Final year students of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) being run under the aegis of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) displayed their creative projects at the institute’s ninth Open House organized at its campus here on Wednesday.
The event was organized by the Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) at PIEAS that marks the culmination of the academic efforts of PIEAS graduating students who demonstrated their final year projects for evaluation by the academia and experts.
This year’s open house also included a career fair, in which various companies participated for recruiting talented students of the university who possess the necessary skills and qualifications.
These companies conducted on-the-spot interviews and technically reviewed resumes of students to streamline their recruitment process and identify promising PIEAS candidates for job placements.
Over two dozen projects were displayed in the day-long activity. The event was attended by a large number of students, intellectuals from different organizations and industry professionals. He said that arranging open house is an annual feature of the PIEAS to encourage students to display novel projects developed through year-long efforts that can meet the local needs and prove as beneficial for the country.
The students of this institute are working on developing various technologies and projects with special focus on robotics and artificial intelligence to compete globally, he observed.
It is pertinent to mention here that PIEAS is the leading university of the country in Science and Technology and it ranked among top 400 universities of the world and was also declared the best engineering university of Pakistan, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking 2019.
