Academic Calendar for Spring 2012!

Please have a look at the Academic Calendar for Spring 2012.

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Grades Assessed!

I have posted the grades for the semester. You may check your grade by logging into the “Student Information System” using same user name and password you used during faculty evaluation. You may also look at your grades during advising for the next semester. Alternatively, you may email me to know your grade. Following is a summary of the grades assessed (Fall 2011).

Special Mention:
Following students showed outstanding performance in my courses this semester. Heartiest congratulations to them for their achievement.

Sourav Shuvro Saha 1110443030 (FIN254)
Sadman Mostofa Zawad 1110089030 (FIN254)

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Marksheets Available!

Your marksheets have been made available. Please look for any mistake in recording your marks. If you find any mistake please notify me (by email: imran.edu@gmail.com) and my teaching assistant (by email: tasnuva.sharmin@gmail.com or SMS: 01732717187) immediately. Grades would be assessed on the 30th of December, 2011 based on these marksheets. So, you must report any problem with your marks by 29th December.

Please notify all your classmates about it. If you want to check your assignment, quiz, or exam scripts, you may visit my office tomorrow (Tuesday) and day after tomorrow (Wednesday) between 3 pm and 4 pm. 

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AT&T Customer Service Dilemma!

Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan?

Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller: I'm Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.

Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller: Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital..

Operator: Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator: I'm Saw Ree .

Caller: Yes! You should be sorry.. Now give me your name!!

Operator: That's what I said. I'm Saw Ree ..

Caller: Oh.....God.......!!!!!!

Sakib Best Creative-Writing Award Winner!

Congratulations to M Sakib Ullah (EEE Student) for bringing honor to NSU by bagging the first prize (among 126 contestants, including BUET, IBA,..), organized by UNYSAB on "7 Billion Population: Challenges and Opportunities for Youth".
 
Let's all wish Sakib bigger success in the days to come.

Additional Office Hours!

I am planning to be present in my office from 10 am to 11 am every day between 18th and 22nd December, 2011. FIN254 students may visit my office to clarify difficult concepts. ACT201 students may check their final exam scripts once checked.

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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!

CLEAN NSU Campaign!

NSU Earth Club is going to arrange an environmental awareness campaign CLEAN NSU on the 11th of December, 2011. Everyone is requested to take part in this cleaning program in and around NSU on that day. Honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Hafiz G A Siddiqi and honorable Chair, BoT Mr. Md. Shahjahan will start the program at 10.30 am on that day.

Apart from this, at different locations around NSU, Earth Club will use display boards mentioning environment friendly behaviors to be practiced within NSU campus as well as day to day life like turning off the light while leaving classroom, reduce wastage of water, not littering, reuse and recycle of paper, using mass transport or car pooling, not to smoke, etc.

You are invited to take part in the campaign to make it a success. Thanks.

Revised Final Exam Schedule!

The Registrar's Office has revised the final exam schedule. Following is the updated schedule.

ACT201 => 17-Dec-2011 (Saturday) at 8:00 am in NAC517

FIN254 => 22-Dec-2011 (Thursday) at 8:00 am in NAC514

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Invitation to Attend a Presentation!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend a presentation on “Hult International Business School”

Hult International Business School (formerly known as the Arthur D. Little School of Management) is a business school with operations in the Boston area, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai.

Speaker:  Mr. Muhammad Uzair
Program Director, Hult Master Admissions, Middle East, South Asia Admissions Office

Date:  5 December 2011
Day: Monday
Time: 2:30 pm – 4 pm
Venue:  NAC 415

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Wi-Fi based Printing System for Students!

As a part of the development program, NSU IS Dept. has integrated successfully to the students printing facility through NSU Wi-Fi network system. You can now access to lab network printers located at Computer Center, Library Building, Level-6 using your laptops from anywhere in the NSU campus.

The Wi-Fi based printing systems will also integrate automatically printed page calculation and subtract from your print quota (200 pages per semester). Please visit the help desk for details.

This is for your information. Thanks.

Make-up for Missed Class!

Due to the strike called by main opposition political party, today's classes have been cancelled. Make-up of today's classes would be held on the 8th of December, Thursday.

For FIN254 students: Quiz 9 would be held on Thursday (make-up day). Bonus quiz worth 35 points would be held on Sunday (11th Dec) on comprehensive final exam syllabus, as discussed in class. Dec-13 would be the review class. Please make good use of the time to prepare yourself for the comprehensive final exam.

For ACT201.10 students: We would start Chapter 18: Financial Statement Analysis on Thursday (make-up day). Quiz 3 would be held on Sunday (11th Dec) as previously scheduled on Chapters 10, 17, and whatever we could cover from chapter 18 on Thursday. Tuesday would be a review class.

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Invitation to Seminar!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of NSU cordially invites you to attend a seminar on “Emerging Technology Trends & New Business Opportunities” 

Seminar Agenda.... 

• How did we get here? Evolution of Technology... 
• Where do we go from here? 
• Mobile Technology - Mobile-centric applications and interfaces 
• Tablets and Gadgets - Media tablets and beyond 
• Social Media Revolution - Social and contextual user experience 
• Next-generation analytics - Big data 
• Cloud Technology 
• Collaboration - Future of Work 
• Outsourcing 
• How do we get there? 

Speaker:  Mr. Arif S Ahmed, Sr.  IT Manager, USA

Date:  November 29, 2011
Day: Tuesday
Time: 11: am–1:00 pm
Venue: NAC–514 

 
Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Final Exam Schedule!

The Registrar's Office has announced final exam schedule for the semester. Following are the final exam details of my courses.

ACT201 => 15-Dec-2011 (Thursday) at 8:00 am in NAC517

FIN254 => 21-Dec-2011 (Wednesday) at 8:00 am in NAC514

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Invitation to Seminar on ACCA!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of North South University (NSU) invites you to join the seminar on “Accountancy Qualifications and Opportunities”. The seminar will be conducted by ACCA Bangladesh.

Speaker: Ms. Habiba Zaidi, Regional Education Executive
                                  
Date:  November 24, 2011
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
Venue: NAC–514

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Invitation to Seminar!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of NSU cordially invites you to attend a seminar on “Postgraduate Studies in Manchester University”

Speaker: Ms. Liz Green, SIO, Manchester University, UK

Date:  November 23, 2011
Day: Wednesday
Time: 11:30 am–1:00 pm
Venue: NAC–517

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

University of Manchester Scholarship!

The University of Manchester is inviting applications for a total of 4 scholarships for postgraduate taught masters starting in September 2012. The scholarships are intended to support students from Bangladesh, who would not otherwise be able to study in the UK.

You will find details of the scholarships at the university website. The program is managed by British Council Bangladesh on behalf of the University. If you have any queries, please contact Agatha Gomes, Education Promotion Officer at 01711543419.

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IDB Merit Scholarship!

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Merit Scholarship Program for High Technology for the year 1433H (2012-13) are open for application. The scholarships will be awarded to successful applicants effective September 2012.

The program is designed to help promising research students to pursue a full-time three year Ph.D study or a six-twelve month post-doctoral research work in scientific disciplines that enhance development in IDB member countries, with priority to health/medicine, agriculture/food production, water resources/desertification, energy/infrastructure development, nanotechnology and development-focused ICT. Some scholarships are also available for studies and research in invention-related abstract sciences.

The scholarship comprises tuition fees, living allowances, health insurance, round-trip air-ticket and conference participation allowance in general, and computer and dependency allowances for Ph.D. students. The applicant must be a citizen of an IDB member country, must be a permanent employee of an academic institution or a research center of his/her country and must satisfy all the eligibility requirements of the program.

The successful candidate must secure admission to one of the universities listed in the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) Website. Priority shall be given to applicants who have secured admission at universities that have concluded a cooperation agreement with the IDB such as Cambridge University, Oxford University, Nottingham University and Birmingham University in the UK, and ParisTech in France or from the top 50 universities on the THES list.

The prospective applicants should visit the IDB website to download the program’s application form and to read full information about the eligibility requirements, how to apply, the program’s benefits and facilities as well as the names of universities.

The applicant must complete the application form and send it together with all the requisite documents, as mentioned on the concluding page of the form, through the office of the IDB Governor for the applicant’s country and not directly to the IDB Headquarters in Jeddah. The application must reach the concerned IDB Governor’s Office or its designated office by December 31, 2011. Applications received directly at the IDB will not be entertained.

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Eid Greetings!

Greetings of Eid to all my students. May Allah accept all our sacrifices, prayers, and good deeds. May all our hopes and dreams turn out to be true in our lifetime.

E: Embrace with open heart
I: Inspire with impressive attitude
D: Distribute pleasure to all

E-I-D M-U-B-A-R-A-K!

Honest Student Icon of NSU!

Khandoker Sadiquzzaman Sadik, a BBA student of NSU found around Tk. 50,000 in Boys' Lounge and without any delay he went to the authority with the money.

Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Dean, School of Business along with Dr. Mir Obaidur Rahman, Director, MBA and EMBA programs acknowledged his honesty & sincerity and provided token gifts.

We are really proud of such students at NSU.