Office of Research, Innovation and

Commercialization (ORIC)

Presentation Layout

• ORIC an HEC Initiative

• ORIC at CUST

• Research Operations at CUST

• Technology Incubation & Innovation

• CUST-Industry Liaison

ORIC AN HECINITIATIVE

ORIC an HEC Initiative

To make research a top priority for a sustainable economic growthand future knowledge economy at Higher Education Institutions(HEIs) HEC aimed to establish pivotal centers at universities

These centers are known as Offices of Research, Innovation andCommercialization (ORIC)

ORIC ATCUST

ORIC at CUST

➢Prof. Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

Dean Research & innovation

➢Muhammad Farhan

Assistant Director ORIC

Vice Chancellor

ORIC Advisory Board

Dean Research & Innovation

ORIC Research

Committee

Assist. Dir.

Research

Assist. Dir.

ORIC

Hierarchical Model

ORIC Mission

To motivate and facilitate the universityresearchers to innovate and collaborate with thestake-holders leading to resource generationthrough commercialization

1. Research Operations at CUST

2. Technology Incubation & Innovation

3. CUST-Industry Liaison

Mission Based on Three Outcomes

1. ResearchOperations

ORIC Constituted Bodies

Constitution of Bodies

ORIC Research

Committee

08 Members and

Convener

ORIC Advisory

Board

05 members, Convener and

Secretary

05 meetings held up to

date.

Meetings held on monthly

basis.

01 meetings held up to

date.

Constitution of ORIC Advisory Board

S/No. Name Organization Designation

1 Prof. Aamer Iqbal Bhatti Dean ORIC, CUST Convener

2 Dr. Abdul Shakoor Amjad CEO RWR, Islamabad Member

3 Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Deputy DG,NESCOM Member

4 Dr. Shahid Nasir Director Finite Engineering Member

5 Dr. Muhammad Ismail Director IBGE Member

6 Mr. Muhammad Shahid Shafiq CTO Elixir Technologies Member

7 Mr. Muhammad Farhan Assistant Director ORIC Secretary

Action Items of ORIC Advisory Board Meeting

• Promote Faculty Motivation level towards research and innovation.

• Faculty should be encouraged to increase their interaction with the localindustry by a systematic outreach campaign.

• Confidence building measures such as visiting industries and solving theirsmall problems even at no cost.

• Solving real world problems.

• Low level projects like app development, Agricultural projects, Bio-devices, Biotechnology, smoke detectors, pollution sensors.

• Reduced course load or better appraisals against the letter of support tofaculty.

Action Items of ORIC Advisory Board Meeting (Cont.)

• Interdisciplinary research should be strongly promoted along with crossfaculty courses and cross faculty research.

• Industries actively approached and explored by faculty.

• Brochure of the faculty skills.

• Interested faculty to be carefully chosen and given free hand to fosterindustrial ties.

• Links of Punjab government to be utilized for the outreach.

• Young faculty with industry experience should be engaged.

Workshop on Latex

A “One Day Workshop on LaTex” was conducted on 13th March, 2018.

• For Basic understanding of creating a Latex document.

• A total of 80 personnel including professionals, Engineers, Faculty Members and Students attended the workshop .

BIM Orientation

• Future of the AEC industry lies in BIM.

• An orientation session was organized for faculty andstudents of CE about BIM and construction industry’strends.

Seminar on “New Developments in Electric Motors and Drives”

• The talk covered new developments in high efficiency electric motors and drives.

Speaker: Dr. Mahmood Nagrial – Associate. Prof., Western Sydney University, Australia

Seminar on “Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management—New Domains for Expanding

the Scope of Control Science and Engineering”

Speaker: Dr. Tariq Samad, Senior Fellow andW.R. Sweatt Chair, Technological LeadershipInstitute, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, USA.• The relevance of feedback, optimization,

Estimation, modeling and other topics

in control were highlighted.

Publication Database

Faculty Journal and Conference Publications

Journals=648

Conference=593

Publications affiliated with CUST and MAJU

Journals=424

Conference=359

Publications affiliated with CUST only

(Journals)

Journals=143

Version Control still an issue

Version Control Still an issue

Content of the Annual Research Book Includes

Introduction

CUST Vision

and Mission

2017 R&D

Projects

Prototypes Developed

CUST Collaboration

CUST 2017

Journal Publicatio

ns

Annual Research Book

Website Renovation & Honorarium Form

• Data for ORIC Website has been shared with the Web Developer Including

• ORIC Mission

• CUST R&D Projects

• CUST MoUs

Research Honorarium Form has been redesigned and in process to be made available online.

Compilation of University Research Groups

Acme Center for Research in Wireless communications

• Group Head – Prof. Noor Muhammad Khan

• Members - 13

Control and Signal Processing Research Group

• Group Head – Prof. Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

• Members - 13

Center of Research in Network & Telecom

• Group Head – Prof. Amir Qayyum

• 08

Parallel Computing and Network.

• Group Head – Dr. Arshad Islam

• Members - 16

Center for Software Dependability

• Group Head – Dr. Aamer Nadeem

• Members - 15

Data Integration, Data Science, Graph Algorithms

• Group Head – Dr. Nayyer Masood

• Members - 07

Vision and Pattern Recognition

• Group Head – Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed Taj

• Members -

Microelectronics & RF Engineering

Group Head – Prof. Dr. M. Mansoor Ahmed

Members - 10

CUST OB & HR Research Group

• Group Head – Dr. Sajid Bashir

• Members - 07

Way Forward (For Approval from BASR)

1. Approval of minutes of 1st ORIC Advisory Board Meeting

3. Research posters to be added as milestone for PhD students

2. ORIC Mission

• To motivate and facilitate the university researchers to innovate and collaborate with the stake-holders leading to resource generation through commercialization

4. Seminars attendance mandatory for MS and PhD students

5. Inter faculty PG courses

6. One day reserved for faculty to visit industry

7. Industrial Research to be included in faculty Appraisal

8. Research Productivity Award for Faculty

2. Technology Incubation & Innovation

To promote technology & innovation concept of innovation lab is proposed

These labs will facilitate faculty and students to design,

develop and showcase there own ideas & products

Students Final Year Projects will be assembled and

executed in theses innovation labs

Rapid Prototyping Lab for Mechanical Products

• Robot Casing

• Mechanism Manufacturing

• Mechanical structure

The Proposed Innovation Labs are

Rapid Prototyping Lab for Mechanical Products

• Embedded system productization

• Antenna design & manufacturing

• Power Electronics productization

Progressive meetings are

conducted with NI

representatives for these labs

Mobile App Incubation

• Infrastructure for mobile app development and commercialization

BIM Design Center

• Future of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry lies in BIM.

• Provide Certifications on BIM

• Opportunity for entrepreneurs.

Two Meeting in this regards are conducted with the

Autodesk representative

Innovation Lab

• These labs will be for all departments

• Innovation labs will be the center point to generate and register spin out companies

Way Forward (For Approval from BASR)

Establishment of these five labs as proposed

3. CUST-IndustryLiaison

Electric Rickshaw Project with UET Lahore

Electric vehicle is a pollution free transportationsystem, no gas emit in electric vehicle.

Electric tri wheeler covered 31 km/charge whereIC engine tri wheeler covered 32 km/L.

Electric vehicle is cost efficient

A Joined Project With HIT

A project titled as “Development ofRemote Control 12.7 mm Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun (AAMG) for Al-Khalid Tank” has been started withHIT.

The proposed project work belongsto local development of Remote Con1.7 mm AAMG for TK AK to enhanceits fire power which has immenseimportance to HIT.

Autonomous Landing/Takeoff of UAV-PhD Fellowship

A funded project initiated withNational Engineering and ScientificCommission (NESCOM) on“Autonomous Landing/Takeoff of UAV”

The project covers a PhD fellowship-CUST student has been selected for thefellowship after test and interviewconducted by NESCOM team.

Stress Analysis of Tank Al-Khalid

A project on static and dynamic analysisof Alkhalid Tank is in progress with HIT.

Dr Khawar Naveed, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of ME is heading the project.

Static Analysis iscompleted. DynamicAnalysis is in progress andwill be completed soon.

Visit To Atlas Honda Motorcycle Limited

A visit conductedby two MEfaculty membersDr liaqat AliKhan and Dr.Azfar Khalid andtwo MS studentsthrough priorfacilitation ofORIC.

Head CorporateAffairs AHML assuredthat for any technicalissue if a solution isneeded CUST will becalled to participateand go through anopen proposalapproval process.

Three-four paidinternshipsoffered to CUSTby headcorporate affairsAtlas HondaMotorcycleLimited from thissummer.

Industry Certification

Orientation session held for graduating

batch of Department of Civil Engineering

about BIM and construction

industry’s trends

Director TrainingLahore Institute ofAnimation & Design,Islamabad CampusofferedAutodesk certificationsfor CUST Students

Liaisons with Automotive Industry.

Collaboration with IST in the field of Avionics.

Collaboration with Air University in the field of Radar Technology

Collaboration with COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,Islamabad campus in process control.

PAF Academia Collaboration

Collaborations

Dean ORIC to Visit localorganizations and Industriespersonally on daily basiswith faculty members ofrelevant department .

Way Forward (For Approval from BASR)

The projects acquired will befor respective facultymembers

Industries targeted will beGujranwala, Hattar, Rawat, Lahore andFaisalabad