Pride of Performance 2024

Dr Umar Shahbaz (Pride of Performance) is currently serving as a Professor at NUST CoEME. He is also the Director of National Centre of Robotics & Automation. His major achievements include accreditation of Mechatronics Engineering as one of the first programmes under the Washington Accord (WA), which helped Pakistan Engineering Council become a signatory of WA; uplift of Robotics and Automation in the country; project fundraising of around PKR 585 million; development of Myo Prosthetic Upper Limb, which has been commercialised and is being widely used by patients; co-founder of two NUST approved spinoffs; author of 78 publications and so on.