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AJSE EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr. Sahel
Abduljauwad is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, Vice-Rector
for Applied Research, Acting Vice-Rector for Graduate Studies and Scientific
Research, and Director of the Office of Planning and Quality. He served as
Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department (1990-1996), Director of
Academic Development Center (1999-2002), and Dean of Academic Development
(2002-2007). Dr. Abduljauwad received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering
from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1985. His research interests
include geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interaction and
environmental geotechnique. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and
conference proceedings. Dr. Abduljauwad supervised the preparation of the
first strategic plan of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
(2006-2011), and contributed to the development of faculty skills in
training, teaching, and evaluation of academic curricula. He is the manager
of AAFAQ project for the development of a strategic plan of university
education in Saudi Arabia. For more details please:
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Dr. Bassam M. El Ali
received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Sciences and Catalysis from the French
Institute of Petroleum (IFP) - University Pierre and Marie Curie in France
in 1989. He has worked as a research associate and then as an Assistant
Professor at the Chemistry Department at Ottawa University - Canada in
1989-1996. He has served also as a visiting scientist in British Petroleum
Company - UK in 1991-1992. He has been at the King Fahd University of
Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) since 1996. He became a full Professor in 2004.
He is the author/co-author of 80 research articles in refereed journals and
of conference papers, two patents and one book published by McGraw-Hill. He
received the following awards from KFUPM: Distinguished Research Award in
2003, the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004, and the Distinguished Short
Course Award in 2005. For more details please:
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Dr. Mohammad Saad Al-Homoud is the Dean of
Scientific Research, the Director of the Office of International
Cooperation, and an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering (ARE)
at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM). He received his
B.S. degree in May 1986 from KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and M.S. degree
in December 1989 from Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA and
his Ph.D. degree in May 1994 from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,
USA. He was the Acting Dean of Graduate Studies from 2007-2008, the Director
of the Program Assessment Center at the University since its establishment
in 2003 until 2006, the Director of the Office of Energy Management from
2000-2003, and the Coordinator of the ARE Co-op Program from 1998-2003. He
taught many undergraduate and graduate courses at KFUPM from 1994-now. Dr.
Al-Homoud is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) from the Association of
Energy Engineers (AEE), USA. He has managed and participated in a number of
funded research projects. He published over 40 articles in refereed
international journals and conferences in his field of specialization. He
supervised many master theses, senior projects and co-op students. He has
organized and participated in many national and international symposia and
conferences and delivered several invited keynote speeches and workshops. He
is active in conducting professional training short courses and consulting
projects in his field of specialization to government and private
organizations. Dr. Al-Homoud is the recipient of the KFUPM Distinguished
Researcher Award in 2005, the Distinguished Training Short Courses
Award in 2001, and the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1999. Dr. Al-Homoud
is a member of many international professional organizations such as ASHRAE
and AEE. He is listed in several editions of Who’s Who in the World, Who’s
Who in Engineering and others. In additions to his active contributions in
his area of specialization, Dr. Al-Homoud has been extensively involved in
quality assurance in higher education through academic assessment and
accreditation and curricula review and development as well as strategic
planning in higher education. He also participated in a number of projects
on developing strategic plans at the University as well as the national
levels. He was the chairman and member of many committees inside and outside
the University. His areas of research and consulting interests include
energy conservation & management in buildings, HVAC and building mechanical
systems, facilities management, quality assurance in higher education, and
strategic planning. For more details please:
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Dr. Shaikh Asrof Ali
received his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from State University of
New York at Buffalo in 1980. After his post-doctoral training at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979-81), he joined KFUPM in 1981 and
became a full professor in 1995. He has published 130 research articles so
far in refereed journals. His current research interests are in the area of
organic synthesis, polymer synthesis and corrosion inhibition of metals.
Recipient of KFUPM Distinguished Researcher Awards in 1994 and 1999, special
Distinguished Research Award, College of Science in 2003, and the
Distinguished Teaching & Advising Award in 2001. For more details please:
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Dr. Mohammed
Ashraf Gondal received his Ph.D. in Laser Physics from Kaiser Wilhelm
University Bonn, Germany in 1983. He has worked as a Senior Research
Scientist at the Post Graduate Center for Lasers and Electro-optics, Tripoli
(1983-1991), before joining KFUPM in November 1991.
Dr. Gondal’s research
interests are in the areas of atomic and molecular spectroscopy using
lasers, laser remote sensing, pollution monitoring using lasers, development
of laser based high sensitive analytical techniques (LIDAR, PAS, LIBS,LEI),
synthesis of nano-structured metal oxides using laser and their applications
in laser-photo-catalysis for water purification, corrosion inhibition,
production of high value hydrocarbons & hydrogen generation for fuel cells
development, and laser desulfurization of crude oil.
He became a full professor in 2001. He is the
author/co-author of 85 research articles in refereed journals and three
patents that have been published by USPTO. He received the Distinguished
Researcher Award from KFUPM in 2005, and several best paper awards at
various international conferences. He is a Member of the Editorial
Board of the International Journal of Spectroscopy
and the Pakistan Journal of
Analytical Chemistry and Environment. He served also as an associate member
of the International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
(1989-1995). For more details please:
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Dr. Gabor Korvin is
a Professor of Geophysics in the Earth Sciences Department. Dr. Korvin took
his M.Sc. Degree in Applied Mathematics in 1965 and his Ph. D. in Geophysics
in 1982, both in Hungary. In 1998 he got a Graduate Diploma in Islamic
Studies from the University of New England (Australia) and is just finishing
his PhD in Islamic History. Between 1965 and 1985 he worked in the Hungarian
Geophysical Institute, as Head of the Seismic Theory Department. In 1986 he
immigrated to Australia, and became Senior Lecturer (Geophysics) at the
University of Adelaide. In 1994, he joined KFUPM as an Associate Professor
(Geophysics). Dr. Korvin’s main interest lies in applied mathematics,
statistical rock physics and signal processing. He has more than fifty
publications on these topics, including the monograph Fractal Models in the
Earth Sciences (1992, Elsevier, Amsterdam). For details please:
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Dr. Mohammed Baluch
is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil
Engineering at KFUPM. His area of research expertise includes finite element
modeling of transport phenomena in concrete type materials, damage mechanics
based constitutive modeling for concrete and use of fiber reinforced
plastics for the repair and strengthening of concrete structures. He also
has wide consulting experience in forensic engineering related to distress
and failure in buildings, bridges, tanks and reservoirs, water canals and
pipelines. Dr. Baluch serves as a member of Technical Committees for
International Conferences and reviews papers for the American Society of
Civil Engineers Composites Journal, American Concrete Institute Journals and
the Cement & Concrete Composites Journal. He is also a founding member of
the Saudi Chapter of the American Concrete Institute in the Eastern Province
and has served on the Board of the Saudi Chapter of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. For details please:
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Dr. Mohamed Ben-Daya is a Professor in the
Department of Systems Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD in Operations Research
from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests are in
the areas of production planning and scheduling, maintenance, quality
control, and supply chain management. He teaches courses in the areas of
facilities planning, Production and inventory control, scheduling, Quality
control, Maintenance and reliability engineering and supply chain
management. Dr. Ben-Daya is the Associate Editor of the Journal of
Quality in Maintenance Engineering and on the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Logistics. He has published over sixty papers in refereed
journals and conference proceedings. He has co-edited a book on Flexible
Manufacturing Systems, published by Elsevier, two books on Maintenance
Modeling and Optimization and Integrated Models in Production Planning
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, and a Handbook on Maintenance
Management & Engineering to be published by Springer. He has keen interest
in the quality in the higher education through involvement in teaching for
learning, program assessment, strategic planning in higher education and
other activities. For more details please:
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Dr. Essam E. Hassan
obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1970 and his
M.S and Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada in 1974 and
1978, respectively. Dr. Hassan worked for several years with Nortel (Then
Northern Telecom., Toronto, Canada ) in the digital switching division. He
then joined King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) where he
is now a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. Dr. Hassan’s
major field of specialization is in microwave and electromagnetic field
theory, in addition to the general area of communication. Further, he is
the author or co-author of over twenty five journal papers in addition to
numerous conference publications. Dr. Hassan has managed several projects
and served as a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Trans. on MTT. For
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Dr. Ibnelwaleed
Ali Hussein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at KFUPM. Dr. Hussein obtained his PhD from the Chemical and
Materials Engineering Department at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999.
His PhD Thesis won the Canadian Society of Rheology Graduate Student Award
for the year 1999. He joined KFUPM in January 2000. His specialization is in
the areas of Polymers, Rheology, Thermal Analysis with specific interest in
structure-property relationships with focus on nanocomposites and applied
rheology. His work experience includes four years in the oil industry in
Sudan. Dr. Hussein received many Awards, Scholarships, Prizes and
Nominations at University of Khartoum, Sudan and at University of Alberta,
Canada. Dr. Hussein is actively involved in research in the area of polymers
with more than 70 refereed journal and conference publications and a book
chapter on Polymeric Membranes. In 2005, Dr. Hussein received the “KFUPM
Distinguished Research Award”. During his seven years at KFUPM, the Chemical
Engineering Department awarded Dr. Hussein the “Faculty Service Award” for
three years. His work with the CHE Club was acknowledged by Awards from the
Deanship of Student Affairs. He is also a member of the Executive Board of
the Polymer Processing Society and member of the Editorial board of the Open
Petroleum Engineering Journal. For more details please:
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Dr. Sadiq M. Sait
obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics from Bangalore University,
India, in 1981, and his Master’s and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering
from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, in 1983
and 1987, respectively. He is currently Professor at the Department of
Computer Engineering at KFUPM. His teaching interests include courses in
areas related to Digital Design Automation, VLSI System Design and Computer
Architecture. He was involved in several sponsored R&D projects in various
VLSI Design Automation areas. He established the VLSI Design Automation
Laboratory of KFUPM. In 1981 Sait received the ‘Best Electronics Engineer’
award from the Institute of Electrical Engineers, India. In 1990, 1994, and
1999 he received the KFUPM Distinguished Researcher Award. Dr. Sait is the
co-author of the following books: (1) VLSI Physical Design Automation:
Theory and Practice published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., Europe, (also
co-published by IEEE Press), 1995, and (2) Iterative Computer Algorithms
with Applications in Engineering (solving combinatorial optimization
problems)” published by IEEE Computer Society. Sait has also authored over
140 research papers in International Journals and Conferences. He has also
contributed two chapters to a book entitled ‘Progress in VLSI Design’ and a
chapter to the “Computer Engineering Handbook” by CRC Press.. He served on
the editorial board of International Journal of Computer-Aided Design
between 1988-1990. He has given lectures at the University of Erlangen,
Nurenberg, at IBM Research Center, Rushlikon and Motorola in Austin. His
current areas of interest are in Digital Design Automation, VLSI System
Design, High-Level Synthesis, and Iterative Algorithms. Sait is a senior
member of IEEE. For more details please:
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Dr. Bekir Sami Yilbas received his Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from Birmingham University in 1982. He worked at
Birmingham and Glasgow Universities before joining to Erciyes University in
Turkey where he became a full Professor in 1990. He joined at King Fahd
University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) in 1992. He is the
author/co-author of 390 research articles in refereed international journals
and 60 papers of conferences, one appending patent, and one edited book. He
received many awards including; President of India’s Prize for 1988, given
by the Institution of Engineers (India), Technology Award for 1990, given by
the Science and Technology Foundation in Turkey. Three times the best
research award for 1997, 2002, and 2007, King Fahd University of Petroleum
and Minerals, Silver Jubilee Medal awarded by Silesian University of
Technology, Poland in 2005, Doctor of Engineering Degree by Birmingham
University in 2005, Donald Julius Groen Prize for 2007, awarded by
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK), Distinguished University
Professor award at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 2008 –
2011, and Professor W. Johnson International Gold Medal, awarded by the
Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (AMPT, UK) Steering
Committee in 2008. He served as an editorial board member of International
Journal of Machine Tool and Manufacture Design, Research and Application,
International Journal of Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications,
Journal of Materials Processing Technology, and currently editorial board
member of Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing
Engineering, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing,
Archives of Materials Science and
Engineering, and Scientific Journals International.
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Dr. Hasan Y. Al-Yousef is an Associate
Professor of Petroleum Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals. He received his BS degree from KFUPM in 1977. He also received his
MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in Petroleum Engineering in 1981
and 1985, respectively. He is the author/co-author of several research
articles in refereed journals and conference papers. His research interests
are in the areas of improved oil recover and special core analysis. He
participated in several client funded projects in the areas of improved oil
recovery, wettability, relative permeability and capillary evaluation, and
special core analysis as a project manager or a task leader. He received the
College of Engineering Science distinguished teacher award from KFUPM in
1997 and the distinguished research project leadership award, RI-KFUPM in
2004. For more details please:
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