NED Alumni

From Pakistan

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Contents 1 Websites 2 Directories 3 Conventions 3.1 2009 US Convention in Los Angeles 3.2 2008 US Convention in Connecticutt 3.3 2007 US Convention in Silicon Valley - September 8, 2007 3.4 2006 US Convention 3.5 2005 US Convention 4 Regional Events 5 Multimedia and Web 2.0 5.1 Web 2.0 Collections 5.2 SCOPE Get-Together February '07 (Southern California/Los Angeles Area) 5.3 Civil '97 Video Memoir 5.4 Batch 80-81 Mech Get-to-together 6 Mailing Lists/Groups/Associations/etc. 6.1 General/Global 6.1.1 Currently Active 6.1.2 Full List 6.2 Technology-wise 6.3 Batch- / Class-wise 6.4 Geographical Groups 6.5 Within Organizations 7 Alumni Activity, Achievements, etc. 7.1 Papers, Essays, Lectures 7.2 Articles 7.3 Speaking, Conferences, Keynotes, etc. 7.4 Books 7.5 Faculty in Universities 7.6 Community Service (including Politics) 7.7 Alumni Community Service 7.8 Companies 7.9 Professional/International Sports 7.10 Mountain Climbing, Adventure, etc. 7.11 Showbiz 7.12 Media 7.13 Blogs 7.13.1 Collaborative NED-Themed 7.13.2 NEDians' Blogs 7.13.3 Other Blogs NEDians Contribute To 8 See also

[edit] Websites

• NED University itself: http://www.NEDUET.edu.pk
• NEDians.org: http://www.NEDians.org
  (based out of the Silicon Valley area and coming out of the organization of the 2007 Convention; see below).
  Also home to NED Nama - این ای ڈی نامہ, the NEDian Blog.
• NED-Alumni: http://www.ned-alumni.com (based out of Houston and associated with the 2005 Convention; see below)
• PakAlumni Worldwide: http://www.pakalumni.com (Active Social Network with over 700 NEDians)
• NED University Alumni: http://www.neduniversityalumni.com/ (based out of the NY/NJ area and associated with the 2006 Convention)
• New England NED University Alumni: http://www.nednec.org/ (based in Connecticut and associated with the 2008 Convention)

[edit] Directories

• "Official" Alumni page: http://radius.neduet.edu.pk/alumni/login.jsp -- a directory hosted by NED itself
• NED USA's directory: http://www.epb.org/cgi-bin/awp.pl?UA=UL&GR=N&QS=Y&idx=1

[edit] Conventions

[edit] 2009 US Convention in Los Angeles

In planning stages.

[edit] 2008 US Convention in Connecticutt

On behalf of the NED Alumni Association of New England, we have the pleasure of welcoming you and your family to our 2008 NED ALUMNI CONVENTION at the Marriott Hotel in Farmington, Connecticut on November 1, 2008.

To ensure that you do not miss this unique opportunity, please visit the nednec website[1] to learn more about the details. To register for the convention please mail us the Convention Registration form, not later than October 20th.

We look forward to welcoming you and offering a dynamic, enjoyable, and highly meaningful convention experience. Please plan to attend this convention with your family and kindly spread the words to your friends.

[edit] 2007 US Convention in Silicon Valley - September 8, 2007

• The website is at http://Convention2007.NEDians.org

Roll Back Time ... Celebrate NED and its Rich Heritage

On the 8th of September, 2007, the Silicon Valley alumni of the NED University of Engineering & Technology celebrated 86 years of history and achievements. This was a full-day conference with lively panels of NEDians at Tech Mart in Santa Clara, CA followed by an evening banquet at Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Jose, CA with sumptuous food, keynote by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, comedy entertainment by British-Pakistani comedian Shazia Mirza, and nostalgic Pakistani music by local NEDians and others.

Coverage, pictures, etc. can be found on NED Nama - این ای ڈی نامہ, the NEDian Blog.

• Visit PakAlumni [2] social network spawned by NEDians Convention 2007
• Browse NED Alumni logo merchandise [3]

[edit] 2006 US Convention

• Convention on August 5, 2006 in New Jersey.
  • Pictures at: http://www.imagestation.calbum/pictures.html?id=2102225884&code=24145742&mode=invite&DCMP=isc-email-AlbumInvite
  • The website for it was:
    http://www.neduniversityalumni.com/
  • Yahoogroup linked from that site is
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDUniversityAlumni/

[edit] 2005 US Convention

• The "NED Alumni" group (details below) held a national (US) convention on April 23, 2005 or so in the Houston area:
  http://www.ned-alumni.com/photogallery-april2305.html

[edit] Regional Events

• Chicago Area: Picnic by NEDEA, June 2007

[edit] Multimedia and Web 2.0

[edit] Web 2.0 Collections

• Annotated Map on Wikimapia: http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=24931792&x=67112646&z=18&l=0&m=a
• Faisal Nasim's "NED" tagged photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fnasim/tags/ned/

[edit] SCOPE Get-Together February '07 (Southern California/Los Angeles Area)

• Pictures: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2095347726
• Slideshow/Video: http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?userid=128159&cdate=20060612

[edit] Civil '97 Video Memoir

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kmWXFnKtUKw

[edit] Batch 80-81 Mech Get-to-together

Video is on Google:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qW51P7F32c&eurl=

[edit] Mailing Lists/Groups/Associations/etc.

[edit] General/Global

[edit] Currently Active

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedengineer/ has over 700 members. Diverse geographically. Very much alive, but not very high traffic.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned89/ The most active group of NED Alumni on the web.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDianz/ Currently active group, with members all across the globe.
• LinkedIn now has 2 Groups:
  • http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2862 with almost 100 members (as of Oct., 13, 2008) and
  • http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=63672 which has about 10 (as of Oct., 13, 2008)
• ONN: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONN active, relatively new group. Pretty diverse geographically.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EE_94-95/ Currently active group of Electrical Batch 1994-95

• Note: Several of the lists under #Batch- / Class-wise are pretty active; and several are very open to any NEDians joining.

[edit] Full List

• NEDians.org
• PakAlumni Worldwide
• ECN: http://NEDian.org.pk and the mailing list. Mailing list has been running since 1996.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned89/ The most active group of NED Alumni on the web since 2001
• NEDians: the Karachi-based historical organization
• ONN: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONN active, relatively new group. Pretty diverse geographically.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedengineer/ has over 700 members. Diverse geographically. Very much alive, but not very high traffic.
• NOT WORKING. NED-Alumni: The group that owns the http://www.ned-alumni.com/ domain is based in the Houston Texas area and also used to run http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED-ALUMNI/ till very recently. They seem like they are trying to create a network that will link regional groups. They also held a "national" (US) convention on July 3, 2005 or so in the Houston area.
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDianz/ One of the currently active groups in the list, with members all across the globe.
• Smaller YahooGroups
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDIANS/
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedian/
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedengineeringunivgraduates/
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDALUMNI/
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDUniversityAlumni/ Lists the domain http://www.neduniversityalumni.com/ , which advertises a convention in June in New Jersey.
• Smaller Web Domains
  • http://www.neduniversityalumni.com/ (Held a convention in June 2006 in New Jersey. See above. This domain is linked to from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDUniversityAlumni/)

[edit] Technology-wise

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedians_ece/
• Electronics: http://groups.msn.com/nedelectronics though it says it is "The group for the NEDians (Electronic Engineering) graduating in 2008"

[edit] Batch- / Class-wise

• Batch 1973-74: http://groups.msn.com/ned1974electrical/
• Batch 1980-81, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED_MECH_80/
  See http://youtube.com/watch?v=7qW51P7F32c for video of a reunion
• Batch 1981-82, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedmechbatch8182/
• Batch 1984-85, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED84_85/ ["Other NEDians/non-NEDians are welcome to join."]
• Batch 1984-85 Electrical: Old Nedians Network, ONN - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONN has a predominance of Batch 1984-85 Electrical
• Batch 1986-87, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDMechanical8687@yahoogroups.com
• Batch 1987-88, Comp. Sys: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zsf
• Batch 1988-89, Electrical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Elec88-89/
• Batch 1989-90: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned89 (Open for all NEDians, Your Full Name, Your NED Dept and Your NED Batch Year required to join)
• Batch 1990-91, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDMechCorner/
• Batch 1990-91, Computer Systems Engg: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned9091/
• Batch 1991-92, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xnedians/
• Batch 1992-93, Electrical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elect92-93/
• Batch 1993-94, Electrical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elect93-94/
• Batch 1993-94, Comp Sys Engg: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becs9394/
• Batch 1993-94, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mech9394/
• Batch 1994-95, Electrical:: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EE_94-95/
• Batch 1995-96, Mechanical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mech95-96/
• Batch 1997-98, Electrical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned_electrical_9798/
• Batch 1998-99: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cs-9899/
• Batch 1999-2000, Electronics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/engineers_9900
• Batch: 2000-2001, Electical: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned-electrical-2000-01/
• Batch 2001-02, Electronics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned_electronics_20012002
• Batch 2001-02, Computer & Info Systems: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cisunited
• Batch 2002-03, CISD: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cis2002-2003/
• Batch 2003-04, CISD: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedcis2004/
• Batch 2003-04 Electronics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electronics2004
• Batch 2003-04 Electronics?: http://groups.msn.com/nedelectronics though it says it is "The group for the NEDians (Electronic Engineering) graduating in 2008"
• Batch 2004-05, Electronics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/el_neduet/
• Batch 2004-05, CISD: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ciseb_ned/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1

[edit] Geographical Groups

• Alberta, Canada: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED-Al-AB/
• Canada: NED Alumni Association of Canada (NEDAC)

Website: http://www.nedalumnicanada.org/

Mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nedalumnicanada/

• Chicagoland Area: http://www.nedea.net/
• Houston Texas: "NED-Alumni" is based out of this region. Their wesbite is http://www.ned-alumni.com/ and they used to run http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED-ALUMNI
• Lost Angeles: See Southern California below
• Saudi Arabia:
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KSA_NEDians/
  • Eastern Province: NED Engineer's Forum, http://www.contactpakistan.com/socialwork/ned/index.html
• Germany: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDians_Germany/
• Silicon Valley/Northern California: http://www.NEDians.org/SV
• Southern California (Los Angeles area): http://nedaasc.ning.com/
• UAE: NED Alumni Forum U.A.E, only contact available at this time is email address
• UK: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED-Alumni-UK/
• "NED USA", USA: http://www.epb.org/nedusa/index.htm (See also other entries in this list and above.)

Lists dominated by NEDians

• Detroit/Michigan Area: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mipakis

[edit] Within Organizations

• Cisco Systems has an internal list for NEDians.
• Microsoft Corporation has an internal list for NEDians.

[edit] Alumni Activity, Achievements, etc.

[edit] Papers, Essays, Lectures

• Musharraf Ali Farooqi

http://www.mafarooqi.com/essays.html

http://www.mafarooqi.com/lectures.html

[edit] Articles

[edit] Speaking, Conferences, Keynotes, etc.

• Raghib Hussain, CSE Batch '87-88:

Keynote at ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, 2006 (ANCS 2006)

[edit] Books

• Ali Ahmed Minai, Electrical '80-81
  • Compilation of Urdu Poetry - published in 2005
• Harris Khalique, Mech, Batch '84-85
  • Aaj Jab Huwee Barish, Irtiqa, 1991
  • If Wishes Were Horses, Irtiqa, 1996
  • Saarey Kaam Zaroori Thay, Fazleesons, 1997
  • Divan, Ceen, 1998
  • Unfinished Histories, Alhamra, 2002
  • Between You and Your Love, Fazleesons, 2004
  • Ishq Ki Taqveem Mein..., Daniyal, 2006
• Jami J Shah, Mech, Batch '72-73
  • Parametric & Feature based CAD/CAM, John Wiley, 1995
  • Feature based manufacturing, ElSevier Science, 1994
• Khalid Raza, EE, Batch '82-83
  • Cisco Network Topology and Design, Cisco Press, 2002. Co-author.
• Musharraf Farooqi, ??
  • SALAR JANG'S PASSION, Summersdale Publishers, 2002
  • THE STORY OF A WIDOW: A NOVEL, Knopf Canada, 2008
  • THE COBBLER'S HOLIDAY or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes, Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin, A Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook Press, 2008
  • THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA, Ghalib Lakhnavi & Abdullah Bilgrami, A complete and unabridged translation by Musharraf Ali Farooqi with an introduction by Hamid Dabashi, Random House Modern Library, 2008

Note: Musharraf is not technically a graduate of NED, see: http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/080504/books8.htm .

[edit] Faculty in Universities

• Ali Ahmed Minai, EE, Batch '84-85

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati.

• Shah Jamshed Jami, ME Batch 1973

AKA Jami J. Shah, Ph.D., Professor, Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287-6106

Director, Design Automation Lab

Chief Editor, ASME Transactions Journal (JCISE)

• Muhammad Fareed Kandlawala, EE, Batch 1991-1992

Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

• Mohammad Asghar Bhatti, PhD, CE, Batch 1973

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa [4][5]

• Syed Javed Musharraf, MS, EE, Batch 1983-84

Adjunct Professor Mathematics and Computer Science, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois-60126, http://www.elmhurst.edu/~syedm/

• Ghulam Hussain Bham, PhD, CE, Batch 1986-87

Assistant Professor, Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO [6]

• Kamran Ali Khan, CE Batch 1984-85

Faculty member - Dept. of Telecom. & Comp. Engr., FAST-NU, Karachi Campus.

[edit] Community Service (including Politics)

• Nabiha Mauiyyedi (Mech 90-91, I think)
  President International Organization of Pakistani Women Engineers (IOPWE) (2003)
• Harris Khalique
  Chief Executive, SPO, the largest rights-based civil society organisation in Pakistan
• Altaf Shakoor
  President (?), Pasban. Formerly of the Jamat-i-Islami

[edit] Alumni Community Service

• Moin Ahmed, founder of the convention series being held around the US
• Riaz Haq(Electrical 74)
  Chairman NEDians Convention 2007

[edit] Companies

• Aero Asia Limited.: Former Vice Chairman, Rauf Tabani, CE '76 Batch.
• Barbed Wire Technologies : Founder/CEO, Zia Iqbal
• Cavium Networks: Founder/CTO and VP Software, Raghib Hussain, CSE, Batch '87-88

See: http://www.marketwatch.com/search/?value=cavium for news and

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cavm for stock quotes

• Infonox: Founder/CEO Safwan Shah, EE, Batch '80-81?

http://www.infonox.com/press/default.shtml

• ITIM Software, Pakistan: General Manager/CEO Azfar Jafri, ME, Batch '86-87
• Jersey Precast : Founder/CEO Amir-ul-Islam
• Mertech Data Systems, Inc.: Founder/CEO, Riaz Merchant, CSE 84-85
• MyGlobalCam, Inc.: Founder, Riaz Merchant, CSE 84-85
• NexLogic: Founder/CEO Zulki Khan
• Paragon Construction : Founder/CEO Aftab Siddiqui
• Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited.: CEO, Walid Irshad Batch?
• SimCon: Top management includes Ahmed Safi, Mech '80-81, and Farrukh Jamal (who is also Group Director Technical for the whole Aftab Group of Companies,of which Simcon is a member organization)
• Vertical Systems Inc. CEO, Saeed Kazmi EE 72-73; CTO, Idris Kothari EE 72-73
• WiChorus: Founder/CEO Rehan Jalil, EE, Batch '87-88

[edit] Professional/International Sports

• Asif Mujtaba
• Ghulam Ali
• Hasan Sardar - Hockey
  Scored 150 goals in 148 International matches. Career lasted 1979-1987 [Needs link for records/career]
• Manzoor Akhtar: EE-B, Batch 89-90
• Nadeem Wahab: ME, Batch 73-74
• Rashid Latif: CE, Batch 86-87
• Saeed Anwar: CSE, Batch 86-87

[edit] Mountain Climbing, Adventure, etc.

• Aman Ashraf, first Pakistani to scale K2 (Mt. Goodwin-Austin)

[edit] Showbiz

• Ali Haider, Singer-Song Writer, Musician: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Haider
• Ayaz Khan, comedian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaz_Khan [Please help fill that article out and/or write one here.]
• Mazhar Ali, TV Actor

[edit] Media

• ABN Chicago has at least three active NEDian team members (Shahran Asim in production and hosting, and Sabahat Ashraf, "iFaqeer", doing a tech segment, helping with online publishing, and other input, as well as Rauf Tabani providing commentary from Pakistan.)
• Azad Karachi Radio has an all-NEDian founding team: iFaqeer (Sabahat Ashraf CSE, Batch '87-88) and Ali Hasan Cemendtaur, Mech, Batch '80-'81(?)
• Brasstacks, show on geo-politics on Express TV has Zaid Hamid (Syed Zaiduzzaman Hamid), CSE, Batch '82-83, as the main expert.
• Chowk has an NEDian founder, Safwan Shah, EE, Batch '80-81(?)
• "DEEN DIALOGUE" & "SIRAAT-E-MUSTAQEEM, the former a religious program focusing upon graas root issues like TAUBA, GHEEBAT, JAZAA-U-SAZAA etc and the later, a socio-religious program pitched for the youth, aired LIVE on TV One , hosted by Kamran Ali Khan, CE, Batch '84-85.

[edit] Blogs

[edit] Collaborative NED-Themed

• NED Nama - این ای ڈی نامہ: http://www.nedians.org/blog/

[edit] NEDians' Blogs

• Tariq Mustafa: http://pakng.wordpress.com

Note: Tee Emm, as he is often identified, is often acknowledged as the "Father of the Pakistani Blogosphere" in blogging circles.

• Sabahat Ashraf: http://blog.iFaqeer.com
• Riaz Haq: http://www.riazhaq.com
• Faisal Ahmad Jafri: http://faisalahmadj.wordpress.com
• Ali Hasan Cemendtaur:
  • http://cemendtaur.blogspot.com
  • http://karachiphotoblog.blogspot.com
• Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi: http://www.shujaatsiddiqi.blogspot.com

[edit] Other Blogs NEDians Contribute To

• Pakistaniat: Owais Mughal, Managing Editor: http://www.pakistaniat.com - Contributors include Sabahat Ashraf ("iFaqeer")
• Metroblog Karachi, Tee Emm, contributor: http://karachi.metblogs.com

[edit] See also

• Alumni Groups