Dean Faculty of Skill Development (FoSD)

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Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro, Dean, Faculty of Skill Development (FoSD)

It’s my honour to work as Dean Faculty of Skill Development at the first technical University in Sindh, the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University of Technology and Skill Development, Kahirpur Mirs. Skill development is indeed critical in today's rapidly changing world for several reasons including career advancement, adaptability, job satisfaction, increased confidence, networking, personal growth, problem solving and future-proofing. Our mission is to produce competent workforce, by imparting technical knowledge and market driven skills with hands-on experience, industrial exposure, and promoting international academic collaboration to make them employable and leading entrepreneurs, to achieve sustainable socio-economic development I encourage each student to prioritize skill development alongside their studies. Acquiring new skills not only enriches personal growth but also enhances career prospects in an ever- evolving job market. Investing in skills today will open doors to opportunities tomorrow. I look forward to witnessing our student’s growth and success.

Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro

Dean, Faculty of Skill Development (FoSD)

Biography

Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro started his professional career from Heavy Electrical Complex at Haripur Hattar as Assistant Manager in November 1994 to July 1995. Meanwhile He was selected as Assistant Manager in Heavy Mechanical Complex Taxila and worked from July 1995 to November 1996. He rendered his services to Echowest International Karachi in December 1996. He worked as Site Engineer on the Project of installation of 52 km raw water pipe line from Gujjo canal to PTA plant of ICI Pakistan, Dhabeji near Karachi. He already appeared and qualified the test and interview at Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Wah cantt. He worked as an Assistant Manager at POF from November 1997 to September 2003. His responsibilities were the production of Tools and gauges of different calibers of Ammo & Fuzes. POF assigned him an additional task, to establish ISO 9001 Quality Management System as a Management Representative “M.R”. He did full efforts with his team and successfully got certification of ISO 9001 Quality Management System for POF Snajwal Cantt. He prevented the massive potential wastage of steam leakage in steam distribution system of POF Sanjwal Cantt; by the real-time application of his M.Sc project. Due to his dynamic responsibilities and performance, he got the appreciation testimonials from the Managing Director Pakistan Ordnance Factories and the Officer Commanding Field Intelligence Unit (FIU) Special Wing POF Sanjwal Cantt. Attock, Punjab. Meanwhile, he was appeared in the examination of Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) Hyderabad and selected as Assistant Professor (Mechanical). Since September 2003, he worked as Assistant Professor at Govt. Monotechnic Institute Kohsar Latifabad Hyderabad under Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Authority (STEVTA) Karachi. His academic responsibilities were teaching of technical subjects of D.A.E Mechanical. During service, he went Malaysia for getting PhD degree with the approval of departmental permission in June 2012. He had completed PhD degree in September 2015. Then he re-joined his services with STEVTA. He applied through proper channel for the post of Assistant Professor at the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University of Technology and Skill Development Khairpur Mirs. He was selected and joined as Assistant Professor (Mechanical) on 30th April 2018. Currently his job responsibilities are to teach and evaluate the B.Sc Mechanical Engineering Technology and B.Tech Mechanical subjects. He also hold an additional charge of Director Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) and member of all statutory bodies i.e Selection Board, BoS, BoF, Academic Council, F&P Committee, Industrial Advisory Committee, Syndicate and Senate. He have 19 years of teaching experience in the field of Mechanical Engineering Technology and he had been published 16 research Journal Articles & 12 Conference Presentations.

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    1. Journal Articles
      Automation of Supply Chain Management by RFID and XBEE Network
      Aftab Ahmed, Qadir Bakhsh, Kamran Latif
      Australian Journal of Engineering and Technology Research (AJMFR) Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2017) pp. 29-36

      Real Time Monitoring of Supply Chain Management Network
      Aftab Ahmed, Qadir Bakhsh, Kamran Latif
      Australian Journal of Engineering and Technology Research (AJMFR)
      Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2017) pp. 37-48

      Effects of Static Loading on Motion Interchanger Module for Hybrid Mobile Robot
      Qadir Bakhsh, Khalid Hasnan, Sanam Ayub, Bhagwan Das, Aftab Ahmed and Ali Raza
      ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VOL. 11, NO. 4, (2016) pp. 2278-2283
      (SCOPUS and ISI Indexed)

      Integration of RFID Network Planning with Xbee Network: A New Approach
      Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed, Badrul-aisham, Qadir Bakhsh, Kamran Latif , Kashif Hussain
      International Journal of Smart Home Vol. 10, No. 4 (2016) pp 325-334
      (SCOPUS Indexed)

      A novel optimal RFID network planning by MC-GPSO
      Khalid Hasnan,  Aftab Ahmed, Badrul-aisham,  Qadir Bakhsh,  Kashif Hussain
      Indian Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 8(17) (2015) pp. 1-7
      (SCOPUS Indexed)

      Optimization of RFID network planning using ZigBee and WSN
      Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed, Badrul-aisham, Qadir Bakhsh
      Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 1660, (2015) pp. 0900081-9
      (SCOPUS, EI and ISI Indexed)

      A Novel Hybrid Locomotion Mechanism for Small Mobile Robot
      Khalid Hasnan, Qadir Bakhsh, Aftab Ahmed, Bhagwan Das, Sanam Ayub
      Indian Journal of Science and Technology Vol 8 (17) 2015. pp. 1-5.
      (SCOPUS Indexed)

      Integration of Value Stream Mapping with RFID, WSN and ZigBee Network
      Aftab Ahmed, Khalid Hasnan, Badrul-aisham, Qadir Bakhsh 
      Applied Mechanics and Materials,Vol. 465 (2014) pp 769-773 (SCOPUS, EI and ISI Indexed)

      Optimization of RFID Real-time Locating System
      Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed, Winardi Sani, Qadir Bakhsh
      Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Vol. 8 (2014) pp 662-668
      (ISI Indexed)

      Impact of RFID and XBee Communication NetworkH3H6 on Supply Chain Management
      Aftab Ahmed, Khalid Hasnan, Badrul-aisham, Qadir Bakhsh
      Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 660 (2014) pp 983-987
      (SCOPUS and ISI Indexed)

      New Hybrid Locomotion System Design
      Khalid Hasnan, Qadir Bakhsh, Aftab Ahmed
      Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences vol. 8 (2014) pp 247-252
      (ISI Indexed)

      Design and Failure Analysis of Track Tensioner Unit for Mobile Robot using Solid works
      Khalid Hasnan, Qadir Bakhsh, Badrul Aisham, Aftab Ahmed
      Applied Mechanics and Materials,vol. 575 (2014) pp 721-725
      (SCOPUS and EI Indexed)

      Design and Control Architecture of a Small Mobile Robot with Hybrid Locomotion System
      Badrul Aisham, Qadir Bakhsh, Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed
      Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 598 (2014) pp 619-622.
      (SCOPUS and EI Indexed)

      Comparative study between wheeled and tracked mobility system for Mobile robot
      Qadir Bakhsh, Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed
      Applied Mechanics and Materials vol. 393 (2013) pp 538-543
      (SCOPUS, EI and ISI Proceedings)

      Study of RFID application with Zigbee Network in Supply Chain Management
       Khalid Hasnan, Aftab Ahmed, Qadir Bakhsh
      International Journal of Engineering Systems Modeling and Simulation (IJESMS)
      (SCOPUS Indexed)

      Non-Vaporizing and Vaporizing Diesel Spray Evaluation with Experimental
      and Computational Approaches
      Safiullah, Aftab Ahmed, Aftab Khuhro, Intizar Tunio, Keiya Nishida
      QUEST Research Journal, Vol. 19, No. 02, PP. 114–124, Jul–Dec, 2021

      Conference Presentations
      International Conference on Mechanical, Automotive and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAAE 2013). Organized by: IIUM at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on July 2-4, 2013

      2nd International Conference on Engineering and Technology ICET-2013
      Organized by: TATIUC at Bali Indonesia on 12-13th December, 2013

      2nd International Conference on Robotics, Automation Systems ICoRAS-2013
      Organized by: TATIUC at Bali Indonesia on 12-13th December, 2013

      4th International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (ICME 2013)
      Organised by: Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, at Bangi, Putrajaya, Malaysia on 17-19th December 2013

      International Conference on Mathematics, Engineering & Industrial Applications 2014 (ICoMEIA 2014)
      Organised by: Institute of Engineering Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMap) at The Gurney Resort Hotel & Residences, Penang, Malaysia on 28th ~ 30th May, 2014

      12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing
      Organized by: Unversiti Technology Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia at The Puteri Pacific Hotel Johor Bahru on 22-24th September 2014

      5th International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (ICME 2014)
      Organised by: Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, at Grand Preanger Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia on 29-30th October 2014

      International conference on Green Computing and Engineering Technology 2015 (ICGCET'15)
      Organized by: Gyancity Laboratory at Radisson Royal Hotel Dubai, UAE on 25-26th July 2015

      13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing
      Organized by: Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) Vietnamese-German University (VGU), at Ho Chi Minh City / Binh Duong, Vietnam on 16th - 18th September 2015

      Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology (MUCET) 2015
      Organised by: Malaysian Technical Universities Network (MTUN), at Johor Bahru on 11-13th October 2015

      International Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science and Electronics (RTCSE 2016)
      Organised by: Gyancity Laboratory, at Park Royal Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 02-03rd January 2016

      2nd National Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Sustainability Engineering System (IMSES) 2016
      Organised by: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto Campus at Khairpur Mirs on 7th December 2016

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Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro
Postal Address: Office of the Dean, Faculty of Skill Development, BBSUTSD, Khairpur Mirs, 66020, Sindh, Pakistan.
Phone: +92 243 687057, +92 307 2628929
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E-mail: aftabsoomro@bbsutsd.edu.pk