I am Dr Muhammad Fahad, and I am the Course Leader of BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering program at University of Staffordshire. I have over twenty years’ professional experience in engineering. My main roles have been related to delivering lectures at both graduate and postgraduate level courses as well as to perform and lead research projects. I have over thirty research publications including three book chapters and have also successfully supervised two PhD projects. Apart from teaching at degree level, I have been linked with various renowned manufacturing industries (including automotive, textiles, pharmaceuticals, home appliance and food manufacturing) as a trainer and consultant on different projects related to layout enhancement, productivity improvement and lean manufacturing implementation. My recent projects include working with a local (based in Newcastle under Lyme) manufacturing company to enhance the properties of their composite materials.
Professional memberships and activities
- Chartered Engineer
- MIMechE
- PE (PEC)
- FPAE
- MIEP
Academic qualifications
- PhD - Mechanical Engineering (Loughborough University, UK)
- MSc - Manufacturing Management (Loughborough University, UK)
- BEng (Hons) - Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (NED University, Pakistan)
Expertise
- Manufacturing Operations/Technology
- Additive Manufacturing
- Materials Engineering
- Lean Manufacturing
- Productivity Optimisation
Research interests
- Additive Manufacturing
- Materials Testing and Characterisation
- Value Stream Mapping
- Productivity Improvement
Enterprise and commercial interests
Consulting on commercial projects related to product/process design and improvement.
Teaching
- Manufacturing Systems Applications
- Manufacturing Systems and Quality
- Manufacturing Operations
- Manufacturing Technology
- Advanced Materials and Quality
- Engineering Design, Manufacture and Sustainability
Publications
- Muhammad Fahad, Waseem Raja, Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, and Abdul Waheed Awan: Effect of Curvature Shape on the Impact Strength of Additively Manufactured Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Parts Produced via Fused Deposition Modeling, Designs 8, no. 6 (2024): 132, https://doi.org/10.3390/designs8060132
- Asif Hasan, Muhammad Fahad, and Maqsood Ahmed Khan: Effect of print parameters on the tensile strength and built time of FDM-printed PLA parts, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 132.5 (2024): 3047-3065, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-024-13506-x
- Muhammad Fahad, Mona Mujeeb, Maqsood A Khan: Effect of Process Parameters on the Compressive and Impact Strength of 3D Printed Parts, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology – Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, Available online 1st July 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40997-022-00514-z
- Muhammad Fahad, Maqsood A Khan, Marianne Gilbert: Investigation of Thermal Gel Formation of Methylcellulose in Glycols Using DSC and XRD, Gels, Volume 7, Number 4, 2021, 205; https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7040205
- Shaheen Perween, Muhammad Fahad, Maqsood A Khan: Systematic Experimental Evaluation of Function Based Cellular Lattice Structure Manufactured by 3D Printing, Applied Sciences, Volume 11, Number 21, 2021, 10489; https://doi.org/10.3390/app112110489
- Muhammad Fahad, Syed Asad Ali Naqvi, Muhammad Atir, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Musharaf Shehzad: Energy Management in a Manufacturing Industry through Layout Design, Procedia Manufacturing, Volume 8, 2017, Pages 168-174, doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.02