Scholarship / I carried out numerous leadership roles. Explaining my ability to influence others. [3]

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Chevening is looking for individuals who will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.

(minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)

LEADERSHIP ESSAY FOR CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIP

During my undergrad life, I carried out numerous leadership roles. Most significant of which was the Captaincy of Team HammerHead, which represented Pakistan in the Shell Eco Marathon Asia. I lead a team of 25 that worked to design, manufacture and get sponsorship for a Prototype Electric vehicle. The most difficult of all tasks was to get funding from corporate sector. I conducted meetings and presentations to sell our project and convince people about the importance of our work. After a lot of efforts, we managed to convince some companies and they agreed to fully sponsor us. This experience polished my people skills and taught me a lot about how to influence people. I also developed strong leadership qualities as I came across many critical situations through which I learnt how to manage people according to their strengths so as to achieve targets in time. We managed to clinch 6th Position in the competition in Singapore, which was by far the best performance ever by a Pakistani Team. I take pride in this accomplishment and my success as a leader.

Apart from this I was also the General Secretory of American Society for Mechanical Engineers, which organized an All Pakistan Olympiad in GIK Institute by the name of International Mechanical Engineering Convention 2017. The event had different modules and competitions which challenged engineering students to come up with innovative solutions to industrial problems. I had a team of nearly 40 members working under me in the organizing committee. We worked day and night to organize the event of nearly 170 participants from approvals from administrations to lodging and food. It required a lot of motivation and influence to get the members to give their cent percent and work tirelessly. And as a general secretory, it was my responsibility to ensure the activeness of all members, which I successfully did during the preparation of the event. The event proved to be a successful and glitch free.

Scholarship / Emissions of air pollutants from transport in Karachi - focus on clean technology in vehicles [3]

Post study career plans Essay for Chevening Scholarship

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Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Please outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals. You may wish to consider how these relate to what the UK government is doing in your country.

one of the most polluted city in the world

Since childhood, I have been living in Karachi, which is often referred to as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Nearly half of this pollution is due to fuel emissions from vehicles. During my studies in UK, I want to focus on research in clean technology in vehicles, especially electric autonomous cars. I realized the importance of electric cars for a clean environment while working for my university's Shell Eco Marathon Battery Electric vehicle. After returning to Pakistan I plan on working with my undergrad university Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute for a couple of years and do more reaserch on developing an economic and environment friendly solution to Karachi's vehicle pollution problem. I also intend to pursue PhD in this field later on from a world class institution like National University of Singapore or MIT. After completing my PhD, I aspire to work in the R&D sector for some big automotive companies like Tesla Motors or General Motors, so that I can get some experience about how the academic research is related to industry. In the long run, I intend on returning to Pakistan and somehow implement that research and experience that I gained using help from local automotive companies and research institutions to make Karachi pollution free. My recent visit to Singapore was a major motivating factor for me. Over there I witnessed the initiatives that the government and people have been taking and how green and pollution free the whole country is. And I decided to play my part in making my city just as clean. It was very intriguing to me about how one can use technology to save the planet and the environment. One very clear example I observed was how the government has restricted vehicles on the road by building an extremely effective intercity high tech mass transport system. I want to implement something of that sorts in Karachi.

Scholarship / Essay related to studies in UK for Chevening Scholarship [3]

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Outline why you have selected your chosen three university courses, and explain how this relates to your previous academic or professional experience and your plans for the future.

My interest in Electric cars

During my undergrad studies, I had an inclination towards Mechatronics systems. In order to pursue that interest, I did many projects and took part in different competitions related to this field. Some of them are a Line Following Robot, an Obstacle Avoiding Rescue Robot, a Remote controlled Airplane and a 6 DOF Serial Mobile Manipulator Robot. These projects gave me a lot of understanding and insight about applications of Mechatronics. After Interning at Toyota in my 2nd year, I was deeply intrigued by vehicle making process and decided to do a project based on a fuel efficient Electric Prototype vehicle for Shell Eco Marathon Asia. This project gave me the perfect opportunity to enhance my technical skills in terms of automobile engineering as well as learn more about Mechatronics. I want to continue my research and work on mechatronics systems of electric cars further and gaining graduate education in Mechtronics, Automotive or Automotive Mechatronics will be a perfect way to do so. Being an upcoming technology, there is a huge room for innovation in this field. And since UK is the center of education and research in Europe, currently there is a lot of research going on over there related to this field. In addition to that, there are many automotive companies in the UK that are adopting the concept of electric cars for example Ford and Bentley Motors. I am hopeful to get a chance to intern or visit them during my studies which will be a highly learning experience for me. After completion of my MSc, I want to work in the R&D sector of the automotive industry and do further research on Autonomous Electric Vehicles. My interest in Electric cars is also influenced by the fact that it is a solution to the world's increasing vehicle pollution problem. I want to come up with an electric passenger vehicle prototype, which is cheap, environment friendly and safe on the road.