15 August 2020
Department of Electronic Engineering MUET organized a 0.5 CPD webinar on “Android Development – An Introduction” on 15th August 2020. The resource person for the webinar was Engr. Khuhed Memon, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering. This webinar was organized in collaboration with ORIC MUET and PEC. The coordinators for the seminar were Dr. Attiya Baqai (Associate Professor, ES Dept, Engr Mansoor Teevno (Assistant Professor, ES Dept), and Engr Bharat Lal (Lecturer, ES Dept).
The webinar was started in the name of Allah. Dr. Attiya Baqai thanked the attendees for joining the webinar. She acknowledged the contribution and efforts of the resource person for his time, devotion, and hard work for the webinar on such short notice. She expressed gratitude to her team for coordinating and working hard for conceptualization of the this CPD webinar. She appreciated Engr. Mansoor that in spite he was leaving for his Ph.D., the way he supported the idea and arrangements. She specially thanked Engr. Bharat Lal for managing all the registrations and the technical aspects of the webinar. She also thanked Mr. Haq Nawaz (IT Dept.) for his volunteer services and assistance.
After the acknowledgment Engr. Khuhed Memon formally started the session. As the webinar was for the noobs so he explained the concepts from very basic to exploring the possibilities for building mobile apps and discussed different applications. The webinar covered the Introduction to Android OS, Introduction to Android Studio, Introduction to Java, Creating Pilot Project (Hello World!), Android Virtual Device Manager, Layouts & Resources for the UI, The Android Studio Debugger, Activities & Intents, Touch & input, Camera, introduction to Sensors, Importing the Mobile Ads SDK, App Deployment, Google Play, and Google Firebase. The webinar was supported by the codes and GUI implementation by the resource person on run time for the understanding purpose of the attendees.
The webinar was attended by multi-discipline and multi-organization attendees. There were 102 registrations for the webinar from which 56.3% opted for attending the free webinar whereas 43.7% opted for the paid CPD webinar with certificates. Engineers from various organizations and universities attended this webinar including Best Buy Canada Product Process, Public Health Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, China Huadian Power Plant Operation Company (CHDOC), Isra University Hyderabad, National Radio Telecommunications Corporation, Sindh University Jamshoro. A large number of students from Mehran University from First year to Final year attended the webinar. The active participation was from Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Civil Engineering departments.
In the end, there was a question & answer session and the attendees were asked to fill the feedback forms. The ratings and comments received were very encouraging and appreciating. The attendees were eager to attend more such seminars in the future too. The session was ended with the vote of thanks by the organizing members.
Webinar on “Latex-Document Preparation System” organized by the Department of Electronic Engineering
5 September 2020
A free webinar on “Latex (Document Preparation System)” was organized by the Department of Electronic Engineering Final Year Project Committee on 5th September 2020. The resource person of the webinar was Prof. Dr. Wajiha Shah Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering MUET.The coordinators of the webinar were Dr. Attiya Baqai (Convener ES-FYPC) & Engr. Qudsia Memon (Secretary ES-FYPC).
Dr. Attiya formally started the webinar by welcoming the attendees, introducing the presenter and the highlighting the importance of Latex at various platforms from reports, articles, thesis writing to more advanced research papers while appreciating the efforts and cooperation of the committee members (Prof. Dr Arbab Nighat, Dr. Farzana Rauf, Dr. Farida Memon, Dr. Shoaib Soomro & Engr. Khuhed Memon) and the resource persons for the arrangements of the series of these webinar during this pandemic time. She then greeted and welcomed Engr Qudsia Memon in ES-FYPC for joining as new secretary. She acknowledged the services of Engr. Mansoor Teevno as former secretary of the ES-FYPC and wished him good luck to peruse his PhD at City University Hong Kong.
After the introduction, Dr. Attiya handed over the session to Prof. Dr. Wajiha Shah. The webinar was based on the Latex software installation, designed, and formulated especially for beginners. The presentation covered various aspects to formulate a document in Latex such as document classes, packages, formatting, graphics, citations, math type setting and commonly occurring errors. All the discussed aspects were orderly briefed by the conveyor.
The final year students attended the webinar keenly considering the software’s importance as a tool in thesis writing. The webinar was concluded by a Q/A session followed by submission of a feedback form. The webinar was put an end by Dr. Attiya by expressing gratitude to everyone for their participation.
Webinar on “Academic Writing Techniques/Strategies and Plagiarism policy awareness (Turnitin)” organized by the Electronic Engineering
6 September 2020
A free webinar on “Webinar on “Academic Writing Techniques/ Strategies and Plagiarism policy awareness (Turnitin)” was organized by the Department of Electronic Engineering Final Year Project Committee on 6th September 2020. The presenter of the webinar was Dr. Farida Memon (Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering & Member ES-FYPC). The coordinators of the webinar were Dr. Attiya Baqai (Convener ES-FYPC) & Engr. Qudsia Memon (Secretary ES-FYPC).
Dr. Attiya formally started the webinar by greeting the attendees, introducing the resource person Dr. Farida Memon, while highlighting the efforts and co-operation of her FYP Committee (Prof. Dr. Arbab Nighat, Dr. Farzana Rauf, Dr. Farida Memon, Engr. Khuhed Memon, Dr. Shaoib Soomro & Engr. Qudsia Memon) and Chairperson Department of the Electronic Engineering Prof. Dr. Arbab Nighat. She informed the attendees and congratulated the ES-FYPC for the accomplishment of all the planned seminars for F16ES Batch for the year 2020 during the critical time of COVID-19. She thanked the committee members and all the resource persons for their cooperation. This was the last scheduled webinar.
Dr. Attiya then invited Dr. Farida memon to start the technical session formally. The webinar was designed especially for the final year students to understand the basic factors while writing their FYP Thesis. The workshop thoroughly covered the aspects of formal academic writing involving the language choices, flow of information in paragraphs, styling, transition, and phrases.
Moving on to the next objective of the webinar, Dr. Farida then introduced the referencing and its importance in academic writing. Moreover, bibliography and the inclusion of that while printing journals/conferences was also discussed. In addition to the above, structure of a paragraphs, formal research report and do’s and don’t for academic writing were introduced. By concluding the presentation, plagiarism and its avoidance techniques were also discussed. As HEC has provided Turnitin software to universities for checking the plagiarism so a run time demonstration for scanning and its interpretation was also explained in the session.
Summing up the webinar, a Q/A session was conducted and the attendees were asked to give their opinion via feedback forms.
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