“It’s not the grades that stick with you” Aamir Ahsan Khan reflects, looking back at the four intense years he spent navigating the winding paths of GIKI. “It’s the sheer audacity of trying something you know you shouldn’t be able to do.” He remembers a specific instance during a complex micro-controller lab, right before a major load-shedding event, when his code finally compiled. The success lasted two seconds before the power died, erasing everything. “In that moment, I realized failure isn’t a final result; it’s an electrical reset button.”
That profound realization, born from the demanding, resource-scarce environment of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, became the operating principle for his career. Today, as a Senior Solutions Architect at a major international tech firm, he leads teams that specialize in projects everyone else has deemed ‘too high risk.’ He insists the most valuable thing GIKI teaches is not the equations, but the courage to keep debugging, even when the lights go out. “The trick to solving a global problem,” he says, with a wry smile, “is to treat it like a particularly stubborn assignment from a GIKI professor—impossible until you break it down into smaller, manageable chunks.