Dr. Muhammad Kashif is working as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCP, Lahore. He joined UCP in 2014 and has 20 years of academic and engineering experience. He is graduate of UET, Lahore with honors and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees are from Sorbonne University, Paris, France. He also worked as an adjunct lecturer during his stay in France and taught courses at Sorbonne University. He has several publications in international journals and conference proceedings and regularly reviews articles for prestigious, and also projects of the National Research Program for Universities. His main research areas are energy and environment, Renewable energy including solar, wind energy converters, and renewable/alternate fuels. He has also worked as an expert member with many national bodies including the National Curriculum Review Committee for Mechanical Engineering, the Standing committee of LCCI on coal and renewable fuels, and the Pakistan HVACR Society Lahore chapter. Prior to joining academia, he worked as HVACR Site engineer and Assistant manager (Technical) responsible for design and analysis of marine platforms and mechanical structures. He has vast experience of working on technical engineering project including mechanical design, analysis and simulation, product development, project management, instrumentation, calibration, testing and commissioning. He has provided consultancies for multiple design and development of engineering, research, educational and technical projects including design and development of twin-barrel capillary rheometer, engine testbed, educational steam powerplant and layout of PV manufacturing facility.