EDUCATION

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2015 – 2019	Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, South Korea Thesis Title: Optimal Design of Wideband Acoustical Transducers and their Sparse Array for Efficient Sound Radiation
2007 – 2009	Masters Mechanical Engineering  Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan Thesis Title: Detailed Finite Element Analysis of the Combustion Chamber of a Small Turbofan Engine
2002 – 2005	B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering  University of Engineering & Technology, (UET) Taxila, Pakistan

 

 WORK EXPERIENCE

Academic Experience:

• 2025-Present, Assistant Professor
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Science and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan
• 2024-2025, Assistant Professor
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering, CAE, NUST, Risalpur
• 2022-2023, Assistant Professor
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, COMSATS University Wah Campus
• 2019-2020, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

• 2013-2014, Lecturer
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Science and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan

Industrial Experience:

• 2006-2012, NESCOM Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Designation: Assistant Manager & Manager
  • Responsibilities/Work Experience:
    • • Computer Aided Design and Development (CADD)
      • Design, development, and testing of mechanical/aerospace support structures
      • Non-Conformance (NCRs) Settling
      • Fixture design for manufacturing
      • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of Mechanical structures using ANSYS
      • ISO 9001 Coordination and Implementation.

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HONORS/AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

• King’s Scholarship for International student at Kyungpook National University, South Korea.(2015-2018)
• Best graduate student award for year 2018 from Brain Korea (BK21) Program at Kyungpook National University, South Korea.
• Indigenous Scholarship for MS Student by Government of Pakistan. (2007-2009)

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PUBLICATIONS

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 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 

• N. Khan, A. Usman, Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, M. Tanveer, and C. W. Park, Numerical investigation of thermomechanical behavior of Yttrium barium zirconate-coated aluminum alloy piston in an internal combustion engine, Appl. Therm. Eng. 236, 121603 (2024).
• Yongrae Roh, Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, and Seol Ryun Kwon, Analysis of the Effect of Radiating Surface Geometry on the Beam Pattern of Underwater Acoustical Transducers, Sens. Actuator A Phys. 330, 112843 (2021).
• Seonghun Pyo, Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Youngsub Lim, Seungjin Lee, Hongwoo Yoon and Yongrae Roh, Design of a Wideband Tonpilz Transducer Comprising Non-Uniform Piezoceramic Stacks with Equivalent Circuits, Sensors, 21 (08), 2680. (2021).
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Youngsub Lim, Seungjin Lee, Hongwoo Yoon and Yongrae Roh, Optimization and characterization of a wideband multimode Tonpilz transducer for underwater acoustical arrays, Sens. Actuator A Phys., 307, 112001 (2020).
• Muhammad Noaman Zahid, Rashid Ali and Muhammad Shakeel Afzal. Acquisition and analysis of multi-global navigation satellite system signals based on fast Fourier transform, J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 64, 1288–1297 (2019).
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Hayeong Shim and Yongrae Roh. Design of a piezoelectric multilayered structure for ultrasound sensors using the equivalent circuit method, Sensors, 18 (12), 4491. (2018)
• Yongrae Roh, Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Optimal design of a sparse planar array transducer for underwater vehicles by inclusion of crosstalk effect, Japanese J. Appl. Phy. 57 (7S1): 07LG02. (2018)
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Yongrae Roh. Optimal design of a sparse planar array sensor for underwater vehicles, J. acous. soc. Korea, 37 (1), 53. (2017)

 

 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, and Yongrae Roh, Optimal Design of the Low Frequency Multimode Transducer for Underwater Acoustical Array, The 34^th conference on Underwater Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of Korea, Jeju Island, Korea, May 09-10, 2019
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Hayeong Shim and Yongrae Roh, Equivalent circuit analysis of a piezoelectric multilayered structure for in-air ultrasound sensors, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2018), Kobe, Japan, Oct 22-25, 2018
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal and Yongrae Roh, Design of a sparse array to simulate a fully dense underwater planar array transducer for underwater vehicles, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2017), Washington .D.C., USA, Sep. 6-9, 2017
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Hayeong Shim, Yongrae Roh. Design of a piezoelectric multilayered structure for ultrasound sensors using the equivalent circuit method, The 39^th Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics (USE2018), kyoto, Japan, Oct. 29-31, 2018
• Yongrae Roh, Muhammad Shakeel Afzal. Optimal design of a sparse planar array transducer for underwater vehicles by inclusion of crosstalk effect, The 38^th Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics (USE2017), Tagajo, Japan, Oct. 25-27, 2017
• Muhammad Shakeel Afzal, Yongrae Roh. Optimal design of a sparse array to simulate a fully dense underwater planar array transducer for underwater vehicles, The 37^th Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics (USE2016), Busan, Korea, Oct. 16-18, 2016.

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 PATENTS 

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PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS

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