NUST School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

The NUST School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, commonly known by its acronym NUST-SMME, located in Islamabad, Pakistan, is a constituent school offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the fields of mechanical and manufacturing engineering. It was founded in 2008.

NUST School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Motto"Defining Future"
Typeconstituent school
Established2007[1]
Principal and DeanDr. Javaid Iqbal[2]
Academic staff
41[3]
Students1274[4]
Location,
Pakistan
CampusUrban
NicknameBolts
AffiliationsNational University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, Pakistan Engineering Council, Washington Accord
Websitesmme.nust.edu.pk

History

In January 2007 the School started as Institute of Manufacturing Engineering (IME) in a hired accommodation in Sector F-11, Islamabad. The institute was established with funding from Islamic Development Bank. The responsibilities were given to Mr. Fazal Ellahi as Acting Director of the institute to look after the affairs of the Institute and to procure the laboratories equipment. During the same year in May 2007, Dr. Abid Pervaiz Ghuman was appointed as Head of the institute. Simultaneously, during the same month, the institute was renamed as School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME).

Anticipating delivery of the laboratory equipment and realizing the need for space, the school was allocated a building in H-12 Campus of NUST in 2008, and SMME was also partly moved to the new location. Meanwhile, planning for the launching of Mechanical Engineering at undergraduate and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at postgraduate levels was undertaken. The approval of the curriculum was obtained from the Academic Council in 2008.

In August 2009, Dr. Abdul Ghafoor was appointed as the new head of the School and fully established in the H-12 campus of NUST. In October of the same year, with the induction of 40 undergraduate students of Mechanical Engineering and 13 postgraduate students of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, SMME became fully functional.

Since its founding, the School has added more programs and renamed others. SMME has four degree-awarding departments: the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Design and Manufacturing, the Department of Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The School offers undergraduate programs in Mechanical Engineering and Postgraduate programs in Mechanical, Design and Manufacturing Engineering, Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. The school faculty is actively engaged in academic and industrial research. Dr Javaid Iqbal is a current dean and principal of SMME.

SMME, NUST, Islamabad

Principal Message

School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering is following NUST's vision for achieving a distinguished position in the reputed world-class institutions. The entire School team is looking forward to taking this School to the apex of Technology and Innovation by working with renowned professionals from the universities and industry nationally and internationally. The school faculty and students interact to create, develop, and implement new ideas and engineering concepts which is the essence of the OBE (Outcome Based Education) System. Particularly the students have the opportunity to discover and explore new dimensions of present era Technology as they work side by side with faculty involved in cutting-edge research and innovation.[5]

Since Fall 2009, School has been recognized as a prominent academic institution and a leading solution provider to the industry. In collaboration with Local and Foreign Industries, it has undertaken many Power related and Design based projects from the industry. To our pride, some of the projects have already been delivered and are in use with the industry.[6]

The School is establishing as the Centre of Excellence in teaching, research and solving industry problems. For this, it is pursuing diverse programmes of studies and Sciences besides Mechanical, Design, and Manufacturing. Following high standards in academics with highly qualified faculty and state-of-the-art research and manufacturing facilities, the School depicts a modern industrial and academic environment for the students and faculty.[7]

Departments

The school consists of the following main departments:

Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)

The Mechanical Engineering department consists of 16 professors and approximately 230 undergraduate students and 25 postgraduate students. The mission of the mechanical engineering program is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, skills and professional experience necessary for successful careers in industrial or academic roles. The Department of Mechanical Engineering provides a platform for students to study and perform in a challenging environment. The department is equipped with almost all laboratory equipment necessary for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the area of mechanical design and thermo-fluids. The department will soon tie its coordination with the Manufacturing Resource Center (MRC).

Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering (RIME)

The Department of Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering was established in September 2011 as Pakistan's first academic initiative in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Mainly focused on postgraduate studies and research in Robotics, Mechatronics, Machine Intelligence, Control Systems, Machine Vision and Industrial Automation, the department offers Masters and PhD degrees in the field of Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering (RIME). The department houses dedicated laboratories of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE), Machine Vision, UAVs/Aerial Robotics, Control Systems, Industrial Automation, Electronics, Embedded Systems, and Computer-Aided Engineering whereas it is supported by the Manufacturing Resource Center (MRC), Rapid Prototyping (RP) lab and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) lab which facilitates mechanical fabrication of indigenously designed robot prototypes at SMME. These laboratories comprise equipment both for research as well as teaching purposes including mobile and humanoid robots, robotic arms of various types, stereo vision camera systems, robot designing kits, advanced microcontroller instrumentation, human brain–computer interface equipment, remote piloted helicopters, pneumatic/hydraulic workstations, PCB precision prototyping facilities as well as various models for experimentation into non-linear and adaptive control systems. These enable the student to get maximum practical exposure to modern-day robotic technology at par with similar graduate programs in other leading international universities.

Biomedical Mechanical and Engineering Sciences (BMES)

The department is currently offering MS degree in Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering which, in future, will be extended to BS Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Sciences programs.

References

  1. smme.nust.edu.pk
  2. smme.nust.edu.pk
  3. smme.nust.edu.pk
  4. smme.nust.edu.pk
  5. smme.nust.edu.pk/about-us/principals-message/
  6. smme.nust.edu.pk/about-us/principals-message/
  7. smme.nust.edu.pk/about-us/principals-message/

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