One of the Students' Activities Committee (SAC) objectives has been to create a room for language-based extracurricular activities for the foundation and the post foundation students. The dean of the university, Dr Hamdan and the head of ELC, Dr Abdulsalam, extended their support and facilitated the English Society's establishment. It has become a hub for training and engaging Foundation and Post foundation students.
It has become an excellent platform for students to enhance their communication skills. Training students in small groups and peer tutoring programs have been in great demand since the start of the English Society. More than 150 students have been trained through Peer Tutoring and Teacher training sessions daily, and more than 15 students have been trained as trainers to teach their peers as tutors. It has welcomed more than six outstanding highly-skilled students enrolled as members of the English Society.
Overall, approximately 200 students have enrolled in the English Society so far. Many lecturers have recommended their students to the English Society for training purposes. Initiating the English Society office has been the most significant achievement for the Students' Activities Committee.
The English Society consists of seven members, and all of them were trained to deliver to motivate foundation students by visiting various classes. Our mentors have visited more than 15 classes and have encouraged many students with their inspiring pep talks. Many thanks to Ms. Adeebah and the English Society mentors for their artistic talents in decorating the office.
The Information Technology Department of UTAS-Ibri organized a four (4) days comprehensive online training program on ‘Object Oriented Programming and Graphical User Interface Design using Python’ from 23rd May 2022 to 26th May 2022 through MS Teams. The objective of this training is to provide a concrete programming experience with suitable examples to staff and students. This training is very much useful to the students/staff who have the basic knowledge in Python. The training program covered: conceptual information, applications, examples and hands on activities related to all object oriented concepts and Graphical User Interface design. This training was conducted by Dr. Rajasekaran and Dr. Mastan Vali Shaik. On the 4th day Dr. Rajasekaran concluded the sessions by delivering vote of thanks and collected feedback from the participants. As a result, the participants rated the presenters a 4.9 grade points from a scale of 1-5 where 5 is the highest.
Dr Muhammad Amir Abbas underlined the significance of the review of literature in his presentation on April 7, 2022, at the ELC, utas-Ibri. He stated that is an essential part of the research, and the researchers use scholarly literature to present results of similar studies done earlier. They do so to relate their research to an ongoing dialogue in the literature. Their literature review also provides a framework for comparing the results of their research with other studies. He also highlighted the importance of various steps considered essential in conducting it.
Profile
Dr Muhammad Amir Abbas has 29 years of teaching experience and is currently working as an EFL lecturer at UTAS-Ibri. During this period, he taught Applied Linguistics, Socio-linguistics, Psycho-linguistics and English Language & Literature. Transitivity (Systemic Functional Linguistics) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) are his areas of interest.
The Information Technology Department, through its IT Society organized a workshop on Big Data to students on the 26th May 2022. The said workshop was presented by Ms. Sana Fathima, an IT Lecturer. The workshop gave insights on the fundamentals of big data concepts, big data system and the technologies that work together for the analysis of the big data. The seminar also highlighted the issues and limitations in traditional systems.
The event also showed the practical demonstration of the Big Data technologies such as Hive and HBase that can be used to process a Big Data file and to store in the big data systems. The use of these technologies make querying and analyzing easy.
After the session, a feedback was taken and as a result, the participants rated the presenter 4.5 on a scale of 1-5 where 5 was the highest.
There were six (6) students who were benefited from the said workshop.
The Information Technology Department has organized a two (2)-day “Computer Troubleshooting and Networking” workshop through its IT Society in 18-19th May 2022. The said workshop was conducted by Mr Isabelo, an IT Lecturer.
During day 1 of the workshop, Mr Isabelo focused on discussion and virtual demonstration, whereas in day 2, he demonstrated the actual workshop using the real devices.
The objective of the workshop is to conduct troubleshooting and networking with the IT exit level students in order to equip and prepare them for their future job. The topics include PC components and its function with troubleshooting techniques, windows operating system installation, and basic networking.
The workshop concluded with a question and answer based on their experiences on PC troubleshooting and after which a feedback was taken from the participants. As a result of the feedback on a scale of 1-5, where 5 is the highest, the participants have rated the speaker 4.8.
The third edition of the student magazine – HUES was launched on 26th May, 2022 under the aegis of Dr Nasser Al Kalbani, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the English Language Centre. Other distinguished personalities who were present were Dr Abdulsalam Al Manthari, Dr Abdul Rahman Al Ismaili, Dr Sultan Al Ghafri, Dr Maryam Al Ghafri and Mr Ali Al Abri.
Dr Nasser congratulated all those who contributed to the magazine. Dr Abdulsalam expressed his pride and joy on the launch of the magazine and stressed on the need for motivating the students to write, as well as, the need for reading the articles. The editorial team members Ms Hind Al Mahrouqi, Mr Maha Al Darei and Ms Archana V. Gupta were present. The creative designer Mr Tariq Al Kabani was honored by Dr Nasser Al Kabani. All the students who contributed were also honored by giving them certificates and a copy of the magazine. The students – Rawan Salim Al Gharibi, Saif Muhanna Al Hinai, Tariq Said Al Kalbani, Abdul Karim Al Garibi, Mohammed Sulaiman Al Shuaili and Mazoun Said Al Alawi shared their experiences of writing and preparing for their articles/ visuals; and how it helped them in improving their skills and confidence.
The staff of the ELC, the students who contributed for the magazine and the invited guests were present on the occasion.
The Staff Development Committee (SDC) of the Business Studies Department organized a presentation on "Diet Exercises and Fitness Practices for Wellbeing" on Thursday, 19th May 2022 from 10.00 a.m to 10.45 a.m at the Room No A214A. The presentation started with a welcome address by Dr. Sheik Mastan Vali and then the presenter, Mr. Emthiyaz khan, delivered the session. He focused on different aspects, including the major symptoms of illness created by major five organs like heart, kidney, and liver in our body and how these are related to the stomachpain. He also provided some solutions to minimize them. In addition to that, the presenter showed and explained the fitness exercises required in our everyday life to maintain and keep strong. It was a great insight provided as per the current requirement for everyone and 23 faculty members attended this presentation. At the end, some participants raised their enquiries on the said topic and the presenter clarified all enquiries.
The Staff Development Committee (SDC) of the Business Studies Department organized a workshop titled "Understanding Derivatives with respect to Options" on Thursday, 26th May 2022 from 10.00 a.m to 10.45 a.m at the Room No A214A. The workshop staterd with a welcome speech by Dr. Sheik Mastan Vali, then the presenter, Dr. Mohammed Younus, delivered the workshop emphasizing derivatives market with options with reference to GCC market. He also focused on the greater insights of options and their types with the nature of trading. He provided practical examples with reference to underlying assets trading in overall market. At the end of the workshop, there was a Q&A session to clarify participants' doubts on the said topic. A totally of 18 faculty members attended the workshop. The vote of thanks was given by Dr. Surendar vedapall.
The Staff Development Committee (SDC) of the Business Studies Department organized a presentation on "Whatsapp for Formal Communication" on Thursday, 19th May 2022 from 10.45 a.m to 11.30 a.m at the Room No A214A. The session staterd with a welcome address given by Dr. Sheik Mastan Vali and then the presenter, Dr.Vijay Padaguri, delivered the session. He focuse on different aspects, including the nature and uses of whatsapp in our everyday life, various techniques used to communicate to people and different types of formal words to be followed in whatsapp. After that, he conducted a quiz among faculty members as five groups and discussed the answers. There was a Q&A session at the end to clarify the doubts and enquries raised by the participants. A total number of 23 faculty members attended the presentation.
The Information Technology Department, through its Course Project sub-committee has organized a training session titled, “How to Write a Research Paper” in 7th April 2022. The session was delivered by Dr Omar Hussein Al Guboori, an IT lecturer, and the target audience were those students in Diploma and Bachelor levels who are currently enrolled in course project. The main objective of this program was to give orientation to students in dealing with research.
The training session focused on answering to the following questions:
- Why we do research?
- What is the meaning of researcher?
- What are the available types of researches?
- The 9 steps to write an article.
The training session started at 9:30 AM and concluded at 10:30 AM with the participation of 15 students. After the session, a feedback was taken from the participants and a result of 4.02 was recorded from a scale of 1-5 where 5 was the highest.
