A team of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DME), Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) of International Islamic University (IIUI) after bagging numerous achievements on national level continues its journey of accomplishments as it qualifies among final 6 teams of the HULT PRIZE out of 28 teams across the world that will be taking place in New York on 20th Sep 2022 for the grand prize of 1Million USD.
The indigenously developed final year project of the students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology was supervised by Assistant Professor Engr. Javed Ahmed Khan Tipu and co-supervised by Dr. Muhammad Arif, Lecturer that took them to height of national and international triumphs. The team members included Hafiz Muhammad Muaz Suhaib, Muhammad Naveed, Haris Ahmed Khan and Saleha Usman of Department of Anthropology.
Earlier this team won the HULT PRIZE Regional Summit and also won the HULT PRIZE 2022 Global Accelerator Program in Boston, U.S.A. To reach this stage they competed with 200,000 teams worldwide initially and 28 teams in Global Accelerator Program.
The success story started from winning the funding of 600,000/- PKR from PSF, sponsored by UNESCO, UNDO, COCA COLA FOUNDATION and other famous companies for the development of the “Low-Cost Plastic Waste Recycling Machine”. This machine converts plastic waste into 3-D printing filament. This filament is then used as a raw material for manufacturing various 3-D printed products. Later on, this project took part in many National and International Competitions and finally the team won laurels on the global level in the final stage of the HULT PRIZE.
The team members have said that this is the result of the day and night efforts of all the group members for this worldwide competition. They have thanked the Chairman Department of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Adnan Aslam Noon and Dean FET Dr. Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh for their constant support and guidance which made these achievements possible and helped raise Pakistan’s flag Internationally.