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Role:   Project head/ Principle Investigator (PI): Dr. Affaq Qamar, HoD, Dept: of Electrical Engineering, Abasyn University, Peshawar. Co-PI: Dr. Haider Ali (EE, Abasyn) Project Member: Engr Hammad (EE, Abasyn)

Title:  An innovative demonstration for low energy buildings: components, energy techniques and ICT tools (2016-17)

Worth 3,000,000 PKR

Funding Agency  US-Aid through U.S Pakistan Center for Advance Studies in Energy (U.S PCAS-E), University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar.

Description  The project is to develop a building envelop preferably the faculty offices area of EE department at Abasyn, which can later serve as a prototype as well as an energy sustainable lab at the end of project dissemination. The project targets zero energy or very low energy building design, so we shall work on two tier system i.e. we want to adapt intelligent energy management based on energy efficient sensors, as well as energy generation within the site.

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Role:   Co-PI – Dr. Affaq Qamar

Title:  New Innovation of Low Cost Solar Stills for Desalination of Water in Rural Households (2016-17)

Worth 3,000,000 PKR

Funding Agency  US-Aid through U.S Pakistan Center for Advance Studies in Energy (U.S PCAS-E), University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar.

Description  The project aims at the development of solar still technology, which is capable of utilizing readily available solar energy to provide distilled water to households in rural Pakistan.

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Role:   Co-Principle Investigator (Co-PI): Dr. Affaq Qamar, HoD, Dept: of Electrical Engineering, Abasyn University, Peshawar.

Title:  PoliTo at Pakistan (PAP) – Internationalization of academic affairs (2016-17)

Worth 10,000 Euros

Funding Agency Italian University Grant by Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Italy

Description  The project aims at increasing collaboration between PoliTo and top Pakistani Universities. A vibrant community in the form of PoliTo alumni is already available and willing to play an active role for the execution of the project which aims to execute activities for the recruitment of talented prospective students for PoliTo from Pakistan. The project also intends to facilitate the cooperation of PoliTo with the top universities and secondary schools in Pakistan. We believe that, with such initiative, the association between Pakistan and PoliTo will achieves new heights in the internationalization of academic affairs.

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Role:  Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Haider Ali, EE Abasyn University Peshawar

Title:  Design and Development of Telemetry Transmitter and Tele-Command Receiver (TMT & TCR) (2017)

Worth 510,000 PKR

Funding Agency  SUPARCO for Pakistan National Student Satellite-1 (PNSS-1) Mission.

Description  This project is based on development of Telemetry Transmitter in UHF (434 MHz) and Telecommand Receiver in VHF (144 MHz) Band for First ever Pakistan's Student Satellite PNSS-1.

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Role:   Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Haider Ali, EE Abasyn University Peshawar

Title:  Design of Ground Station Transmit Antenna and Ground Station Receive Antenna (GSTAU & GSRAU) (2017)

Worth 520,000 PKR

Funding Agency  SUPARCO for Pakistan National Student Satellite-1 (PNSS-1) Mission.

Description  This project is based on development of Ground Station Transmit Antenna in VHF (144 MHz) and Ground Station Receive Antenna in UHF (435 MHz) Band for First ever Pakistan's Student Satellite PNSS-1.

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Role:   EE Senior Project Coordinator: – Dr. Haider Ali

Title:  Undergraduate Senior Project Funding (2016)

Worth 200,000 PKR

Funding Agency  ICT Undergraduate Project Funding Initiative 2016.

Description  ICT R & D since its creation has always encouraged funding of undergraduate projects across universities in Pakistan. AUP EE Deptt. also forwarded six proposals in this regard from which four will be selected for funding.