Faculty of MME
  Dr. Md. Fakhrul Islam     
   B.Sc. Engg.(Met), M.Sc. Engg. (Met.), M.Sc.(UK)., PhD(U.K.)

 

Academic Qualifications:

 

Degree/Examination

Institution

Class/Division/GPA

(Per cent marks)

Year

Ph.D. (Materials Science)

University of Manchester-Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

Successfully completed

1995

M.Sc (Metallic and Ceramic Materials)

University of Manchester-Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

First Class

(70.00%)

1991

M.Sc. Engineering

(Metallurgical)

BUET, Dhaka

GPA = 3.42

(4 point basis)

1988

B.Sc. Engineering (Metallurgical)

BUET, Dhaka

First Class First

(in order of merit)

1986

Higher Secondary certificate

Chittagong Government College, Chittagong

First Division

1980

Secondary School Certificate

Habilashdwip High School, Patiya, Chittagong

First Division

1977

 

Experience (start from present):

 

Position

Organization

Duration

Associate Professor

BUET, Dhaka

3rd December 1998, to date

Assistant Professor

BUET, Dhaka

01 July 1990 - 3rd December 1998

Lecturer

BUET, Dhaka

2 May 1989 - 01 July 1990

 

Membership/Fellowship of Learned Societies, Professional Institutions and Other noteworthy Affiliations, etc.

 

a) Member (Mem. NO. 350517), TMS (Metals, Materials and Minerals society), USA.

b) Fellow (# F01009 MM), BSME (Bangladesh Society of Mechanical Engineer)

c) Member, Bangladesh Ceramic Society, Bangladesh.

d) Member, Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh.

 

Professional Awards/Honours Received:

 

a) Obtained Commonwealth Scholarship in 1990 to undertake M.Sc and Ph.D. programme at UMIST, UK, till 1993.

 

b) Received “Chancellor’s Award” for securing the First Class First position in the B.Sc. Engineering degree.

 

c) Received BUET Merit Scholarship during B.Sc. Engineering programme in 1982, 1983 and 1984.

 

Professional Work at National and International Levels:

 

a) Have taken a project to minimise the percentage of rejection of insulation products of Bangladesh Insulation and Sanitary-ware Factory (BISF), Dhaka.

 

b) Expert hands on Diffusion Bonding (DB) experiments. Did couple of hundred of DB experiments for Rolls-Royce plc, Barnoldswick, Lancashire, UK.

 

c) Hands-on experience with TEM, SEM plus EDX, HIP autoclave, casting techniques, mechanical testing, software development etc.

 

d) Taken a project to find out possibility and feasibility to axe local raw materials in our local ceramic industries.

 

Participation in National Commissions, Committees, etc. commissioned by the Government of Bangladesh and Govt. Institution/Organizations:

 

a) Worked as an active member of the main group to solve the problems of different organizations like Tiende  Ceramics Company Ltd. Bangladesh Titas Gas, Bangladesh Railway, China-Bangla. Ceramic Industries Ltd. Shinephukur Ceramics.

 

b) Member of “Glass and ceramic Section, B.S.S-6” of Bangladesh standard and Testing Institution (B.S.T.I) for the session of 2001-2003.

 

Information provided below for activities since the last appointment/during last five years.

 

Teaching activities undertaken (course and laboratory) at undergraduate and graduate levels since last appointment (last five years):

 

Course No. and Title of the Course Taught

Level

No. of Students

Hrs/

week

Year

MME 321, Crystal defects, deformation and fracture 

L-3, T-1

 

 

2000- till to date

MME 365, Ceramics & Glass Engineering

 

L-3,T-2

 

 

2001-till to date

Met.E. 453, Principles of Materials Characterization

L-4,T-2

20

3

1998

Met.E. 411, Mechanical Metallurgy-I

L-4,T-1

20

3

’97 to 99’

Met.E.371, Ceramics, Polymers and Composite Materials

L-3,T-1

20

3

96 to till to date

Met.E. 339, Extractive Metallurgy

L-3,T-2

20

3

‘96,

Met.E.226, Metallic Materials Sessional

L-2,T-2

70

1.5

1995 till to date

Met.E. 216, Materials Testing Sessional

L-2,T-2

20

3

‘97, 2001

Met.E.6107, Failure Mechanism & Analysis

M.Sc.

5

3

’96 & ‘97

Met.E. 6402, Composite Materials

M.Sc.

3

3

‘97

MME               Light Alloys

M.Sc.

4

3

2001

 

Supervision Thesis/Design Project at Undergraduate Level since the last appointment:

 

No. of Students

Project and Thesis Title

Year

3

Formation of alumina fibre in jute substrate

’96, ’97, 2002

1

The study of microstructure and property difference between diffusion welding and electrical resistance welding

‘97

1

Diffusion welding of stainless steel

‘97-98

5

Structure-property relation in ceramic insulators

‘97-98,2002

 

 Supervision of completed Graduate Research Work:

 

Level

Thesis Title

Year

M.Sc.

Hot Isostatic Diffusion Welding of Titanium Alloys

1997

M.Sc.

Structure-property relationship in high tension ceracmis insulator

2002

 

Research Grants Received (last fifteen years) :

 

Organization Offering the grant

Project Title

Year

BRTC, BUET

Development of software to analyze microstructural image (Image Analyzer)

1996-97

IBBL, Bank, Bangladesh

Development of ceramics for local industries

2002

 

 List of punblications

 

a.  Journal Publications (recognised and refereed Journals).

 

1. Hoque, S.M., Choudhury, M.A. and Islam, M.F.

“Characterization of Ni-Cu mixed spinal ferrite”

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 251 (2002), 292-303.

 

2. Islam M.F. and Ridley, N.

‘Diffusion welding of microduplex stainless steel’

Screipta Mat., 1998.

 

3. Islam, M. F., Pilling, J. and Ridley, N

‘Effect of surface finish and sheet thickness on isostatic diffusion bonding of superplastic Ti-6Al-4V’

Mat.Sci. Tech., December 1997, Vol. 13, 1045-1050.

 

4. Islam, M.F., and Ridley, N.

‘Characterization of diffusion bonds formed between Ti-6Al-4V and Titanium Aluminide Super Alpha-2’

Mat.Sci. Tech., August 1996, Vol. 12, 623-627.

 

5. Pilling, J., Ridley, N., and Islam, M.F.

‘On the modelling of isostatic diffusion bonding in materials: Superplastic Super

Alpha-2’

Mat.Sci. Eng., 1996, A 205, 72-78.

 

6. Islam, M.F. and Haque, M.M.

    ‘Structure and properties of centrifugally cast -Brass’ Mech. Engg. Res. Bull, Vol. 12, 1989, 31-36.

 

b. Conferences (national and international conferences and seminars):

 

i) Procedings:

 

1. Islam, M.F. and Alam, M.O.

‘Interface Characxterfization of Isostatic Diffusion Welding between Dissimilar Titanium Alloys’

Titanium - Extraction and Processing, eds. Mishra, B. and Kipouros, G.J., TMS, Warrendale PA, (1997), 175-186.

 

2. Haseeb, A.S.M.A., Islam, M.F., Alam, M.O. and Tofail, S.A.M.

‘Surface Hardening Behaviour of Titanium Alloys in Carburization’ Titafnium - Extraction and Processfing, eds. Mishra, B. and Kipourous, G.J., TMS Warrendale PA, (1997), 163-173.

 

3. Alam, M.O., Islam, M.F. and Helali, M.M.

‘Diffusion Welding of Ti-3al-2.5V by Hiping’

Proc. International Conference on Structure, Processing andProperties fof Materials, SPPM’97, 15-17 November, 1997, Dhaka, Bangladesh, B53-61

 

4. Tofail, S.A.M. and fIslam, M.F.

‘Alumina fibre: Formation in Jutje substrate’

Proc. 3rd. Annual Paper Meet, Mechanical Engineering Division, Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh, Chittagong, 1996, 22-27.

 

5. Ridley, N. and Islam, M.F.

‘Isostatic diffusion bonding of microduplex alloys’

Hot Isostatic Pressing’93, ed. Delaey, L. and Tas, H., Elsevier Science B.V., (1994),

325-332).

 

6. Ridley, N., Islam, M.F. and Pilling, J.

‘Superplasticity and diffusion bonding of microduplex Super Alpha-2’ Structural Intermetallics, ed. Darolia, R., Lewandowski, J.J., Liu , C.T. et al., TMS, Warrendale PA, (1993), 63-68.

 

7. Alam, M.O. and Islam, M.F.

‘Study on isostatic diffusion welded samples of dissimilar titanium alloys’

Proc. 3rd. Annual Paper Meet, Mechanical Engineering Division, Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh, Chittagong, 1996, 330-337.

 

8. Islam, M.F. and Haque M.M.

‘Effect of process variables on structure and properties of centrifugally cast Brass and Aluminium’

Proc. and. Annual Paper Meet. Mechanical Engineering Division, Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh, 20-23 September 1995, Rajshahi, 35-41.

 

9. Islam, M.F.

‘Diffusion bonding of superplastic Titanium Aluminide’

Proc. 2nd Annual Paper Meet. Mechanical Engineering Division, Institution of Engineers’, Bangladesh, 20-23 September 1995, Rajshahi, 194-204.

 

10. Ridley, N., Islam, M.F. and Pilling, J.

‘Isostatic diffusion bonding studies on superplastic Ti-6Al-4V and Super Alpha-2 intermetallic alloy’.

 

Titanium’92 - Science and technology, ed. Froes, F. H. and Caplan, I.L., TMS, 2, (1993), 1625-1632.

 

i) Presentations:

 

1. Gave a presentation on ‘An objective Analysis of Diffusion Welding’ in the “International  Conference on Structure, Processing and Properties of Materials, SPPM’97, 15-17 November, 1997, Dhaka Bangladesh.

 

2. Presented a paper on ‘Surface Hardening Behaviour of Titanium Alloys in Carburization’ in the “1997 Materials Week” in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 14-18, 1997, jointly organised by TMS and ASM international.

 

3. Presented a paper on ‘Interface Characterization of Isostatic Diffusion Welding between Dissimilar Titanium Alloys in the “1997 Materials Week” in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 14-18, 1997, jointly organised by TMS and ASM internationa.

 

4. Gave a presentation in one day conference on “Superplastic Discussions” held at UMIST organised by the Institute of Metals, UK, Materials World, Vol. 1, September, 1993, 502.

 

5. Presented a paper on ‘Isostatic Diffusion Bonding of Superplastic Microduplex Alloys’ in the “Metals and Materials’ 93” conference held at UMIST, UK, April 1993, organised by the Institute of Metals.

 

6. Presented a poster and a paper on “Isostatic Diffusion Bonding Studies on Superplastic Ti-6Al-4V and Super Alpha-2 Intermetallic Alloy” in the Seventh World Conference on Titanium, 1992, San Diego, California, USA.

 

7. Presented a paper on ‘Effect on some process variables on microstructure and properties of centrifugually cast brass’ in the “33rd Annual Convention of the Institution of Engineers” Bangladesh, held at Dhaka, March 27-30, 1989.

 

8. Gave a presentation on “Future of ceramic processing in Bangladesh” In the 6th Annual paper meet and International conference on Mechanical Engineering in the 21st Centery” 17-19 February 2000.