[{"id":122,"email":"umer.farooq@kfueit.edu.pk","first_name":"Engr. Dr. M. Umer","last_name":"Farooq","username":"umer.farooq","dob":null,"address":null,"secondary_address":null,"job_position":"Assistant Professor ( HoD )","phone":"+92685882417","secondary_phone":null,"secondary_email":null,"gender":1,"website":null,"skype":null,"facebook":null,"twitter":null,"google_plus":null,"youtube":null,"github":null,"interest":"<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Manufacturing and Materials, Solid state single crystal growth, Piezoelectric materials, Biomedical, Manufacturing, robotics and control, economic analysis,&nbsp;Ceramics processing, Shape memory materials, Metallic foams, Green Materials, Biomaterials,&nbsp;Engineering materials, Manufacturing processes, Heat Treatments, Ceramics and glasses, Advanced Materials, Characterization techniques.<\/span><\/p>","about":null,"award":"<ul>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">NRPU 2021 &ndash; HEC Research Grant (2022 - 2025)&nbsp;Amount: 7.6 million PKR,&nbsp; Design and fabrication of a biodegradable nerve prosthesis to accelerate the quasi-static nerve growth rate across longer segmental defects in peripheral nerves.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">SRGP 2018 - HEC funded project, Amount 0.5 million, Development of Sliding Wear Testing Tribo-meter<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of NCRC for the Biomedical Engineering Technology program by National Technology Council (NTC)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member Board of Studies (BoS) for Mechanical Engineering Technology, Mir Chakar Khan Rind University of Technology, Dera Ghazi Khan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Higher Education Commission (HEC) approved supervisor for MS and PhD<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Served&nbsp; as the&nbsp; President of&nbsp; Pakistani Students&nbsp; Association&nbsp; of the Chonnam National University, South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Got a fully funded Ph.D. scholarship with living allowance from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwa ngju, South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Got&nbsp; scholarship&nbsp; for excellent grades every semester throughout Ph.D.&nbsp; at&nbsp; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University,&nbsp; Gwangju, South Korea. &nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">2nd position in M.S. studies among the graduates in the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering,&nbsp; and 5th among all the graduates in all the disciplines in&nbsp; the&nbsp; G.I.K.Institute.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Got&nbsp; a&nbsp; fully&nbsp; funded&nbsp; scholarship for M.S.&nbsp; studies at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Scored 91\/100 points (99.96 Percentile) in Graduate Assessment Test (GAT-2012-II) Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Got performance scholarship during undergraduate studies at Institute of&nbsp; Chemical Engineering &amp; Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Won first prize in the Damyang bamboo festival competition in South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Won first prize in the treasure hunt Lotus festival in South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Won first&nbsp; prize in the&nbsp; international cuisine day&nbsp; in&nbsp; Chonnam National University, South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Won second prize in the Kimchi festival amazing race in South Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Participated in inter-collegiate rowing competition during undergraduate studies at Institute of Chemical Engineering &amp; Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">EXPERIENCE:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Serving as Assistant Professor&nbsp; at&nbsp; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology&nbsp; (KFUEIT), Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. (2017 to date)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Has been involved in various activities and achievements, including;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Instructed multiple courses to undergraduate and graduate students<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The Student Feedback of instructed courses is up to 95% positive<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Convener of Admission committee of the University.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Notable activities\/responsibilities include;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;Oversee the admission matters, policy making and smooth working of admission related activities.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;Actively involved in the transformation of the paper-based admission system to a complete IT based system with online admission portal.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Oversaw more than three folds increase in number of admissions at the relatively new University<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Successfully admitted students for Fall 2018 Session for all departments of the University. The total number of applicants were more than 15,000 and number of admitted students were more than 2,500.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Admissions for Fall 2019 are underway.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Successfully admitted students for Fall 2017 Session for all departments of the University, as member of the admission committee.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">President of the Graduate Programs Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Notable activities\/responsibilities include;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Successfully applied and received the NOC from HEC to launch MS Program at Department of Mechanical Engineering, KFUEIT.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Prepared the procedure, curriculum and&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Successfully applied and corresponded with Higher Education Commission (HEC) for NOC for the MS and PhD Programs at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of Graduate Programs Committee of the University<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Notable job completions include<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Suggesting the rules, procedures and curricula for the Graduate Programs of all the departments<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Updating the drafts for MS and PhD Programs to make it uniform among all the departments of the university. This was done keeping in view of the HEC requirements and the recommendations of the Graduate Programs Committee<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Getting the approval of procedure, curriculum and other documentation of MS and PhD Programs from Board of Faculties (BoF) and Academic Council<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">President of the ECAT committee to oversee all matters related to the conduct ofECAT test of UET Lahore, at KFUEIT.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of the PEC committee to prepare the document and conduct the Accreditation visits at the Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of the Mechatronics Engineering Program Committee at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of the Vigilance Committee of the University.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;The notable job includes;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Ensured the proper conduct of the all exams of all the departments of the University from 2017 to 2018<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Student Advisor for Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019 Batches of MS Mechanical Engineering and 2015 Batch of BS Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Successfully conducted&nbsp; multiple&nbsp; Board of Studies (BoS) for the curriculum of BS, MS and PhD Programs<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">President of the Curriculum Review Committee for BS at the&nbsp; Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Post Graduate Program Coordinator of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">President of the committee for tender preparation, tender evaluation and Installation of equipment for all advanced labs at the Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Notable Job completions include<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Tender preparation for Advanced Manufacturing Lab, Advanced Materials Lab, Advanced Simulation Lab, Technical and Financial Evaluation of the bids for all advanced labs<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Tender preparation for the second phase of all advanced labs<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Member of the Final Year Projects Committee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">President of the New Students Welcome committee \/ Orientation Committee for all the fresher students of the university.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Organizing various events at the University<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Any other task given by higher authorities<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Served as a post-doctoral researcher at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. (2016 &ndash; 2016)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Instructed&nbsp; labs&nbsp; to&nbsp; undergraduate students and&nbsp; scientific techniques to graduate students in the lab at&nbsp; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">University, Gwangju, South Korea. (2012 &minus; 2016)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Served&nbsp; as&nbsp; a Lecturer&nbsp; at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I, Topi, Pakistan. (2012 &minus; 2012)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Had been involved in maintenance and operation of various equipment including&nbsp; X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD), Universal Testing Machine (UTM), and purchase of various equipment and material.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The&nbsp; Materials&nbsp; Lab&nbsp; incharge which&nbsp; includes experiments related to&nbsp; the&nbsp; atomic arrangement in different crystal structures, casting and solidification process, metallography, impact testing and hardness testing of various materials.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Served as TA (teaching assistant) to various&nbsp; professors in their courses at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I, Topi, Pakistan. (2009 &minus; 2012)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">TA for courses including Introduction to&nbsp; materials&nbsp; science,&nbsp; Surface&nbsp; engineering&nbsp; and Ceramics and glasses.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Served as&nbsp; a&nbsp; Lab&nbsp; Instructor&nbsp; at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan. (2009 &minus; 2012)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Instructed labs&nbsp; which&nbsp; include experiments related&nbsp; to&nbsp; heat treatments e.g.&nbsp; annealing, quenching,&nbsp; age hardening&nbsp; etc.&nbsp; Characterization&nbsp; by&nbsp; optical microscopy and various mechanical techniques&nbsp; including tensile and hardness testing.&nbsp; Quantitative analysis of grain size. Sand and mold properties. Al casting.&nbsp; Tensile and differential scanning calorimetric testing of various polymers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Had&nbsp; been involved in maintenance and operation of various equipment&nbsp; including X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD), Universal Testing Machine (UTM) at Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.I Topi, Pakistan. (2009 &minus; 2012)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Four weeks work experience as an&nbsp; Trainee Engineer&nbsp; at PCSIR, Lahore, Pakistan, in the fields of&nbsp; Non-Destructive&nbsp; Testing, Ore Beneficiation,&nbsp; and&nbsp; Mechanical Testing. (2007)<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","publications":"<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">ISI\/SCI INDEXED PUBLICATIONS:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=aOTbYNUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=aOTbYNUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"margin: 6pt 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Book chapter published by the CRC Press (Taylor &amp; 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. <\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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\u2010Based Numerical Simulations, steel research international 92 (2021) 2000407.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Abbas Saeed Hakeem, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad Asif Rafiq, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Irfan Haider Abidi, Nabi Bakhsh.,&nbsp; Spark Plasma Sintering of Hybrid Nanocomposites of Hydroxyapatite Reinforced with CNTs and SS316L for Biomedical Applications, Current Nanoscience&nbsp; (2019)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Mohsin Saleem, Lim Dong Hwan, In-sung Kim, Min-Soo Kim, Adnan Maqbool, Umair Nisar, Syed Atif Pervez, Umer Farooq,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer&nbsp;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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John G. Fisher, Ung Trong Thuan,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran, et al.,&nbsp; Prostate Cancer Cell-Specific Cytotoxicity of Sub-Micron Potassium Niobate Powder,&nbsp; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology&nbsp; 18&nbsp; (2018)3141-3147.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Eugenie Uwiragiye,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Thuy Linh&nbsp;Pham,Dang Thanh Nguyen, Jong-Sook Lee, John G. Fisher,&nbsp; 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&nbsp; single crystals&nbsp; grown by&nbsp; solid state&nbsp; crystal growth and their phase relations, Journal of the European Ceramic Society 37 (2017) 4597&ndash;4607.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq,&nbsp; Seok-young&nbsp; Ko, John G. Fisher, Effect of SrTiO3 content on the growth of (100&minus;x)(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3&ndash;xSrTiO3&nbsp; lead-free piezoelectric&nbsp; single crystals grown by the solid-state crystal growth method, Advances in Applied Ceramics 115 (2) (2016) 81-88.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Jin-Ha Kim, Daeung Kim, Eui-Chol Shin,&nbsp; et al., Reactive sintering of lead-free piezoelectric (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Ghuzanfar Saeed, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Tariq Saeed Chani,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Irfan H Abidi, Tahir Sattar,&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Irfan Haider Abidi, Fazal Ahmad Khalid,&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq,&nbsp; John G. Fisher,&nbsp; Growth&nbsp; of (Na0.5K0.5)NbO3&ndash;SrTiO3lead-free piezoelectric single crystals by the solid state crystal growth method and their characterization, Ceramics International 40 (2) (2014) 3199-3207.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, Fazal Ahmad Khalid, Hamid Zaigham, Irfan Haider Abidi,&nbsp; Superelastic&nbsp; behaviour&nbsp; of Ti&ndash;Nb&ndash;Al ternary shape memory alloys for biomedical applications, Materials Letters 121 (2014) 58-61.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John G. Fisher, Hung Vu,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Growth of Oriented Thick Films of BaFe12O19&nbsp; by Reactive Diffusion, Journal of Magnetics 19 (4) (2014) 333-339.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Ghuzanfar Saeed,&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Non-ISI\/SCI INDEXED PUBLICATION:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Ghuzanfar Saeed, Fazal Ahmad Khalid,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Tariq Saeed Chani, Abdul Mateen, Irfan H Abidi and Tahir&nbsp; Sattar, Investigating&nbsp; 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 &amp; Molecular Nanotechnology&nbsp; 5:6 (2016), DOI: 10.4172\/2324-8777.1000203<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">SELECTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, Tahir Sattar, Irfan Haider Abidi, Asif Hussain, Adnan Maqbool, Ghuzanfar Saeed,&nbsp; et al.,&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John&nbsp; G. Fisher, Ung Trong Thuan, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Eu Chang Hwang, Young-Do Jung, Je-Jung Lee&nbsp; and Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan,&nbsp; Concentration-dependent Cytotoxicity of Potassium Niobate Sub-micron Particles in Prostate Cancer Cells, The 10th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics,&nbsp; 04-06 Dec 2016,&nbsp; AMEC 2016, GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, Taiwan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John G. Fisher, Eugenie Uwiragiye, Hengyang Sun,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Jong-Sook Lee, Hyoung-Su Han, Hwang-Pil Kim, Wook Jo, Growth of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3&nbsp; 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,&nbsp; COEX, Seoul, Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">John G. Fisher, Eugenie&nbsp; Uwiragiye, Hengyang Sun,&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Thuy Linh Pham, Su-Hyun Moon, Young-Hun Kim, Huyen Tran Tran, Dang Thanh Nguyen, Muhammad Umer Farooq,&nbsp; Eugenie Uwiragiye, John G. Fisher,&nbsp; Jong-Sook&nbsp; Lee,&nbsp; Electrical properties of KNN-based piezoelectric ceramics, The 11th Korea-Japan Conference on Ferroelectrics,&nbsp; 07-10 Aug 2016,&nbsp; Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Eugenie Uwiragiye,&nbsp; Muhammad Umer Farooq, Su-Hyun Moon, Jong-Sook Lee&nbsp; and John G.&nbsp; Fisher,&nbsp; 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&nbsp; single crystals by&nbsp; solid state crystal growth and their characterization, 12th&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Combined Symposium on Dielectric&nbsp; Materials, 31-Jan &ndash; 02 Feb 2016, Muju Deokyusan Resort, Muju, Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Seok-Young Ko and Suk-Joong L. Kang, Evaluation of single crystal growth&nbsp; behaviour&nbsp; of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3&nbsp; lead free piezoelectric ceramics grown by the solid state crystal&nbsp; growth method, Piezo 2015 Electroceramics for End-Users VIII conference,&nbsp; 25-28 Jan 2015,&nbsp; Hotel Bellevue, Maribor, Slovenia.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher,&nbsp; Evaluation of single crystal growth behaviour&nbsp; of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3&nbsp; lead free&nbsp; piezoelectric ceramics grown by the solid state crystal&nbsp; growth method, The 10th Japan-Korea Conference on Ferroelectrics,&nbsp; 17-20 Aug 2014,&nbsp; International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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&nbsp; Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics, The 30th Japan-Korea International Seminar on Ceramics,&nbsp; 20-23 November 2013,&nbsp; Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Muhammad Umer Farooq, John G. Fisher, Growth of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3-SrTiO3 Single Crystals by Solid State Single Crystal Growth and their Characterization,&nbsp; The 9th combined symposium on Dielectric Materials,&nbsp; 17-19 Feb 2013,&nbsp; Muju Deokyusan Resort, Muju, Korea.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ORGANIZED \/ INSTRUCTED:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Organized&nbsp; and instructed the workshop on &ldquo;An introduction to ORIGIN and ENDNOTE&rdquo;,&nbsp; Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K.&nbsp; Institute, Topi, Pakistan, July, 2012.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Organized and instructed the training on &ldquo;Particle image analysis and microstructural evaluation through ImageJ software&rdquo;, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan, Feburary, 2012.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Organized and instructed&nbsp; training on&nbsp; 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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<h6 class=\"text-medium  \"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ATTENDED:<\/span><\/h6>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Organized and attended A Road Safety Training conducted by National Highway and Motorway Police of Pakistan&nbsp; at&nbsp; Department of Civil Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahimyar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, February, 2019.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Introduction to Outcome&nbsp; Based Education (OBE) workshop at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahimyar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, July, 2017.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">An International Workshop on Sintering and Microstructural Evolution in Ceramics at Creative learning building, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, August, 2015.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">A training on the operation of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) for the Sample Analysis at Department of Materials Science and Engineering,&nbsp; G.I.K. Institute, Topi, Pakistan, September, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","affiliations":"<ul>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span new=\"\" roman=\"\" times=\"\">Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","qualifications":"Ph.D. in Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.","departments":"2","profile_image":"\/uploads\/avatars\/umer.farooq\/thumb-5-1560251056.JPG","super_user":1,"manage_supers":0,"completed_profile":1,"is_faculty":1,"is_hod":1,"coverimage":null,"display_order":1,"categories":null,"status":1}]