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Swabi, December 29, 2021 (PPI-OT):The alumni of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, who came from about 70 different countries, have stressed the need for academia-industry linkages and result-oriented research activities for the development of the country. The alumni, who reached their alma mater from across the globe, unanimously vowed to play their due role in further strengthening the environment for imparting contemporary knowledge to the youngsters.

Shakil Durrani Executive Director of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST) was chief guest on the occasion. Taimur Saleem Jhagra, provincial finance and health minister, a member of GIK Institute Alumni Association also attended the gathering. Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid, SI, Rector GIK Institute, Sardar Aminullah Khan, Pro-Rector Admin and Finance, Prof Dr Wasim A Khan, Pro-Rector Academics, deans, students of various disciplines, directors and other staff attended the event. The alumni paid tributes to founder of the GIK Institute, late Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the former President of Pakistan.

The Institute has made great efforts to make alumni homecoming comfortable and the academia and staff extended a warm welcome to them. The gathering provided them an opportunity to reunite, catch up with their old friends, refresh the sweet memories of the student life and have a glimpse of their alma mater.

“GIK Institute has really transferred my personality and really helped me in professional learning,” said Hina Gohar who completed her PhD from abroad. During interaction with the faculty, their visit to respective faculties and speaking at various seminars they vowed to straighten their interaction and relationship with GIK Institute.

Junaid Kalim, president of GIK Institute Alumni Association said, “GIK Institute has a strong desire to give great value to their mother Institution and play our due role in making it stronger.” He said the alumni provided Rs27 million as scholarship to the students in the current year. The total scholarships were awarded to 55 students. “We provide need-based scholarships on merit to the GIK Institute students,” he said. “We strive to increase the scholarship to Rs30 million in the next year.

“We are true representatives of our alma mater. We would strive to use our expertise, experience and status to further boost the rank of the Institute in the field of engineering sciences and management science,” said Muhammad Usman, who came from Mexico.

Speaking on the occasion Shakil Durrani said there were 200 universities in Pakistan and GIK Institute was known as a centre of excellence, enjoying a unique place in the landscape of higher education. Taimur Jhagra said, “The universities have to play a massive role in the development of the country. The GIK Institute has produced outstanding graduates.”

Prof Khalid said that the alumni visit has “become a huge source of inspiration” and strength for the Institute. The Institute has so far produced 6800 BS, 500 MS and over 75 PhD graduates. “You (alumni) are stars of our Institute. You are a great asset we strive to strengthen,” he said.

For more information, contact:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)
Topi 23640, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Tel: +92-938-281026
Fax: +92-938-281032, +92-938-281041
Website: https://www.giki.edu.pk/

Swabi, December 18, 2021 (PPI-OT):The 3rd International Workshop on Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools (WRE 2021) was organized at GIK Institute on 11 December, 2021. The workshop was technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IMechE and financially sponsored by Directorate General of Science and Technology, Government of KP. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group, USA) as “Computers in Engineering Design and Manufacturing” book series.

The crux of the opinion in the three days ‘International Workshop on Functional Reverse Engineering Machine Tools’ in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology was that the application of functional reverse engineering has gained a considerable momentum while ensuring the safety and well-being of the users of different products.

Rector, GIK Institute, Professor Dr. Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, was the Chief Guest at the opening ceremony, and Prof. Dr. Tahir Irfan Khan, Vice Chancellor, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology was the Chief Guest at the Closing Ceremony.

The academic experts from across the world and Pakistan spoke in the workshop and their participation became possible due to rigorous efforts of Prof. Dr. Wasim A. Khan, Pro-Rector, academics. He was general chair of the workshop. A large number of national and international scientists, invited speakers and practitioners attended the workshop. There were four keynote talks and four parallel technical sessions including six invited talks and twelve chapter presentations. Among the prominent speakers at workshop were:

Prof. Dr. Duc Pham OBE, University of Birmingham, UK,

Dr. Volkan Esat, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus, Turkey

Dr. Khurram Altaf, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia

Mr. Gul Waqar Khan, Nokia, Finland

Prof Xiaoping Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Dr. Lubna Luxmi Dhirani, University of Limerick, Ireland

Dr. Lemopi Isidore Besong; Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

Addressing on the occasion, Prof. Dr. Fazal Ahmad Khalid said that the workshop was a golden opportunity for the academic experts from across the world and Pakistan to exchange views with each views with each other and adopt new measures for quality enhancing and finding faults in different products in the best interest of the people and future generation.

The experts said that the purpose of functional reverse engineering is to improve the existing products and machines, studying more closely the efficiency, design and manufacturing. Prof. Dr. Wasim A. Khan spoke in detail about the functional reverse engineering process and its importance for the society. “Quality is the most important aspect of functional reverse engineering,” he said.

Both the Chief Guests congratulated the untiring efforts of the Workshop General Chair, Professor Dr. Wasim A. Khan and his team, including Dr. Ghulam Abbas, Dr. Khalid Rehman and Dr. Ghulam Hussain, on successful conduction of the International Workshop.

For more information, contact:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)
Topi 23640, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Tel: +92-938-281026
Fax: +92-938-281032, +92-938-281041
Website: https://www.giki.edu.pk/

Swabi, December 14, 2021 (PPI-OT): Mohammad Atif Khan, provincial minister for science and technology and IT, said that the KP government would build a new academic and residential block in Ghulam Ishfaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. He was addressing the students’ after the inauguration of the Catalyst Technology Incubation Centre in GIK Institute. The two gatherings were also attended by Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid, SI, Rector, GIK Institute, Sardar Aminullah Khan, Pro-Rector, Admin and Finance, Prof Dr Wasim A Khan, Pro-Rector Academics, deans, directors, provincial secretary of Science and Technology, Dr Ambar Ali Khan, Dr Faisal and Dr Sajid Shah and various other officials.

Atif Khan said that the KP government would extend complete financial support to the GIK Institute and some of its projects would be included in the current financial year and the remaining in the 2022-23 annual development program. He also announced that Chief Minister Mahmood Khan would visit the institute soon to inaugurate the girls’ hostel. The minister said the government has worked on boosting the linkages among the industry, academia and government. “This (improving linkages) is our first and foremost priority,” he said.

“Whenever I visited GIK Institute I was so much impressed that my belief strengthened that Pakistan would soon be economically prosperous and financially sound. The students and academia work hard here,” he remarked. He said only those nations are strong which developed indigenous technology and those lagging behind in this field faced numerous problems and confronted different challenges.

“The development of science and technology is very critical for development in various other fields. If I had the power, I would have diverted all development funds to the field of science and technology,” he said, adding that the development of the nations is linked with the achievements in the field of science and technology.

The minister said that the Education Technology Project would be set up in Mardan, Swabi and GIK College. He said that the KP government had planned to build a Science Museum which would cost Rs 500 million. Prof Khalid said that the institute would submit proposals about the electronic centre, technology incubation centre, reverse engineering, micro hydro-project, building another girls hostel, special technology zone, climate change and education technology project.

“We wanted to be an active partner of the provincial government and ready to play a role in making a cluster of engineering universities in the province,” he said. Earlier, the minister visited the incubation centre and exchanged views with the students about their projects. He admitted that he was impressed by them, especially the manufacturing of drones.

Director, Incubation Centre, Abdullah Soomro, apprised the minister: “We could build our own drone within the next six months if we have the resources. At present we are getting drone making materials from the US and China. A single drone costs Rs 1.5 million but the indigenous can save a lot of foreign exchange and resources.” He also visited the academic block which was financed by the provincial government. The minister gave away certificates to outstanding students at the end of the function.

For more information, contact:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)
Topi 23640, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Tel: +92-938-281026
Fax: +92-938-281032, +92-938-281041
Website: https://www.giki.edu.pk/

Swabi, December 08, 2021 (PPI-OT):A ceremony to honour the efforts of the faculty members to deliver quality education in the institution was organized by QEC on December 03, 2021. The honourable Rector, Prof. Fazal Ahmad Khalid, was the chief guest in the event. Both the pro-rectors and all the deans were present in the ceremony along with the prize-winners. In the start of the ceremony, the Rector highlighted the importance of quality teaching and honouring teachers who make efforts to deliver quality education.

He then distributed the prizes amongst the winners. There were two categories for the prizes: 1) Top 3 faculty members with the highest student evaluation scores, for the courses taught in the year 2020, were given the ‘Teaching Excellency Award’ for the year 2021. There were Dr. Memoon Sajid (FEE), Dr. Taqi Ahmad Cheema (FME), Prof. Ghulam Hussain (FME).

Some other faculty members who had obtained a very good score in their course teacher evaluations were given ‘Certificate of Appreciation’. These included Dr. Fida Mohmmad (FMCE), Dr. Khalid Rahman (FME), Dr. Ramzan Abdul Karim (FMCE), Dr. Yousaf Ali Khan (SMgS), Dr. Kashifullah Khan (SMgS), Dr. Muhammad Waqas (FCSE), Dr. Shahabuddin Ansari (FCSE), Ms. Umme Rabab Syed (SMgS), Dr. Ahmad Abbas (FME), Mr. Hassaan Tariq (SMgS), Dr. Abid Imran (FME), Ms. Kinza Rahim (SMgS). The ceremony ended with a causal chat over tea and group photos of the participants.

For more information, contact:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI)
Topi 23640, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Tel: +92-938-281026
Fax: +92-938-281032, +92-938-281041
Website: https://www.giki.edu.pk/