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Women In Engineering
Durdana Habib
The Pakistan WIE Forum Chair, WIE Affinity Group IEEE Islamabad Section
Mentor, Pakistan WIE Forum
IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum, initiated by IEEE-WIE GCUF in The WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Islamabad Section was estab-
collaboration with Madam Ramaltha Marimuthu on 30th lished in 2008 with just a few volunteers. It has since then ac-
May 2010, was created with the vision to integrate fe- tively participated in organizing WIE sessions at the IEEE Stu-
males from all Science and Technology institutes in Paki- dent Congresses held across Pakistan and has been actively
stan, to create opportunities for them and to promote involved in many local, national as well as international activi-
them as members of a progressing nation. The first Ad- ties including participation at the Asia Pacific Nations Network
hoc committee included Mehvish Zahoor, Shalra Ejaz, meeting and Engineering Education conference in Busan, Ko-
Benazir Peter, Tallat Fiaz from IEEE Lahore Section, Me- rea in 2009. The formation of the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
hak Ikhlaq and Fatima Imdad from IEEE Islamabad Sec- provided new impetus to the volunteer work of the members
tion and Rabia Khalid from IEEE Karachi Section. They of the IEEE across the country. This Forum provides us with an
worked on strengthening the roots of the Pakistan WIE opportunity to strengthen women involved in these fields
Forum. They held online meetings and also met up in across Pakistan and to connect globally. We aim towards build-
different cities. The first Executive Committee was ing a stronger Pakistan by motivating women to rise to their
formed a year later in March, 2011. The annual plan pre- full potential. I feel honored to be the mentor of such an active
sented on 28th March was composed of six major pro- group of volunteers. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate
jects for the year 2011 including this Quarterly Newslet- IEEE Lahore section, the oldest in Pakistan, on fulfilling its com-
ter, IEEE PWF Website, Membership Drive (Discover mitment to advance engineering, science and technology. I
WIE), WIE PAKISTAN MISSION TO PROGRESS Project and must congratulate the entire team of WIE Pakistan for dedicat-
the IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum Group Photo Award. ing so much time and effort to help establish it.
Executive Committee Pakistan WIE Forum
Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum BS Fatima Imdad, Vice Chair IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum. BSTE
(Hons) Bioinformatics, GCUF. Lahore Section. I became a Telecom Engg. Islamabad Section
part of IEEE because I wanted to do something out of the
box. I had always dreamed of providing female engineers IEEE is different from other societies because it not only
a platform where they could show their talents &get provides us with a platform to share our thoughts but it
acknowledged for their potentials & working skills. also lets us to interact with people from all over the world.
Maryam Saeed. Secretary IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum (BS) Anum Javed. Treasurer IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum Chair-
Telecommunication Engg. FAST NUCES Lhr. I joined IEEE to person WIE UET SB, Lahore Section (BS) Electrical Engg.
connect with the smart brains around the world. Its surpris- UET Lahore. I expect the IEEE membership growth to
ing to meet new people everyday and learn about the vast accelerate world wide as IEEE continues to develop new
fields that they have worked in. IEEE is the window to the products and services and as members continue to
world of science, technology and innovation. spread the word to their professional colleagues.
Sana Syed. Web Administrator Pakistan WIE Forum, WIE Rabia Khalid. Newsletter Editor Pakistan WIE Forum. Chair-
NEDUET Student Branch Computer and Information System person IEEE PNEC SB Karachi Section. (BE) Electronics Engg.
Engineering NED Khi. When I became a part of this global PNEC NUST. IEEE is one of the best things that has happened
network, IEEE, I found valuable opportunities to see my to me so far. As a part of this organization, I feel like being
career in the right direction& a great experience to manage connected to the entire world & now WIE provided me the
&organize information &events at professional levels. platform to reach out to the entire country. Its like an arena
where you can reach out to everything of your own interest.
Pakistan WIE Forum interviews Takako Hashimoto
Takako Hashimoto, the R10 WIE Coordinator, graduated from belief that the next generation of engineers will truly be
Ochanomizu University in 1985, and received Ph.D. in com- able to uphold their title with pride?
puter science, specialization in multimedia information proc- JC WIE organizes “ Career Development Workshop for Young
essing, from Graduate School of Systems and Information Engi- Students and Professionals” with GOLD and student
neering of University of Tsukuba in 2005. She worked at the branches. The event is targeted for young students in under-
software R&D center of Ricoh Co. Ltd., in Japan for 24 years, graduate, master and doctoral level in order to help them to
and participated in the development of many software prod- think about their career paths as well as the skill sets. Topics
ucts as a technical leader. From April 2009, she has been work- including “expectations for an engineer”, “important mat-
ing in Chiba University of Commerce as a faculty. Pakistan ters on working overseas”, “contributing to the society as an
WIE Forum brings you some highlights of Takako Hashimoto’s engineer” and “career development for female engineer and
journey with IEEE & WIE. cooperating with male engineer” are beinfg discussed in the
When did you become an IEEE member and how did your workshop. Through these topics the workshop can help stu-
journey start of as a WIE member? dents to think about and prepare their career in advance.
I became an IEEE member in 2008, encouraged by my former How did u manage to keep balance between professional
boss. At the same time, I joined WIE. My former boss was a and personal life?
female executive of one of the leading Japanese companies, With the cooperation of my family, I keep balance between
and always promoted female engineers’ career. She was a sen- professional and personal life. Especially, my son (19 years
ior member of IEEE and the vice chair of IEEE Japan Council WIE old) and daughter (16 years old) are good cooks, and my
as well. I thought that I could be a female leader like her. That husband is the excellent manager. They always help me dur-
was the reason I joined WIE . ing my business trips.
While working for WIE/IEEE what hurdles did u face and how How do you compare an engineer with other professions?
u overcame them? An engineer is a specialist. Even if you would quit your job
From WIE viewpoint, still there are lot of problems for women once because of your personal reasons, you may find new
to take active role in the field of engineering. Particularly in job again. In addition, “engineering community" is relatively
Japan, women’s outside activity is not encouraged by feudal fair (gender equal society) even in Japan. "Engineering" re-
mindedness and conservative regional attitudes (e.g. Men to quires diversity in today's global society. To achieve the di-
work outside the home, Women to take on domestic duties. versity, female power is very useful. I believe female can
Engineering is not a girl thing etc.) Sometimes I face these ob- promote our skills in engineering field.
stacles for promoting women engineer’s ca- Your future plans for R10 WIE and the way you want it to
reer. To overcome these obstacles, I try to bloom.
establish a network among women engineers I wish female engineers in R10 will be able to strengthen
and show role models/useful examples. I also their bonds and communicate to promote their global ca-
handle various events to give opportunities reers. In addition, I would like to encourage young girls to
for sharing issues on career developments, aspire to be engineers, and support rural women to enhance
work-life balance and so on, and discussing their participation in societies. I provide different support
different solutions. funds (Progress/ Congress/ Forum/ Conference/ STAR) and
What are your greatest achievements to highlight role models and WIE groups which promote high
date, that you contributed for WIE in general? quality and quantity activities. Especially, through Progress
My greatest achievements were to organize various global WIE project, I would like to survey the current gender-equality
events. As the chief secretary of JC WIE, I was in charge of han- status in R10 and visualize it to understand our environment
dling the panel discussion at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic more precisely.
Cooperation) Women Leaders Network meeting in 2009 in To- Any message for the female engineers of the future?
kyo. We invited not only distinguished IEEE WIE leaders but I sincerely wish that female engineers will be able to expand
also famous female leaders in technological field from Asia- the possibilities for their career development and extend the
Pacific economies. The event made clear gender-equality issues activities globally. There are various role models who can
in each country and we could share them. It was quite success- understand the obstacles in R10. We’re not alone, we can
ful event so that IEEE WIE’s presence increased globally. cooperate. If you face any problem, please contact R10 WIE
Any event organized by WIE students that strengthened your members. I am fully convinced that we can overcome the
barriers if we work together.
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DISCOVOER WIE-EPISODE 1, IEEE NFC IEFR
WIE IEEE NFC-IEFR Lahore Section, organ- This session was successful in helping
ized the membership drive Discover WIE female engineers interact and dis-
on May 6th 2011 with the theme to create cover the opportunities that come
awareness among female students about
along an IEEE Membership.
the WIE network and to increase the WIE
population in the NFC Student Branch. the Submitted by Rabail Raza, Secretary
event was entitled as TechnoWar day,
-ess. Mehvish Zahoor, Chairperson Paki- IEEE WIE NFC-IEFR
loaded with various technical events and
challenging activities for the attendees of stan WIE Forum proceeded the ceremony
the event. Students from all over Lahore by introducing WIE &explaining its net-
Section participated in this auspicious working & membership benefits. This
event including GCU Lhr , GCU Fsd, UET
was followed by an activity ‘Express Your
Lhr, UET Fsd, UMT Lhr, USA Lhr & Dr. A. Q
Khan University. Mrs. Asma Adeel, Branch Idea.’ 4 teams were given 25 minutes to
Counselor IEEE NFC-IEFR and Lahore Sec- plan activities within a specific budget.
tion Coordinator Pakistan WIE Forum, The team with the most innovative ideas
opened the event with her welcome addr- and planning was declared the winner.
Real Engineers • Real Engineers know the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- but not their own shirt size.
• Real Engineers consider themselves well dressed if • Real Engineers rotate their tires for laughs.
their socks match. • Real Engineers will make four sets of drawings (with 7
• Real Engineers buy their spouses a set of matched revisions) before making a bird bath.
screwdrivers for their birthday. • Real Engineers say "It's 70 degrees Fahrenheit, 25
• Real Engineers wear mustaches or beards for degrees Celsius, and 298 degrees Kelvin" and all you
"efficiency". Not because they're lazy. say is "Isn't it a nice day"
• Real Engineers' briefcases contain a Phillips screw- • Real Engineers don't find the
driver, a copy of "Quantum Physics", and a half of a pea- above at all funny.
nut butter sandwich.
• Real engineers have a non-technical vocabulary of 800 Submitted by Hudaisa Afzal, WIE
words. PNEC Karachi Section
Barbecue at the hostel– WIE PNEC
was a scrumptious combo of kebabs,
menting to the party-like vibe of the tikka, parthas and side dishes. Every-
WIE – PNEC AG arranged an all girls BBQ
atmosphere. While we chatted away body relished on the hearty meal.
night at the NUST Girls’ Hostel on April
and enjoyed ourselves in the pleasant After the dinner, there was a little
1st, 2011. This event came as a breath of
ambiance, the stakes sizzled. The variety show organized by a few
fresh air for the students as we are con-
food was served after a while which members of WIE which comprised of
stantly subjected to a flustering and wear-
a skit and some performances. The
ing routine. The small number of girls and
audience thoroughly enjoyed the
their busy schedules doesn’t permit them
show and appreciated the perform-
to see each other frequently so this get
ances. It was a memorable night for
together provided them with an awesome
all of us. The gathering provided eve-
chance to mingle and spend some quality
ryone with a chance to let their hair
time together.
down. It had been a tremendous suc-
The BBQ was set up at the hostel lawn cess and efforts of WIE were enthusi-
which was decorated with lights and the astically acknowledged.
fountain was giving off a very fresh effect.
Submitted by Kanza Basit, Vice Chair
A music system was also at hand, comple-
WIE PNEC
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IEEE WIE GUIDE (MENTORING SESSION)-WIE NED
IEEE-WIE NED student branch arranged as a member of the Ad-hoc committee. Region. All in all, the speakers made their
a mentoring session “WIE GUIDE” for Ms. Nimra Kazmi was the initiator point that effective management and
the newly elected WIE Executive Com- of WIE Affinity Group at PNEC. She held
mittee on March 10, 2010. Ms. Injla, the position of the WIE Chair for the year
Chairperson WIE NED opened the event 200. The speakers jointly presented their
by welcoming the speakers, Ms. Rabia ideas for the smooth running
Khalid, Chairperson IEEE PNEC Student of WIE Affinity Group, They discussed the
Branch & Ms. Nimra Kazmi, Karachi Sec- possible hurdles any organizing commit-
tion Representative, GINI tees might come across
IR. Ms. Rabia Khalid, who during the planning, man-
was the former vice chair agement and execution
of WIE AG PNEC, is also phases of any event. Ms.
an Executive member of Wardah Noor, former Sec-
the Pakistan WIE Forum retary IEEE PNEC was also efficient execution is the key to a suc-
at the post of the News- present at the eve. She cessful event. In the end lunch was
letter Editor. She has also shared with the WIE NED Ex served for the guests and the attendees.
served the Paki- -Com the reporting proce-
stan WIE Forum last year, dures within the Section & Submitted by Sana Syed, WIE NED
Expression of Creativity & Innovation WEEK 2011-WIE GCUL
IEEE WIE ECI`11 Week was opened on was held for students to enhance their
June 6, 2011 with a Workshop on Social competitive skill and creativity. An e-
Entrepreneurship, presided by Rohan gaming competition was held after this
David, President Green&White Pakistan, which comprised of games like Counter
where he enlightened the audience with Strike, FIFA, Taken-3 & NFS. Huge amount
qualities that a good leader must possess of participation was observed among the
and how to enamor those qualities within students. After this, skipping and climb- the Snake” in which players had to an-
ourselves. The session was followed by a ing contests were arranged for girls, who swer questions when they reached a
Workshop on Google Techniques. Mr. Ali had a knack for sports. The day ended snake bite. On a correct answer they
with a sketching competition, where stu- moved forward otherwise they would
dents displayed their passions &showed drop behind. This encouraged them to
their artistic skills. think of strategies to avoid the snake,
The 4th day commenced with a Seminar making the whole experience more
on “Effects of Mobile communication on entertaining. The day was concluded
Human Health” by Dr Fareeha Zafar, As- with “Minute to win it” game in which
sistant Proff. Computer Science Dept. The the participants had to complete the
lecture aimed at creating awareness given task in one minute which created
Turab Gillani, CS Student GCUL, demon- amongst students for how Cell Phone an environment of struggle and chal-
strated various Google techniques that Radiations can affect physical & psycho- lenges amongst the participants.
would allow us to search or use Google logical health. Communication connection The last day of the ECI week intended
more effectively. between two mobile, Specific Absorption to bring on tranquility in an individual’s
The next day’s activities commenced with Rate, Thermal Effect of Cell Phones, Ra-
life & how to achieve them. It began
a Programming Competition in which a diation Penetration in the head, Cell
number of students eager to use their phones Damage DNA & how Electromag- with naat khwani, followed by a
programming knowledge participated. It netic exposure stimulates human Brain mehndi competition. Later on we had
was followed by badminton competitions were the highlights of the lecture. This live singing competition, where the
for girls and boys. was fol- talent of young boys & girls sprang out
The 3rd day aimed at the importance of lowed by who certainly made the evening one
recycling & everyone was asked to bring a recrea- worth remembering.
one bag of recycled product from home. tional
Submitted by Sehrish Asif, Chair WIE
After this bit of show and tell, an im- activity
promptu Graphic designing competition “Dodge GCUL
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WIE PNEC beats the heat at the beach!!
PNEC- NUST has a very small amount and finalized. On the 1st of April, the
of percentage of female students. Due girls attended their regular classes
to this reason it is often mind boggling and after that hectic day they were to
for us to come up with ways to give get tanned on the beach and relax with
enough exposure to them about the the cool sea breeze. Around thirty-five
professional world, therefore when female student along with a few fac-
something of such magnitude arises ulty members, left for Nathia Gali
we believe in making the most of it. An Beach at 1.30 pm. The journey was
all female students trip to Nathia Gali the water. We had taken up with us
carried out in a Hino provided by the
Beach was held on 1st April 2011, Fri- plenty of food for everyone. Including
college. Although the trip was long and
day. By tremendous efforts made by Chinese rice for lunch, soft drinks and
the weather sweltering, but the time
WIE, the trip was successfully planned other snacks. We all enjoyed to our
was spent amiably. The girls had sing-
fullest and had a hell lot of fun.. All in
ing competitions among themselves
all, the full day long party was a re-
and hooted all the way. We reached
markable effort by WIE AG PNEC so
our destination by 2.45 pm. The sight
that our hardworking individuals can
of those mountains and tidal waves
get a well deserved break from hectic
elated everyone’s spirits and the ex-
life of the university.
haustion from the drive quickly sub-
sided. The sight was beautiful and the Submitted by Rabia Jamal,
scenery breath-taking. Almost every- WIE PNEC
one quickly left to enjoy themselves at
“THE FOOTSTEPS OF ILLUSTRIOUS” - WIE UET
WIE UET organized its first ever national of technical excellence displays random of WIE helps you add stars to your career
event ‘UET WIE EXPLORARTE ’11 on May info to its users. She drew attention of and personality. She conducted a small
19th, 2011. The event commenced at the listen- quiz competition asking ques-
1230 hours with the recitation of Holy ers to the tion from the audience and the
Quran, followed by Pakistan WIE Fo- fact that winners were given out gifts.
rum’s “DISCOVER WIE Episode-2”. This g i r l s After this, the inauguration
was conducted by Ms. Rabia Khalid, maintain ceremony of the first ever na-
Chairperson IEEE-PNEC and Mehvish their lead tional level progress project of
Zahoor, Chairperson Pakistan WIE Fo- over boys WIE was held. Ms. Asma Adeel,
rum. Rabia Khalid, the Newsletter Editor in SSC and Pakistan WIE Forum Lahore
Coordinator of the Pakistan WIE Forum HSSC and acquire better grades but less Section Coordinator, launched the “WIE
presented an introduction to IEEE & its than 5% of girls move on to study in the PAKISTAN MISSION TO PROGRESS”, pro-
benefits. She enlightened the students field of engineering. She emphasized ject. This project is aimed to promote
as to how IEEE can be of use for them at that females in the field of engineering gender equality and social trainings in
undergraduate level and also high- decrease on every step. They lack men- rural areas. This project has been initi-
lighted the differences between Google torship, job opportunities, career guid- ated under the leadership of Anum
& IEEE and explained them how IEEE ance, contacts and relations and the Javed , Pakistan WIE Forum Treasurer
holds an upper hand over Google citing easiest approach to all of them is the and Chairperson WIE UET with Nafeesa
60,000 pat- network of WIE. WIE offers you online Mazhar, Secretary WIE GCU Faisalabad,
ents where resources for women in computing, Javeria Habib, Secretary WIE UET and
as Google scholarships, internships, projects Aisha Ambreen, Chairperson WIE UIT as
having no grants, informative publications and its coordinators. The objective of this
con sistent much more. Mehvish Zahoor eluci- project is to provide Gender Equal Socie-
standards dated the audience how the network ties in Science, and to spread awareness
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Pakistan WIE Forum
to the common man about science, en- hore, Ms. Nuzhat Saadia, Assistant Man-
gineering and technology. Third seg- ager Media & Press Relations World Wide
ment was a lecture on “KNOW YOUR Fund for Nature, Nighat Daad, Privacy
REAL STRENGTH” by Ammara Javaid Activist Public Policy Researcher, Special
Shah, business graduate, Kinnaird Col- Public Prosecutor & Human Rights Activ-
lege for Women, Lahore who impressed ist and Miss Kiran Khursheed, DDOR CSP
the listeners with her diverse personal- Officer. This session was an eye-opener
ity. She started off with a motivational for all the audience members who got
speech & then conducted an activity in air without letting it fall to let the atten-the chance to gain an insight on the lives
which the audience was asked to write dees believe that they were not letting go of all these legendary individuals and
about their failures on a paper airplane of their dreams by not believing in a no- their experiences as the bread earning
and to make it fly as high as possible. It win situation. It turned out to be a very members of the society. The audience
was to ease and appease everyone by invigorating experience for all. The main eagerly asked questions from the guests,
allowing them to believe that they have highlight of the day was a panel discus- asked about their field of expertise and
blown away all sion having successful women of Pakistan how they daily cope with all the pres-
their failures as the guests, sharing their experience sures of the society. In conclusion of this
and worries in with the audience and encouraging and discussion all the guests gave valuable
the air. This motivating them to play their role in the advices to the audience regarding career
followed an- growth of society. It was named “THE & future endeavors.
other activity FOOTSTEPS OF ILLUSTRIOUS” where
Submitted by Javeria Habib, Secretary
of writing the leading women like Maryam Nasim, CEO,
wishes on a balloon and bouncing it in WIE UET Lahore
Pixcil, Dr. Najma, Proff. University Of La-
WIE HANGOUT-NED WIE
After a short yet successful semester of not take long for the whole team to get the details of each event and pointed
the newly formed team of WIE at NED friendly and well acquainted with each out all the important things that they
UET, Karachi, the executive committee other. The SSR of Karachi Section, Nimrah had learned during this experience, a
decided that the hard working members Parvez Hashmi and the Vice Chairperson few plans for future events were also
and they themselves deserved a of IEEE-NED vaguely discussed but mainly the
treat for the events that they held UET were also point of getting together was to party
during the three month period of invited to the hard for the hard work put in by the
their term. We decided to go to a get together as inexperienced team of WIE NED.
famous Portuguese restaurant, a gesture of Submitted by Injla Khan, Chairperson
Nandos. The new members got to friendship. The WIE NEDUET
interact with the team and it did team discussed
IEEE Pakistan Section was established in 1968 as one of the very first few in the
Region 10. It expanded into Karachi Section in 1982 & then to Islamabad Section in 1998.
hamail
Dr. Shafay S n
First student branch became active in 1982 in UET Lahore. In recent times, IEEE has seen
ahore Sectio
Chair IEEE L
a very aggressive & healthy growth in its student activities. Since the establishment of
first Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group in 2005 by Rafaeel Akbar Chaudhry, WIE
AG has expanded very fast. It involved volunteers from all over Pakistan and provided
new impetus to the volunteer work of the members of the IEEE across the country. During this period a
number of local, national, regional and international awards were won. Among these was the 2008 WIE Affinity Group of the
Year Award given to the WIE GCUF. The WIE AG has been actively involved in many local, national as well as regional and
international activities. Due to the dedication, sincere efforts and hard work of its members it has won praise from within
Pakistan as well from the region. The Pakistan WIE Forum is a result of collective efforts of WIE volunteers of all the Sections. I
feel honored to be part of young enthusiastic volunteers who are finding new horizons by working together. My heartiest
felicitations to the entire team of WIE Pakistan for their untiring volunteer efforts in establishing the Pakistan WIE Forum,
making it a professional body for the students and bringing it to fame and glory.
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ASPTECH AND SQL LEARNING WORKSHOP
ERS
NGINE
ASPTECH and SQL Learning was a 2- tion to ASP.NET. He also showed
day workshop organized by IEEE-WIE students how to create a simple STAN DING E
NED student branch on 16th and ASP.NET websites with proper link- UNDER , the gla
ss
ing with the Database created on the o ptimist
17th March 2011. The Speaker for • To full. ss
the event was Sir Fareed Nizami, the day-1. In the end he thanked IEEE- is half the gla
s simist,
academic co-ordinator of curriculum WIE for inviting him and expressed the pe
• To mpty. ss
and trainings at APTECH CENTER his humble feelings that it was one is half
e the gla
gineer, needs
Karachi. On day 1, Sir Fareed Nizami of his very good experiences and he the en ig as it
wants WIE to invite him again • To as b
is twice
after giving his introduction and
sharing his thoughts told the stu- some-
dents about the basic concepts of time. to be.
application development and data- W I E
bases. He also discussed the SQL Execu-
Server 2005 and explained its fea- t i v e
tures with a sample scenario. Sir Co m -
Fareed Nizami also shared his experi- mittee
ences with the students and he also presented Appreciation letter to Sir
encouraged students to opt Software Fareed Nizami and thanked him for
engineering as a career. taking out time from his schedule A common mistake that people make
and accepting their invitation. Cer- when trying to design something
On day 2 the session started at 2:00
tificates of participation were also completely foolproof is to
P.M and continued till 4:00 P.M. Sir
Fareed gave a brief introduction to
distributed among the students. underestimate the ingenuity of
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0, Submitted by Qudsia Meher, Sec- complete fools.
and gave students a brief introduc- retary WIE NED -Douglas Adams-
It is a matter of immense pleasure for me that Pakistan WIE Forum Affinity
Lohana
Engr. Parkash n
Group of IEEE has come up with a first Newsletter. I am satisfied and confident
rachi Sectio
C hair IEEE Ka that Pakistan WIE Forum AG and its publications committee have executed
this project in a successful manner.
I always felt that women in engineering do need a platform from where students and professional can work
together to increase the brand equity of our engineering departments with the help of aggressive marketing
events. This newsletter is of paramount importance for the women in engineering both students and
professional women engineers as it provides them ample opportunities to demonstrate their creativity and
serve as forum of expression for the innovative ideas and valuable thoughts of the younger generation.
I would like to place my personal commendations on record for the sincere and dedicated team efforts of the
publication committee of for making this accomplishment a reality by nurturing the positive traits of our
women engineers as well as students.
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Women In Engineering
E DITORIAL BOARD
This story can fit 150-200 words.
This project has been initiated under the leadership of Hudaisa Afzal One benefit of using your newsletter as
Anum Javed, Chair WIE UET, Treasurer IEEE Pakistan WIE a promotional tool is that you can reuse
Forum., along with: Electronic Engineering from other marketing materials,
content
• Ms Nafisa Mazhar-Vice Chair WIE GCUF, IEEE Lahore PN Engineering such as press releases, market studies,
College-NUST
and reports.
Section IEEE Karachi Section
While your main goal of distributing a
• Ms Aisha Ambreen-Chairperson WIE UIT, IEEE Kara-
newsletter might be to sell your product
chi Section.
Elia Nauroz or service, the key to a successful news-
• Ms Javeria Habib-Secretary WIE UET, IEEE Lahore letter
Electrical Engineering is making it useful to your read-
Section ers.
University of Engineering & Technology
The proposed activities and programs under this project A great way to add useful content to
include: IEEE Lahore Section newsletter is to develop and write
your
1. Survey of the current gender-equality status through
questionnaire. Fatma Faruq
2. Gender equality promotion in co-operation with rural Computer Engineering
areas.
E & ME College-NUST
3. Conduct seminars in IEEE Sections of Pakistan to
change mind sets of people towards working women. IEEE Islamabad Section
From the Editor’s desk
Hello everyone. Finally the most awaited Email us at:
first edition of the Pakistan WIE Newslette ail.com
r ieeewie.pk@gm
is here. Me and my team have tried our
level best to make it up to your expecta-
tions. I hope you had a good time reading
about the WIE Affinity Group happenings
in Pakistan. I believe this Newslet-
ter project initiated by the Pakistan WIE Catch us on facebook!!
Forum is a platform which would
unite the WIE affinity groups of all three
IEEE Sections of Pakistan. I would
encourage you to drop in your reports and https://www.facebook.com/
pictures of your events, and share home.php?
with us your plans so that WIE across Pakis sk=group_251973809196
tan would get to know the hap-
penings of your Affinity groups. Not only
this, it’ll be a great source of learn-
ing for the inactive WIE Members as well
. We shall try our level best to bring
you more news and chronicles in the next
edition of the Pakistan WIE News-
e web!!
letter. We are on th
Rabia Khalid http://
bly.com/
ieeepwf.wee
Newsletter Editor, Pakistan WIE Forum
Chairperson IEEE PNEC
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