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Alumni Successes Highlights

Dr. Faizan Raza
Having over 12 years of industrial, research and academic experience Dr. Faizan Raza currently working as associate professor at Chemical Engineering department NED University of Engineering & Technology. He did his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) from department of Chemical Engineering University of Karachi in Dec 2010. Later he was awarded HEC HRDI UESTP scholarship for masters leading to PhD in 2012 for 5 years. He did his PhD from Fusion Chemical Engineering department at Hanyang University (QS world ranked 50-100 in chemical engineering) South Korea under supervision of Prof. Kim, Jong Ho. His research is related to semiconductor nanomaterials and its energy applications. He is also working in process system engineering applications.		 Dr. Faizan Raza

 

Engr. Sidra Sikandar
Hello
Greetings from my side,
My name is Sidra Sikandar. I am an Alumni of Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Karachi. I graduated in 2014,  at that time the Department was under development, but our hopes and education was elevating. After graduation I chose research path as my curiosity to experiment and learn could be fulfilled in that way. I worked for 3 years on different topics which could not have been possible if I do not have a strong academic background in my Bachelor’s. I applied for various scholarships as I wanted to do my higher studies abroad. I have received women in STEM 30% scholarship and I moved to Germany for my Masters.  I am  currently studying MS in Hydro sciences and Engineering.
It has been a great experience for me so far. It helped me to learn and grow both personally and professionally and  I hope to keep learning and be at a stage to contribute back to the community.

 

Engr. Khizra Abdul Wadood
My name is Khizra Abdul Wadood. In 2015, I graduated with a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Karachi, and then I got a master's degree in Engineering Management from NED University of Engineering & Technology (2017).
I have a proven ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in a categorically agile and professional environment. I have concrete experience in working for analytical laboratories and quality assurance for consumer products.  Along with this, I have successfully completed several process simulation and design projects as well. Remarkably improved project quality, workflow, customer satisfaction and bottom-line results during my job. In addition, I am a great enthusiast of data science and machine learning applications in the process and production industries.
Currently, I am enrolled in an engineering doctorate from at the University of Birmingham. My research project is in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company. The project is about the simulation and modelling of powder dispersion and dissolution processes using open-source applications.    
The aim of the project is to develop a modelling approach for particle wetting and dissolution processes that can be applied to de-risk design, scale-up and technology transfer of mixing processes. Typical powders in question have varying degrees of solubility, wettability, density, size distribution etc.  In many cases, the materials will be in limited supply and/or extremely expensive with little known behaviour beyond bench scale.  Furthermore, since the “product” is a formulation there may be synergies (positive and negative) to consider in the sequence and rates of addition.   Trial and error scale-up is potentially wasteful hence the need to develop an expert predictive model that identifies key parameters to measure and, from these measurements, the best guess of the suitable processes and conditions. This will necessarily be a multiscale approach which will couple fluid and impeller flow dynamics with particle-fluid interactions at the particle scale.

 

 

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