Faculty Profile

Syed Saad Farooq
Lecturer
MS NUST college of E& ME Rawalpindi

Engr. Saad has a research background in automation and optimization of engineering systems. He is serving as lecturer in the Institute of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering KFUEIT. He is also doing Ph.D on entitled "multi-objective optimization of solar PV efficiency enhancement" Previously he has done MS research from NUST in "optimization of design of parallel manipulators". He has numerous impact factor journals, conferences and book chapter under his academic and research career. Some main projects like automatic storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), robotic arms, robotic cleaning, 5 DOFs CNC machine, automatic paint spraying, robotic graspers,Dual axis solar tracking system have been developed under his supervision. His software expertise primarily includes MATLAB, CNC programming, sematic S7 PLC programming, ANSYS and Arduino IDE.

Impact Factor Journals 

  •  S.S Farooq, A.A Baqai, M.F Shah, “ Optimal Design of Tricept Parallel Manipulator with Particle 

Swarm Optimization using Performance Parameters” Journal of Engineering Research 2021, 

doi.org/10.36909/jer.v9i2.9073 

  •  M.F  Shah,  Z.  Kausar,  M.U  Farooq,  L.A  Khan,  S.S Farooq, “Accuracy  analysis  of  machining 

trajectory contemplating  work piece dislocation on a six degrees of freedom machining bed” 

Proceedings of the institution of mechanical engineers, Part C:Journal of Mechanical Engineering 

Science 2021, doi.org/10.1177/0954406220974049 

Other Journals 

  • M.F  Shah  ,  Z.Kausar,  S.S  Farooq,“  Kinematic  Analysis  and  Workspace  Determination  for  a  6 

Degree of  Freedom Machining Bed” IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 1016 2018, 

doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1016/1/012018 

  • S.S Farooq, N.Farhan, F.Faiz, M.Uzair, M.F Shah, N.Shafi,“ Experimental Review and Analysis of 

Improved Energy Generation Using Speed Humps” Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research 

Vol 1, P125-139, 2020 

  •  G.M  Khan,  M.F  Shah,  S.S  Farooq,  S.Muhammad  Hammad,”  Implementation  of  Flexible 

manufacturing system and its quantitative analysis for pump industries” International Journal Of 

Scientific & Technology Research, Vol 9, Issue 03, 2020 

Book Chapters 

  •  M.F Shah, K.Nazeer, Z. Kausar , M U Farooq, S S Farooq, G.M Khan, “A Six Degree of Freedom 

Machining Bed” Functional Reverse Engineering of Strategic and Non-Strategic Machine Tools, 

2021, doi.org/10.1201/9780367808235 

  • S.S Farooq ,M.F Shah, Muhammad S.Sahar, G.M Khan, Z. Kausar , M U Farooq, “ Internet of 

Things Advancements and Challenges in Manufacturing Industries ”Machine tools: An industry 

4.0 Perspective, 2023, doi.org/ 10.1201/9781003220985-4 

Conferences 

  •  S.S Farooq, J. Attique, S.A Ahmad, Muhammad U Farooq, M.A Qaisrani, “Performance Analysis 

Of Dual Axis Solar Tracking System Actuated Through Serial Manipulators” IEEE (ETECTE) 

2023, doi.org/10.1109/ETECTE55893.2022.10007364 

  •  S.S Farooq, A.A Baqai, S.butt, W.A Tarar, A.Baig “Multi objective Optimization of Tricept 

Parallel Manipulator using Evolutionary Algorithms” FAIM UK Vol 1, P 624-631, 2015

  • Optimization of Mechanical Systems
  • Mechatronics System Design
  • Instrumentation and Control Engineering