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of this program in a variety of areas. The program involves two
years of part-time study and consists of lectures, design, office
work, laboratory investigation, software usage & application
of computational methods and research. The emphasis is on
introducing students to modern trends and techniques and
advanced knowledge in their fields of specialization. The
department has adequate research facilities including licensed
software, state of the art laboratories and access to published
literature to meet the needs of postgraduate students to do
their Masters program. The department is also offering PhD
Program since 2001. By the end of year 2011 it is expected that
the tally of completed PhDs from the MED would be seven
and quite a few are nearing the mature stage of their research.
LABORATORIES & OTHER FACILITIES
The department has the following well-equipped laboratories
to meet the academic requirements of students and teachers
as well as the professional needs of the government and
private organizations:
a. Applied Thermodynamics
b. Mechanics of Materials
c. Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
d. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
e. Heat and Mass Transfer
f. Mechanics of Machines
g. Power Plants
h. Internal combustion Engines
i. Engineering Materials
j. CAD-I
k. CAD-II
l. Engineering Optimization
m. Engineering Mechanics (Static & Dynamics)
n. Drawing Hall
o. Stress Analysis
p. Mechanical Vibrations
q. Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue
r. Renewable Energy Research & Development Center
( RERDC )
s. Tribology
The scope of research in the field of material science remains
always a challenging job. The testing of materials; their analysis
is always helpful for the new researcher to explore the various
properties and characteristics of materials. The Fracture
Mechanics & Fatigue laboratory is established in the extension
block of Mechanical Engineering Department at ground floor
comprising a covered area of 3500 ft2. The idea to establish
this advance laboratory was to enhance the research and
development activities in the field of fatigue and fracture. The
laboratory is equipped with many state of art highly precise
testing equipment along with related specimen preparation
facility.
The laboratory is equipped with experimental facilities capable
to satisfy the needs of postgraduate and undergraduate
studies as well as industry R&D. Further more this laboratory
is potentially able to produce internationally scaled research
work in the field of fracture mechanics, fatigue of engineering
materials and structures and failure analysis of engineering
components and related equipments, particularly defense
organizations. The present equipment can perform the
following well known standard tests at different levels:
• Strain-controlled fatigue tests under axial loading
• Stress-controlled fatigue tests under axial loading
• Stroke-controlled fatigue tests under axial loading
• Fatigue tests under rotating bending moments
• Fatigue tests under combined bending & twisting
moments
• Fatigue crack growth tests
• Fracture Mechanics tests ( KIC, JIC, CTOD )
• Tensile tests on specimens of different geometries
• Static bending tests
• Static torsion tests
• Notch Impact tests
• Wear fatigue tests
The fluid Mechanics lab in the department was renovated and
brought up to the state of the art under the “strengthening of
labs project” of HEC. A considerable sum of 36.34 million rupees
was spent under the project to procure new experimental
equipment in the period stretching between 2006 and 2009.
The Fluid Mechanics Lab today boosts twelve state of the art
experimental equipments, including sub-sonic wind tunnel,
forced and free vortex generator and parallel and series pump
test bed.
A CAD Laboratory has been established to provide facilities
for 2D/3D automated drafting, C++ programming and
Digital Simulation. Computer based design and optimization
techniques are being employed for teaching various courses
in the networking environment and considerable number
of modern computers is available in the Department. The
Department shares AMS Lab with Department of Industrial
Engineering, which include the state of the art manufacturing
facilities with CNC (M100), computer Integrated manufacturing
with AGVs/ASRS and virtual prototyping models. The students
can enhance their technical knowledge by using STL files
directly from Pro-E and build a model in 3D using rapid
prototyping System.
The department has also established a new Renewable Energy
Research & Development Center (RERDC). The purpose of the
RERDC is to reduce the existing deficiency in research facilities
in the Pakistani universities especially in energy sector to
support the Pakistani energy policy and departmental
priorities for increasing the viability and deployment of
renewable energy through system design and prototype
development and optimization that enhance domestic benefit
from renewable energy development.
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