The Physics Laboratory at SSE has been awarded a contract to cultivate selected experiments in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. Our lab will replicate four home-made experiments, accompanying equipment and learning methodologies into the recipient institution. Under this project, four experiments from General Physics, Electricity and Magnetism, and Electronics will be transferred.
The initiative generates resources to partially support our human and material needs. This is the second time that Physics lab has replicated it experiments to any sister institution in Pakistan. Previously, these experiments were deliver to Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad as technology share.
Dr Abubakr to spend summer at KAUST as a visiting assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He will teach a course on Probabilistic Robotics and conduct research on hydro-systems. (June-Aug, 2011)
*** Dr. Umar Saif Named one of the World’s Top Young Innovators by MIT***
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In Pakistan, the bandwidth of an average landline is about 32 kilobits per second (as of 2011, the average broadband speed in the United States was 5.3 megabits per second). It can take more than 20 minutes to download a five-megabyte file—assuming the connection doesn’t drop during that time, as it frequently does. To help relieve the frustration, Umar Saif developed *BitMate. The software lets different users in the same area pool the bandwidth of their connections to reduce download times, typically by half. Released in February, the software has already been downloaded more than 30,000 times by people in 173 countries.
Saif previously created a service that linked mobile phones into groups so that mass SMS messages could be sent. Since its launch in 2008, it has been used to send nearly four billion texts to about 2.4 million users in Pakistan, and the service, now called SMSall, has been used to coördinate protests, find missing persons, and organize blood drives. This summer Saif began expanding SMSall beyond Pakistan to Nigeria, Iraq, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. “SMS is the door to the world for many people,” he says. —Kristina Bjoran
I don’t think you can get in without a GMAT. With enough practice, even people who started out at 550s can end up getting 700 plus. Please see my post on the thread about US schools.
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