One of the privileges of my position as head of Control & Applications Research Centre (CARC) is to reflect each year on the many ways in which our latest breakthroughs lead to improve solar and control applications. It is both rewarding and deeply humbling to know our research impacts our country's technology. Another privilege I particularly enjoy is thanking the many organizations and individuals who support this research center. Breakthroughs happen here because generous benefactors like you give our pioneering researchers the scope to create and explore innovative ideas with the potential for profound impact. CARC projects and researches precisely are concentrated on country's economy and sustainability. For the last two decades, our country is going through extreme energy crises in terms of electricity generation. Although, government has engaged with several steps towards solution, we are lagging behind to solve the overall situation with our limited ability. This catastrophe has driven us towards effective projects like solar home system evaluation, hybrid rickshaw, solar home system component testing lab, solar hot water system research and so on. Simultaneous publications have already proven our international eminence. These triumphs show how innovative thinking, catalyzed by our research, brings hope to possible energy solutions. Researcher's contributions sustain the CARC unique scientific culture-one that fosters ingenuity, risk-taking and collaboration among university and industries to produce major technical advances. Our research center is really humble to BRAC UNIVERSITY for their rigorous funding. On behalf of everyone at the CARC, I extend my sincere thanks to you for helping us by investing in our breakthrough research.

Best regards,

Dr. AKM Abdul Malek Azad
Director, Control & Applications Research Centre (CARC)