Assistant Professor in Geotechnical and Civil Engineering
Abu Dhabi University
Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months
• Supervising and advising newly admitted, first year, and second year Civil Engineering students.
• Teaching introduction to Civil Engineering course for six semesters
• Teaching CAD courses for Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Interior design, and Architecture Students
• Organizing and conducting site visits to different engineering projects.
• Organizing and supervising the first year students’ project design presentations
• Coordinating two courses at both Abu Dhabi and Al Ain campuses, CAD and Introduction to Civil courses
• Teaching undergraduate courses in Civil engineering: Statics, Mechanics of Material, Structure Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Computer Aided Drawing, Geotechnical Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Lab., and Foundation Design
• Advising more than 130 students and providing them with individual assistance when necessary.
• Conducting numerical modeling research that focuses on finite difference/element modeling, discrete element, and hybrid methods, and their application in the field of rock mechanics
• Serving in two committees at both the university and college levels, The Promotion Committee and The Library Committee
• Working on the curricular development in the Civil Engineering Department to seek ABET accreditation and providing input to program and course reviews and make revision
• Supervising funded undergraduate students research projects
• Directing students during their industrial internship and communicating with their industrial supervisors
• Supervising student’s graduation projects
• Inviting external experts and mentors to speak to our undergraduate students about their future careers
• Taught undergraduate courses in Civil engineering: Numerical Analysis, Statics, Computer Aided Drawing (Autocad)
• Advised students and providing them with individual assistance when necessary
• Developed Rubrics forms to evaluate student’s soft skills
• Served in three committees at both the university and college levels
• Worked on the curricular development in the Civil Engineering Department at Abu Dhabi University to seek ABET accreditation and providing input to program and course reviews and make recommendations for revision
• Data Collection and analysis to evaluate tunnels
• Conducted project control and planning including cost and schedule updates and produced monthly progress reports for tunneling projects
• Conducted workshops and meetings including: Risk Analysis, Value Engineering, and Constructability Reviews and prepared technical reports for wide range of engineering projects
• Reviewed Geotechnical Base Line Reports and Geotechnical reports to assess their validity for different tunneling projects
• Conducted engineering economic studies to evaluate alternatives, PW analysis and AW analysis to evaluate Life cycle cost
• Scheduling and resourcing by using the critical path method and MS project
• Conducted extensive research in Rock mechanics, rock properties, mining, hydraulic fracturing, tunneling, and Slope stability by using numerical modeling
• Coordinated, prepared technical reports for testing program for graduate research
• Tutored undergraduate and graduate students. Marked their report and assignments for several courses including survey lab, soil and rock mechanics
• Served as a peer leader to help international students to settle down in Canada
• Taught undergraduate courses: Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Design, and Pavement design
• Carried out rock and soil slopes stability analysis by using the limit equilibrium method
• Conducted soil and rock tests such as Permeability, Direct Shear test, and Consolidation
• Modeled successfully the Lornex open-pit by using discrete element and finite difference methods
• Performed sensitivity and probabilistic analysis for soil and rock projects using limit equilibrium and numerical methods
Attended ten Ph.D. level courses in Geotechnical Engineering such as, Foundation design, subsurface investigation, terrain analysis, unsaturated soil mechanics, tunneling, advance numerical analysis, water and seepage analysis, Advanced soil mechanics. My thesis was about the role of tensile strength on the stability of rock slopes
Attended eight graduate courses, Advanced rock mechanics, Advanced soil mechanics, Rock slope stability, Soil behavior, designing retaining walls. My thesis was about the fracturing of rocks under uniaxial loading.
I completed my Bachelor degree in civil engineering and took 163 hours for credit, I completed the program in less than four and half years and was among the best of graduates. I learned the fundamentals o f engineering in different areas of specialty such as Structural Analysis and Design, Geotechnical Design, Highway Design and transportation, Environmental Engineering and Water resources and construction economy and management.