PESHAWAR: The annual electronics project exhibition was held at University of Peshawar (UoP) on Thursday to encourage the hardworking students of the electronics department.

The exhibition was organised by department of electronics that included 30 each hardware and poster projects prepared by the MSc, MS, BSc and BS students.

UoP Vice-chancellor Dr Mohammad Rasul Jan was chief guest of the inaugural ceremony. He visited different stalls and appreciated the creative skills of the students, said a press release.

The main project displayed by the students was intelligent accidents detection and ambulance rescue system, electronic voting machine and electronic safety cap for blind people.

Talking on the occasion, Prof Mohammad Asif said that the aims of the exhibition were to encourage hardworking students, motivate new students, enhance team work among them and improve the quality of education provided in the field of electronics.

He said that a total of 60 projects were displayed which included 30 hardware projects, prepared by the final students of MSc electronics. He said that 30 poster projects were prepared by BSc and BS electronics stu-dents.

Mr Asif said that every year BSc electronics students prepared their poster project on which they further worked and converted the same into hardware form for final year.

Muhsin Iqbal, a final year student, who displayed the project on intelligent accident detection and ambulance rescue system, said that often ambulanced reached late at the site of accident as they were unaware aboutthe proper location of the accident. He said that in their project they installed a detection tool, which would help to hnd the location of accident.

At the exhibition, another project was for blind people. The students had prepared an electronics cap, which would facilitate the blind people and save them from any incident. The vibration device, installed in the cap, vibrates the head of the blind person when there is a hurdle in his way.