Back At It Again: PIDEC 1.0 Announced

ULES DIGEST — ISSUE 13

Welcome to another issue of the ULES Digest, where we let you in on the latest news, activities, updates and doings in ULES.

We have been welcomed into the new semester by the release of the first semester results, classes, assignments, projects and everything that brings us back to the reality of resumption.

In the same spirit, we are glad to announce a new ULES sub-body: PIDEC 1.0. PIDEC, which stands for Prototype Inter-Departmental Engineering Challenge, focuses on engineering innovation in every department. It is new and here to stay in ULES!

As the semester progresses, we will continue to update you on more events and activities, don't miss out!

INFO DESK

In the last two weeks, we officially began the countdown to our ULES Sports Festival, and soon we will announce the countdown for the faculty week as well. Also, have you heard about PIDEC? Pay attention to it because it's the next big thing we are planning for Engineering.

— Damilare Aribisala, Public Relations Officer, 25/26 Academic Session

FROM THE AGS' DESK

Omo, what shall I say? Hello, what's good ULESsites? The semester just started, but it feels like we are in week 10 already on my end — planning, plotting and preparing here and there. Can you smell what The Force is cooking? I hope you are settling down well and you are at your A-game, because you will need it throughout this semester, I promise you that. Be focused, disciplined, purposeful and let's get the semester started!

— Olamide Lawal, Assistant General Secretary, 25/26 Academic Session

ULESITES OF THE WEEK

Esabu Blessing (Computer Engineering & Backend Engineer), Abdulwahab Boluwatife Yusuf (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering & Software Engineer) and Akeem Jr Odebiyi (Electrical and Electronics Engineering & AI Systems Builder) are 200-level students who teamed up as Team Overclock to win the Microsoft, MTN Foundation Nigeria, and Data Science Nigeria AI4Telco Hackathon, where they built VoiceIQ, a real-time customer intelligence platform for Nigerian telcos.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar