SOFE Pakistan at the Hub Power station

The highly anticipated event Speak Out for Engineering event was held on 12 February at Hub power station.

This was a first of its kind event at Hub site organised by IMechE South Panel in collaboration with the Hub power management to challenge the South Panel’s young engineers’ capability to communicate effectively, to help develop verbal and visual communication skills in explaining technical mechanical engineering related subjects.

The event  began a 9am with the arrival of the judges:

• Mr. Hassan Ali Thebo, a former English teacher, currently practicing as an Advocate of the High Courts.
• Mr. Saiyid Najam Rizvi, a banker and head of project monitoring at Pak. Brunei Investments Company 
• Mr. Ahmed Aftab, President of HUB Toastmaster Club IT Manager HUBCO
  The following guests honoured the event with their presence:
• Dr Tufail, Chairman of IMechE Pakistan and Pro Vice chancellor of NED university of Engineering and Technology
• Dr Muhammad Uneeb Vice Chairman of IMechE Pakistan and Plant Manager of Hub Power Station
• Engineer Farrukh Ali Khan, Chairman IMechE South Panel Pakistan and Manager Mechanical Maintenance

There were seven participantsin the competition, each with an interesting technical topic, a project that the participant had worked tirelessly and passionately on. The participants with their presentation topics were:

• Qasim Ali - "Optimization of Combustion System"
• Saqlain Raza - "Integrity Assessment of Main Steam Pipelines"
• Hasan Khan - "Steam Turbine Retrofit, Outage Management"
• Umar Shaharyar - "Boiler Water Wall Tube Failures"
• Uzair Jamil - "LP3 Heaters Root Cause Analysis"
• Hammad Akber - "Unit-4 Turbine Retrofit Project"
• Naveed Gulzar - "Quality Assurance at Boiler Retrofit Project".

Every participant was allotted 30 minutes: 20 minutes  for the presentation and 10 minutes for a QA session. After the presentations were concluded, each judge was invited to share their views about the participants. The judges praised the participants and gave valuable advice to the participants. The honourable guests Dr. Uneeb and Dr. Tufail were then invited to give their views on the event: they were very satisfied with the quality of the presentations and with organisation of the event.

After the speeches, the final standings were announced:

• 1st place - Umar Shaharyar
• 2nd place - Saqlain Raza
• 3rd place - Hammad Akber.

Afterwards, the honorable judges, guests and organisers were presented with souvenirs as a token of thanks and appreciation. At the end, Dr Uneeb, Vice Chair IMechE Pakistan, thanked the judges and participants on behalf of IMechE Pakistan and concluded the whole proceeding.