was won by Humayun Khan and Aisha Batool for their project entitled “Monitoring and con-trol of Autonomous Robotic loader”.

Mr. Humayun Khan and Miss Aisha Batool won first prize in EMCOT

Patent By Dr. Naeem Awais

Patent is registered in Korea by Dr. Naeem Awais with his Korean collaborators in research.

Title: OLED DEVICE FOR BOTH-SIDES DISPLAY

International Patent Classification: H01L 51/52

Application Number: 1020130072165

Registration Number: 1014138520000

Inventors: Jin Ho Bae, Kyung Hyun Choi, Yang Hoi Doh, Muhammad

Naeem Awais

Year: 2014

Weblink: http://www.kipris.or.kr/enghome/main.jsp

Abstract:

The invention relates to a device for double-sided OLED display. Specifically, every stack of the OLED device comprises of two OLEDs where one OLED is used for front-light and second OLED for back-light. Each of the two OLEDs comprises of electron transport layer, light emitting layer and hole transport layer. The light from the top and bottom OLED is alternated with the electric current’s di-rection. The current’s direction is controlled with the voltage which is periodically inverted with the middle layer between the top and bottom OLEDs. Therefore, it provides the implementation of both sides OLED display panel.

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January 2014 - September 2014

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