PAMF inaugurates 16th ISAM-2019.

Islamabad -- The 16th ISAM-2019 (International Symposium on Advanced Materials) organised by Pakistan Advance Materials Forum (PAMF) has been inaugurated here today. Addressing the Inaugural Ceremony, Chief Guest Chairman Pakistan Engineering Council, Mr Jawed Saleem Qureshi, highlighted the scope of materials technology as unlimited. He said that 'Material development today is now much closer to engineering science than in the past. The engineer's ability to translate that science into application is now approaching the level of atomic and molecular design. The availability of new analytical and computational techniques has enabled engineers to take the study of material properties to new heights, and holds tremendous potential for the future'.

He added that 'Pakistan is a developing country, and is rich in material resources. We also have some of the best manpower but unfortunately our resources remain untapped and our expertise finds few avenues to flourish because we utterly lack the infrastructure and the sophisticated technology of minerals processing, alloy development, melting and zone refining, fabrication and forming techniques etc'.

Addressing at the Ceremony, the Chairman of the Symposium, Mr. Tahir Ikram emphasised the role of advanced materials saying that 'Advanced materials for the twenty first century need material experts. Developments in the design of advanced materials are required to meet the increasing demands in the fields of aircraft, aerospace, automobile, marine, electronic and allied industries and many other non-engineering areas which include medical and bio-medical fields...