Automotive engineers appoint RMIT professor-A UT Graduate

Professor Fard to join SAE-A board and become technical chair of APAC21 conference

The Society of Automotive Engineers – Australasia (SAE-A) has appointed Professor Mohammad Fard to the board and as technical chair for its APAC21 conference, which will be held in Melbourne during October 2022.

Professor Fard remains a professor at RMIT University. He was previously CAE design engineer of the Nissan Technical Centre in Japan.

SAE-A is the Asia-Pacific peak professional body for mobility engineering and the APAC21 event is the 21st biennial Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference.

It will be staged in Melbourne over three days, October 3-5, 2022, on the theme of ‘Harmonising the Future of Mobility’.

SAE-A is hosting this international conference under the auspices of FISITA, the world body for automotive engineers.

President and CEO of SAE-A, Adrian Feeney, welcomed Prof Fard to the organisation’s board, which he has taken as part of his APAC21 role.

“Mohammad has a deeply impressive record as an engineer in the automotive industry and as an academic researcher, and he is a truly inspirational teacher and leader,” he said.

“With his wide interest in autonomous vehicle systems, and his global collaborations in industry and academia, he is the ideal person to create a vibrant, compelling conference.

“The fact that he received his PhD in Japan, and worked at Nissan as a vehicle body designer, gives him the industrial and international perspective this conference needs.”

Prof Fard earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran, and his PhD from the Tohoku University in Japan.

He then spent five years as a vehicle body CAE engineer at the Nissan Technical Centre before moving to Australia to pursue his research and teaching interests at RMIT University.

“The conference theme of Harmonising the Future of Mobility will attract global attention from students and young engineers, as well as established engineers,” Prof Fard said.

“I think the digital components are coming more into classical mechanical engineering, but smart digital components, because this is needed in connected and autonomous cars.”

APAC21 will run from October 3-5, 2022 at the Hyatt Place at Essendon Fields, Melbourne.

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