Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
IEEE IUB Student Branch Volunteers Received Recognition in IEEE BD Section Award Ceremony
10/05/2024
IEEE IUB Student Branch Ex-Com led by the Branch Counselor participated in IEEE BDS Appreciation and Award Night 2023 on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at the ECE Building Cafeteria, BUET, Dhaka.
Dr. Md. Kafiul Islam, Associate Professor of EEE at IUB and Counselor of IEEE IUB Student Branch received the Outstanding Student Branch Counselor (Honorable Mention); Tazwar Moqsud Nizam, Chair, IEEE IUB Student Branch was awarded the Outstanding Student Volunteer (Honorable Mention); and Aishwarya Roy, Chair, IEEE WIE IUB SB AG got the Women In Engineering (WIE) Outstanding Student Volunteer (Honorable Mention). Dr. Md. Kafiul Islam has served as a dedicated counselor to IEEE IUB Student Branch and his leadership and commitment have been essential in shaping the IEEE IUB Student Branch's success. The awards were given to recognize the efforts and achievements of the student branch volunteers for the year 2022. It is worth mentioning that IEEE IUB SB has organized the highest no. of events and activities among all student branches in the BD Section, i.e. thirty-eight (38) events have been reported in total in the year 2022 at the IEEE vTools (a global IEEE platform for reporting events of student branches). During Dr. Kafiul's tenure as Branch Counselor (since February 2020 till date), the student branch has reported 88 events at IEEE vTools out of 130 in total (more than two-thirds of the total) for IEEE IUB Student Branch since its inception in October 2011.
In addition, The representatives of the IEEE IUB Student Branch won the 3rd position in the interactive competition on Climate Change & Sustainability at IEEE Bangladesh Section Appreciation & Award Night.
The awardees were handed over the certificates by the Chair of the IEEE BD Section, Prof. Moshiul Hoque during another event of IEEE Bangladesh Section Award Winners’ Forum, held on 07 April 2023 at IEB Council Hall, Ramna, Dhaka. Among all Ex-Com members of the IEEE BDSection, Prof. Shahriar Khan from Dept. of EEE, IUB and Conference Coordinator of IEEE BDS 2023 was also present at the occasion.
To see the events organized by IEEE IUB SB and reported at IEEE vTools, one may follow the link below:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/events/search?_sub=true&q=&ou=STB98281+-+Independent+University-Bangladesh&d=All&commit=Search