National WIE Summit'10 Report

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IEEE WIE-GCUF AG Presents

Report on

National WIE Summit 2010

Theme: Edging the female talent

29th-30th May, 2010

@ GC University FaisalabadIEEE Lahore Section, Pakistan

Region 10 Asia pacific


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First nationwide IEEE National WIE Summit 2010 took place on the 29th

and 30th

of May of this year, at

Government College University Faisalabad. The event drew over 150 participants from across Pakistan

who took part in it.

It was very first time in the history of Faisalabad that this type of Summit was organized in professional

comportment. This is indeed helpful to enhance the capabilities of future professional females and to

promote the culture of Engineering in Pakistan.

National Women-In-Engineering Summit 2010 (NWS) is gathering of IEEE WIE members including

student representatives from all the IEEE student branches and professionals of Pakistan. The slogan of

the Summit was We Welcome.

IEEE WIE student branch affinity group in GCUF was initiated on 15th

April, 2008. In the first year of

initiation we organized IEEE WIE Pakistan Congress. In the course of two years we got huge success and

execute a lot of energetic activities and in 2009 we won Best Affinity Group of the year award

globally. This award is achieved first time among all the affinity groups in Pakistan.

The event included speeches of invited speakers, panel discussion, training sessions and fun filled

activities definitely. The primitive purpose of this Summit was to bring representatives of all IEEE

student branches, WIE Affinity Groups and all females from different universities of Pakistan and

inculcate the idea of community and sharing of knowledge of issues and their solutions pertaining to

womens professional lives. In this Summit the representative of the universities which dont have IEEE

student branches and willing to have it also participated in it. The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

and University of Engineering and Technology, Faisalabad Campus was some of them.

2:Pre-Event Stage Decoration1: Pre-Event Placing of Board at entrance.


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omment place for Participants. 4: Final stage look.

Messages from IEEE Executives and students on

ard. 6: Venue guider


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1st

day:

With extreme energy and passion of students, the

event began.

Opening Ceremony:

The event began with an opening ceremony held in the

morning of 29th

May, 2010. The event was started by

the opening message of Dr Irena Atov, Chair IEEE

Women in Engineering Committee and welcome

words ofDr. Shafay Shumail, Chairperson IEEE Lahore

Section read by Benazir.

Speeches were also made by the honorable Chief Guest Dr. Salma Sultana, Assistant Professor, GC

University, Faisalabad. Dr. Shahid Nadeem, Chairman Bioinformatics Department, and Col. Afzal Sipra

Chairman Electrical Engineering Department. Col.Sipra expressed his views about IEEE GCUF as IEEE

GCUF is the youngest, largest and hyperactive student branch of Lahore Section. He congratulates the

students of GCUF for their determined efforts to organize these events. He formally welcomes the

participants and guests. Mr. Amir Zahoor, Section Student representative (SSR) of IEEE Lahore

Section, was also honorable guest at opening ceremony. Syed Muhammad Azzam, Chaiperson, IEEE-

GCUF also Welcome all on the behalf of organizing team.

After that chief guests open the proceeding of event by waving of National Flag with Pakistans National

Anthem.

11: Event Slogan on Board.

Branch Chair; Syed Muhammad Azzam's Welcome

ds.

13: Chief guests unfold National Flag with Pakis

National Anthem.


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Ice Breaking Activity:

Afterward proceedings of NWS 2010

started with an ice breaking activity.

There were about 150 representatives

from different universities of Pakistan.

In ice breaking activity participants

were required to tell their name with

one adjective starting with first letter

of their name.

After this activity there was an

integration game for participants

named Dress up Mummy.

Participants were divided into groups

of 16 members and required to dress

up one of their participants as

mummy with rolls of tissue papers.

Best one and fastest one was winner. This

ice-breaking activity results with good integration of participants from all over Pakistan.

IEEE Women-In-Engineering (WIE) Resources:

One of the most informative sessions was WIE Resources

.It was presented by Adila Shauket and Qurat-ul-ain. They

delivered a presentation on How WIE Benefits. In this

presentation they presented the online resources available

for women and how they can avail them. It was one hour

session that includes description of benefits of IEEE, IEEE

awards, IEEE Medals, IEEE WIE Projects,

IEEE certification, available funding

resources and online recourses.

14: Ice-breaking on proceeding

15: Qurat-ul-Ain was being presenting.


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Bioinformatics Seminar:

Bioinformatics seminar was the parallel

activity of National WIE Summit 2010 Of 1

hour 30 mins. It was arrange especially for the

future bioinformaticians ofGCUF.

The objective of this seminar includes

Motivation of Youth as well as Introduction

of Bioinformatics Tools and Databases to

Young Bioinformaticians. There were total

60 participants who attended this seminar.

Speakers at the seminar Mr. Hassan Tariq, Dr.

Tahseen Gulzar, Mr. Qamar Abbas, Miss

Bushra tahseen, Miss Maria Hasnee, Miss

Bushra Shaheen, Miss Sadaf Ambreen.

Mr. Hassan Tariq, told the participant about

1. The artificial intelligence2. Application of artificial intelligence3. Work on Bioinformatics i.e. user based and developer based4. usage of biopearl in automated usage of data retrieval

Participant took keen interest in the new diminutions of bioinformatics. There was brief questions and

answer session at the end.

16: Bioinformatics seminar's handmade chart.

17: Question, Answer Session


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Dr Tahseen Gulzar, Assistant Professor of the department of Bioinformatic, GCUF.

Points she delivered were:-

1. Her brief introduction2. Basics of organic Chemistry3. Drugs processing and application4. Targeting effect of drug in human body5. Resistance reaction of drug in different part of body. i.e. oral cavity

She concluded her speech by the brief detail of organic chemistry in bioinformatics.

Mr Qamar Abbas , expert in his field of Bioinformatics. He threw light on:1. His field of research (i.e. phylogenetics analysis)2. Importance of Bioinformatics in new era3. Steps of phaylogenetic analysis Research fields of Bioinforamtics4. He concluded his speech by giving inspiration to young Bioinformaticians about the latest

records of bioinformatics research.

Yes Im:

A great motivational session

was conducted by Hiba

Hassan. She is an ACCA

qualified and a certified

trainer from SOL (School of

leadership). Theme of the

session was Yes I am. Sheproved with examples that we

can do what we want. She

also emphasized on having

self confidence and to love

the job.

Draw Your World:

Subsequently there was an

activity to boost up the creativity ofthe participants and to show their

talent on paper. Competition was named as Draw your world. There were three participants in each

team and a task of drawing was assigned to each team. Task given to each team was to show their

creativity on paper about a given topic.

18: Motivational Session "YES I am"


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19: Delegates drawing their own imagination.

20: Winners of Best Imagination described that

"one can hold the world if want"21: Best Imagination.


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Syndicate Session:

After lunch break there was Syndicate Session of professional discussion. A number of

professionals women from industry and educational institute participate and expressed their

views regarding challenges faced by women in their professional life. The discussion went great,

different views were shared by every speaker.

I can change the world:

There was a great leadership session named I can change the world by Mr. Waleed Anwar. He is also a

certified trainer from SOL (School of leadership).He advised the participants to believe in themselves

and to be initiators.

22: Ms. Sadia Mumtaz with Seven female professionals on board.

23: Leadership Training Session


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City (Faisalabad) Tour:

A city tour was arranged for the delegates and organizers. This was specifically arranged to spend some

precious and unforgettable moments with the delegates. We had a lot of fun there and enjoyed that

visit.


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2nd

Day:The second day started with admiring message of Madam Mini Thomas, Vice-chairperson IEEE MGA.

Proceeding was started with full enthusiasm and zeal. Students were keen to get more and more from

the event. The day was divided into following sessions.

Debriefing of day 1:

The 2nd

day started with the debriefing of day one. The session was

conducted by Mr.Amir Zahoor, SSR IEEE Lahore Section. A brief

look at the activities of the last day was taken, along with the

comments of students were taken about their experience about

program and what they learned from all activities.

Energizer:

To create a sense of love and affection for all the

fellow human beings, an energizer was organized by

Mr.Waleed. It was an activity full of fun, basicallyholding the lesson to teach everyone that all human

beings are equal. The participants enjoyed this

activity to their extreme, this team activity was

arranged to involve the participants and motivate

them to work without feeling any type of hesitation.

WIE group presentations:

Different WIE groups from various universities were given a

chance in this portion to give their presentations on their

activities of WIE. All the office barriers of WIE presented their

introduction of group, their previous activities and future

plans. In the session almost six WIE affinity groups

participated. The session was very helpful for all the

27: Mr. Amir zahoor during

Debriefing of day one

29: Delegates during energizers

28: Before starting WIE Group Presentation


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delegates. It created awareness as well as an urge in all participants to perform more and more

activities.

MS office Workshop:

In the parallel activity there was a MS office workshop for the participants both IEEE and non IEEE from

G.C University and other local universities .The instructors for the workshop were Sir Touqeer Jilani

(Lecturer in GCUF), Sir Salman Mirza (IT Manager of GCUFs) and Engr. Yasir Munir. Total 100 students

participated in the workshop. In the Workshop the main emphasis was paid on MS-Office, MS-

PowerPoint, MS- Excel.

Online Talk with Owais Naveed:

Owais naveed is currently working as GOLD coordinator and WIE industry relationship Officer in IEEE

UAE Section, Region 8. He shares his experience that how WIE UAE section works and arranged different

activities. The session went great and the WIE group learned a lot.

Career counseling session:

A session that was of the most

interest for the female students

was the career counseling session.

The resource person for this

session was Ms. JaveriaZafar; she

is a HR manager in Serena Hotel (5

star hotel of Faisalabad). She gave

useful information to students who

want to continue their studies

after graduation and those who

want to apply for jobs, in session

the emphasis was also paid on the

professional skills that a person

must have to survive in industry. In

the end of the session there was a

question answering portion, in

which the participants asked about their

queries regarding their career and

professional and student life.

30: Question, Answer after carrier counseling session


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Officers Training Session:

One of the main Sessions of the Wie summit 2010 was a WIE officer training. The resource person of

this session was Mr.Amir Zahoor (SSR Lahore Section).In that the participants were given a detailed

description on the formation of a affinity group and its working. It was told that how many persons can

be office barriers, what are their duties, the proper way to write a proposal, to initiate WIE groups andto conduct many activities under WIE. In the end of the session there was a group activity for the

participants in which the participants were divided into 4 groups. Each Group was given a question

related to WIE and IEEE in which they have to brainstorm on all the possible answers. The session was

very informative.

Faisalabad declaration:

In the ending of the WIE summit 2010, a WIE forum was

formulate to initiate more and more WIE affinity groups invarious universities. And to hold more activities in different

branches.8 students from various universities were selected for

the forum.

31: eight selected students of IEEE Pakista

Forum

32: Delegates Group photo in "IEEE"


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