Quiz Competition for a Trip to Sweden!

The Embassy of Sweden in Bangladesh, along with prominent Swedish business houses, is organizing The Sweden–Bangladesh Nobel Memorial Quiz for the first time which celebrates innovations, creativity, Swedish contributions to the development of the world and the strengthening of relations between the two countries. The broad theme of the quiz is Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureates, innovations and inventions of Swedish people and Sweden in general.

Members of the winning team get to go for an all-expense paid week-long trip to Sweden where they will visit Swedish companies, universities and the Nobel Museum. The quiz is open to all students currently enrolled at a university in Bangladesh. Students are required to form teams of 3 members each in order to participate. All members of a team must be from the same institution. There is no entry fee.

Event Details:

Time - 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Date - 6 th December, 2015
Venue - Auditorium Complex, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)

For any further information, please contact Ms. Bidita Rezwana, Coordinator, CPC (rezwana.bidita@northsouth.edu).

Seminars and On-Campus Recruitment by GP!

You would be happy to know that NSU CPC has been attracting good number of MNCs and Local organizations for On Campus Recruitments and Seminars. In continuation to that, tomorrow Grameenphone will be sharing its resources for On Campus Recruitment and 2 seminars/career talks. 

Please read below for more information:

On Campus Recruitment:

Junior Trainee position: GP will be taking interviews of our 160 students  on November 16 & 17, 2015. There will be 5 separate interview boards for each day.

Seminar/ Career Talks

Seminar 1: Brand positioning: past and future 
Speaker : Nehal Ahmed, Director, Marketing, Grameenphone
Date : November 16, 2015
Time : 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue : Faculty Lounge (Opposite to CPC)

Seminar 2:  Modern Recruitment Practices (Aptitude Test, Team's day, Assessment Center: How recruiters evaluate you!Speaker: Syed Tanvir Husain, Director, Center of Expertise, People and Organization
Date: November 16, 2015
Time : 2:00 - 4:00 pm 
Venue : Faculty Lounge (Opposite to CPC) 

Short bio of Nehal Ahmed:
Nehal Ahmed brings over 18 years of experience from Consumer and B2B marketing. Prior to join Grameenphone, he has held senior managerial positions in several well-known companies such as Robi Axiata, QUBEE, BACARDI, MARS Snacksfoods and BAT. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst-USA in the field of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and started his career in BAT Bangladesh. He was later transferred to the UK as an International Brand Marketing Manager for BAT Holdings PLC in London during the year 2000. Prior to moving back to Bangladesh in 2009, he has also worked with MARS and BACARDI in different Brand and Marketing leadership roles during 2003-2009. Nehal Ahmed joined Grameenphone in August 2014 and is currently the Director of Marketing at GP

Short bio of Syed Tanvir Husain:
With more than 18 years of experience in HR Syed Tanvir Husain is currently holding the position of Director- Center of Expertise under People & Organization (P&O) in Grameenphone. Before joining GP in 2013, he worked with different Multinational companies & played senior management role in Bangladesh and USA comprising various sectors- Tobacco, Bank, Food, Global Technology & Engineering . Starting his career in BAT, he also worked in Airtel as CHRO & CitiBank NA as Head of HR. He has completed his MBA from IBA, DU.

All of you are cordially invited to join the event.

NSU Cybernauts'13!

NSU Computer Club (NSUCC) is organizing the NSU Cybernauts-13™ - a week long technological festival starting from March 22 to March 27, 2013. I'd like to invite you all to visit the festival. Your presence will inspire the participants and the members of the NSU Computer Club as well.

The festival comprises two inter-university contests on Programming & Engineering Projects, Gaming Contests, IT Fairs, Workshop on 'Robotics', and two other learning sessions.

Following is the program schedule for your reference.

Workshop on “Career Planning”

The Career & Professional Development Services of North South University is going to organize a workshop on “Career Planning” conducted by The City Bank Limited. Time, date and venue are given below:

Date: 5 February 2013; Tuesday
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue: OAT – 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Pearls of Shomman!

1.   Laughter around a FAMILY dining table is like sunshine in a home. Root of courtesy starts here.

2.  Eighty percent FRICTION of life is caused by the wrong tone of voice. Check your tongue.

3.  Your CHILDREN learn by watching you. Your grand-children learn from your children. And generation goes on.

4.  ‘LOVE’ between life-partners means –‘make each other’s life more comfortable’.

5.  If the master (employer) makes the HELPING HANDS' (domestic help) eyes wet – Blessings fly away from that house.

6.  OLD PARENTS are Gold. New members in a family are Diamond. If you get a Diamond, don’t ignore the Gold. Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold.

Source: http://shomman.wordpress.com/pearls-of-shomman/

Presentation and Public Speaking!

NSU English Club has arranged a workshop on "Presentation and Public Speaking" to be held today at 3:30 pm in OAT801. Those of you who have weakness in this area may attend this workshop. The speakers are faculty members of English, Business, Environmental Science, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments.

Thanks.

IML Discourse I {Lecture Series}

The Institute of Modern Languages presents a discourse on the place of language in a nation's journey towards prosperity this Sunday.

Discourse title: 'Language and Development'

Speaker:
Professor Dr. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
President, People's Republic of Bangladesh  (2001-2002)

Date: Sunday, June 17
Time: 11:20am-12:50pm
Venue: NAC309

Audience: Students of NSU, DU, and BUET
__________________________________________________________________
Prof B Chowdhury is perhaps the most active and dynamic former head of state of Bangladesh.

An ardent political critic and activist, the former foreign minister-turned head of state established his party 'Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh' of which he is the president. A practicing physician, Prof Chowdhury is also the founder chairman of a first-rate women's medical college in Bangladesh. He was sacked by the BNP regime in 2002 for his alleged indifference to the Party's ethics and principles. _________________________________________________________________

Khan Academy - Free Education Videos!

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,700 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching Mathematics, History, Healthcare & Medicine, Finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Economics, Cosmology and Computer Science.

The major components of Khan Academy include:

• a video library with over 2,700 videos in various topic areas and over 89 million lessons delivered.
• automated exercises with continuous assessment; there are more than 200 exercises, mainly in math, including four challenges and 184 individual modules.
• peer-to-peer tutoring based on objective data collected by the system, a process that will be projected in the future.

Not-for-profit partner organizations are making the content available outside of YouTube. The Lewis Center for Educational Research, which is affiliated with NASA, is bringing the content into community colleges and charter schools around the United States. World Possible is creating offline snapshots of the content to distribute in rural, developing regions with limited or no access to the Internet.

Khan has stated a vision of turning the academy into a charter school:

This could be the DNA for a physical school where students spend 20 percent of their day watching videos and doing self-paced exercises and the rest of the day building robots or painting pictures or composing music or whatever.

You may watch a YouTube video where Salman Khan talks about his academy and vision. You may also choose to download that video using following two options:

Good Quality Video (MP4 format - 50 MB)

Average Quality Video (3gp format - 37 MB)

I thank you in advance for watching and sharing with your friends!

TechFiesta 2011!

North South University Wireless Forum (NSUWF) invites you to attend and participate in the "TechFiesta 2011" to be held from October 17 to 19, 2011 in our campus.

The Tech Fiesta is being organized by NSU Wireless Forum, a telecommunication based student activity club of North South University. The club had organized this glorious and prestigious event in the previous year and yet again we are back with more to offer in TechFiesta 2011. The TechFiesta aims to be an impactful initiative in the growth of national technology. This event intends to explore the possibilities of augmenting new technologies in Bangladesh and address various critical issues related to their development.

In brief, the Tech Fiesta 2011 will comprise of the following events:

• Plenary Sessions 
• Technological Exhibition & Job Fair
• Inter-University TeleMpiad 
• Inter-University Gaming Contest 
• Open Source Campaign and CICT CyberConnect Live. 
• Launching MIT OpenCourseWare Mirror Site.  

Plenary Sessions
Plenary Session-I: Technology Transfer :Present and Proposed Policies.
Plenary Session – II: Open Source and its applications : GNU Radio, WiFi, WiMAX, GSM.  

Technological Exhibition & Job Fair
To provide the maximum exposure, an accompanying exhibition will be arranged to showcase the technical and business potential of the participating organizations. The organizations can talk about their companies and their products and services; to an audience that is a true representation of the local market. They can be sponsors of the event by putting advertisements of their companies or their projects. Participating organizations can also find investment opportunities or meet the people who are looking for such opportunities.
 
Inter-University TeleMpiad
The Inter-University TeleMpiad has been being organized as a regular event by NSU Wireless Forum for the last four years. This year the members of Wireless Forum have decided to hold the event along with the Tech Fiesta, the biggest event to be organized by the club. The TeleMpiad will consist of Olympiads on four different fields- physics, mathematics, telecommunications and electronics. Students of different renowned universities are expected to participate fruitfully in the Olympiads. As always, the Olympiads will be conducted and monitored strictly with efficiency and impartiality by a highly qualified judging panel.  

Inter-University Gaming Contest
In order to provide the participants an opportunity for recreational activities, there will be an Inter-University Gaming Contest. The contest will comprise of two game events- FIFA and NFS. The participants will represent their respective universities. The gaming contest will not only allow the participants to compete against one another but also make the visitors aware of the popularity of developing gaming community in our country.

Your presence and participation will make this event a success.

Invitation to Seminar and Exhibition!

Prime Bank Limited is organizing a seminar and exhibition titled "Standard Banking Practices: Corporate Banking, Retail & SME Banking, Branch Banking, and Human Resource Management" on the 7th of May, 2011 at the Ball Room of Dhaka Hotel Sheraton (now Rupashi Bangla).

Following are some details of the presentations:

Topic Area: Corporate Banking
Speaker: Mr. Md. Mehmood Husain, Additional Managing Director
Time: 10 am to 11:30 am

Topic Area: Branch Banking
Speaker: Mr. Reazul Karim, Deputy Managing Director
Time: 2:30 pm to 4 pm

Topic Area: Retail & SME Banking
Speaker: Mr. Md. Tabarak Hossain Bhuiyan, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Marketing and Human Resource Divisions
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm

This should be a unique opportunity for students who are interested in Banks and Financial Institutions. You may drop your CV in the exhibition for job consideration. Please enroll your name with respective departments.

Thanks.

Learning Event at NSU!

Investment Climate Unit, NSU is organizing a seminar on July 21, 2010 as part of the "Learning Event" activity under the NSU-BICF Academic Partnership Program.

Seminar Details
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Venue: NAC# 517

Topic:
1. "Role of Special Economic Zones and EPZs in Attracting Foreign Investment"
2. "Prospect of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Bangladesh"

Speakers:
1. Mr. Abu Reza Khan, Additional Secretary, Government of Bangladesh, Executive Member, Board of Investment
2.Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur, Executive Director, Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh

You are cordially invited to attend the seminar.

Learning Event at NSU!

Investment Climate Unit (ICU), NSU is organizing a seminar featuring "Business Registration Process" and "Challenges of Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) Financing" on June 29, 2010. This seminar is a part of the 'Learning Event' activity under the NSU-BICF Academic Partnership Program.

Mr. Ahmedur Rahim, Registrar from the Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms and Mr. Syed Faridul Islam, Head of SME Financing, BRAC bank Ltd. have been invited to speak in this seminar.

Dr. Hafiz G.A. Siddiqi,Vice Chancellor, North South University, will attend the function as the Chief Guest.

Seminar schedule is as follows:
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Venue: Room # NAC517, NSU

You are cordially invited to join the seminar.