Description
Scaled as
Held On
December 19th, 2020
平台
Zoom meeting (online)
Timing
8:30 - 17:00
Judges Panel
To evaluate the participant's performance, very proficient, highly qualified and experienced judges were present in the session. With their high expertise in the field of technology and linguistics, they judged the technical idea and presentation skills of the students.
- Miss Maheen Tufail – PhD fellow (Applied Linguistics)
- Sir Zain Shahid – PhD fellow (Energy), M.Engg. (Energy Systems)
- Miss Asmara Shafqat – PhD fellow (Applied Linguistics)
- Sir Muhammad Farooq Siddiqui – M.Engg. (Energy Management)
Commencement of the Event
The total audience was estimated at an all-time high of 200, with more than 70 IMechE members. The event was headed by Zahra Ashfaq – Co-lead Team Creativity and Mujtaba Kazmi – Executive member Team Event Management, who burned the midnight oil in making the event possible and guiding every participant to give presentation virtually.
Introduction
主机,Mishraz侯赛因和早春作物Imtiaz welcomed the audience, judges and participants and invited Mr. Irshad Afzal to begin the session with the recitation of Holy verses of The Quran in his soulful voice. Event was officially commenced with the national anthem of Pakistan followed by a brief introduction of IMechE, IMechE NED Student Chapter and the event itself 'SOfE'. The hosts then introduced the panel of judges and asked them to have their say regarding our event.
Presentations
Participants were, one-by-one, asked to come forward to present their ideas. All participants tried their best to present an ingenious idea which was different from the other's, so as to improve their chances of victory in this thrilling competition. 47 students participated in the competition, who proposed their ideas from every discipline of engineering which were able to solve real-world problems. All participants delivered their presentation virtually with a PowerPoint presentation streamed on the platform.
Question & Answer Session
When all participants completed their presentations, the judges started the Question & Answer session with each student. They interrogated every participant regarding his idea, its applications and how can it be implemented on larger scale for the benefit of the society.
Result Announcement
Participants were judged on the basis of their structure and content of presentation, effective use of presentation material, handling of questions and complexity of technical content. After the Question & Answer session, results were announced by the honourable judges. Ghulam Ahmed Bin Saeed was declared the winner of the competition for his idea of "Water purification using activated carbon and sedimentations". Marium Irfan and Muhammad Daniyal Ishtiaq were announced the runner ups for their topics of "5G Wireless Technology" and "Cricket and Technology" respectively.
In the end, the judges motivated the audience as well as the participating students, and appreciated IMechE NED Student Chapter for providing the students with a platform for enhancing their skills. Furthermore, they accentuated the importance of events like SOfE in improving the quality of the engineers produced by Pakistan.
Written By:
Muhammad Haashir Absar