NEDians.org: http://www.NEDians.org
(based out of the Silicon Valley area and coming
out of the organization of the 2007 Convention;
see below). Also home to NED
Nama - این ای
ڈی نامہ,
the NEDian Blog.
NED-Alumni: http://www.ned-alumni.com
(based out of Houston and associated with the
2005 Convention; see below)
Roll Back Time ... Celebrate
NED and its Rich Heritage
On the 8th of September,2007,
the Silicon Valley alumni of the NED University
of Engineering & Technology invite you to
celebrate 86 years of history and achievements.
This will be a full-day conference with lively
panels of NEDians at Tech Mart in Santa Clara,
CA followed by an evening banquet at Crowne
Plaza Hotel, San Jose, CA with sumptuous food,
keynote by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, comedy entertainment
by British-Pakistani comedian Shazia Mirza,
and nostalgic Pakistani music by local NEDians
and others.
Please register online
early to ensure a place at this unique event.
NOT WORKING. NED-Alumni:
The group that owns the http://www.ned-alumni.com/
domain is based in the Houston Texas area and
also used to run http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NED-ALUMNI/
till very recently. They seem like they are
trying to create a network that will link regional
groups. They also held a "national" (US) convention
on July 3, 2005 or so in the Houston area.
Batch 1989-90: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ned89
(Open to let other NEDians join, Your Full Name,
Your NED Dept and Your NED Batch Year required
to join)
Batch 2003-04 Electronics?:
http://groups.msn.com/nedelectronics
though it says it is "The group for the NEDians
(Electronic Engineering) graduating in 2008"
Southern California: "Southern
California Organization of Pakistani Engineers
(SCOPE) is a professional engineering organization
of Engineers residing in Southern California
region - Santa Barbara to San Diego...The creation
of SCOPE was a result of NED Alumini (NEDian's)
efforts to bring all the Southern California
based Pakistani American Engineers together
over a common platform.": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scope/
Within
Organizations
Cisco Systems has an internal
list for NEDians.
Microsoft Corporation has
an internal list for NEDians.
SimCon:
Top management includes Ahmed
Safi, Mech '80-81, and Farrukh
Jamal (who is also Group Director Technical
for the whole Aftab Group of Companies,of which
Simcon is a member organization)
ABN
Chicago has at least three active NEDian
team members (Shahran
Asim in production and hosting, and Sabahat
Ashraf, "iFaqeer",
doing a tech segment, helping with online publishing,
and other input, as well as Rauf
Tabani providing commentary from Pakistan.)
Azad
Karachi Radio has an all-NEDian founding
team: iFaqeer (Sabahat Ashraf CSE, Batch '87-88)
and Ali Hasan Cemendtaur, Mech, Batch '80-'81(?)
