Biography
A.D. Chandio has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from The University of Manchester, England, UK. He is an Associate Professor/Incharge Material Testing and Consultancy Services  of the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Departments, NED University, Pakistan. He has over 25 publications in national and international journals that have been cited several times, and has been serving as a reviewer of reputed Journals. Currently, Dr. Chandio is involved in several national projects such as Barrages etc. and other projects of classified nature. Moreover, some of the projects include mineral resources, steels for barrages, armored materials, failure investigations of aeroengine turbines and landing gears. In the first quarter of year 2019, more PhD students are expected to join him thereby increasing their strength to 8.

Publications

1. A.D. Chandio, Basit Ansari, Shahid Hussain Abro and Muhammad Ali Siddiqui “Silicon Carbide Effect as Reinforcement on Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite” Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan, 2018 (accepted manuscript).

2. Shahid Hussain Abro, A.D. Chandio, On the effect of global warming and role of automotive industry, PCSIR Journal (accepted manuscript)

3. Madani Shifa, Fawad and A.D. Chandio, Mechanical and electrical properties of hybrid honeycomb sandwich structure for spacecraft structural applications" in the Journal of Sandwich Structure and Materials, Sage Publication

4. M. A. Khan Z. A. Gilan M. S. Shifa , A. D. Chandio , M. N. Usmani , H. M. N. Ul Huda K. Asghar , S. Aslam , M. Khalid , A. Perveen , J. Ur Rehman , M. Mustaq EE Thermogravimetric Analysis, Optical and Dielectric Properties of Newly Developed LiNi0.5PrxFe2-xo4 Nanocrystalline Ferrites, Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures, Vol 13, issue 3, pp. 809 – 816, 2018.

Research and Projects

1. Failure Investigation of Aircrafts, Sub-marines, power plants etc.
2. Synthesis and Characterisations of Nanomaterials
3. Dental composites and Implants
4. X-ray doses
5. High Temperature Materials
6. Corrosion
7. Battery Materials
8. X-rays for Medical Applications
9. Reverse Engineering of Castings to be used in Automotive Applications

Ph.D. Students

1. Syed Aqeel Ahmed Shah
2. Ms.Shafaq Asrar
3. Mr. Waseem Khan
4. Ms. Zubia Anwar
5. Ms. Sajida Shaikh
6. Ms. Ambreen Azmat

Masters Students

1. Mr. Basit Ansari
2. Mr. Ammar

Membership

1. Member Technical Evaluation Committee Home Office, Government of Sindh for Chief Minster Secretariat (2017 to 2018)
2. Member Technical Evaluation Committee for MYD and MMD, NED University, Karachi.
3. Member Technical Evaluation Committee for Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Department, MUET, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
4. Expert Member, BOS, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Department, MUET, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
5. PhD Proposal Reviewer, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Department, MUET, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
6. Reviewer, Surface Coating and Technology (USA) Journal.
7. Member PSQCA on various standards related to Materials and Metallurgical Engineering which includes, Material Testing, Welding and Material Selection.
8. Member National Curriculum committee (NCRC) of “ Materials and Metallurgical Engineering”, HEC Islamabad, Pakistan.
9. Member Engineering Practice Examination (EPE), Pakistan Engineering Council.
10. Others (American Ceramic Society, ASM, USA).
11. Member for Assessment Teams (AT) for both M. Engg. and Ph.D, NED University

Awards

1. Nominated for Speaker Award, Beatle, (USA) (2015).
2. Manchester Postgraduate Award (UK) (2011 – 2014)

Teaching Interests

1. Materials Science/Engineering Materials
2. Advanced Materials Characterisation Techniques
3. Corrosion Science and Engineering
4. Physical Metallurgy
5. High Temperature Materials and Superalloys
6. Surface Engineering
7. Biomaterials