Brohi agreed to be the President and Dr. Manzoor Ahmad was requested to be General Secretary of the Foundation. The Foundation organized lectures by scholars, established a library and offered research scholarships. The Foundation acquired a piece of land in 1976 on the University Road to establish an educational institution. Eventually at the suggestion of Mr. Ebrahim Hasham and with the financial assistance of the Hasham Family, the Usman Institute of Technology was established in 1995 in affiliation with Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1997, Usman Memorial Foundation signed an Agreement with Hamdard University for awarding their degrees to UIT students. Manzoor Ahmad, was made the Life Chairman of the Executive Board of UIT. UIT's undergraduate programs are recognized by Higher Education Commission (HEC). UIT's engineering programs are accredited by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). UIT's computer science and software engineering program is accredited by National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC). The UIT Computer Society (UITCS) is a group of undergraduate students dedicated to develop the interest of people in computing and information technologies. UITCS activities include poster sessions, seminars, workshops and competitions. The society has established an R&D department to discover the problems facing local IT industries and find possible solutions. In March 2006, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) officially chartered UITCS as a Student Chapter, so UITCS was renamed UITCS ACM Student Chapter. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals. UTECH is a software competition in Pakistan. UTECH 2009 was organized at UIT campus at Abul-Hasan Isphani Road, Karachi. It was one of the largest information technology event of Pakistan with contests and exhibitions of software from all over the country and the neighboring countries of South Asia. It includes a Software Competition, Dynamic Programming Contest with the collaboration of ACM's NUCES Chapter, Kids Corner (where students from Grade School display their ideas), G3n. X (Generation Xtreme) Gaming Competition and book festival. For polishing literary skills, UIT has a literary society organized by students under the supervision of faculty from humanities department. UIT Literary society has yet to arrange any competitions/event. Reader’s Club was formed by Mufti Emad-ul-Haq and student Wajid Hassan to develop the understanding of the sociopolitical condition of the Pakistan and the importance of Islam to the country and its impact on the society and individuals.