The IEEE Young Professionals Lahore Section, after winning the IEEE Hall of Fame Award 2011, the IEEE YP Region10 Award 2012, and the MGA Individual Award 2012, haswon the IEEE Hall of Fame Award 2015. Today our Young Professionals, Lahore Section list of active members has reached more than 50. More professionals are coming in to join our cause of serving the society. IEEE YP strives to bring reforms to the engineering sector in our country with valuable efforts and approaches in the engineering profession. The Hall of Fame 2015 Award is a tribute to our seniors for such achievements for Pakistan and Region 10.

SUMMARY OF THE EVENTS HELD IN 2014

IEEE PSYWC 2014: IEEE Pakistan Student, YP (Young Professionals), and WIE (Women In Engineering) Congress (PSYWC)was the largest event for the students and young professionals inthe three IEEE sections (Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi). The three-day event united 450 students, young professionals, and women in engineering, computer science, and allied fields toexplore ideas, develop skills, and discuss issues in their profession. Students had a chance to interact with highly professional academia and industry personnel.

IEEE Technovate 2014: IEEE Technovate 2014 was a collaboration of IEEE Young Professionals Lahore, IEEE Lahore Section,with the IEEE team IEEE from Egypt that treads on the path paved by the Egyptian Engineering Day (EED) program, which is celebrated annually in Egypt (Region 8). The aim of this event was to select the best projects of Pakistan so those involved could be sponsored to fly to Egypt to compete on the next Regional level with the best projects of the entire region on the prestigious Egypt Engineering Day (EED).

Brainiac 2014: BRAINIAC 2014 was organized in collaboration with ICOSST 2014, a perfect mix of technical and non-technical competitions, seminars, conferences, and workshops. This three-day exciting venture consisted of a Business Idea competition, an Android App Development Competition, Extreme Programming, aWeb Design Competition, a Pseudo Code Competition, and Cir-cuit Mania.

Formation and promotion of new chapters, affinity groups,and student branches: A new milestone was achieved by establishing an IEEE PES Student Chapter for the first time in Pakistanby IEEE YP. The PES Young Professionals Committee is now dedicated to better serving student members of PES and assisting PES Young Professional members in their transition to corporate life. In addition to this, the IEEE YP Lahore Section played its vitalrole in introducing three technical Chapters (IEEE PES, IEEE IAS,and IEEE ComSoc), an Affinity Group (IEEE Consultant Network), Brainiac 2014:BRAINIAC 2014 was organized in collaboration with ICOSST 2014, a perfect mix of technical and non-technical competitions, seminars, conferences, and workshops. This three-day exciting venture consisted of a Business Idea competition, an Android App Development Competition, Extreme Programming, aWeb Design Competition, a Pseudo Code Competition, and Cir-cuit Mania. Formation and promotion of new chapters, affinity groups,and student branches:A new milestone was achieved by estab-lishing an IEEE PES Student Chapter for the first time in Pakistan by IEEE YP. The PES Young Professionals Committee is now ded-icated to better serving student members of PES and assisting PES Young Professional members in their transition to corporate life. In addition to this, the IEEE YP Lahore Section played its vitalrole in introducing three technical Chapters (IEEE PES, IEEE IAS,and IEEE ComSoc), an Affinity Group (IEEE Consultant Network), five Student Branches (IEEE IIUI, IEEE BZU, IEEE SCET, IEEE UOG,and a fifth in process, IEEE CIIT Sahiwal, and seven TechnicalSociety Student Chapters (four IAS Student Chapters (UET,LCWU, IUB and GCUF), and three PES Chapters (NFC, CIIT, andLCWU). IEEE Young professionals kept its eyes on the promotionof IEEE Societies to empower and update knowledge of IEEEmembers in the section, which has proven very valuable for engi-neers and society itself.

IEEE Day Celebrations UMT: An IEEE Student Branch wasestablished at the University of Management and Technologyon this special occasion. The event proved to be a greatly suc-cessful membership campaign. Various IEEE volunteers and student representatives highlighted the advantages of being an IEEE member and how IEEE provides countless opportunities in technology.

Major Achievements:Adding to the list of mega events arethe 8th IEEE ICOSST, IEEE STEP, IEEE SPAC, IEEE NWPE, IEEEFetex 2015, IEEE Final Year Project Exhibition 2014, and 6THIEEE AEPEX 2014, and industrial visits (PTCL and KICS)

Recipe for IEEE YP Success: IEEE Young Professionals of Pak-istan is an international community of enthusiastic, dynamic, andinnovative members and volunteers. IEEE is committed to help-ing young professionals and graduates in order to develop theirskill set. IEEE YP members are volunteers who help young gradu-ates and professionals in recognizing their career path and goalsand providing them with consultation and career counseling. IEEEYP plans and manages all the events with one common andmain objective of professional development in Pakistan. IEEE YPheld more than 20 Board meetings and general meetings inorder to brainstorm events and out of the box ideas and to bringthem to reality.

IEEE YP Team: IEEE YP includes more than 20 members whohave been designated with multiple projects. Our Executive Com-mittee includes the following professionals
• Dr. Amjad Hussain, Mentor
• Mr. Maroof Raza, Mentor
• Mr. Ijlal Haider, Mentor
• Usman Muhammad Ali, Chair, YP; Lecturer, University of Sargodha
• Usman Munawar, Secretary, YP; Research Office, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
• Sahar Sultan, Vice Chair, YP; Lecturer, Lahore College for Women, University of Pakistan
• Faiza Nasir, Treasurer, YP; Zong CMPak

Ms. Anum Tariq Khan, Project Coordinator Trainings, IEEE beENGProgram
Mr. Rana Hassan, Project Coordinator Industry, IEEE beENG Program
Mr. Ehtasham Khan, Media Manager, YP
Mr. Muhammad Haris, Project Manager, IEEE Mentoring Program
Ms. Rabail Khizar Malik, Program Drive Lead/Project Manager,IEEE beENG Program
Mr. Saad Zafar, Project Manager, Graduate Assistance Program
Ms. Javeria Sohail, Documentation & Reporting Manager, IEEE YP Programs
Mr. Muhammad, Research and Development Program PM
Mr. Usman Rana, Website Manager, IEEE YP ProgramsA
Mr. Bilal Javed, SAC Representative, IEEE YP
Mr. Saad Rind, Student Coordinator, IEEE YP
Mr. Ateeq Azam, Research and Development Program
Mr. Hamza Timahim, Project Coordinator, IEEE beENG Program