Speaker

Prof. Dr. M.Suleman Tahir (Vice Chancellor)

Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan

Speech Title: Waste to Energy Technology (WTE)

Professional Profile:

• Innovative team leader and motivator with strong management skills, along with more than 23 years of supervisory experience within team-oriented style of management that promotes the team’s personal development and productivity.Started three postgraduate  academic programs at faculty of engineering.

• More than 23 years experience in managing government-sponsored programs that have been cited as professional, innovative, and responsive to community’s needs. Started 03 community training projects under umberalla of NAVTTC of worth 28 Millions.

• Author of three books approved by HEC and also author of  more than 50 national and international research articles published in different impact factor journals.

• Also PI of 05 Research project from HEC worth 28 Millions

• Supervise more than 40 M.S students and 1 Ph.D student, 03 PhD students registered

• As convener works committee University of Gujrat completed 15 construction projects worth 2000 millions

Research Projects:

Completed

• Bio-gas from animal waste”  (Rs100, 000)  By: UOG  (2012-sept)  Prof. Dr. M. Suleman Tahir,Mr. Danish, Ijaz (2012)

• Rs 11.2 million “Coal-water slurry as an alternative fuel” By:   (HEC)  Prof. Dr. M. Suleman Tahir, M.Saleem (2015)

• Rs. 0.5 million. Absorption of Surfactant on Reservoir rock during enhanced oil recovery

• Rs. 0.5 Million. Numerical modeling to control flow induced vibration for multicylinder arrangements

• Rs 15 million  (PMYSD, NAVTTC, 2018

• Rs10 million “(PMYSD, NAVTTC, Year 2017).

• Rs 8 million        (PMYSD, NAVTTC, 2018)

 Approved

• TDF  Rs 11.2 million HEC- industry

• Rs. 0.5 million. Regional Potential of Biodiesel Production from slaughtering waste.

Dr. Muhammad Sagir (Associate professor)

Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan

Speech Title: Inovative photocatalytic materials  for  green enerygy production

Research Experience:

Dr. Sagir has over 15 years of research experience in the field of “Chemical Sciences”. In this period, he has been working in Malaysia & Pakistan. He is currently working as Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Gujrat. Currently, he is involved in 4 different Research projects as PI, Co-PI & collaborator and has also been a part of a number of research projects completed in various capacities. Dr. Sagir has supervised a number of MPhil students’ thesis and a few number of MPhil students are currently under his supervision. He has published “89-90 Journal papers” in International Peer Reviewed Journals with high impact factors. Also others, over 40 abstracts in International Conferences. Dr Sagir has a total impact factor of over “140” and his research works have been cited over 1000 times in peer review press with an H-Index of “19”. He is also editor of many impact factor journals

Dr. Sile Brennan (Course director)

University of Ulster/Built Environment Research Institute

Speech Title: Progress in hydrogen safety at Ulster University including releases from onboard storage in confined spaces.

Research Area:

Hydrogen safety, Fluid Dynamics, CFD

Research Experience:

Sile Brennan was appointed as a lecturer in Hydrogen Safety in 2008 and has been course director of the BEng/MEng Safety Engineering and Disaster Management since 2016.Dr Brennan’s research interests are in CFD modelling of hydrogen releases and fires and her work in this field has generated refereed papers. She has been involved in a number of large European research contracts. She is currently coordinating the FCH JU HyResponder project (https://hyresponder.eu/) a European train the trainer programme for responders in Hydrogen Safety. She has previously participated in the European project HyIndoor involving pre-normative research on the indoor use of hydrogen and fuel cell systems, and the European H2FC infrastructure project where she coordinated the European technical school on hydrogen and fuel cells.Dr Brennan obtained a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin before completing her PhD at Queen’s University Belfast. She joined the HySAFER team at Ulster University in 2007 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Assoc. Prof. Shien-Ping Feng

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

Research Area:

Low-grade heat to electricity conversion

Solar and indoor light harvesting

Electroplating technology for nanomaterial fabrication

Research Experience:

Dr. Shien-Ping FENG is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his BS, MS, PhD from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Before entering academia, he was an engineer and manager at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company from 2001 to 2008 and a deputy director at Tripod Technology Corporation from 2008 to 2009. He was employed as a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. He joined HKU as an Assistant Professor in October 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in September 2017. His research focuses on the development of electrochemical technology for low-grade heat recovery, solar and indoor light harvesting, and nanomaterial fabrication. Dr. Feng’s research has been well funded by external competitive grants as well as industry from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and USA. He has published 107 journal papers and 4 conference papers. He holds 21 patents. Through his patented technologies, Dr. Feng and his team established two start-up companies. Dr. Feng received the HKU Research Output Prize and Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award, the Silver Medal Award at the 2nd Asia Exhibition of Inventions, the Gold Medal Award and Top 10 Best Invention Award at the 5th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN), the Business Start-up Award and Energy Award at the IChemE Global Awards, and the Gold Medal Award at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (2021 Special Edition). He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Scientist (CSci), a Fellow (FIMMM) of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, and a Fellow (FRSC) of the Royal Society of Chemistry.