Sir Syed University Students prepared Drone model

SSUET students prepare Drone model
Karachi: Students of the Electronics Department of Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET) have prepared a model of drone ? 'Shahbaz: The Doom Drone' that proved to be the centre of attraction for the visitors at Karachi Expo.

This drone, with other innovations from the SSUET students is being displayed in the three-day exhibition "Exposition on Current of Pakistan" organised by the Academic and Social Circle, SSUET.

The students have designed and prepared the American type drone, which has surveillance cameras, temperature system and Global Position System (GPS) technology. This drone has the ability to fly 150 metres high in the sky and it travels at a speed of 150 kilometres per hour.

Students Muhammad Ali and Asad Anees, while giving details about their invention, said that the drone had a 1-litre fuel tank in which hi-octane petrol was used. The plane was controlled by Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) and during flight it captured the pictures of the concerned target through surveillance cameras and transmitted its images to the Controlling System Receivers (CSR) on the ground. The creators of the project claim that they could install missile fire technology in the drone if provided with sufficient funds.

The other inventions included Pak Energy Ramp, Solar & Electric Powered Vehicle, Solar Power Generating System, Intelligent Engraver, Laser Torch Based Sound Transmitter and Receiver, Prepaid Gas Meter, Wireless Switching, Wireless Doors, Automatic Street Lights, Intelligent Water Level Controller, Ball on Plate Balancing System, Students' Attendance Information System etc.

Vice-Chancellor SSUET, Prof Dr Saiyid Nazir Ahmed, appreciated the efforts of the students in making such novel projects particularly the drone and commented that he was pleasantly surprised to see that his students were so talented.

Minister for Industries and Trade, Muhammad Abdul Rauf Siddiqui; Sindh Health Minister, Dr Saghir Ahmed; Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs, Syed Faisal Ali Sabzwari; Former Naib Nazim of CDGK, Nasreen Jalil; and Vice-Chancellor University of Karachi (KU), Prof Pirzada Qasim visited SSUET stalls and appreciated the skill of the students that were reflected in their innovative projects.

A prodigy named Nida Lashari
Karachi: Nida Anjum Lashari, 15, teaches English to students at graduate and postgraduate levels although she is a student of Class IX at Baba Cambridge School in the lower-middle class locality called Pak Colony.

She is talented and very ambitious and wants to indulge in business, sports and teaching simultaneously.

Nida was eight months old when her father Anjum Lashari, a senior journalist at Daily Jang bowed out. Lashari worked at the News Desk of Daily Jang. He was also a poet and wrote the first novel in the Seraiki language, according to Nida. She was admitted to Baba Cambridge School, near Bismillah Hotel in Pak Colony when she was 3.

Right from the beginning she has showed some extraordinary talents; she is a quick learner, has participated in debates, written poetry and played and also acted in school plays.

"I learnt English through watching TV plays and reading tickers," said Nida.

"I was also a good spy," she said innocently. "I traced a 'chapal chor' who would steal them and take them to our rooftop," she elaborated.

Nida has done compering at a school and at a 'Grand Gala' organised in Nazimabad. She said she had taught English at two institutes in Pak Colony during her summer vacation. She has also been an intern at one of the institutes.

"I have also become a member of National Students Federation," she said. "I want to become a journalist like my father and also emerge as the best short story writer and poet," said Nida.

Nida said she had read at least 100 books, including "nange paon," "Akhri Jazeera" and "Meri zaat zara-e-benishaan." She has also benefited from Oxford Dictionary for Beginners and similar books to become proficient in English.

Nida along with her mother visited the Karachi Press Club on Thursday and evinced keen interest in its library where stacks of books have lain idle for decades because nobody is interested in reading them.

"Can I become a member of the KPC library and borrow books?" she asked, with a glint in her eyes. The news