Day: May 30, 2022

Lahore, May 30, 2022 (PPI-OT):Industrial Partnership Projects (IPP), in collaboration with Engineers for Community Welfare (ECW) of Pakistan, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Pakistan, and Akhuwat Foundation Pakistan hosted a competition for young entrepreneurs “New Venture Contest” (NVC) from December 15, 2021, till April 23, 2022.

It was a business ideas competition, inspiring young entrepreneurs to develop their business dreams to make them real. All entrepreneurs, including graduate and undergraduate students, joined to promote their proposals and compete for up to $10,000 interest-free loans for starting their business.

There were 3 rounds of the competition. In round 1, the participants submitted a 2-page summary of their business concept online. In the semi-final round, the teams submitted a complete business plan, cap table, verification of establishment of a legal entity, and tax forms. The semi-finalists also submitted video recordings for pitching their ideas to judges. After analysing the ideas, the judges selected 3 out of 10 teams for the final round.

The multiple round competition came to an end at UET, Lahore following the competition finals and award ceremony where the finalists’ teams presented their ideas in a slideshow format to a panel of expert judges comprises of more than 30 industry leaders.

The award ceremony was held at the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore’s main campus on 13th May 2022. The ceremony was graced with the presence of Dr. Amjad Saqib, Founder and Executive Director of Akhuwat Foundation, as a Chief Guest.

Dr. Waqar Mahmood, Director KICS, Dr. Sohail Aftab Qureshi, Dr. Noor Muhammad Sheikh from Government College University, Dr. Ashraf Iqbal, Mr. Aamer Aziz, Director General Placement Punjab TEVTA, and Dr. Muhammad Kamran, Dean Electrical Engineering Department, UET were invited as distinguished guests.

Director KICS, Dr. Waqar Mahmood welcomed the Honourable guests, judges, and participants and also appreciated the organizers for organizing such a successful competition. Dr. Noman Mufti from IPP-US briefed about the new venture contest and highlighted the efforts to organize the event. He also thanked the sponsors and organizations that helped to put the event together.

The founder of Akhuwat Foundation, Dr. Amjad Saqib congratulated the organizers especially Dr. Noman Mufti to find creative and innovative people. He said, “Entrepreneurship is not the name of making money, it is the name of value creation. In a world full of ideas, the entrepreneurs come up with such innovative ideas that make life easier for all of us”.

After the guests’ speeches, the results of the competition were announced by Dr. Noman Mufti. Chief Guest of the ceremony, Dr. Amjad Saqib along with the distinguished guests distributed the cash prizes to the winners for the ideas Cottage Busy Bees as 1st prize of $10,000, Pot-in-Pot Refrigerator as 2nd prize of $5,000, and Dairy Fuel Fields as 3rd prize of $2,000. The awards ceremony ended up with the shields distribution to the guests, judges, and organizers.

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Lahore, May 30, 2022 (PPI-OT):A team of researchers at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, has designed a System on Chip (SoC) integrating a processor core with multiple peripherals for embedded applications. The designed SoC (UETRV-ESoC) consists of a 3-stage pipelined RISC-V processor core, three motor control modules, each capable of controlling dc-servo motors for coordinated multi-axis motion control, along with few other peripherals. UETRV-ESoC is open sourced and is showcased at UET’s Department of Electrical Engineering GitHub codebank (https://github.com/ee-uet/UETRV_ESoC). The demo video showing the SoC at work is available at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFyD8QpKSA)

UETRV-ESoC has also been selected for the fabrication in the Open Source MPW-5 Shuttle program which is sponsored by Google. The team, comprising Mr. Umer Shahid, Mr. Abdul Wadood, Mr. Ali Imran, Mr. Junaid Amjad, and Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir, has successfully accomplished the goal and aspire to make many more such contributions to the open-source community in future. The team is thankful to its alumni and acknowledges their support in equipping Digital System Design Laboratory with necessary resources.

Vice Chancellor, Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar, has congratulated all the contributors and stakeholders for the success of this project. He added that this success will motivate further research and development efforts in the domain of digital IC/SoC design in Pakistan. Dr Sarwar said, “We have already established a laboratory for IC design and testing at the UET through funding from Punjab Government and plan on enhancing our expertise as well as offer graduate degree program in this area.” The world is facing a serious shortage of ICs because of their increasing demand due to proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT). “In an era of severe shortage of IC designers, design verification experts, and fabs, we must grab the opportunity to produce graduate in this important area of engineering and technology as well as re-train graduated engineers,” he added.

For more information, contact:
Public Relations Officer,
University of Engineering and Technology (UET)
G.T. Road, Lahore – 54890, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-99250274, +92-42-99029358
Cell: +92-321-9467302
Email: tanveerqasim@yahoo.com
Website: www.uet.edu.pk