The Huawei-BUET (EEE) Wireless Communication Laboratory and Training Center Equipment ‘Switch-on’ program was held on January 22 last at training center in BUET campus. Prof. Dr. A.M.M. Safiullah, Vice Chancellor of BUET visited the training center and switched-on the equipment. During his short speech A.M.M Safiullah, mentioned, ‘this is a historic moment for Bangladesh technical society and as well as BUET’. He also said that BUET students would be greatly benefited from this initiative which will help our society to create more telecommunication experts in Bangladesh. He expressed his heartiest thanks to Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Ltd,. Prof. Dr. Aminul Hoque, Head of EEE, BUET. Prof. Dr. Satya Prasad Majumder of EEE, BUET also attended the program.

Asif Zaman, Director, HR and Admin, Huawei Technologies, attended the event. In his speech he also mentioned it as a remarkable milestone in the history of technical education in Bangladesh. From Huawei side the program was also attended by Rubyet Adnan, Deputy Head Product, Kaiser Wahab, HR Manager, Touhidul Hassan, HR Manager along with the staffs of training department and engineers, who involved in equipment installation.

Huawei-BUET (EEE) Wireless Communication Laboratory and Training Center agreement was signed on July 16, 2008. The equipment arrived on October 2008. Huawei started the equipment installation in October 2008 and installation work completed on January 15, 2009.