The Automotive Corporate Advisory Committee

There is a group of individuals who, once in a...well, once a meeting is arranged, sit all around a conference table and think they know what's best for the students of the National University of Sciences and Technology. This is the Corporate Advisory Committee of NUST.

NUST has also established a Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) comprising experts
from academia, industry and commercial organizations from Pakistan and
around. The CAC guides NUST on future trends in Industry and topics of
collaborative research

Maybe these guys do know what's best for the students. Or maybe, they don't. In either case, on the pretext of presenting the sacred work NUST students are doing in developiing fuel efficient vehicle, I had the chance of attending a session of the Automotive CAC.

But as it turned out, there were few agenda points: School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME) at NUST is great. Give it's students internships.

The discussion, on the other hand, was quite enjoyable. One representative of Indus Motors (I think) felt that engineering students should be imparted managerial skills too. There seemed consensus that guest speaker session were the most potent way of doing this! The director of SMME, opined that students at SMME were being taught Professional Ethics which would make them better managers!

The guy with an american-accent was perhaps in the wrong CAC meeting. He wanted everything extended to non-engineering disciplines as well.

Then we had some chicken-patties, a roll and a little pastry, after which we were expelled from the meeting. Top secret stuff.

Anyway, EMENENTS and four other teams presented their vehicles, got nothing to fill their kashkols (begging bowls), and went home.