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Helping Pakistan's Universities

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Can our physics do something for Pakistan?

On the 14th of August 2014, we like to celebrate Independence Day by reiterating our unwavering commitment to the cause of high-quality education.

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The Physlab at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering recently completed its collaborative project with Karachi’s Habib University. This marks another satisfying moment in its six-year long journey of indigenous development and design of physics teaching experiments and sharing its innovations with others too.

The experiments made for the Habib University and the other four universities we have collaborated with so far, are updated versions of experiments currently housed at our own premises. The experiments come with apparatuses, software and analysis tools, instructor manuals, pictorial procedures as well as teacher training.

The Physlab team conducted the project with the help of a specially hired student of industrial projects. Right from planning to the timely execution, from market surveys and purchasing, to manufacturing and assembling, testing and inspection, all completed within an intensively active period of two months (coinciding with the indolent summer and meditative Ramadan periods), the experiments were finally transported to the worthy recipients in Karachi on 8 August 2014.

Here is a list of universities where the Physlab has been partially replicated through an unparalleled demonstration of expertise sharing between Pakistani institutions:

  • National University of Technology (NUTECH), Islamabad 2019
  • Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3), Islamabad 2018
  • National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
  • Habib University, Karachi 2014
  • Preston University, Islamabad 2013
  • Ghulam Ishaque Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK 2011
  • Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad 2010

It can be hoped that apart from highlighting immense possibilities for meaningful academic collaborations between the country’s Universities, there are economic and manpower benefits that can be derived from such initiatives. For example, could such an exercise spiral a new wave of technology development, glimpses of which we see around the developing world, though at much higher costs and financial inputs? Who knows!

Could we also use physics to connect people and institutions, instead of becoming used to the prevalent situations of useless divisions festering inside the country’s small physics community? These divisions are sometimes between excellence and mediocrity; and sometimes between self-elitism and looking down upon those who are left behind in the journey towards excellence. We need to bridge these gaps. We cannot submit to the making of islands, we must also connect these to the mainland. Physics, like other sciences can help us make new connections.

In summary, the successful completion of this project will initiate a new era of collaboration between LUMS and Habib University. It will also serve as a prominent demonstration of the potential of experimental science in Pakistan and by experimental science, we refer here not to ivory houses of empires or estates of equipment, which are a drainage on the national exchequer and in some years languish in the forgotten corridors of institutional neglect; but to earthly, smart, modern, homegrown, adaptable and open source physics experiments that can be opened up, observed, and then refashioned to the heart’s desire!

Khayyam

 

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    • Hunerkada
    • Grants
    • Theses and Reports
    • Scientific Publications
    • Invited Talks (Selected)
  • Outreach
    • The Scientific Mind Through the Eyes of a Physics Experimenter
    • National Laboratory Immersion Program
      • First Lahore 2012
      • Second Sukkur 2013
      • Third Lahore 2014
      • Fourth Lahore 2016
    • Labview Workshop 2016
    • Open House
    • Khwarizmi Science Society
    • Helping Pakistan’s Universities
      • National University of Technology (NUTECH) 2019
      • Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
        (PIEAS) 2019 (Final Phase)
      • Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
        (PIEAS) 2019 (Phase 2)
      • Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
        (PIEAS) 2018 (Phase 1)
      • National University of Science & Technology 2016
      • Habib University 2014
      • Preston University 2013
      • Ghulam Ishaque Khan Institute of
        Engineering Sciences and Technology 2011
      • Institute of Space Technology 2010
    • The National STEM School
      • STEM School (2018 – 2019)
      • STEM school (2016 – 2017)
    • Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture Series
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