Brief Biography of Professor M. S. J. Hashmi
Prof. Mohammed S.J.Hashmi graduated in December 1967 with a degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the then East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology. He
then served as a junior Lecturer with the same university until September 1968. He joined
UMIST, Manchester, UK, with a scholarship for higher studies and obtained the degrees
of MSc and PhD during the period October 1968 and December 1972. Subsequently he
was appointed as a post-doctoral research fellow at UMIST for 9 months. From October
1973 he joined Sheffield Hallam University as a Lecturer and was there until December
1986 being promoted to Senior Lecturer/ Principal Lecturer/ Reader positions. In January
1987 Professor Hashmi was appointed as Professor and Head of School of Mechanical
and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University a position which he holds to
date.
Professor Hashmi's research interest is manufacturing processes, material properties,
structural mechanics, surface engineering, numerical simulation and engineering &
technology management. In 1995 he was awarded the higher doctorate degree of DSc,
based on his research publications, by the university of Manchester.
Professor Hashmi published/edited 9 books and over 400 papers in journals and
conference proceedings. About 100 PhD and 40 Masters research students successfully
completed their degree under his supervision.
He established the conference series on Advances in Materials and Processing
Technologies in 1990 and is the chairman of the international Steering Committee to
date.
Since 1998 till 2008 Professor Hashmi has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Materials Processing Technology published by Elsevier.
He acted as the external assessor for Professorial appointments for a number of
universities internationally and also for research proposals for a number of international
grant awarding authorities.
He has also acted as the external examiner for a number of degree programmes offered
by universities in Ireland, UK, Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Malaysia, and for PhD
candidates in Ireland, UK, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia.