The Institute of Space Technology (IST) on Saturday celebrated its Ninth Commencement of Class with the graduation of 104 students, in the disciplines of aerospace, communications systems and materials science and engineering.
Senior officials from the civil and military establishments joined the chief guest, Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, at the event, said a press release.
The chief guest conferred the students with the baccalaureate degrees in their respective fields of engineering. He gave away President of Pakistan gold medals to Syed Aseemul Islam for aerospace engineering, Ifrah Malik and Iqra Mehmood for communication systems engineering, and Salma Farooq for materials science and engineering, who stood first in their respective programs.
In addition, Huzaifa Mohsin from aerospace engineering, Hasan Ijaz Malik, Ifrah Malik and Iqra Mehmood from communication systems engineering and Syed Hannan Hussain Gilani and Musa Badar from materials science and engineering were awarded Vice Chancellor’s Medal for the best final year projects.
The Chief Guest congratulated the graduates, especially the award winners and position holders. He advised the graduating students to reaffirm their resolve to make Pakistan a leading country in terms of technological and scientific development. He expressed his deep appreciation for the efforts being made by IST in achieving academic excellence and promoting curricular and cocurricular activities.
IST Vice Chancellor Engineer Imran Rahman while congratulating the graduating students advised them to strive for values that promote integrity and respect for diversity and human dignity, while highlighting that only through service to the less fortunate members of the society would make their life meaningful and dignified.
He informed that IST’s faculty & students are working on more than half of the subsystems of PNSS-1 – a student satellite project being sponsored by the National Space Agency (Suparco).
IST’s faculty is also working on large number of international and domestically-funded projects. A meteorological observatory facility has also been set up to overcome the gap between the observatories located in Islamabad and its adjoining areas and districts. The data generated will be used by IST students, Pakistan Meteorological Department researchers and elsewhere.
IST also showcased some of the graduating students’ projects, which were appreciated by guests at the event.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2014.
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