"Dr. Sajid has been appointed as Director Strategic Planning. In this role, he will work with the trustees and the president to establish the vision and mission of CASE and lead the Institution in its deployment.
Under Dr. Sajid's leadership (being the founder of Engineering Management Department, and the Chairman) the department grew (in terms of student enrollment and attendance) exponentially. More than 100 students received their MEM degrees during the convocation held in June 2007. In the past, students had approached Dr. Sajid for various issues. However, going forward, Dr. Sajid will be very busy with his new critical role. The EM department is now handled by Prof. Saeed Kazmi as acting Chairman. All students are advised to direct their issues/inquiries (phone or email) to Students Affairs or EM department. Dr. Sajid will no longer be entertaining such matters."

June 2007: First convocation of CASE held successfully on 25th June, 2007.
"The CASE first convocation held successfully on Monday, June 25th 2007 on CASE premises. The Governor Punjab Lt. Gen. (R) Khalid Maqbool conferred 257 Master degrees to the graduating students. The Chief Guest Dr. S. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director Higher Education Commission, delivered the Keynote address for the convocation." For Details please Click Here

The Next Doctoral Qualifying Exam (Spring 2008) of the Computer Engineering Department is decided to be held on Wednesday 23rd January, 2008.

October 2006: The 3rd International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics: MEI 2007
The 3rd International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics: MEI 2007, will be held from July 8-11, 2007, Orlando, Florida (USA). A call for papers is being made. Click here for details.

July 2006: French Embassy Officials Visited CASE.
On July 10, 2006, the officials from the french embassy, including the Counselor for Scientific and Technical Cooperation, and the Scientific and Cultural Attache visited CASE. They met the CASE team and discussed with them various possibilities of collaboration between CASE and french higher education institutes. They appreciated the already signed MoU between University of Lille, France and CASE. They assured full support from the french embassy in Islamabad for any initiative to further pursue collaboration with french organizations. At the end, they took a round of the campus and were shown the academic and research facilities at CASE.

July 2006: Dr. Azhar Mansur Khan has been invited by ESC Lille School of Management Science.
On behalf of the Steering Committee, ESC Lille School of Management Science has invited Professor Dr. Azhar Mansur Khan to attend the 6th International Project Management Workshop being held in Lille, France, from 21st to 25th August 2006. The general theme of this workshop is " Project Strategy and Governance: Key Perspectives Questions, Researches, Facts". Dr. Azhar Khan will be speaking on “HRD Practices in the Federal Government Project Management System in Pakistan – An empirical research study” Furthermore, he has been made a part of the experts and academics panel for the Best Practices and Research workshop at ESC Lille. ESC Lille represented by Professor Christophe N. Bredillet (The Associate Dean of the Graduate Programs) has especially invited Dr. Khan to be a part of the workshop.

May 2006: Dr. Shoaib A. Khan and Mr. Zaheer Ahmed, faculty members of CASE awarded two US patents.

Hardware function generator support in a DSP

United States Patent 7,031,992 Khan , et al. April 18, 2006
Abstract: The present invention relates to digital signal processors with an integrated module configured to compute a Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) in a pipeline. The pipelined module can advantageously complete computation of one CORDIC computation for each clock pulse applied to the CORDIC module, thereby providing a CORDIC computation for each clock pulse. One embodiment advantageously computes a first portion of a computation with a lookup table and a second portion in accordance with a CORDIC algorithm. Advantageously, data in a CORDIC pipeline is automatically advanced in response to read instructions and can be automatically advanced from the beginning of the pipeline to the end of the pipeline to reinitialize the pipeline. This allows information to be retrieved from the CORDIC pipeline with relatively little overhead. The automatic starting and stopping of the CORDIC pipeline advantageously allows the retrieval of computations from efficient pipeline architectures on an as-needed basis.
Inventors: Khan; Shoab A. (Rawalpindi, PK); Hameed; Rehan (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA); Farooq; Hassan (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA)
Assignee: Quartics, Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Appl. No: 951764
Filed: September 10, 2001
Current U.S. Class: 708/276
Current International Class: G06F 1/02 (20060101)

Programmable and multiplierless Viterbi accelerator

United States Patent 6,883,021 Ahmed , et al. April 19, 2005
Abstract: The invention is related to methods and apparatus that decode convolutionally encoded data, including trellis-coded modulation (TCM) systems. One embodiment of the invention shares a memory device with a main processor, such as a microprocessor or a DSP, and advantageously relieves the main processor of the relatively time-consuming task of decoding the convolutionally encoded data. This frees up the main processor to execute other tasks. One embodiment of the invention includes a micro-coded state machine that can be programmed to control the decoding of the convolutional codes.
Inventors: Ahmed; Zaheer (Islamabad, PK); Khan; Shoab A. (Rawalpindi, PK)
Assignee: Quartics, Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Appl. No: 951348
Filed: September 10, 2001
Current U.S. Class: 709/213

April 2006: Another HEC approved supervisor joins CASE faculty.
Dr. Riaz Inayat, CASE faculty member has been recently nominated as HEC approved supervisor. His area of specialization is Wireless Communication and Networks. Click here for Dr. Riaz profile.