AIOU holds projects exhibition to promote research culture

ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on Monday held an electronic-based “Projects’ Exhibition" to encourage its students to develop market-based innovative ideas that could be commercially viable.

This was the part of the university’s consistent efforts to promote research culture in the country and to motivate the students to come out with innovative ideas in the field of their interest and relevant discipline while studying at the higher education level.

About a dozen of projects were showcased at the exhibition that was developed by the students of MSc, Department of Physics.

They have undertaken them at the end of their final semester.

The projects, which were displayed at the exhibition included electronic voting machine, GSM-based vehicle accident detector system, alcohol detection and tracking system, FRID-based prepaid car parking system, traffic signals controlling system, ambulance tracking system.

Besides these, they were home appliances control mechanism through mobile phones and biometric security-door locking system and GMS-based patient health monitoring system.

It may be mentioned here that a separate office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) is already operating in the university to promote commercially viable research-based projects.