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Institution of Civil Engineers NUCES Student Chapter

Annual Report 2015 - 16



About ICE

Background and Mission

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is a professional body for Civil Engineers, which

is recognized worldwide. The Institution was founded in the UK by a small group of

idealistic young men. Its aim is to “foster and promote the art and science of civil

engineering”. ICE is a qualifying body, a center for the exchange of specialist

knowledge, and a provider of resources to encourage innovation and excellence in

the profession worldwide.

Objectives

ICE Student Chapter will enhance and broaden the knowledge and

perspective of students at NUCES by giving them international Civil

Engineering exposure

ICE student chapter will be a platform for all Civil Engineering students to

develop their abilities and get access to latest research in the field of Civil

Engineering.

ICE student chapter will foster good relations with allied institutions,

organizations and learned societies.

Our Moto

“To foster and promote the art and science of civil engineering”



Messages

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences have various student

chapters like IEEE, ACM etc. But Institution of Civil

Engineers was the first ever student chapter of Civil

Engineering in the history of FAST-NUCES. In a very

short period ICE-NUCES Student Chapter has emerged

with deep roots as being one of the excellent student

chapters at FAST-NUCES. They succeeded in gaining

international success and have lightened the name of the

institution worldwide. We are so much proud of this fact

and with guaranteed support from the FAST-NUCES

authorities we are hopeful that ICE-NUCES Student

Chapter will Fame high in the years to come.

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S (HOD) MESSAGE

We are thankful to the Institution of Civil Engineers for establishing a Student

Chapter at FAST-NUCES. ICE-NUCES Student

Chapter has worked professionally on student

extracurricular activities in detaining professional and

practical skills in them. The series of workshop on Civil

Engineering Software’s like SAP2000, Geo Studio etc.

has given the bright touch of modern civil engineering

methods. This Student Chapter has always taken a step

ahead when it comes to technical events and in doing

so they have conducted Wooden Bridge Design

Competition which is famous allover in the country.

Further events are part of the report. With such success

rate and full support form University administration we

are seeing bright years to come for ICE’s Student

Chapter.

Director FAST-NUCES Lahore

Dr. Amjad Hussain

Head of Department Dr. Shahid Ali



PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

ICE NUCES Student Chapter has achieved remarkably since its inception. We have

produced great skills in our members to work for the

betterment of student development programs. Always

being up to our motto that is to promote and foster the

art of civil engineering, we have done various

activities that created many innovative sights at the

student chapter. Institution of Civil Engineer’s chapter

at FAST-NUCES has proved fruitful to the entire

students and experts not only in FAST-NU but in

Pakistan and all over the world as well. It is indeed

the commitment and dedication of ICE-NUCES

Student Chapter team along with the help of Advisory

board that has led us to the greater success. By the

Grace of Almighty we are looking forward for more

landmarks in near future.

President ICE-NUCES Student Chapter Syed Muaaz Ali



Syed Muaaz AliPresident

Ammad HassanVice President

Saad GilaniGeneral Secretary

Namra SaqibTreasurer

Arslan Ali

Assistant General Sectary

Ayaz AshrafDirector Media and Software

Muhammad Jazil

Event Coordinator

Hamdoon Malik

Coordinator

Rushaan Sheikh

Historian

Abdul WahabDirector Recruitment

ICE NUCES Student Chapter Executive Team 2015-16



In 2015-16 session we have done a lot of educational activities. We focused on promoting

the art and science of civil engineering. In that we fully achieved our goals through the

utmost effort of our team and the faculty. Following are the events that were conducted:-

Welcome Week Seminar

Gaming Competition

Orientation

Quiz Mania

National Wooden Bridge Design Competition

Winter Training Program Auto CAD 2013

One to One Session with Scholarship Network

Workshop on Primavera P6 V8.3

Online IQ Test

Mega Event URAAN ‘16 Steel Bridge Design Competition

Wooden Bridge Design Competition

CAD (AutoCAD Competition)

Canvas Painting

Mock Interviews

All Collegiate Film Festival

Photography

Theme Night

Qawali Night



Welcome Week

Institution of Civil Engineers NUCES student chapter conducted "Welcome

Week” starting from 24th August 2015 to 28 August 2015. This event was for

the fresh batch of civil engineering to welcome the freshmen of the Civil

Engineering department creating a better understanding among the fresh

students about their field and to enhance their enthusiasm. This comprises of

series of events:

Seminar:

The week started off with a seminar about

civil engineering. It was conducted in civil

department. The whole team of ICE-

NUCES was present there to welcome the

freshmen. Ex-president and the mentor of

the chapter Mr. Musa Dar formally

welcomed the new batch on behalf of the

ICE-NUCES. He gave a brief introduction

about Civil Engineering and the ICE-

NUCES chapter itself to the students. Later

a brief talk about different fields of Civil

Engineering was carried out by a senior

year student Hania Batool. She also answered the questions of the students

regarding their field, the university

and ICE itself. Later the students

were given a visit to the labs of the

department where they were given

an introduction to the machines and

equipment which they will use later

in their studies and the field. The

interest of the students was

exceedingly overwarming.

Fresh 15 Batch



Gaming Competition:

Gaming competition was also a part of the welcome week. At ICE-NUCES

student chapter we believe in 'edutainment' so we make sure that the students

never miss the fun part of their

learning. This gaming competition

was a great source of attraction

among the fresh students of not

only Civil Engineering department

but also from the other

departments of the university.

Prizes money was also given to the

winners of the competition.

Orientation:

The main attraction of the week was the orientation for the new batch. It was

carried out in Sayed Rafaqat Ali Auditorium. The hall was full with young and

fresh faces. The orientation began with an introduction about the ICE-NUCES

student chapter itself and the team members. The Head of Civil Engineering

Department Dr. Shahid Ali and many of the other teachers made the

environment of the hall way more respectful and full of energy with their mere

presence. Later on our HOD delivered a brief speech to the students to motivate

them. He talked about the importance of the societies like ICE-NUCES to polish

the skills of the students and

to develop them into better

Engineers. The welcome

week is the pioneering step

taken by ICE-NUCES to

ensure the participation of

students in the societies

from the beginning.

Team Photo

Orientation



Quiz Mania

ICE NUCES student chapter conducted Quiz Mania on 16th of October in

FAST-NUCES Lahore. The purpose of the event was to give a platform to

students. It helped them to self-assess their intelligence quotient and to compete

with one another.

The written test contained 15 questions. Many students managed to answer

most of the questions correctly in spite of the fact that the difficulty level of the

questions was quite high which was encouraging to see indeed. The test was

conducted in the Civil Engineering department. The invigilation was strict and

it was made sure that the conducted test remains fair and square for all the

participants. The winner of the Quiz Mania was given prize money while first

three top scorers were given certificates of recognition.

Quiz Mania



National Wooden Bridge Design Competition

ICE NUCES Lahore Student chapter organized the 4th edition of the National

Wooden Bridge Design Competition NWBDC '15 with the aim of making it the

biggest solo event of the University. Month long planning and preparation saw

the signature event of ICE-NUCES reach new heights of competitive

competition and a constructive event.

The event attracted 100s of students from Universities spanning throughout

Pakistan. The Intra University student participation broke new record, in spite

of the fact that there was put a limit on student teams per University, ICE

NUCES received dozens of registrations from students of UET Lahore, UET

Faisalabad, UET Peshawar, University of Lahore, University of Management

and Technology and few others. While the participation of students within the

society was overwhelming as well.

Participants in NWBDC



ICE-NUCES proudly welcomed all the participants and were provided with the

materials to be utilized in the making of their bridges. Not to be forgotten the

Wooden Bridge Design Competition is an annual event arranged by ICE-

NUCES where participants are given ice cream sticks by which they make

bridge designs while the team with best weight to fracture stress ratio wins.

National Wooden Bridge Design Competition 2015-16 was honored by the

presence of Mr. Sarfraz Ahmad the owner of Progressive Consultant and the

representative of Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in Pakistan. His presence

as the chief guest was a huge morale booster for our team and it indeed played

its part in making this event a huge success.

The winner of the event a team from Universities of Management and

Technology Lahore was given the prize money of 5,000 PKR while the runners

up and the second runners up where given 3,000 PKR and 2,000 PKR

respectively. While every participant of the competition was given certificates

of participation. All the teams were provided refreshment during the course of

the making of the bridges. The event was well organized and immensely

competitive.

Team Photo with Mr. Sarfraz Ahmad



Winter Training Program

ICE NUCES Student Chapter started winter training program for students of

civil engineering department. The aim of this program was to promote and

enable skills among students. This winter ICE NUCES offered Auto CAD (2D

+ 3D). It was six days workshop starting from 28th Dec 2015 to 2nd Jan 2016.

This training program was led by society Vice President Ammad Hassan.

Auto CAD is well known drawing software used all over the world for making

drawings and different 3D designs. Students not only from civil engineering but

also from CS (FAST-NU) and Chemical engineering department (Punjab

University) participated. The basic goal of this workshop was to ensure that the

students shall possess enough knowledge of this software and will be able to

compete in every competition. Participants also give positive feedback and

suggested more software to be offered in next time. On the last day of the

workshop a closing ceremony was held Dr. Shahid Ali Faculty Advisor ICE-

NUCES Student Chapter, presented the certificates to the participants and

admire the initiative. Dr. Shahid Ali also shared his views with the audience and

wished ICE NUCES good luck with their upcoming programs.

ICE NUCES Winter Training Program



One-to-One Session with Scholarship Network

ICE NUCES - Student Chapter managed to arrange a session of students with

Scholarship network Erasmus Mundus. This session was arranged in order to

provide students with guidance related to scholarship, career advice and

admission guidelines in abroad. The session was delivered on 8th January 2016

at FAST-NU. Students discuss about their career plans, scholarship

opportunities in this one to one session with well-known people regarding

scholarships anywhere in the world.

More than 200 students came up from different departments and universities to

this one to one session making it the largest session ever to be held.

Participants visited this

session and meet

different professionals

regarding their quires.

Very well renowned

professionals

participated in this

session for giving

students such great

guidance in an interesting

and detailed one to one

sessions.

1) Waqar Baig, Erasmus Mundus PhD fellow, Admin Scholarship Network,

2) Dr. Shahid Qamar. James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of

Louisville, USA,

3) Muhammad Nabeel, PhD Fellow, TUM Germany

4) Shahnawaz Grewal, MS fellow EIT ICT Labs Europe

Professionals giving advice to students



5) Rauf Butt, former Professional Development Coordinator, Erasmus

Mundus Association

6) Amir Zahoor, Masters from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

under Swedish State.

We will continue to provide support to scholarship network in doing such

beneficial work for the students and professionals from the field and in such

regard will be conducting these activities for student development programs.

Team ICE with delicate of Erasmus Mundus



Primavera P6 V 8.3 Institution of Civil Engineers NUCES Student Chapter started a workshop on

Primavera P6 on 1st March. Primavera is an enterprise project management

software. It includes project management, product management, collaboration

and control capabilities and integrates with other enterprise software such as

Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems. The objective of this workshop was to produce

management skills among students of civil engineers. 53 students including

some graduates participated in this workshop. This workshop was led by our

own faculty members Sir Nasir Tabarruk Butt and Sir Zareen Khan. It was a 40

hours workshop which lasts

for 8 weeks. Students

increased their management

skills for different projects

especially in the field of

Construction. The course

duration was 8 weeks. A

proper procedure was taught

to the students for using this

Software and its importance

in the field of Construction.

Online IQ Test

On the 23rd of March, 2016 ICE-NUCES organized its 2nd international online

IQ test competition. The competition was the online and open for everyone.

People from different place and different universities took part and show their

skills.

It was focused on enabling the students for being able to better understand their

intelligence quotient and to improving it. The 23rd March is the Pakistan day

Certificates for Participants



and thus the messages of self-evaluation and self-assessment were emphasized

with the help of the inauguration of ICE NUCES’s event. The event was

successful and saw participation not only from students in Pakistan but also

from students in other parts of the world. More than 200 participants took the

test. Not only did the students participate but many PhDs also participated and

appreciated. The IQ test was of 10 minutes and it contained 15 questions. The

test was automatically submitted when the set time was over. Students from all

major universities of Pakistan participated irrespective of their disciplines. The

competition saw participation from PU, UET, KEMU, NUST, LCWU, LUMS,

FAST, UET(all branches), BUITEMS, GIKI, IST, PIEAS, KU, NED and many

others as well to name a few. Students from foreign universities also

participated. Cash prize was also presented to the winner. ICE NUCES aspires

to continue to bring events which are socially responsible and help to develop

leadership skills in the students.

Poster Designed for Online test



URAAN ‘16

ICE-NUCES Student Chapter organized its annual mega event URAAN ’16 on

17th & 18th April, 2016 with cohosted by other societies. It was aimed at the

advancement, promotion and awareness of engineering sciences.

The name "URAAN" is taken from the Urdu language meaning "To Take

Flight". The name is in perfect alignment with our vision which is to inspire the

students of Pakistan to reach for the stars and achieve their dreams and goals.

URAAN '16 promises its participants two days of learning, recreation, music,

dance and much more. URAAN covered all the genres of technical and social

events including:

- Steel Bridge Design Competition

- Wooden Bridge Design Competition

- CAD (AutoCAD Competition)

- Canvas Painting

- Mock Interviews

- All Collegiate Film Festival

- Photography

-Social events

Theme Night

Qawali Night



Steel Bridge Design Competition:

This competition aims at the increment of awareness of real-world engineering

issues such as spatial constraints, material properties, strength, fabrication and

erection processes, safety, esthetics, project management and cost. Success in

this competition requires application of engineering principles, theory and

effective teamwork.

Judging criteria was made

simple for the participants.

The bridge was mainly

tested according to its

structural aesthetics,

construction speed, lightness

and innovation. Starting and

ending time of the event was

noted and marks to every

team was awarded according

to their bridges. All the

participants showed perfect

team work and designed

their bridges. Participants

designed some new innovative bridges with less cost effective and with good

aesthetics.

Wooden Bridge Design Competition:

Bridges are the valuable assets of infrastructure development. They can be the

biggest and most attractive part of a project. This competition started on the 2nd

day of URAAN ’16. Total numbers of teams were 40 with 3 participants in each

team. The event was held in the large lobby of FAST-NUCES Department of

Civil Engineering where a crowd of more than hundred gathered to see the

exciting event happening. The event started in the morning and continued

Participants of Steel Bridge



throughout the morning. Material was provided to the participants which

constituted of ice-cream sticks and glue etc. Every bridge was judged by

applying loads and aesthetics of the bridges. The load was to be applied at the

center perpendicular to the bridge. Teams from UET Peshawar, UET Lahore,

UOL, COMSATS and FAST-NU etc. participated in this event and made one

of the finest bridged of them all. The bridges was tested according to the criteria

and results were prepared by judges. The test was laid to the best and all the

positions were from FAST-NUCES Lahore.

CAD (AutoCAD Competition)

This was an Auto CAD draw and design competition. Two rounds of 2D of

Auto CAD drawing was concluded. Each session was of one hour. In the first

round participants were asked to draw an existing drawing from page to Auto

CAD. In the second round participants were supposed to design the drawing

according to the specifications we mentioned and then present the files to the

management.

Participants of Wooden Bridge



Our goal was to increase the knowledge of students about one of the most used

software in the market and

allow them to meet the

market requirements.

Students from different

universities and different

areas come across to

participate in it. Our senior

faculty members admired it

and encouraged us to manage

more educational

competitions.

Canvas Painting:

This competition helps the students to forget their boring routine and show their

imagination on paper. Students from NCA, PUCIT, FAST-NU and others

universities participated and show their skills of art and design.

Participants of Canvas Painting

Participants of CAD Competition



Mock Interviews:

Mock interviews enable candidates to have a fair idea about the sort of things

they are going to experience at actual interviews, and prepare them how

accurately they can deal with it. In these interviews students from different

departments participated and get interview sessions by expert panelist. Our

panelist include professional CSP, CSS officer, Phycologists and Senior

Railway officers. The panelist guide the candidates whether or not their

responses are suitable, along with providing them the most appropriate set of

response they should practice. In the process the candidates gain their

confidence by having the knowledge about their strengths and shortcomings.

No one is perfect enough to execute everything faultlessly, so the purpose of

these mock interviews

is to point out one’s

weaknesses and guide

them to bring perfection

by rectifying those.

Mock interviews help

candidates reduce their

anxiety about

interviewing by training

them for the typical

interview questions.

This initiative was

appreciated by all of our

faculty and students.

All Collegiate Film Festival:

Besides all the technical events URAAN also included some events which helps

the students to show up their skills regarding art and media. URAAN provided

a platform for all media lovers and artists to show up their skills. Sole purpose

of this event is to gather and enlighten a path for their hidden skills. Participants

Team of Mock Interviews



was supposed to show a short film which will represent a common problem in

society.

These films were screened in the Auditorium and were evaluated based on

cimatography, story line, and technicals and editing.

Photography:

Photography used to be one of the extensive art for students to capture the

beauty with their camera. Our photographs share so much about who we are as

individuals and what we find beautiful, fascinating, funny, delicious, important

Presentation of films



and inspiring. They allow us to

showcase our personal style, interests,

relationships, and adventures, to mark

the passage of time.

Our aim was to develop such passions

among students. In this competition

participants were asked to submit 5

pictures of different category which

were then judged by our judge Mr. Irfan

Ahson.

Prize Distribution Ceremony

The prize distribution ceremony was held at the Auditorium of FAST-NUCES

Lahore. The team was given certificates by the adviser of ICE-NUCES Student

Chapter Dr. Shahid Ali. The event started with a farewell speech by former

President Mr. Muaaz Ali. He inlayed importance in working with more

efficiently for the Student Chapter and motivated the new executive team to

show full commitment and dedication as it is the reason for the greater success

of ICE-NUCES Student Chapter.

Judging of Photography Competition

Team Photo of ICE NUCES Student Chapter Team

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