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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:


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.


BUITEMS Textronics & Carl Laboratory Team Wins 2nd Place in 2nd

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 28th and 29th

March, 2017. 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


2nd 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 one-

day event “All Pakistan DICE-Textile

2016 Innovation Event” on March 21st,

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 2nd Prize of Rs. 60,000 in this

national mega event. The team was awarded the cheque and a shield from the chief guest.


SATHA Award 2016

On May 4-5th, 2016 Prof Dr. M. Naeem Shahwani, Director ORIC-BUITEMS received “South

Asia Triple Helix Innovation Award” on the occasion of “SATHA Awards 2016” of 1st

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 5th, 2016.


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 2nd anniversary of vision

2025. The ceremony was organized by

Ministry of Planning, Development and

Reform held at Islamabad on August 11th,

2016. 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.


HEC Best Paper Award for BUITEMS Scholar

Ceremony for 4th outstanding research awards was held on March 13th, 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.


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 16th, 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.


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 16th-18th, 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 1st 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.


All Balochistan Intervarsity Software Competition

On June 1st, 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.


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 8th 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.


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 22nd, 2016.

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