First Annual General Meetup of Bahawalpur Subsection
Dr. Khan Bahadar Khattak, General Secretary for Bahawalpur Subsection
IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection was established on 13th February, 2016 and is one of the three Subsections of Pakistan. It is under the Lahore Section and is one of the most active Subsections of IEEE Region 10. During the last 5 years, the IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection conducted multiple events and seminars. The major events include Student/YP/WIE congresses, Asia/Pacific ComSoc Summer School Program and the IEEE International Multi-topic conference. After conducting these successful events, we started our preparations for the First Annual General Meetup of Bahawalpur Subsection.
All the five Student Branches, namely, IEEE UCET – the Islamia University of Bahawalpur Student Branch, IEEE UCET– the Bahauddin Zakriya University of Multan Student Branch, IEEE Khawaja Farid University of Engineering and Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan Student Branch, IEEE National Fertilizer Corporation Institute of Engineering and Technology Multan Student Branch, and IEEE Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture Multan Student Branch, were taken on board for this meeting. A call was open for all the Student Branches to submit their yearly report in a form of recorded presentations as due to the COVID-19 SOPs the AGM was supposed to be a small gathering.
IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection organized its first annual general meeting on 24th December, 2020. Dr. Muhammad Ali Qureshi led this event as the Chairperson for IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection. Representatives of all the Student Branches and Student Chapters were called to present their performance for the previous year and targeted plans for the tenure of 2021. Moreover, the IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection launched the Member Loyalty Program to recognize its loyal members for their association based on the years of membership. This program aims to recognize the members of IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection for three and five years of service as an IEEE member associated with the IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection. The duration calculations were based on the cumulative years of service regardless of grade. Moreover, sponsorships of IEEE memberships for the members of IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection were announced. The motivation of the loyalty program is to develop the IEEE memberships for coming years. Also, it will engage more technical community within the IEEE
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Prof. Dr. Muhammad Amjad and Dr. Muhammad Ali Qureshi presented the shields of recognitions to the nominated members. At the end of the event, official logo of IEEE Bahawalpur Subsection was inaugurated and award of appreciation was presented to the logo designer Mr. Ahad Rehman. Loyalty award winners are mentioned below.
Winners of 5 Years Loyalty award 2020: Dr. Muhammad Ali Qureshi, Engr. Aoun Muhammad, Engr. Usman Zafar, Engr. Shahid Zulfiqar, Engr. Qaiser Ijaz and Engr. Anees ul Husnain
Winners of 3 Years Loyalty award 2020: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Amjad, Dr. Khan Bahadar Khattak, Dr. Asjad Amin, Engr. Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, Dr. Rao Kashif, Engr. Abuzar Qureshi, Engr. Iram Haider, Engr. Maria Ali, Engr. Mahnoor Baloch, Engr. Ayesha Sana, Engr. Anum Farooq, Engr. Mudassar Irshad, Engr. Kashif Abbass, Engr. Mahnoor Mehmood, Zainab Jabeen, Mamoona Saghir, Syeda Iqra Fatima, and Owais Liaqat.