Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

COMSATS from time to time organizes and sponsors national and international events of
scientific importance pertinent to the needs of its member countries.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS ORGANIZED
WITH COMSATS’SUPPORT
National Training Workshop on “Repair and Maintenance of
Scientific Equipments in Teaching, Research Institutions and
Small-Scale Industries”, Dakar-Senegal (October 18-21, 2010)
2010
Annual Report
National Training Workshop on “Repair and Maintenance of Scientific Equipments in
Teaching, Research Institutions and Small-Scale Industries” was organized by
COMSATS and Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO),
in collaboration with the Senegal National Commission for UNESCO (Commission
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nationale du Sénégal pour l'UNESCO), from 18 to 21 October 2010, at Dakar-
Senegal. Two scientists from PCSIR
Laboratories Complex Karachi, Mr.
Arif Karim and Mr. Faisal Ghazanfar,
were nominated to impart training in
repair & maintenance of scientific
instruments. Ms. El Alami Wafaa,
Head of ISESCO Center for
Promotion of Scientific Research
(ICPSR) - Morocco, participated in
the workshop to organize it, and to
coordinate with the participants and
the experts.
A total of 20 participants, including
academicians, scientists,
researchers and engineers from
various Senegalese scientific
institutions, participated in the training workshop. The participants were given handson
training on Scanning-Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission-Electron
Microscope (TEM), Gas Chromatograph, High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph
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