Posted by Tee Emm on January 27, 2009
Haris Shamsi (linkedin profile) belongs to the Electrical Engineering batch of 1994-95 (graduated in 1998). Haris is probably the youngest professional in the local technology sphere to wield a lot of positive control when it comes to implementing Internet technologies correctly, consistently, and to world standards in the budding data industry of Pakistan.
Haris currently works as the head of Product Development for Mobilink Infinity, a project that will have a great impact on Pakistan’s data infrastructure. By its very nature the project will be definitive. Estimated to be a ~$200 million project, Mobilink Infinity is about quenching the broadband thirst of a nation that is very young in terms of data infrastructure but which has already showed a very high level of maturity in the voice domain. The technology behind the project is Wimax, and the equipment is being supplied by Alcatel Lucent and Motorola. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on January 12, 2009
The news has featured a piece on Nauman sb (Electrical Engineering) about 3/4 months ago. I apologize for posting it so late, but I thought fellow NEDians–both past and present–might want to see it. Not everyone might agree with what it says–or with Nauman Saahab–but then, that’s what this blog is about. Please comment on it–and send in your own thoughts on him and other personalities associated with NED. And, yes, do please send in your opinion even if, or especially if you think it is different from what other people might think.
‘Silent middle class hindering social change’
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
By Aroosa Masroor
Karachi
Professor Mohammad Nauman is an associate professor with the NED University and has been serving as an academic for over 30 years. A true Karachiite at heart, Prof. Nauman has witnessed the rise and fall of different governments in Pakistan and its impact on Karachi – one of the largest and most important cities of the country.
Throughout his student life, Prof. Nauman was affiliated with student organisations such as the National Students Federation (NSF) and later, in 1972, went on to become one of the founding members of the Progressive Students Front (PSF), a progressive students movement that resisted General Zia’s Islamisation in the late 70s and early 80s.
Before joining NED University, the professor had served in the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP). While at NED, he voluntarily worked with Edhi Foundation during the era of bomb blasts and ethnic violence of late 80s and developed a wireless network for it. He has also served as technical adviser to Fahim Zaman, former administrator Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (now CDGK). The News recently caught up with the educationist who has often received criticism for airing his views against the management and the government.
Q. Tell us about your early life and education.
A. I was born in Karachi, but spent my early childhood in Lahore where my father was teaching at the Aitchison College. Later, he joined the
Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan. The job required him to be posted in different districts across the Sindh and Punjab province so I have spent my life with people of almost all ethnicities in Pakistan. Growing up with different people from the rural as well as urban parts of the country taught me a lot about the existing challenges and contrasts within our society across the country. I later joined Cadet College Petaro from where I completed my Intermediate and then did my bachelors and Masters in electrical engineering from the NED Engineering College. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 4, 2007
In the very first post on this blog, when I was providing an introduction to prominent NEDians in the blogsosphere, I introduced “Tee Emm” (Tariq Mustafa, Batch ‘90-91) as “probably one of the first people to write a blog out of Pakistan”. But it appears that my cautious characterization was unnecessary.
The Karachi Metroblog team (Metroblogging ®, for the uninitiated, is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web–from San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what’s going on in the city) recently held a seminar at “The Second Floor” (a coffeehouse, featuring a bookshop and a space for creative expression and intelligent discourse in Karachi) titled “Blogging 101″. You can read their own report here, but what caught my eye was the following slide:
Which means that I stand corrected. It is good to see general recognition for the work of an NEDian who’s been hacking away in the netroots for a long, long time. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by riaz_haq on August 17, 2007
As many of you already know, the theme of the Nedians Convention 2007 in San Jose is “Celebrate the Long History and Rich Heritage of NED“. As we count down to the Convention Day on Sept 8, I have written a piece celebrating the diversity and achievements of fellow alumni, with whom we all feel a sense of kinship. This will be published in Aug 17 issue of Pakistan Link, a California weekly published by a fellow NEDian Arif Mansuri. Here it is:
NED Engineering Alumni in US Celebrate NED’s Long History and Rich Heritage
By Riaz Haq, President, NED Alumni Association of Silicon Valley
What: NED University of Engineering and Technology Alumni Convention
When: Saturday, Sept 8, 2007
Where: San Jose, California
Attendees: Open to all Nedians and Non-NEDians
Registration: Register online at www.nedians.org or call 1-888-267-5951
About NED:
NED University of Engineering and Technology is the alma mater to thousands of NEDians currently residing in North America with hundreds of them in and around Silicon Valley, the high-tech hub of the world. Established in 1921 as the Prince of Wales College, it was renamed in 1942 after a Parsee philanthropist Mr. Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw. Until 1977, when it became a university in its own right, it was affiliated with various universities including Bombay University, Sindh University and Karachi University in successive periods before and after Pakistan’s independence. It remains one of the oldest and best known institutions of higher learning in Pakistan, with a large number of very successful alumni as testament to its rich and glorious heritage. Hundreds of these alumni are gathering in Silicon Valley on Sept 8, 2007 to celebrate it. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by Owais Mughal on August 14, 2007
The number of NED alumni that go on to receive a doctorate in their chosen field is not yet very high. In such a scenario, whenever the news of an NED alumnus successfully completing his or her PhD appears, it is something to be celebrated. Kamran Arshad, who is an NED alumnus of Electrical Engineering, Batch 1995-96, recently successfully completed his PhD in the field of Electrical Engineering. He has thus earned the honor of being called Dr. Kamran. The title of his PhD thesis was:
“Modelling of Radio Wave Propagation using Finite Element Analysis”.
Dr. Kamran did his masters from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2003. He then went to the UK to pursue his doctorate. In particular, he went to Middlesex University in London–and finished his doctorate in just 2 and a half years, which is a record for the university. This is what Kamran had to say about his PhD and the topic of his research: WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
