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Engr. Dr. M. Umer Farooq
Assistant Professor ( HoD )
Ph.D. in Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Research Interests

Manufacturing and Materials, Solid state single crystal growth, Piezoelectric materials, Biomedical, Ceramics processing, Shape memory materials, Green Materials, Biomaterials, Mechanical Behaviour, Characterization techniques, Energy, automation and control, Desalination, Metallic foams.

Awards and Honors

  • NRPU 2021 – HEC Research Grant (2022 - 2025) Amount: 7.6 million PKR,  Design and fabrication of a biodegradable nerve prosthesis to accelerate the quasi-static nerve growth rate across longer segmental defects in peripheral nerves.
  • SRGP 2018 - HEC funded project, Amount 0.5 million, Development of Sliding Wear Testing Tribo-meter
  • Member of NCRC for the Biomedical Engineering Technology program by National Technology Council (NTC)
  • Member Board of Studies (BoS) for Mechanical Engineering Technology, Mir Chakar Khan Rind University of Technology, Dera Ghazi Khan.
  • Higher Education Commission (HEC) approved supervisor for MS and PhD
  • Served  as the  President of  Pakistani Students  Association  of the Chonnam National University, South Korea.
  • Got a fully funded Ph.D. scholarship with living allowance from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwa ngju, South Korea.
  • Got  scholarship  for excellent grades every semester throughout Ph.D.  at  School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University,  Gwangju, South Korea.  
  • 2nd position in M.S. studies among the graduates in the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering,  and 5th among all the graduates in all the disciplines in  the  G.I.K.Institute.
  • Got  a  fully  funded  scholarship for M.S.  studies at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan.
  • Scored 91/100 points (99.96 Percentile) in Graduate Assessment Test (GAT-2012-II) Pakistan.
  • Got performance scholarship during undergraduate studies at Institute of  Chemical Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Won first prize in the Damyang bamboo festival competition in South Korea.
  • Won first prize in the treasure hunt Lotus festival in South Korea.
  • Won first  prize in the  international cuisine day  in  Chonnam National University, South Korea.
  • Won second prize in the Kimchi festival amazing race in South Korea.
  • Participated in inter-collegiate rowing competition during undergraduate studies at Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • EXPERIENCE:
  • Serving as Assistant Professor  at  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology  (KFUEIT), Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. (2017 to date)
  • Has been involved in various activities and achievements, including;
  • Instructed multiple courses to undergraduate and graduate students
  • The Student Feedback of instructed courses is up to 95% positive
  • Convener of Admission committee of the University.
  • Notable activities/responsibilities include;
  •  Oversee the admission matters, policy making and smooth working of admission related activities.
  •  Actively involved in the transformation of the paper-based admission system to a complete IT based system with online admission portal.
  • Oversaw more than three folds increase in number of admissions at the relatively new University
  • Successfully admitted students for Fall 2018 Session for all department_id of the University. The total number of applicants were more than 15,000 and number of admitted students were more than 2,500.
  • Admissions for Fall 2019 are underway.
  • Successfully admitted students for Fall 2017 Session for all department_id of the University, as member of the admission committee.
  • President of the Graduate Programs Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Notable activities/responsibilities include;
  • Successfully applied and received the NOC from HEC to launch MS Program at Department of Mechanical Engineering, KFUEIT.
  • Prepared the procedure, curriculum and  other documentation to launch MS and PhD Program at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. These documents were prepared keeping in view of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) requirements.
  • Successfully applied and corresponded with Higher Education Commission (HEC) for NOC for the MS and PhD Programs at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Member of Graduate Programs Committee of the University
  • Notable job completions include
  • Suggesting the rules, procedures and curricula for the Graduate Programs of all the department_id
  • Updating the drafts for MS and PhD Programs to make it uniform among all the department_id of the university. This was done keeping in view of the HEC requirements and the recommendations of the Graduate Programs Committee
  • Getting the approval of procedure, curriculum and other documentation of MS and PhD Programs from Board of Faculties (BoF) and Academic Council
  • President of the ECAT committee to oversee all matters related to the conduct ofECAT test of UET Lahore, at KFUEIT.
  • Member of the PEC committee to prepare the document and conduct the Accreditation visits at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Member of the Mechatronics Engineering Program Committee at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Member of the Vigilance Committee of the University.
  •  The notable job includes;
  • Ensured the proper conduct of the all exams of all the department_id of the University from 2017 to 2018
  • Student Advisor for Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019 Batches of MS Mechanical Engineering and 2015 Batch of BS Mechanical Engineering.
  • Successfully conducted  multiple  Board of Studies (BoS) for the curriculum of BS, MS and PhD Programs
  • President of the Curriculum Review Committee for BS at the  Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Member of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Post Graduate Program Coordinator of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • President of the committee for tender preparation, tender evaluation and Installation of equipment for all advanced labs at the Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Notable Job completions include
  • Tender preparation for Advanced Manufacturing Lab, Advanced Materials Lab, Advanced Simulation Lab, Technical and Financial Evaluation of the bids for all advanced labs
  • Tender preparation for the second phase of all advanced labs
  • Member of the Final Year Projects Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • President of the New Students Welcome committee / Orientation Committee for all the fresher students of the university.
  • Organizing various events at the University
  • Any other task given by higher authorities
  • Served as a post-doctoral researcher at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. (2016 – 2016)
  • Instructed  labs  to  undergraduate students and  scientific techniques to graduate students in the lab at  School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National
  • University, Gwangju, South Korea. (2012 − 2016)
  • Served  as  a Lecturer  at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I, Topi, Pakistan. (2012 − 2012)
  • Had been involved in maintenance and operation of various equipment including  X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD), Universal Testing Machine (UTM), and purchase of various equipment and material.
  • The  Materials  Lab  incharge which  includes experiments related to  the  atomic arrangement in different crystal structures, casting and solidification process, metallography, impact testing and hardness testing of various materials.
  • Served as TA (teaching assistant) to various  professors in their courses at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I, Topi, Pakistan. (2009 − 2012)
  • TA for courses including Introduction to  materials  science,  Surface  engineering  and Ceramics and glasses.
  • Served as  a  Lab  Instructor  at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan. (2009 − 2012)
  • Instructed labs  which  include experiments related  to  heat treatments e.g.  annealing, quenching,  age hardening  etc.  Characterization  by  optical microscopy and various mechanical techniques  including tensile and hardness testing.  Quantitative analysis of grain size. Sand and mold properties. Al casting.  Tensile and differential scanning calorimetric testing of various polymers.
  • Had  been involved in maintenance and operation of various equipment  including X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD), Universal Testing Machine (UTM) at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I Topi, Pakistan. (2009 − 2012)
  • Four weeks work experience as an  Trainee Engineer  at PCSIR, Lahore, Pakistan, in the fields of  Non-Destructive  Testing, Ore Beneficiation,  and  Mechanical Testing. (2007)

 

Publications

ISI/SCI INDEXED PUBLICATIONS:
  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aOTbYNUAAAAJ&hl=en
  • Book chapter published by the CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group, USA) Muhammad Faizan Shah, Kamran Nazeer, Zareena Kausar, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Syed Saad Farooq, and Ghias Mahmood Khan, A Six Degree of Freedom Machining Bed: Kinematic Model Development, Verification, and Validation, 2nd International Workshop on Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools WRE 2020, 21-22 March 2020, GIKI, KP, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Ahmad Jamil, Haseeb Yaqoob, Asad Abid, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Noor us Sabah, et. al., An exergoeconomic and normalized sensitivity based comprehensive investigation of a hybrid power-and-water desalination system, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 47 (2021) 101463.
  • Muhammad Ahmad Jamil, Haseeb Yaqoob, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Yew Heng Teoh et. al., Experimental Investigations of a Solar Water Treatment System for Remote Desert Areas of Pakistan, Water 13 (2021) 1070.
  • Haseeb Yaqoob, Yew Heng Teoh, Farooq Sher, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Muhammad Ahmad Jamil, et. al., Potential of Waste Cooking Oil Biodiesel as Renewable Fuel in Combustion Engines: A Review, Energies 14 (2021) 2565.
  • Asad Abid, Muhammad Ahmad Jamil, Noor us Sabah, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Haseeb Yaqoob, Liaquat Ali Khan, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, Exergoeconomic optimization of a forward feed multi-effect desalination system with and without energy recovery, Desalination 499 (2021) 114808.
  • Muhammad Umar, Faisal Qayyum, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Liaquat Ali Khan, Sergey Guk, Ulrich Prahl, Investigating the Effect of Cementite Particle Size and Distribution on Local Stress and Strain Evolution in Spheroidized Medium Carbon Steels using Crystal Plasticity‐Based Numerical Simulations, steel research international 92 (2021) 2000407.
  • Muhammad Faizan Shah, Zareena Kausar, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Liaquat Ali Khan, Syed Saad Farooq, Accuracy Analysis of Machining Trajectory Contemplating Workpiece Dislocation on a Six Degree of Freedom Machining Bed, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (2020) doi:10.1177/0954406220974049.
  • Muhammad Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Abbas Saeed Hakeem, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad Asif Rafiq, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Irfan Haider Abidi, Nabi Bakhsh.,  Spark Plasma Sintering of Hybrid Nanocomposites of Hydroxyapatite Reinforced with CNTs and SS316L for Biomedical Applications, Current Nanoscience  (2019)  
  • Mohsin Saleem, Lim Dong Hwan, In-sung Kim, Min-Soo Kim, Adnan Maqbool, Umair Nisar, Syed Atif Pervez, Umer Farooq,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, et.al., Revealing of Core Shell Effect on Frequency-Dependent Properties of Bi-based relaxor/Ferroelectric Ceramic Composites, Scientific Reports 8 (2018) 14146-14158.
  • John G. Fisher, Ung Trong Thuan,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran, et al.,  Prostate Cancer Cell-Specific Cytotoxicity of Sub-Micron Potassium Niobate Powder,  Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  18  (2018)3141-3147.
  • Eugenie Uwiragiye,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Thuy Linh Pham,Dang Thanh Nguyen, Jong-Sook Lee, John G. Fisher,  High performance lead-free piezoelectric 0.96(K0.48Na0.52)NbO3 0.03[Bi0.5(Na0.7K0.2Li0.1)0.5]ZrO3-0.01(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3  single crystals  grown by  solid state  crystal growth and their phase relations, Journal of the European Ceramic Society 37 (2017) 4597–4607.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq,  Seok-young  Ko, John G. Fisher, Effect of SrTiO3 content on the growth of (100−x)(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3–xSrTiO3  lead-free piezoelectric  single crystals grown by the solid-state crystal growth method, Advances in Applied Ceramics 115 (2) (2016) 81-88.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Jin-Ha Kim, Daeung Kim, Eui-Chol Shin,  et al., Reactive sintering of lead-free piezoelectric (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3  ceramics, Journal of Ceramic Processing Research 17 (4) (2016) 304-312.Ghuzanfar Saeed, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad Tariq Saeed Chani, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Irfan H Abidi, Tahir Sattar, Studying the effects of ACCVD grown CNTs on physical and microstructural behaviors of Stellite-6/CNTs nanocomposite, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials-Rapid Communication 10 (7-8) (2016) 600-603.
  • Ghuzanfar Saeed, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Tariq Saeed Chani,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Irfan H Abidi, Tahir Sattar,  Impacts of ACCVD grown CNTs on hardness, compression and fracture behaviors of Stellite-6/CNTs nanocomposites, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials-Rapid Communication 10 (3-4) (2016) 212-216.
  • Irfan Haider Abidi, Fazal Ahmad Khalid,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Muhammad Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Tailoring the pore morphology of porous nitinol with suitable mechanical properties for biomedical applications, Materials Letters 154 (2015) 17-20.
  • Muhammad Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad  Umer Farooq, Irfan Haider Abidi, et al., Improved sinterability of hydroxyapatite functionally graded materials strengthened with SS316L and CNTs fabricated by pressureless sintering, Ceramics International 41 (8) (2015) 10125-10132.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq,  John G. Fisher,  Growth  of (Na0.5K0.5)NbO3–SrTiO3lead-free piezoelectric single crystals by the solid state crystal growth method and their characterization, Ceramics International 40 (2) (2014) 3199-3207.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Hamid Zaigham, Irfan Haider Abidi,  Superelastic  behaviour  of Ti–Nb–Al ternary shape memory alloys for biomedical applications, Materials Letters 121 (2014) 58-61.
  • John G. Fisher, Hung Vu,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Growth of Oriented Thick Films of BaFe12O19  by Reactive Diffusion, Journal of Magnetics 19 (4) (2014) 333-339.
  • Ghuzanfar Saeed,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Investigating the effects of CVD reaction time on the growth of carbon nanotubes, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials-Rapid Communication 7 (9-10) (2013) 707-711.
  • Muhammad Tariq Saeed Chani, Kh S. Karimov, F. Ahmad Khalid, Kabeer Raza, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Qayyum Zafar, Humidity sensors based on aluminum phthalocyanine chloride thin films, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 45 (2012) 77-81.
  • Non-ISI/SCI INDEXED PUBLICATION:
  • Ghuzanfar Saeed, Fazal Ahmad Khalid,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Tariq Saeed Chani, Abdul Mateen, Irfan H Abidi and Tahir  Sattar, Investigating  the Effects of Synthesis Parameter on the Yield and Structural Health of In-Situ Grown Carbon Non-ISI/SCI INDEXED PUBLICATION Page 6 of 9 Nanotubes, Journal of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology  5:6 (2016), DOI: 10.4172/2324-8777.1000203
  • SELECTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:
  • Muhammad Faizan Shah, Zareena Kausar, and Muhammad Umer Farooq, Kinematic Modeling and Analysis of a Six Degrees of Freedom Machining Bed, Proceedings of 22nd IEEE INMIC 2019, 21-22 November 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, Tahir Sattar, Irfan Haider Abidi, Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Ghuzanfar Saeed,  et al.,  Ti-Nb-Al Ternary Shape Memory Alloys for Biomedical Applications, 15th Advanced Symposium on Advanced Materials, 16-20 Oct 2017, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • John  G. Fisher, Ung Trong Thuan, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Eu Chang Hwang, Young-Do Jung, Je-Jung Lee  and Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan,  Concentration-dependent Cytotoxicity of Potassium Niobate Sub-micron Particles in Prostate Cancer Cells, The 10th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics,  04-06 Dec 2016,  AMEC 2016, GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, Taiwan.
  • John G. Fisher, Eugenie Uwiragiye, Hengyang Sun,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Jong-Sook Lee, Hyoung-Su Han, Hwang-Pil Kim, Wook Jo, Growth of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3  and (Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3-based Piezoelectric Single Crystals by Solid State Single Crystal Growth and their Characterization, 2016 Korean Ceramics Society Fall Meeting, 23-24 Nov 2016,  COEX, Seoul, Korea.
  • John G. Fisher, Eugenie  Uwiragiye, Hengyang Sun,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Jong-Sook Lee, Hyoung-Su Han, Hwang-Pil Kim, Wook Jo, Growth of Single Crystals of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Materials by Solid State Crystal Growth and their Characterization, The 33rd International Korea-Japan Seminar on Ceramics, 17-18 Nov 2016, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea.
  • Thuy Linh Pham, Su-Hyun Moon, Young-Hun Kim, Huyen Tran Tran, Dang Thanh Nguyen, Muhammad Umer Farooq,  Eugenie Uwiragiye, John G. Fisher,  Jong-Sook  Lee,  Electrical properties of KNN-based piezoelectric ceramics, The 11th Korea-Japan Conference on Ferroelectrics,  07-10 Aug 2016,  Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.
  • Eugenie Uwiragiye,  Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Jong-Sook Lee  and John G.  Fisher,  Growth of lead-free piezoelectric 0.96(K0.48Na0.52)NbO3-0.03[Bi0.5(Na0.7K0.2Li0.1)0.5]ZrO3 0.01(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3  single crystals by  solid state crystal growth and their characterization, 12th    Combined Symposium on Dielectric  Materials, 31-Jan – 02 Feb 2016, Muju Deokyusan Resort, Muju, Korea.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Seok-Young Ko and Suk-Joong L. Kang, Evaluation of single crystal growth  behaviour  of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3  lead free piezoelectric ceramics grown by the solid state crystal  growth method, Piezo 2015 Electroceramics for End-Users VIII conference,  25-28 Jan 2015,  Hotel Bellevue, Maribor, Slovenia.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher,  Evaluation of single crystal growth behaviour  of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3  lead free  piezoelectric ceramics grown by the solid state crystal  growth method, The 10th Japan-Korea Conference on Ferroelectrics,  17-20 Aug 2014,  International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Jin-Ha Kim, Daeung Kim, Min-Gu Kim, Eui-Chol Shin, Young-Hun Kim, Jong-Sook Lee, Xiujuan Lin, Dou Zhang, Reactive Sintering of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3  Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics, The 30th Japan-Korea International Seminar on Ceramics,  20-23 November 2013,  Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.
  • Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Growth of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3 Single Crystals by Solid State Single Crystal Growth and their Characterization,  The 9th combined symposium on Dielectric Materials,  17-19 Feb 2013,  Muju Deokyusan Resort, Muju, Korea.
  • WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ORGANIZED / INSTRUCTED:
  • Organized  and instructed the workshop on “An introduction to ORIGIN and ENDNOTE”,  Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.  Institute, Topi, Pakistan, July, 2012.
  • Organized and instructed the training on “Particle image analysis and microstructural evaluation through ImageJ software”, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan, Feburary, 2012.
  • Organized and instructed  training on  the operation of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) for the Sample Analysis at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan, April, 2010.
  • WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ATTENDED:
  • Organized and attended A Road Safety Training conducted by National Highway and Motorway Police of Pakistan  at  Department of Civil Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahimyar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, February, 2019.
  • Introduction to Outcome  Based Education (OBE) workshop at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahimyar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, July, 2017.
  • A training on the safe operation of Hydrogen atmosphere sintering equipment at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea, January, 2016.
  • An International Workshop on Sintering and Microstructural Evolution in Ceramics at Creative learning building, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, August, 2015.
  • A training on the operation of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) for the Sample Analysis at Department of Materials Science and Engineering,  G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan, September, 2009.

Affiliations

  • Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)