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  • Phone:

    5434

  • Email:

    mkhan7@pmu.edu.sa

  • Office No:

    S-032

  • Dr Mushtaq Khan

  • Job Title :

    Professor (Design

    Materials and Additive Manufacturing)

  • College :

    College of Engineering


  • Department :

    Mechanical Engineering


Dr Mushtaq Khan is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is a Mechanical Engineer with specialization in Design, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He earned his PhD in Additive Manufacturing (AM) from Loughborough University, UK, focusing on the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) of pure Gold (AU) for dental applications in collaboration with ARGEN corporation USA. Dr Khan pioneered the qualification of pure Gold (AU) for processing through SLM process for dental applications. Dr. Khan was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester, UK, in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM) focused on the Laser Cladding of superalloys and advanced materials. His work was related to experimental validation and qualification of superalloys and advanced materials to develop a coupled CFD-FE model, in collaboration with ESI Germany. Dr Khan has extensive experience in research and development in materials, design, and manufacturing engineering. His research focuses are material qualification and process optimization for AM processes, Machine Learning (ML) and AI in AM, sustainable materials for manufacturing, optimizing conventional manufacturing processes for advanced materials and superalloys, developing functionally graded materials through AM, Laser aided manufacturing and simulation of manufacturing processes. 

Dr Khan has supervised 45 MS students, 4 PhD students as the primary supervisor, and 5 PhD students as a co-supervisor. He has also supervised several graduate student's capstone projects. Dr Khan has published over 69 impact factor journal publications and 49 peer reviewed conference publications. His SCOPUS h index is 29 with more than 2,800 citations and Google scholar h index of 32 with more than 3800 citations.

        Dr Khan is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with Engineering Council UK and Member Institute of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) UK. He is a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) committee F42 on the development of standards for Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. Dr Khan is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK. He has served as a Program Evaluator (PEV) for the accreditation of Bachelor's degrees with the PEC for five years (2017-2021).

        Over the years, Dr. Khan has held several administrative positions, including the postgraduate program coordinator, Deputy Head of Department and head of the curriculum development committee. He also served as the Head of the Department of The Department of Design and Manufacturing Engineering at NUST Pakistan from 2018 to 2021. Dr Khan has received multiple awards, including the Best Researcher award at NUST SMME and the Gold Medal for his Master's degree at NUST Pakistan and PhD scholarship.

AWARDS

  • awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester, UK, in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM) 
  • Best Researcher award at NUST SMME Pakistan
  • Gold Medal for Master's degree at NUST Pakistan
  • Foreign PhD scholarship, NUST Pakistan and Loughborugh University UK.

STUDENT SUPERVISION

  • 04 PhD students supervised
  • 47 MS students supervised.
  • 03 PhD under Supervision
  • 02 MS students under supervision

 

 

Post- doctorate: Marie Curie Fellowship - European FP7 project  INLCADE: Additive Manufacturing – Laser Cladding (LDED) (University of Manchester, UK)

PhD: Additive Manufacturing  (Loughborough University UK)

MS: Mechanical Engineering – specialization in Manufacturing Engineering (NUST, Pakistan)

BSc: Mechanical Engineering (UET Taxila, Pakistan)

 

Dr Khan has published over 78 impact factor journal publications and 52 peer reviewed conference publications. His SCOPUS h index is 30 with more than 2,800 citations and Google scholar h index of 34 with more than 4,100 citations.

SCOPUS Profile

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57730210000

Google Sholar Profile

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=zGyWYAYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

  1. Member American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Membership: committee F42 on “Additive Manufacturing Technologies”

  2. Chartered Engineer (CEng) with Engineerign council UK

  3. Memebr Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, 

  4. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK

  5. Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Professional Engineer (PEC) Program Evaluator OBE Accreditation Washington Accord by PEC for Pakistani Universities

  6. Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan: HEC approved PhD supervisor since 2011.

 

 

  1. Dr Khan pioneered the qualification of pure Gold (AU) for processing through SLM process for dental applications

  2. Total 13 United states (US) patents, including 7 patents related to DED Additive Manufacturing (AM) Process

  3. Over 77 impact factor journal paper

  4. Over 50 conference publication

  5. SCOPUS h index is 30 with more than 2,800 citations

  6. Google scholar h index of 34 with more than 4100 citations.

Books

  • Book Co-Editor — Industry 4.0 and Sustainability: Integrating Digital Technologies and Circular Models for a Sustainable
    Future [2026], Elsevier Publishing. ISBN 978-0-443-32880-0. DOI 10.1016/C2023-0-52690-4.
  • Book chapter — Chapter 5: Additive Manufacturing (AM): The Future of Sustainable Manufacturing, in Industry 4.0
    and Sustainability: Integrating Digital Technologies and Circular Models for a Sustainable Future, Elsevier Publishing,
    2025. Paperback ISBN 978-0-443-32880-0. DOI 10.1016/B978-0-443-32880-0.00013-9.
  • Book chapter—Fundamentals of Industry 4.0 and Sustainability, in Industry 4.0 and Sustainability: Integrating Digital
    Technologies and Circular Models for a Sustainable Future, Elsevier Publishing, 2025. Paperback ISBN 978-0-443-
    32880-0. DOI 10.1016/B978-0-443-32880-0.00014-0.
  • Book chapter — Nanomaterials for Solar Cells, in Nanomaterials for Energy Applications, CRC Press, 2023. ISBN
    9781032429014.

 

 

 

  1. Marie Curie Research Fellow : University of Manchester (2012)
  2. Assitant Professor to Full Professor, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan (2010-2021)
  3. Prince Mohamamd Bin Fahd Univeristy (PMU), KSA (2021- to date)

 

    Hands on expertise

 

  • Selective Laser Melting System (SLM) [Loughborough University UK]
  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) by EOS [Loughborough University UK]
  • Fused Deposition Modeling System (FDM), Stratasys [Loughborough University UK and NUST Pakistan]
  • Laser Cladding Setup (Custom built) [Laser Processing Research Center (LPRC), University of Manchester UK]

 

  1. Additive Manufacturing (AM),
  2. Manufacturing Processes
  3. Design of Mechanisms
  4. Machine Design
  5. Solid Mechanics
  6. Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM),
  7. Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
  8. Engineering Materials,
  9. Laser Material Processing

 

Dr Khan has extensive experience in research and development in materials, design, and manufacturing engineering. His research focuses on:

- Sustainability in AM

- AI and ML in AM

- Material qualification and optimization for AM

- Laser Direct Energy Deposition (LDED) of various coatings

- Laser welding of dissimilar materials

- Laser micromachining of super alloys

- sustainable materials and manufacturing

- optimizing conventional manufacturing processes for advanced materials and superalloys

- developing functionally graded materials through AM and 

- simulation of manufacturing processes.

- Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Council UK

- Member Institute of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) UK

- voting member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) committee F42 on the development of standards for Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes.

- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK

- Professional Mechanical Engineer with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)

- Program Evaluator (PEV) for the accreditation of Bachelor's degrees with the PEC for five years (2017-2021).