Bangladeshi student recognised by High Commissioner
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:16:00 BST
Before leaving the UK for an important new diplomatic post in India, the Assistant High Commissioner for Bangladesh, Mr Zokey Ahad, paid a farewell visit to the University of Huddersfield and met students from his homeland who had made a big success of their studies.
Mr Ahad, who will soon be based in Kolkata, has been in Britain for two-and-a-half years, responsible for some 100,000 people with Bangladeshi backgrounds. It has been a busy period, involving a lot of travel, but Mr Ahad has found time to pay several visits to the University of Huddersfield, home to a thriving Bangladeshi Students’ Society.
Speaking to a group of young Bangladeshis, Mr Ahad praised their success at Huddersfield, which he describes as “a unique university”.
Afterwards, Mr Ahad said was impressed by the range of subjects studied by Bangladeshis at Huddersfield. He acknowledged that some would use their degrees as the basis for thriving careers overseas, but hoped that many would eventually return to Bangladesh.
“The country is developing, so there plenty of job opportunities. We need these bright students to contribute to our socio-economic development,” he said.
Mr Ahad was congratulated and thanked by Professor Dave Taylor, who is the University of Huddersfield’s Pro Vice-Chancellor, International.
One of the most successful students who attended the meeting with Mr Ahad was Md Shams E Tabriz. He arrived at the University of Huddersfield for a foundation year at its International Study Centre and was awarded ‘Most Outstanding Student of the Year’.
He then embarked on degree study and was the inaugural President of the Bangladeshi Students Society. Tabriz has now completed his BEng in automotive engineering, scoring ultra high marks for many of his assignments and spending a paid placement year with the UK arm of General Motors, which he earned after a lengthy and competitive assessment process.
This successful record has now led to a post with the newly-launched Turbocharger Research Institute based at the University of Huddersfield. As he carries out research using state-of-the-art facilities at the new centre, which is backed by major manufacturer BorgWarner, Tabriz will also work towards his doctorate.
During BEng studies, Tabriz examined ways to improve internal combustion engines and his final-year project saw him looking at alternative fuels.
“But to make engines better, they need turbochargers. That’s the future,” said Tabriz, delighted by his research post. During the meeting with Mr Ahad he was presented with a certificate acknowledging his success at the University of Huddersfield.
Tabriz has now has embarked on research that will contribute to the development of more resilient, longer-lasting turbocharger compressors for the average family and small car.
The Bangladeshi doctoral student will develop his project through the University’s recently-launched Turbocharger Research Institute using their latest state-of-the-art test equipment.
The results of the work will be of major importance to the automotive industry where the choice of the material for manufacturing turbocharger compressors is a vital issue.
“At present, the turbocharger compressors in top of the range ‘super’ cars are mainly produced using titanium,” says Tabriz, “which is stronger than steel and corrosion resistant, yet very expensive. In contrast, the compressors in your average, reasonably-priced cars are made of aluminium alloy, which is considerably less expensive, but lacks the durability of titanium.”
Although it is over 100 years since turbochargers were developed and they have been used by the automotive industry for over 70 years, there has been little or no standard test methodology for testing the effect of low cycle fatigue of the compressors.
Low cycle fatigue is the term given by material scientists for the measurement of progressive and localised structural damage of a material that is subjected to cyclic repetitions.
Research and investigations to date have solicited different results in a lab or virtual environment for finite element analysis (FEA) tests than have been found in field results. Tabriz hopes that his new standard test methodology will bridge that gap and satisfy both field tests and FEA results.
Tabriz has been one of the most successful students to come to the University of Huddersfield from Bangladesh.
Tabriz completed his degree in 2014, scoring very high marks for many of his assignments and spending a paid placement year with the UK arm of General Motors, which he earned after a lengthy and competitive assessment process.
Tabriz completed his degree in June scoring one of the highest marks of this year’s graduates of 85%, which earned him one of the University’s Chancellor’s Prizes for outstanding performance. During his degree he spent a paid-placement year with the UK arm of General Motors, which he earned after a lengthy and competitive assessment process.
