LAHORE: The Punjab Tianjin University of Technical Education will be functional in March next year, says Punjab Minister for Schools Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan.

“The university is being established in Township, Lahore, and the latest technology and the state-of-the-art laboratories will be provided to students. The project will be completed in a record time,” the minister said.

Speaking to reporters at Tevta Secretariat in connection with the briefing on this varsity, the minister said MoUs had been signed with three Chinese universities and China would also provide faculty, deans and heads of the departments to this institution. He said the students of this varsity would get good jobs in national and international markets.

He said the Chinese and English language courses along with the education of different fields of electrical, mechanical, automobile, civil, architecture, textile and fashion designing would be offered to the students.

PUCIT: The Punjab University College of Information Technology has been awarded three European and US patent titles.

Muhammad Kamran Malik, assistant professor, PUCIT has been awarded the US patent titled, “System and process for natural language processing and reporting.”

Dr Muhammad Shahid Farid has been awarded a US and a European patent for his work in image processing. His US patent titled, “Method and Device for Edge Shape Enforcement for Visual Enhancement of Depth Image Based Rendering of a Three-Dimensional Video Stream,” was awarded on his research work on 3-D television. His invention describes a method and apparatus for enhancing the depth image based rendered 3D video.

Speaking at a ceremony here on Thursday, Prof Malik said: “Organisations are in need for quick, usable intelligence to drive their business needs, such as market research and customer perception. Currently, a data analyst analyses data such as consumer reviews, product reviews, and marketing data to generate reports manually. Our invention is an interactive reporting system based on the processing of natural language, such as English, to automatically develop all reports that a data analyst usually generates manually.”

PUCIT Principal Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar said it was the only IT institution of higher education in the country whose faculty members had been awarded three European and US patents. He said the PUCIT was already considered an institution of choice in the country for computing and IT education at the undergraduate level with acceptance rate of less than 5 per cent.

“The focus now is to improve its undergraduate education, hone entrepreneurial talents of the college students and graduates, and establish footprint in cutting edge research.”

IQBAL DAY: Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zaffar Mueen Nasir and a delegation of students and teachers of the Government College University led by Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Shahid on Thursday visited Allama Iqbal’s mausoleum to pay homage to him.

They laid floral wreath and offered fateha for him. In his message, Dr Zaffar Mueen said: “We must benefit from the thoughts of Allama Iqbal in all segments of our life so that we could contribute to the development of Pakistan.”

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2017