Young Member Visionary 2015: Nabeel Younis

The winner receives a place at the Essential Management Skills conference in April 2016. They will be given the opportunity to engage closely with the Young Member Board over the year, and to join the judging panel for the Young Member of the Year Awards in the following year.


Nabeel Younis AMIMechE is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology in Islamabad, an entrepreneur and a key player in the Institution’s activities in Pakistan. He is committed to playing an active part in his society, and sees engineering as the way to improve lives.

Nabeel received his BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Birmingham City University and later completed a Masters at Loughborough University in Advanced Manufacturing. He then returned to Pakistan, where he has combined his academic role with setting up his own business, Interactive Solutions, which sells education technology to the Pakistani market. His flagship product is a smart podium which allows teachers to face the class at all times, while using touch screens which are projected on to large screens.

Nabeel’s involvement with the Institution started at university, and on his return to Pakistan he set up the first student chapter with the help of Jibraan Khalid, his student, and organised networking events. Sadly Jibraan passed away in an accident in 2013, and Nabeel committed to continuing his hard work and activity and established more chapters for students in Pakistan. There are now six chapters reaching from Karachi to Islamabad, and affiliate membership has more than doubled to 550 people. “The Institution is an important professional organisation,” explains Nabeel.“In developing countries it is vital to have access to qualified resources and standards. The support for career planning, mentoring and online resources are all invaluable for developing professional, world class engineers.”

Nabeel has first-hand experience of the difficulty of finding engineers who are capable of growing new businesses. It is easy for Pakistani engineers to get work overseas, and Nabeel thinks retaining the best talent in the country is a priority in a developing country. He strongly believes that the Institution has an important role in building a strong engineering community which the best engineers want to be part of.

“Pakistan is an exciting and challenging place to do  engineering at the moment,” explains Nabeel. “Pakistan is on the path to recovery and young people are keen to be part of the future, and build successful companies and societies.” He finds it very rewarding to encourage young engineers, and is an active mentor to many past and present students. “It’s inspiring to influence young people and help them tap into the potential they have to achieve their dreams.

”In future he would like to see his business grow, and expand its product range. “Globalisation has meant that the pace of change has picked up. However we now have engineers coming through their education who are very comfortable working in a dynamic, global environment. They assume that any products will be for a global market – and that is very exciting.”

Nabeel is very proud to be the Young Member Visionary, although is quick to point how there are many people orking to change lives and inspire young engineers. “I am very honoured to have been chosen, and want to thank the Institution and my colleagues. Engineering relies on building teams so that we can change lives. I am proud to be part of this team of people.” 

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