Student Categories in EME


In academics there is absolutely no discrimination amongst the students of the college, but for identification the students are divided into three different categories depending upon their selection criteria.
 
The Gentlman Cadets are the special selected students/cadets of the college. Each year generally there are 60 cadets selected by the Pakistan Army to be trained as Engineers for the Corps of EME at the college. These cadets are trained to become Army officers here at the college. After the completion of their B.E.s in respective disciplines they get further training at the PMA. They can be distinguished from other students by their Army uniforms.
The Paying Cadets are actually sons/daughters of Army personnel, there are certain number of seats reserved for them which they qualify for, through merit lists. They are offered special concessions in their hostel and tution fees.
They are the Nust Students. All the national and foreign students doing Bachelors from the college fall under this category. They are selected on open merits by the National University of Science and Technology. Their strength is not fixed.

Automotive Research Group

A strong automotive sector is the common denominator among the developed countries. It is with the intention of encouraging development in automotives in Pakistan that we have put together the Automotive Research Group at EME College.
 The group intends
  • To provide a launch pad for student participation in national and international competitions including and not limited to SHELL ECO MARATHON.
  • Design and Develop a low cost Vehicle for general public.
  • Benchmarking existing designs for performance and safety.
  • Human resource for automotive sector
  • Building repository of Quality literature in the field of automotives.
  • Advance the concept of design to manufacture in automotives.
  • Explore the use of non-traditional materials and technologies to provide cost effective automotive solutions

The Automotive Research Group invites interested students from all degrees/departments to actively take part, as members or students coordinators, in different automotive sub-domains, identified below.
  •  Driveline
  • Power Plant
  • Chassis Systems, Braking, Wheels/Tires, Steering
  • Body/CFD
  • Ergonomics/Safety
  • System level integration, Electro-hydraulics, Controls
  • Use of Composites and other non-traditional materials

In manufacturing domains, we seek students for the following areas
  • Composites
  • Fabrication in metal
  • Machining
  • Assembly
In addition to the above we need extra hands in the following areas also
  • Financial/Sponsorship Management
  • Project Management
  • Documentation
  • Media
  • Quality Assurance
 Kindly apply by sending in a brief profile of along with preferences with respect to the above mentioned groups to
 Raja Amer Azim
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
raja_amer@ceme.nust.edu.pk

Extraction and Evaluation of Cyber Social Structures

PROJECT OVERVIEW
Abstract
When a computer network connects people or organizations, it is a social network. Yet the study of such computer-supported social networks has not received as much attention as studies of human-computer interaction, online person-to-person interaction, and computer-supported communication within small groups. I here argue the usefulness of a social network approach for the study of computer-mediated communication via e-mails. I review some basic concepts of social network analysis, describe how to collect and analyze social network data, and demonstrate where social network data can be, and have been, used to study computer-mediated communication. Throughout, I show the utility of the social network approach for studying computer-mediated communication, be it in computer-supported cooperative work, in virtual community, or in more diffuse interactions over less bounded systems such as the Internet (i.e. Yahoo, Hotmail etc).  
 
Problem Definition
            To analyze the human social-networks at their very precision, availability of correct and sufficient amount of data regarding human interactions is critical. With recent developed networks, having data rates reaching 10/100 Giga, it is very desirable to have such architectures that can collect data at such rates. The unpredictable statistics of the networks make it quite difficult to have hands on the right amount of data. The common characteristics present within the networks are out-of-ordering and simultaneous multi-million connections at TCP layer. In such a scenario, if one tries to re-assemble the packets, the memory consumption will increase infinitely. For example if we assume that we have a network having TCP connections about 3 millions and one connection on the average takes 1 MB, then the memory required would be in giga or tera bytes which is undesirable.
The next problem that hinders the process of evaluation is the capturing of packets. Again if we talk about of networks with 10/100 Gigabit rates, which are the normal occurring rates, the standard 10/100/1000 LAN/Ethernet cards will simply fail. These cards work on the interrupt basis, interrupting the OS whenever a new packet comes. Now if packets are coming at 10/100 Gigabit rate the card will be consumed by the interrupts and will thus start dropping the packets.
Another problem that poses a major conflict is the separation of the targeted data into its specified domains (i.e. hotmail, yahoo etc). This stage is required so that the load on the filtering machine can be lessened. This parsing of the domains is again of main concern.
Now even if proper data has been made available the analysis of that data, mostly in GBs, requires a lot of processing. Detection and identification of duplicate personalities and there mapping on to single one with the desire connections require a very strong and flexible design for its completion.

Research Work

Main research work for the solution of this problem is carried out in following fields:
1.      FPGA based Data Collector on Gigabit rate networks.
2.      Hardware accelerator for Protocol Domain Parsing.
3.      Hardware accelerator for Partial String Matching.
4.      Software solution for parsing E-Mail tags.
5.      A complete database design for information storage.
6.      A software solution for socio-network communication analysis.
7.      A software solution for packet sequencing at Gigabit rate networks.
8.      A software solution for G-zip decryption at Gigabit rate networks.
9.      Manual protocol implementation on TCP layer with, similar to, Go-Back-N retransmission system.

Department of Basic Sciences & Humanities

Basic Sciences and Humanities department aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge of Mathematics, Engineering Physics, Chemistry, Pakistan Studies, Communication Skills, Religious Studies, History and Engineering Economics to the engineering students. The courses offered by the department cover about one fourth of the Engineering Curriculum. The syllabus has been designed to enrich the students’ understanding towards the subjects with a view to helping them in encountering practical problems in their engineering careers. There is an emphasis on motivating the concepts with the aid of good examples and exercises, keeping a balance between applications and the basic principles behind them.
To inculcate quality education highly qualified permanent and visiting faculty is employed by the College.

Department of Engineering Management

Engineering graduates of any discipline have to be adequately prepared to shoulder the responsibilities of technical leadership positions in today’s technology driven organizations. The engineers, so prepared, are the ultimate candidates for the positions of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officers (COOs), Chief Technical Officers (CTOs), and other Technical Management positions in technically oriented industrial and service organizations. Their services are utilized by national public enterprise and defense organizations along with international firms to conduct their functions efficiently and effectively.
Today’s fast moving technical organizations in industrial and service sectors require technical personnel having knowledge of hard core engineering disciplines as well as management skills necessary to steer the organization to success. 
Department of Engineering Management at the College of E&ME provide an opportunity to graduate engineers to prepare themselves with latest principles and techniques of management of a technical enterprise through MS and PhD programs.

Department of Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering is the practice of putting software and hardware to practical use. If you are interested in designing and fabricating of microprocessor based systems/controllers/circuits and developing result-oriented high quality software that work for the benefit of civil & defense establishments or people, then you should surely consider joining Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering – the biggest constituent College of NUST.
We offer a broad spectrum of subjects covering major subjects such as programming, data structures, mathematics, logic design, computer architecture, operating systems, microprocessor-based design, software engineering, integrated circuits, signals and filters, computer networks, database engineering, computer graphics, communication systems, digital instrumentation, digital system design, digital image processing, artificial systems, digital signal processing, design project, control systems, electronics, network analysis, linear circuit analysis and computer-aided-drawing besides teaching eighteen courses of basic sciences & humanities.

Department of Mechatronics Engineering

Introduction:
Considering the need of the time most of the state of the art industries in the world have changed from pure mechanical, manufacturing or process controlled to the ones where the processes are more of electromechanical, fully automated and mostly controlled by computers. To achieve the quality products even the most simple production lines and production processes in the industries have a blend of computers in them. It has become the requirement for people working on such processes and production lines to have knowledge of all the related systems.
The college of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, realizing this disparity between the concurrent industrial requirements and the knowledge imparted to the university graduates who are looking forward to join the system as practical engineers ventured into introducing Mechatronics Engineering from September 1998 at the undergraduate level.
Following text gives an overall view of Mechatronics and its inception as a hardcore engineering curriculum at this college. The text is covered under the following sequence.
What is Mechatronics?
Need for Mechatronics in Pakistan
Response of Industries in Pakistan
Response of General Public
Mechatronics related facilities at the EME College
What is Mechatronics?
Mechatronics is a relatively new engineering discipline. Originating from Japan, the field of Mechatronics deals with the integration of Mechanical and Electronics with intensive computer integration. More specifically, it refers to a multidisciplinary approach to product and manufacturing system design. It relates to the design of systems, devices and products aimed at achieving an optimal balance between basic mechanical structure and its overall control. Mechatronics represents state-of-the-art machinery, robots and smart mechanisms for manufacturing systems or operational environments. Mechatronics as a new engineering discipline has found widespread acceptance in the western world and Australia. The study of Mechatronics requires, in addition to basic mechanical engineering subjects, a blend of the following modules:
  • Computers Hardware and Software,
  • Microprocessor based design,
  • Control Engineering,
  • Industrial Electronics and fundamentals of industrial controls,
  • Robotics and Factory Automation,
and many such sub modules requiring the knowledge of computer hardware and software in integration and control of the physical world systems.
Need for Mechatronics in Pakistan
In the last few decades, most of the modern state-of-the-art industries in the world have changed very rapidly from a pure Mechanical or Electro-mechanical to the type of industries where the process is either partly or fully controlled by computers, micro-processors or programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Solid-state digital electronics devices are rapidly replacing the relay or cam-operated mechanisms in producer or consumer goods. Even the most simple production processes and production lines contain some sort of logic controllers or a blend of computer in them. The industry requires that the people working on those process and production lines must have knowledge of all the related systems. The College of EME realizing this disparity between industrial requirements and knowledge acquired by the graduate engineers who are looking forward to join this stream started Mechatronics Engineering at undergraduate level. Soon after this with in a span of about two years three renowned institutions in Pakistan have started the Mechatroncis Engineering in the undergraduate and post graduate level.
Response of Industries in Pakistan
The College of EME has conducted a survey to determine the response of industries about the new discipline (Mechatronics) introduced by the College. It was very exciting and pleasing to know that the Industries in Pakistan fully support the new idea and are anxiously waiting for the qualified Mechatronics engineers. A more comprehensive effort will be taken up with the public sector industries to set aside vacancies for Mechatronics Engineers where their job specification requires an understanding of Computers and Control along with a good understanding of Mechanical Design. Pakistan Army have already decided to enroll Army cadets in this discipline. In the degree course of year 2001, Army has inducted 12 of their cadets in Mechatronics.
Response of General Public
In the beginning the students and their parents were a little skeptical mere by the buzzword Mechatronics. Once they knew about the details of the curriculum, they were also excited and happy to opt for this discipline. Overall response of the general public about Mechatronics Department at the college of EME is very encouraging. This year the choice to join Mechatronics is third in standing, out of six engineering disciplines advertised by NUST.
Mechatroncis Related Facilities at EME College
The College is in a continuous process of updating its facilities to keep abreast of the future challenges in the area of training its manpower. The foremost requirement of the training is to have modern equipment and laboratory facilities. Today all the departments of the College are interlinked via Local Area Network (LAN). Most computer terminals also have access to the Internet. The College has well equipped Electronic Laboratories, Mechatronics Laboratories, (established over the period of three years), Material Laboratory, Control Laboratory, Image Processing Laboratory, Microwave Research Laboratory, Electrical Machines Laboratory and other essential laboratories that provide a strong support to Mechatronics department. The exclusive computer laboratories of the College are shared by all the departments. The details of the existing and proposed laboratories exclusive for the department of Mechatronics are mentioned in subsequent pages.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, leading to the award of Bachelor of Engineering and Masters of Engineering degrees. These programs are based on the semester system. The BE program covers an intensive eight-semester duration of teaching and laboratory work
At the MS level, students follow three semesters of teaching, with an option to major in Manufacturing/Production Engineering, Dynamics and Control, Thermal Sciences and Mechanics/Design before embarking on their independent thesis work. Opportunities also exist for exceptional students to continue their graduate work towards a PhD program where individual research at internationally accepted levels is carried out under the supervision of faculty that is best qualified for providing the required guidance.
Under Graduate
At the Department of Mechanical Engineering, we are conscious of the fact that Mechanical Engineering, as a discipline, is the traditional bed-rock of engineering. It is thus all-encompassing, based on well-established laws of nature which are used through ingenuity to design and operate functional products. These products can be basic, such as pulleys and gears; conventional, such as engines and power-producing systems; or advanced, such as control and automation systems for vehicles and machinery.
In spite of being traditional, mechanical engineering has undergone quantum leaps in modernization due to rapid advances in electronics and computer technologies. Engineering design, for example, utilizes high-speed computing processes in design and manufacturing, as indeed does computer simulation of fluid flows for the design of super-sonic systems. The premium on mechanical engineering graduates has thus expanded from traditional areas to hi-tech areas. They must thus integrate technologies rather than remain isolated. This requires a multi-disciplinary outlook, which we have been careful to incorporate into our syllabus while maintaining the conventional structure.
Post Graduate
The postgraduate curriculum of Mechanical Engineering at College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, has been developed based on the guidelines and discussions with the faculty of international universities with whom the National of sciences and Technology (NUST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
The curriculum, being proposed for the award of MS/PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, has been planned to meet the following objectives.
  • To meet the national requirements.
  • Meet the requirements of the international universities.
  • Have the requisite academic background in the state of the art technology for employment in the research and development.
  • Have design and development training coupled with management and economic background to successfully pursue his career as young engineer or even as an entrepreneur at international level.

Department of Electrical Engineering

VISION
Electrical Engineering Department envision to impart quality education at undergraduate and Post- graduate levels to imbue a life-long quest for inquiry, reasoned analysis and for creating solutions to address the requirements of our society.
WHAT ARE WE TODAY

The Department is staffed by twelve foreign-qualified faculty members, seven of them hold PhD degrees, and the rest five are Master-level qualified. This faculty offers the most dynamic, up-to-date and highly challenging academic programmes comparable to the best in any foreign institution. Our undergraduate programme attracts the top-most students from all-over Pakistan. It entails a broad-based course of study covering Analogue and Digital Electronics, Embedded Systems, Microwave Engineering, Digital communication, Feed-back Control Systems and Digital signal processing. Our graduates are very eagerly sought by the process-Control Industries, Telecom Service Providers and Research & Development Centres in Pakistan and abroad. The post-graduate programme offers courses in four specialties i.e. Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Communication Systems and Microwave Engineering. The Deptt has the unique distinction of having graduated the first indigenous Ph.D scholar of NUST in November, 2004. Three Ph.D candidates are at various stages of the Doctoral Research and many more are admitted into Master-Leading to Ph.D programme sponsored by NUST as well as Higher Education Commission. The Department offers very conducive environments for R&D activities. A number of such projects, sponsored by Government of Pakistan and Higher Education Commission are currently in hand. This activity is constantly expanding. Our Microwave Engineering Research Lab is only one if its kind in Pakistan.
OUR FUTURE

The Department has elaborate plans to introduce new undergraduate streams in Elect Engineering, majoring in Elect power generation & Distribution, Biomedical Engineering, Intelligent Systems, and Nano-Technologies. The Physical infrastructure, i.e. our Post-graduate Labs etc, will also be strengthened in due course.

Students of EME Design Pakistan’s First Hybrid Car

A team called Pak Wheelers, from EME College consisting Eleven Mechanical Engineers have manufactured Pakistan’s first ever Hybrid Car which will be showcased in the upcoming Eco-Shell Marathon to be held in July 2010 in Malaysia.
The Eco-Shell Marathon will have 100 teams from all over Asia competing for the top spot on the famous Sepang International Circuit. Whichever team gets the best mileage out of a single litre of fuel will win the coveted award.

“Our initial design was giving us a mileage of around 450 kilometres to a litre but we managed to improve that number to more than 700 km/litre after switching to a hybrid model,” said Faizan Zafar, a team member of Pak-Wheelers. “We have optimized the car according to the track,” Hassan Ali added.
The group came up with the idea at a birthday party back in July 2009. They were inspired by another team from Pakistan Navy Engineering College who had participated in the Shell Eco-Marathon Europe 2009 in Germany.
They presented their idea to Ikhlaq Khattak, an associate professor at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME) at NUST, who encouraged and mentored them to pursue it. Then onwards, Yahya Hassan Khan, Abrar Mehmood, Hafiz Awad Awan, Syed Hassaan Ali, Farrukh Ali, Raheel Ansar, Faizan Zafar, Zafarul Islam, Muneeb Shah, Muhammad Abdullah, Majid Ghafoor and Hassan Ali, started working on various aspects of the car’s design and its simulations.
Getting companies to sponsor the project was particularly hard. “Initially, we pitched our proposal to some 50 companies. Only BMW Pakistan responded to our pitch,” Hassaan said. Later, other companies started coming on board. “We are currently receiving funding from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, NUST, Hypercomp and the Pakistan Army,” he added.
The group is still short of their projected expenses, managing to raise only Rs 1.4 million of the Rs 2.2 million costs they originally estimated. This sum includes the cost of transporting the car to and back from Malaysia. “We want to be able to hoist Pakistan’s flag in Malaysia,” Hassaan said.
“We want to be able to show a new face of Pakistan to the world, one that is considerably different than what the western media is showing,” he added, reciting the team mantra, “For some teams it’s a car, For some teams it’s a project For us, it’s an ideology An ideology to prove that Pakistan can be constructive.”
What is a Hybrid Car:
  • A hybrid vehicle combining a combustion engine with an electric motor to increase its efficiency.
  • It harvests energy lost during breaking and reuses it for running.
  • It uses super capacitor banks to store energy.
  • The petrol engine produces a constant energy of 3.5 British horsepower and the remaining power comes from the super capacitor banks.
  • It uses a carbon-fibre body.

The history of College of E&ME

The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (EME) maintains the mechanical and electrical/electronics equipment held by the Pakistan Army. In order to meet the training requirements of the Corps, EME School was established at Quetta on 1st April 1957. The facilities in the school were constantly updated to keep pace with the quality and quantity of equipment being inducted in the Army. By 1969, the School had grown sufficiently in stature and expertise to be elevated to the status of College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Having established its credibility as a premier equipment-training institute, it started its own B.Sc. Engineering Program in 1981, which was subsequently shifted to Naval Engineering College, Karachi. In April 1984, having stayed for 26 years at Quetta, the College moved to its present premises. The same year the College revitalized its B.Sc. Engineering Program in affiliation with the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. The program was successful and its quality can be gauged from the fact that College graduates won laurels for the institution by winning Rhodes, Commonwealth and S & T Scholarships besides proving their mettle in defence and civil industry. This success prompted the start of M.Sc. program in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from August 1988 for officers of Corps of Signals and EME. MSc engineering program extended to Pakistan Air Force, Navy and Civil organizations in 1989. In 1990, entry to BSc engineering degree changed to Technical Cadets instead of newly commissioned officers.
The academic program of the College was given a new dimension when it became a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 1993. The syllabi of reading have been updated and redesigned to fulfil the mission assigned to the College by NUST with the national requirements in perspective because of its national stature. The undergraduate and the postgraduate degrees have been renamed as Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree and Master of Science (MS) respectively. The BE programmes have been accredited by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).
The technological dictates of modern equipment necessitated the introduction of Computer Engineering as an additional discipline at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The first undergraduate class was accordingly inducted in April 1996 and it is hoped that it will enable the College to train the much-needed manpower for the nation in this vital field of technology.
Today most of the research and production processes and production lines in the industry are of electromechanical nature. It is inevitable for people working on those process and production lines to have knowledge of all the related systems. Presently the employees get trained while doing on the job training and lack the requisite theoretical knowledge. The College realising this disparity between industrial requirements and the curriculum content ventured into introducing Machatronics Engineering from January 1999 at the undergraduate level. Machatronics refers to a flexible multi-technological approach in the integration of Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Software and Information Sciences. Consolidation of these disciplines is essential in the design, building and maintenance of intelligent products; especially industrial systems. Machatronics Engineering provides a strong base in dynamics, mechanical design, sensors, instrumentation and control. These technologies are then applied in intelligent machines like Robots, CNC machines, and other microelectronics and microcontroller based machines.
PhD program started in the discipline of Electrical, Mechanical and Computer engineering in the year 2001.
In order to provide opportunity to those full-time working candidates who are eager to enhance their academic qualification, evening program in MS Software Engineering started in 2001.
In year 2005, MS program in Microwave and Machatronics engineering started. In year 2006 MS/PhD in Engineering Management Started
Address Of College of E&ME.
College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (C of E&ME) Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi-46000, Pakistan Phone: (92-51)9278050-55 Fax(92-51) 9878048
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