WIE Awards

Pakistan WIE Forum has always been blessed with outstanding volunteers who have worked tremendously with keen devotion and allegiance. In order to recognize their efforts, Pakistan WIE Forum took the initiative of recognizing their hard work and commitment.

IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum gave out special awards and certificates of recognition to the WIE volunteers across Pakistan. These awards were announced at the Pakistan Student/ GOLD/ WIE Congress’12.

The awards were given for the categories of:

  • Outstanding WIE Affinity Group Pakistan
  • Outstanding WIE Affinity Group Chairperson Pakistan
  • Outstanding WIE Volunteer Pakistan

The nominations for these awards were collected in August 2012 and with the judges panel of 5 senior IEEE members:

  • Om Parkash – Student Activities Coordinator IEEE Region 10
  • Amir Zahoor – Chair IEEE GOLD Committee IEEE Sweden Section
  • Rayees Nishad – South Asia GOLD Coordinator IEEE Region 10
  • Durdana Habib – Mentor IEEE Pakistan WIE Forum
  • Rayees Nishad – South Asia GOLD Coordinator IEEE Region 10

A total of ten nominations for Outstanding WIE Volunteer Pakistan, four nominations for Outstanding WIE Affinity Group Pakistan and four nominations for Outstanding WIE Affinity Group Chairperson Pakistan were received. And after evaluation of them, the following results were compiled:

WIE Affinity Group UET Lahore as Outstanding WIE Affinity Group
Wahaba Hussain, WIE NEDUET Karachi as Outstanding WIE Affinity Group Chair
Rehma Javed, WIE PNEC Karachi as Outstanding WIE Volunteer Pakistan.

The aim behind the awards was to promote women in engineering and to recognize those who are putting up a valiant effort to do so. By introducing these annual awards, we believe to have provided a platform to WIE members of Pakistan to spur their activities even more.

  



  

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