No. PEC/P-3/2010
May 11, 2010
All Members
Pakistan Engineering Congress
Subject: PAKISTAN ENGINEERING CONGRESS
CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE71stANNUAL SESSION.
Dear Sir,
Pakistan Engineering Congress, as you are aware, is the Premier Professional Body of Engineers in Pakistan. In pursuance of its main objective of promoting Science, Profession and Practice of Engineering, it interalia holds proceedings regularly at AGMS where technical papers of high quality are presented and discussed. Quite a handsome number of technical papers presented at these proceedings internationally are acclaimed and frequently referred to by the engineering community. Such a contribution has been possible only because our predecessors voluntarily shared their life long professional experience through these proceedings. We own our gratitude to them and look forward to the present generation to leave invaluable legacy to the posterity by sharing its rich professional experience through technical papers. It has become all the more necessary due to astronomical High-tech professional progress in the last two to three decades in all walks of life.
It is in this context, that I urge upon you to kindly rise to the occasion and oblige us by contributing a technical paper in your field of specialization keeping in view the basic requirements for the manuscript as elucidated in the attachment of this letter.
To start with, you may kindly send us an abstract of the paper to be presented at the event.. This shall be then followed by the full paper provided alongwith its soft copy in M.S. Word at your earliest convenience.
Looking forward to your kind response and with regards,
Yours sincerely
(Engr. Ch. Ghulam Hussain)
Secretary
BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS
The writers of the Technical Papers for the Annual Session of Pakistan Engineering Congress while sending their contribution are requested to comply with the following basic requirements:
1. The manuscripts should be written in third person, typed (double spaced) on one side of paper and sent along with two copies of text all figures and tables etc.
- Tables should be typed on one side of the paper only. In case of large size tables the height should be kept as 11-inches while the length can be increased upto a maximum of 17-inches. Such tables should be drawn in black ink on tracing paper with Leroy printing. Explanation or references to each table must appear in the text of the paper.
- The size of paper for text and normal dimensions tables should be restricted to 11”x8 ½”. The drawing/figures should be drawn in black ink with Leroy printing on tracing sheet of size 11”x8 ½” as far as possible. However for large size drawings which have to be reduced should be restricted to size of 11” x 17” and the letters must be legible at 50% reduction in size. Any explanation or description should be placed in the text rather than within the figures.
- The photographs should be sent as black and white glossy prints. Black and white transparencies are most welcome from resourceful writers.
- Mathematics should be written very clearly (In black ink) or typed with special symbols properly identified. The letter symbols/notations should be defined where they first appear in the text/illustration and arrange alphabetically in an Appendix.
- International system of Units must be adopted throughout the Paper.
- The average length of Papers should be about 15,000 words equivalents (The absolute maximum in exceptional case being 25,000 words equivalent) taking each full manuscript page if typed on IBM electric typewriter equal to 500 words. This gives the volume of Paper to range from 30 to 50 pages including drawings and tables.
- A summary or synopsis of the Paper not exceeding 500 words (one page) should accompany the paper.
- The author must give his conclusion/recommendations at the end of the paper.
- Where appropriate, a practical application session should also be included.
- The author’s full name, qualifications, and present employment must appear at the footnote of the 1st page of the paper.
- Reference cited in the text should be arranged alphabetically in the bibliographies at the end of the Paper.
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