Summary

Professor Riaz Ahmad is working as, Head of Aerospace Engineering Department. He has been Head of NUST International office and Director Quality Assurance from 2016 -2022. Prior to this position, he held an equally important position of Director Research at this university for 4 years. During his 21 years association with NUST, he has served as professor and Associate professor for 12 years. He has honour of being founding member of the academic team, that raised the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing at NUST main campus. At this nascent institution, he worked as Head of Mechanical Engineering department, beside raising new department of Design and Manufacturing engineering. College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) PAF, is another constituent college of NUST, where he served two tenures as professor and Head of Industrial Engineering department. He also taught at department of Aerospace Engineering as faculty member for two years. Dr. Riaz Ahmad earned his Bachelor’s degree from NED University, Karachi in 1984, in field of Aerospace Engineering, and Masters and PhD in the field of Aeronautical Manufacturing from Beijing University Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) China. After his graduation in 1984, he held various field assignments as field maintenance engineer in Pakistan Air Force. To his advantage, he had unique opportunity to engage in factory level projects of National importance at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex. It afforded a great experience of working with foreign experts. As a researcher, he has widely published his work in National/International journals and conferences. Through his active engagement in research, he has been able to publish over 70 research articles. His publications include journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters in the field of mechanical/aeronautical manufacturing.

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