Vision and Mission
VISION: Grow automotive industry in Pakistan to globally competitive levels by 2040
MISSION: Encourage and promote automotive related innovations throughout the country and transform them into commercial products and services; and to serve as R&D wing for the automotive industry to help solve their technological problems
CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITIES
- National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad
- National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore
- DHA Suffa University (DSU), Karachi
- Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad
- NED University of Engineering and Technology (NEDUET), Karachi.
Annual Innovation Event
Purpose of this event is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship by providing a forum for students to showcase innovative ideas and products to automotive industry.
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Karachi will hold annual automotive innovation event on October 18 & 19.
STEERING COMMITTEE
PAKISTAN
- DR. SHAHID IKRAMULLAH (CHAIR)
- DR. AMER BHATTI
- DR. RAJA AMER AZEEM
- DR. MAZHAR ABBAS RIZVI
- MR. MUHAMMAD SABIH
- DR. MUSHAHID HASHMI
- MR. NAWEED HASAN
- MR. NAJIULLAH HUSSAINI
- DR. SAMI UR REHMAN
USA, CANADA, & EUROPE
- MR. SAAD ELLAHIE (CHAIR)
- MR. ABDUL MUEED KHAWAJA
- MR. ABID SANDILA
- DR. AHSAN QAZI
- MR. FAKHAR MEHMOOD
- DR. KHURSHID QURESHI
- MR. MUHAMMAD ABDUL HARIS
- MR. MUHAMMAD BILAL
- MR. MUHAMMAD RIZWAN
- MR. SAMI SIDDIQUI
- MR. SALMAN BASIT
- MR. SYED ASAD ALI
- MR. UMAR KHAN
FEATURED PROJECT DEMO CAR
- One of the key initiatives of DICE Automotive Innovation center at NUST, Islamabad.
- Sub-compact segment with focus on affordability & competitive performance.
- Focus on indigenous engineering and development using methods, tools, and techniques that are in line with cutting edge
international standards. - Variant approach – conventional and electric variants using same platform.
- Faculty and students from consortium of universities working in a matrix structure with support of expatriates from US,
Canada, UK, and Germany.
PHASE I: Exterior and Interior
Styling concept > Completed
- Team at NCA completed exterior and
interior styling concept for demo car
- DICE Foundation and Najeeb Nayyer
(entrepreneur and founder in Pakistan)
signed an MoU on March 13, 2019
forming strategic partnership in support
of Demo Car project. Under this MoU,
a full-size model representative of
exterior and interior styling is being
developed.
PHASE II: Conventional and Electric
Test Prototypes > In-Process
- Chassis components being designed
and analyzed by DHA Suffa, Karachi - Electrical subsystem and components
being designed and analyzed by DHA
Suffa, Karachi: - Battery Electric Variant System design
and simulation being done by NUST,
Islamabad - Computer Aided Design (CAD) and
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
models are being developed for design
refinement before building test
properties and fully functional
prototypes.
PHASE III: Fully Functional Prototype
> Planned
Fully integrated and functional prototype
representative of:
- Styling – Exterior and Interior
- Features – Comfort and Convenience
- Performance – Acceleration & Speed.
- Ride & Handling, Noise & Vibration
- Based on learnings from Phase I & II
prototypes.