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Friday, December 23, 2022

IBL, AWKUM in collaboration with Business Incubation Center AWKUM organized “Marketing Gala”

 

The Institute of Business Studies & Leadership (IBL), Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) in collaboration with Business Incubation Center AWKUM organized “Marketing Gala” on December 7-8, 2022. The opening ceremony was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Saeed Islam (Director Academics AWKUM) and Mr. Zahir Shah Khan (President Mardan Chamber Commerce of Industry).

The main purpose of the event was to provide practical platform to the students to market their product and services in front of huge audience. The students were given assignments to develop a marketing plan for the product and services they wanted to offer. The students were divided in various groups for displaying their products in the stalls. The assignment included marketing research, strategy, marketing mix and sales management.

Local brands including BIC startups also placed their stalls for providing healthy competition to the students. 8 startups of BIC AWKUM participated in the event and displayed their products and services to the general public.  The delegation from Mardan Chamber of Commerce & industry visited the stalls and appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mohammad Jehangir (Director IBL), Mr. Shah Hussain Awan and Kashif Zaman (Chief Organizers) for organizing such a wonderful event for students. Such kind of events delivers a learning experience in a challenging environment for the students.











Thursday, December 22, 2022

Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman from department of Computer Science, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

 

Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Offshore Outsourcing Decision of Application Maintenance: A Study from Client-Vendor Perspective” on December 16, 2022 at Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.

He conducted his research under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr. Mushtaq Raza and Dr. Palwasha Afsar. The thesis report was evaluated from Spain, Poland and University of Peshawar by Prof. Dr. Iván García-Magariño, Prof. Dr. Robertas Damaševičius and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad respectively. While his external examiners were Prof. Dr. Zahoor Jan Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar.

Dr. Hanif Ur Rahman published five articles in International reputed journals having top ranking; W category in HJRS by HEC.