NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is set to host a talk on Advances in Large Scale Additive Manufacturing and Digital Value Stream Mapping, scheduled for Friday, July 10, from 3 PM to 4 PM at Akhter Nawaz Hall on the college’s Rawalpindi campus. The session is open to all faculty members and postgraduate students, and forms part of the college’s ongoing effort to bring international research perspectives into its academic environment.
The talk will be delivered by Doctor Ahmed Jawad Qureshi, who holds the Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Automation at the University of Alberta. Qureshi’s research centres on additive manufacturing, robust design, and engineering design more broadly, and he currently leads the Additive Design and Manufacturing Systems Lab at the University of Alberta, where his work focuses on developing systems and processes for additive manufacturing technology, including large scale and robotic based approaches to the field.
Additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, has increasingly moved beyond small scale prototyping toward large scale industrial applications, including aerospace components, large metal structures, and complex geometries that would be difficult or costly to produce through traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Qureshi’s published research has previously examined how robotic systems combined with direct energy deposition techniques can enable the production of parts ranging from sub metre to multi metre in size, an area considered central to the future scaling of additive manufacturing beyond niche applications and into broader industrial use.
The second focus of the talk, digital value stream mapping, relates to how manufacturers use digital tools and data driven models to visualise, analyse, and optimise the flow of materials and information through a production process. Combining this approach with additive manufacturing reflects a broader shift within advanced manufacturing research toward integrating digital planning tools directly into physical production systems, allowing manufacturers to identify inefficiencies and improve decision making before committing to costly physical changes on the factory floor.
The event adds to a series of research seminars NUST CEME has hosted in recent months, drawing on its Advanced Manufacturing and Automation Group and its Department of Mechanical Engineering, both of which maintain active research programmes in manufacturing technologies and automation. By hosting international researchers such as Qureshi, the college continues to build connections between its own faculty and postgraduate community and specialists working at institutions abroad, offering local researchers exposure to methods and technologies being developed at the frontier of large scale manufacturing research.
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