INDUSTRYACADEMIA INTERACTION PLAN FOR NWFP

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INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA INTERACTION PLAN FOR NWFP

• Yaseen Iqbal
• Foreign Professor
• Department of Physics
• University of Peshawar

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SUMMARY

• The Goals of Higher Education
• Our present position
• Reasons for poor Academia-Industry-Interaction
• The changing world
• Globalization
• Learning from others?
• The way out
• Materials Research Institute
• Pakistan Materials Society

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THE GOALS OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEIR MEANINGS

• TEACHING communicates knowledge stimulates
  students interest in it
• RESEARCH extends the frontiers of knowledge
  lends authority authenticity to teaching
• EXTENSION exploits knowledge for economic
  social development i.e. use of knowledge for
  society
• Industry gives research targets to academia in
  the West

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WHERE ARE WE?

• Teaching Yes
• Research NO Yes
• Extension/application NO
• All interdependent

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REASONS FOR POOR INTERACTION (ACADEMIA)

• Teaching-a major responsibility, research
  consultancy not acceptable at the expense of
  teaching
• Reluctant to leave the comfort zone of pure
  teaching
• No authority to propose, Restrictive internal
  policies procedures
• Industry not interested in utilizing academias
  research
• Inadequate marketing of academias strengths to
  industry
• Lack of specialised technical infrastructure, no
  experts
• Is it true today?

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REASONS FOR POOR INTERACTION (INDUSTRY)

• Imported formulae high profile consultants
  better
• Academia incapable because of poorly equipped
  labs
• Lack of awareness about the resource potential of
  academia
• Bad experience of interactions with academia
• Anxiety to keep problems breakthroughs
  confidential for fear of loosing the competitive
  edge
• Sugar was in sugarcane, machine was there to get
  it, why depend on research?
• But we have the answer

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REASONS FOR POOR INTERACTION (GOVERNMENT)

• Government was not interested
• Agriculture was feeding the nation
• Enough fertile land to feed people
• Priorities were different
• Peshawar-the city of professionals? Industry
  discouraged

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THE WORLD CHANGED-GOOD FOR US?

• Food no more the target, priorities changed
• Technology came- Certain nations went up
  (globalization, westernization adventurism)
• Internet flooded everywhere with information
• Change inevitable but how?
• Here is the need for Academia industry to meet
• Developed underdeveloped only 2 (Developing?)

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INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA-GOVERNMENT, NOW

• The academia is here to offer their services
  (design or resign)
• The industry is here to decide?
• Poor quality? China is here
• Who is the judge? Marketer or Quality Engineer?
• Better quality, no way without research?
• The government is here to support?

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HEC SUPPORTS ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY-INTERACTION

• The government is interested (230m for FATA
  minerals for 2006-7 120b for the next 9 yrs for
  FATA development)
• Thanks to HEC-the labs are being innovated but
  for what?
• The way out? Learn from others or shut our eyes
  for ever
• We are to compete the modern world
• Lets have a look at them, what do they have?

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CHINA-AN EXAMPLE

• In 1949, 40 science research institutions
  50,000 ST personnel with 500 engaged in
  research
• By 1955, 840 ST research institutes gt400000
  ST personnel
• 1956, 12-Year Program for ST Development
  watch them
• The new Chinese strategy for the 21st century-a
  scientific system
• To produce everything on calculated
  sci-technical lines
• Here again watch the Developed under-Developed

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USA-ANOTHER EXAMPLE TESTED

• We are in a world where a single Institute of
  Materials hosts
• Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)
• Centre for Dielectric Studies (CDS)
• Centre for Nanoscale Science (CNS-MRSEC)
• Centre for Glass Surfaces, Interfaces, and
  Coatings Research (CGR)
• Centre for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP)
• Centre for the Study of Polymer-Solvent Systems
  (CSPSS)
• Electrochemical Engine Centre (ECEC)
• Electro-Optics Centre (EOC)
• H2E Centre (H2E)
• International Centre for Actuators and
  Transducers (ICAT)

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• 11. MURI - Multidisciplinary University Research
  Initiative
• 12. Pulsed Power Dielectrics
• 13. Microwave Processing and Engineering Centre
  (MPEC)
• 14. Particulate Materials Centre (PMC)
• 15. Centre for Computational Materials Design
  (CCMD)
• 16. Centre for Optical Technologies (COT)
• 17. Centre for Single Crystal Piezoelectric
  Materials
• 18. Composites Manufacturing Technology Centre
• 19. Energy Institute
• 20. Ferroele. Resource Centre for Freq. Agile
  Mat. for Electronics
• 21. Institute for Computational Science
• 22. Int.l Materials Institute (IMI) New
  Functionality in Glasses
• 23. Laser Processing Division
• Yes these are all in the Materials Research
  Institute of Pennsylvania State University

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The Pennsylvania State Universitys Materials
Research Institute comprise all these centres

• All founded by faculty teams to address specific
  areas requiring an interdisciplinary approach to
  research and development.
• Supported (financially) by industry and/or US
  government
• Aims- discovery, advancement and implementation
  of new technologies.

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INDIA-ANOTHER EXAMPLE

• The concept of ST park was promoted in 1982(25
  yrs ago)
• The idea was borrowed from the West
• Initially, sophisticated schemes looked naive to
  succeed
• Universities- prime repositories of advanced
  knowledge
• Industry business- the main beneficiaries
• ? University-industry-collaboration inevitable
  for mutual benefit and society
• Indians cried for this collaboration they are
  somewhere now

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An annual National Colloquium for the past
several years at the Vigyan Bhawan college, New
Delhi.Top industrialists, academicians,
economists and representatives of the government
deliver lectures on a range of aspects about
business, economics and industry?
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PROPOSAL (WE CAN DO IT)

• Dedicated teams of pro-active positive-minded
  professionals from academia, industry business
• Establish institutes equipped in accordance with
  the industrial and academic needs of the region
• Invite professionals (Rtd.) from industry as
  visiting faculties
• Secure training/project attachments for students
  in industry
• Exploit contacts with successful alumni in
  industry business
• Make a culture to share wisdom expertise
• Pakistan is the best not the West?
• How can we do this?

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WHAT IS NWFP POPULAR FOR?

• Minerals (NWFP the region around)
• What do we need?
• Optimum utilization of mineral resources
• How can we do this?
• Engineering of Materials
• What does this mean technically?

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Processing-Property-Microstructure Yaseen Iqbal
I. M. Reaney, EMF2003, University of Cambridge
JFE
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Yaseen Iqbal W. E. Lee, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc.
1999 2001
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After Peter Anderson, Ohio State University 2006
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DESIGN Let us break the ice today

• Materials Research Institute NWFP for practical
  work
• Nations working 6 hrs/day those working 24
  hrs/day?
• Nations with social services like us UK/Japan?
• Our teacher Western teacher-my experience?
• Do we need all this?
• Pakistan Materials Society to make a podium to
  develop a culture of research application

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MATERIALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE NWFP

• Major Aims
• To bring academia industry closer
• To meet the research requirements of the modern
  age
• To identify characterize national mineral
  resources
• To explore the ways to optimize the utilization
  of our technical manpower mineral resources
• To design execute projects of industrial
  academic significance
• To regulate joint teaching/research activities

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WE ARE TRYING BUT NEED MORE HELPMaterials
Research Lab (MRL)

• CRL-Characterization lab with 1.4Å Resolution
  TEM, XRD, SEM, DTA DSC????????????
• MRL-Processing Property measurement lab.
  ???????
• Tailoring of properties through designing
  processing
• PROPERTY (dielectric constant, Density, particle
  size, sample preparation, TCF, TCe Qf)
• Infrastructure needed (PC1 ready? where?)-take
  years/days
• Do it or not?
• Hire foreign faculties to help form a dedicated
  team
• Equipment specific to industrial requirements
  needed-a responsibility of industry to tell us
  what they need

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BENEFITS FOR INDUSTRY

• Reduction in industrial costs, improvement in
  quality competitive dimensions in products
• Imported formulae can help in making copies but
  not the originals for global competition
• Reduction of dependence on foreign know-how
• Getting of high calibre professional graduates to
  man industry

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BENEFITS FOR ACADEMIA

• Satisfaction for their knowledge expertise
  being used for society
• Widening deepening of the curricula bright
  future
• Earning of additional resources for RD
• Securing of training final placements for
  students
• Respect from society and industry

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NEEDS

• From government-A trust to work free of file
  culture-chronic
• Todays project is old tomorrow, lets set
  decide, instead of making piles of files
• Separate star rating to encourage training,
  problem-oriented research consultancy
• We need Industry to share their problems with
  academia to establish labs design projects for
  mutual use aims
• A suitably structured academia-industry-interactiv
  e podium

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THE PODIUMPAKISTAN MATERIAL SOCIETY

• Registration Forms
• Journal of Pakistan Materials Society to publish
  achievements, news views (1st issue being
  prepared)
• Our students are ready, our Govt. is ready, where
  is the problem???
• WWW is here, information is here
• We are a Society-Let us make it share our
  wisdom expertise to move forward

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JUST THINK

• We are ready to work hard
• Our land is fertile agriculturally
  intellectually
• Our mountains are rich in minerals
• Our natural resources are second to none
• Then why are we poor run out of this country?
• Our less-educated youth is now in Europe, they
  have seen the world
• We need a liveable society environment

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THE ANSWER IS EASY

• We at the University of Peshawar offer our
  services to establish a model Institute
• Give us relevant Foreign or local Faculties to
  develop skills for local industry (cement,
  ceramics, glass, minerals, composites, alloys)
• A decent infrastructure to install equipment
  accommodate researchers faculties with 9AM-3PM
  access or 24 hrs access?
• Research needs 24 hours access to labs not the
  way we do it

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YOU SUPPORT US

• We will give you
• a world-class institute as the nation needs
• A world class Pakistan Materials Society
• And this will give us
• A modern research based industry
• A developed nation

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Allah says

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• AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP
• Its universal
• It is 21st century

In Pushto
In English
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Yes, the Engineering of Materials is the KEY to
turn stones into GOLD

• Do we have such an Institute?
• If no, then we are not interested
• If we are interested, then-
• LETS MAKE THIS DAY A REAL DAY
• Do it or we will die anyway

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• THANKS