Summary: The department organized one international conference, one technical lecture by the international expert, one workshop

and two video conferences during the reporting period. Department of Civil Engineering organized the visit of ! people to "#$ on %ctober &''( under )EC*"# pro+ect. , faculty members along with - people from the industry visited "#$ for , days training as the capacity building exercise in Earth.uake Engineering. ! faculty members of the department attended international conference during the reporting period and presented their research studies. Department of Civil Engineering also conducted two different trainings through vendor for the usage of the installed instruments /accelerometer and #hake table0. The Department also offered the summer internship under )EC*"# aid pro+ect .Three under graduate students were trained during summer vacations. Details: 1irst 2nternational Conference on Construction in Developing Countries*2CC2DC*23 held on $ugust 4*!, &''( at 5arachi, 6akistan, /%rganized by Department of Civil Engineering, 7ED0. $ technical 8ecture on 9 !' years of concrete by Dr. #yed Tanvir :asti, 6rofessor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, ;iddle East Technical "niversity, $nkara, Turkey3 7ovember, th, &''(, organized by 6akistan Chapter*$merican Concrete 2nstitute $ workshop on 9<uilding 2nformation ;odeling /<2;03 in the main auditorium on =anuary >th, &''- was arranged by Department of Civil Engineering? ;r. 1arrukh. 2n department, Training was arranged for the use and operation of #hake table by Taha Ceen Tayab, $ssociated integrated Distribution limited, on &,th 1eburary &''Training on $ccelerometer by Taha Ceen Tayab, $ssociated integrated Distribution limited was also arranged by department on -th December &''-. Dr #arosh ). 8odi attended33 conference in 7ew @ealand and presented his paper 93 Dr $sad A. 5han attended 3 4th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE2008), 22-24 !l", 20083 in @urich, #witzerland and presented his paper 9Aole of "*shaped anchorages on behavior of AC beams strengthened by C1A6 plates3 ;r ;. #a.ib and ;r. 1arrukh $rif attended 9#he $th International Conference on Innovation in %rchitect!re,Engineering an& Constr!ction, !ne 2'r&-2$th 2008,3 $ntalya, Turkey.

;ohammad $hmed Aehmatullah attended 9#he Conference of (orl& aca&em" of )cience, Engineering * #echnolog" +ecem,er 20083 and presented his 6aper 9Towards ;odeling for Crashes, $ 8ow*Cost $daptive ;ethodology for 5arachi.3 6rof. Dr. #.1.$.Aafee.i, 6rof Dr. #.).8odi, Dr. ;uhammad ;asood Aafi, $ftab $hmad 1aroo.i, Tehmina $yub and 7a+mus #ahar @afar attended the , days training program in "#$ form &4th %ctober B C st %ctober &''( under )EC*"# aid pro+ect 9<uilding capacity in 6akistan to #eismically Aetrofit Essential #tructures3 Dideo Conference arranged by Department of Civil Engineering on study buildings for the )EC*"#$2D pro+ect
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$ 8ecture of '& hours duration by ;r. $tta "llah #hah, 6ro+ect Director /$2%"0 on Cth $pril, &''- ;onday at '&E'' 6; was presented in Dideo Conference hall . The topic of the 8ecture was Project Management Process. 2n Department of Civil Engineering, 7ED university of Engineering and Technology , Three under graduate students were trained during summer vacations /&nd =une B & th =uly &''(0 for the ETE< model development of 7ED <uilding. The students assisted the team leaders involve in the assessment of the case study buildings for the "#$2D 6ro+ect and were awarded after the completion with the certificate and ,'''As #tipend. The details of the #tudents areE ;r. #aad*ur*Aahman ;alik ,;r. #yed $dil <ari and ;r. ;ohammad )aris