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ICE Student Chapter NUCES
Annual Report
2018 - 2019
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Annual Report – NUCES Institution of Civil Engineers is a Registered Charity in
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Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
Institute of Civil engineers (ICE) is a professional body, which came into existence more
than two centuries ago. Being the brainchild of a few young idealistic engineers, the
branches of this body are vastly spread all over the world with its roots embedded in the
heart of the United Kingdom. Consisting of an impressively good lot of members
(approximately 80,000), ICE focuses on fostering the innovation of civil engineers by
providing them a platform to show case their unique abilities. It also strives to spread more
knowledge by making research resources more easily accessible to its members.
ICE-NUCES Student Chapter
Our Motto: “To foster and promote the art of and science of civil engineering”
ICE-NUCES is a student chapter of the ICE based in National University of Computer and
Emerging Sciences Lahore. It is one of the links of chain of student chapters of ICE in civil
engineering universities around the world. Founded on December 23, 2013; ICE NUCES
is playing a significant role in promoting and fostering the knowledge of civil engineering
throughout Pakistan by organizing advantageous activities like seminars, workshops,
events and motivational programs all related to civil engineering. ICE-NUCES yet remains
a pipeline between the educational hubs as well as the industry. ICE-NUCES is basically
serving to make sure that students of civil engineering at NUCES remain in touch with
innovation and practical engineering demands at the same time. In recent past ICE-
NUCES have successfully arranged talks by distinguished foreign and Pakistani
engineers, academic resources for students, project exhibition, workshops, gatherings of
ICE community in Pakistan, and other technical and sub technical events. ICE-NUCES is
notably progressing on all fronts and pulling its student members up to secure promising
careers in today’s industry. We aim to continue adding more stand out projects to reinforce
the positive impact of civil engineering on the society.
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Messages
From the Head of Civil Department:
It is my pleasure to write a message at annual report of
ICE-NUCES student chapter. ICE-NUCES is the oldest
student chapter in Pakistan as ICE is the oldest
engineering body in the world. ICENUCES has worked
professionally not only in extracurricular activities but also
in conducting technical workshops. These workshops not
only focused on enhancing the understanding of civil
engineering software but also involved in hands-on
designed competitions. The Wooden Bridge Design
Competition is one of such events that ICE-NUCES is
really proud of. This event is popular all over the country where students come up
with new ideas.
ICE-NUCES fully understands the importance of engineers and engineering
decisions on the society. Therefore, it is always on the forefront in major
engineering events which influence the society. One of such examples is fund-
raising for Bhasha dam where ICE-NUCES members did exemplary work. I believe
that ICE-NUCES student chapter will inspire other student chapters to play an
exemplary role in the days to come.
From Advisor ICE-NUCES:
ICE; FAST-NUCES chapter has been delivering
exceptional extra-curricular activities in FAST since 2012.
The chapter has provided a plat form for students to work
as a team and overcome various challenges while
executing the tasks assigned. We, at ICE, aim to bring
about quality in your academic profile by providing you with
opportunities to enhance your hidden talents and skills.
We, at the Civil Engineering Department, have an
International Student Chapter under the name Institution of
Civil Engineer (ICE).
Dr. Javaid Ahmad
HOD Civil Engineering
Miss Sarah Asif
Advisor ICE NUCES
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From Co-Advisor ICE-NUCES:
The 2018-19 academic year has been very exciting one for
the students of Civil Engineering Department, NUCES. ICE
NUCES Student Chapter has always been in the forefront
to groom professionals with the right blend of soft skills,
hard skills, transferable skills based on ethics and morals.
Being the Co-Advisor of ICE NUCES Student Chapter, I
am delighted to see the enthusiastic members putting their
efforts to promote the vision of ICE. Our focus here is on
three areas: Promoting technical knowledge of civil
engineering, professional grooming, and developing
international and national links. The ICE NUCES Student Chapter’s members and
volunteers are committed to building on our current achievements to ensure that the
society continues to flourish and that we innovate programs to support our
members and represent Civil Engineering to the wider world.
From the President:
Working with ICE is always a great experience, best way of
learning professionalism and building relationships with
people of civil engineering field even before graduation.
Network of student chapters, especially in Pakistan acts as
a bond between institutions and plays immense role in
enhancing skills like teamwork, event management, formal
communication and marketing. ICE NUCES Student
Chapter has achieved remarkable heights since its
inception. We have always tried to live up to our motto that
is to promote and foster the art of civil engineering, and, in
doing so, we have conducted various activities under the
banner of our student chapter. Some of which, from
academic year 2018-19, are to follow in this report. I wish ICE-NUCES family to
continue to strive for professional and personal growth of students and remain
applauded ever for bigger achievements.
Mr. Shahzeb Adil Co-
Advisor ICE-NUCES
Sarmad Rasheed
Khan
President ICE-NUCES
2018-19
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Executive Body 2018 – 2019
Sarmad Rasheed Khan President
M Ali Murtaza Vice President
Naeem Ullah General Secretary
Shoaib Hassan Team Coordinator
Ansar Pervaiz Treasurer
Usama Rehman Historian
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Anish Aslam Marketing Manager
Emaz Azman External Relations
Manager
Syed Haris Design Manager
Hamza Rashid Khan Director Media
Shahab Ud Din Director
Recruitment
Usama Tofiq Director Event
Management
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Contents of Report
Event calendar 2018-19
Events Conducted Dates
Yes No
Primavera Workshop ✓
25th June, 2018 –
25th July, 2018
ICE NUCES Website
design
✓
July-August 2018
Seminar by prof.
Sekimoto
✓
4th September, 2018
Orientation ✓
20th September,
2018
ICE Bicentennials
Celebrations
✓
20th November, 2018
Seminar on Dam Safety
✓
18th April, 2019
Poster Presentation Competition
✓
24th April, 2019
ICEAGE ✓
30th April, 2019
Student Motivational Program
✓
September,2018
Mock Hazard Drill ✓
February,2019
Protoclash ✓
April,2019
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Events Conducted
Primavera P6 Workshop:
Date: 25th June, 2018 – 25th July, 2018
A month long workshop was conducted, here at FAST NU whereby the interested
members of ICE NUCES were introduced with “Primavera P-6” – An enterprise project
portfolio management software. Conducted under Mr. Nasir Butt’s shadow of guidance,
the workshop turned out be a success. In total, the workshop was thirty hours long with as
3-4 hour seminars were held three days a week within the span of a month.
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Website Design
Date: July-August 2018
The members of ICE NUCES were keen on taking their society live as works had started
to create an official “ICE NUCES website”. The purposes of creating a website included
forming a virtual book bank and for the registrations and publicities of the events
conducted by this very society. For the creation of this website, Mr. Farooq Ahmad, from
FAST NU Lahore’s Computer Sciences (CS) department stepped in. He, alongside a
handful of his students, worked on this project effectively. The project turned out to be a
win-win situation for both ICE NUCES and the CS students as the former got themselves a
website while the latter gained certified work experience. The book bank operated in two
main ways. The first one was giving out actual physical books to those who requested for
it. For this purpose, vast collection of books, donated by students and faculty members,
were put on a display on the website and the people who required any particular book had
the option of emailing us and collecting the book from our side. Next was the creation of
an online database of PDF books of all civil engineering. Again, the wishers of one of
these books had the option of emailing us in order to gain access. Unfortunately, the lack
of funding not only hindered with the idea of online book bank but it also meant not being
able to pay for the website’s domain (a fee which has to be paid in order to keep the
website live). Consequently, the website was taken down therefore it ceases to exist. The
upside to all this, however, is that ICE NUCES has been promised a page at FAST NU’s
official website, where the registration and publicity related activities will take place.
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Seminar by Professor Sekeimoto Date: 4th September, 2018 A purely academic type of event, this particular event was held at Syed Rafaqat Ali
Auditorium. A three-person panel from the University of Tokyo, Japan, was invited and
requested to grace the audience with information regarding their works both in field and in
research labs. Mr. Sekeimoto, a professor and researcher at the above mentioned
university, briefed the audience about his GIS (geographic information system) based
research on Traffic Management of Tokyo city. Though his lecture was brief, it was very
beneficial for the ones looking to pursue careers in the said department of engineering.
Next came Mr. Sano, a student from University of Tokyo, who shared his research
regarding the solid waste management of Lahore city. Finally, Miss Ansa, an alumna of
UET and FAST NUCES Lahore pursuing higher education in Tokyo, talked about the
procedures, prerequisites and requirements for bagging admissions at highly ranked
universities around the globe (especially in Japan). She spoke in the light of her own
extraordinary academic journey. The seminar proved to be very informative indeed.
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Orientation 2018
Date: 20th September, 2018
ICE NUCES’ orientation for the fresh was held on the eve of 20th September, 2018. The
orientation began with extension of a warm welcome to the fresh young faces. A brief
introduction of ICE NUCES student chapter was what followed in order to make the new
students familiar with what this society was and what it strives for. Since this time around,
one mega function was held for the orientation of all the societies; ICE NUCES well
utilized the allocated ten minutes: during which the president of the society gave a brief
speech introduction of the Civil Engineering faculty was done and a motivational video was
played in order to motivate the freshmen to join the society.
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ICE Bicentennial Celebrations Date: 20th November, 2018 As the name suggests, this event was a celebration for the 200th anniversary of Institution of Civil Engineers. The motto of this event was to bring all the student chapters of ICE, spread throughout Pakistan, together around a single round table. Since, the ICE student chapters of Pakistan were not integrated in any way; ICE NUCES took the liberty of creating a new post in the executive body 2018-19 namely “manager external relations”. The main purpose behind this move was to fill the communication gap between all the student chapters. This effort by ICE NUCES bore fruit when the student chapter was finally able to host ICE Bicentennial Celebrations. At this very auspicious event, four significant personalities were invited to grace the gathering with their presence and their words. The guests were as follows: 1) Dr. Sohail Aftab: (Member Governing Body, Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) Since Dr. Aftab is in the governing body of PEC, his talk mostly revolved around the new policies of PEC. He also guided the graduating batch about the necessary actions to take in order to get PEC accreditation and supervisory certification. He also explained the benefits the institutions and their graduates enjoy if the institutions are affiliated with Washington Accord.
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2) Dr. Sohail Kibria: (Vice president NESPAK) Dr. Kibria’s point of focus was that ‘what qualities the fresh civil engineering graduates must possess in order to meet the demands of employers’. Speaking in the light of modern corporate culture, he explained what corporations and entrepreneurs are looking for when hiring fresh graduates. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS NUCES STUDENT CHAPTER YEAR 2018-19 12 3) Dr. Mubashir Aziz Dr. Mubashir Aziz, experienced in “engineering education, research, program assessment and accreditation,” is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore. His presentation in the seminar revolved around ‘promoting creativity and innovation in engineering education.’ 4) Engineer Sarfraz Ahmad: (Country Representative ICE in Pakistan) Mr. Sarfraz Ahmad, head of ICE in Pakistan and a distinguished professional, was the chief guest at the ceremony. Since he is one of the pioneers of ICE Pakistan, he talked about his venture of bringing ICE to Pakistan and how it has contributed towards engineering in Pakistan. He also talked about his professional life and the lessons young generation entering their professional lives could extract from his example.
After all this, cake cutting was done to symbolically celebrate 200th birthday of ICE.
Followed by a meeting between the executive bodies of all seven ICE Student Chapters
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was held. The meeting proved to be of paramount importance as an agreement was
reached that all the student chapters would come together at least once annually. The fact
that in March of 2019, ICE student chapter UET Taxila hosted the first annual get together
shows how this mega event could be deemed a success.
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Seminar: Evolution of Dam Design and Safety
Date: 18th April, 2019
Taking place on the afternoon of 18th April, dam safety seminar was conducted keeping in
view the ongoing construction of two mega dams in Pakistan. The chief guest and speaker
at this seminar was Engineer Rashid Ahmad (a graduate of the University of California
Davis). Since Mr. Ahmad’s field of expertise revolves around the seismic safety of dams,
radial gates evolution and other articles related to dam works, he talked about particular
events pave way for the construction of more sophisticated dams. He also talked about the
construction of Diamer Bhasha Dam. Around forty-five people from the industry came to
FAST NU for the sole purpose of attending this seminar, so it won’t be wrong to say that
this was a professional gathering.
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Poster Presentation Competition
Date: 24th April, 2019
This event was related to the Final Year Projects (FYPs) of the outgoing batch. The
participants were supposed to give poster presentations showing all the working of their
FYPs. The jury judged and appreciated the tireless efforts of students. Whole graduating
batch participated in this event and the winners of this event won cash prizes.
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ICEAGE
Date: 30th April, 2019
ICEAGE is the crown jewel of all the activities which take place at FAST NU. Like every
year, ICEAGE again was a single day event. In total, this one mega event had nine
different modules. All the modulus were swiftly conducted, thus the event was a success.
The following were the nine modulus:
1) First Aid Training
Since civil engineers sometimes have to work in
hazardous conditions, a first aid training workshop was
conducted where the provision of basic medical aid in the
occurrence of some accident was the subject of
conversation. The workshop was conducted by trainers
from Edhi Foundation.
2) Levelling and Centering
This module was more like a race, where the victorious
participant emerged out as the one who was able to properly
center and level (setup properly) a theodolite in the least amount
of time.
3) AutoCAD Competition
Consisting of two rounds (knock out and final round),
the competitors (in the first round) were given the task
of an orthographic drawing. The finalists of the second
round were told to make 3-D drawings.
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4) Mock Interviews
Focused solely on the final year students, the purpose of this module was to simulate the
kind of interviews fresh graduates would have to sit when they’ve applied for some
particular job. This module wasn’t conducted as the minimum number of participants was
not met.
5) Sketching Competition
The theme of this module was “sustainability”. The competition took place at drawing labs,
where the participants made impressive sketches which delivered some message
regarding the importance of sustainability.
6) Typing Competition
Again a race, this module was to see which one the participants could type the given
amount of content in minimum time. This module wasn’t conducted as the minimum
number of participants was not met.
7) Bridge Design Competition
The participants of this very module were
supposed to design bridges with playing cards
and scotch tape. The amount of time and
material were limited and the participants had
to keep in mind the weight and aesthetics of the
bridge. This competition marked the revamping
of our typical wooden bridge design
competition.
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8) ICE – Futsal Cup
ICE Futsal Cup was a sport activity exclusive for
civil engineers and was organized in association
with Fast Sports Society. This was a Futsal
tournament where the team who scored the
most amount of goals won. This event was done
to encourage physical activity among civil
engineers.
9) Capture Your Story
A photography competition topped up with the art of storytelling to promote the spirit of
creativity amongst civil engineers, the specifications of this module included roaming
around the ICEAGE event and capturing images. Each participant was allowed to present
a maximum of three images along with a story narrated in front of jury.
Closing Ceremony:
Once all the above-mentioned modules were successfully conducted, a closing ceremony
was held in the eve. This ceremony included handing out the prizes to the winners of their
respective modules. The ceremony wrapped on a very euphoric note as FAST Music
Society’s performance cheered up the crowd.
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Events in the Pipeline
Student Motivational Program
In the past, the target audience for this event was the student body of high school. The
activities were conducted included the tour of FAST NU, seminars focused on motivating
young minds towards aspiring future. Last year, however, the design for this event was
changed. ICE NUCES had planned out to target 18 batch as now SMP would serve as an
alternate to “Welcome Week”. The blueprints of the event suggested that a seminar would
be held where significant personal would be invited. The session would be open for all
university students. At this session, three of the following people would speak:
1) A Motivational Speaker
2) Some celebrity
3) A person keen on progressing and raising the bar of his/her life (e.g. some
entrepreneur)
The purpose of this event was to revive students’ faith in optimism and let them know how
mishaps in life are hurdles rather than barriers.
Arduous efforts were made by ICE team to engage significant people from above
mentioned spheres in SMP. This event, however, was not conducted after all the efforts,
since the management of the university was changed which paused all student activates
at university for managerial reasons.
Suggestion for Sustainable on Campus Publicity:
This idea was extended to the director of FAST NU via a formal application by the
president of ICE NUCES executive body (2018-19). The proposition put forward was to
adopt a more sustainable and equitable way of on campus advertisement. The installation
of four digital screens at two significant spots on the university’s main highway was
suggested. This recommendation was made as the printed advertisement for events at the
university are a burden to various events’ budget and also it causes a lot of solid waste.
This waste leads to greater land pollution at the university, rendering the university’s
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landscape unattractive. The suggestion was readily accepted yet it awaits to be
implemented.
Mock Evacuation Drill
This particular event is a part of our proud legacy as it took place in the academic year
2017-18. This year, ICE NUCES had planned out to conduct this event yet again. The
purpose of this event was to make the campus a safer place in case of an unfortunate
event. This event is characterized by an awareness drive: knowledge of emergency
equipment in place, its safe use and human response in an emergency; and a mock
evacuation drill.
Before the event, a research survey was done in the university in order to check if such an
activity was actually need or not. The results made it vividly clear how little the general
public was aware about what were the necessary steps to take during a turbulent situation.
The event, however, was not conducted due to time constraints as ICEAGE was an
upcoming event which required more extensive preparations. Consequently, the team
decided to only publish the survey within university as an awareness tool and leave the
remaining event to be organized in future.
When it came to publishing the survey as a part of awareness drive, ICE NUCES team
realized that there was no actual platform in the university. Hence the idea of creating ICE
NUCES’ own magazine hatched in the minds of the team members and this plan is for the
following batches to fulfill.
Protoclash
The ICEAGE conducted in the academic year of 2017-18 included this very module. In this
module the participants from various universities presented their researches, in form of
either prototypes or poster presentations.
The very essence of this event is to bridge the gap between academia and industry. It
focuses on the creative ideas of students to be adopted by industry and professionals.
From previous experience and detailed discussions with faculty members; ICE NUCES
thought of changing the pattern of this event to get maximum benefits. This module wasn’t
conducted due to time constraints, but instead a plan was made to make this a full fledge
event in its own rights which rests with ICE NUCES team to be pursued in future