QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) is the world’s largest, international higher education network, connecting universities, business schools & students.

As the 2018 Quacquarelli Symonds’ ranking were revealed one of the Pakistan’s best university managed to be among top 500 universities of the world. NUST from Pakistan managed to reach 437th position.

The improvement of ranking is about 91 ranks higher this year as comparatively to the last year.

The National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) has improved its departments and according to departmental rank  the following departments have acquired the following positions:

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering — 270th place
• Computer Science and Information Systems — 273rd place
• Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering — 367th place
• Physics and Astronomy — 472nd place

In the category of “Top 50 Under 50” the NUST has reached 61st rank and has improved from 74th rank. The category appreciates the achievement in technology sector.

NUST’s achievements don’t end here. For years now the university has been ranked the top most institute of Pakistan. It ranks 112 amongst all Asian universities.

In the top 1000 universities, more of the Pakistani universities were ranked and they are as follows:

• Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) — 672nd place
• Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) — 716th place
• University of Engineering and Technology (UET) — 934th place
• University of Karachi (KU) — 937th place
• University of Lahore (UOL) — 938th place

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This year again, A talented and passionate Pakistani team is participating in SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design competition, but this time not only LUMS is participating, now they have combined forces to form a joint consortium of Pakistani universities including LUMS, PIEAS,GIKI, NUST to participate in SpaceX Hyperloop Competition.

They are now a multidisciplinary team comprising of Electrical and Mechanical engineers and hope that Team Pakistan will be able to make it all the way through with an improved design.

This year they have made it to the final design submission round for which if Team Pakistan qualify, they get to present their idea in front of SpaceX engineers after which Team Pakistan will be able to build its pod and race it at SpaceX headquarters at Hawthorne, California, USA in the summer 2017.

The initial qualification is a huge thing in its self since this year even more teams have applied and the competition has sky rocketed. Although, Team Pakistan do not have an official stats as of yet but they think they are the only team from Pakistan to have made the cut.

While speaking with Techlist, Ali Mannan Tirmizi from LUMS (Team member) stated that;

“Our team has come up with the design and is currently running simulations and tests, all the while improving its many aspects. We are looking for potential sponsors who can partner with us shape the future of travel, by financially backing the construction of the pod.

Also we are looking for media partners to raise awareness about the hyperloop movement and highlighting Pakistan’s part in the process.”

SpaceX has built a test track at their Headquarters at Hawthorne California where previously qualified teams have been testing their pods.

Dubai is also working on making the hyperloop a reality. Meanwhile companies like Hyperloop One have been working on their versions of the concept to churn the idea into a reality.

Team Pakistan for SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition 2017

Team Pakistan is mentored by Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar who is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

He has Post-Doctoral experience at University of California Berkley, a D.Phil Physics (University of Oxford, UK), B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore)

Team Pakistan members are:

• Ahmad Sohail (LUMS)
• Ali Mannan Tirmizi (LUMS)
• Barkat Saifee (LUMS)
• Soman Ul Haq (PIEAS)
• Shaur Humayun (PIEAS)
• Salman Ahmad (PIEAS)
• Muhammad Waseem (PIEAS)
• Ahmad bin Arshad (PIEAS)
• Hamza Azhar (GIKI)
• Salman Sheikh (GIKI)
• Carmad Khan (GIKI)
• Hammad Sajid Dar (GIKI)
• Muhammad Muneeb Farhat (NUST)
• Ahad Butt

About Hyperloop

Hyperloop promotes high speed transportation system. It was launched by Elon Musk. He is a successful entrepreneur and a billionaire.

The whole event is surely going to bring revolution in mass transit. The entire event is going to be fun, full of knowledge and above all it is environment friendly. Special arrangements have been made to make this event special and successful.

Hyperloop system is connects Los Angeles to San Francisco with two tubes. The speed at which passengers will be transported at 700mph. Gigantic! Isn’t it?

The whole setup will be powered by Solar Panels. It reduces time taken to travel between two points. It reduces time to more than half. It is quicker than a routine road trip. If estimated it takes about 6 hours to take a road trip but by this Hyperloop the distance is covered in just 35 minutes.

Teams from different universities across the world will participate in the competition of designing pods for the Hyperloop competition. The event will be hosted by Elon Musk.

Previous Year’s Event Highlights

In the summer of 2015 SpaceX invited student teams from all over the world to design pods for the hyperloop. There was a round of registration, initial designs and subsequent final design submissions.  

Team HyperLUMS was the only team from Pakistan to have qualified for the highly prestigious “SpaceX Hyperloop Competition” in 2016. Only 120 teams from a competitive pool of 1000+ teams globally had made it to the SpaceX design weekend in the USA.

HyperLUMS was invited by SpaceX at Texas A&M University, USA  in January 2016 where a team comprising of electrical engineers presented their design infront of a panel of engineers from Tesla, SpaceX and academia.

Competition involved top university teams that included top notch universities such as MIT,Stanford, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech, TU Delft among other top institutions from around the globe. 20 Nations competed that included the USA, Egypt, Japan, India, France etc. MIT won the overall prize for the competition.

Innovator and billionaire Elon Musk himself was present at the event. Fortune has published the whole event coverage.

People from Pakistan have always been proving themselves in all fields. This young and talented Team is trying to promote technology and bring Pakistan to a level where it is revolutionized and is a technology hub.

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There are two things one wants more than money, one is reorganization other is praise.

This quote goes with the aim of APICTA perfectly .It is an international Awards (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) Program to honor the ICT works of brilliant minds, working for more than a decade and half it provides an opportunity to network with the like-minded people as delegates from countries across the Asia-Pacific region take part in the competition. To represent Pakistan, this year a delegation of 41 people was taken to the international arena set in Taipei by Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA). The team included the entities that were declared winners or runners up at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2016.

Taipei (Taiwan) was the venue for 16^th annual wards of APICTA. It was recently conducted and the good news here is that Pakistan managed to bag 3 Gold Medals and 6 Silver Medals.

Teams who won Gold Medal from Pakistan

• A team from NUST won Gold in Tertiary Student Projects for their project “Clinical Decision Support System for Diagnosis of Movement Disorders”.
• A team from NUST also won a gold award, for its project, “Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Image for CDSS”.
• Wonder Tree won the Gold for Inclusion and Community.

Teams/People who bagged Silvers from Pakistan

• UBL Fund Managers
• Mandi Express
• Sionser
• Trillium Information Systems
• Amin Farid
• Nadia of Sheops

The choice was tough as there were 17 countries competing for the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. These proved to be great success for Pakistan. The delegates were from countries like Bangladesh, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Australia and many more.

It is a huge success for the teams and the country. We are proud of our winners and congratulate them.

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