Engineering mentor honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award

How to be an expert

Teaching isn’t all that Professor Masood does. He is a driven contributor to advanced manufacturing research and industry.

Professor Masood was responsible for establishing research concentration and infrastructure in additive manufacturing at Swinburne back in the mid-1990s.

Since then, he’s secured scores of grants for his research and the facilities he works in, covering additive manufacturing and advanced manufacturing with fused deposition modelling, direct metal deposition and selective laser melting. His innovative research on the development of metal-polymer composites for fused deposition modelling and bi-metallic tooling on direct metal deposition have drawn significant industry interest and media attention.

Professor Masood has established many industry-based projects, such as several collaborative research projects with CSIRO Manufacturing and other leading Australian companies.

To date, Professor Masood has received 23 Australian Research Council grants – that’s no mean feat. He’s produced more than 400 publications in international journals and conferences, including four edited books and 14 book chapters. Currently, he has a Google Scholar h-index of 40 with more than 6800 citations. He has recently been included in a database of the top 2 per cent of world scientists, along with several other Swinburne staff – ranked based on citations in Scopus in different field categories and published by Stanford University via PLOS. 

It’s clear that Professor Masood has global reach and impact. He’s collaborated with researchers and industry across Australia, China, Indonesia and the United States of America.

“Professor Masood has demonstrated outstanding service and commitment to Swinburne through his achievements in the advanced manufacturing field,” says Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Pascale Quester.

“His legacy at Swinburne lives through the success of his students,” she adds.