NED University of Engineering and Technology, PropellAir’21 was hosted by IMechE NEDUET Student Chapter. In the event, the participants had to design, fabricate and ultimately fly an unmanned aircraft. The event comprised of workshops, oral exam and e-test of participants, and actual flight demonstrations of handmade aircraft. The final contest was held on Saturday, July…
Flapping wing micro aerial vehicles are studied as the substitute for fixed and rotary wing micro aerial vehicles because of the advantages such as agility, maneuverability, and employability in confined environments. Hummingbird’s sustainable hovering capability inspires many researchers to develop micro aerial vehicles with similar dynamics. In this research, a wing of a ruby-throated hummingbird…
Pakistan’s foremost internationally competing drone team has made the country proud once again by winning the Runner Up Award at U.K’s IMechE UAS Challenge 2021. Team NUST Airworks is an undergraduate team based in the National University of Sciences & Technology – Pakistan Navy Engineering College, Karachi. NUST Airworks has been designing, manufacturing and testing…
Coronavirus disease the COVID-19 is a newly discovered infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in the world, the public were introduced to the new living behaviors that previously unheard of, at least to the general populace. A collective, global effort was started in 2020 to combat, mitigate and control…
Finding Innovative & Creative Solutions for Society (FICS) is a NUST’s flagship program which, for the past 08 years, continues to promote innovative ideas with high social impact. FICS ’21 was launched on December 02, 2020, with yet another exciting chapter for this year. During November-May 2021, CAC conducted 6 Idea Generation sessions to stimulate…
Within the heart of NUST lies a state-of-the-art facility, devoted for the research, development and manufacturing of medical devices, where a dedicated team of biomedical scientists and engineers led by Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali (Fig. 1) is striving for the betterment of healthcare facilities for the deprived population of Pakistan. Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali, who…
