Closing Ceremony of Winter Internship Program

The closing ceremony for award and certificate distribution of Winter internship Program took place at MD Hall MUET Jamshoro. On this occasion, Vice Chancellor Prof.Dr Abdul Qadir Khan Rajput and Pro Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr  Muhammad Aslam Uqaili were the Chief guests and Mr Elie Abou Nasr, District Sales Manager at National Instruments  Eastern GCC and Pakistan was the guest of Honor.

LEADERS (Leading Electronics Application & Design Researchers Setup) research group of Department of Electronics Mehran UET Jamshoro organized 3 weeks Winter Internship program 2012-2013 during winter vacations from 17^th December to 6^th January 2013 in the fields of Digital Electronics, Micro Processors and Microcontrollers, Digital Signal processing (DSP), Field programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Control Engineering & Robotics and Problem/project Based learning.

Prof. Dr.BS Chowdhry was the Chief Coordinator of this Internship Program. The ceremony started with the recitation from Holy Quran. Engr Attiya Baqai, the Internship Program Coordinator, then delivered the presentation about the aims and objectives of the internship. She told that the internship took place in 10 labs of Department of Electronics and IIT building in parallel in which more than 160 new trainers, equipments and tools were explored by the students, teachers and lab assistants. The equipment and tools were mostly from Digilent, Elettronica Veneta, National Instruments and Mathworks. The students and faculty from Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Systems Engineering participated in this internship program. The internship was supervised by LEADERS team coordinators Engr Attiya Baqai, Engr Khuhed Memon,Engr Azam Rafiq Memon, Engr Mehnazer Syed, Engr Mansoor , Engr Shoaib Khaskheli and Dr Imtaiz Kalwar. 300 applications were received for this internship out of which 131 internees were registered and 83 students were declared to be successful candidates after a tough evaluation based upon attendance and performance. There were various categories in which the students were also given award certificates like perfect attendance, all rounder, leadership award and bright idea award.AVR USB programmers were also awarded to the hard working and deserving candidates.

After the briefing, the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Abdul Qadeer Rajput highly appreciated the efforts of the LEADERS team and Prof Dr BS Chowdhry for organizing such a Mega Internship program at Department of Electronics. He emphasized that such trainings should take place and the students should take maximum benefit from these kinds of trainings and also practice to share with their fellows whatever they learn. He was pleased that such expensive and sophisticated equipment was utilized and handled carefully and successfully. He further said that university will provide all the support for such internship programs in future.

Prof. Dr BS Chowdhry, Dean FEECE and the Chief Coordinator of the internship program elaborated the needs of such trainings and internships for the students, which are very useful in their practical life. He always takes interest and encourages students and his faculty to take part and organize such events; he fully supported the LEADERS team in every possible aspect wherever needed. It was his confidence in the team and support that led the successful completion of this internship.

In the end shields were presented to the Chief Guests.Certificates were awarded by the Vice Chancellor Prof.Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, Prof DR BS Chowdhry, Dr Wajiha Shah Chair person Department of Electronics to all the participants, lab assistants and staff who really worked hard to make this internship successful.