School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

In January 2007 the school started as Institute of Manufacturing Engineering (IME) in a hired accommodation in Sector F-11, Islamabad.

Fazal Ellahi was named acting director of the institute, and was charged with procuring the laboratory equipment.

Anticipating delivery of the laboratory equipment and realizing the need for space, the school was allocated a building in H-12 Campus of NUST in 2008, and SMME was also partly moved to the new location.

In August 2009, Dr Abdul Ghafoor was appointed as the head of the school and fully established in the H-12 campus of NUST.

[citation needed] The mission of the mechanical engineering program is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, skills and professional experience necessary for successful careers in industrial or academic roles.

The department has Research labs including Rapid Prototyping havind SLA abd FDM setups with reverse engineering technology with equipments loke Creaform 3D laser scanner, Minolta scanner, Faroarm with advanced software for designing and analysis.

The department houses dedicated laboratories of robotics and intelligent systems engineering, machine vision, UAVs/aerial robotics, control systems, industrial automation, electronics, embedded systems, and computer-aided engineering whereas it is supported by the manufacturing resource center, rapid prototyping lab, and computer numerical control lab which facilitates mechanical fabrication of indigenously-designed robot prototypes at the school.

These laboratories comprise equipment both for research as well as teaching purposes including mobile and humanoid robots, robotic arms of various types, stereo vision camera systems, robot designing kits, advanced microcontroller instrumentation, human brain–computer interface equipment, remote piloted helicopters, pneumatic/hydraulic workstations, PCB precision prototyping facilities as well as various models for experimentation into non-linear and adaptive control systems.