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Zehra Karim
- 47, Female
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- Where do you live?
- New Jersey
- Your real name? (No pseudonyms, please)
- Real Zehra ;)
- Which college or university?
- NED University! (what else?)
- Any fellow Pakistani Alumni living near you?
- Yes
- Your graduation date?
- May 2000
- Your major?
- Civil Engineering
- What do you do for a living?
- Didn't I mention much in "Tell us about you:"??
- What have you done for your alma mater lately?
- I contacted the Civil Engineering Chairman and Dean to do something for our degree accredition since when I applied for my P.E. application, my degree wasn't considered accredited as per ABET standards. And to my expectations I didn't get any response since then. I had to find other ways to prove it to the State Board that I am qualified to take this license exam. Thanks to our NED faculty (including VC) :)
- Tell us about you:
- B.S. Civil Engineering - NED University (2000)
M.S. Environmental Engineering - NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology (2003)
Licensed Professional Engineer, P.E. New Jersey
Working as Senior Project Engineer - Professional Consulting, Inc.
- What are your hobbies?
- Internet and Music
- Your favorite books?
- Books?
- Favorite Music:
- Alanis Morissette, Sting, U2, Bryan Adams, Junoon (all in order) and tons of other good music all around.
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?, Friends, almost every show on HGTV.
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I am really happy.
shamsa
I'm happy to see NEDians who attended grad school at NJIT. I got my MSEE from NJIT back in 1981. There was only one other NEDian there with at the time in Civil Engg.
Once I finished grad school, I immediately decided to go to the warmer environs of Silicon Valley, CA to work for Intel.
How r u ?? Its really nice to see ex-NEDians with such brilliant careers.I hope ur advices are gonna help me a lot in ma admission in MS in near future :)
Well I ve also started a discussion n would like to see your comments there
Thankz
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