Following members were elected to the UET Executive Committee in August 2008. It is the hope the current executive committee that younger members will volunteer to serve on the executive committee in the future.

Brief Resumes of the Executive Committee

Saeed Rana

Saeed Rana has over 50 years of professional experience in diverse areas of development across the globe. This includes about 12 years in Pakistan, 3 years in Turkey, 5 years each in Indonesia and Bangladesh and 27 years in U.S.A. He has worked with the World Bank since 1981 as a senior/principal staff and after retirement as a consultant in the Bank's quality assurance group (QAG) and independent evaluation group (IEG). He was The Deputy Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in Bangladesh. His field of specialization has been water resource development and natural resource management.

Mr. Rana graduated with a B.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Maclagan Engineering College (now UET) in Lahore Pakistan in 1954, and holds M.S. in civil engineering from the Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1972. He has several publications to his credit. He is a life Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He runs a senior's group in Potomac, Maryland.

Irfan Malik

Irfan Malik is a 1978 Mechanical Engineering graduate from UET Lahore. He also holds a MS from Monash University, Australia 1980.

Mr. Malik has 22 years of engineering design and business development experience in energy, defense & telecommunication industries. He has worked previously at Ciena; Alcatel; and Boeing corporations. He was the founding member of telecommunication equipment manufacturer - CIENA; company grew in six years from 10 to nearly 4000 employees; annual revenue grew from zero to billion dollars; resulting in tremendous downstream business and job growth in Maryland . He was responsible for various groups at Ciena, including business development; construction and startup of manufacturing units; product development.

Irfan Malik is active in the community and social causes. He is on the board of several social, volunteer and advocacy organizations working for the betterment of Pakistanis and Muslims in USA . In addition, he is member of various local government Boards and Commissions in Maryland, USA.

Moazzam Chaudhry

Moazzam is a senior product manager of mid/high end enterprise servers, managing a multi billion dollar annual revenue product line at Sun Microsystems. In this capacity he is responsible for both inbound/outbound product marketing/management and world wide launch responsibilities. Prior to that he was managing an asic design/verification team from SUN and TI, based in the United States, the United Kingdom and India. Moazzam also serves as an associate at Concordia Ventures, an advising and consulting firm - mentoring entrepreneurs and investing in startups. He has organized multiple seminars teaching the process of entrepreneurship.

Moazzam serves on the executive board of MIT/Stanford Venture Lab and is the Mentorship & Alliance Chair at OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs) Silicon Valley

Moazzam holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering Technology, Lahore and University of Wisconsin, Madison respectively. He lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife Aifra.

Professor Hafiz Aslam Malik

Hafiz Malik is a 1999 electronics and communication engineering from UET. In addition, he holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois At Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Malik is currently an assistant professor at University of Michigan, at Dearborn, Michigan. His research interests are include, Biometric Security, Steganalysis, Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, Data Hiding, Multimedia Signal Processing, Adaptive Filtering, Blind Source Separation, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning.

Dr. Tauseef Salma

Dr. Tauseef Salma is the Director for Commercial Development Group at Baker Petrolite, a subsidiary of Baker Hughes. Baker Petrolite is an industry leader in the specialty chemicals servicing the energy sector. Tauseef is responsible for accelerated development of new technologies for both upstream and downstream segments. She has over 11 years of oilfield experience. Tauseef did her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore and is winner of Qauid-e-Azam Gold Medal 1992. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University , Houston . She has authored and co-authored over 17 technical publications and holds 2 U.S. patents. She is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), and American Chemical Society (ACS).

She serves on the Board of Directors as Secretary of the Houston Chapter for Developments in Literacy (DIL - an organization promoting education of underprivileged children in rural areas of Pakistan), and an active member of the Houston World Affairs Council (HWAC).

Professor Shamim Sheikh

Dr. Sheikh is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. He was also the Graduate Chair of the department from 1998 to 2004. Before joining University of Toronto, he was Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Houston. He also works as a Consultant to large engineering companies from Canada, U.S.A., Germany, Switzerland, Mexico and El Salvador. He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. Between 1996 and 2002, Dr. Sheikh was the Chair of ACI-ASCE (American Concrete Institute-American Society of Civil Engineers) Committee on Reinforced Concrete Columns. Currently, he chairs the Technical Committee of the Joint 2010 US-Canada Conference on Earthquake Engineering. He has also chaired several international conferences and workshops and has also been a keynote speaker at numerous universities, international conferences and forums around the world.

Dr. Sheikh has received several awards and accolades for his accomplishments including three gold medals from the UET Lahore. He was a National Research Council of Canada scholar during his graduate studies. Recently, he received the coveted American Concrete Institute Structural Research Award for "outstanding contributions to the application of structural engineering research and for notable achievement in research in structural engineering". He has authored over 110 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His published work has formed the basis of design provisions in North American, European and Indian design codes among others.

His work has also been featured in the media as innovative solutions to existing infrastructure problems. One of the Ontario bridges on a major highway repaired with his techniques was recently featured by the Discovery Channel Canada in a program on bridges which discussed his work. The same bridge was also featured in the Material Performance Magazine of NACE International, U.S.A. which is dedicated to protect people, assets, and environment from the effects of corrosion.

Dr. Sheikh also takes an active role in voluntary community and social affairs. He is a member of the Academic Records Committee of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) where he helps the PEO evaluate the qualifications of foreign trained engineers from around the world. Previously, he was the President of the Society of Pakistani Canadian Professionals from 2004-2006.

Sohaib Wasif

Sohaib Wasif graduated in civil engineering from UET in 1981. He has a MS in geotechnical engineering from West Virginia University, West Virginia and MSE in Project Management from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently, he is enrolled as a candidate for an Executive MBA University of Alberta and University of Calgary Business School.

Mr. Wasif is the owner/president of EMPCON Corporation, and acts as project management consultant to Shell Canada for their Mining Oil Sand Projects. Prior to this he worked as Project Controls Manager for Petro Canada's $32 billion Fort Hills Mining Oil Sands Project. Prior to coming to Canada, he was country manager in UAE for a major EPC company employing more than 600 persons. He has worked in Pakistan, USA, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, UAE and Canada as geotechnical engineer and designed more than 24 Dams in Iran & Pakistan. He has broad and varied experience as a project and construction management on hydro, nuclear, thermal power plants, cement plants, oil refineries, gas purification plants, tunnels, highways, mining oil sands, commercial high rise buildings, oil pipelines, and electrical power substations.

Amir Khawaja

Amir graduated in mechanical engineering from UET Lahore in 1988. He holds a MS in telecommunications engineering from the Southern Methodist University of Texas. He has 18 years of progressively responsible and diverse technical and project management experience. He has worked in various capacities for NESPAK, MCI-WorldCom, Samsung, Verizon and Sprint.

Mr. Khawaja has broad experience in project/program management, product planning, network design, personnel management, merger and acquisitions, standards engineering, and financial, strategic, risk, traffic analyses.

Abdulhai Sheikh

Abdulhai has undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil and structural engineering from UET Lahore and Southampton University, England respectively. He qualified as a chartered civil engineer in England, and professional engineer in Quebec Canada, and California, USA. He has authored technical papers in technical journals and international conferences on design of nuclear and fossil power plants. He is member of design code committees of American Concrete Institute and American Institute of Steel Construction.

Mr. Sheikh has more than 30 years experience in project management, design, analysis, construction, startup, operation, and licensing of nuclear and fossil power plants. His expertise includes design and construction of prestressed concrete containments, heavy steel structures, rigging, and non-linear finite element analysis of nuclear power plant structures and components for earthquake, dynamic, and malevolent impact loads. He has designed and/or built power plants in Korea, USA, Canada, Taiwan, China, Chile, and Egypt. Previously, he was involved in the design of major ofshore structures for Thames Barrier in London, and bridges in United Kingdom.

Mr. Sheikh is interested in community activities and has served on board of the local mosque. He has been involved in arranging scholarships for UET students, inner city school in Washington DC, and construction of mosques in USA. He has a blog at http://reluctantexpatriate.blogspot.com/