14 Ways an Economist Says I Love You!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! If the title of the post interests you, please read THIS.

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DESM Seminar!

Department of Environmental Science and Management (DESM) is pleased to invite you to the seminar on the topic "Small municipal scale electricity-free surface water treatment facility." on the 14th of February at 12.00 am at room no. 723 (Resource center). 

The speaker, Maysoon A. Sharif, is a graduate of Cornell University.  She earned her Masters last December.  The system is designed by her professor at Cornell U, which has significant advantage over many traditional systems and the Honduras Govt. is phasing in partial deployment of this system in several of their municipal water delivery systems.  Bangladesh poses some serious challenges in the water supply sector and this may be a prospective option here as well. 

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Celebrate Chinese Spring at NSU!

North South University cordially invites you to celebrate Chinese Spring on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at NSU campus. On the occasion, an art troupe from Hebei University of Business & Economics, China, will perform at 6:00 pm in the Plaza area.

Mr. Mohammad Shajahan, Chairman, Board of Trustees, NSU, has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest while His Excellency Mr. Yang Zhao Hui, Ambassador (in-charge) of the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh, will grace the occasion as the Special Guest.

The day-long program also includes Seminar (2:30 pm in NAC517) and Chinese Photo Exhibition (10:00 am to 17:00 pm).

Your gracious presence will be very much appreciated.

Assignments Available!

Assignments have been made available under the respective course folders. You must follow the instructions given below:

1.      Please do not copy somebody else’s assignment. If you are caught both will get zero.

2.      You may submit your assignment in either hand-written or computer composed format. In case of computer composed format, you need to email me a soft copy in addition to hard-copy submission.

3.      A-4 size paper is preferred for the assignment. A cover page is a must. You may follow the format that I made available along with the assignment file.

4.      You must complete the assignment before coming to the class on the due date. If anyone is seen doing the assignment in the class, s/he will get a zero.

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Scholarship at Queen Mary University!

Queen Mary University of London has recently announced a number of scholarships and funding opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. These are a combination of full tuition fee waivers and partial bursaries.

There are some scholarships for international students for different departments. You will find details of the scholarships at the following link: www.qmul.ac.uk/international/scholarships.

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Invitation to Seminar!

Institute of Development, Environment and Strategic Studies (IDESS) of NSU cordially invites you to attend a seminar on “Transit to India: Economics, Politics and Security” on Tuesday, 31st January, 2012 at 11:00 in NAC 311.


Professor Dr. Hafiz G.A. Siddiqi, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, NSU will kindly grace the occasion as Chief Guest. Professor Dr. Mohammad Ali Rashid, Chairman, Department of Economics, NSU will preside over the Session.


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Resources Made Available!

The detailed versions of the course outline for both ACT201 and FIN254 have been uploaded within the course folder. If you want to earn 1% extra credit you must download the detailed outline and read it thoroughly. The deadlines are also mentioned in respective outlines.

In addition, powerpoint slides of the chapters to be covered for the first midterm are also made available. Please be careful not to use those as substitute for the textbook. Those slides may be used as a summary guideline. You must depend on the text book if you want to learn well.

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Welcome to Spring 2012!

I would like to welcome you all to a new semester, Spring 2012! Please browse through different sections of my blog to make yourself familiar. You may get hold of course outlines, assignments, power-point slides, and other resources using the course folder links shown under the heading "Spring 2012 Folders" above. You may also visit the old blog posts to get ideas about the types of posts, resources shared, announcements, grading statistics etc.

You may leave a comment, ask me a question, or share any academic or non-academic issues using the 'comments' link found toward the end of each post. If it is unique/personal in nature, please provide your email address so that I may give you a feedback to your email. Otherwise, you may leave an anonymous comment.

Today is the first class day of the semester. Hope you would have a wonderful time. Get hold of the text books as soon as possible and start reading! Best of luck for the semester. Thanks.

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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