GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology in collaboration with Department of Science and Technology and IT, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan organized the 1st International Workshop on Functional Reverse Engineering (WRE 2018) on 12th and 13th January, 2019. WRE aimed to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, scientists, practitioners and academicians to conduct workshops in Reverse Engineering. The main focus of the workshop was capacity building in the area of machine tools development. The workshop Organizing Committee had proposed the following topics for the workshop:

1.        Engineering Design Practices in Elastic Range
2.        Manufacturing Processes and Systems for Discrete Products
3.        Casting Versus Fabrication
4.        Selection of Sensors, Transducers and Actuators
5.        Open Loop /Feedback system modeling
6.        PCB Design and Fabrication
7.        Selection of Off-the-Shelf Hardware vs. In-House Development of  Electronic Hardware
8.        Software Modeling
9.        Human-Computer Interface
10.      Open Source Software Versus Proprietary Software
11.      Open Source Software Versus in-house Software Development
12.      Microprocessors and Micro-controllers – Future trends
13.      SERCOSE III
14.      Industrial Ethernet 
15.      CAD/CAM 
16.      Virtual Reality
17.      Internet of Things 
18.      Cloud Computing
19.      E-Commerce
20.       Rapid Product Development: A Reverse Engineering Perspective
21.      Rapid Prototyping: A Reverse Engineering prospective
22.      Product Design Techniques in Reverse Engineering
23.      Product Evolution: A Reverse Engineering Perspective
24.      Model driven Reverse Engineering
25.      Enterprises of Reverse Engineering
26.      Any other topic related to machine tool development


Publication
The proceedings of the workshop shall be published by a renowned international publisher as a book series.

Technical Sponsors: IMechE Pakistan Group and IEEE (USA)

Financial Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology and IT, Government of KP, Pakistan

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs:
Professor Duc Truong Pham OBE, FREng, FLSW, FSME, BE, PhD, DEng, CEng, FIET, FIMechE
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Chance Professor of Engineering,
Director of Research. Department ofMechanical Engineering,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

Professor Dr. Abdul Raouf SI, P. Eng. (Ont.), FPAS
Distinguished National Professor of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan,

Professor Emeritus, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

General Chairs
Jehangir Bashar CEng, MICE, FGS
Rector, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Professor Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, FInstP
Pro-Rector (Academic)
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Professor Dr. Wasim A. Khan PhD, CEng, FIMechE, Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member IEEE Computer Society
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

General Co-Chairs
Dr. Lei Jiao,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information and Communication Technology,
University of Agder, Norway

Dr. Ghulam Abbas PhD, FIScT, FBCS, SMIEEE, Senior Member IEEE Communications Society
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Cedric Aimal Edwin
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Steering Committee Chairs
Dr. Saadi Boudjit,
Associate Professor,
Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information,
Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13

Professor Dr. Muaz A. Niazi Senior Member IEEE
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Professor Dr. Muhammad Abid CEng, FIMechE
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah, Pakistan

Dr. Ghulam Abbas PhD, FIScT, FBCS, SMIEEE, Senior Member IEEE Communications Society
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Arshad Islam
Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad

Dr. Akhtar Khalil, Senior Consultant, iFahja Limited,
Deans Trade Centre, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan

Local Arrangements Chairs
Dr. Ghulam Abbas PhD, FIScT, FBCS, SMIEEE, Senior Member IEEE Communications Society
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Cedric Aimal Edwin
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Mr. Muhammad Ismail
Director (Facilitation)
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Finance Chairs
Mr. Ahsan Bashir Sheikh,
Pro-Rector (A&F),
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Mr. Muhammad Imran,
Director (Finance),
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Technical Program Chairs
Dr. Ghulam Hussain,
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Khalid Rahman,
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Zahid Halim, Member IEEE, Member ACM, Member IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Ziaul Haq Abbas,
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Technical Program Committee
Dr. Hongyu Wei,
Associate Professor
College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering,
Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing, PR. China

Professor Dr. Christine Espinosa
Dr- Enseignant-Chercheur,
ISAE SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace Département Mécanique des Structures et Matériaux, France

Dr. Lei Jiao,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information and Communication Technology,
University of Agder, Norway

Dr. Saadi Boudjit,
Associate Professor,
Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information,
Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13

Professor Dr. Muhammad Abid CEng, FIMechE
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Arshad Islam
Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad

Dr. Akhtar Khalil, Senior Consultant, iFahja Limited,
Deans Trade Centre, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Cedric Aimal Edwin
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan

Dr. Ghulam Abbas PhD, FIScT, FBCS, SMIEEE, Senior Member IEEE Communications Society
Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi 23640, KP, Pakistan