2^nd UET-Archroma-SDC International Conference on Sustainable Textile took place at UET’s Faisalabad campus on3rd April, 2019. Department of Textile Engineering of UET’s FSD campus, Archroma and SDC-UK successfully organized three mega events of textile mentioned as under:

1. 2nd UET-ARCHROMA-SDC International Conference on Sustainable Textile
2. SDC-UK International Design Competition for Students 2019 (All Pakistan region)
3. Top Pakistani Textile Brands stalls and tribute

At the conference, large majority of the participants and attendees were witnessed including textile mill owners, CEOs of enterprises, industrial representatives, academicians and students. The invited speakers, who delivered their presentations, included Director KICS and CERAD UET Lahore Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood, Mr. Mujhtaba Rahim (CEO Archroma), Mr. Andrew (SDC-UK Technical Director), Mr. Ignasi (Director EIG Textile Sustainability), Ms. Aglaia (Consultant EIG-C2C), Eng. Ahmmad Hasan (R&D head of FCCI), Dr. Khurram (CEO K&M), Dr. Mohsin (Chairman Textile), CEO WWF Pakistan among many others.

At the students’ competition, 210 projects on textile presented by the students from all over Pakistan were displayed. The winner of this competition will have the opportunity to visit UK for grand final in November 2019 and the trip will be sponsored by SDC-UK.

Top brands of the country also exhibited their sustainable themes, articles and collections. Massod Textiles were awarded with Archroma sustainability Award whereas Patola brand won Archroma brand of the year award.

The objective of this conference was to strengthen the linkage between industry and academia.

Department of Textile Engineering, UET Lahore, Faisalabad Campus, Archroma and SDC-UK have successfully organized the following three mega events of textile on 3rd April 2019 at UET Lahore, Faisalabad Campus.

1. 2nd UET-ARCHROMA-SDC International Conference on Sustainable Textile
2. SDC-UK International Design Competition for Students 2019 (All Pakistan region)
3. Top Pakistani Textile Brands stalls and tribute

Over 1000 visitors including textile mill owners, CEOs, industrial representatives, academician and students attended the three mega-events. Speakers of the conference include Director KICS & CERAD, UET Lahore (Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood), CEO Archroma (Mr. Mujhtaba Rahim), SDC-UK Technical Director (Mr. Andrew), Director EIG Textile sustainability, (Mr. Ignasi), Consultant EIG-C2C (Ms. Aglaia), R&D head of FCCI (Eng. Ahmmad Hasan), CEO K&M (Dr. Khurram), CEO WWF, Pakistan, Chairman Textile (Dr. Mohsin) as well as other top experts of the field. Total 210 projects of the textile student from all over Pakistan were displayed at the student competition. The winner of the student will now travel to UK for the grand final in November which will be sponsored by SDC-UK. Top brands of the country also exhibited their sustainable themes, articles and collections. Archroma sustainability award was won by Massod textile while Archroma brand of the year award was won by Patola brand. The primary objective of these events is to strengthen Industry-Academia linkage and promotion of sustainable production of textiles. Dr. Mohsin (Chairman, Department of Textile Engineering) and Dr. Arshad (Head, Business Development, Archroma) were the chief organizer of the conference as well as the competitions.

A delegation from Pakistan’s premium advertising company ‘Adsells’ comprising of CEO Adsells Mr. Abbas Mujahid Qureshi and Mr. Farooq recently visited Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) UET Lahore. The delegation’s lab visit was led by both Dr. Usman Ghani and Mr. Aqeel M. Babar, Manager Procurement & Admin, KICS-UET, Lahore.

The delegation showed interest in labs’ functioning and the research projects being done there. They were impressed by the research work done in the areas like Motion Detection, Brain Informatics and Game Development.

A delegation from Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited HCR (Human-Centric Lab) of KICS UET Lahore. The delegation consisted of Mian Shafqat Ali (Ex. Chairman LCCI, Ex. Chairman PIAF), Raees Sheikh (Prime steel corporation, Prime Steel Mills), Ms. Shamim Akhtar (CEO Care marketing Ltd), Ms. Nasira Taskeen (CEO Vision Consulting Ltd), Shehryar Ali and others. The purpose of this visit was to establish industry and academia linkage. Another agenda was the introduction of HCR’s future product to the industry personnel for possible future collaboration.

The delegation also met with the Vice Chancellor of UET Lahore Dr. Aziz Akbar where the delegation discussed about the engineering scope in the industry, engineers capacity building for the industrial jobs and minimizing the gap between the industry and academia collaboration.

Muhammad Dawer Saeed (BDM) delivered an introductory presentation at HCR Lab. Research projects being done there such as Collaborative robots, Exo-Skeletons, Active Prostheses, were briefed to the delegation. Later, they met with Dr. Waqar Mahmood (Director KICS), Dr. Ali Raza (Chairman & PI), Dr. Mohsin Rizwan (Co-PI) and Dr. Ahsan Naeem (Co-PI).

KICS UET was recently conferred with a project on security funded by HEC, Pakistan. The project, which was awarded to IRIL Lab of KICS, is for developing a standard security framework for IoT considering the requirements and specifications provided by global standardization bodies and alliances for IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The objective is to secure end-to-end communication and to provide interoperability among heterogeneous type of constrained and non-constrained IoT devices. This will involve the development of novel security algorithms, adaptation of existing security mechanisms for constrained devices, and the implementation of these algorithms/mechanisms in the software (OS) and hardware platforms for IoT.

IRIL Lab of KICS has been awarded with a project titled ‘Security Audit Tools for IoT Devices’. It has been funded by HEC National Center of Cyber Security (NCCS). The aim of this project is to develop an integrated open-source auditing tool to evaluate the security of hardware, firmware, software and communication of IoT devices. This project is potentially great in bridging industry and academia gap. And this is because that the lab is on way to develop collaborations and partnerships with both national and international entities to promote commercialization of our research projects. Continue reading →

UET Game Studio has been on way to design and launch new videos and the latest being the ones namely Storm Destruction.IO 2019, Maze Runner 3D and Animal Race. These are the commercial games and very enticing not only for the kids but also for the adults. They have been targeted to all age-groups and interestingly the reviews from all ages have been pretty good. Let’s check out what these latest games all about.

Storm Destruction.IO 2019

Roam around the city with your tornado and destroy as much as you can.

Beat your opponents in this game.

The more you destroy the more you score.

The only thing required is the disaster.

Maze Runner 3D

Find your way to the door and conquer the maze. Collect cool pickup items through your way and gain strength, make intelligent moves so that you can reach the finish door.

Animal Race

Experience different tracks and join the animal racing with different wild animals. In this animal racing 3D simulation game you will experience different tracks and animals which will give you an ultimate racing experience. Don’t hesitate to try different animals.

Since these projects are not funded and are self-generated, nonetheless they can bridge industry with academia. They are potentially great.

These ventures also are helpful in finding new ways of learning.

Game Studio’s these projects provide visual simulation which are more convincing, cheap and not hazardous.

These games projects will also add values to their existing approach of teaching.

The story of IEEE COMSOC Summer School 2018, which was held at LUMS Lahore in August 2018, was featured in IEEE Magazine USA edition with such a distinction. IEEE COMSOC Summer School has been taking place in Pakistan for last three years or so. Since 2016 onwards, summer school has been happening at various places in Pakistan that is a big distinction. KICS UET Lahore has been the bigger collaborator in these ventures taken place in Pakistan.

In 2016, the school was jointly organized by KICS UET Lahore and Punjab University Lahore, the following year it took place with a joint collaboration of KICS UET and FAST University. In 2018, it was organized jointly by KICS UET, LUMS and IEEE LUMS Students Branch.