HYDERABAD: The 1st ever two-day national conference on emerging trends in information & engineering technologies has successfully concluded here at Sindh University on Thursday, stressing varsity-industry collaboration in a bid to stem unemployment and help the country boost its economy having developed an assortment of momentous software.
The scholars insisted that the universities were required to leverage on the huge expertise available in the industry to train IT undergraduates adding that by doing so, the country could create opportunities which will in return reduce production of half-baked graduates and improve job creators.
Addressing the concluding ceremony which held here at the faculty of engineering & technology (FET) University of Sindh, the vice chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro felicitated the dean of the faculty Prof Dr Khalil ur Rehman Khumbhati and his entire team for organising an exquisite national conference and ensure the physical participation of the scholars and researchers from across the country and said that it was high time for FET to establish liaison with industries and software houses especially that of Pakistan software bureau and collaborate with them.
He said that the faculty of engineering & technology could develop facebook like software and earn billions of rupees which could not only help SU stand on its feet but could boost up the country's economy significantly.
He called for a pragmatic collaboration between FET and software houses and industries so as to create job opportunities, earn money and train undergraduates and said that Pakistan's higher education system sternly needed such kinds of partnership.
Dr Kalhoro termed the establishment of a postgraduate centre at FET as a milestone and expressed hope that through it, the quality research and development of software would practically be initiated.
He said that in recent times, industries had been increasingly relying on technology based solutions to solve various problems adding that the universities being the hub of research and development activities should play an enhanced role in suggesting innovative solutions to problems faced by industries and the society at large.
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