COMPPEC has traditionally been an Electrical & Computer
Engineering and Computer Sciences projects exhibition and
competition. This year the NUST College of Electrical &
Mechanical Engineering (EME) is holding 10th of its series. Last
year around 135 projects where exhibited from 40 different
universities and colleges across Pakistan. This annual ICT
festival is growing every year attracting more universities and
students with relevant projects.
This year, the competition and exhibition is scheduled for 24th
and 25th of June at the EME campus in Rawalpindi. National ICT
R&D Fund has collaborated with the EME college to add more
objectivity to the competition. Project teams will have the
opportunity to interact with the Fund’s personnel and seek
guidance on the research grant application process.
With this relevance in perspective the event is tagged as
ICT-COMPPEC, a new name that sounds more relevant to its new
vision and objective. Along with evaluating projects in five
different categories, the event also adds the following:
1. The projects will also be evaluated for their potential for
research funding. A post event report will be published and made
available to relevant participating organizations, universities
and institutions. The report will list selected projects with
judges’ feedback and suggestions for improvement.
2. The National ICT R&D Fund and the College will conduct a
workshop on effective proposal writing. The workshop will cover
all the ingredients of good proposal writing for acquiring
national and international research funding.
3. The event also includes a panel discussion. The panelists
will share their experiences of writing proposals and conducting
funded research.
4. Few keynote addresses are also in plan to guide students,
faculty members, researchers and developers on emerging
technologies.
5. The event maintains the key category of Innovative Research
primarily for Ms. and PhD. students to present their research
work.