Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro

Dr. Aftab Ahmed Soomro
Associate Professor/Chairperson
Mechanical Engineering Technology
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Profile

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.
Qualification

  • Degree
  • From
  • Major
  • Year
  • Ph.D
  • Malaysia
  • 2015
  • M.E
  • UET,Taxila
  • 2002
  • B.E
  • MUET Jamshoro
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • 1993
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