By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
The newly elected President of the Aligarh Muslim University
Old Boys Association (AMUOBA) Engr Muhammad Adil Usman has taken over
as the Chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and
Technology (SSUET), Karachi, on April 8.
Engr Adil Usman, having graduated from the Aligarh Muslim
University in the discipline of electrical engineering in 1968, is the Chief
Executive of the Associated Technical Consultants, a renowned engineering
consulting firm.
He has been taking active interest in the promotion of
technical education in Pakistan besides his other social sector engagements. He
is the founder member of the SSUET having been a member of the Board of
Governors for the last many years.
He is also Convener and Member Governing Body of the Aligarh
Institute of Technology. He has now been elected as the President of the
Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association (AMUOBA), having been elected
its Senior Vice President earlier.
He has actively contributed in social and professional
bodies. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of Pakistan Engineering
Council (PEC) for two consecutive terms, 1991-93 and 1994-96. He was the
Convener of the PEC Consulting Engineers Regulation Committee in 1996.
He was elected as the Honorary Secretary of the Association
of Consulting Engineers, Pakistan for the term of 1999-2001 and worked on
National and International level for furtherance the cause of the engineering
community in Pakistan.
Engr Adil Usman has attended numerous technical seminars
held in Pakistan and abroad having presented a large number of technical papers
many of whom have also been published in the reputed international journals.
He has been involved in research projects related to
introducing viable sources of renewable energy in the Pakistani market, one of
which was the local design and fabrication of a bio-diesel production plant.
He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers and
Vice-President (Electrical) of Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP). He is
also a member of various prestigious institutions, actively working for
promoting cause of the engineers at all forums.
