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Contents

Forward by the Dean of the College of Engineering ....................................................................... 3

Forward by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs .................................................................... 5

Forward by the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies ............................................. 6

College Advisory Board ................................................................................................................... 8

Department of Architecture and Urban Planning .......................................................................... 9

A. Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 10

B. Department Profile .................................................................................................................................. 12

C. Post Graduate Studies.............................................................................................................................. 16

D. Research .................................................................................................................................................. 17

E. Publications .............................................................................................................................................. 21

F. Seminars and Public Lectures ................................................................................................................... 30

G. Other Activities ........................................................................................................................................ 33

H. Students’ Activities .................................................................................................................................. 34

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering ...................................................................... 35

A. Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 36

B. Department Profile .............................................................................................................................. 39

C. Post Graduate Studies .......................................................................................................................... 46

D. Research ............................................................................................................................................... 47

E. Publications .......................................................................................................................................... 50

F. Seminars and Public Lectures .............................................................................................................. 55

G. Other Activities .................................................................................................................................... 58

H. Students’ Activities............................................................................................................................... 60

Department of Chemical Engineering ........................................................................................... 61

A. Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 62

B. Department Profile .............................................................................................................................. 63

C. Post Graduate Studies .......................................................................................................................... 68

D. Research ............................................................................................................................................... 69

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E. Publications .......................................................................................................................................... 76

F. Other Activities .................................................................................................................................... 83

G. Students’ Activities............................................................................................................................... 86

Department of Computer Science and Engineering ..................................................................... 89

A. Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 90

B. Department Profile .................................................................................................................................. 92

C. Post Graduate Studies............................................................................................................................ 101

D. Research ................................................................................................................................................ 104

E. Publications ............................................................................................................................................ 113

F. Seminars and Public Lectures ................................................................................................................. 134

G. Other Activities ...................................................................................................................................... 146

H. Students’ Activities ................................................................................................................................ 152

Department of Electrical Engineering ......................................................................................... 154

A. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................ 155

B. Department Profile ............................................................................................................................ 159

C. Research ............................................................................................................................................. 164

D. Publications ........................................................................................................................................ 171

E. Seminars and Public Lectures ............................................................................................................ 186

F. Other Activities .................................................................................................................................. 192

G. Students’ Activities............................................................................................................................. 197

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ............................................................. 200

A. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................ 201

B. Department Profile ............................................................................................................................ 203

C. Post Graduate Studies ........................................................................................................................ 209

D. Research ............................................................................................................................................. 210

E. Publications ........................................................................................................................................ 215

F. Seminars and Public Lectures ............................................................................................................ 231

G. Other Activities .................................................................................................................................. 232

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Forward by the Dean of the College of Engineering

Assalamu Alaikum,

Looking at the academic year 2011/2012, I am very proud to present

The CENG Annual Report to you. Over the past year, the College of

Engineering has continued to add to its record of achievements on

almost all fronts, and the year was full of activities that were beneficial to the students,

faculty, and the community at large.

On the academic side, the year witnessed the first accreditation visit from NAAB to look at

our Architectural Program, and the results were excellent. The agency decided to move

forward to initiate the second visit. All other programs continued to work on their regular

improvements, and quality assurance is becoming more and more a habit of operation.

Our students continued to achieve advanced places in almost every participation within

and outside Qatar. Winning the first place in the Microsoft National Imagine Cup and the

Annual GCC Senior Design Project Competition are just two examples of many. The fronts

that are our students are receiving are example of the quality of the programs we offer,

and the preparations that our students go through.

This year has witnessed the start of our PhD Program, which marks the first PhD program in

Qatar. Our flagship program in Environmental Engineering had a strong start, and the year

witnessed also the expansion of our masters programs, where approvals for three new

masters in Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil Engineering have been granted.

Our outreach activities has grown greater than ever, where we continued with our

computing competition, Life is Engineering Program, and many open days. CENG has held

its first alumni meeting ever, which was attended by more than 350 former students. The

event was a chance to reconnect many alumni with the college.

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Our industrial relations have grown substantially, where we have recruited four new

world known experts to fill chair positions from QG, Maersk, Oryx GTL, and Msheireb

Properties. The year has also witnessed the addition of a chair on energy efficiency

sponsored by Siemens and Kahramaa. This chair position has a particular importance, as it

falls in an area of increasing interest and importance to the college.

All in all, the year was exceptional by all means. The efforts exerted by the CENG team

members over the years has paid back substantially in 2011/2012, and the success we

had in this year is simply the efforts of everyone in CENG.

I hope you will enjoy reading the report, and we look for another successful year in

2012/2013.

Mazen Omar O. A. Hasna, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Engineering

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Forward by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Greetings from the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

I joined the College of Engineering at Qatar University in February 2012.

Our office takes overall responsibility for the administration of

undergraduate curriculum issues including accreditation; managing

academic staff affairs including recruitment, promotion and professional

development; establishing committees’ structures; generating annual

reports; and representing the college in various university academic activities.

Undergraduate engineering programs have been running at Qatar University since 1980

and the College of Engineering currently offers 8 undergraduate programs in Architecture

(female students), Chemical Engineering (male and female students), Civil Engineering

(male students), Computer Science (male and female students), Computer Engineering

(female students), Electrical Engineering (male and female students), Industrial and

Systems Engineering (female students) and Mechanical Engineering (male students). These

programs are administered by 6 departments in the college. A total of 1,373 students are

currently enrolled in the college, out of whom are 742 female students. Most of our

students complete their degree requirements within 4 to 5 years and most secure their

first job within 4 months after graduation. Our graduates are highly sought after for

employment by the private and public sectors in Qatar.

All our engineering programs are accredited the USA Accreditation Board for Engineering

and Technology (ABET). We are mostly proud by the commitment of our faculty members,

academic staff, technicians, coordinators and administrators towards the continuous

improvement of our curriculums and college operations.

We are here to serve the students, faculty and other academic staff in the college. We

trust that you will find the information in our academic affairs website link at

www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/ADAA very useful.

Professor Ramzi Taha

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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Forward by the Associate Dean for Research and

Graduate Studies

Research at CENG continues to develop in a very positive note.

In fact, CENG benefits greatly from being an important part of Qatar

University’s strong research environment, where multidisciplinary and

interdisciplinary cooperation is a fundamental component that is

developing strongly.

The college developed its research Blue Print, which includes six main research focus areas;

Energy and Environment; Materials and Nanotechnology; Renewable Energy; Biomedical

Engineering; Livable environment and Infrastructure; and Information and Communication

Technologies. These areas are in full alignment with the Qatar National Research Strategy

(QNRS); National Development Strategy 2011-2016 and Qatar’s National Vision 2030. It also

supports QU’s mission and strategic plan in meeting societal needs and addressing local and

global challenges. Our industrial, governmental agencies and other stakeholders were

engaged in developing these key focus areas.

CENG aims to deliver life-changing breakthroughs that are pertinent to the region’s needs

and will continue to fulfill its mission by contributing to the society’s well-being. The global

issues we are facing such as water, energy, carbon sequestration, and cyberspace security,

are imposing great challenges on the society and the region. CENG researchers are

improving water desalination technology, undertaking research on making solar energy

more economical, advanced material and nanotechnology; and making advancement in

information and communication technologies. The college is also contributing to the new

technologies needed for the most important international sport event, the Qatar 2022 FIFA

World Cup. At CENG we are determined to expand globally by forming academic and

research partnerships with leading universities while preserving our national characteristics.

Most of our ongoing research activities are in collaboration with international leading

universities around the world. The college has research collaboration with more than 70

research institutions in Qatar and around the world.

In this year, CENG announced the launch of its 3 computer research labs under the name

KINDI-Knowledge Intelligence Networked Data and Interdisciplinary Research which will

bring together a number of existing research and IT projects being conducted throughout

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the university. The College also launched two pilot plants to develop a new desalination

process based on membrane distillation, responding to the State of Qatar’s future strategies

to place valued attention on water. The project, which is funded by ConocoPhillips, involves

collaboration between CENG and the Global Water Sustainability Center (GWSC), along with

Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), and Kahramaa.

An important accomplishment for the College was the establishment of the Road Safety

Studies Center to conduct research on traffic accidents and road safety in Qatar. The Center

will contribute to promoting traffic awareness in Qatar and conduct research towards finding

sustainable solutions to mitigate the number of road accidents and fatalities in the country. A

tripartite agreement among QU, Kahramaa and Siemens was signed to advance scientific and

academic collaboration in CENG in the area of energy efficiency.

In the 5th NPRP cycle, we have received 31 projects with a total fund of about QR 109,500,000.

Currently, the college have a total of 120 National Priority Research Program (NPRP) with total

grants of about QR 365,000,000. This is about 60% of total QU research fund. The college

faculty members are currently contributing to over 33 international journals in their field of

experiences. Our faculty members and students have won many awards, including Associate

Professor Rashid Al-Ammari who received State Incentive Award in the Pure and Applied

Sciences Category for his outstanding achievements in the field of Electrical Engineering.

Currently, there are more than 175 graduate students registered in the graduate programs

offered by the college. The graduate programs are very well supported by many adequately

equipped research laboratories, computer facilities, and highly qualified faculty members.

Many of the research carried out is endowed with research grants either from QNRF,

industries or government agencies. The college received this year 16 graduate assistantships

from the university to support its high caliber graduate students.

Professor Abdel Magid Hamouda

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

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College Advisory Board

Name Position Company

Sh. Ahmed Ben Jassim Al-

Thani

Chief Operating , Engineering and

Ventures QatarGas

Nasser Ali Al-Mawlawi Acting Managing Director Ashghal

Dr. Mohammed Yousef Al-

Mulla

Vice Chairman & Chief Executive

Officer QAPCO

Mr. Hamad Al Muhannadi Operation Group Manager RaGas

Mr. Mohammed Hamoudi Microsoft General Manager

Mr. Mohammed Abdah – Director of Transportation

Planning & Infrastructure Dept.

Ministry of Municipality

and Urban Planning

Dr. Nasser Abdullah

Maarefia Chief Executive Manager Qtel

Abu Bakr Al Saiari Chairman, Energy & Industry Sector.

Strategic Qatarization Plan Steering QP

Mr. Mohammed Al Marri Manager - Oil & Gas Surface

Development QP

Mr. Yousef Al-Hamar Director, Dept. of Water

Management Ministry of Environment

Eng. Essa Al Kuwari President Kahramaa

Mr. Tom Petter Johansen CEO Qatalum

Sh. Faisal F.J. Al-Thani Deputy Managing Director Maersk Oil Qatar

Eng. Issa Al-Muhannadi CEO Msheireb Properties

Architect. Ibrahim Jaida CEO Arabic Engineering

Bureau

Eng. Ahmed Jolo Chairman Qatar Society of

Engineers

Issa Rashid Al-Kaabi Member -

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Department of

Architecture and Urban

Planning

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A. Executive Summary

This report summarizes the achievement of the students and

faculty of the Department of Architecture and Urban

Planning.

It depicts major research publication, awareness and public

lectures, delivered by both department faculty and visitors.

Ashraf M. Salama, PhD

Head, Department of Architecture

and Urban Planning

Table A1: Summary

2011-2012

Academic and Support Stuff

Faculty 12

Teaching Assistant 3

Support Staff 2

Total 17

On-Study Leave 0

Undergraduate Program

Enrolment ARCH : Fall 2011

Spring 2012

27

25

Enrolment ARCT: Fall 2011

Spring 2012

61

59

Graduates: Fall 2011

Spring 2012

2

14

Total number of registration: Fall 2011

Spring 2012

88

84

Graduate Program

Enrollment 12

Thesis Completed 0

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Research

Awarded Research Project 2011-2012

UREP 6

NPRP 1 New

2 Ongoing

Start Up Grants 3

University Internal Students’ Grants 2

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers 2011-2012 18

Book Chapters 2011-2012 7

Conference Papers 2011-2012 32

Book Reviews 2011-2012 2

Editorials and Essays 2011-2012 6

Technical Reports 2011-2012 3

Working Papers 2011-2012 1

Seminars – Public Lectures – Short Course

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Academics and

Professionals 2011-2012 10

Invited Public Lectures – International 2011-2012 1

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Department Faculty

2011-2012- Inside Qatar & QU 21

Short Course 1

Other Activities

Faculty

Consultancy 3

Community Service 1

Students Activities 19

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B. Department Profile

Academic Staff

Table A2: Summary: Department Faculty, Positions, and Areas of Specialization

Faculty Name Rank/Position Area of Specialization Appointment

Year

Ashraf M. Salama Professor and Head

of Department

Architectural Design, Architecture

Education, Behavioral Studies 2009

Hatem G. Ibrahim Associate Professor Architectural Design, Acoustics,

Urban Sustainability 2009

Yasser Mahgoub

Associate Professor

and Coordinator

Master Program

MUPD

Architectural Design, Urban

Planning, Behavioral Studies 2010

Lizmol Mathew Assistant Professor Architectural Design, Housing,

Landscape, Architecture 2009

Djamel Boussaa Assistant Professor

Architectural Design, History of

Architecture, Heritage

Conservation

2009

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Year

Djamel Ouahrani Assistant Professor Climatic Design, Energy Efficiency

in Building 2009

Rania F. Khalil Assistant Professor Urban Planning, Housing, Project

Management, Urban Design 2010

Fodil Fadli Assistant Professor

Architectural Design, Urban

Sustainability, Assessment,

Conservation

2010

Agatino Rizzo Assistant Professor Urban Planning, Strategic Urban

Planning, Urban Design 2010

Anna Grichting Assistant Professor Landscape Urbanism, Urban

Design, Green Architecture

2011

Hussam Salama Assistant Professor Architectural Design, Urban

Planning, Urban Design 2011

M. Salim Ferwati Assistant Professor Architectural Design, Urban

Design, Spatial Behavioral Factor 2011

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Technical and Support Staff

Table A3. Summary: Technical and Support Staff at the Department

TA/Staff Name Role Area Of Interest Appointment

Year

Suhail Zakhour Teaching Assistant Environmental Design Of Buildings 2009

Reham Qawasmeh Teaching Assistant Architecture Design, Urban Design 2009

Shiney Rachel

Rajan Teaching Assistant LEED, QSAS, Architectural Design 2010

Maha Sobhey

Abdel Baset Lab Engineer

Architecture, Urban Planning, And

Urban Design 2010

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Department Committees

Curriculum Committee

Chair: Dr. Ashraf Salama

Members: Dr. Lizmol Mathew, Dr. Hatem Ibrahim, Dr. Djamel Ouahrani, Dr. Djamel Boussaa, Dr.

Hussam Salama, Dr. Salim Ferwati, Dr. Fodil Fadli, Dr. Anna Grichting, Dr. Yasser Mahgoub.

(NAAB Coordinator Dr. Hussam Salama, Assessment Coordinator Dr Hatem Galal Ibrahim)

Graduate Studies And Research Committee

Chair: Dr. Yasser Mahgoub

Members: Dr. Ashraf Salama, Dr. Anna Grichting, Dr. Fodil Fadli, Dr. Salim Ferwati, Dr. Agatino

Rizzo, Dr. Rania Khalil, Dr. Djamel Ouahrani

Strategic Planning Committee

Chair: Dr. Djamel Ouahrani

Members: Dr. Rania Khalil, Dr.Salim Ferwati, Dr.Hussam Salama, Dr.Agatino Rizzo

Promotion Committee

Chair: Dr. Ashraf Salama

Members: Dr. Ashraf Salama, Dr. Yasser Mahgoub, Dr. Hatem Ibrahim

Recruitment Committee

Chair: Dr. Lizmol Mathew

Members: Dr. Djamel Ouahrani, Dr. Yasser Mahgoub

Students Committee

Chair: Dr. Lizmol Mathew

Members: Dr. Ashraf Salama, Dr. Hatem Ibrahim, Dr. Hussam Salama, Dr. Rania Khalil, Dr. Djamel

Boussaa

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(Department faculty members serving in college and university committees are not included in this

section)

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C. Post Graduate Studies

Since September 2010 the Master of Urban Planning and Design-MUPD degree offers professional

education in the fields of urban planning and design. Graduates may ultimately apply their

professional skills in various government agencies, private enterprises, or non-profit organizations

within a variety of subject areas. The program is designed with a perspective that graduate education

emphasizes the development of students’ abilities to analyze, assess, assimilate, and apply critical

thinking in interdisciplinary planning and design processes. The course of study normally requires

two years (four semesters) for completion, in addition to a summer session. At different levels there

are 14 students enrolled in the program.

M.SC. Students’ Project

Student Name Thesis Title Thesis Committee

Members Year

Bothayna Ahmad Abbara Public Open Spaces in Doha Prof. Ashraf Salama,

Dr. Hussam Salama 2010

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D. Research

Research Projects 2011-2012

UREP: Undergraduate Research Experience Program

Eleventh Cycle:

Primary faculty member: Hatem Galal A Ibrahim

Project title: Unifying Qatari Architecture Language and Contemporary Architecture: Case Study

of Doha- Qatar.

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 30,000

Primary faculty member Hussam Salama

Project title: The Nature of Public Space in Globalizing Doha.

Team: Hussam Salama, Ashraf Salama

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 36,000

Primary faculty member: Lizmol Mathew

Project title: Determinants of Students’ Satisfaction From Spatial Quality of Third Places in

Higher Education Learning Environments in Qatar.

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 24,244

Tenth Cycle:

Primary faculty member: Fodil Fadli

Project title: Digitalizing Qatari Heritage: Recording & Surveying a Vanishing Traditional

Architecture.

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 29,850

Primary faculty member: Rania F. Khalil

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Project title: Assessing School Siting: Optimize School Siting Strategy in Doha, Qatar.

Team: Rania F. Khalil, Hatem Galal A. Ibrahim

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 47, 190

Primary faculty member: Yasser Mahgoub

Project title: Understanding Energy Consumption Behavior in Higher Educational Facilities.

Team: Yasser Mahgoub, Rania F. Khalil

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 41,750

NPRP: National Priorities Research Program

Fifth Cycle:

Investigator: Agatino Rizzo (LPI)

Project title: Towards an Eco-Districts Strategy for Sustainable Urbanism in the Gulf Region.

Greater Doha as a Case Study.

Team: Vivek Sandas, David Taylor

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 1,050,000

Forth Cycle:

Investigators: Hatem Galal Ibrahim (Co-PI)

Project title: A Novel Passive Air Conditioning System

Team: Rabah Boukhanouf , Hatem Galal Ibrahim

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 960,000

Third Cycle:

Investigators: Ashraf M. Salama (LPI)

Project title: Investigating the Qualities of the Urban Environment in Emerging Regional

Metropolises: The Case of Doha

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Team: Ashraf M. Salama and Alain Thierstein

Sponsor: QNRF

Amount: US$ 980,000.

Qatar University Start Up Grants

Faculty member: Anna Grichting

Project title: Qatarscapes: Landscapes of Seven Ecologies.

Sponsor: QU-CENG

Amount: US$ 10,000

Faculty member: Hussam Salama

Project title: Globalizing Cities In A World Of Flows: A Comparative Study of Doha And Dubai.

Sponsor: QU-CENG

Amount: US$ 9,300

Faculty member: M. Salim Ferwati

Project title: Architectural Analysis of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar.

Sponsor: Office Of Academic Research (OAR)

Amount: US$ 19,500

University Internal Students’ Grants

Faculty member: Hussam Salama

Project title: Investigating Public Places in Doha.

Sponsor: QU-CENG

Amount: US$ 2,750

Faculty member: Rania F. Khalil

Project title: Assessing Users’ Satisfaction With Public Parks: The Case Of Doha City.

Sponsor: QU-CENG

Amount: US$ 2,329

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External Grants

Investigator: Anna Grichting (PI) 2012.

Project title: IMERA Art-Science Residency Marseille. "The Cyprus Greenlinescapes Laboratory”.

Team: Anna Grichting (PI). Saleem Ali/USA; Anil Soyumert/Turkey-Cyprus (NORTH); Rana Zincir,

United Kingdom/Cyprus (NORTH)

Sponsor: IMERA

Amount: US$ 50,000

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E. Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

Boussaa, D. (2012). The Casbah of Algiers, in Algeria; From An Urban Slum to a Sustainable Living

Heritage, International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences &

Technologies, http://www.TuEngr.com, http://go.to/Research.

Fadli, F. (In Press, 2012). The Impossible Mosque, Spatial Creation and Architectural Mutation

for Cultural Needs in Northern Ireland. IN Open House International. Special issue on Urban

Space Diversity: Paradoxes and Realities.V37, N 2 (June 2012).

Grichting, A. (2011). From Crisis to Opportunity. The Healing Ecologies of the Cyprus Green

Line", TOPOS Landscape Journal, No 76, Autumn 2011. Pp. 18-23.

Ibrahim, H. (2011). Hypotheses-Based Study for Adapting LEED to a Qatari Green Metric for Tall

Buildings, International Journal of Indoor and Built Environment-ACCEPTED: 11th May,

PUBLISHED in August 24, 2011; DOI: 10.1177/1420326X11413477.

Ibrahim, H. & Khalil, R. (2012). Rooting Old Souk in the Contemporary Urbanism of Qatar: The

Case Study of Souk Waqif. Space and Flow: An International Journal of Urban and Extra Urban

Studies ISSN: 2154-8676 (Print), ISSN: 2154-8684 (Online).

Khalil, R (2012). Smart Growth & New Urbanism: Towards Achieving a Smart University Campus.

Space and Flow: An International Journal of Urban and Extra Urban Studies ISSN: 2154-8676

(Print), ISSN: 2154-8684 (Online).

Mahgoub, Y. & Qawasmeh, R. (2012). Cultural and Economic Influences on Multicultural Cities:

The case of Doha, Qatar. Open House International. Vol. 37, issue 2, June 2010.

Mahgoub, Y. and Khalfani, F. (2012). Sustainability of Gated Communities in Developing

Countries. In Developing Country Studies, Vol. 2, No 6, pp. 53-63.

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Nour M. & Ibrahim, H. (2012). Heritage Conservation and Rehabilitation of Islamic City:

Comparison Study from Previous Experience, Journal of Building Technology, Ministry of

Municipal & Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia.

Rizzo, A. (2012). Metro Doha. Cities, doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.11.011

Rizzo, A. & Glasson, J. (2011). Conceiving transit space in Singapore/Johor: a research agenda

for the Strait Transnational Urban Region (STUR). International Journal of Urban Sustainable

Development. 3 (2), 156-167.

Rizzo, A. & Glasson, J. (2011). Iskandar Malaysia. Cities, doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.03.003.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Towards a Responsive Architectural and Urban Education for

Understanding of and Intervening in Islamic Societies, Reflections on a New Post Graduate

Program at the Education City, Doha, Qatar. Lonaard Magazine is a peer-reviewed periodical,

publication of Lonaard Group in London, Issue 4, Volume 1, PP. 130-137. ISSN: 2045 – 8150.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Trans-disciplinary Knowledge for Affordable Housing. Open House

International, Volume 36, Issue 3, Urban International Press, United Kingdom, PP. 7-15. ISSN:

0160-2601.

Salama, A. M. and Gharib, R.Y. (2012). A Perceptual Approach for Investigating Urban Space

Diversity in the City of Doha. Open House International, Volume 37, Issue 2, Urban International

Press, United Kingddom, PP. 24-32. ISSN: 0160-2601.

Shaaban K.,& Khalil, R. (2012). Proposed Policies to Support the New Metro System in Qatar.

ELSEVIER Procedia. Special Issue.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M. and Thierstein (2012). A Framework for Investigating Urban

Qualities in Emerging Knowledge Economies: The Case of Doha. Archnet-IJAR – International

Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 6, Issue 1, Archnet @ MIT School of Architecture,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, PP. 42-56. ISSN: 1994-6961.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M. and Thierstein (2012). Urban Evolution of the City of Doha: An

Investigation into the Impact of Economic Transformations on Urban Structures, Journal of the

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Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, METU.JFA, Volume 29, Issue 2, PP. 35-

61 DOI: 10.4305/METU.JFA.2012.2.2

Book Chapters

Grichting, A. (2011). From the ground up: The Cyprus Green Line and Ecologies of Peace in

Landscapes of Conflict in S. Egoz et al. (Eds.), The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and

Human Rights. Ashgate Publishing, UK, pp. 277-289

Grichting, A. (2012). Cyprus. Greening the Dead Zone. in Tidball, Keith G; Krasny, Marianne E

(Eds.). Greening in the Red Zone. Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening. Springer,

Germany.

Grichting, A. & Kim, K-G. (2012). The Korean DMZ: from Red Zone to Green Zone. In Tidball,

Keith G; Krasny, Marianne E (Eds.) Greening in the Red Zone. Disaster, Resilience and Community

Greening. Springer, Germany.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Identity Flows: The Arabian Peninsula, Emerging Metropolises. In: Luis

Fernández-Galiano (ed.), Atlas Architectures of the 21st Century - Africa and Middle East.

Fundación BBVA, Madrid: Spain. PP.171-220. ISBN: 978-84-92937-19-6.

Salama, A. M. (2012). Architectural Identity Demystified: Visual Voices from the Arab World. In.

P. Emmons, J. Lomholt, and J. L. Jendrix (eds.), The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary

and Historical Perspectives. Routledge: London. PP. 174-185. ISBN: 978-0-415-78341-5.

Salama, A. M. (2012). Assessing Qatar University’s Campus Outdoor Spaces: Design Intentions

Versus Users’ Reactions. In S. Mallory-Hill, W. Preiser and C. Watson (eds.), Enhancing Building

Performance. John Wiley and Sons, New York, PP.139-150. ISBN: 978-0-470-65759-1.

Salama, A. M. (2012). Evaluation Research and Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) in Architecture and

Urbanism: Consumption Versus Production of Knowledge. In S. Mallory-Hill, W. Preiser and C.

Watson (eds.), Enhancing Building Performance. John Wiley and Sons, New York, PP. 277-284.

ISBN: 978-0-470-65759-1.

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Conference Papers

Boussaa, D. (2011). Sustaining the living treasures in the Gulf? cases from UAE, Bahrain and

Qatar. Paper presented at the IMACO International Conference, Bali, Indonesia.

Boussaa, D. (2011). The casbah of Dellys in Algeria; from survival to revival. Paper presented at

The rehabilitation et revalorisation du cadre bati conference (REHABATI), Skikda, Algeria.

Boussaa, D. (2012). The Casbah oF Algiers in Algeria, From An Urban Slum To a Sustainable

Living Heritage, ICWSAUD2012, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains

Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia.

Conventz, S., Salama, A.M., Wiedmann, F., Alaily-Matar, N., Thierstein, A. (2012). Investigating

Urban Qualities in Emerging Knowledge Economies: The Case of Doha, Presentation as part of

the session: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Regional Prosperity: Creating Competitive

Economies V, the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York.

Fadli, F. (2011) Retrofitting historic buildings into the 21st century-energy efficiency and passive

design aspects- Energy Management in Cultural Heritage Conference-Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Fadli, F. (2012) Lessons from the Past: The Sustainability Capacities of the Islamic Medina and its

Urban Fabric and Buildings. BME, Budapest Mar. 2012.

Fadli, F. (2012). Assessment models in the MENA region: an analytical study of QSAS. In Amoeda,

R et al. BSA 2012 – Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Building (In Press)

Sustainability Assessment.

Ferwati, M. S and Hakki, R. (2011). A Comparative Study of the Visual Impact of Roadways. The

First Forum on Traffic Safety: The Reality, Experiences and Hope, University of Dammam, KSA

12-13 December 2011.

Ferwati, M. S and Hakki, R. (2012). Visual impact assessment of roadways. Presented in the

12th World Congress of PRI, Marrakech 7-8 June 2012.

Grichting, A. (2011). The Cyprus Buffer Zone. Sharing a Vision for an Ecological Landscape of

Memory and Forgetting. Conference: Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of

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Coexistence in Cyprus and Elsewhere. PRIO (Peace Research Institute of Oslo) Cyprus Center &

Association for Historical Dialogue, Cyprus. 14 & 15 October.

Grichting, A. (2011). Divided Cities and Buffer Zones: Transitional and Transformational

Landscapes of Memory, Forgetting and Forgiving. International Symposium on Constructing

Memories in the Wake of Crimes Against Humanity: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of

Memory. Organized by Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland, 7-10

December.

Grichting, A. (2012). Palimpsests: Activating Ecological Landscapes of Memory and

Reconciliation. City, Landscape, Memory Conference. Iranian Society of Landscape Architect

Professionals, Teheran 30 January 2012. Published in City-Life-Beauty Journal (the Journal of

Tehran Beautification Organization), June.

Grichting, A. (2012). Live Design / Design Build. The Frederick Douglass Peace Garden: From

Pocket Park to Public Space Network. "Live" Projects Pedagogy. International Symposium.

Critical Reflections on Live Projects with a view to co-creating a pedagogic best practice

framework." Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom. 24th-26th May 2012.

Ibrahim, H. & Khalil, R., (2011). A Framework for Rooting Old Souks in the Contemporary Urban

Environment, The 2nd International Conference on Spaces & Flows” 17-18 November, 2011,

Prato, Italy.

Ibrahim, H., (2011). Developing A Green Metric Mechanism versus LEED for Tall Buildings in

Qatar: Evaluation-Based Case Study, The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the

Environment ASCEE2011, 2-5 June, 2011-Osaka-Japan, pp. pp. 337-353, ISSN: 2186-2311.

Khalil, R. & Shaaban K. (2012). Rebuilding Old Downtowns: the Case of Doha, Qatar. In

Conference proceedings: REAL CORP 2012. ISBN: 978-3-9503110-2-0 (CD-ROM); ISBN: 978-3-

9503110-3-7 Print. (pp. 677-689).Tagungsband, Schwechat.

Khalil, R. & Ibrahim, H. (2012). Optimizing School Siting in Doha, Qatar. In Conference

proceedings: International Conference on Management, Applied and Social Sciences

(ICMASS'2012),ISBN: 978-81-922428-1-1.

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Khalil, R. & Shaaban K. (2012). Developing Qatar's Regional Transit Network: Proposed Scenarios

for Linking Doha City to Al-Wakra City and Mesaieed Industrial City. Proceedings of the 5th

WSEAS International Conference on Urban Planning and Transportation (UPT12)- ISBN:978-1-

61804-071-8

Mahgoub, Y. (2011). Cultural Aspects in Lighting Design. The Middle East 3rd Lighting Solutions

Conference.

Mahgoub, Y. (2011). Towards Eco-Tall Buildings in Doha, Paper published in the proceeding of

Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2011 World Conference, COEX, Seoul, South Korea.

Mahgoub, Y. and Khalil, R. (2012). “Impact of Human Behavior on Energy Utilization”. Paper

published in the proceeding of International Conference on Energy and Environment -ICEE 2012,

21-23 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ouahrani, D. (2012). "Assessment of Climate Adaptation of Youth Club in Tozeur, South of

Tunisia". International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry, SHC

Conference, SAN FRANSISCO , USA, “Design and development of ‘Green’ mosques in the Middle

East”, Qatar Sustainable Building Forum, June 2012.

Rizzo, A. (2011). Emerging Mega-City Regions in Asia: The case of the Singapore-Johor

transnational urban region. In Conference proceedings: Space and Flows. Prato, Italy: Monash

University.

Rizzo, A. (2011). P2P Urbanism: What’s new?. In Conference proceedings: Atmosphere 2011,

Mediated Cities. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge in Architectural Design Pedagogy. In Claudio

D’ Amato (ed.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Rete-Vitruvio: Architectural

Education Between Teaching and Research. School of Architecture, Polytecnico Di Bari, Print and

Compact Disc, Bari, Italy, PP. 1463-1472. ISBN # 978-88-95612-78-2.

Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., Thierstein,A., Alaily-Matar, N., Conventz, S. (2011). Urban

Qualities in an Emerging Regional Metropolis: The Case of Doha. Qatar Foundation Annual

Research Forum-2011, Doha, Qatar.

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Salama, A. M. (2011). A Dialogical Understanding of Urban Center(s) and Peripheries in the City

of Doha, Qatar. International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association:

Peripheries 2011, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Colloquium-Live Projects in Architectural Education, Live Projects 2011,

Invited Key Speaker: Mapping Live Project Practices on Pedagogical Concepts and Theories

SPACE—School of Planning, Architecture, and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, and

the Center for Education in the Built Environment, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Salama, H. (2012). Globalizing Cities in a World of Flows: A comparative Study of Doha and

Dubai. The Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

Symposium, November 2012.

Salama, H. (2012). Places of People Flows: Learning from Dubai. The 3d Gulf Research Meeting,

Cambridge University, July 2012.

Salama, H. (2012). Tahrir Square: A Reclamation of Public Space. Peer Reviewed paper accepted

at The International Planning History Society Conference, July 2012.

Salama, H. (2012). Tahrir Square: Between Local Traditions and Global Flows. Peer reviewed

paper accepted at The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments

(IASTE) Conference, October 2012.

Book Reviews

Salama, A. M. (2011). Functionalism and the Contemporary Architectural Discourse: A Review of

'Functionalism Revisited' by Jon Lang and Walter Moleski. Archnet-IJAR-International Journal for

Architectural Research, Volume 5, Issue 2, Archnet @ MIT School of Architecture and Planning,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, PP. 127-131. ISSN # 1994-6961.

Salama, A. M. (2012). Emerging Perceptions of Research by Design: Towards a Responsive

Practice, Review of “Design Innovation for the Built Environment: Research by Design and the

Renovation of Practice, by Michael U. Hensel (ed.). FORMakademisk, Oslo and Akershus

University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, Volume 5, Issue 1, PP. (in Press).



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Editorials and Essays

Rizzo, A. (2012). Reconstructing Meta-Doha. MONU magazine on urbanism. 16, 32-35.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Editorial: Anti-Vitruvian Architects and Contemporary Society. Architects

for Peace, September, Melbourne, Australia.

Salama, A. M. (2011). Editorial: The Quest for Architectural Excellence in non-Western Societies:

Reflections on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in its 11th Cycle. Architects for Peace,

January, Melbourne, Australia.

Salama, A. M. and Sengupta, U. (2011). Editorial: Changing Paradigms in Affordable Housing,

Quality, and Lifestyle Theories. Open House International, Volume 36, Issue 3, Urban

International Press, United Kingdom, PP.04-06. ISSN # 0160-2601.

Salama, A. M. (2012): Narrating Doha’s Contemporary Architecture: The then, the now, the

drama, the theater, and the performance. Diigital Architectural Papers, Issue 8: Middle East 1:

Conditions for an Architectural Practice. ETH-Chair: Josept Lluis Mateo. Swiss Federal Institute of

Technology, Zurich.

Salama, A. M. and Thierstien, A. (2012). Rethinking Urban Diversity. Open House International,

Volume 37, Issue 2, Urban International Press, United Kingdom, PP.1-3. ISSN # 0160-2601.

Technical Reports

Grichting, A. (2012). Layers, Linkages and Lines: Environmental Peacebuilding in the Balkans .

Guest Blog on observations and insights during a field expedition and course on “Conservation

Beyond Borders” in the border regions between Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, summer

2012. Published on National Geographic Website Newswatch by Saleem Ali.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/30/balkans-2012/

Salama, H. (2011). Sustainability in Dubai: An Urban Design Perspective, Dubai School of

Government Policy Brief. The Dubai School of Government.

http://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2011/09/anti-vitruvian-architects-and.html

http://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2011/01/quest-for-architectural-excellence-in.html

http://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2011/01/quest-for-architectural-excellence-in.html

http://qu.academia.edu/AshrafSalama/Papers/820472/CHANGING_PARADIGMS_IN_AFFORDABLE_HOUSING_QUALITY_AND_LIFESTYLE_THEORIES_Ashraf_M._Salama_and_Urmi_Sengupta_Open_House_International_Volume_36_issue_3_September_2011_PP.4-6

http://qu.academia.edu/AshrafSalama/Papers/820472/CHANGING_PARADIGMS_IN_AFFORDABLE_HOUSING_QUALITY_AND_LIFESTYLE_THEORIES_Ashraf_M._Salama_and_Urmi_Sengupta_Open_House_International_Volume_36_issue_3_September_2011_PP.4-6

http://www.architecturalpapers.ch/index.php?ID=64

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Salama, H. (2011). Towards an Arab Knowledge Society: Benefiting from Global Knowledge and

Information Flows. The Dubai Initiative Policy Brief, Belfer Center for Sciences and International

Affairs, Harvard University.

Working Papers

Salama, H. (Forthcoming). The Dubai Urban Phenomenon. Dubai Initiative Working Paper Series,

Belfer Center for Sciences and International Affairs, Harvard University.

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F. Seminars and Public Lectures

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Visiting Academics and Professionals

Alain Thierstein. 10/10/2011. The emerging knowledge economy. Bringing together

relational and physical space. Qatar University.

Rima Youssif. 19/10/2011. Our Sustainable Workplace. Qatar University.

João Nunes. 14/12/2011. Reinventing Sustainability: Landscape Architecture Solutions.

Qatar University.

Yousef Al-Horr. 28/12/2011. Development of First Performance Based Green Building

Rating System in MENA Region. Qatar University.

Earl Roger Mandle. 29/12/1011. The programming of Museums and Cultural Spaces. Qatar

University

Krunoslav Ivanisin. 04/01/2012. A View from a Above: The Middle East. Qatar University.

Henry Sanoff. 07/03/2012. Public Lecture : Democratic Design and Community

Development. Qatar University.

Robert Marans. 02/04/2012. Public Lecture : Quality of Life in Cities. Qatar University.

Naima Benkari. 03/04/2012. Teaching Sustainability in the Architecture Curricula. Qatar

University.

Paulo Martins Barata . 21/05/2012. Tectonics Unbound. Qatar University.

Invited Public Lectures

Salama, A. M. (2012). Global Condition, Identity Discourse, & Contemporary Architecture in

the Gulf. In Conference proceedings: Middle East Lecture Series. Zurich, Switzerland: ETH-

Federal Institute of Technology- Zurich, Switzerland. (April 2012).

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Department Faculty Inside Qatar and Qatar

University

Agatino Rizzo. 30/11/2011. Emerging Mega-City Regions In Asia. Qatar University.

Anna Grichting. 28/11/2011. The Cyprus Buffer Zone: Sharing a Vision for an Ecological

Landscape of Memory and Forgetting. Qatar University.

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Anna Grichting. 16/1/2012. From Green to Blue: Landscapes and Seascapes in Qatar,

QGBC’s Seminar: "Natural Systems” Launch of Green Infrastructure Interest Group. Doha,

Qatar.

Anna Grichting. 7/3/2012. Women and the City – Infrastructure Needs and Solutions in

Doha, QGBC’s Conference: How Women Work. Doha, Qatar.

Anna Grichting (with QU Senior Students). 8/3/2012. Planning & Improving the Quality of

the Urban Environment. Qatar University (QU), the National Association of Women in

Construction, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)Gulf Chapter, and Qatar Green

Building Council (QGBC) . Doha, Qatar.

Ashraf Salama. 07/12/11. Understanding Urban Space in Doha. Qatar University.

Ashraf Salama. 8/3/2012. Closing Remark. Qatar University (QU), the National Association of

Women in Construction, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)Gulf Chapter, and

Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) . Doha, Qatar.

Ashraf Salama. 5/6/2012. Presentation- Launch of Energy Interest Group. QGBC, QU and

kahramaa’s Seminar: Sustainable Urbanism in Doha: Energy, Development, and Society.

Doha, Qatar.

Ashraf Salama. 5/6/2012. Reflections on Sustainable Growth in Doha. QGBC, QU and

kahramaa’s Seminar: Sustainable Urbanism in Doha: Energy, Development, and Society.

Doha, Qatar.

Ashraf Salama. 11/6/2012. Sustainable Qatar: From individual buildings to urban

development. MEED , QGBC & GORD Conference: Qatar Sustainable Building Forum. Doha,

Qatar.

Djamel Boussaa. 7/12/2011. Sustaining The Living Treasures in The Gulf; Cases From UAE,

Bahrain and Qatar. Qatar University.

Djamel Boussaa. 18/4/2012. Souk Waqif: A Historic Landmark in Doha, Cultural Identity and

Sustainability. Qatar Society Of Engineers.

Djamel Boussaa. 18/4/2012. The Casbah of Algiers, in Algeria, from An Urban Slum to a

Sustainable Living Heritage. Qatar University.

Djamel Ouahrani. 12/6/2012. Driving sustainability through the adoption of Biomimetic

Design. MEED , QGBC & GORD Conference: Qatar Sustainable Building Forum. Doha, Qatar.

Fodil Fadli. 5/6/2012. Sustainability Assessment: Methods & Tools For Practice. QGBC, QU

and kahramaa’s Seminar: Sustainable Urbanism in Doha: Energy, Development, and Society.

Doha, Qatar.

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Hussam Salama. 5/6/2012. Project Presentation: Designing for Sustainable Tourism. QGBC,

QU and kahramaa’s Seminar: Sustainable Urbanism in Doha: Energy, Development, and

Society. Doha, Qatar.

Rania Khalil. 30/11/2011. Rooting Old Souk in the Contemporary Urbanism of Qatar: The

Case Study of Souk Waqif Abstract. Qatar University.

Rania Khalil (with QU Senior Students). 8/3/2012. Environmentally Sustainable Tourism in

Qatar. Qatar University (QU), the National Association of Women in Construction, the Royal

Institute of British Architects (RIBA)Gulf Chapter, and Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) .

Doha, Qatar.

Yasser Mahgoub. 28/11/2011. Towards Eco-Tall Buildings in Doha. Qatar University.

Yasser Mahgoub. 28/03/2012. Housing Research Academia Informing Profession. Qatar

Society of Engineers.

Yasser Mahgoub. 05/12/2011. The Impact of Tall Buildings on Urban Habitat CTBUH-Qatar -

Regional Seminar. Qatar University.

Short Course

Grichting, A. (6-7-2012 to 23-7-2012) A summer credit course Balkans Peace Park Expedition

2012 - Conservation beyond Borders as part of the Department of Environmental Studies,

University of Vermont, USA.

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G. Other Activities

Consultancy

2011. Ashraf M. Salama (Team Leader)

QU-CENG- Campus Planning, Accessibility, and Movement Patterns Study

Team: Dr. Yasser Mahgoub and Student Fatma Khalafani

Sponsor: Campus And University Facilities Committee

2011. Yasser Mahgoub (Team Leader)

QU-CENG-SUS-11/12-1 - Space Utilization Study.

Team: Prof. Ashraf M. Salama, Coordinator And Co-Lead PI, Dr. Fodil Fadli, Co-Investigator,

Arch. Maha Sobhi, Research Assistant, Arch. Shiney Rachel Rajan, Research Assistant, Students:

Fatima Khalafani And Ahood Al-Maimani, Islam Qunnaby And Motasem Miqdad.

Sponsor: QU Research Office /University Campus And Facilities Committee

2011. Djamel Ouahrani. 2011. (Consultant)

Design And Follow Up of a Prototype Furniture With Recycled Plastic.

Sponsor: QU MTU Material Technology Unit (6 Months). Doha, Qatar.

Community Service

Rania F. Khalil. 02/2012. Re-designing Qatar Charity Headquarters (with dr. Ashraf Salama, and

two students). Doha, Qatar.

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H. Students’ Activities

Oct-11.Transportation And Infrastructure Planning Department, MMUP. Graduate

Students, Doha, Qatar.

Dec-11.DAUP Students Social Club Activity: Architectural Educational Field Trip (Fall 2010),

Katara Village, Doha, Qatar.

Dec-11.The Fifth Engineering Student Gathering Sultan Qaboos University. Online

Submission.

Dec-11.DAUP Students Social Club Activity: Chili Cook off Competition (Fall 2011), DAUP,

Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Dec-11.Regional Field Trip Graduate Students - Urban Design in Practice. Dubai, UAE.

Dec-11.GCC Engineering Students Design Competition 2012. Submission Through CENG.

Jan-12. Planet Solar Boat Visit in Porto Arabia, the Pearl. Doha, Qatar.

Jan-12. Presentation of Outcome of Senior Project I at UPDA (Spring). UPDA, Doha, Qatar.

Feb-12.Re-Designing Qatar Charity Headquarter, Doha, Qatar.

Mar-12.National Field Trip Graduate Students Design And Regeneration. Doha, Qatar.

Mar-12.Women in the Sustainable Built Environment -Student Project Presentation. Doha,

Qatar.

Mar-12.Cooling Plant Visit For the Course Environmental Control System 2 Sanitary and

HVAC ARCT 332. Qatar University Cooling Plant. Doha, Qatar.

Apr-12. Abu Nakhla Reservoir - With Ashgal Engineers. Doha, Qatar.

Apr-12.Istanbul Seminar- Orientalist Museum-Journey Into the Life of The Ottomans.

Doha, Qatar.

Apr-12.Site Visit For Design Studio Ii. Doha, Qatar.

May-12.Regional Field Trip Undergraduate Senior Students. Istanbul, Turkey.

May-12.DAUP Annual Exhibition. Qatar University. Doha, Qatar.

May-12.DAUP Students Social Club Activity: Freejna; A Qatari Story Telling Event (Spring

2012). DAUP, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Jun-12. Sustainable Urbanism In Doha: Energy, Development, And Society. Doha, Qatar.

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Department of Civil

and Architectural

Engineering

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The Department of Civil Engineering has made many

advances and achievements during the 2011/2012 academic

year. The number of students enrolled in the program

increased from 131 to 143. It graduated 19 students. The

department hired an additional faculty, Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush

(environmental engineering, hired in spring 2012), two

teaching assistants (Eng. Sikder Selimuzzaman as an

additional TA, hired in fall 2011, and Eng. Abdulrahman Abu-

Hijleh as a replacement for Eng. Nasser Al-Jurf, hired in spring

2012), and lab technician Joseph Siju (hired in fall 2011). Dr.

Ramzi Taha, who was hired in spring 2012 as an associate dean

for academic affairs, has also become part of the civil engineering department. Dr. Onur

Tokdemir was hired as a visiting professor to teach one course during spring 2012. Dr. Nasser

Al-Nuaimi was on sabbatical leave during this academic year. Also, Dr. Hisham Eid was

promoted from an associate professor to a full professor.

The department increased activities of all types. For example, the department conducted 12

seminars on QU campus; taught by both department faculty and visiting scholars. The

department faculty conducted 9 public lectures by professional societies. More field trips took

place this year than any previous year. The department held several successful events such as

the 3rd Annual Civil Engineering Open Day, First Alumni Annual Meeting , and First BIM User

Day.

In research activities, department faculty won 3 NPRP and 4 UREP proposals. The faculty

combined published 16 papers in refereed journals, 17 conference papers, and one book. The

department labs have been upgraded; the environmental and transportation labs added new

equipment.

The department faculty Drs. Khaldoon Bani-Hani, Ahmed Senouci, and Nasser Al-Nuaimi, along

with their student team won the first prize in the UREP annual competition 2012 on their

project: “Wireless Sensors for Corrosion Detection of Post-Tensioned Tendons in Bridges”. Also,

Dr. Hisham Eid won the Research Award (1st Place), 2011 from QU.

Saleh Mubarak, PhD Head, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

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The department continued and increased community service. Faculty held positions in a local

high school board of directors, a Ministry of Interior Committee on Traffic Safety, and the

Environmental and Water Resources Committee. Several faculty also participated in continuing

education seminars; both on and off campus.

In general, there was a clear and positive impact to the increased activities by the Department of

Civil Engineering; both inside Qatar University and the entire society. This was the result of

collective hard work by the department’s faculty and staff. This will only encourage us to do

more and better the next year.

Table A1: Summary

2011-2012


Faculty 12


Support Staff 3

Total 19

On-Study Leave No


Enrolment: Fall

Spring

143

135

Graduates: Fall

Spring

8

11

Graduate Program

Enrollment 2

Thesis Completed -

Research

Awarded Research Project

UREP 4

NPRP 4

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Publications

Refereed Journal Papers 16

Book Chapters 2

Conference Papers 17

Book/Papers Reviews 5

Seminars – Public Lectures

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Academics and

Professionals 3

Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Department Faculty 3

Seminars and Public Lectures attended by Department Faculty 6

Conferences attended by Department Faculty 19

Workshops, Trainings and Visits by Department Faculty 11

Other Activities

Faculty

Consultancy 4

Community Service 19

Students Activities 11

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Academic Staff



Year

Saleh Mubarak

Associate Professor

and Head of

Department

Construction Management,

Project Scheduling and Control,

Cost Estimating and Management.

2010

Osman

Elnawawy Professor Hydro-systems. 2000

Hisham Eid Professor

Soil and rock mechanics, geo

environmental engineering, soil

structure interaction.

2002

Ramzi Taha

Professor and

Associate Dean for

Academic Affairs

Transportation Infrastructure,

Sustainable Construction, Solid

Waste and By-Product Materials

Recycling, Soil Stabilization and

Improvement.

2011

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Year

Mohammed Al-

Ansari Associate Professor

Reinforced concrete design; solid

mechanics, Earthquake

Engineering, Numerical Analysis.

1994

Ahmed Senouci Associate Professor

Structural engineering,

construction engineering and

management.

1995

Khaldoon Bani-

Hani Associate Professor

Structural control and health

monitoring, soft computing

application in civil engineering,

structural vibration and seismic

design, structural retrofitting and

rehabilitation.

2007

Riyadh Al-Raoush Associate Professor

Fate and transport of

contaminates in subsurface

systems, Environmental fluid

dynamics, Multiphase and

multistate modeling of flow

through porous media.

2011

Omar Al-Ansari

Assistant Professor

and Vice President

for Students Affairs

Geotechnical Engineering. 1990

Khaled Shaaban Assistant Professor

Traffic Operations, Intelligent

Transportation Systems, Traffic

Simulation, Traffic Safety, Work

Zones.

2010

Khalid Naji

Assistant Professor

and Associate Vice

President for

Facilities and

Information

Technology

Computer applications in

construction engineering with

emphasis on project

management, cad and graphical

simulation techniques, virtual

environments.

1990

Nasser Al-Nuaimi Assistant Professor Structural Engineering. 2006

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Year

Hassan Al-

Derham

Assistant Professor

and Vice President

for Research

Procurement of construction

projects, productivity of

construction projects, housing

projects, evaluation of consulting

offices.

1990

Alaa Hawari Assistant Professor

Water and waste water treatment

(membrane rejection and fouling,

bio sorption and selective

adsorption), solid waste

management and sustainability.

2010

Okan Sirin Assistant Professor

Pavement materials and design,

Superpave technology,

Accelerated pavement testing,

Traffic engineering.

2008

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Year

Abdelhamid Bin

Salem Teaching Assistant

Geomatics Engineering and

science of Measurement 2004

Husam Sadek Teaching Assistant Analysis and Design of Structures 2008

Sikder M

Selimuzzaman Teaching Assistant Environmental Engineering 2012

Abdulrahman Z.

Abu-Hijleh Teaching Assistant

Construction Management &

Analysis and Design of Structures 2012

Abdul Azeez

Kilayil Lab Technician

Land Surveying, Materials Testing

& Concrete and Soil Mechanics 2009

Joseph Valiya

Parambil Siju Lab Technician

Traffic and Transportation &

Pavement and Material Testing 2012

Fatma S. Bejia Administrative

Assistant

Organizational Skills, Problem

Solving Ability and Efficient

Coordinator and Motivator

2001

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Industrial Constituents

Table A4. Summary: Industrial Constituents at the department

Name Title Company P.O.Box Tel Fax Email

Dr. Mohamed

Aymen

Abdulsalam

Lead Civil -

Structural

Eng.

RASGAS 24200 4732538 4732686

dabdulsala

m@rasgas.

com.qa

Mr. Nick

Lieshman ــــ ــــ Qatar Gas 22666 ـــــ

nleishman

@qatargas

.com.qa

Mr. Ahmed Al

Jolo

Chairman

Engineerin

g Offices

Urban planning

&Development

Authority

ــــ 4411664 22188ajolo@mm

aa.gov.qa

Mr. Ibrahim

Hashim Al-

Sada

Director of

Road

Affairs

Ashghal 22188 4324745 4439104

ialsada@h

otmail.co

m

mailto:[email protected]











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Quality Assurance and Curriculum - accreditation: SACS – ABET Committee

Chair: Dr. Osman Elnawawy

Members: Dr. Ahmed Senouci, Dr. Khaled Shaaban and Eng. Nasser Aljurf /

Abdulrahman Abu-Hijleh

Research and Graduate Studies Committee

Chair: Dr. Hisham Eid

Members: Dr. Alaa Hawari and Dr. Mohammad Al-Ansari


Chair: Dr. Hisham Eid

Members: Dr. Osman Elnawawy, Dr. Saleh Mubarak and Dr. Ahmed Senouci

Outreach Committee

Chair: Dr. Khaldoon Bani-Hani

Members: Dr. Khalid Naji, Dr. Khaled Shaaban, Dr. Saleh Mubarak

Laboratories, Facilities, Space Management, & Safety Committee

Chair: Dr. Alaa Hawari

Members: Eng. Abdelhamid Bin Salem, Eng. Husam Sadek, Fatma Bejia, Abdul-Aziz Kilayil

Scheduling – Textbooks Committee

Chair: Okan Sirin

Members: Dr. Alaa Hawari, Eng. NasserAl-Jurf/ Abdulrahman Abu-Hijleh

Student Relations and Conduct – advising Committee

Chair: Dr. Okan Sirin

Members: Dr. Khaldoon Bani-Hani

Information & Annual Report Committee

Chair: Dr. Saleh Mubarak

Members: Dr. Khaled Shabaan, Eng. Husam Sadek, Fatma Bejia

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Promotion Committee

Chair: Dr. Osman Elnawawy

Members: Others; appointed when needed

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The Department of Civil Engineering started its post-graduate program in 2010 as part of the

post-graduate program of the College of Engineering, CENG. It participates in two

interdisciplinary Master-degree programs: The Engineering Management and the Environmental

Engineering programs, offered under the umbrella of the College of Engineering. In addition, the

department has started to offer Master and Ph.D. degrees in the other Civil Engineering

disciplines.

The details of the department post-graduate activities can be summarized as follows:

1. Master of Science in Engineering: The Department of Civil Engineering participates in two

of CENG program of Master of Science in Engineering:

a. Engineering Management (Construction Track), in collaboration with the

Mechanical Engineering Department: This track was supposed to offer courses

starting fall 2011 but there was only one student registered in the track so it was

put off till fall 2012. Now the department has about 8 students who already

started the track in fall 2012.

b. Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with the Chemical, Industrial and

Mechanical Engineering Departments : This program started offering courses in

fall 2011 and is expected to graduate students in spring 2013.

2. Master of Science in Civil Engineering: A new program that was initiated in fall 2011. It

includes specialization in Structures, Geotechnical, Traffic / Transportation, and

Hydraulics and Water Resources. This program is expected to enroll students starting fall

2012.

3. Ph.D. in Civil Engineering: This program was set up in 2010 and accepted two students in

the area of Structures/Materials in fall 2011, both specializing in structures. Qatar

University signed an MOU with the University College of London, UCL, that will help

complement this program and provide needed expertise.

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D. Research

Awarded Research Projects 2011-2012


Eleventh Cycle:

Project number: UREP 11-109-3-022.

Project title: Investigating The Safety Belt Use Of University Students In Qatar.

Grant amount (US$): 28,470

Primary faculty: Prof. Hisham Eid.

Students: Motasem Miqdad, Hadi Al-Harastani, Hamdi Jumaa.

Tenth Cycle:

Project number: UREP-10-061-2-017.

Project title: Novel Charts for Estimating the Elastic Settlement of Vertically Loaded Piles in

Nonhomogenous Rock.


Primary faculty: Prof. Hisham Eid.

Students: Khaled H. Rabie, Saleh R. Tehemar, Mohammed E. Shamyah.


Fourth Cycle:

Project number: NPRP4-529-2-193

Project title: Technology-Based Asset Management Tools for Sustainable Water Infrastructure in

Qatar.


Granting body: QNRF.

Investigator: Dr. Ahmed Senouci (CO-LPI)

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Project title: Transferability of Safety Analytical Tools from North America To Qatar: Viability and

Potential Modifications.



Investigator: Dr. Khaled Slah Shabaan (LPI)

Project number: NPRP-5-488-2-194

Project title: Pipe-fine-grained Soil Interface Shear Strength for Stability Analysis of Near-shore-

energy Infrastructure.


Granting body: Qatar Foundation.

Investigator: Dr. Hisahm Eid (PI)


Project title: Tools for value management of water distribution networks in Qatar

Grant amount (US$): 1,048,000

Granting body: QNRF

Investigator: Dr. Alaa Al Hawari (CO-LPI )

Project number: NPRP 4-188-2-061

Project title: Innovative use of recycled materials in construction



Investigator: Dr. Okan Sirin (CO-PI)

Third Cycle:


Project title: Sustainable Performance of Oil Pipelines.

Grant amount (US$): 644,255.8


Investigator: Ahmed Senouci (CO-LPI)


Project title: Impact of Environmental Policies on the Construction Industry in Qatar.

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Investigator: Ahmed Senouci (CO-PI)

Second Cycle:


Project title: Study Of Offshore Pipeline-Soil Interface Shear Strength Behavior Using Full-Scale

Laboratory Testing.


Granting body: Qatar Foundation.

Investigator: Dr. Hisahm Eid (PI)


Project title: Multi-Scale Computational Models for Predicting Performance of Asphalt

Pavements under Realistic Loading Conditions.



Investigator: Dr. Okan Sirin (CO-PI)

First Cycle:


Project title: Upgrading Waste Rubber-Tire Aggregates for Use in School Playgrounds, Tennis

Yards, and Walkways Pavements.


Granting body: QNRF



Project title: Distributed Multi-objective optimization for the construction of Transportation

systems in the State of Qatar.




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E. Publications


Al-Raoush, R. (2012). Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Pore Geometry on NAPL -

Water Interfacial Areas using Synchrotron Tomography. Water, Air and soil pollution.

Eid, H.T., and Bani-Hani, K. (2012). Settlement of Axially Loaded Piles Entirely Embedded in Rock

– Analytical and Experimental Study. The International Journal of Geomechanics and

Geoengineering, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 139-148.

Eid, H.T. (2012). Bearing capacity and settlement of skirted shallow foundations on sand.

International Journal of Geomechanics. Accepted on June, 2012.

Eid, H.T. (2012). Stability Charts for Uniform Slopes in Soils with Nonlinear Failure Envelope.

Canadian Geotechnical Journal, submitted on June, 2012.

Eid, H.T. (2012). Estimating the Elastic Settlement of Piled Foundations on Rock. Estimating the

Elastic Settlement of Piled Foundations on Rock, submitted on August, 2012.

Elwakil, E., Abdrabou B., El-Abassy, M., Senouci, A., and Zayed, T. (2012). A Model for Predicting

Failure of Oil Pipelines. Structures and Infrastructures Engineering.

Hawari, A.H. (2012). Application of Dried Anaerobic Digested Sewage Sludge as Phenol Bio

sorbent. International Journal of Environmental Engineering.

K.S. Al-Jabri, M. Baawain, R.A. Taha, Z. Al-Kemyani, K. Al-Shamsi and A. Ishtieh (2012). Potential

Use of FCC Spent Catalyst as Partial Replacement of Cement or Sand in Cement Mortars.

Construction and Building Materials (in press).

Muhammad Ateeq, Ahmed Senouci, Hassan Al-Nageim, and Ahmed Al-Shamma’a (2012).

Microwave Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Absorption Properties of Treated Waste Rubber

Aggregates. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste.

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R.A. Taha, Z. Al-Kamyani, K. Al-Jabri, M. Bawaain and K. Al-Shamsi (2012). Recycling of Waste

Spent Catalyst in Road Construction and Masonry Blocks. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.

229-230, pp. 122-127.

Saleh Mubarak, Abdulaziz M. Jarkas and Charles Y. Kadri (2012). CRITICAL FACTORS

DETERMINING BID/NO BID DECISIONS OF CONTRACTORS IN QATAR. ASCE Journal of

Management in Engineering. Submitted in May, 2012.

Al-Ansari, M. (2011). Formulating Building Response to Earthquake Loading. International

Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering, Volume 2, No 1, pp. 305-316.

Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Change in microstructure parameters of porous media over representative

elementary volume for porosity. Particulate Science and Technology, Volume, 30, pp. 01—16.

Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Representative elementary volume analysis of porous media using X-ray

computed tomography. Powder Technology, Volume, 200, pp. 69-77.

Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Impact of wettability on pore-scale characteristics of residual nonaqueous

phase liquids. Environmental Science and Technology, volume, 43, pp. 4796-4801.

Khaled Salah Shaaban (2011). Evaluation of New Simplified Dynamic Lane Merging Systems

(SDLMS) for Short-Term Work Zone Lane Closure Configuration. Jordan Journal of Civil

Engineering.

Books / Book Chapters

Mubarak S. (2012). “How to Estimate with RS Means Data”. 4th edition. Wiley. 978-1-1180-

2528-4

Mubarak S. (2012). “AACE Best Practices: Participation in writing the best practices for schedule

contingency management”, AACE International.

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Conference Papers

Abdelwarith K., Kandil A., Haddock J., Senouci A., Al-Derham H. (2012). Review of Existing

Transportation Sustainability Initiatives and Their Applicability to Qatar. Paper presented at CRC

Conference, Purdue University, West-Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Ahmed Senouci and Saleh Mubarak (2012). Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Scheduling

of Construction Projects. Presented at the Construction CPM Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Ahmed Senouci and Saleh Mubarak (2012). Genetic algorithm-based multi-objective model for

scheduling of linear Construction projects under extreme weather conditions. Presented at the

AACE Conference, AACE International, Dubai, UAE, November 2012.

Amarasinghe, R., Wijewickreme, D., and Eid, H (2012). Some observations on the typical seabed

pipeline-sand interface shear strength under low effective normal stresses. Presented at the

Proceedings of the 65th Canadian Geotechnical Conference “GeoManitoba 2012”, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada.

Guan Long, Shakir Al-Busaltan, Ahmed Senouci, Mohammed Al Ansari, Hassan Al Nageim,

Ahmed Al-Shamma’a. (2012). A novel modification on rubberizing the bituminous material and

relevant properties characterization. Presented at the Proceeding of the 11th Annual

International Conference on PAVEMENT ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE, Liverpool. UK.

Khaled Salah Shaaban (2012). Comparative Study of Road Traffic Rules in Qatar Compared to

Western Countries, Transport Research Arena 2012. Presented at Transport Research Arena

2012.

K.S. Al-Jabri, Z. Al-Kamyani, R.A. Taha, M. Bawaai, K. Al-Shamsi and A. Al-Saidy. Performance of

Concrete Made with Spent Catalyst as Partial Cement Replacement. Proceedings, FIB

Symposium, Sweden, June 11-14, 2012.

K.S. Al-Jabri, Z. Al-Kamyani, R.A. Taha, M. Bawaain and K. Al-Shamsi. Use of Spent Catalyst as an

Additive Cementitious Material in Concrete and Masonry Blocks. Proceedings, American

Concrete Institute-Kuwaiti Chapter, May 8-10, 2012.

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Muhammad Ateeq, Ahmed Senouci, Mohammad Alansari, Ahmed Al-Shamma’a, Hassan Al-

Nageim (2012). Mechanical Performance of Rubberised Bituminous Mix Design. Presented at the

Proceeding of the 11th Annual International Conference on PAVEMENT ENGINEERING AND

INFRASTRUCTURE, Liverpool. UK.

R.A. Taha, H. Al-Nasseri, K. Al-Jabri, A. Al-Nuaimi and A. Al-Harthy. Use of Milled Cement Kiln

Dust in Cement Mortars. Proceedings, Third International Conference on Construction in

Developing Countries, ICCIDC-III, Bangkok, Thailand, July 4-6, 2012.

Sadek H., Masad E., Sirin O., Al-Khalid, H., Little D. (2012). The Implementation of Mechanistic-

Empirical Pavement Design Method to Evaluate Asphalt Pavement Design in Qatar. Paper

presented at the 5th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.

Srinivasa Nookala, Hisham Said, Amr Kandil, Ahmed Senouci, Hassan Al-Derham, Hubo Cai, and

Mohamed El-Gafy. (2012). Developing a Framework for Pre-Design Process Simulation for Green

Buildings. Paper presented at CRC Conference, Purdue University, West-Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Use of computed tomography to characterize residual NAPL in porous

media systems. Presented at the 27th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments,

Water, & Energy, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Pore-scale characterization of residual NAPL in heterogeneous porous

media systems. Presented at the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, ASCE,

Palm Springs, California, USA.

Eid, H. T. (2011). Geotechnical Considerations on the Design of Piled Rafts on Rock,”. Presented

at The 6th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (ISEC6), Zürich.

Jonathan Striblet, LeChell Rush, Myles Floyd, Mark Porter and Al-Raoush, R. (2011). Combined

use of computed tomography and the lattice-Boltzmann method to investigate the influence of

pore geometry of porous media on the permeability tensor. Presented at the American

Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

Khaled Salah Shaaban (2011). Efficiency of Triple Left-Turn Lanes at Signalized Intersections.

Presented at The 13th International Conference on Harbor.

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Book/Paper Reviews

Okan Sirin reviewed a paper for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering.

Ramzi Taha reviewed a manuscript submitted for the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Ramzi Taha reviewed four papers submitted for the 4th European Pavement and Asset

Management Conference, Malmo, Sweden, September, 2012.

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Seminars and Public Lectures Delivered by Visiting Academics and Professionals

David Fisher. January, 2012. Rotating Towers. Qatar University.

Hassan Kanbargy, the inventor of Ultimax Cement. May 30, 2012. Live Demo of the Ultimax

Cement, a presentation, and some Interesting Videos. Qatar University.

René Schumann. November, 2011. Building Information Modeling (BIM). Qatar University.


Alaa Al Hawari and QF participants. December, 2012. Qatar Shelter Initiative. Qatar

University.

Okan Sirin. April 16, 2012. An Alternative Laboratory Aging Process for Short-term Aging of

Modified Asphalts. Qatar University.

Ramzi Taha and Farid Benyahia. May, 2012. Remediation and Management of Hydrocarbon

Contaminated Soils. Qatar Petroleum.

Saleh Mubarak. August 21, 2012. Webinar: The Art of Creating a Construction CPM

Schedule, by WPL Publishing Company.

Saleh Mubarak. August 22, 2012. Webinar: Advanced CPM Networks Analysis, by WPL

Publishing Company.

Seminars and Public Lectures attended by Department Faculty

Alaa Al Hawari. February, 2012. Organic Waste Management in Qatar: Problems and

Solutions. Wyndham Grand Regency Hotel Doha-Qatar.

Saleh Mubarak. February, 2012. The Secrets of Motivational Presentations by OFID.

Saleh Mubarak. June, 2012. The Role of Engineers and Government Authorities in Reducing

Road Accidents, by QSE.

Saleh Mubarak. July, 2012. Project Schedule Acceleration, a 4-hour professional continuing

education seminar, by Mecton Qatar.

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Conferences attended by Department Faculty

Dr. Ramzi Taha. July 4-6, 2012. 3rd International Conference on Construction in Developing

Countries, ICCIDC-III, Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush. December, 2011. The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San

Francisco, California.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush. November, 2011. The 3rd Annual Conference for Undergraduate

Research (The Triple EX). Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush. October, 2011. 27th Annual International Conference on Soils,

Sediments, Water, & Energy. Amherst, Massachusetts.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. November,2011. 4th Annual Bridges Middle East. Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. Trans4 Conference, 2011. Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. Eco-q Conference, 2011. Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. Qatar Transport, 2011 Conference. Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. QITCOM Conference & Exhibition 2011. Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting Conference.

Washington, D.C.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban. Humanization of Cities of Tomorrow.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. July, 2012. AACE's 56th Annual Meeting (Association for the

Advancement of Cost Engineering).

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. June, 2012. IQPC World Stadium Congress (speaker & panelist).

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. April, 2012. MEED Stadium Build Middle East Conference (panelist on

stadiums for World Cup 2022).

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. April, 2012. Construction Week Conference "Building Towards 2022".

Grand Hyatt Doha

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. December, 2011. Conference on Health, Safety, and the Environment

(HSE) in the Construction Industry.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. December, 2011. Conference on Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Eng. Nasser Al Jurf. December, 2011. Building information Modeling Conference.

Eng. Nasser Al Jurf. October, 2011. PMI Global Congress North America.

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Workshops, Trainings and Visits by Department Faculty

Dr. Alaa Al Hawari visited "Center for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technology

(UFT)" at the University of Bremen in Bremen - Germany. The title of the research was

"Development of a novel fouling suppression system in submerged membrane bioreactors

using dielectrophoretic forces". The visit was from July 5th - August 4th 2012.

Dr. Alaa Al Hawari attended the Cosmo Oil Training Program. The subject of the training was

Energy Saving and Environmental Management. The training took place in Japan from

22/1/2012 to 2/2/2012.

Dr. Alaa Al Hawari organized a workshop related to Qatar Shelter Initiative project.

December, 2011.

Dr. Alaa Al Hawari visited different parts of Indonesia as part of the Qatar Shelter Initiative

project. October, 2011.

Dr. Khaled Shaaban visited New Doha International Airport , Ministry of Municipal Affairs

and Urban Planning, and Ministry of Interior.

Dr. Ramzi Taha visited Ashghal, Qatar Petroleum (QP), Gulf Organization for Research and

Development (GORD) at QSTP, and Texas A&M University at Qatar.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush delivered a short course, PE Exam Review (state of Louisiana),

Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush was a Session Co-Chair at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall

meeting 2011, session entitled "Interfacial Processes in Subsurface Flow and Transport:

Linking the Pore-Scale to the Continuum-Scale”, December, 2011.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush was a jury member at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting

2011, Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak attended OFID workshop: Faculty Performance Review and Development

System on April, 2012.

Eng. Abdelhamid Ben Salem attended one week technical training on GPS technology.

Eng. Abdelhamid Ben Salem attended one week technical training on Robotic Total Station

& Pythagoras Software.

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G. Other Activities

Consultancy

Dr. Ahmed Senouci. Engineering Expert for an appeal court case.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak. Engineering Expert for an appeal court case.

Dr. Khaled Salah Shaaban. Qatar Wireless Innovations Center.

Dr. Riyadh Al-Raoush. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Southern University and

Environmental Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Role: Environmental and Water Resources Expert.

Community Service

Dr. Ahmed Senouci serving as an Engineering Expert for the Court of Qatar in a dispute

involving a private school building.

Dr. Alaa Al-Hawari volunteered as a supervisor in the Bottle Top Art Project sponsored by

the Pearl Qatar and organized Qatar Green Business Council (QGBC).

Dr. Ramzi Taha is a member of the Scientific Committee, 4th European Pavement and Asset

Management Conference, Malmo, Sweden, September, 2012.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak Board of Trustees member, Ali bin Jassim School, since December 2010

Dr. Saleh Mubarak has been helping one of the participants in the “Stars of Science”.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak participated with AIESEC youth meeting initiatives for a projects camp.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak participated in Aljazeera News (Arabic and English), Aljazeera Mubasher,

several local newspapers.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak visited Ali bin Jassim School and delivered a presentation on October,

2011.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak delivered PMI lecture titled “So, what’s my percent complete anyway?”

on October, 2011.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak delivered a lecture to QSE titled “Divide & Conquer: The Art of Breaking

down the Project into Activities for Creating a CPM Schedule” on January, 2011.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak delivered a lecture to Egyptian Engineers League titled “Project

Management in the Construction Industry” on April, 2012.

Dr. Saleh Mubarak delivered a lecture to PMI Bahrain titled “Divide & Conquer: The Art of

Breaking down the Project into Activities for Creating a CPM Schedule” on May, 2012.

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Eng. Husam Sadek being an organizer and a jury member in Engineers Got Talent.

Eng. Husam Sadek organized the “Sports Day and Bowling Night”.

Eng. Husam Sadek being a jury member in the Cultural Village 2012.

Eng. Husam Sadek being a jury member in the QU Theater.

Eng. Husam Sadek being a jury member in the QU Talent Show.

Eng. Husam Sadek presented a workshop titled “How to attract what you want in your life”.

Eng. Husam Sadek presented a workshop titled “Manage your time”.

Eng. Husam Sadek presented a workshop titled “Plan your life”.

Eng. Husam Sadek presented a workshop titled “Improve your communication skills”.

Eng. Husam Sadek delivered a lecture titled “Life is reading” in Thakafa Take Away.

Eng. Nasser Al-Jurf being a member of PMI Global Congress.

Eng. Nasser Al-Jurf being a member of Building Information Modeling.

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A visit to LRT at Lusail. May, 2012. Organized by Dr. Mohammed Al-Ansari.

Master Students of Capstone design course/design project (EEMP510). April, 2012. A visit to

the industrial wastewater plant of Qatar Chemical Company (Q-CHEM). Organized by Dr.

Alaa.


Qatar Petrochemical (QAPCO). Organized by Dr. Alaa.


the industrial wastewater plant of Ras Laffan Olefins Cracker (RLOC). Organized by Dr. Alaa.


the industrial wastewater plant of Qatar Chemical Company (Q-CHEM). Organized by Dr.

Alaa.

Students of Physico-Chemical Processes in Environmental Systems (EEMP509). March, 2012.

A visit to Doha south wastewater treatment plant. Organized by Dr. Alaa.

A visit to New Accommodation for QU Students. March, 2012. Organized by Dr.

Mohammed Al-Ansari.

A visit to Demolition Waste Management Center. February,2012. Organized by Dr.Okan

Sirin.

Students of Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering (CVEN453). November, 2011. A

visit to Doha south wastewater treatment plant. Organized by Dr. Alaa.

Two site visits for a construction project site in Al-Gharraffa. Organized by Dr. Ahmed

Senouci.

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Department of

Chemical Engineering

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This report summarizes the achievement of the students and

faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

It depicts major research projects, publication, awareness and

public lectures, consultancy and services delivered by both

department faculty and visitors.

Table A1: Summary

2011 - 2012


Faculty 12

TA’s 5

Staff 4


Enrollment 191

Courses Offered 3 GENG, 22 CHME

Postgraduate Program

Enrollment 7

Courses Offered 2

Research

Grants 31

Contracts 2

Consultancy NA

Publications

Books or book chapters 3

Journal Publications 28


Research reports 56

Farid Benyahia, PhD Head, Department of Chemical Engineering

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Academic Staff



Year

Farid Benyahia Professor

Process Design and Modeling,

Catalytic Processes, Environmental

Biochemical Engineering,

Immobilized Cell Technology,

Nitrification in Wastewater

Treatment, Airlift Bioreactors, CO2

Emissions Reduction and

Desalination Brine Reject

Management, Membrane

Distillation Desalination

2006

Ramazan

Kahraman Professor

Materials, Composites, Polymer

Technology, Corrosion, Transport

Phenomena

2007

Ibrahim Abu

Reesh Professor

Biochemical Engineering,

Environmental Biotechnology 2010

Hazim Qiblawey Associate Professor Water treatment and water reuse,

Desalination, crystallization. 2007

Majeda

Khraisheh Associate Professor

Water and wastewater treatment,

CCS, ionic liquids applications in oil

and gas

2009

Shaheen Al-

Muhtaseb Associate Professor

Adsorption, Adsorbent Materials,

Membranes, Thermodynamics 2007

Abdulreda

AlSayegh Assistant Professor 1998

Fadwa Eljack Assistant Professor

Process Integration and

optimization.

Design of sustainable and

2007

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Year

environmentally benign

technologies.

Abnormal Situation Management

of gas industries for flare

reduction.

Design of environmentally benign

materials.

Computer aided process

engineering.

Mert Atilhan Assistant Professor

Applied thermodynamics, multi-

component gas mixtures

properties, gas hydrates, carbon

dioxide capture, porous polymers,

adsorption, ionic liquids

2007

Mohammed Ali

Saleh Assistant Professor

Air pollution (NOx removal) and

catalysis 2010

Mohammed Al-

Marri Assistant Professor

Applied thermodynamics,

simulation and modeling, catalysis. 2009

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TA/Staff Name Role Area of Interest Appointment

Year

Mohammed

Abou Nada Teaching Assistant

Process Design, Modeling and

Simulation, Separation Science and

Technology, Mass Transfer, Gas

Processing, Membrane Separation

Processes and Process Safety.

2006

Mohamed

Arshad Teaching Assistant

Computational fluid dynamics,

energy analysis in thermal system,

modeling of viscosity of aqueous

salt solution.

2008

Shaden Daghash Teaching Assistant

Plant design, reaction engineering,

thermodynamics and

environmental engineering.

2009

Hesan Elfaki Teaching Assistant

Research interest in the area of

environmental sustainability and

pollution control including: carbon

dioxide capture, grey water

treatment and re-use,

environmental systems modeling,

removal of dissolved solids from

water as well as heat integration.

2010

Ahmed Alnouss Teaching Assistant

Process integration, design and

modeling.

Process systems engineering and

optimization.

Sustainable process design and

operation.

Computer-aided technologies for

chemical process desig.

2010

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TA/Staff Name Role Area of Interest Appointment

Year

Ahmed Elkhatat Senior Lab

Technician

Area of interest in Research:

environmental evaluation of water

resources by using isotope

hydrology and biochemistry, and

resorcinol-formaldehyde nano-

structured materials for separation

and energy applications.

Area of interest in applications:

Operation and calibration of

Inductive Coupled Plasma (ICP-

AES), Gas Chromatography (GC-

FID-ECD), GC Gas Analyzer (NGA-

FID-TCD), Ion Chromatography,

FTIR, TOC Analyzer, CHNS Analyzer,

Surface Area Analyzer, UV-Vis

Spectroscopy and Isotope ratio

mass spectrometer.

Area if interest in quality: ISO

17025.

2009

Saied Ahmed Lab Technician

Mechanical and industrial

workshops, helping master and

doctoral students in implementing

their scientific researches. Also,

safety in labs.

2009

Alaaeldin

Esmat Negmeldin

Senior Lab

Technician Analytical Chemistry 2007

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Quality Assurance Curriculum Committee

Chair: Dr. Ramazan Kahraman

Members: Dr. Farid Benyahia, Dr. Dr. Majeda Khraisheh

Curriculum Development and Changes Sub-committee

Chair: Dr. Shaheen AlMuhtaseb

Members: Dr. Fadwa ElJack and Dr. Mert Atilhan

Students Committee

Chair: Dr. Fadwa ElJack

Members: Dr. Mohamed Ali Saleh, Dr. Mohamed Al-Marri , Eng. Shaden Daghash and

Eng. Mohamed Abu Nada

Research Committee

Chair: Dr. Hazim Qiblawey

Members: Dr. Mert Atilhan, Dr. Mohamed Al-Marri, Dr. Shaheen AlMuhtaseb and Dr. Mohamed

Ali Saleh

Laboratories and Safety Committee

Chair: Dr. Mert Atilhan

Members: Dr. Farid Benyahia, Dr. Mohamed Ali Saleh and Dr. Ahmed Al-Khattat

Scheduling Committee

Members: Dr. Ramazan Kahraman, Dr. Farid Benyahia and Eng. Shaden Daghash

Strategic Planning Data Management Committee

Members: Dr. Ramazan Kahraman, Dr. Farid Benyahia and Mrs. Wafaa AbuFool

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Table A4. Post graduate students’ names, thesis committee members and title

Student Name Thesis Committee

Members Thesis Tittle

Hesan Hamed El Faki Dr. Alaa Hawari Industrial wastewater

Hasanat Mohammad

Ramadan

Drs. Alaa Hawari

Dr. Ibrahim Abu Reesh

Biological treatment of industrial

wastewater

Ashar Abdulrazzaq Diab Dr. Mert Atilhan Carbon capture through porous

polymers

Jumana Ahmad Ahan Prof. Abu Reesh

Dr. Simon Judd

Produced water characterization and

treatability studies

Karam Elahmed Prof. Farid Benyahia Carbon conversion

Yehia Mohammad Ali

Manawi

Dr. Majeda Khraisheh

Prof. Farid Benyahia Membrane distillation desalination

Ahmad Mohammad Fard Dr. Majeda Khraisheh

Prof. Farid Benyahia Membrane distillation desalination

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D. Research



Eleventh Cycle:

Title: A study on the carbon footprint of the vinyl chloride monomer process


Primary faculty: F. Benyahia (Lead PI), M. Khraisheh

Students: A. Al-Sabri, A. Alola, M. Hussein, M. Al Mahrizi, N. Doualeh, S. Al-Khalifa

Duration: Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2013

Title: The Syntheses of CO2 Adsorbent Microporous Materials in Amine Solutions)


Primary faculty: M. Atilhan (LPI), F. Karadas (CoPI)

Students: Fahd, Shurair, Baligh


Title: Melamine-Amide Based Porous Organic Polymers for CO2 Capture


Primary faculty: M. Atilhan (Lead PI), E. Deniz (Co-Mentor)

Students: M. Azam, M. Khan, R. Anzi


Title: Household Laundry Wastewater Reuse For Food Production


Primary faculty: H. Qiblawey (Lead PI), Ahmed Easa (Co-mentor)

Students: S. Jarjash, K. Abou-Maali, A. Abdulrahman, A. Moursi


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Tenth Cycle:

Title: Water characterization and treatability studies of produced water from the Qatari oil and

gas industry


Primary faculty: M. Khraisheh (Lead PI), F. Benyahia

Students: Zakaria Othman, Mohamed Taha, Maimona Al-saadi, Balqes Al-saadi, Elham Hammad,

Khalifa Al-Thani

Duration: Sept. 2011 – Jun. 2012

Title: Estimation, simulation and modeling of SOx, NOx and CO2 emissions from the GTL process


Primary faculty: M. Khraisheh (Lead PI), F. Benyahia

Students: Enas omar, Layal Bani Nasser, Ibrahim Alnuaimi, yehia minawi, Ahmad Kayvani Fard,

Mohd Alshaabi


Title: A/C condensate, A Source of Water for Hydroponic Farming.


Primary faculty: H. Qiblawey (Lead PI)

Students: M. A. AL-Mutawa, N. A. Al-Dahdouh, S. T. Al Zouqri


Title: Development of New Generation Polymeric Membranes and their Applications in the

Separation of Organic Solvents


Primary faculty: S. Al-Muhtaseb (Lead PI), M. Patil (Co-Mentor)

Students: A. Alkhouzaam, A. Kasht, M. Azam, M. Baker, M. Al Khasib, and R. Al-Anzi.


Ninth Cycle:

Title: Development of an Aspen simulation library for distillation control and analysis


Primary faculty: S. Ahmed (Lead PI)

Students: A. M. Mahamat, A. Abdulmajeed, M. Taha

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Duration: Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2011

Title: CO2 Capture by Using Modified Urea Complexes from Effluent Gas Streams


Primary faculty: M. Atilhan (Lead PI), F. Karadas (Co-Mentor)

Students: A. Al-khouzaam, K. Drar, M. Al-Khasib



Fifth Cycle:

Project title: Ionic liquids for the control and management of Qatari natural gas hydrates


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: Majeda Khraisheh (LPI), Mert Atlihan, and David Rooney (Queen's University

Belfast ) Role: CO-LPI.

Duration: Oct. 2012 – Sept. 2015

Project title: Cyanuric Organic Polymers (COPs) for Inexpensive and High Efficiency CO2 Capture

and Separation


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: Mert Atilhan (LPI), Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University), Cafer T Yavuz

(KAIST)


Project title: Developing innovative phase change materials based on raw materials available in

Qatar


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: M. Farid (LPI, Auckland University), S. Al-Muhtaseb (PI), J. Kurdi (Co-LPI, CNA-Q),

M. Albeldawi (QP


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Fourth Cycle:

Project title: An assessment of present and future environmental impacts of major desalination

plants in Qatar under changing climate


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: Majed Mohammadian (university of Ottawa-Canada / Lead PI) – Hazim Qiblawey

(co-Lead PI), Gregory A. Lawrence, (University of British Colombia, PI)


Project title: A Novel Nano-Coating Technology for Oil, Gas & Seawater Desalination Plants


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: Wei Gao (Auckland-New Zealand / Lead PI) – Ramazan Kahraman (co-Lead PI)

Duration: Apr 2012 – Mar 2015

Third Cycle:

Project title: Enhancing Qatar’s Future Oil and Gas Technology via Design and Evaluation of Ionic

Liquids


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: M. Khraisheh (Lead PI), M. Atilhan, D. Rooney (QUB)

Duration: Sept. 2010 – Aug 2013

Project title: CO2 capture and photoconversion to a renewable fuel


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: M. Khraisheh (Lead PI), J. Tang (UCL)


Project title: Integrated Terahertz Technologies for Methane Gas Production from Clathrates and

Real Time Analysis


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators:Cafer T. Yavuz (KAIST / Lead PI) - M. Atilhan (co-Lead PI

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Project title: Versatile Nanocomposite Thin Film Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Sea-water

Desalination


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: E. Sivaniah (Lead PI) and H. Qiblawey (Co-Lead PI)


Second Cycle:

Project title: Synthesis and Tailoring of Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Gel-Based Activated Carbon

Materials for the Storage or Selective Separation of Natural Gas Components


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: S. Al-Muhtaseb (Lead PI) and A. Negmeldin (Co-PI)


Project title: Green infrastructure for greywater and A/C condensation reuse


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: F. Jaber (Lead PI) and H. Qiblawey (Co-Lead PI)


Project title: Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and conversion from natural and effluent gas streams


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: M. Atilhan (Lead PI)


Project title: CO2 mineralization and reject brine management by chemical reaction


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: F. Benyahia (Lead PI) and A. Negmeldin (Co-PI)


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Project title: Development of Novel Gas-to-Liquid Processes in Near-Critical and Supercritical

Phase Media


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: N. Elbashir (Lead PI), F. Eljack (Co-PI), C. Roberts (Co-PI), M. El-Halwagi (Co-PI), J.

Hahn


Project title: Preparation and testing of nanoparticle functionalized membranes for gas

separation


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: E. Sivaniah (Lead PI) and S. Al-Muhtaseb (Co-Lead PI)


Project title: Density, Speed of Sound, and Phase Equilibria Measurements of Acid Gas Mixtures

Used in Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: J. Holste (Lead PI) and M. Atilhan (Co-Lead PI)


First Cycle:

Project title: Measurement of Densities and Phase Envelops for Qatari Type Natural Gas

Mixtures And Development of a Rational Equation of State to Describe the Data


Granting body: QNRF

Investigators: M. Atilhan (Lead PI)

Duration: Oct. 2008 – Apr. 2012

Qatar University Grants

Title: NOx removal from waste gases streams using zeolite based catalysts


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Investigator: M. Ali Saleh Saad


Title: Economics Analysis of a Novel Gas to Ethylene Technology Using Natural Gas as Feedstock


Investigator: F. ElJack (PI)

Duration: Apr. 2011 – Oct. 2012

Title: Viscosity and Density Measurements of Concentrated NaCl-CaCl2-H2O Aqueous Solutions

at Different Temperatures


Investigator: Hazim Qiblawey (PI)

Duration: Apr. 2011 – Oct. 2012

Title: The Investigation of Carbon-Dioxide Capture through MOF Complexes and Cyanometallate

Systems


Investigator: Mert Atilhan (PI)

Duration: Jan. 2011 – Jan. 2012

QSTP : Qatar Science Technology Park Projects

Title: Evaluation of Membrane Distillation to Augment Water Production from Thermal

Desalination Brines by Leveraging Low Grade Waste Heat


Investigator: F. Benyahia (PI), M. Khraisheh (Co-PI) , Research Assistants: Yahya Menawey (BSc

Chemical Engineering), Ahmed Fard (BSc Chemical Engineering)

Duration: Nov. 2011 – Oct. 2013

Title: Utilization of Recycled Polymers in Qatar


Investigators: M. Al-Maadeed (MTU, QU), A. Hodzic (University of Sheffield, UK) and R.

Kahraman (ChE, QU)

Duration: Jun. 2009 – Dec. 2012

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E. Publications


Scelsi, L., Hodzic, A., Soutis, C., Hayes, S. A., Rajendran, S., Alma’adeed, M. A. and Kahraman, R.,

“A Review on Composite Materials Based on Recycled Thermoplastics and Glass Fibres”, Plastics,

Rubber and Composites, 40:1, 1-10 (2011).

Kahraman, R., Abbasi, S. and Abu-Sharkh, B., “Processing and Characterization of Palm Fiber-

Polypropylene Composites”, Key Engineering Materials, 471-472, 145-150 (2011).

Alma’adeed, M., Ozerkan, G., Kahraman, R., Rajendran, S. and Hodzic, A., “Life Cycle Assessment

of Particulate Recycled Low Density Polyethylene Reinforced with Talc and Fiberglass”, Key

Engineering Materials, 471-472, 999-1004 (2011).

Zavala-Rivera, P.; Channon, K.; Nguyen, V.; Sivaniah,E.; Kabra, D.; Friend, R.H.; Nataraj, S. K.; Al-

Muhtaseb, S. A.; Hexemer, A.; Calvo, M. E.; Miguez, H. Collective Osmotic Shock in Ordered

Materials, Nature Materials, 2012, 11, 53-57.

Awadallah-F, A.; ElKhatat, A.M.; Al-Muhtaseb, S.A. Impact of Synthesis Conditions on Meso- and

Macropore Structures of Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Xerogels, Journal of Materials Science, 2011,

46, 7760-7769.

ElKhatat, A.M.; Al-Muhtaseb, S.A. Advances in Tailoring Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Organic and

Carbon Gels, Advanced Materials, 2011, 23, 2887–2903.

M. Khraisheh , F. Benyahia & S. Adham Industrial case studies in the petrochemical and gas

industry in Qatar for the utilization of industrial waste heat for the production of fresh water by

membrane desalination Desalination and Water Treatment, 1, 1-7 (doi:

10.1080/19443994.2012.714725).

Beljadid A., A. Mohammadian and Hazim Qiblawey. Numerical simulation of rotation dominated

linear shallow water flows using finite volume methods and fourth order Adams scheme.

Computers & Fluids 62, 64 – 70 (2012).

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Hazim Qiblawey, F. Banat, and Al-Naser Q. Performance of reverse osmosis pilot plant

powered by Photovoltaic in Jordan, Renewable Energy 36, 3452 – 3460 (2011).

F. Karadas, H. El-Faki, E. Deniz, C.T. Yavuz, S. Aparicio, M. Atilhan CO2 adsorption studies on

Prussian blue analogues, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 162, pp. 91-97, (2012).

M. Atilhan, S. Aparicio, F. Karadas, K. R. Hall, R. Alcalde Isothermal PρT measurements on

Qatar’s North Field type synthetic natural gas mixtures using a vibrating-tube densimeter,

Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 53, pp. 1-8 (2012).

M. Atilhan, S. Aparicio, K. R. Hall ptimized Binary Interaction Parameters for VLE Calculations of

Natural Gas Mixtures via Cubic and Molecular-Based Equations of State, Industrial and

Engineering Chemistry Research, 51 (28) pp. 9687 – 9699 (2012).

H. A. Patel, F. Karada , A, Canlier, J. Park, E. Deniz, Y. Jung, M. Atilhan* and C. T. Yavuz* High

capacity carbon dioxide adsorption by inexpensive covalent organic polymers, Journal of

Material Chemistry, 22, 8431-8437, 2012.

S. Aparicio and M. Atilhan Choline-Based Ionic Liquids on Graphite Surfaces and Carbon

Nanotubes Solvation: A Molecular Dynamics Study, Journal of Physical Chemistry, in press DOI

jp-2012-01270y.R1, 2012.

vibrating-tube densimeter, M. Atilhan*, S. Aparicio, F. Karadas, K. R Hall, R. Alcalde, Journal of

Chemical Thermodynamics, in press DOI: JCT-12-129, 2012.

PρT measurements and derived properties of liquid 1-alkanols, M. J. Dávila, R. Alcalde, M.

Atilhan, S. Aparicio Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 47, 241-259, 2012.

A Review on Natural Gas Hydrates Phenomena in Subsea Conditions and Pipelines: Prediction

and Inhibition Methods, Storage, Transportation and Related Safety Concerns, M. Atilhan, S.

Aparicio, F. Beniahya, Natural Gas. ISBN: 979-953-307-567-8 InTech Publishers, Co, 2012.

Mixed ionic liquids: the case of pyridinium-based fluids, S. Aparicio, M. Atilhan, Journal of

Physical Chemistry B, 116, 2526-2537, 2012.

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Water effect on CO2 Absorption for Hydroxylammonium Based Ionic Liquids: a Molecular

dynamics study, S. Aparicio and M. Atilhan, Chemical Physics, in press, DOI:

10.1016/j.chemphys.2012.03.008, 2012.

Study on hydroxylammonium-based ionic liquids. II. Computational analysis of CO2 absorption ,

S. Aparicio, M. Atilhan, M. Kraisheh, R. Alcalde, J. Fernández, Journal of Physical Chemistry B,

115, 12487-12498, 2011.

On the Viscosity of Pyridinium Based Ionic Liquids: An Experimental and Computational Study, S.

Aparicio-Martinez, R. Alcalde, C. Lafuente, I. Bandrés, M. Atilhan, Journal of Physical Chemistry

B, 115(43):12499-513, 2011.

Study on Hydroxylammonium Based Ionic Liquids. Part II: Computational Analysis of CO2

Absorption, S. Aparicio-Martinez, M. Atilhan, M. Khraisheh, R. Alcalde, Journal of Physical

Chemistry B, 115(43), 12487-98, 2011.

Study on Hydroxylammonium Based Ionic Liquids. Part I: Characterization, Santiago Aparicio-

Martinez, Mert Atilhan, Majeda Khraisheh, Rafael Alcalde, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115

(43), 12473-86, 2011.

Amidoximes: Promising Candidates for CO2 Capture, S. Zulfiqar, F. Karadas, J. Park, E. Deniz, G.

D. Stucky, Y. Jung, M. Atilhan* and C. T. Yavuz, Energy & Environmental Science, 4, 4528-31,

2011.

PρT Behavior of Three Lean Synthetic Natural Gas Mixtures using Magnetic Suspension

Densimeter and Isochoric Apparatus from 250 K to 450 K with pressures up to 150 MPa: Part II,

M. Atilhan*, S. Aparicio-Martinez, S. Ejaz, D. Cristancho, I. Mantilla, K. Hall, Journal of Chemical

and Engineering Data, 56 (2) 212-221, 2011.

CO2 Adsorption Studies on Hydroxy Metal Carbonates, M(CO3)x(OH)y (M= Zn, Zn-Mg, Mg, Mg-

Cu, Cu, Ni, and Pb) at High Pressures up to 175 bar, F. Karadas, C. T. Yavuz, S. Zulfiqar, S.

Aparicio, G. D. Stucky, M. Atilhan*, Langmuir, 27 (17) 10642-47, 2011.

Study of Dimethoxyethane / Ethanol Solutions, S. Aparicio, R. Alcalde, J. Luis Trenzado, M. N.

Caro, and M. Atilhan, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115 (28), pp 8864–8874, 2011.

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PρT Behavior of a Lean Synthetic Natural Gas Mixture Using Magnetic Suspension Densimeters

and an Isochoric Apparatus: Part I, M. Atilhan*, S. Aparicio, S. Ejaz, D. Cristancho, and K.R. Hall,

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 56 (2) 212–221, 2011.


“Advances in Gas Processing” Proceedings of the 3rd Gas Processing Symposium, Editors:

Abdelwahab Aroussi and Farid Benyahia, ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9, Elsevier, 2012.

"Natural Gas Hydrates"., Mert Atilhan, Santiago Aparicio, Farid Benyahia and Erhan Deniz.

Advances in Natural Gas Technology (Ed: Hamid El-Megren), InTech (2012). ISBN: 978-953-51-

0507-7

“Review on natural gas thermopysical property measurement techniques” InTech (2012), Mert

Atilhan, Santiago Aparicio ISBN: 979-953-307-803-7

Conference Papers

Aiduan Li Borrion, Majeda Khraisheh, Farid Benyahia, Environmental life cycle impact

assessment of Gas-to-Liquid Processes. Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing symposium,

Elsevier advances in gas processing series, pp. 71-77, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Elitsa Dzhongova, Junwang Tang, Majeda Khraisheh, Solar to Fuel: Overview and Applications of

CO2Conversion to Fuel, Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing symposium, Elsevier advances in

gas processing series, pp. 82-89, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Shieling Ng, Mert Atilhan , Ferdi Karadas, Johan JACQUEMIN, JillianThompson, David Rooney,

Majeda Khraisheh. Applications of Ionic Liquids in Gas Processing, Proceedings of the 3rd gas

processing symposium, Elsevier advances in gas processing series, pp. 133-138, 2012. ISBN: 978-

0-444-59496-9.

CO2 Adsorption Studies on Hydroxy Metal Carbonates at High Pressures, F. Karadas, S. Aparicio,

C. T. Yavuz, and M. Atilhan*, Proceedings of the 3rd annual Gas Processing Symposium, Elsevier,

in press 2012.

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CO2 Adsorption Experiments on Porous Cynometallates, H. El-Faki, F. Karadas and M. Atilhan*,

Proceedings of the 3rd annual Gas Processing Symposium, Elsevier, in press 2012.

High Pressure and High Temperature CO2 Adsorption on Hydrotalcite Derivatives, F. Karadas and

M. Atilhan*, Proceedings of the 3rd annual Gas Processing Symposium, Elsevier, in press 2012.

Exceptional CO2 capture via polymeric materials, H. A. Patel, F. Karadas, A. Canlier, E. Deniz, C. T.

Yavuz, M. Atilhan*, Proceedings of the 3rd annual Gas Processing Symposium, Elsevier, ISBN:

978-0-444-59496-9.

Benyahia, F., “The carbon conundrum: Challenges and opportunities in the Gulf”, Downstream

Technology Conference, Kuwait, 19-22 Feb 2012.

Al-Ghanim, N., Khraisheh, M., and Benyahia, F., “Flare Reduction Options and Simulation for

the Qatari Oil and Gas Industry”. Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing symposium, Elsevier

advances in gas processing series, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Van den Bos, J. Jahn, W.A.P., van den Broeke, L.J.P. and Benyahia, F. “Combining post-

combustion CO2 capture with CO2 utilization”. Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing

symposium, Elsevier advances in gas processing series, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Borrion, A.L, Majeda Khraisheh, M. and Benyahia, F. “Environmental life cycle impact

assessment of Gas-to-Liquid processes”, Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing symposium,

Elsevier advances in gas processing series, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Daghash, S. “The Carbon Footprint of Ammonia Process: Case Study on Utilization of Natural Gas

& Environmental Sustainability”, Proceedings of the 3rd gas processing symposium, Elsevier

advances in gas processing series, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-444-59496-9.

Presentation: 2012, SYMP18 Meeting, High Pressure CO2 Absorption Studies on [bmim][PF6],

[bmim][Tf2N] and [emim][Tf2N] Ionic Liquids up to 20 MPa: Experimental and Simulation

Approach, M. Atilhan.

Presentation: 2012, ACS Annual National Meeting, Porous triazine polymer networks for

enhanced CO2 adsorption, Hasmukh A. Patel, Ferdi Karadas, Ali Canlier, Erhan Deniz, M. Atilhan

and Cafer T. Yavuz.

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Presentation: 2012, American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting, Porous triazine

polymer networks for enhanced CO2 adsorption, H. A Patel, F. Karadas, A. Canlier, E. Deniz, M.

Atilhan, C. T. Yavuz.

Poster: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, Performance Validation of Amine Based

CO2 Capture: Experimental and Simulation Approach, I. Al-Nuaimi, A. Al-Nouss and M. Atilhan.

Presentation: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, CO2 Adsorption Studies on Hydroxy

Metal Carbonates at High Pressures, F. Karadas, S. Aparicio, C. T. Yavuz, and M. Atilhan.

Presentation: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, CO2 Adsorption Experiments on

Porous Cynometallates, H. El-Faki, F. Karadas and M. Atilhan, Proceedings of the 3rd annual Gas

Processing Symposium.

Presentation: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, Applications of Ionic Liquids in Gas

Processing, S. Ng, M. Atilhan, F. Karadas, J. Jacquemin, J. Thompson, D. Rooney, M. Khraisheh.

Presentation: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, High Pressure and High Temperature

CO2 Adsorption on Hydrotalcite Derivatives, F. Karadas and M. Atilhan.

Presentation: 2012, 3rd Annual Gas Processing Symposium, Exceptional CO2 capture via

polymeric materials, H. A. Patel, F. Karadas, A. Canlier, E. Deniz, C. T. Yavuz, M. Atilhan.

Poster: 2011, American Chemical Society - Spring National Meeting, CO2 adsorption behavior of

metal hydroxy carbonate compounds, M. Atilhan, F. Karadas, C.T. Yavuz and G.D. Stucky.

Presentation: 2011, American Chemical Society - Spring National Meeting, CO2 adsorption

studies on inorganic porous materials, F. Karadas, C.T. Yavuz, G.D. Stucky, M. Atilhan.

Presentation: H. Qiblawey, EU-GCC Clean Energy Network: EU GCC Co-operation on RES, Energy

Efficiency & CCS Discussion Groups and Seminars. May 7-9, 2012, Doha, Qatar.

Presentation: H. Qiblawey, Desalination for the Environment: Clean Water and Energy. April 23–

26, 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

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Presentation: H. Qiblawey, GCC Power and Water Desalination Summit 2011. October 2 – 3,

2011. Doha – Qatar.

Poster: F. Jaber, H. Qiblawey and Sh. Kant “A/C Condensate and greywater reuse as water

alternative for arid regions” Coupling Natural & Human Systems: 12th Annual American

Ecological Engineering Society Meeting. June 7-9, 2012. Syracuse, NY. USA.

Presentation: F. Jaber and H. Qiblawey “Evaluating greywater and A/C condensate daily volume

and water quality in urban settings” American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

(ASABE) Annual Meeting, August 7 – 10, 2011. Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Paper number

1111616.

Poster: H. Qiblawey and F. Jaber “Greywater and A/C condensate as an alternative water source

for urbanized arid regions” American Ecological Engineering Society Meeting. May 23 – 25, 2011

Asheville, North Carolina – USA.

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F. Other Activities

Faculty name Faculty Activities

Prof. Farid Benyahia

Trip to QAPCO with students on 24 Nov 2011

Teaching Excellence, OFID Workshop in Nov 2011

Soil remediation to Qatar Petroleum, on May 3rd 2012, Ras Bou

Abboud

Visited Total-QSTP on 31 Jan 2012

Trip to Maersk oil with students on 13 Dec 2011 and 16 Feb 2012.

Trip to Shell with students on 23 Feb 2012

Attended the thermal desalination workshop at QSTP on 20 Mar.

2012

Carbon Capture workshop organized by Texas A&M from 2 to 3

April 2012 and attended by Dr. Farid on 2 April. Dr. Farid also

chaired and presented on economics and social issues on 3 April

Trip to QChem with students on 8 April 2012

Trip to OryxGTL with students on 10 April 2012

Prof. Ramazan

Kahraman

Workshop on “meaningful assessment of program outcomes and

rubric development: examples from chemical engineering

courses” on 19 Oct 2011

OFID days workshop by Dr. Ramazan Kahraman from 5-7 Feb 12

Dr. Shaheen Al-

Muhtaseb

Seminar on “Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) process for Carbon

Sequestration” on 25 April 2012

Dr. Abdulreda

AlSayegh Trip to Dolphine Energy with students on 1 Dec 2011.

Dr. Fadwa Eljack

Trip to Q-Chem with students on 25 Dec 2011.

Seminar on “Product design & Computer Aided Molecular Design

(CAMD)” on 18 April 2012.

Dr. Mohammed Ali

Saleh Trip to QVC with students on 31 May 2012.

Dr. Mohammed Al-

Marri Trip to Shell with the students on 24 November 2011.

Dr. Salim Ahmed Seminar on “Towards anew alarm system design philosophy” 2011

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/chemical/documents/ChE_seminars_Shaheen_April252012.pdf

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/chemical/documents/ChE_seminars_Shaheen_April252012.pdf

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/chemical/documents/seminar_abstracts/ChE_seminars_fadwanf-S2012.pdf

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/chemical/documents/seminar_abstracts/ChE_seminars_fadwanf-S2012.pdf

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Dr. Mert Atilhan

Workshop on Senior projects in Oct 2011.

Trip to Qatar Gas with students on 1 Dec 2011 and 9 Apr 2012.

Attended the GPC workshop on 16-17 Jan 2012 on Gas Hydrates

Attended Workshop on LNG safety organized by TAMUQ

Attended LNG World Summit organized by Flemming Group

Attended TUBITAK, YTBIK event in July 2012 in Turkey

ACS Annual Spring Meeting in San Diego, CA, USA, March 2012

Visit to KAIST, S. Korea in October 2011

How to keep your journal paper collections organized by using

MENDELEY workshop by Dr. Mert Atilhan on 7 May 2012

Cosmo Oil training course- Japan Feb 2012

Prof. Ibrahim Abu

Reesh

Seminar on “Greywater treatment and modeling in a submerged

membrane sequencing batch reactor” on 16 Nov 2011

Trip to QP refinery with students on 3 May 2012

Dr. Hazim Qiblawey

Seminar on “Air Conditioning Condensate and Greywater Reuse” on

28 March 2012.

Participant in Qatar University Research Forum: Toward a

Knowledge-Based Economy

Presentation in 8th Meeting of the GPC Technical Advisory

Committee

Chair and advisory board committee of GCC Power and Water

Desalination Summit 2011 in Doha

Talk and member of EU-GCC clean Energy Network in Energy

Efficiency & CCS in Doha

Presentation in “American Ecological Engineering Society

Conference (AEES) – 2011” USA

Presentation in “Desalination for the Environment conference :

Clean Water and Energy- 2012” Barcelona – Spain

Membership in European Desalination Society (EDS)

Membership in American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES)

Short course: Heat Exchanger: Operation, maintenance and

troubleshooting Doha- Qatar. 28 – 31 May 2012. organized by

Horizon Services

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/chemical/documents/ChE_seminars_Hazim-S2012.pdf

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Dr. Majeda Khraisheh

Workshop on “meaningful assessment of program outcomes and

rubric development: examples from chemical engineering courses”

on 19 Oct 2011

Workshop on report writing in Nov 2011.

Trip to Qatar Gas with students on 21 Dec 2011.

OFID days workshop by Dr. Majeda Khraisheh from 5-7 Feb 12

Seminar "Photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to C-based fuels" by Dr.

Tang, T. (ICL) organized by Dr. Majeda on 4 April 2012

Trip to QVC with students on 5 April 2012.

Trip to QVC with students on 5 April 2012.

Trip to QAPCO March 2012

Trip to QAFAC April 2012

Seminar For Exxon Mobile on waste minimization November 2011

Seminar on Design Teaching for Department of Electrical

Engineering Spring 2012

Winner of Best paper Presentation, Gas Symposium

Attended the thermal desalination workshop at QSTP on 20 Mar 12

Winning Outstanding Teaching award Sept 2011

Leading a team of students to take part in Environmental Public

Speaking Competition in Dubai November 2011

Industrial Visit to Ras Abu Fantas with research team Dec. 2011

Cosmo Oil training course- Japan Feb 2012

Presentation in a conference: March 2012, IEEE Engineering

Education Design, SANTA Clara, USA

Presentation: Life cycle assessment of GTL, March 2012, Gas

Symposium, Doha

Presentation in a conference: Solar to fuel March 2012, Gas

Symposium

Presentation in Conference: Water Desalination Conference,

Barcelona, Spain 27 April 2012

Visit to QWEC 20 June 2012

Presentation in conference: GTL impacts, Seattle, USA, 12 July 2012

Attendance of two training courses on Honors program evaluation

and assessment, 15-13 July, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

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G. Students’ Activities

ChE Faculty – Student Gathering: on 27 Oct 2011 for male students and 3 Nov 2011 for female

students.

Qatar foundation research forum: from 20 to 23 Nov 2011

The following students gave an oral presentation on their UREP projects:

Maryam Hamidani, Yehia Menawi.

Maryam Hamidani won the best oral presentation.

Dubai environment competition: from 20 to 23 Nov 2011

Student team: Mohammad Alkhasib, Mohammad Taha, Ahmad Fard

Participation of ChE Students in 20th World Petroleum Congress: from 4 to 8 Dec 2011

Hamad Al-Buainain, Jaber Al-Neama, Amro Kasht, Md.Ariful Azam, Mustafa Ghoul, Hagar

Kenawi. Students were recruited as delegate assistants to guide people in the congress to the

various locations.

Student Society Election: on 27 & 28 Feb 2012.

Participation of ChE students in the Think Plastic awareness forum: on 1 March

Maryam Mohammed Almesaifri, Fatima Fathi Nabhan, Hamad Khamees Al-Buainain, Jaber

Ahmad Al-Neama

Participation of ChE students in the 3rd international gas symposium: on 5 - 7 March

Mustafa Al-Ghoul, Haneen Abdelrazeq, Mohammed Shurair, Heba Alla Magdy Iman Madhoun,

Sarra Kawther, Sara Iyad, Fadi Elsaid, Noura Dawass, Elaf Atfe, Mohammed Al Mahrizi, Noura

Elshrbajy, Abeer Issa, Amro Alaaeldin Behis, Narimane Belloula, Zahra Omar Ahmed, Samar

Hamza, Fahd Moustafa, Sahar Roshdi, Fatima Fathi Nabhan, Nabila Adam Abdi, Neima Houssein

Doualeh, Khalid Saleh Drar, Amira Nemmour, Aya Adel Moussa, Mohammad Al-khasib

Female ChE gathering – seniors vs. students: on 26 April 2012

Organized by the Chemical Engineering Society

Photography workshop: on 26 April 2012

Organized by the Chemical Engineering Society

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Participation of ChE students in the POCE conference: from 14 to 16 May

Haneen Saeed Hasan, Mohanad Shehada, Hussein Mohamed Sadan, Abdelrahman Tariq

Abdelrahman, Dina Tarek, Basma Mustafa, Nafis Mahmud, Mohammed Nabeel, Jaber AlNeama,

Khalid Abdallah AbouMaali, Roghayeh Yousef Dejan, Aeman Aljumaily, Khalid Saleh Drar,

Mohammad Saad Khan, Mohamed Adel Hussen, Awab Saifaldawla Elkhidir, Nada Aldahdouh,

Sahar Alzouqri, Mays Said Abdulrahman, Mustafa Ghoul

Dr. Abdulreda Al Sayegh farewell: on 29 May 2012

Organized by ChES in collaboration with Students Matters Committee

Plant Design Competition Winners: on 13 June 2012

(Overall design): Nabila Adam Abdi, Fatima Fathi Nabhan, Maryam Mohammed, Jomana

Mohamed El Madad

(Presentation – female): Maimona Abdullah Alsadi, Noor Hassan Riad, Elham Bassam

Hammad, Belqes Ahmed Alsadi

(Presentation – male): Mohammad Taha, Mohammad Al Khasib, Abdelkader Al Khouzam,

Amro Khasht

Senior Project Poster Competition Winners: on 13 June 2012

Aida Rafat, Samar Emam, and Neima Doualeh

Industrial Visits with students:

Trip to Shell:

o Dr. Mohammed Al-Marri, November 24, 2011.

o Dr. Farid Benyahia on 23 Feb 2012

Trip to QAPCO, Dr. Farid Benyahia, November 24, 2011.

Trip to QVC:

o by Dr. Mohammed Al-Marri, November 24, 2011.

o by Dr. Majeda Khraisheh , 5 April 2012 by

o by Dr. Mohamed Ali Saleh 31 May 2012

Trip to Dolphine Energy, Dr. Abdulreda Al-Sayegh, December 1, 2011.

Trip to Total-QSTP, Dr. Farid Benyahia on 31 Jan 2012

Trip to Maersk oil, Dr. Farid Benyahia, December 13, 2011 and 16 Feb 2012.

Trip to Maersk oil, Dr. Farid Benyahia, December 13, 2011 and 16 Feb 2012.

Trip to OryxGTL by Dr. Farid Benyahi on 10 April 2012

88

Trip to Qatar Gas,

o by Dr. Mert atilhan, December 1, 2011; and 9 Apil 2012

o by Dr. Majeda Khraisheh on 21 Dec 2011.

Trip to QChem,

o by Dr. Fadwa Eljack on 25 Dec 2011

o - by Dr. Farid Benyahia 8 April 2012

Trip to QP refinery by Dr. Ibrahim Abureesh on 3 May 2012

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Department of

Computer Science and

Engineering

90

Qutaibah M. Malluhi, PhD Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering


The Department of Computer Science and Engineering team has

been very aggressive in pursuing opportunities and excelling on

many fronts. Our students have consistently, over the past few

years, been recognized at the local, regional and international levels.

For example, this year our students won the Microsoft Imagine Cup

country finals and they will Represent Qatar globally in the

competition finals in Sydney. They have been selected among 4

projects worldwide for press coverage about their project in New

York. Our students also won the first place in the fifth engineering

students gathering at Sultan Qaboos University and were the runner up winners of the “Create

an App” competition during Platform Doha Expo, 2012. They have also won the Special

International Prize, Art & Technology Tohoku Competition, Japan, 2011. Our faculty team is a

distinguished one. During this year, we had published about 90 research papers and have over

100 million Qatari Riyals of funding to support innovative ongoing research projects. Our faculty

and staff have been active in serving the community and providing professional support to

external organizations. During the current year, the department has had several successful

community engagements including, organizing the fifth Qatar University Computing Contest for

high school students, hosting the Platform Doha 2012 gaming and game design expo,

establishing social network channels to enhance communication with students and faculty, and

establishing the KINDI laboratory for computing research.

Table A1: Summary

2011-2012


Faculty 23

Lecturers 5


Support Staff 2

Total 4

On-Study Leave 6

91


Enrolment CS : Male Fall 2011

Spring 2012

Female Fall 2011

Spring 2012

48

39

96

90

Enrolment CE : Female Fall 2011

Spring 2012

127

114


Spring 2012

47

39


Spring 2012

318

282

Graduate Program

Thesis Completed 6

Research

Research Project 2011-2012

UREP 3

NPRP 34

University Internal Students’ Grants 2

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers 2011-2012 62

Book Chapters 2011-2012 2

Conference Papers 2011-2012 69

Journal Papers of Faculty with Students 4

Conference Papers of Faculty with Students 9

Other Activities

Faculty

Consultancy 2

Awards 13

Students Activities

Competitions 1

Awards 5

92


Academic Staff


Faculty

Name Rank/Position Area of Specialization

Appointment

Year

Qutaibah

Malluhi

Professor of

Computer Engineering

and Head of CSE

Department

Storage Networking

Computer Networks

High-Performance Computing

Cloud Computing

2005

93

Faculty


Appointment

Year

Ali Al-Jaoua Professor of

Computer Science

Information Engineering

Verified Software, Fault tolerance and

Automatic testing

Alerting Systems for real life

applications

Formal Concept Analysis

Relations Methods in Computer

Science

2000

Hasan Krad Professor of

Computer Science

Digital Circuit Design

Computer Architecture

Hardware Verification

Parallel Processing

2004

Jihad

Mohamad

Al-Ja’am

Professor of

Computer Science

Soft Computing, Optimization,

Intelligent Algorithms, Information

Retrieval and Engineering, Logic

1997

Sebti

Foufou

Professor of

Computer Science

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM):

Using semantic web technologies to

better represent product data during

the whole lifecycle of the product.

Geometric Modeling: Studying the

properties of algebraic surfaces (Dupin

cyclides, and supershapes) and their

use for 3D shapes representation and

3D reconstruction.

Algorithms and Applications of

Geometric Constraints: Formulation

and solving of systems of constraints in

geometric modeling.

2009

94

Faculty


Appointment

Year

Abdelkarim

Erradi

Assistant Professor of

Computer Science

Cloud Computing particularly

management and interoperability

aspects

Software Composition for Distributed

Systems

Software engineering of manageable

and autonomic computing systems

Policy-based management of

Middleware systems particularly Web

Services

Web service technologies (WS-*,

REST, Mashups, Cloud Services)

2009

Ahmad

Hasnah

Associate Professor of

Computer Science

Information Retrieval

Natural Language Processing

Graph Theory

1996

Adel Cherif Assistant Professor

Fault Tolerant Computing

Wireless Computing

Mobile Agent Systems

Education

2002

Amr

Mohamed



Wireless Ad hoc sensor networks

Resource optimization in wired and

wireless networks

Multimedia delivery over

heterogeneous wireless networks

Video streaming and multicast over

packet networks

Distributed and cross layer

optimization

WDM optical Networks

2007

Khaled

Khan

Assistant Professor,

Graduate Program

Coordinator

Secure Software Engineering

Cloud Computing Security

Healthcare Information systems

Software and Security Metrics

2006

95

Faculty


Appointment

Year

Khaled

Shaban


Computer Science

Intelligent Systems Design

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

eLearning Systems

Algorithms Design and Analysis

Optimization and Operations

Research

2008

Loay Ismail Assistant Professor of


Multimedia Systems

Digital Image Processing


2006

Mohammad

Al-Meer



Image Processing

Neural Networks

Digital Signal Processing

2000

Mohammad

Saleh

Mustafa


Computer Science

Performance Evaluation Using

Modeling and Simulations of Adaptive

Network Routing, Performance

Optimization, and Scheduling.

2009

Mohammad

Samaka


Computer Science, CS

Program Coordinator

m-Learning, PBL based e-Learning,

Wireless Applications, Curriculum

Development, Quality Assurance

Issues.

2003

Osama

Halabi


Computer Science

Haptic Interface and Interaction

Virtual Reality

Interactive Media

Human Computer Interaction

Computer Graphics and Laser

Graphics

2010

Osama

Shata


Computer Science

Electronic Course Delivery.

Multimedia Databases.

Curriculum Development

Distance Education – Technology and

Instructional Design.

2003

96

Faculty


Appointment

Year

Rachid

Hadjidj


Computer Science

Real Time Systems Modeling and

Verification

Hardware and Software Verification

Automatic Verification and Model

Checking

Computer Security & Networking

Computer Forensics & Data Mining

2009

Rehab

Duwairi


Computer Science

Arabic Language Technologies:

keyphrase extraction, root extraction

and stemming, spelling correction,

Arabic search engines, and multi-

dialect speech translation.

Data Mining: categorization (in

particular for Arabic text), clustering,

and association rules mining

Interoperability of (Heterogeneous)

Multi-databases (i.e. merging

independently and autonomously

designed databases into one coherent

database (virtual merging in particular

via views), and this involves, among

many other issues, semantic

heterogeneity detection and

reconciliation techniques.

2007

Ryan Riley Assistant Professor of

Computer Science

Operating Systems

Security

Distributed Systems

Education

Wireless Communication

2009

Somaya Al-

Maadeed


Computer Science

Intelligent Document Management

System for Automatic Writer

Identification, Third NPRP Cycle.

2004

97

Faculty


Appointment

Year

Tarek

Elfouly


Computer

Engineering,

CE Program

Coordinator

Includes but not limited to:

Wireless Sensing Networks

Intelligent Systems

Network Security

Mobile Applications

Neural Networks

2004

Uvais

Qidwai



Signal and Image Processing.

Robotics.

Machine Intelligence with applications

to industrial problems.

Soft computing.

Medical Informatics.

2005

98



TA/Staff

Name Role Area Of Interest

Appointment

Year

Moutaz Saleh

Saleh

Lecturer of Computer

Science

Computer Networks.

Scheduling and Routing.

Operating Systems.

Data Communications.

Distributed Systems.

Real-Time Systems.

Network Security.

2005

Saleh

Mohammad

Alhazbi


Science Software Engineering 2002

Sayed Ahmed

Hussein El-

Sayed


Science

Software for Numerical

Computations 2009

Amelle Bedair Lecturer of Computer

Science


Micro Processor Applications

Logic Design

C++ Programming

Assembly Language

Artificial Intelligence

Multimedia

2003

Aws Yousif

Al-Taie


Science

Hardware Description Language

Field Programmable Gate Array

Assembly Language Programming

Unix System Programming

Cisco (Routing & Switching)

Digital Design

2002

Zeyad Ali Teaching Assistant of

Computer Science

Internet Applications

Distributed Systems 2007

99

TA/Staff

Name Role Area Of Interest

Appointment

Year

Ayman

Ahmed Zayan

Teaching Assistant of


Computer Networks.

Network Security.

Databases.

2000

Farah Al-

Qawasmah


Computer Engineering Body Area Network 2010

Fatima Amire

Hamza


Computer Engineering Networking (WMN) 2000

Khalid Ahmed

Abu Al-Saud



Computer Hardware

Computer Network and Security

Wireless Sensor Networks

1992

Sara Ahmed

Khalili


Computer Engineering Semantic Web , IR 2002

Tahani Issa Al

Mannai,



Object Oriented Programming

(JAVA) 1999

100


Curriculum and Quality Committee

Chair: Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Members: Prof. Hasan Krad, Prof. Sebti Foufou, Dr. Tarek Elfouly, Dr. Osama Shata, Ms. Sara

Khalili (Direct Assessment), Mrs. Rana Malhas(Indirect Assessment), Eng. Khalid Abulsaud

(Textbooks)

Graduate Program and Research Committee

Chair: Dr. Khaled Khan

Members: Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua, Prof. Hasan Krad, Prof. Jihad Al-Ja’am, Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi,

Prof. Sebti Foufou

Faculty Recruitment Committee

Chair: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi

Members: Prof. Sebti Foufou, Dr. Amr Mohamed, Dr. Uvais Qidwai, Dr. Khalid Khan

Promotion Committee

Chair: Prof. Hasan Krad

Members: Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua, Prof. Jihad Al-Ja’am

Computing Contest

Chair: Dr. Sayed Ahmad Hussein

Members: Dr. Uvais Qidwai, Dr. Rehab Duwairi, Dr. Ryan Riley, Dr. Abdulkarim Erradi, Dr. Saleh

Alhazbi, Mr. Aws Al-Taie, Dr. Moutaz Saleh, Mrs. Amelle Bedair

Course Project Award

Chair: Dr. Osama Halabi

Members: Dr. Mohamad Saleh, Dr. Saleh Alhazbi, Dr. Moutaz Saleh, Mr. Zeyad Ali, Eng. Farah

Alqawasmah

Student Relations and Recruitment

Chair: Prof. Jihad Al-Ja’am

Members: Dr. Rachid Hadjidj, Mrs. Amelle Bedair, Mr. Zeyad Ali, Mrs. Rana Malhas

101


Doctor of Philosophy

Student ID Name Thesis Title Principle

Supervisor

Thesis Starting

Semester Status

201108047 Maan M Jalal

Haj Rachid Not specified yet

Prof. Qutaibah

Malluhi Fall 2011 Active

199855054 Jamela Nowar

Al-Otaibi Not specified yet Prof. Ali Jaoua Fall 2011 Active

Master of Science in Computing


Supervisor

Co-

Supervisor

Thesis

Starting

Semester

Status

200450064 Wahda

Al-Marri

Towards Building a

Cloud Based

Scientific Data

Manager

Prof.

Qutaibah

Malluhi

- Spring

2012 Active

19890413

Moham

med

Tamimi

Full Body Biometrics

using kinect

Dr. Ryan

Riley - Fall 2011 Active

200054034 Noora Al-

Naimi

Develop Parallel

Implementation of

NGS Analysis

Workflow

Dr. Khaled

Shaban

Prof.

Qutaibah

Malluhi

Fall 2011 Active

199203672

Masoud

Udi

Mwinyi

Understanding

Simple Stories

Through Concepts

Extraction and

Multimedia Elements

Prof.Jihad

Al-Ja’am - Fall 2011 Active

102


Supervisor

Co-

Supervisor

Thesis

Starting

Semester

Status

200255981 Maha Al

henzab

Simulation and

Analysis of PACS

Performance Over

Wireless Networks

Dr. Tarek

Elfouly

Dr.

Mohamme

d Samaka

Fall 2011 Active

199562745 Fatima

Hamza

Experimental

Evaluation of Video

Delivery in Wireless

Mesh Network

Dr. Amr

Mohamme

d

Prof.

Qutaibah

Malluhi

Fall 2011 Active

199660151 Sara

Khalili

Duplicate Data

Detection in RDF and

OWL Databases

Prof. Sebti

Foufou - Fall 2011 Active

200258268 Fatima

Shaban

Design of Fault

Tolerant Software in

the Scope of the

Verified Software

Initiative

Prof. Ali

Jaoua - Fall 2011 Active

200458124 Nour

Nakhalah

A social Networking

Based Approach to

Sensor-Node Security

Dr. Ryan

Riley - Fall 2011 Active

200457735 Sharmen

Ibrahim

Telerobotic Surgery :

Generating Haptic

Virtual Fixtures Using

Depth Camera and

Haptic Interface

Dr. Osama

Halabi

Prof. Sebti

Foufou Fall 2011 Active

200458222 Nassama

Mohands

Cloud Computing for

Document Similarity

in Large Collections

of Funding Agency

Documents

Prof.

Qutaibah

Malluhi

- Fall 2010 Active

200001587 Ali Al

Yafeai

Hiding and Detecting

Steganography

Contents

Prof. Jihad

Al-Ja’am -

Spring

2011 Active

103


Supervisor

Co-

Supervisor

Thesis

Starting

Semester

Status

200005085 Mahmoo

d Elorfali

Experimenting with

Arabic Opinion

Mining

Dr. Rehab

Duwairi -

Spring

2011 Submitted

200900001

Tahani

Abu

Musa

Ontology-based

System for Diabetes

Management

Prof. Sebti

Foufou -

Spring

2011 Submitted

200552799 Rawan Al

Saad

Efficient

Bioinformatics Using

Map Reduce on QU

Cloud

Prof.

Qutaibah

Malluhi

- Fall 2010 Completed

200158280 Shikheh

Ravan

Learning Approaches

for Events Detection

in a Text

Prof. Ali

Jaoua - Fall 2010 Completed

200004613 Khaled

Alsaeed

Towards an Alert

Management System

to Support Business

Intelligence Systems

Prof. Jihad

Al-Ja’am - Fall 2010 Completed

200156689 Sahar

ismail

Incremental

Information

Management and

Organization Based

on a Domain

Prof. Ali

Jaoua -

Spring

2011 Completed

104

D. Research



Eleventh Cycle:

Title: SpellingTutor: Towards m-Learning Platform for Learning Arabic Spelling and Vocabulary

Primary faculty: Dr. Abdelkarim Erradi

Students: Hind Ali Almerekhi, Sajeda Mahmood Nahia, Lubna Maymun Alkailani


Duration: 2011-2012

Title: M-Learning for Training English at Workplace

Primary faculty: Dr. Loay Ismail and Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Students: Jalela Almuthana, Lubna Eliyan, Noof Alkubaisi, Nosayba Abu Abdullah, Razan Younes

Grant amount (US$):

Duration: 09.2011 to 07. 2012

Title: Mobile Augmented Reality for Pedestrian Navigation.

Primary faculty: Dr. Osama Halabi

Students: Huda Abdullateef Abu Abdullah ,Al-Maha Mohammad Al-Attiyh, Sumayia Salih Alkaladi


Duration: 2011-2012


Fifth Cycle:


Project title: GAD: Green And Dense - Designing the New Wireless Access Network

Investigator: Dr. Amr Mohamed.

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: Adaptive Information Security: Relating Security Requirements to Design

Investigator: Dr. Khaled Khan

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: GAD: Green And Dense - Designing the New Wireless Access Network

Investigator: Dr. Amr Mohamed.

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Asset Management for Power Transformers in Smart Grid

Investigator: Dr. Khaled Shaban

Sponsor: QNRF


Project Title: New Paradigms for Robust Cloud Networking Services

Investigator: Dr. Khaled Shaban

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: PLATE: Problem-based Learning Authoring and Transformation Environment

Investigator: Dr. Mohammed Samaka

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Information Theory Enabled Secure Wireless Networking: Scaling Laws, Network

Control, and Implementation

Investigator: Dr. Tarek ELfouly

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Novel Prognostic Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer via Computerized Analysis of

Highly Multiplexed Protein Fluorescence Image Data

Investigator: Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Sponsor: QNRF

106

Forth Cycle:

Project number: NPRP 4 - 1454 - 1 - 233

Project title: BioCloud – Algorithms, Tools and Infrastructure for High-Performance Next-

Generation Bioinformatics on the Cloud

Investigators: PI: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi, LPI: Umit Catalyurek


Duration: 04.2012-03.2015

Collaborative institute: Ohio State University and Nile University

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Scientific Data Management in the Cloud

Investigator: LPI: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi


Duration: 04.2012-03.2015

Collaborative institute: Purdue University

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: A Qatari Contribution to the Verified Software Initiative

Investigators: LPI: Prof. Ali Al‐Jaoua, Co‐ PI: Dr. Mohamed Saleh


Duration: 01.04.2012- 31.03.2015

Collaborative institute: New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) ;Instituto Tecnológico

de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Advances in Biometrics via Narrowband Multispectral Imaging

Investigators: Lead PI: Prof. Sebti Foufou, Co-LPI: Prof. Sebti Foufou, PI: Dr. Rachid Hadjij, and

Monji Abidi, Co-PI: Andreas Koschan


Duration: 01.01.2012- 01.01.2015

Collaborative institute: IRIS Lab., University of Tennessee, TN, USA

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: Optimal Sensing, Resource Allocation, and Protocol Design for Real-time

Communications in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

Investigators: Co-Lead-PI: Dr. Amr Mohamed, LPI: Marwan Krunz


Duration: 2012-2015

Collaborative institute: University of Arizona

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Wireless Sensor Networks for Video Surveillance

Investigators: Co-Lead-PI: Dr. Amr Mohamed


Duration: 2012-2015

Collaborative institute: University of British Columbia

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Establishing a Qatari Arabic-English Digital Library Institute

Investigators: PI: Dr. Mohammad Samaka, LPI: Edward Fox, CSE CO-LPI:Prof. John Impagliazzo


Duration: 01.04.2012-31.03.205

Collaborative institute: Virginia Tech, Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University -

College Station

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Using Mobile Technology for English Training in the Qatar Workplace

Investigators: PI: Dr.Mohammad Samaka, LPIMohammad Ally, CSE CO-LPI:Prof. John

Impagliazzo, & A.Abu-Dayya


Duration: 01.04.2012-31.03.205

Collaborative institute: Athabasca University, Canada

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: VirtuallySafe: A Framework for Hypervisor Code and Data Integrity

Investigators: LPI: Dr. Ryan Riley, CO-LPI: Dr. Ryan Riley

Duration: 2012-2015

Collaborative institute: Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (Doha, Qatar) , Binghamton University

(Binghamton, NY USA)

Sponsor: QNRF

Third Cycle:


Project title: Trusted Computation-Intensive Services in Cloud Computing Environments

Investigators: LPI : Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi


Duration: 11.2010 – 11.2013


Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Managing Private Data in The Cloud

Investigators: CO-LPI: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi


Duration: 11.2010 – 11.2013


Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Qloud: Towards a Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Qatar to Target Regional

Scientific Applications

Investigators: CO-PI Name: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi


Duration: 11.2010 – 11.2013

Collaborative institute: Carnegie Mellon University / Qatar University / Texas A&M University –

Qatar

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: Towards a Tutorial Based System to Assist Qatari Children with Mild Intellectual and

Learning Disabilities

Investigators: LPI: Prof. Jihad Mohamad Al-Ja’am, CO-PI: Dr Somaya Al’Maadeed,

CO-PI: Prof. Ali Jaoua


Duration: 15.12.2010- 14.12.2013

Collaborative institute: University of Ottawa, Canada

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Design and implementation of a new geometric constraint solver based on

Bernstein Polytopes

Investigators: LPI: Prof. Sebti Foufou


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: Université de Bourgogne

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Fault-Adaptive Performance Management of Enterprise Computing Systems

Investigators: CO-LPI: Dr. Abdelkarim Erradi, Co-PI: Dr Rashid Hadjidj


Duration: 01.01.2010 – 01.01.2013

Collaborative institute: Mississippi State University

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Innovative framework for scalable signal processing and power-efficient

communication in healthcare wireless body area sensor networks

Investigators: LPI: Dr. Amr Mohamed, CO-PI: Dr. Khaled Shaban


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: University of British Columbia, Canada

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: An answer set programming approach for specification and verification of

distributed authorizations in complex environments

Investigators: LPI Name: Dr. Khaled Khan


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: University of Western Sydney

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Security Assurance for Service-Oriented Software Systems

Investigators: LPI: Dr. Khaled Khan CO-PI: Dr Abdelkarim Erradi, Dr. Saleh Al-Hazbi


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: Swinburne University of Technology

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: International Center of Excellence in Software Engineering

Investigators: CO-LEAD PI: Dr Osama Shata, CO-PI : Dr Abdelkarim El-Radhi


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: Ahmed Bin Mohamed Military College - Qatar / Arab Academy For

Science & Technology / West Virginia University

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Multi-dialect phrase-based speech recognition and machine translation for Qatari

broadcast TV

Investigators: CO-PI: Dr. Rehab Duwairi, CO-Lead PI: Dr. Eiman Mustafawi, Colleage of Art and

Science


Duration: 11. 2010 – 10.2013

Collaborative institute: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (LPI)

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: Intelligent Document Management System for Automatic Writer Identification

Investigators: LPI: Dr. Somaya Al-Ma'adeed , Co-PI: Prof. Ali Jaoua, Co-PI: Prof. Jihad Al’Jaam

grant amount (US$): 780,920.75

Duration: 01.12. 2010 – 30.11.2013

Collaborative institute: Northumbria University

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Network & Service Security using Social Networking

Investigators: CO-LPI Dr. Tarek ElFouly

Grant Amount (US$): 1,000,000

Duration: 01.12. 2010 – 01.12.2013

Collaborative institute: Imperial College London

Sponsor: QNRF


Project title: Towards a Wearable and WBAN-based Health Monitoring and Automatic Diagnosis

System for Low-cost Personal Healthcare in Qatar.

Investigators: Co-Lead PI: Dr. Uvais Qidwai


Duration: 01.09. 2010 – 31.08.2013

Collaborative institute: National University of Singapore

Sponsor: QNRF

Second Cycle:


project title: Financial Watch

Investigators: Prof. Ali Jaoua, Co-LPI: Prof. Jihad Al’Jaam


Duration: 01.09.2009- 31.08.2012

Collaborative institute: Commissariat of Atomic Energy, LIST CEA-LIST (France)

Sponsor: QNRF

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Project title: Wireless Mesh Networking: Experimental Testbed-based Studies of Radio Access,

Routing, and Network Resource Allocation

Investigators: Dr. Amr Mohamed


Duration: 2008-2011


Sponsor: QNRF


project title: Innovative Robot for NDT Applications in LNG/LPG Tank Floor Inspection

Investigators: Dr. Uvais Qidwai,


Duration: 2008-2011

Collaborative institute: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sponsor: QNRF

Internal Grants

Title: Kinect Interface for Humanoid Robot for Teaching and Rehabilitation Applications

Primary faculty: Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Duration: 2012-2013

Title: Robotic Toy for Autistic Children

Primary faculty: Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Duration: 2012-2013

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E. Publications


Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua

Co Author, Information Sciences, Elsevier, Impact Factor=2.8

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025511005743

, Volume no: 188, Pages: 198-214, Elsevier, Published, Print, 04.2012, Formal Context Coverage

Based on Isolated Labels: An efficient Solution for Text Feature Extraction, F. Ferjani, S.Elloumi,

A.Jaoua, S. Ben Yahia, S. Ismail, S.A. Ravan, Published in the International Journal of Information

Science.

Main Author, New Mathematics and Natural Computing Journal (NMNC),

http://www.worldscinet.com/nmnc/mkt/gateways.shtml USA, Accepted for publication, Print,

11.2012,Using Fringes for Minimal Binary Context Decomposition.

Co Author, 5th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a

Challenge for Computer Science and Linguisticshttp://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/

Pages: 496-499, Poland, Published, Print, 11.2011, Using Cross-Language Information Retrieval

for Machine Translation

Co Author, Communications in Computer and Information Science (NDT 2012, Part I, CCIS 293) -

Volume 293, Springer Lecture Notes Series, Pages 23-32, 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Heidelberg 2012, (ISSN 1865-0929), (ISBN 978-3-642-30506-1), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30507-8,

Volume no: 293, Pages: 23-32, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Published, Print, 04.2012,

Understanding Simple Stories through Concepts Extraction and Multimedia Elements.

Co Author, In The Research Bulletin of The American Computing Machinery (Jordan ACM

Professional Chapter: Design and Evaluation of Computer Software), Volume 11, Number 11,

April 2012, Pages 135-141. (ISSN: 2078-7952), Volume no: 11, Pages no: 135-141 , Jordan

,Published, Print, 04.2012, Towards A Multimedia-Based Educational System for Children.

http://www.worldscinet.com/nmnc/mkt/gateways.shtml

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Prof. Hasan Krad

Co Author, International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Volume no: Vol. 1

(No. 3),Pages: 190-194, Singapore, Asia, Print, Published, 08.2011, TEACHING COMPUTER

ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION USING SIMULATION AND FPGAs

Main Author, Krad, H. AUTOMATED REASONING TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM CORRECTNESS

VERIFICATION, The International Journal on New Computer Architectures and Their Applications

(IJNCAA), Volume no: Vol. 2 (No. 3), pp 423-431, 08. 2012 (ISSN: 2220-9085).

Main Author, Krad, H. and A. Y. Fida El-Din, AUGMENTING COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE WITH FPGAS BASED LEARNING, the International Journal of Computer

Theory and Engineering (IJCTE), Volume no: Vol. 4 (No. 4), pp 611-615, 08. 2012 (ISSN: 1793-

821X).

Prof. Jihad Al-Ja’am

Main Author, International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, SPRINGER, (ISSN:

1380-7501, Print Version, Journal no. 11042, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0768-3)

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4r7470g1558vv5n/

ISSN (Print) 1573-7721 - ISSN (Online) 1380-7501

Volume no: 11042, Pages: 1?26, ,: Springer-Verlag Germany, Published, Print, 2011, March 2011,

Research Article: RFID-Based Interactive Multimedia System for the Children.

Main Author, Journal of Communication and Computer, ISSN 1548-7709 (Print Version), Number

7, July 2011, David Publishing, USA. (ISSN 1548-7709), Volume no: 8, Pages: 536-544, USA,

Published, Print, 11.2011, The Qatari Environment Friendly Web Portal.

Main Author, The Research Bulletin of The American Computing Machinery (Jordan ACM

Professional Chapter: Design and Evaluation of Computer Software) (ISSN: 2078-7952), Volume

11, Number 11, 135-141, ACM Jordan Professional chapter, Published, Print, Research Month 4,

Towards A Multimedia-Based Educational System for Children.

Main Author, Communications in Computer and Information Science - CCIS 293. Springer

Lecture Notes Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2012. Volume 293,Pages: 23-32

115

,Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2012,4,2012, Understanding Simple Stories through Concepts

Extraction and Multimedia Elements.

Main Author, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET, ISSN: 1863-0383),

Volume 6, Issue S2, Pages 11-19, May 2011, Austria, www.i-jet.org, http://online-journals.org/i-

jet/article/viewArticle/1640 , Vol. no: 11-19, Pages: 11-19, Austeria, Published, Print, 05.2012.

An Assistive Computerized System with Tangible User Interfaces for Children with Moderate

Intellectual and Learning Disabilities.

Main Author: The IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (An International

Journal) (ISSN: 0018-9456, Impact Factors (2010): 1.098), http://ieee-ims.org/node/43,

Published by: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 0018-9456/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE,

Pages 1-9, USA, Published, Print, 05.2012, A Tele-Rehabilitation Wobble Board for Lower

Extremity Therapy.

Co Author, New Mathematics and Natural Computation (An International Journal- Society of

Mathematics Uncertainty), World Scientific Publisher, (Print ISSN: 1793-0057), May 2012,

http://www.worldscinet.com/nmnc/nmnc.shtml, http://www.ee.duke.edu/math-uncertainty/,

Volume 7, Number 1,Pages: null, Place of Pub: Using Fringes for Minimal Conceptual

Decomposition of Formal Contexts, Published, Print, 05.2012, Using Fringes for Minimal

Conceptual Decomposition of Formal Contexts.

Prof. Sebti Foufou

Co Author, Computer Aided Design, Elsevier, Vol no: 44, Pages: 575?590, Computer Aided

Design, Elsevier, Published, Print, 06.2012, OntoSTEP: Enriching product model data using

ontologies. Raphael Barbau, Sylvere Krima, Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Anantha

Narayanan, Sebti Foufou, Ram D Sriram.

Co Author, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Elsevier., Vol no: 44, Vol no: 44, Pages: 18-29,

Computer Aided Geometric Design, Elsevier, Published, Print, 01.2012, Polytope-based

computation of polynomial ranges. Christoph FÜNFZIG, Dominique MICHELUCCI, Sebti

FOUFOU. , v.29, pp 18-29, Elsevier, 2012.

Co Author, International Journal of computer vision and image processing, vol no: 1, Pages: 52-

57, http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-computer-vision-image/1181,

http://www.ee.duke.edu/math-uncertainty/

http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-computer-vision-image/1181

116

Published, Online, 08.2011, Construction of 3D Triangles on Dupin Cyclides?, Bertrand BELBIS,

Lionel GARNIER, and Sebti FOUFOU.

Main Author, Information and computations, Elsevier, Vol no: 216, Pages: 24-38, Information

and computations, Elsevier, Published, Print, 05.2012, Interrogating Witnesses for Geometric

Constraint Solving. Sebti FOUFOU, Dominique MICHELUCCI

Dr. Abdelkarim Erradi

Co Author, Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation for Embedded

Systems Design, University of Twente, Netherlands, Accepted for publication, Online, 07.2012, S.

Abdelwahed, A. Erradi, "A Model-based Framework for Automatic Failure Recovery in

Distributed Computing Systems", Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation

for Embedded Systems Design organized by Design Support and Tooling for Embedded Control

Software (DESTECS) http://www.destecs.org/summer-school.html, University of Twente,

Netherlands, July 2012.

Co Author, Journal of Systems and Software, USA, Accepted for publication, Online, 08.2012, Ali

Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Abdelkarim Erradi, Osama Shata, Mohamed Salah Hamdi and Walid

AbdelMoez, Defects Correction Using Multi-Objective Optimization, Journal of Systems and

Software, Elsevier, July 2012.

Co Author, Kessentini, M., Kessentini, W., and Erradi, A. (2012) ‘Example-based Design Defects

Detection and Correction’, Automated Software Engineering Journal, Springer (to appear).

Dr. Amr Mohamed

Co Author, IEEE technology and engineering education journal, vol no: 6, Pages: 28-35, USA,

Published, online,12.2011, Assistive Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities.

Main Author, Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, Volume no: 2,

Pages: 509-513, Canada, Print, Published, 10.2011,Performance Comparison of Two Dynamic

Routing Protocols: RIP and OSPF

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Main Author, Journal of Computer Science, Vol no : 8, Pages: 121-132, USA, Published, Print,

01.2012, Wireless body area sensor networks signal processing and communication framework:

survey on sensing, communication technologies, delivery and feedback.

Main Author, The 2012 world congress of computer science, computer engineering, and applied

computing, Las Vegas, USA, Accepted for Publication, Print, 07.2012, Deploying and Configuring

Wireless Mesh Network in Coexistence of Highly Interfering Wireless LANs

Dr. Khaled Khan

Main Author , International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, Volume no: 1(2), Pages: 35-

56, USA, Published, Print, 04,.2010, Tool Support for Secure Software Integration.

Co Author, International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, Volume no: 2, Pages: 65-76,

PA, USA, Pub, Print, 06.2011, Secure Information System Using Modal Logic Technique

Main Author, IEEE IT Professional, Volume no: 12(5), Pages: 20-26, USA, Published, Print,

09.2010, Establishing Trust in Cloud Computing.

Main Author, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer, Volume no:: 82,Pges:

232-236, Berlin, Published, Print, 02.2012, Profile Based Security Assurances for Service Software

Main Author, International Journal of Software Engineering, Volume no: 3(1), Pages: 3-28, Cairo

Dr. Mohammad Al-Meer

Single Author , Journal of emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, Vol.3, No. 4,

April 2012., http://cisjournal.org/journalofcomputing/Archive_April_2012.aspx

Vol. 3, No. 4, Pages: 637-644, Canada, Published, Print, 04.2012, "Cloud Hadoop MapReduce for

Remote Sensing Image analysis"

Single Author , International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering. ISSN

2250-2459. Vol. 2, Issue 5., http://www.ijetae.com/Volume2Issue5.html

published in 20 May 2012., Vol. 2, Issue 5, pages: 1-8, place of Pub: India, Accepted for

publication, online, 05.2012, "Vegetation Extraction from Free Google Earth Images of Deserts

Using BPNN Approach in HSV Space"

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Dr. Osama Halabi

Main Author, NICOGRAPH International 2012, Bali, Indonesia, Accepted for publication, Print,

07.2012, Navigation Aid for Blind People Using Depth Information and Augmented Reality

Technology

Co Author, The Journal of the Society for Art and Science, , Volume no:1 0, No 4, Pages: 234-240,

The Society for Art and Science, Published, online, 12.2011, Enhancing 3D Scenes Using a Laser

Projector in Real-time.

Main Author, International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Volume no: 4, No 4, Pages:

373-391, Inderscience Publishers, Print, Published, 12.2011, SpiroRasLaser:An Interactive Visual

Art System Using Hybrid Raster-Laser Projection

Co Author, The Journal of the Society for Art and Science, Volume no: 10, No 4, Pages: 263-275,

The Society for Art and Science, Published, online, 12.2011, Real-time Rendering of Virtual-

viewpoint Images from Multi-view Camera Images Using Projection Mapping.

Dr. Osama Shata

Co Author, The Communications of the Arab Computer Society, Volume no: 4 no. 2, Published,

online, 12.2011, The International Center of Excellence in Software Engineering.

Dr. Rachid Hadijdj

Main Author, IEEE Transaction On Computers, Volume no: 60, Pages: 1085-1099, Qatar,

Published, Print, 08.2011, Efficient reachability analysis for time Petri nets.

Hadjidj, R. and Boucheneb, H. Model checking Zenoness for time Petri nets. Theoretical

Computer Science ,Submitted.

Hadjidj, R. and Boucheneb, H. Adapting TCTL model checking for Zenon time Petri nets. IEEE

Transaction on Computers, Submitted.

119

Hadjidj Belhi, D. Hadjidj, R. and Drias, H. and Boucheneb, H. A Novel Guided Local Search

Approach for the Examination Timetabling Problem. Applied Mathematics and Computation,

Submitted.

Dr. Rehab Duwairi

Main Author, International Arab Journal for Information Technology (IAJIT), Volume no: 8,

Pages: 251-258, Jordan, Published, Print, 11.2011, Rehab Duwairi, Rania Al-Zubaidi, "A

Hierarchical K-NN Classifier for Textual Data".

Main Author, Journal of Informetrics, Germany, Inprocess, Print, 12.2012, A Framework for

Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Text

Reviewer, IAJIT, Jordan, Inprocess, Print, 12.2012, Incorporating Weightage Calculation into the

Naïve Bayes Classifier Based Two Dimensional Attributes for Classification

Reviewer, CCIS-KSU, SA, In process, Print,12.2012, Controlling Randomized Quizzes by Infusing

them with Non-randomly Selected Question Sets.

Main Author, JASIST, US, In process, Print, 12.2012, Shihab: A Domain Independent keyphrase

Extraction Algorithm for Arabic Documents

Dr. Somaya Al-Ma'adeed

Main Author, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID

179693, 11 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/179693 , Pages: 1, USA ,Pub, Print, 04.2012, A new Chaos-

Based Image-Encryption and Compression Algorithm

Main Author, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID

794106, 8 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/794106, USA,02.2012, Text-Dependent Writer Identification

for Arabic Handwriting

Co Author, Springer- Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 5 November 2011, USA, Published,

online, 11.2012, An improved palmprint recognition system using iris features,

120

Editor, International Arab Journal of e-Technology, Arab Open University – Jordan, Published,

Print, 10.2012, International Arab Journal of e-Technology

Editor, Recent Advances of Media Security: Algorithms and a Special Issue of the Journal of

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Volume no: 12 (12), USA, Published, Online, 04.2012,

Recent Advances of Media Security: Algorithms and Implementations

Co Author, Machine Vision and Applications, 22 (5). pp. 865-878. ISSN 0932-8092, Volume no:

22, Pages: 865-878, USA, Published, Print, 09.2012, Round-Robin sequential forward selection

algorithm for prostate cancer classification and diagnosis using multispectral imagery.

Bouatmane, Sabrina, Roula, M. A., Bouridane, Ahmed and Al-Maadeed, Somaya (2011).

Co Author, Materials and Design, Volume: Elsevier , USA, Accepted for publication,

Print,05.2012, Characterization of Untreated and Treated Male and Female Date Palm Leaves

Materials and Design

Co Author, Elsevier Digital Signal processing Journal, USA, Accepted for publication, Print,

05.2012, Enhancing face recognition using directional filter bank.

Main Author, Proceedings of ICITSM '12, UAE, Published, Print, 03.2012, Introducing

Programming to Undergraduate Students through Active Learning Approach

Dr. Tarek Elfouly

Co Author, IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine, Volume no: 6, No 4,Pages:

28-35, USA, Published, online,12.2011, Sara Jamal Qaffaf, Rouda Al-kuwari, Ohood Al-amoudi,

Nada Al-Oraidi, Heba Dawood, Muneera Al-Marri, Tarek El-Fouly, Amr Mohamed, ?Assistive

Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities?

Co Author, To be decided, Pages: 52-57, http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-

journal-computer-vision-image/1181 ,Canada, Published, online,06.2012, Construction of 3D

Triangles on Dupin Cyclides?, Bertrand BELBIS, Lionel GARNIER, and Sebti FOUFOU.



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Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Main Author, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, USA, Volume no:1, pages: 307-

316, USA, Published, Print, 12.2011, Blind deconvolution and Retinal abnormality detection in

blurred retinal images.

Main Author, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, Vol no: 22, Pages: 1307-1311, Place of Pub: USA,

Published, Print, 07.2011, Cranial Reconstruction After Decompressive Craniectomy: Prediction

of Complications Using Fuzzy Logic.

Main Author, International Journal of Computer Information Systems & Industrial Management

Applications, Qidwai, U., and Shakir, M., “Filter Bank Approach to Critical Cardiac Abnormalities

Detection using ECG data under Fuzzy Classification”, accepted for publication in International

Journal of Computer Information Systems & Industrial Management Applications (ISSN: 2150-

7988), July 2012.

Book Chapters

Khaled Khan and Qutaibah Malluhi, Co Author, Scalable Computing and Communications:

Theory and Practice, Accepted for publication, Print, Wiley, 30.05.2012

Somaya Al-Ma'adeed, Co Author, Title: Prostate Cancer - Original Scientific Reports and Case

Studies, ISBN: 978-953-307-342-2 ,Published, Print, 30.05.2012, Croatia

Conference Papers

Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua

Co Author, 4th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, May 2-3, 2012, Rabat,

Morocco, Accepted for Publication, Print, 05.2012, Feature Extraction Based on Isolated Labels:

Application for Automatic News Categorization.

122

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum- 2011, Pages: 260-261, Qatar, Published,

Print, 10.2011, Minimal Generators Based Algorithm for Text Features Extraction: A more

efficient and large scale approach

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum(Oral presentation),Pages: 239-240, Qatar,

Print, Published,10.2011, An Arabic-Based Tutorial System for Children with Special Needs(Oral

presentation).

Co Author, 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ISBN: 978-0-

7695-4520-2 ISSN: 1520-5363, Pages: 1470-1474, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA,

USA, Published, Online, 09.2011, The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.292

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Pages: 291-292, Qatar, Published, Print,

11.2011, News Alerts Trigger System to Support Business Owners

Co Author, 4th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, May 2-3, 2012, Rabat,

Morocco, Rabat-Morocco , Accepted for publication, Print, 05.2012,Using a Statistical Language

Model Combined with a Cross-Language Search Engine for English-Arabic Machine Translation.

Co Author, In Proceedings of The International Arab Conference on Information Technology

(ACIT-2011), 12th Cycle Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 11-14, 2011, Pages 87-93,

http://acit2k.org/ACIT/

,Pages: 87-93, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Published, Print,12.2011,An Assistive Computerized System

for Managing and Educating Children with Moderate and Mild Intellectual Disabilities at

Shafallah Center in The State of Qatar.

Co Author, In Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Advances in Signal

Processing and Information Technology, SPIT 2011, Track-1: International Conference on

Advances in Information Technology and Communication AIT 2011,

http://spit.engineersnetwork.org/2011, (Springer-Verlag, LNICST), Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

December 01, 02, 2011, Pages 1-5, 2011.

Pages: 1-5, Netherlands, Published, Print, 12.2012 ,An Arabic-Based Tutorial System for Children

with Special Needs.

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.292

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Main Author ,Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, (Oral Presentation), Pages: 288-289,

Qatar, Published, Print, 10.2011, Conceptual Weighted Feature Extraction and Support Vector

Model: A Good Combination for Text Categorization.

Co Author, In Proceedings of The International Conference on Human Computer Interaction &

Learning Technologies, ICHCILT?2012, (ISSN: 2091-0266) http://www.ichciit.com, Abu Dhabi,

UAE, March 30-31, 2012, Pages 20-27. , Volume no: ISSN:2091-0266 , Pages no: 20-27 , Abu-

Dhabi , Published, Print, 03.2012, An Assistive Tutoring System for Teachers and Students with

Intellectual Challenges.

Prof. Hasan Krad

Co Author, 2011 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information

Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2011), Chengdu, China, Published, Print, 06.2011, ENHANCING

CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE FOR COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION WITH FPGAs

Main Author, The 4th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied

Optimization (ICMSAO-2011), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Published, Print, 04.2011, FORMAL

METHODS AND AUTOMATION FOR SYSTEM VERIFICATION

Main Author, The International Conference on Informatics & Applications (ICIA 2012), Malaysia,

Accepted for Publication, Print, 06. 2012, Theorem Proving Techniques for Formal System

Verification.


Main Author, Proceedings of The International Conference on Human Computer Interaction &

Learning Technologies, ICHCILT?2012, (ISSN: 2091-0266) http://www.ichciit.com, Abu Dhabi,

UAE, March 30-31, 2012, Pages 20-27., Pages 20-27, UAE, Published, Print,3.2012,An Assistive

Tutoring System for Teachers and Students with Intellectual Challenges.

Co Author, Proceedings of The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT

2011), 12th Cycle - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 11-14, 2011, Pages 87-93,

http://acit2k.org/ACIT/, Pages: 87-93, Saudi Arabia, Published, Print, 02.2011, An Assistive

Computerized System for Managing and Educating Children with Moderate and Mild Intellectual

Disabilities at Shafallah Center in The State of Qatar.

http://acit2k.org/ACIT/

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Co Author, The 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition,

ICDAR?2011, Beijing, China, September 18-21, 2011. http://www.icdar2011.org,

http://www.icdar2011.org/EN/column/column32.shtml,

Pages: 1-6, China, Published, Print, 09.2011, ?The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification

Contest?

Main Author, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2011,

International Conference), Learning Environments and Ecosystems in Engineering Education

http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2011/

http://www.psut.edu.jo/sites/EDUCON/program/contribution1169_b.pdf

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5773141

, Pages: 226?230, Austria, Published, Print ,04,2011,An Assistive Computerized System for

Children with Moderate Intellectual and Learning Disabilities?

Co Author, Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Advances in Signal Processing

and Information Technology, SPIT 2011, Track-1: International Conference on Advances in

Information Technology and Communication - AIT 2011, http://spit.engineersnetwork.org/2011,

(Springer-Verlag, LNICST), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 01, 02, 2011, Pages 1-5,

2011. Pages: 1-5, Amsterdam, Published, Print, 12.2012, An Arabic-Based Tutorial System for

Children with Special Needs.

Co Author, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurement and Applications (MeMeA),

May 2011, Italy ,http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5966703&tag=1

http://memea2011.ieee-ims.org/

, Pages: 366-369, Published, Print, Italy, 05.2011, E-Wobble: An Electronic Wobble Board for

Ankle and Toe Rehabilitation

Co Author, Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, IEEE-

ICME?2011, July 11-15, 2011, Barcelona, Spain http://www.icme2011.org/index.php (Main

Conference).

http://www.ics.forth.gr/~zabulis/secretlinkXYZ/HTML/HtmlSubmissions/MainConference/paper

_137.html Pages 1-6, 2011

Vol no: DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2011.6011852, Pages: 1-6, Spain, Published, Print, 07.2011, Learn-

Pads: A Mathematical Exergraming System for Children?s Physical and Mental Well-Being

http://www.icdar2011.org/

http://www.icdar2011.org/EN/column/column32.shtml

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Co Author, 4th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, CITALA 2012, Pages:

91-99, Rabat, Morocco, May 2-3, 2012., Published, Print, 05. 2012, Feature Extraction Based on

Isolated Labels: Application for Automatic News Categorization.

Co Author, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,

http://imtc.ieee-ims.org/ , Graz, Austria, May 13-16, 2012., In Process, Print, 05. 2012,

MeMaPads: Enhancing Children's Well-being Through a Physically Interactive Memory and Math

Game.

Co Author, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing,

CITALA 2012, Rabat, Morocco, (ISBN: 978-9954-9135-0-5) May 2-3, Pages: 91-99, Morocco,

Published, Print, 05.2012, Feature Extraction Based on Isolated Labels: Application for Automatic

News Categorization?

Co Author, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,

http://imtc.ieee-ims.org/, Graz, Austria, May 13-16, 2012., Graz, Austria, Accepted for

publication, Print, 05.2012, MeMaPads: Enhancing Children's Well-being Through a Physically

Interactive Memory and Math Game.

Co Author, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting

Recognitions, ICFHR?2012, Bari, Italy, September 18-20, 2012,

http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/index.php, Italy, Accepted for publication, Print,05.2012, A New

Handwriting Dataset for Automatic Writer Identification Systems

Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi

Main Author, ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-

Societies (SeceS'11), Pages: 42-44, Beirut, Lebanon, Published, Print, 09.2011, Cloud Computing

without Seeing.

Prof. Sebti Foufou

Co Author, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical

Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011, ASME

IDETC conference, Washington DC, Published, Print, 08.2011, DEXML: a first step toward a UML

http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/index.php

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based implementation framework for PLCS. Sylvere Krima, Roch Bertucat, Josh Lubell, Sudarsan

Rachuri, Sebti Foufou.

Co Author, Proceeding of the workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Pages:

8, PerMIS?12, University of Maryland. MD, USA, Published, Online, 03.2012, Performance

Evaluation of Robotic Knowledge Representations Craig Schlenoff, Sebti Foufou, Steve

Balakirsky.

Co Author, PLM Conference 2012, Pages: 10, PLM Conference 2012, Montreal, CA, Accepted for

publication, Print, 07.2012, Dynamic customization and validation of product data models using

semantic web tools. Sylvere Krima1, Allison Barnard Feeney, Sebti Foufou, , Montreal, CA, July 9-

11th, 2012.

Khan, K., Malluhi, Q., "Identifying Contextual Properties of Software Architecture in Cloud

Computing", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic

and Secure Computing, December 12-14, 2011, Sydney, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los

Alamitos, Calif.


Co Author, 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology

(Innovations'12), Al-Ain UAE, Accepted for publication, Online, 03.2012, Khan, K., Erradi, A.,

Alhazbi, S., Han, J., "Security Oriented Service Composition:A Framework", 8th International

Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'12), UAE, March 2012.

Single Author, 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE

2012), Melbourne Australia, Accepted for publication, Online, 07.2012, A. Erradi, "easyCapstone:

A Framework for Capstone Design Project Management and Assessment", 7th IEEE International

Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012), Melbourne Australia, July 2012.

Single Author, IEEE International Conference of Information Technology and eServices (ICITeS

2012), Sousse Tunis, Accepted for publication, Online. 03.2012, A. Erradi, "Applying and

evaluating architectural patterns on a Stock Trading case study", IEEE International Conference

of Information Technology and eServices (ICITeS 2012), Sousse Tunis, March 2012.

Co Author, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science

(ICSESS), Beijing China, Accepted for publication, Online, 06.2012, Khan, K., Erradi, A., Alhazbi, S.,

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Han, J., "Modeling Security Importance and Preferences of Software Services", 3rd IEEE

International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS), Beijing China,

22-25, June 2012.

Main Author, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems

(ICMCS'12), Tangier Morocco, Accepted for publication, Online05.2012, A. Erradi, S. Nahia, H.

Almerekhi, L. Al-kailani, ?ArabicTutor: a Multimedia m-Learning Platform for Learning Arabic

Spelling and Vocabulary?, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and

Systems (ICMCS'12), Tangier Morocco, May 2012

Dr. Amr Mohamed

Main Author, International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Volume

no: 4,Pages: 487-494, USA, Print, Published,08.2011, Fairness Aware Group Proportional

Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in L-SC-FDMA Based Uplink.

Co Author , Zayed university undergrad research conference, Dubai, Published, Print, 03.2012,

Real-time Device-Free Object Detection and Localization System Based on RSSI of Wireless

Signals.

Main Author , IEEE 76th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2012-Fall, Québec City, Canada

,Accepted for Publication, Print, 10.2012, Distributed Cooperative Q-learning for Power

Allocation in Cognitive Femtocell Networks

Main Author, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Paris, France,

Accepted for publication, Print, 04.2012, QUMESH: Wireless mesh network deployment and

configuration in harsh environment

Dr. Khaled Khan

Co Author, ACM Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Security and Privacy

Preserving in e-Societies(SeceS '11), Pages: 42-44, Place of Pub: USA, Pub, Print, 12.2011, Cloud

Computing without Seeing.

Main Author, 9th International Conference on Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques

(SOMeT), Pages: 257-267, Japan, Published, Print, 09. 2010, Security-Aware Service Composition

for End users of Small Enterprises

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Main Author, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Innovations in Information Technology,

2012, = USA, Published, Print, 03.2012, Security Oriented Service Composition: A Framework,

Volume no: 116, Pages: 51-57, Australia

Co Author, Proceedings of the Australian Information Security Conference, Volume no: 116,

Pages: 51-57, Australia, Published, Print,

Main Author, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic

and Secure Computing, Pages: 561-568, USA, 12.2011 , Identifying Contextual Properties of

Software Architecture in Cloud Computing

Dr. Khaled Shaban

Main Author, The Fourth Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize (DMCS

2011) at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011), Pages: 719-724, Vancouver,

Canada, Print, Published, 11.2012, The 100 Most Influential Persons in History": A Data Mining

Perspective.

Co Author, The International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science

(ICIEIS2011), Part II, Communication in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Series of

Springer LNCS, CCIS 252, Pages: 128-139, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Published, Print, 11.2011,

Hybrid System for Disease Diagnosis System based on Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic,

and Genetic Algorithms

Co Author, International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS2012), Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, Accepted for publication, Print, 06.2012, Computer Aided Diagnosis System

based on Machine Learning Techniques for Lung Cancer

Co Author, 2012 IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National

Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (IEEE OFC/NFOEC2012), Los Angeles, California, Published,

Print, 03.2012, Diverse Lightpath Protection against Correlated and Probabilistic Failures in

Multi-Domain Optical Networks.

Abdullah Kadri, Khaled Shaban, Elias Yaacoub and Adnan Abu-Dayya, “Air Quality Monitoring

and Prediction System using Machine-to-Machine Platform,” the 19th International Conference

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on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2012), Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012.

(Accepted)

Refat Atef Ghunem, Khaled Bashir Shaban, Ayman Hassan El-Hag, and Khaled Assaleh, "Towards

Cost-effective Maintenance of Power Transformer by Accuretely Predicting its Insulation

Condition," 2012 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (IEEE EPEC12), London, Ontario,

Canada, October 10-12, 2012. (Accepted)

Khaled Bashir Shaban, and Mahmoud Abdulwahed, "Research-based Learning in Computing

Courses for Senior Engineering Students," The IEEE International Conference on Teaching,

Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (IEEE TALE 2012), Hong Kong, August 20-23, 2012.

(Best Paper Award)

Dr. Loay Ismail

Co Author, A Web-based Platform for Mobile Service Delivery, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual

International Conference on Web Technologies & Internet Applications (WebTech 2012), M.

Samaka, J. Impagliazzo, L. Ismail, K. Aldos, F. Al-Saffar, and N. Hamed, pp. 76-81, Indonesia,

Published, Print, 05.2012.

Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Main Author, INTED2012 (6th International Technology, Education and Development

Conference), http://www.iated.org/concrete2/virtual_session_detail.php, volume number:

http://www.iated.org/concrete2/virtual_session_detail.php , Pages:

http://www.iated.org/concrete2/virtual_session_detail.php , Spain, Published, online, 03.2012,

M-LEARNING FOR TRAINING ENGLISH AT WORKPLACE

Main Author, 2nd Annual International Conference on Web Technologies & Internet

Applications (WebTech 2012), Singapore, Accepted for publication, Print, 05.2012, A Web-based

Platform for Mobile Service Delivery.

A full paper Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Annual International Conference

on Web Technology & Internet Applications WEBTEC 2012 7-8 May, 2012 Indonesia.

http://www.iated.org/concrete2/virtual_session_detail.php

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Dr. Osama Shata

Single Author, The 12th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial

Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2011), Pages: 213-220, USA,

Published, Print, 11.2011, A Crash Undergraduate Course in Global Software Engineering.

Single Author, The 2012 International Conference on Software and Information Engineering

(ICSIE 2012), Accepted for publication, Online, 12.2012, Teaching Software Engineering: A Critical

Path Method.

Dr. Rachid Hadijdj

Co Author, 4th International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source

Software Certification, OpenCert 2010, ITALY, Volume no: 33, Pages: 1-18, Published, Print, 09.

2010, Security Evaluation and Hardening of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

S. Abdelwahed, R. Jia, R. Mehrotra, A. Erradi, R. Hadjidj, A. Ali, A Model-based Framework for

Automatic Failure Recovery in Computing Systems, ICAC12, Submitted.

Dr. Rehab Duwairi

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Research Forum, Doha, Qatar, 20-22 November, Qatar, Published,

Print, 11.2011, Challenges and techniques for dialectal Arabic speech recognition and machine

translation.

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Research Forum, Doha, Qatar., Qatar, Published, Print, 11.2011,

Learning to Recognize Speech from a Small Number of Labeled Examples

Dr. Somaya Al-Ma’adeed

Main Author, ICDAR2011, Pages: 1470-1474, China, Published, Print, 09.2011, The ICDAR2011

Arabic Writer Identification Contest, ICDAR2011 conference.

Main Author ,Qatar University Research Forum: 1st place on ICT poster competition hosted by

Qatar University Research Forum (QURF) 2011, Qatar, Published, Print, 10.2011, Intelligent

Document Management System for Automatic Writer Identification

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Dr. Tarek Elfouly

Co Author, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), France,

Published, Print, 04.2012, QUMESH: Wireless mesh network deployment and configuration in

harsh environment"

Co Author, URC conference, Zayed University, Published, Print, 04.2012, Real-time Device-Free

Object Detection and Localization System Based on RSSI of Wireless Signals,

Co Author, Qatar Foundation Research Forum, Qatar, Published, Print, 11.2011, Assistive

Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities

Co Author, 2012 Power & Energy Society Transmission and Distribution Conference and

Exposition, Orlando, FL, USA,Published, Print, 05.2012, Design of a Power System Stabilizer

Based on Microcontroller for Power System Stability Enhancement.

Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Main Author, Volume no: 1, Pages: 348-353, Malaysia, Published, Print, 09.2011,IEEE

International Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Time-Frequency based

Signal Restoration for Laser-Ultrasound signals with applications in NDT.

Main Author, Qidwai, U., and Shakir, M., “Ubiquitous Arabic Voice Controlled Device to assist

people with disabilities”, 4th International conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems

(ICIAS), 06. 2012, Malaysia

Main Author, IEEE 11th Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference Malaysia, Published ,Print, ,

12.2011, Fuzzy Detection of Critical Cardiac Abnormalities using ECG data: A ubiquitous

approach.

Main Author, 2nd International Conference on Aerospace Science & Engineering (ICASE 2011),

Pakistan, Published, Print, 12.2011,Fuzzy Control for VTOL/STOL Problem

Main Author, 2nd International Conference on Aerospace Science & Engineering (ICASE 2011),

Pakistan Published, Print, 12.2011, Time Frequency Analysis of MFL signals

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Faculty Members with Students Journals

Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua, Formal Context Coverage Based on Isolated Labels: An efficient Solution for

Text Feature Extraction, S. Ismail, S.A. Ravan, Accepted in the International Journal of

Information Science, November 2011. Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.10.023

Jihad Mohamad Alja'am, Abusin Rahama, Abdlah A. Sabri, and Mohamad Abbasi "The Qatari

Environment Friendly Web Portal", in Journal of Communication and Computer, ISSN 1548-7709

(Print Version), Volume 8, Number 7, July 2011, David Publishing, USA. (ISSN 1548-7709), Pages

536-544, 2011.

Dr. Amr Mohamed Performance Comparison Between Dynamic Routing Protocols RIP and OSPF

using NS2, Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, Fatima Hamza,

2011

Somaya Al-Maadeed, Afnan Al-Ali and Turki Abdalla, â€œA new Chaos-Based Image-

Encryption and Compression Algorithmâ€•, accepted for publication in Journal of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, 2012.

Faculty Members with Students Conference Papers

Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua, Conference forum of Qatar Foundation, 2011, Automatic Text Categorization,

Sheikha Ali Ravan.

Feature Extraction Based on Isolated Labels: Application for Automatic News Categorization,

F.Ferjani, S.Elloumi, A.Jaoua, S.A.Ravan, S.Ben Yahia, N. Semmar, J. Jaam, CITALA’12, 4th

International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, May 2-3, 2012, Rabat, Morocco.

Masoud Udi Mwinyi, Sahar Ahmad Ismail, Jihad Mohamad Alja'am, Ali M. Jaoua: "An Assistive

Tutoring System for Teachers and Students with Intellectual Challenges", International

Conference on Human Computer Interaction & Learning Technologies, ICHCILT 2012,

http://www.ichciit.com Abu Dhabi, March 2012

Masoud Udi Mwinyi, Sahar Ahmad Ismail, Jihad M. Alja’am, Ali M. Jaoua:

"Understanding Simple Stories through Concepts Extraction and Multimedia Elements"

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IEEE/Springer â€“ The Fourth International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies

(NDTâ€™2012) http://www.ndtconf.org/ Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), April 26-28, 2012.

Proceedings in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS 7899) Series of

Springer LNCS.

IEEE/Springer â€“ The Fourth International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies

(NDTâ€™2012) http://www.ndtconf.org/ Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), April 26-28, 2012.

Proceedings in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS 7899) Series of

Springer LNCS

Mariam Kafood, Muneera Saleh, Maryam Darwish, Abdelkarim Erradi (2011), â€˜Interactive

Campus Map for Self-guided Tour on Mobile Devicesâ€™, Intl. Conf. on Information Technology

and e-Services (ICITeS\'2011), Sousse Tunisia.

Abdelkarim Erradi, Sajeda Mahmood Nahia, Hind Ali Almerekhi, Lubna Maymun Alkailani

(2012), â€˜ArabicTutor: Towards m-Learning Platform for Learning Arabic Spelling and

Vocabularyâ€™, I3rd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems

(ICMCS\'12), Tangier Morocco.

Noora Mohammed Al-Naimi, Khaled Bashir Shaban, "The 100 Most Influential Persons in

History": A Data Mining Perspective," The Fourth Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies and

Practice Prize (DMCS 2011) at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011), pages

719-724, Vancouver, Canada, December 11-14, 2011.

Dr. Osama Halabi, Mariam Al-Ansari, Yasmin Halwani, Fatma Al-Mesaifri, Roqaya Al-Shaabi,

Navigation Aid for Blind People Using Depth Information and Augmented Reality Technology,

NICOGRAPH International 2012, Bali, Indonesia, July 2-3, (2012).

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Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Presenting a seminar to the College of Engineering faculty members 18 January, 2012

Dr. Osama Halabi

Organized Seminars on Ubiquitous Creative Method by New Notebook Technology (Idea-

Marathon will change your study and life)? delivered by Japanese professors to the

department, the student in computing club, and the whole university in collaboration with

OFID.

Dr. Ryan Riley

Gave an invited seminar at Purdue University. "Furthering Data-Only Rootkit Attacks".

August, 2011

Gave a seminar to students about Wireless Security and WEP hacking. December, 2011.

Short Courses Delivered by Department Faculty

Dr. Ryan Riley

“Introduction to Wireless Security and WEP Cracking”, Dec 14 2011, QU Computing Club.

Eng. Khalid AbuSaud

Take A parts of a Computer ʺPersonal Computer Hardware and Software Basicsʺ, Qatar

University Computing Club, December 21, 2011

Advanced Skills for Search Engine in the Internet

االنترت شبكة في للبحث المتقدمة المهارات , in El-Diwan El-Amiri-Qatar, February 20-23, 2012

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Keynote Talks Presentations

Prof. Hasan Krad

Gave a seminar on Academic Promotion Process, at the Department of Computer Science

and Engineering 29.09.2011.

Prof. Jihad Al-Ja'am

Keynote Speaker in The conference had two keynote speakers:

"Importance of Using Assistive Technology for People with Disability" Forum. Invited by the

vice president of the rehabilitation international association - Arab Chapter Mr. Mohamad

ALSAYD. October Doha, Qatar, October 13, 201.

Dr. Khaled Khan

Keynote Speaker at the Datacenterdynamics in November 2011.

Dr. Rachid Hadjdij

Gave a seminar about Computer Forensics at The Military Faculty, 03. 2012, Qatar.

Dr. Ryan Riley

Gave a short talk entitled "Protecting Query Privacy in Cloud Database Hosting" at IEEE

Security and Privacy 2012.

Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Planned Workshops with NED university of Engineering & Technology Karachi-Pakistan, for

August 2012 in the areas of Robotics, Fuzzy Logic, and LabVIEW based topics.

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Seminars and Public Lectures Organized by the Department

Speaker Date Title

The oral examination for Mr. Khalid Saeed

Supervisor: Prof. Jihad Al-Ja’am, Qatar

University

28-09-2011 Alerting System and Application

for Financial Watch Project

Prof. Hasan Krad,

Qatar University 29-09-2011 Academic Promotion Process

Chris CliftonPurdue University, USA 03-10-2011 Freeing Cloud Databases from

Privacy Constraints

The oral examination for Ms. Shiekha Ali

Supervisor Name: Prof.Ali Jaoua, Qatar

University

05-10-2011

Automatic Text Categorization and

Segmentation Based on Domain

Ontology

Dr. Ryan Riley

Qatar University 10-10-2011

Furthering Data-Only Rootkit

Attacks

Takeo Higuchi (Director of Idea Marathon

Institute) & Takaya Yuizono (Associate

Professor, School of Knowledge Science,

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and

Technology)

14-11-2011

Ubiquitous Creative Method by

New Notebook Technology (Idea-

Marathon will change your study

and life)

Prof. Athman Bouguettaya

RMIT University (Australia) 24-11-2011

RMIT Research Strengths and

Collaboration Opportunities

Dr. Mohamed Elmahdy

Ulm University (Germany) 26-12-2011

Automatic Speech Recognition for

Dialectal Arabic

Dr. Ali Bab-Hadiashar

RMIT University (Australia) 29-12-2011

Robust Parametric Visual Data

Modeling and Segmentation

Prof. Yasin Dhaher

Northwestern University 19-01-2012

Emulating a Surgical Intervention

at the Human Knee

The oral examination for Ms. Sahar Ismail

Supervisor: Prof. Ali Jaoua, Qatar

University

22-2-2012

Incremental Pseudoconceptual

Information Management and

Organization Based on a Domain:

Application for financial Domain

Dr. Uvais Qidwai, Qatar University 26-02-2012

System Identification Approach to

Nondestructive Testing in Oil &

Gas Sector application

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Speaker Date Title

The oral examination (viva) for Ms. Rawan

AlSaad Supervisor: Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi,

Qatar University

29-2-2012

A Framework for Efficient

Sequence Alignment Using

MAPREDUCE on the Cloud

Professor Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2-Lumière

University , France 29-2-2012

Retrieving information in Arabic:

can it be improved?

Dr. Jinwei HU,Qatar University 04-03-2012 Access control policy verification

and update

Dr. Khaled M. Khan,

Qatar University 11-03-2012

The Changing Landscape of

Enterprise Architecture in a Cloud-

Enabled Environment

Dr. Samir Elloumi, Qatar University 18-03-2012

Text Processing: Features

Extraction and Information

Extraction

Dr. Junaid Chaudhry, Qatar University 25-03-2012 u-Cities: Doha's Future as a Smart

City

Prof. Sebti Foufou, Qatar University 01-04-2012 Short Introduction to Ontology

Evaluation Approaches

Ihab Ilyas, Qatar Computing Research

Institute (QCRI) 02-04-2012 Data Analytics at QCRI

Dr. Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing

Research Institute, Qatar Foundation 15-04-2012 Transliteration Mining for the Real

Dr. Osama Halabi, Qatar University 22-04-2012 Haptic for Medical Training

Simulation

Mr. Hanif Khalak 25-04-2012 Architecting a Science Cloud at

WCMC-Q

Prof. Mohamed JEMNI, University of Tunis 2-05-2012

Role of ICT and Scientific Research

Toward Improving e-Accessibility

of People with Disabilities

Dr. Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of

Technology, USA 14-05-2012

Mean Failure Cost: A Measure of

Dependability

Professor Marcelo Frias, University of

Buenos Aires, Argentina

15,16,17-

05-2011

A Tutorial about verified Software:

Foundation and Tools

Organized by Prof. Ali Jaoua 20-06-2012 Second Annual Workshop about

Financial Watch Project

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Attendance of Conferences, Workshops, etc.

Prof. Ali Al-Jaoua

Attended Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Nov. 20-22, 2011, Qatar National

Convention Center, Doha, Qatar.

Attended: CITALA’12, 5th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language

Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics

http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/Rabat 2-3 , MOROCCO, May 2012.

Attended QITCOM 2012 Conference and Exhibition, 5th-7th March, 2012, Qatar National


Prof. Hasan Krad

Attended Workshop by OFID: Using Online Resources available through the Libraries, on

27.10. 2011

Attended Workshop by OFID: Best Practices in Faculty Advising: Advisors as Teachers, on

31.10. 2011

Attended Workshop by OFID: Using EndNote Web, on 02.11. 2011

Attended Workshop by OFID: Best Practices in Faculty Advising: Advisors as Teachers, on

14.11.2011

Attended The 3rd OFID Days Workshop entitled, ? Active Learning and Assessment: Where

Are We??, on Feb. 13-15, 2012.

Attended Workshop Cisco Expo Qatar 2012, Doha, the 24th .01. 2012 at Qatar National

Convention Center

Attended New Concept of Integrity Solutions, December 12-14, 2011, Doha, Qatar

Attended Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, Nov. 20-22, 2011, Qatar National


Attended gov.INFOSEC, an Information Security Conference, 12th 01.2012, The Diplomatic

Club, Doha, Qatar.

Attended The Third International Gas Processing Symposium 2012, 5th-7th March, 2012, Ritz

Carlton, Doha, Qatar.

Attended QITCOM 2012 Conference and Exhibition, 5th-7th March, 2012, Qatar National


http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/Rabat

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Attended the Summer School in Computer Science - NDU Beirut - Lebanon July 2011 (7 full

days).

Attended The E-Learning Congress in Hamdan University, Dubai, January 2012,

Courses: Use of Smart Devices in Education.

Attended Sessions on Teaching Children - Early childhood intervention - Qatar University -

College of Education.

Attended the Gas Processing Conference 2012, Doha, Qatar.

Attended QITICOM2012, Qatar National Convention Center, 5-7 March 2012: had 2 posters

and 1 oral presentation.

Attended "Government Information Security Conference" on 12.01.2012 at the Diplomatic

Club, Doha, Qatar.

Attended ACIT'2011 Conference - Saudi Arabia. Chairing Sessions on IT and Application.

December 2011.

Attended The ACM ICEM - 12: Intelligent-Information-Systems, Jordan 2012, April 2012.

Attended The International Conference on Human Computer Interaction & Learning

Technologies, Abu Dhabi March 2012.

Attended The NDT 2012, International Conference, Dubai, Canadian University, April 2012.

Attended Financial Watch Workshop-June 2011: Workshop Moderator.

Signature Verification Workshop-September 2011: Workshop Moderator.

Organizer and Chair of the Session: Computer Systems and Applications, November 2012,

Doha - Qatar http://www.iconip2012.org

Prof. Sebti Foufou

Attended the 3rd OFID days as a participant, and as a session moderator.

Attended SPM 2011 Conference, Oct 2011, Orlando FL.

Attended Workshop on Computer Graphics, November 2012, Tabuk, KSA.

Attended the Arabs Expatriate Forum in Doha, January 2012.


Attended 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012),

Melbourne Australia, July 2012

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Attended Teaching-Related Workshops offered by OFID such as a workshop on Teaching

Strategies that Improve Learning, OFID Edu Tech Days, Creating and maintaining motivation

in multicultural classrooms, etc.

Dr. Amr Mohamed

Attended Presentations about Mendeley for organizing research publications

"QUMESH: Wireless mesh network deployment and configuration in harsh environment",

poster presentation at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),

April 2012.

Conducted three scientific missions to University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,

Purdue University, Indiana, USA, and Nile University, Cairo, Egypt to strengthen research

collaborations and foster research network

Dr. Khaled Khan

Team Based Learning: An Alternative to Lecturing in Small and Large Classes: Successful

Experiences

Attended OFID Workshop, on February 12, 2012.

Capitalizing on Experiences in Assessment.

Attended OFID Workshop, on February 15, 2012.

Best Practices in Faculty Advising: Advisors as Teachers.

Attended OFID Workshop (Please see the attachment in the Reflection page)

Dr. Khaled Shaban

Professional Science Master's Programs (PSM) Workshop, Qatar University

Assuring Student Success In Graduate School Workshop, Qatar University

Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Biometrics, Qatar University

OFID Days Workshop: EndNote web: The citation management software, Qatar University

Introduction to Survey Design Workshop by the Social & Economic Survey Research Institute

(SESRI), Qatar University

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Dr. Loay Ismail

Attended Respondus, OFID Workshop : Creating Online Tests and Delivering on Blackboard ,

January.2012 (First OFID EduTech Days)

Using Blackboard Effectively to Promote Active Learning January.2012 (First OFID EduTech

Days)

Attended Using a Mac or iOS device as a Teaching Tool OFID Workshop at QU January.2012

(First OFID EduTech Days)

Attended الراجعة التغذية و الواجبات مع التعامل ‐ 9 بورد البالك OFID Workshop, March.2012.(OFID)

Attended Workshop Introduction to Engineering Education Research, June.2011

(Professional Development Workshop organized by FACE)

Attended Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Biometrics, March. 2012, Qatar University

Attended series on Research Support for Publications in English. December. 2011, OFID.

Attended Qatar University Research Forum, October.2011, Qatar University.

Attended Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum, November.2011, Qatar Foundation.

Attended OFID Workshop, Follow-up: Best Practices in Faculty Advising, February. 2012, The

3rd OFID days.

Attended OFID Workshop, SharePoint: Why Sending an Email isn't Enough Anymore,

January. 2012, First OFID EduTech Days.

Attended Workshop, Space Management & Scheduling Solution Training, April. 2012,

Prepared by the Scheduling department.

Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Participated in IT Conference in Doha, QITCOM, by ictQatar 5-6 March.

Participated in IT Conference in Doh, a Mobile Learning, by Texas A&M University 27-28

February.

Participated in IT Conference in Doha the 2nd Annual e-Learning, by ictQatar 8. February.

Participated in ABET's IDEAL Workshop Tuesday, January 03.01.2012

Attended Workshop by OFID: Challenges and Opportunities, Tuesday, 14.02.2012 at 02:00

PM-4:00 PM.

Attended Workshop by OFID: Analyzing Assessment Results and Closing the Loop, Tuesday,

14.02.2012 at 08:45AM -12:00 noon

Attended Workshop by OFID: Active Day Learning: 13-15 February.2012.

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Participated in Annual International Conference on Web Technology & Internet Applications

WEBTEC 2012 7-8 May, 2012 Indonesia.

Dr. Osama Halabi

Attended Workshop, Introduction to Engineering Education Research, by: Mahmoud

Abdulwahed, Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering Education, 07.06.2011.

Attended Workshop by OFID, Teaching Strategies that Improve Learning -Session 3:

Promoting Critical Thinking Brainstorming, on 01.11.2011.

Attended Workshop by OFID, Presentations by the Winners of the Exemplary Online Course

Award, on 22.11.2011.

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for Publication- Session 1: Choosing the appropriate

journal and writing accordingly, on 10.10.2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for Publication- Session 2: Research methodology as

required for publications?, on 12.10.2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for publication - Session 3: Conducting/writing a

review of the literature?, on 17.10.2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for publication - Session 4: Methodology section? , on

19.10.2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for publication- Session 5: Data analysis and result?,

on 24.10.2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Writing for publication- Session 6: Review journal?, On

26.10.2011

Organized along with Dr. Erradi from Senior Project Task the 2nd Project Exhibition Day in

the department.

Attended NICOGRAPH International 2012, Bali, Indonesia, July 2-3, (2012).

Dr. Osama Shata

Attended Seminar in College of Engineering End of Year Event.

المقرر مستوى على وصياغتها الطالب تعلم خرجاتم تحديد مجال في المعاصرة االتجاهات Attended Seminar

" عبدالمنعم، محمد علي الدكتور األستاذ

2011 أكتوبر 19 الموافق األربعاء يوم: األولى الجلسة :

Attended Seminar : Motivating Students while Raising the Bar: Experience from an

Undergraduate Laboratory Course, by Dr. Ali Eid,on Sunday, October 9, 2011.

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Attended Seminar : QU Merit Award for Outstanding Faculty: The Show-off, the Glamor and

the Plaque! Yet, a Showcase of What Is Just Way Beyond That?. 14/2/2012. Dr. Husam

Younes.

Attended Workshop: Using Arabic Language Online Databases- Tuesday, 25.10. 2011 at

10:00AM, Speaker: Ms. Myrna Tabet

Attended Workshop: Movie Maker: Motivate students to use Multimedia to enhance

projects presentations. 24.01.2012. Ms. Aisha Al Kaabi and Ms. Sara Al Muftah

Attended Workshop " Blackboard9 creating assignments and providing feedback to students

", 25.3.2012

Attended Workshop The role of statistical consultation unit in providing services for

researchers". Presented by Prof. Mohammad Salehi, 24.10.2011

Attended Workshop: NETOP SCHOOL 6 Computer Lab management program. 23/1/2012. Dr.

Arslan Ayari

Attended Workshop المقرر مستوى على وصياغتها الطالب تعلم مخرجات تحديد مجال في المعاصرة االتجاهات "

عبدالمنعم، محمد علي الدكتور األستاذ

2011 أكتوبر 24 الموافق االثنين يوم: الثانية الجلسة

Attended Workshop Follow-up Session: Moving toward Integration Units and Lessons.

Speaker : Prof. Michael Romanowski (CED) with Dr. Kalid A. Al-Saad (CAS). February 15, 2012

at 11:10AM

Attended the Presentation organized by the research office and QNRF about the National

Priorities Research Program (NPRP) 5th cycle on the 22nd of September 2011 at the College

of Engineering, Women's Section - Hall # 175

Attended Workshop: Creating online surveys using Lime Survey software. 25.01.2012. Mr.

Asad Nafees

Attended Workshop: SharePoint: Why Sending an Email Isn?t Enough Anymore. 25.01.2012.

Mr. Asad Nafees

Attended Workshop: The Online Assessment Management System. 23.01.2012

Attended Seminar: Capitalizing on Experiences in Assessment. Speaker : Dr. Adel Cherif,

Director - APLOA) and Dr. Mohsen Guizani, Associate VP for Graduate Programs. Wednesday,

February 15, 2012

Attended Seminar: Capitalizing on Experiences: Practitioner's Perspective. Speaker : Sharing

Experience with: Prof. Sherief Khalifa (CPH), Dr. Ramazan Kahraman (CENG) , and Dr. Helmi

Hammami (CBE). Wednesday, 15.02.2012

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Dr. Ryan Riley

Attended Workshop by OFID, Creating and Maintaining Motivation in Multicultural

Classrooms, on10. 2011

Attended Workshop by OFID, Providing Students With Learning Videos on Demand, 01.2012

Attended Workshop by OFID, Lecture Capture: A Demonstration for the Use of Technology

in Teaching,. 01.2012

Attended "Government Information Security Conference". QCert, 01.2012.

Attended QITCOM. ICTQatar,03.2012.

Attended IEEE Security and Privacy,05.2012. San Francisco, CA.

Attended Workshop by OFID, Creating Online Surveys Using Lime Survey Software, 01.2012.

(Useful for strategic planning committee).

Dr. Somaya AL-Ma’adeed

Attended, First International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis (AFHA

2011)

Chairs: Marcus Liwicki, Michael Blumenstein, Elisa van den Heuvel, Bryan Found

Beijing Friendship Hotel, 17-18 September 2011, ICDAR 2011, From 17.09.2011-18.09.2011,

Outside QU.

الدورة واتمام حضور المخطوطات محقق ثقافة ,

العربية المخطوطات مركز مع بالتعاون اليد بخط المكتوبة التاريخية العربية المخطوطات من التحقق لكيفية تدريبية دورة

قطر بدولة االسالمية والشؤون االوقاف وزارة بالقاهرة From 01.01.2012-05.01.2012, Outside QU.

Present a poster and attend the round table meeting, Qatar University Research Forum: 1st

place on ICT poster competition hosted by Qatar University Research Forum (QURF) 2011,

Qatar University, From 31.10.2011-15.11.2011, QU.

Attended, Preparing a course portfolio, Qatar University, From 15.11.2011-15.11.2011, QU.

Attended, Workshop "Managing and Editing your QU Website", Qatar University, On

17.11.2011, College.

Attended, gov.INFOSEC2012, ICT Qatar, From 12.01.20012- 12.05.2012, Outside QU.

Attended, First OFID EduTech Days: ?Technology-Based Active Learning?, OFID, From

23.10.2012-25.01.2012, QU.

Attended, Active learning in honors Active learning and Assessment where are we, QU-

OFID,13.02.2012-15.02.2012, QU.

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Attend, Presentations by the winners of Exemplary Online Course Award, OFID, On

22.11.2011, QU.

Attended, "Introduction to Engineering Education Research", by Mahmoud Abdulwahed,

QU, On Tuesday, 07.06.2011, College.

Organizer, Workshop on: Automated Writer Identification and Signature Verification

QU, on 21.06.2012, QU.

Attended, International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP) 16-

17 9 September 2011, Beijing, China, ICDAR 2011, From 16.09.2011-17.09.2011, Outside QU.

Organizer, Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Biometrics

From 05.03.2012-08.03.2012, QU.

Attended Workshop, Managing and Editing your QU Website, 17.11.2011.

Attended International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP) 16-

17 9 September 2011, Beijing, China

Attended First International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis (AFHA

2011) 17-18 September 2011, Beijing, China

Attended Workshop in NEOFACE software -Doha, 2- 14 October, 2011.

Attended Workshop in Vision box software -Doha, 7- 19 August, 2011.

Attended Workshop in Sagem software -Doha, 4- 15 September., 2011.

Attended Workshop Qitcom 05. 2012.

Attended Workshop in Emerging Threats to Information Security in the Government Sector

Discussed, ICT, Qatar, 12 .01.2012

Dr. Uvais Qidwai

Attended Workshop by OFID Research Publications.

Attended Workshop by OFID, Data Entry System Training for OIPD application.

Attended, Certification Training and Exam., Silver Wing Ltd. UK, From 22.01.2011-

15.05.2011, Outside QU.

Attended, Hydrates Training, Gas Processing Center, From 04.03.2012-04.03.2012, College of

Engineering.

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G. Other Activities

Consultancy

Dr. Khaled Shaban

Consultant at Qatar Mobility Innovation Center (QMIC), Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Mohammad Samaka

Consultant at QUWIC, involved in projects that requires research and development. Such

responsibility requires intensive research and design.

Awards

Dr. Khaled Shaban

College of Engineering (CENG) “Excellence in Service Award” in recognition of outstanding

achievements while chairing CENG Faculty Affairs Committee during 2010-2011 academic

year.

Dr. Osama Halabi

First Place, Microsoft Imagine Cup, Qatar Final, Software Design Category: “3D-Kindio:

avigation Aid for Blind and Visually Impaired” April 26, 2012. Students: Fatma Al-Msaifri,

fa095704, CE, Roqaya Saed Al-Shaabi, ra090350, CE , Mariam Essa Al-Ansari, ma095669, CS,

Yasmin Aladden Halwani, yh090582, CE.

Runner Up Award: Platform Expos, Create an App competition: “Find my Shadow” April 18,

2012. Students: Nahia Sajeda, 200751881, CS, Lubna Alkailani, 200756636, CS, Khuzama

Mahmoud, 200662001, CE.

Best Award: Competition for Art & Technology Tohoku 2011: “Different games to test your

memory”, July 16, 2011. Students: Noora Al-Shaabi, 200654663, MIE, Nawal Balsharam,

200558489, MIE.

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Dr. Ryan Riley

Exceptional Teaching Certificate. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar

University, 2011.

Dr. Somaya Al-Maadeed

Win the best performance in the 2011 Signature Verification Competition on Dutch data.

Win the Music Scores: Writer Identification and Staff Removal competition (ICDAR/GREC

2011).

3rd place in the NASA Mapping Dark Matter Contest

Qatar University Research Forum: 1st place on ICT poster competition hosted by Qatar

University Research Forum (QURF) 2011

Dr. Tarek Elfouly

Winning first place in the student poster competition of the 2012 Power & Energy Society

Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition which was held recently in

Orlando, FL, USA

Winning best poster Award in the Qatar Foundation Research Forum.

Winning best Project Award in Saltan Qaboos University Competition.

Winning best project Award from the CSE 2011-2012 academic year.

Dr. Saleh Alhazbi

Won Qatar University Exemplary Online Course Award.

Visits to Companies, Institutions, Centers, etc.

Dr. Amr Mohamed

Visiting professor at University of British Columbia, July 8th. to July 18th, 2011

Visiting professor at Nile University, July 20th to August 30th, 2011

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Visiting professor at Purdue University, June 15th to June 22, 2011


Summer School on Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation for Embedded Systems Design

organized by Design Support and Tooling for Embedded Control Software (DESTECS),

University of Twente, Netherlands, July 2012.

Department Events and Activities

6.06. 2011 Winning Two International Prizes to Identify the Owner of the Line and

Signature Electronically

A team from the Qatar University latest findings of science in the field of fingerprint recently

participated in the international conference to analyze and identify documents ICDAR2011

held in China. This competition was previously organized by a team of researchers at the

University of Qatar.

Qatar University team participated in the conference in a research paper on the same

subject, the conference was attended by Dr. Abdelali Hsaineh and Dr. Somaya Ali Al-Ali from

the University of Qatar.

At the same conference, researchers from the University has achieved two prizes in the

international competition. First to address the writer and see the documents and musical

notes automatically, and the second contest to identify signatures excelled at Latin.

16.06.2011 Winning the "Special International Prize" (Art & Technology Tohoku 2011

Competition)

Winning the "Special International Prize" which given for the best three works of

international submission. The project title is (Different Games To Test Your Observation:

Noora AL-Shaabi, Nawal Khalid, Aws Al-Taie, Osama Halabi ) that has been submitted to the

(Art & Technology Tohoku 2011 Competition).

ictQATAR Renews its Support for the ictQATAR Chair at the Department of Computer

Science and Engineering

Qatar University and the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology

(ictQATAR) agreed to renew their agreement on the Council's support for the chair position

in ICT at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar

University. The funding is for three additional years starting on the academic year 2012-

2013, where the chair will conduct research in coordination with the Council to set up

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research programs to promote the field of information and communication technologies,

and organize workshops and training courses for students, staff and faculty members.

18.09.2011 ABET Accreditation

The two programs (Computer Science & Computer Engineering) in the Department of

Computer Science & Engineering have received the ABET Accreditation.

2.10.2011 Winning the Best Poster Award in the Research Forum in Qatar

A group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Won the

first prize for a research entitled "Intelligent System To Identify the Writer" in the Research

Forum of Qatar University – 2011 in the field of Information Technology. The team designed

a system to identify the signature electronically, Participated in the research (Dr. Somaya Ali

Al-Ali , Prof. Ali Jaoua, Prof. Jihad Aljaam, Dr. Abdelali Hsaineh and Wail Ayoubi) from the

Department of Computer Science and Engineering - College Of Engineering.

14.11.2011 Faculty Annual Student Meetings

The first CSE Faculty/Students Annual Meeting took place on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, 11am

to 12:30pm, in the Male campus and on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, 11am to 12:30pm in the

Female campus. The events started with welcoming notes by the CSE department head, Prof.

Qutaibah Malluhi, followed by discussions on various issues of concern to all. The event

concluded with light activities and lunch which enabled informal interactions.

22.11.2011 Winning the Computing Award During the QF Annual Research Forum

Dr. Tarek Elfouly, Dr. Amr Mohammed, and their students in the department of Computer

Science & Engineering won the computing award during the QF annual research forum,

which was held in the Qatar National Convention Center from 20 Nov. until 22 Nov. 2011.

6.12.2011 Winning the Exemplary Online Instruction using BlackBoard Award

Dr. Saleh Alhazbi, Lecturer of Computer Science, College of Engineering, QU, Winnes the

Exemplary Online Instruction using BlackBoard Award at the academic year 2010 - 2011.

8.12.2011 Computing Contest Press Conference

The QU Computing Contest Committee members are organizing a Contest Press Conference

in the presence of representatives for its sponsors, in addition to teachers from participating

schools.

1.02.2012 Writer Identification Contest for Arabic Scripts (ICFHR 2012)

An international contest on Writer Identification for Arabic Scripts is organized by the

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Research Group PRIP at the Department of

Computer Science & Engineering (Qatar University) in conjunction with the International

Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition ICFHR 2012. More information is

available in the contest website (http://awic2012.qu.edu.qa).

http://awic2012.qu.edu.qa/

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23.03.2012 Computing Contest Competition day and Award Ceremony

Announcing the winners of the Computing Contest 2012 in an awards ceremony at Qatar

University on saturday 24/03/2012. The contest, aimed at high school students across the

country, was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the

College of Engineering CENG). The competition started at 10:00 AM and ended at 4:00 PM

with three winners from three different schools. The ceremony was attended by CENG Dean

Dr. Mazen Hasna, Head of CSE Department Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi, faculty, high-school

teachers, students , and parents. CENG Dean Dr. Mazen Hasna handed out the awards and

congratulated the winners. (Picture-1,Picture-2)

06.2012 The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Competition finals will be held in Australia

For the first time, Microsoft is bringing Imagine Cup to Qatar. Imagine Cup is the world

premier student technology competition that invites students from around the world to use

their imagination and creativity in order to solve the world’s toughest problems. One team

will be selected to represent Qatar in the Imagine Cup worldwide finals that will be held in

July in Sydney, Australia.

A total of 400 students registered, out of which only 4 teams have been shortlisted to

present their projects in the Imagine Cup local finals. The Imagine Cup local finals in Qatar

will take place on the 24th of April 2012 from 5 – 9 pm where students will present their

projects for an executive panel of judges who will at the end of the event select the winning

team to represent Qatar in the Imagine Cup Worldwide finals in Sydney, Australia. Student

teams will be required to be present from 9AM to 9PM on the 24th of April to prepare for

the final event. (Visit Website)

3.04.2012 Winning the First Place in the Fifth Engineering Students Gathering at Sultan

Qaboos University

CSE students: Heba Dawoud, Muneera Al-Marri, Nada Aloraidi, Ohood Al-Amoudi, Rouda Al-

Kuwari, and Sara Qaffaf; and their supervisors; Dr. Tarek Elfouly and Dr. Amr Mohamad has

won the first place in the fifth engineering students gathering at Sultan Qaboos University on

03/04/2012. More than 50 projects from Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Oman were competing

were competing. As their project titled “Assistive technology for people with hearing

disabilities”.

4.04.2012 Promotion for Dr. Uvais Qidwai to an Associate Professor

Dr. Uvais Qidwai is promoted to the rank of associate professor on 04/04/2012. Dr. Uvais has

been an active researcher at College of Engineering for many years and his distinguished

efforts in establishing multidisciplinary research across the CENG departments. (Website)

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/computer/images/contest2012_1.jpg

http://www.qu.edu.qa/engineering/computer/images/contest2012_2.jpg

http://https/docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dgrpls1isgtmrjjrww0yszvdcw43y0e6mq

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18.04.2012 Workshop on Computer Gaming and Game Design

Workshop on computer gaming and game design. This event will take place at Ibn Khaldoon

Hall on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 9-5 pm. The event will address issues related to digital

gaming, game design, education through games, and market opportunities. More

information about the event can be found at:

http://www.platformexpos.com/events/platform-doha/

19.04.2012 Winning the "Create an App " in the Platform Doha Competition

Congratulations to the CSE students Luban Al-Kailani, Sajeda Nahia and Khuzama Mahmoud,

for being the runner up winner for the “Create an App” competition during Platform Doha

yesterday. The Students were supervised by Dr. Osama Halabi, who has been encouraging

and supporting our students’ participation in the platform competitions.

24.04.2012 Winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Qatar

Congratulations to the CSE students for winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Qatar. The CSE

students are: Fatma Al-Msaifri, Mariam Al-Ansari, Roqaya Al-Shaabi and Yesmin Halwani with

the supervision of Dr. Osama Halabi, they managed to win the finals of the Imagine Cup

competition in Qatar.

31.05.2012 Computer Science & Engineering Open Day

Computer Science & Engineering Open Day. College of Engineering. Ibn Khaldoon Hall

May 31 2012, Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

http://www.platformexpos.com/events/platform-doha/

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Competitions

06.2012 The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Competition finals will be held in Australia

For the first time, Microsoft is bringing Imagine Cup to Qatar. Imagine Cup is the world

premier student technology competition that invites students from around the world to use

their imagination and creativity in order to solve the world’s toughest problems. One team

will be selected to represent Qatar in the Imagine Cup worldwide finals that will be held in

July in Sydney, Australia.

A total of 400 students registered, out of which only 4 teams have been shortlisted to

present their projects in the Imagine Cup local finals. The Imagine Cup local finals in Qatar

will take place on the 24th of April 2012 from 5 – 9 pm where students will present their

projects for an executive panel of judges who will at the end of the event select the winning

team to represent Qatar in the Imagine Cup Worldwide finals in Sydney, Australia. Student

teams will be required to be present from 9AM to 9PM on the 24th of April to prepare for

the final event. (Visit Website)

Awards

16.06.2011 Winning the "Special International Prize" (Art & Technology Tohoku 2011

Competition) Winning the "Special International Prize" which given for the best three works

of international submission. The project title is (Different Games To Test Your Observation:

Noora AL-Shaabi, Nawal Khalid, Aws Al-Taie, Osama Halabi ) that has been submitted to the

(Art & Technology Tohoku 2011 Competition).

22.11.2011 Winning the Computing Award During the QF Annual Research Forum

Dr. Tarek Elfouly, Dr. Amr Mohammed, and their students in the department of Computer

Science & Engineering won the computing award during the QF annual research forum,

which was held in the Qatar National Convention Center from 20 Nov. until 22 Nov. 2011.

3.04.2012 Winning the First Place in the Fifth Engineering Students Gathering at Sultan

Qaboos University

CSE students: Heba Dawoud, Muneera Al-Marri, Nada Aloraidi, Ohood Al-Amoudi, Rouda Al-

Kuwari, and Sara Qaffaf; and their supervisors; Dr. Tarek Elfouly and Dr. Amr Mohamad has

won the first place in the fifth engineering students gathering at Sultan Qaboos University on

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03/04/2012. More than 50 projects from Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Oman were competing

were competing. As their project titled “Assistive technology for people with hearing

disabilities”.

19.04.2012 Winning the "Create an App " in the Platform Doha Competition

Congratulations to the CSE students Luban Al-Kailani, Sajeda Nahia and Khuzama Mahmoud,

for being the runner up winner for the “Create an App” competition during Platform Doha

yesterday. The Students were supervised by Dr. Osama Halabi, who has been encouraging

and supporting our students’ participation in the platform competitions.

24.04.2012 Winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Qatar

Congratulations to the CSE students for winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Qatar. The CSE

students are: Fatma Al-Msaifri, Mariam Al-Ansari, Roqaya Al-Shaabi and Yesmin Halwani with

the supervision of Dr. Osama Halabi, they managed to win the finals of the Imagine Cup

competition in Qatar.

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Department of

Electrical Engineering

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Mohieddine Benammar, PhD

Head, Department of



I am pleased to introduce the 2011/12 annual report for the

Department of Electrical Engineering at Qatar University.

The report will provide you with plenty of info covering the

department vision and mission, faculty members' activities in terms

of research funding, publications, consulting, and community

service. Generally, our department has is focusing on these four

areas:

Industrial Control/Electronics

Power Systems

Communication Systems with a clear focus on wireless

communications

Biomedical Engineering with focus on Signal Processing and Bioinstrumentation

This year has been quite productive and eventful in a number of areas. Some of this year's

highlights include:

Graduation o the first batch female electrical engineers. This will help in providing

more engineers to cope up with the increasing demand for engineering talent in

Qatar.

The updated version of the curriculum of the undergraduate program has been

implemented in Fall 2011. Major revisions of the curriculum included the introduction

of a new Biomedical Engineering Track, the incorporation of renewable energy topics

and the introduction of Embedded Systems and Sensors and Instrumentation courses.

The new MSc program in Electrical Engineering has been approved and will be offered

starting Fall 2012.

The PhD program in Electrical Engineering started in Fall 2012. Currently one student

is already enrolled in this program.

Our team, again, has been successful in securing many NPRP and UREP research

grants in this year.

Dr. Khaled Ellithy and Dr. Tamer Khattab have secured a significant contract with

Kahramaa to carry out a feasibility study.

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A significant contract has been signed with the Kahramaa and Siemens to fund a

three-year Chair Position in Energy Efficiency. An excellent candidate has been

identified to fill this position and join the department in January 2013.

The Self-Study Report (SSR) of the Electrical Engineering Program has been selected

to be included in a display of well-prepared SSRs two years in a row (2011 and 2012 !)

at the annual ABET Symposium in USA.

A team of EE students have successfully participated with the first QU-built Solar car

in the Shell Eco-marathon competition in Lausitz Racing Circuit in Germany during

May 2011. This 2011/2012 academic year, the team has designed and built an electric

(plug-in) car for participation in the Shell Eco-marathon competition in Sepang Circuit

in Malaysia in July 2012.

Our scholarly research resulted in a strong publication record.

The state incentive award in the field of pure and applied science is won by Dr. Rashid

Alammari, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering for his outstanding

achievements in the field of Electrical Engineering. The award carries a prize money

of QR. 150,000 (US$ 41200), a gold medal and an appreciation certificate.

Two of our students secured the first place in PES T&D 2012 student poster

competition held in Orlando (USA) recently. Their project "Design of a Power System

Stabilizer Based on Microcontroller for Power System Stability Enhancement"

supervised by Dr. Khaled Ellithy competed with 80 other posters, most of them by

MSc. Students from USA. The award consists of certificate of achievement and a cash

prize of $1500.

Two EE Students won the first place at the annual engineering competition for design

projects recently held in Dubai. Their graduation project, “Design of a Digital Pleural

Drainage System” supervised by Prof. Mohieddine Benammar has won a cash prize of

QR. 20000 as well. The competition was held under the secretariat of the GCC

Council.

During the last Qatar University Research Forum (QURF 2011), Students Nasser

Alnunu and Sami Al-shorman have received the best poster award for their work on

designing a solar car for Shell Eco-marathon competition.

Many EE students participated in conferences and training workshops held inside and

outside Qatar

Our Faculty and Teaching Assistants deservedly won the College of Engineering

Research Award (Prof. Boualem Boashash), Teaching award (Dr. Khaled Ellithy), and

the Teaching Assistant Award (Eng. Sijoy Raphael) for 2011-12.

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During this academic year, Dr. Ahmed Massoud was promoted to the rank of

Associate Professor. Dr. Atif Iqbal and Dr. Mazen Hasna have also applied for

promotion to the same rank; their applications are with external referees.

Finally, I would like to extend my appreciation to all members of our team: students, faculty,

teaching assistants, and staff for their effort and quest for excellence that resulted in a

remarkable and a productive year. I want to thank members of our industrial advisory board and

our industry partners for their support.

Table A1: Summary

2011-2012


Faculty 18


Support Staff 4

Total 27


Enrolment Female : Fall 2011

Spring 2012

4

0

Enrolment: Male Fall 2011

Spring 2012

3

0


Spring 2012

4

29


Spring 2012

7

7

Graduate Program

Doctorate Enrollment 1

Undergraduate & Postgraduate Courses Offered

Undergraduate Courses

Postgraduate Courses

34

0

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Research

UREP 7

NPRP 15

Start Up Grants 4

University Internal Grants 5

Student (QU) Grants 6

Industry Funded Research 3

Publications

Journal Publications 32

Books or Book Chapters 2


Patents 3

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Academic Staff


Faculty


Appointment

Year

Mohieddine

Benammar

Professor and

Department Head

Solid-state physical and

chemical sensors technology

and sensor control and

interfacing.

1997

Boualem

Boashash Professor

Signal Processing, Biomedical

Engineering, Engineering

Education, Asset Management,

Engineering management

2009

Lazhar Ben-

Brahim Professor

Power Electronics, control and

motor drives. 1997

Khaled A.

Ellithy Associate Professor

Power systems analysis, quality,

operation and control. 2006

Rashid

Alammari Associate Professor

Power engineering, power

stability, computer applications,

and distribution planning.

1996

Farid Touati Associate Professor

Conventional and high-

temperature design of

electronic systems for RF

communication, Telemetry,

sensors, Renewable Energy, and

signal processing

2010

Ridha

Hamila Associate Professor

Wireless Communications and

Mobile Networks, Signal

Processing and Synchronization

Techniques for All-Digital

Receivers, Positioning

Technologies.

2009

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Faculty


Appointment

Year

Abbes Amira Associate Professor

Embedded systems,

Microcontrollers,

Bioinstrumentations and

Medical Imaging, DSP for

communications, Computer

architecture and security.

2011

Ahmed

Mohammed

Massoud

Associate Professor

Power Electronics, Energy

Conversion, and Renewable

Energy

2009

Mohamed E.

Al-Naimi

Assistant Professor and

Director of the

Institutional Effectiveness

Department & Acting

Director of Foundation

Program

Adaptive and non-linear control. 1997

Nasser A. Al-

Emadi Assistant Professor

Power system control, reactive

power, and optimal power flow. 2000

Mohammed

Al-Hitmi Assistant Professor

Electrical engineering/Intelligent

control systems 2001

Mazen

Omar Hasna

Associate Professor and

Dean of College of

Engineering

Digital communication theory

and its application to

performance evaluation of

wireless communication

systems over fading channels.

2003

Tamer

Khattab Assistant Professor

Wireless communications over

fading channels, sensor

networks, CDMA, OFDMA based

communications, adaptive

modulation, and information

theoretic aspects of

communication systems.

2007

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Faculty


Appointment

Year

Nader

Meskin Assistant Professor

Control Systems, Fault diagnosis,

System Biology 2011

Atif Iqbal Assistant Professor

Modeling, Simulation and

Control of Power Electronics

Converters and their application

to Electrical Drives

2011

Fadi Jaber Assistant Professor

Micro-engineering and micro-

fabrication, neuro-engineering,

AC-electrokinetics, biomedical

instrumentation, and biomedical

signal processing.

2011

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Year

Asma Khalil Teaching Assistant

Control, Electronics, Digital

Signal Processing, power

electronics, embedded

systems

2009

Sijoy Raphael Teaching Assistant Power Systems & Machines 2001

Mini Thomas Teaching Assistant Electronics/Biomedical

/Communication 2002

Mohamed

Abdelhamid

Elsayed

Teaching Assistant - 2003

Antonio San

Pedro Gonzales Jr. Teaching Assistant - 2010

Ayman Ammar Lab Technician - 2011

Mohammed Ayad Lab Technician - 2010

Mazen M K Faiter Senior Lab Engineer - 2011

Inas Abu Alsaud Administrative

Coordinator - 2012

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Industrial Advisory Board

Table A4. Summary: Industrial Advisory Board at the department

Member Title Company

Mr. AbdulAziz Ahmed Al-

Mahmoud (Alumnus)

Transmission Planning

Engineer Kahramaa

Mr. Abdulaziz Fakhroo Senior Manager QTEL

Mr. Ahmed Al-

Kuwari (Alumnus)

Manager,

Project Management Office Qatar Foundation

Mr. Ali Al Emadi (Alumnus) Section Head Qatar Electricity & Water

Company

Dr. Amer El-Saigh Vodafone Qatar

Mr. Kalyana Sundaram Senior Engineer Qatar Gas

Mr. Khalil Ashkanani

(Alumnus) Ras Gas

Mr. Osama Alassiry Network Manager Council of Ministers

Dr. Rashid Mazhar

Mohammed

Consultant Surgeon &

Assistant professor

Hamad Medical Corporation

(HMC)

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C. Research



Project

Number Project Title Year

Primary

Faculty Students

UREP 09 -

058 - 2 - 016

Electronic air leak

monitoring system for post-

operation cardio-thoracic

patients

2010-

2011

Prof.

Mohieddine

Benammar

Esmaeil Alizadeh,

Mohamed Al-sa'd,

Fathi Elbatie,

Mother abu-gaoud

UREP 09 -

071 - 2 - 019

A Photovoltaic Power Supply

operating in grid-connected

mode

2010-

2011

Prof. Lazhar

Ben-Brahim

Mohammad Bilal,

Saoud Aldosari,

Tareq Awartani

UREP 09 -

099 - 2 - 029

Design and Development of

Two QU Vehicles for Shell

Eco Marathon 2011

European Completion

2010-

2011

Dr. Farid

Touati

Ahmed AbdulAziz,

Ahmad Ebrahemi,

Nasser Alnunu,

samialshorman,

Mohammed Alattar,

Mohammed Al-Hellabi

UREP 11 -

010 - 2 - 004

Investigating and

Overcoming the Effects of

Harsh Environment on the

Performance of Solar PV

Technologies in the State of

Qatar

2011-

2012

Dr. Farid

Touati

Alaa Al-Marridi ,

Rana Alnaser

UREP 11 -

093 - 2 - 027

Qatar University First

Generation of Autonomous

Quadrotor Platform for IARC

Competition

2011-

2012

Dr. Nader

Meskin

Esmaeil Alizadeh ,

Mohamed Mahmoud ,

Abdullah Abunada ,

Ahmed Al-Kuwari ,

Saleh Ahmad , Abdullah

Zia

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Project

Number Project Title Year

Primary

Faculty Students

UREP 11 -

138 - 2 - 049

Plug and Play Single Phase

Photovoltaic AC Module

Integrated Converter with

Wireless Coordination

2011-

2012

Dr. Tamer

Khattab

AyatNazar , Mohammed

Alattar , Osama Eid ,

Reem Badawi ,

sarahakel

UREP 11 -

148 - 2 - 056

Automatic brain

abnormalities diagnosis

using EEG digital signal

processing and ECG

correlation

2011-

2012

Prof.

Boualem

Boashash

Yomna Bahnasy ,

NohaSaad

UREP 12 -

065 - 2 -

028

Qatar University Second

Generation Zero-CO2

footprint Solar Car

2012-

2013

Dr. Farid

Touati

Abdul Kader Sakil,

Ahmed Isam Arbab,

Ajad Hossain Howlader,

Mahmoud Nabil Akil,

Musa'b Fawzi Samarah,

Noor Alam Chowdhury,


Fifth Cycle:

Project

Number Project Title

Grant

Amount

(US$)

Duration EE

Investigator(s) Role

NPRP 5 -

080 - 2 -

028

Low Power Reconfigurable

self-calibrated Multi-Sensing

Platform For Gas Applications

970,358

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Abbes Amira LPI

Prof.

Mohieddine

Benammar

Co-PI

NPRP 5 -

157 - 2 -

051

Advanced Transmission

Techniques for Next

Generation Terrestrial Wireless

Optical Communications

1,047,471

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Farid Touati Co-LPI

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Project


Grant

Amount

(US$)

Duration EE

Investigator(s) Role

NPRP 5 -

546 - 2 -

222

High performance electrodes

for solar cells

1,045,629

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Farid Touati Co-LPI

Prof.

Mohieddine

Benammar

Co-PI

NPRP 5 -

045 - 2 -

017

Cooperative Control and Fault

Diagnosis of a Team of

Unmanned Underwater

Vehicles and Robots for Oil and

Gas Pipeline Inspection, Spill

Containment, Recovery and

Remote Operation

1,014,569

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Nader

Meskin LPI

NPRP 5 -

442 - 2 -

175

Identification of Time-Varying

Human Ankle Dynamics and

the Robust Control of Active

Ankle Outhouses

1,010,036

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Nader

Meskin LPI

Dr. Fadi Jaber Co-PI

NPRP 5 -

574 - 2 -

233

Data-Driven Linear Parameter-

Varying Model Learning and

Control of Complex Process

Systems

1,048,676

3 Years

(2012-

2015)

Dr. Nader

Meskin LPI

Fourth Cycle:

Project


Grant

Amount

(US$)

Duration EE Investigator(s) Role

NPRP 4 -

250 - 2 -

080

Active Management of

Renewable Energy Sources

During Faults

916,000

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Ahmed

Massoud Co-LPI

NPRP 4 -

152 - 2 -

053

Advanced Power Electronic

Solutions for Variable Speed

Multiphase motor drives

1,049,038

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. ATIF IQBAL Co-LPI

167

Project


Grant

Amount

(US$)

Duration EE Investigator(s) Role

NPRP 4 -

1303 - 2 -

517

Automated Neonatal EEG

quality assessment and

improvement using artifact

filtering and signal

segmentation

1,050,000

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Prof. Boualem

Boashash Co-LPI

NPRP 4 -

1207 - 2 -

474

Wireless Biotelemetry for

Ubiquitous Healthcare

Monitoring

1,042,027

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Farid Touati LPI

NPRP 4 -

1119 - 2 -

427

Interference Management

in Relay-Assisted Wireless

Communications Networks

944,000

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Mazen Hasna LPI

NPRP 4 -

195 - 2 -

065

Health Monitoring,

Diagnosis, and Prognosis of

Industrial Gas Turbines

961,258

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Nader Meskin LPI

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar Co-PI

NPRP 4 -

187 - 2 -

060

Decision Support and

Closed-Loop Control for

Intensive Care Unit

Sedation

946,113

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Nader Meskin Co-LPI

NPRP 4 -

1067 - 2 -

400

HVDC Architectures for

Offshore Grid Connected

Wind Energy Systems

1,025,000

3 Years

(2011-

2014)

Dr. Ahmed

Massoud Co PI

QU Internal Grants

Grant ID Project Title

Grant

Amount

(QAR)

Duration EE

Investigator(s)

Voltage Regulation of Low

Voltage Distribution Networks

Employing Photovoltaic

141,000

01/04/2011

To

31/3/2012

Dr. Ahmed

Massoud

168

Grant ID Project Title

Grant

Amount

(QAR)

Duration EE

Investigator(s)

An Embedded Intelligent

Multimodal Biometric

Platform: Fusion Of Face, Voice

And Signature

125,000 May 2012 –

April 2013 Dr. Abbes Amira

QUUG-ENG-

DCE-10/11-13

Environment-Friendly Self-

Tuned Irrigation and

Conservation System

123,000 2011 to

2012

Dr. Mohammed

Al-Hitmit

QUUG-CENG-

DEE-11/12-6

Development of Advanced

Multi-phase Multi-level open

end winding motor drive

system

125,000

April 2012

– March

2014

Dr. Atif Iqbal

QUUG-ENG-

DCE-10/11-13

Environment-Friendly Self-

Tuned Irrigation and

Conservation System

40,000

(USD)

2011 to

2012

Dr. Mohammed

Al- Hitmi & Farid

Touati

Startup Grants

Grant ID New Faculty

Name Date Amount Project

Dr. Faid

Jaber

February 13th

2012

50,000

QAR

Equipment for a Biomedical

Instrumentation Research

Laboratory

Dr. Abbes

Amira

February 3rd

2012

50,000

QAR

Establishment of a smart ward

room to support biomedical

engineering research activities

within the EE department.

QUSG-CEN-

DEE-10/11-26

Dr. Farid

Touati 2010 – 2011

13,500

USD

Real-time wireless monitoring and

control of Renewable Energy PV

stations

169

Qatar University Student’s Grants

Grant ID Faculty Name Date Amoun

t Project

Dr. Abbes

Amira

May 2012 to

April 2013

10,000

QAR

Automatic Fall detection and Gait

Analysis using Multiresoltion

Analysis and Thresholding

Methods

QUST-CENG-

FALL-11/12-11 Dr. Atif Iqbal

April 2012 to

March 2013

57,300

QAR

Fault Diagnosis of Induction motor

Drive System

QUST-CENG-

SPR-11/12-25

Dr. Ahmad

Massoud &

Dr. Farid

Touati

2011 to 2012 2,747

USD

Effects of Environmental Factors

on the Efficiency of Various Solar

PV Technologies

QUST-CENG-

SPR-11/12-24

Dr. Farid

Touati & Prof.

Mohieddine

Benammar

2011 to 2012 2,747

USD

Design of Intelligent and

Environment-Friendly Irrigation

and Conservation System

Dr. Farid

Touati 2010 - 2011

2,747

USD

Design and Development of Two

QU Vehicles for Shell Eco Marathon

2011 European Completion.

QUSG-CEN-DEE-

10/11-26

Dr. Farid

Touati 2010 -2011

13,500

USD

Real-time wireless monitoring and

control of Renewable Energy PV

stations

Industrial Funded Research

Project Industry

Name Faculty Name Amount Period

Design of a Wide Area Monitoring System

(WAMS) using Synchronized Phasor

Measurement Units (PMUs) for Qatar Power

Transmission System

Kahramaa

Dr. Khaled

Ellithy & Dr.

Tamer Khattab

900,000

USD Pending

170

Project Industry

Name Faculty Name Amount Period

Designing of Highly Efficient Power

Amplifiers for Communication industry

Sultan

Qaboos

University

Dr. Farid

Touati (Co-PI)

18,000

USD

2010 -

2011

Wireless biotelemetry system for real time

healthcare monitoring

Sultan

Qaboos

University

Dr. Farid

Touati (Co-PI)

14,500

USD

2010 -

2011

171

D. Publications


EE

Author Paper Title Journal Title

Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Abbes

Amira

Artificial Neural Network-

Statistical Approach for

PET Volume Analysis and

Classification

Journal of

Advances in Fuzzy

Systems

1-12,

2012

Accepted

2012

Abbes

Amira

FPGA-based

Implementation of

Constructing Feature

Vectors for Face

Recognition using DWT

Springer Journal of

Real-time Image

Processing –

Special Issue Real

Time Biometrics

and Secure Media

Accepted

1-Sep-11

Atif Iqbal

Simple Carrier Based

PWM Technique for a

Three-to-Nine Phase

Direct AC-AC Converter

IEEE Transaction on

Industrial

Electronics

10-

1617-TIE null

Atif Iqbal

Space vector PWM

technique for a three to

five-phase matrix

converter

IEEE Tran. On Ind.

Appl Vol. 48

Mar/Apr

2012

pp.

697-

707

Atif Iqbal

Quasi Z-source inverter

based

grid interactive PV

generation system with

maximum power tracking

control using ANFIS

IEEE Trans. On

Sustainable Energy

Paper ID

00222-

2011

Year 2012

Atif Iqbal

Transforming three-phase

to seven-phase supply

using transformer

connection

IEEE Trans. On

Energy Conversion

172

EE


Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Atif Iqbal

Z-source inverter

simulation and harmonic

study

Global Journal of

Advanced

Engineering

Technology

vol. 1,

issue Year 2012

pp. 5-

9

Atif Iqbal

Analysis of discontinuous

space vector PWM

technique

for a seven-phase voltage

source inverter

Int. journal of

Power Elect. And

Drives IJPEDS

vol. 2,

no. 2 Jun-12

Atif Iqbal

Fuzzy Logic based MPPT

Controllers for Three

Phase Grid

Connected Inverters

Int. Journal of

Sustainable Energy,

Manuscript

ID gSOL-

2011-

0031

Year 2011

Atif Iqbal

Direct Duty ratio based

PWM control

of a five-phase matrix

converter supplying five-

phase two-motor drive

system

Australian Journal

of Electrical

& Electronics Eng.

Year 2011

Atif Iqbal

Space Vector Pulse Width

Modulation Scheme for a

seven phase voltage

source inverter

Int. journal of

Power Electronics

and Drives System

(IJPED)

vol. 1,

NO. 1 Sep-11

pp. 7-

20

Atif Iqbal

Generalised Simulation

and Experimental

implementation of space

vector PWM techniques

of a three-phase voltage

source inverter

Int. Journal of

Engineering,

Science and

Technology (IJEST)

vol. 2,

no. 1

pp. 1-

12

173

EE


Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Boualem

Boashash

A Methodology for Time-

Frequency Image

Processing Applied to the

Classification &

Localization of Non-

stationary Multichannel

Signals with Treatment of

EEG Signals

EURASIP, Journal

on Advances in

Signal Processing

2012:11

7 May 2012 1-74

Boualem

Boashash

A nonparametric feature

for neonatal EEG seizure

detection based on a

representation of pseudo-

periodicity

Medical

Engineering &

Physics, Elsevier

34 May 2012 437-

446

Boualem

Boashash

Image fusion based

contrast enhancement

EURASIP Journal on

Image and Video

Processing

- May 2012

Boualem

Boashash

Efficient phase estimation

for the classification of

digitally phase modulated

signals using the cross-

WVD: a performance

evaluation & comparison

with the S-transform

EURASIP Journal on

Advances in Signal

Processing

2012:65 March

2012 1-22

Boualem

Boashash

Time-Frequency

Distributions based on

Compact Support Kernels:

Properties and

Performance Evaluation

IEEE Transactions

on Signal

Processing

PP,

Issue: 99

March

2012

Boualem

Boashash

Evaluation of the

modified-S transform for

time-frequency synchrony

analysis & source

localization

EURASIP Journal on

Advances in Signal

Processing

2012:49 Feb. 2012 1-53

174

EE


Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Boualem

Boashash

Estimating the Number of

Components of a

Multicomponent

Nonstationary Signal

Using the Short-Term

Time-Frequency Renyi

Entropy

EURASIP Journal on

Advances in Signal

Processing

2011:12

5 Dec. 2011 1-11

Boualem

Boashash

A Time-Frequency

Approach For EEG Spike

Detection

Iranica Journal of

Energy &

Environment, 2011

2 Nov. 2011 390-

395

Farid

Touati

Wireless healthcare

monitoring system with

ZigBee communication

link support

The Int. J.

Networking and

Virtual

Organizations

(IJNVO)

Dec. 2011 1-6

Farid

Touati

STUDY OF THE EFFECTS

OF DUST, RELATIVE

HUMIDITY AND

TEMPERATURE ON SOLAR

PV PERFORMANCE IN

DOHA: COMPARISON

BETWEEN MONO-

CRYSTALLINE AND

AMORPHOUS pvs

Int. Journal of

Green Energy 9 May. 2012 1-10

Khaled

Ellithy

Design of Decentralized

Fuzzy Logic Load

Frequency Controller

International

Journal of

Intelligent Systems

and Applications

4 March

2012 66-75

Mazen

Hasna

Performance Analysis of

Relay Assignment

Schemes for Cooperative

Networks with Multiple

Source Destination Pairs

IEEE Transactions

on Wireless

Communications

Vol. 4,

Issue 1 2011

166 -

177

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.qu.edu.qa/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7693


175

EE


Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Mazen

Hasna

Joint Statistics of Partial

Sums of Ordered

Exponential Variates and

Performance of GSC

Receivers over Rayleigh

Fading Channel

IEEE Transactions

on Wireless

Communications

Vol. 59,

Issue 8 2011

2241

-

2253

Mazen

Hasna

A Diversity Compression

and Combining Technique

Based on Channel

Shortening for

Cooperative Networks

IEEE Transactions

on Wireless

Communications

Vol. 11,

issue 2 2012

659 -

667

Nader

Meskin

Fault Detection and

Isolation of Distributed

Time-Delay Systems

IEEE Transactions

on Automatic

Control

Vol. 54 9-Nov-11 2680-

2685

Nader

Meskin

Robust Fault Detection

and Isolation of Time-

delay Systems Using a

Geometric Approach

Automatica Vol. 45 9-Jun-11 1567-

1573

Nader

Meskin

Nonlinear Fault Diagnosis

of Jet Engines by using a

Multiple Model-based

Approach

Journal of

Engineering for Gas

Turbines and

Power

134 Jan 2012

Rashid

Alammari

HARTLY TRANSFORM FOR

SYMMETRICAL

COMPONENTS

MEASUREMENT IN A

POWER SYSTEM

Applied

Mathematical and

Computational

Sciences

3 Aug. 2011 141-

150

Ridha

Hamila &

Mazen

Hasna

Estimation of highly

selective channels for

downlink LTE MIMO-

OFDM system by a robust

neural network

Journal of

Ubiquitous Systems

and Pervasive

Networks

Vol. 2,

No. 1 2011

31 -

38



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EE


Volume

/

Number

Publication

Date Pages

Tamer

Khattab

Statistical Analysis of

Electromagnetic Field

Inside a Jet Engine Using

the Reverberation

Chamber Approach

Progress In

Electromagnetics

Research M

24 March

2012

157-

165


EE. Dept.

Author Book Title/Chapter Publisher ISBN

Publication

Date

Link

Nader

Meskin

Fault Detection and

Isolation: Multi-

Vehicle Unmanned

Systems

Springer

978-1-

4419-

8392-3

February

2011

http://www.sprin

ger.com/engineeri

ng/robotics/book

/978-1-4419-

8392-3

Atif Iqbal

High Performance

Control of AC Drives

with

Matlab/Simulink

Models-Wiley

Wiley

978-0-

470-

97829-0

April 2012

http://eu.wiley.co

m/WileyCDA/Wile

yTitle/productCd-

0470978295.html

Conference Papers

Author(s) Paper Title Conference Venue Date

Abbes

Amira

An Embedded System for on

Field Testing of Human

Identification Using ECG

Biometric

the 11th International

Conference on

Information Sciences,

Signal Processing and

their applications

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/book/978-1-4419-8392-3





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Abbes

Amira

A Wireless Reconfigurable

System for Falls Detection


Conference on



their applications

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

Abbes

Amira

High Level Prototyping and

FPGA Implementation of the

Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

Algorithm


Conference on



their applications

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

Abbes

Amira

FPGA Optimized 3-D Cyclic

Convolution Using Dynamic

Partial Reconfiguration


Conference on



their applications

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

Abbes

Amira

Rapid Prototyping of three-

dimensional transform for

Medical Image Compression


Conference on



their applications

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

Abbes

Amira

Generic Virtual File Systems

for Reconfigurable Devices

The 2012 IEEE

International Symposium

on Circuits & Systems

(ISCAS)

Seoul,

Korea May-12

Abbes

Amira

Improved Performance of

Guided Wave Ultrasonic

Testing for Long Rang

Inspection of Pipelines using

Multi-Channel Systems

Proceedings of the 3rd

International Gas

Processing Symposium

Doha,

Qatar Mar-12

Abbes

Amira

Neuro-Fuzzy Based

Approach for Analyzing 3D

PET Volume

Fourth International

Conference on

Developments in

eSystems Engineering

(DeSE ’2011)

Dubai,

UAE Dec-11

178


Abbes

Amira

PET Volume Analysis Based

on Committee Machine for

Tumor Detection and

Quantification


Conference on

Developments in

eSystems Engineering

(DeSE ’2011)

Dubai,

UAE Dec-11

Ahmed

Massoud

Unified power flow

controller for low voltage

ride through capability of

wind-based renewable

energy grid-connected

systems

Systems, Signals and

Devices (SSD), 2011 8th

International Multi-

Conference, IEEE

Sousse,

Tunisia Jun-11

Ahmed

Massoud

Dc-link capacitor voltage

balancing for a five-level

diode-clamped active power

filter using redundant

vectors

Universities Power

Engineering Conference

(AUPEC)

Australia Nov.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

Simplified Generic On-line

PWM Technique for Single

Phase Grid Connected

Current Source Inverters

APEC 2012, IEEE

conference USA

March

2012

Ahmed

Massoud

An Inter-Line Dynamic

Voltage Restorer for Voltage

Sag mitigation

PEIA 2011, IEEE

conference Qatar

Nov.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

PV Array Modeling Using

Matlab/Simulink

PEIA 2011, IEEE

conference Qatar

Nov.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

Comparative Evaluation of

Four Quasi-Square Wave Fed

Multiphase Induction

Machines

IECON 2011, IEEE

conference Australia

Nov.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

Assessment of Fault Ride-

Through Capability of Grid-

Connected Brushless DFIG

Wind Turbines

IET renewable power

generation conference

RPG, 2011

UK Sept.

2011

179


Ahmed

Massoud

Compensator for Low

Voltage Ride Through

Capability of Wind Energy

Systems

IET renewable power


RPG, 2011

UK Sept.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

Single Phase Grid Connected

Current Source Inverter:

Mitigation of Oscillating

Power Effect on the Grid

Current

IET renewable power


RPG, 2011

UK Sept.

2011

Ahmed

Massoud

Flywheel Energy Storage

System Based on Boost DC-

AC converter

IET renewable power


RPG, 2011

UK Sept.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Carrier Based PWM

Technique with Over-

Modulation Strategies for a

Three-to-Seven Phase Matrix

Converter

Australian Universities

Power Engineering

Conference (AUPEC)-

2011

Australia Sept.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Incipient Bearing Fault

Detection for Three-Phase

Brushless DC Motor Drive

using ANFIS

8th IEEE Symposium on

Diagnostic of Electrical

Machines, Power

Electronics and Drives,

Italy Sept.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Model Predictive Control of

a Three-to-Five phase Matrix

Converter

Workshop on Predictive

Control on power

Electronics and Drives

Germany Oct.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Model Predictive Control of

a three to five phase matrix

converter

Workshop on Predictive

Control on power

Electronics and Drives

Germany Oct.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Artificial Neural Network

based Space vector PWM of

a five-phase Voltage source

inverter

Workshop on Power

Electronics in Industrial

applications and

renewable energy

Qatar Nov.

2011

180


Atif Iqbal

Selective Harmonics

Elimination for A Three-Level

Diode Clamped Five-Phase

Inverter Based on Particle

Swarm Optimization

IEEE Industrial

Electronics Conference

(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

A Simple Modulation

Scheme for a Regenerative

Cascaded Matrix Converter

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Carrier Based PWM

Technique for a Three-to-Six

Phase Matrix Converter for

Supplying Six-phase Two-

motor Drives

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Sensorless Direct Torque

Control of Five-Phase

Induction Motor Drives

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Carrier Based PWM

Technique for a Three-to-Six

Phase Matrix Converter for

Supplying Six-phase Two-

motor Drives

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Selective Harmonics

Elimination for A Three-Level

Diode Clamped Five-Phase

Inverter Based on Particle

Swarm Optimization

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Sensorless Direct Torque

Control of Five-Phase

Induction Motor Drives

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

Atif Iqbal

Predictive Simultaneous

Power and Current Control

in a Three-phase Direct

Matrix Converter

IEEE Industrial


(IECON 2011

Australia Nov.

2011

181


Atif Iqbal

Comparison Study between

a Simple Sensorless Method

and Adaptive Observer for

DTC-SVM Five-Phase

Induction Motor Drive

IEEE International

conference on Industrial

Technology (ICIT)

Greece March

2012

Atif Iqbal

Modeling and Controller

Design of Quasi-Z-Source

Inverter with Battery based

Photovoltaic Power System

IEEE Energy Conv.

Congress ECCE 2012 USA

Year

2012

Atif Iqbal

Artificial Intelligence

Based Fault Diagnostics of

Induction Machines for

Industrial Applications

Int. Conf. on Electrical

Engineering Algeria May-12

Lazhar Ben-

brahim Electric Drives for LNG Plants

Proceedings of the 3rd

International Gas

Processing Symposium

Doha,

Qatar

March-

12

Mazen

Hasna

Area Spectral Efficiency of

Infrastructure-Relay

Enhanced Single-Cell

Wireless Systems

Proceedings of the 2011

IEEE Pacific Rim

Conference on

Communications,

Computers and Signal

Processing (PacRim)

Year

2011

Mazen

Hasna

Performance Analysis of

Selective Cooperation in

Underlay Cognitive

Networks over Rayleigh

Channels

IEEE 12th International

Workshop on Signal

Processing Advances in

Wireless

Communications

(SPAWC)

Year

2011

Mazen

Hasna

Exposure Assessment to

WiFi Access Points by

Simulations and

Measurements


International Conference

on Electromagnetics in

Advanced Applications

(ICEAA)

Year

2011

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Mazen

Hasna

”Two Way Opportunistic

MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc

Networks


IEEE GLOBECOM

Year

2011

Mazen

Hasna

Analysis of Cell Spectral

Efficiency of Infrastructure

Relay-Enhanced Cellular

Systems



Wireless

Communications and

Signal Processing (WCSP)

Year

2011

Mazen

Hasna &

Ridha

Hamila

Performance Analysis of SEC

Based Transmit Diversity

Systems with MRC Receivers

Proceedings of the IEEE

Computing,

Communications, and

Applications Conference

(ComComAp)

Hong

Kong

Februar

y 2012

Mazen

Hasna &

Ridha

Hamila

Modified Alamouti decoding

for highly selective channels

for LTE systems.

11th International

Conference on

Information Science,


their Applications (ISSPA

2012)

Montreal

, Canada

July

2012

Mazen

Hasna &

Ridha

Hamila

Performance Evaluation of

Farrow Interpolator in LTE

Downlink Channel

Estimation Using Universal

Software Radio

The 2nd International

Conference on

Communications and

Information Technology

Hamma

met,

Tunisia

May

2012

Mazen

Hasna &

Ridha

Hamila

Dynamic Optimization of LTE

Pilot Scattering Based on

Channel Estimation

", IEEE International

Conference on Computer

and Information Sciences

(ICCCIS 2012)

Kulala

Lampur,

Malaysia

May

2012

Mohammed

Al-Hitmi&

Farid Touati

Effects of Dust, Humidity and

Temperature on Solar PV

Performance: Comparison

Between Mono-Crystalline

and Semi-Flexible PVs

The First International

Conference on

Renewable Energies and

Vehicular Technology

(REVET 2012)

Hamma

mat,

Tunisia

Mar-12











183


Mohammed

Al-Hitmi&

Farid Touati

Towards Understanding the

Effects of Climatic and

Environmental Factors on

Solar PV Performance in Arid

Desert Regions (Qatar) for

Various PV Technologies

World Renewable Energy

Congress, Indonesia,


on Renewable Energy

and Energy Efficiency

Bali,

Indonesia Oct-11

Mohieddine

Benammar

Multiple Sensor Fault

Diagnosis For Non-Linear

and Dynamic System by

Evolving Approach

IEEE PHM-2012

Prognostics and System

Health Management

Conference

Beijing,

China May-12

Mohieddine

Benammar

Design of a Digital Pleural

Drainage System

The 6th International

Conference on

Bioinformatics and

Biomedical Engineering

(iCBBE 2012)

Shanghai,

China May-12

Mohieddine

Benammar

Design of Qatar University's

First Solar Car for Shell Eco-

marathon Competition


Conference on

Renewable Energies and

Vehicular Technology

(REVET 2012)

Hamma

met,

Tunisia

March-

12

Nader

Meskin

Intervention in Biological

Phenomena Modeled by S-

Systems: A Model Predictive

Control Approach

IEEE American Control

Conference

San

Francisco

, USA

Jun-11

Nader

Meskin

Fault Detection and Isolation

of Linear Impulsive Systems

IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control Shanghai Dec-11

Nader

Meskin

Parameter Estimation of

Biological Phenomena

Modeled by S-systems: An

Extended Kalman Filter

Approach

50th IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control and

European Control

Conference, 2011

184


Nader

Meskin

Output-Feedback Model

Predictive Control of

Biological Phenomena

Modeled by S-Systems

American Control

Conference

Montreal

, Canada Jul-12

Ridha

Hamila

Enhanced Alamouti

Decoding Scheme for DVB-

T2 Systems in SFN Channels

Proc. of the 22nd IEEE

Personal Indoor Mobile

Radio Communications

(PIMRC 2011)

Toronto,

Canada

Septem

ber

2011

Ridha

Hamila

On the Detection and

Estimation of Correlated

Signal Using Circular

Antenna Arrays

2011 International

Conference on

Communications and


(ICCIT 2011)

Aqaba,

Jordan

March

2011

Ridha

Hamila

Effect of high-velocity

scenarios on the

performance of MIMO LTE

packet scheduling

8th International Multi-

Conference on Systems,

Signals and Devices (SSD

2011)

Sousse,

Tunisia

March

2011

Ridha

Hamila

Advanced packet scheduling

for efficient video support

with limited channel

feedback on MIMO LTE

downlink

IEEE GLOBECOM 2011

(GC Wkshps)

Houston,

USA

Decem

ber

2011

Ridha

Hamila

A Threshold-Based

Opportunistic MAC Protocol

for MIMO Wireless Sensor

Networks

Fifth International

Workshop on Sensor

Networks (SN2012) in

conjunction with the


on Computer

Communication

Networks (ICCCN 2012)

Munich,

Germany

July

2012

185


Ridha

Hamila

Cloud-Ready Biometric

System for Mobile Security

Access, The Fourth

International Conference on

Networked Digital

Technologies (NDT 2012)

CCIS 294 Dubai,

UAE 2012

Ridha

Hamila

Modeling and compensation

of frequency-dependent I/Q

imbalance in multiple

beamforming OFDM

transceivers

11th International

Conference on

Information Science,


their Applications (ISSPA

2012)

Montreal

, Canada

July

2012

Ridha

Hamila

Digital Baseband

Compensation of Frequency-

Dependent Joint TX/RX I/Q

Imbalance in Beamforming

MIMO OFDM

IEEE International

Conference on

Communications (ICC

2012)

Ottawa,

Canada

June

2012

Patents

Authors Patent Title Patent

Number

Filing

Date

Publication

Date Status

Patent

Office

Mohieddine

Benammar

Apparatus & method for

monitoring the volume & rate

of air drained from a body

GB

1208433

.1

May

2012 Pending

UK

Patent

Lazhar Ben-

brahim &

Mohieddine

Benammar

Apparatus for the

determination of the angle

from sine/cosine transducers

GB

2447901

(B)

1 June

2011 Granted

UK

Patent

Lazhar Ben-

brahim &

Mohieddine

Benammar

PLL Type Resolver To 360

Degrees Linear Converter

Apparatus

GB

2448350

(B)

1 June

2011 Granted

UK

Patent

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E. Seminars and Public Lectures

Conference and Workshop Organization

Event Location Date EE Committee

Members(s)

Nature of

contribution

11th International

Conference on Information

Science, Signal Processing

and their Applications

(ISSPA)

Montreal,

Canada

2-5 July

2012

Prof. Boualem

Boashash (1)

Dr. Abbes Amira (2)

General

Chairman

Co-Chair,

Tutorials

2012 POWER-GEN Middle

East conference

Doha,

QATAR

6-8

February

2012

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar

Dr. Rashid Alammari

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Advisory

Board

Members

Session Chairs

2012 International

Conference on Electrical

and Computer Systems

(ICECS'12)

Ottawa,

Ontario,

Canada,

22-24

August

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar

Scientific

Committee

Member

The 3rd Gas Processing

Symposium 2012

Doha,

Qatar

4-7

March

2012

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar

Steering

Committee

Member

PEIA 2011 Workshop on

Power Electronics in

Industrial Applications and

Renewable Energy

Doha,

Qatar

3-4

Novembe

r 2011

Dr. Atif Iqbal , Prof.

Lazhar Ben-brahim,

Dr. Ahmed Massoud,

Dr. Nasser Al-Emadi

Co-Chair

(4) Local

Committee

Members


Conference on Networked

Digital Technologies

(NDT’2012)

Dubai, UAE

April

2012 Dr. Ridha Hamila

TPC

member

Second International

Conference on

Communications and


(ICCIT 2012)

Hammame

t, Tunisia

June

2012 Dr. Ridha Hamila Track Chair

187


Members(s)

Nature of

contribution


on Localization and GNSS

(ICL-GNSS 2012)

Munich,

Germany

June

2012 Dr. Ridha Hamila TPC member

The International


Processing and Wireless

Systems (IP-WiS)

Sousse,

Tunisia

March


Scientific

Chair


on Information Technology

and e-Services,

Sousse,

Tunisia

March

2012. Dr. Ridha Hamila TPC member


on Current Trends in


(CTIT 2011)

UAE 10/2011 Dr. Ridha Hamila TPC member


on Localization and GNSS

(ICL-GNSS 2012),

Munich,

Germany

June

2012 Dr. Ridha Hamila TPC member

The IEEE 4th Asia

Symposium on Quality

Electronic Design (ASQED

2012)

Penang,

Malaysia

10/07/20

12 Dr. Abbes Amira

Chair of the

Electronic

Design

Automation

Track

The Eighth IEEE Workshop

on Embedded Vision

Providence

, RI, USA

16/06/20

12 Dr. Abbes Amira

Member of

the Steering

Committee

Special Session on Multi-

phase Motor Drives at IEEE

IECON-2011

Melbourne

, Australia

7-10

Novembe

r 2011

Dr. Atif Iqbal

Special

Session

Organizer and

Session Chair

Special Session Organizer

on Sensorless Motor

Drives at EPE-PEMC 2012

Novi Sad,

Serbia 7/9/2012 Dr. Atif Iqbal

Special

Session

Organizer

188


Members(s)

Nature of

contribution

Conference on Emerging

trends in Mechanical and


Lucknow,

India.

12-13

June,

2012

Dr. Atif Iqbal

Technical

Committee

Member

2012 IEEE International

Conference on Smart Grid

Engineering

Oshawa,

Ontario 8/ 2012 Dr. Khaled Ellithy

Member of

Technical

Program

Committee

IEEE International

Conference on

Communications (ICC)

2012

Canada 06/2012 Dr. Tamer Khattab TPC member

IEEE Wireless

Communications and

Networking Conference

(WCNC) 2012

France 04/2012 Dr. Tamer Khattab TPC member

International Conference Attendance

Event Location Date EE Attendees Nature of

participation

11th International


Science, Signal Processing

and their Applications

(ISSPA)

Montreal,

Canada

2-5 July

2012

Prof. Boualem Boashash

Dr. Abbes Amira

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Students Yomna

Bahnasy and Nuha Saad

Papers

Presenters

The 6th International

Conference on

Bioinformatics and

Biomedical Engineering

(iCBBE 2012)

Shanghai,

China

17-20

May

2012

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar

Student Mohammed

AlSa’d

Paper

Presenter

189


participation


Conference on Renewable

Energies and VEhicular

Technology (REVET 2012)

Hammamet,

Tunisia

26 to

28

March

2012

Dr. Farid Touati

Student Nasser Alnunu

Paper

Presenter

50th IEEE Conference on

Decision and Control and

European Control

Conference

Florida, USA

Decem

ber 10th

to 16th

2011

Dr. Nader Meskin

Cosmo Oil Training Japan

22nd

Feb to

1st Jan

- 2012

Prof. Lazhar Ben-brahim

Dr. Farid Touati

Dr. Ahmed Massoud

Dr. Nasser Al-IEmadi

Participants

IEEE – IECON 2011 Australia

Novem

ber 7th

to 10th

2011

Dr. Atif Iqbal Participant

ISCAS 2012 Korea

May

20th to

23rd

2012

Dr. Abbes Amira Participant

ISSPIT Conference Spain

Novem

ber 7th

to 10th

2011

Prof. Boualem Boashash

Indonesia Intl Conference

on Renewable Energy and

Energy Efficiency

Bali,

Indonesia

Oct

10th to

14th

2011

Dr. Farid Touati Paper

Presenter

3rd International

Renewable Energy

Congress 2011

Hammamat,

Tunisia

March

26th to

28th

2012

Prof. Lazhar Ben-Brahim

190


participation

IEEE International

Conference on

Communications

Ottawa,

Canada

June

10th to

15th

2012

Dr. Ridha Hamila Paper

Presenter

4th International

Conference on networked

Digital Technologies

Dubai, UAE

April

24th to

26th

2012

Dr. Ridha Hamila Paper

Presenter

Renewable Power

Generation Conference

Edinburgh,

UK

Sep 6th

to 8th

2011

Dr. Ahmed Massoud

Cigre Conference Paris,

France

August

26th to

31st

2012

Dr. Khaled Ellithy

International

Telecommunication Union

Connect Arab Summit

5-7

March

2012

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Seminars Delivered at QU

Seminar Date Speaker Affiliation

Implementation of Renewable Energy and

Fuel Cells as a Back-up Generation for the

Australian National Broadband Network

27th Nov 2011 Prof. Akhtar

Kalam ……..

Smart Grid & Energy Conservation-Towards

Sustainable Energy Supply in Qatar 17th Nov 2011

Dr. Hossam

A. Gabbar ……..

Health Monitoring, Diagnosis, and

Prognosis of Industrial Gas Turbines

27th October

2011, GPC

Dr. Nader

Meskin QU

Civil Aviation Seminar – New Doha

International Airport (NDIA) Aviation

System

May 28th 2012 Eng. Samina

Razaq

ELEC 299

Seminar – Dr.

Nasser Al-Emadi

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Workshops and Local Events

Event Location Date EE Attendees

QITCOM 2012 Qatar 5-7 March 2012 Dr. Ridha Hamila

Dr. Atif Iqbal

4th European Telecommunications

Standard Institute TC ITS Workshop

Doha,

Qatar

7-9 February


Everything Mobile Workshop, Sharq

Village

Doha,

Qatar

February, 2nd


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F. Other Activities

Consultancy

Faculty Name Client/Industry Provided

Service(s)

Prof. Mohieddine Benammar RasGas (Industrial Electronics Co-Chair) Consultancy

Prof. Lazhar Ben-Ibrahim RasGas (Industrial Electronics Co-Chair) Consultancy &

Training

Dr. Mazen Hasna Courts, QUWIC, Qtel Consultancy

Dr. Ridha Hamila Courts & Qtel Consultancy

Dr. Tamer Khattab QUWIC & Qtel

Dr. Ahmed Massoud Qatar Standards & Metrology Dept. Courts

Dr. Rashid Al Ammari Courts Consultancy

Dr. Nasser Al Emadi Courts Consultancy

Dr. Khaled Ellithy Kahramaa

Services to the Profession

Faculty Name Service(s) to the Profession

Prof. Mohieddine

Benammar

Reviewing Papers

Acting in Conference Committees (see Conf. and Workshop

Organization Section)

Prof. Boualem

Boashash

Reviewing Papers

Adjunct Professor and Advisor, Perinatal Research Centre, Centre for

Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Australia



Editor of Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier

Guest Editor of Special Issue, Eurasip, Springer

Prof. Lazhar Ben-

Ibrahim

Reviewing Papers

PhD examination/supervision

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Dr. Rashid

Alammari

Reviewing Papers



Dr. Khaled Ellithy

Reviewing Papers



Member of Editorial Board Members-International Journal (EEEIJ), ISSN

2200-5846, http://wireilla.com/engg/eeeij/.

Dr. Farid Touati

Reviewing Papers

Associate Editor of: 1) IST Transactions of Biomedical Sciences and

Engineering, 2) IST Transactions of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Reviewing Papers



Editorial Board: Signal Processing Journal. The Scientific World Journal

published by the Hindawi Publishing Corporation



Dr. Abbes Amira

Reviewing Papers



Dr. Ahmed

Massoud

Reviewing Papers



Dr. Nasser Al-

Emadi



Dr. Mazen Hasna Affiliated with two research centers

Dr. Tamer Khattab

Reviewing Papers



http://wireilla.com/engg/eeeij/

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Dr. Atif Iqbal

Reviewing Papers



Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor of: Journal of Computer

Science, Informatics and Electrical Engineering, SJI, USA.

Editorial Board Member, Int. Journal of Science Engg. & Tech. and

IManager. Journal of Electrical Engg., Int. Journal of Power Electronics

Converter (IJPEC), Int. Journal of Power Electronics and Electric Drives

(IJPED) and Int. Journal of Power Electronics and Energy (IJPEE).Int.

Journal of Engineering Science & Technology

Dr. Nader Meskin Reviewing Papers

Dr. Fadi Jaber Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Outreach Activities

Event Date EE Organizer

EE Open Day: The event aimed at strengthening

outreach efforts and communication between

faculty, students, industry and community

representatives. The function was honored by the

presence of Dr. Sheikha Jaber Al-Thani, Vice

President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Mohsen

Guizani, Associate Vice President for Research and

Graduate Studies, Dr. Mazen Hasna, Dean of the

College of Engineering, and several press and

industry representatives. A large number of male

and female high school students, students from

training centers of various oil companies and

parents of prospective students also attended the

function. Several potential employers such as

Malomatia, Kahramaa, Siemens, QAFAC, QChem, Al-

Seef, Techno-Q, Doha Cables were also present in

the open day to interact with the students.

20th October

2011

EE Faculty, Staff and

Students

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Event Date EE Organizer

Student Field Visit to Ras Abu Fontas 11th December

2011 Dr. Atif Iqbal

Student Field Visit to NCC, 21st December

2011 Dr. Khaled Ellithy

Student visit to Kahramaa 10th December

2011 Dr. Atif Iqbal

Student visit to QEWC Ras Abu Fontas 11th December

2011, Dr. Atif Iqbal

Visit to Aljazeera Network Feb 21 2012 Dr. Abbes Amira

Visit to Aljazeera Network 29th November

2011 Dr. Abbes Amira

Visits to RasGas, Bi-weekly basis

(average)

Prof. Lazhar Ben-

brahim

Visit to Al Wakra Independent Secondary School December 12th,

2011

Prof. Mohieddine

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Dr. Rashid Alammari

Eng. Mohamed

Elsayed

Al Resala Independent Secondary School for Girls,

Judging Committee of research projects

23rd and 26th of

April 2012

Dr. Rashid Alammari

Dr. Ridha Hamila

Faculty Major Achievements

The Self-Study Report (SSR) of the Electrical Engineering Program has been selected to be

included in a display of well-prepared SSRs two years in a row (2011 and 2012 !) at the

annual ABET Symposium in USA. This was a great privilege as our SSR was one of 45 self-

studies from all four ABET commissions on display (from institutions all over the world), and

is one of only two models selected for the electrical engineering programs. The criteria for

selection were designed to identify well-written and organized Self-Studies.

The 2010/11 state incentive award in the field of pure and applied science is won by Dr.

Rashid Alammari, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering for his outstanding

achievements in the field of Electrical Engineering. The award carries a prize money of QR.

150,000 (US$ 41200), a gold medal and an appreciation certificate.

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Our Faculty and Teaching Assistants deservedly won the College of Engineering Research

Award (Prof. Boualem Boashash), Teaching award (Dr. Khaled Ellithy), and the Teaching

Assistant Award (Eng. Sijoy Raphael) for 2011-12.

Our team, again, has been successful in securing many NPRP and UREP research grants in

this year. In particular, Dr. Nader Meskin has distinguished himself by securing funds for 3

NPRP projects (as LPI) in Cycle 5 !

Dr. Khaled Ellithy and Dr. Tamer Khattab have secured a significant contract with Kahramaa

to carry out a feasibility study.

A significant contract has been signed with the Kahramaa and Siemens to fund a three-year

Chair Position in Energy Efficiency. An excellent candidate has been identified to fill this

position and join the department in January 2013.

During this academic year, Dr. Ahmed Massoud was promoted to the rank of Associate

Professor. Dr. Atif Iqbal and Dr. Mazen Hasna have also applied for promotion to the same

rank; their applications are with external referees.

Prof. Boualem Boashash (Research Award) and Eng. Sijoy Raphael (TA Award) honored by the Dean

at the End of Year Event of the College of Engineering.

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G. Students’ Activities

The 2011 graduates of the Electrical Engineering Program, Samer Said and Eng. Osama El-

Kahlout secured the first place in PES T&D 2012 student poster competition held in Orlando

(USA) recently. The paper and poster which is based on their graduation project "Design of a

Power System Stabilizer Based on Microcontroller for Power System Stability Enhancement"

supervised by Dr. Khaled Ellithy competed with 80 other posters, most of them by MSc.

Students from USA. The award consists of certificate of achievement and a cash prize of

$1500.

EE Students Mohammed Al-Saad and Monther Ghafel won the first place at the annual

engineering competition for design projects recently held in Dubai. Their graduation project,

“Design of a Digital Pleural Drainage System” supervised by Prof. Mohieddine Benammar

has won a cash prize of QR. 20000 as well. The competition was held under the secretariat

of the GCC Council. This project proposed a novel electronic and automated system for

measuring/archiving blood and air drained from cardio-thoracic surgery patients. The

project was carried out in collaboration with The Heart Hospital of Hamad Medical

Corporation. This project resulted also in a paper presented in The 6th International

Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2012) in Shanghai China

(May 2012). The paper was presented by Student Mohamed AlSaad.

Media coverage of the Senior Design Project that won the 2012 GCC Engineering Design Competition

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During the last Qatar University Research Forum (QURF 2011), Students Nasser Alnunu and

Sami Al-shorman have received the best poster award for their work on designing a solar car

for Shell Eco-marathon competition. This work resulted also in a paper presented in The

First International Conference on Renewable Energies and VEhicular Technology (REVET

2012) in Tunisia (March 2012). The paper was presented by Student Nasser Alnunu.

Student Nasser Alnunu receiving QURF best poster award.

A team of EE students has designed and assembled an Electric car for the Shell Eco

marathon Competition. The participation of the male and female students was on voluntary

basis. This team participated in the Asia Competition in Malaysia (July 2012). The team

successfully competed against more than twenty teams from various countries for the most

energy-efficient car. Our car was ranked 10 with 136 km/kWh. This is a great result for our

team who is new to this competition.

Website: http://www.qu.edu.qa/gernas_team/

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/QUECOM2011

http://www.qu.edu.qa/gernas_team/

http://www.facebook.com/QUECOM2011

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Our Electric car and team that participated in Shell Eco-marathon Asia in Malaysia (July 2012)

Results

Alwatan Newspaper coverage of the participation in Shell Eco marathon competition in Malaysia (12 July

2012).

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Department of

Mechanical and

Industrial Engineering

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This annual report covers 2011-2012 academic year for the

Mechnical and Industrial Engineering Department (MIE). As one

of the founding departments of College of Engineering (CENG),

Qatar University, Qatar, MIE is an established engineering

department whose traditions are deeply rooted in excellence.

With staff strength of over 20 full-time faculty members and

teaching assistant, the department is the largest Mechanical

and Industrial Engineering Department in the State of Qatar.

The department offers B.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering

as well as Industrial and Systems Engineering. The department

started postgraduate studies (MSc and PhD) in the field of Mechanical engineering.

Part of that process entails expanding vertically by offering graduate research programs,

improving the foundation of its unique laboratory facilities, redesigning its educational programs

for tomorrow's challenges, contributing to national endeavors, cementing the connection with

its alumni, and deepening cooperation with industry.

Our team of committed and dedicated staff members continues to make us proud as they strive

for excellence as evident by the strong representation of some of our faculty on the Editorial

Boards of well-reputed international journals. In terms of research output, MIE department

ranks among the best in the State of Qatar in both quality and quantity of publications. Our staff

members have won, and continue to win, prizes internationally including the British Invention

Show, Best Paper Award from Emerald UK.

As a department, we have strong international research links with universities in many

countries, including the National University of Singapore, Rutgers University, University College

of London, Texas A & M University, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto,

National University of Malaysia, University Putra Malaysia, Sheffield Hallam University,

Dalhousie University, among others.

I hope that the annual report will provide you with a useful information about the work carried

out at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department on the year 2011-2012 and the

work we do.

Saud Ghani, PhD Head, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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Table A1: Summary

2011-2012


Faculty 14


Support Staff 3

Total 26


Enrolment ISE Program : Fall 2011

Spring 2012

138

138

Enrolment: ME Program: Fall 2011

Spring 2012

130

107

Graduate Program

Master Program Enrollment

Research

UREP 6

NPRP 3

Start Up Grants 3

University Internal Grants 2

Student (QU) Grants 6

Industry Funded Research 3

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Academic Staff



Year

Saud Ghani

Associate Professor

and Head of

Department

Thermofluids, CFD, Experimental

Fluid Mechanics and Flow

Visualization, Biomedical

Engineering.

2008

Abdel Magid

Hamouda

Professor and

Associate Dean for

research and

Graduate Studies

Engineering Materials and Design ,

Manufacturing Processes,

Computational, Crashworthiness,

Accident reconstruction,

Mechanics and AI in Engineering.

2006

Abdelwahab

Aroussi

Professor and GPC

director

Experimental and Computational

Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics,

Heat Transfer as well as

Instrumentation.

2010

Taher Khan Professor and Qatar

Petroleum Chair

Materials Engineering, Advanced

Materials 2012

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Year

Dinesh Seth Associate Professor

Industrial Engineering, Absorption

and adoption of Quality and

productivity management, lean

management practices, and Supply

chain management

2011

Ameer Al-

Salem Associate Professor

Operation Research; Sequencing

and Scheduling 1990

Mohamed Al-

Khawaja Associate Professor

MHD Flows, Heat Exchangers, Gas

Turbines, and Thermal Insulations 1993

El-Sadig Mahdi Associate Professor

Composite Materials, Nano

composite, Design of composite

UAV, Finite element simulation,

Mechanical design, stress analysis,

and impact mechanics

2008

Shaligram

Pokharel Associate Professor

Logistics and supply, energy

planning and project management 2010

Khalifa Al-

Khalifa Assistant Professor

Industrial Engineering Applications,

Total Quality Management, Road

Traffic Accident , Quality Control,

and Design of Experiments

1991

Mohamed Al-

Qaradawi Assistant Professor

Modal analysis, health diagnosis,

and damage detection 1990

Fatih Mutlu

Assistant Professor,

ISE program

coordinator

Supply Chain Management ,

Transportation and Logistics

Management

2009

W. Jong Yoon Assistant Professor

Design of Active Steering System,

Imaged-based Biomedical Devices,

Human Computer Interface,

Micro/Meso Sensors and

Actuators, and Smart Materials

2009

205


Year

Farayi

Musharavati Assistant Professor

Manufacturing Systems &

Optimization, Genetic Algorithms,

Neural Networks, Simulated

Annealing, Supply Chain

Management, Simulation

Modeling, and Renewable Energy

2008

Samer F.

Ahmed Assistant Professor

Combustion and Emissions,

Alternative Fuels, Internal

Combustion Engines, Carbon

Capture technologies

2011

Adel Elomri Assistant Professor

Operations and Service

Management, Competition and

Cooperation in Supply Chains,

Applied Game Theory, and

Sustainable Supply Chains

2011

206




Year

Jayant Benurwar Teaching Assistant

Mechanical Testing of Materials,

Metallography of metals and

alloys, Research in Metallurgical

Engineering, and Failure

Investigation.

1992

Samer Abdel-

Azim Teaching Assistant

Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics,

Mechanical Design, Control and

Finite Element Analysis.

2003

Waleed Mukahal Teaching Assistant,

assistant dean

Ergonomics, Operations Research,

Work methods and

Measurements, Simulation, and

Project Management.

2009

Asma Hamad Teaching Assistant Production Planning and Project

Management 2005

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Year

Salim Mohandes Teaching Assistant Mechanical Mechanisms,

Mechanical Design, and Vibrations 2001

Pratheesh Ben Teaching Assistant Air-Conditioning/Refrigeration

Systems and Pipeline Engineering 1998

Rania Marouf Teaching Assistant Ergonomics and Facility Planning. 2004

Shaima Ali Al-

Quaradaghi Teaching Assistant

Graphic Design, Facility Layout,

Project Management, and

Ergonomics

2009

Enas Faris Teaching Assistant Probability and statistical control,

reliability of systems 2010

Ranees

Muhammed Lab Engineer

Thermofluids, fluid mechanics and

heat transfer 2009

Yehia Al-Saeed Workshop

technician Precision Assembly 1986

George Rajan Workshop

technician Machining and turning 1992

Iyad Abdel Qadir Workshop Engineer Workshop management 2012

Mohamed Kamal Lab technician Materials, failure analysis and

corrosion 2011

Najwan Jabr Administrative

Assistant MIE administrative assistant 2005

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Curriculum Committee

Chair: Dr. Saud Ghani

Members: Dr. Dinesh Seth, Dr. El-Sadig Mahdi, Dr. Fatih Mutlu, Dr. W. Jong Yoon, Dr. Farayi

Musharavati, Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Eng. Pratheesh Ben, Eng. Enas Fares

Graduate Studies And Research Committee

Chair: Dr Fatih Mutlu

Members: Dr. Saud Ghani, Dr. Abdel Magid Hamouda, Dr. Abdelwahab Aroussi, Dr. Ameer Al-

Salem, Dr. Shaligram Pokharel


Chair: Dr. Shaligram Pokharel

Members: Dr. Saud Ghani, Dr Fatih Mutlu, Dr. Farayi Musharavati, Dr. Samer F. Ahmed, Dr. Adel

Elomri

Promotion Committee


Members: Dr. Mohamed Haouari, Dr Dr. Abdel Magid Hamouda, Dr. Abdelwahab Aroussi, Dr.

Ameer Al-Salem

Recruitment Committee


Members: Dr. Fatih Mutlu, Dr. Khalifa Al-Khalifa, Dr. Sadok Sassi

Students Committee

Chair: Dr. Jong Woon

Members: Dr. Adel Elomri, Dr Fatih Mutlu Dr. Sadok Sassi, Dr. El-Sadig Mahdi, Eng Enas Fares,

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Master Degree in Engineering Management

The Engineering Management (EM) program is designed to prepare professionals for the Qatari

industrial world at levels higher than those requiring an undergraduate degree, and at the same

time it will prepare them for doing advanced research. The structure of the EM program is

unique as it helps the engineers become a more effective technical specialist and strengthens its

ability to lead people and projects. Four students managed to pass their master project as

illustrated in Table A5.

Table A4: Students’ Projects

Name Title Supervisor Year

Ahmed Bassam

Alkharraz

Facility location and layout: A Case

from a Major Oil and Gas Company in

Qatar Dr. Adel Elomri 2012

Chamakh Ould

Mohamed

Lemine

Application of Lean Management

Principles in context to the central

warehouse of Qatar Steel Company

Dr. Dinesh Seth 2012

Saleh Akkela

Centralization and Decentralization of

Supply Contract Management for

Industrial Construction Projects

Dr. Fatih Mutlu 2012

Bashar Hassna Evaluation of OPEX Cost in Well

Intervention

Dr. Shaligram

Pokharel 2012

Master and PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Both programs started in Fall 2012. Currently, there are seven MSc and two PhD candidates.

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D. Research



Dr. Aroussi, (UREP 11 - 154 - 2 – 059) Design and Build a Wind Turbine for Micro-Generation in

Qatar, $57,500.00

Dr. Al Khawaja, UREP grant from QNRF (2012-2013) under the title of “Implementation,

Demonstration, and Promotion of Ground Coupled Cooling Systems

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, Design and Fabrication of Automated Cost Effective Composite Repair

System For Oil/Gas Pipelines, UREP 10 - 053 - 2 – 015.

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, Design and Manufacture of a New Spinning Tool for Inner Grooved Tube

Manufacturing, UREP 10 - 083 - 2 – 026.

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, Development of Large Diameter Reinforced Composite Pipe with High

Pressure for Natural Gas Transportation, UREP 11 - 077 - 2 – 021.

Dr. Fatih Mutlu, UREP 10-092-5-028: Using Lean Principles and Process Analysis Techniques to

Reduce Congestion in Out Patient Departments, Primary Faculty Member

Dr. Adel Almori, UREP: UREP 12 - 071 - 2 – 033: Sustainable Supply Chain Coordination

Dr. Farayi Musharavati, UREP Grant 7th Cycle , UREP 07-122-2-035 Simulation Modeling and

Analysis for Performance Improvement of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Hamad Hospital

Dr. Farayi Musharavati, UREP Grant 9th Cycle , UREP 09-076-2-020 Optimization Initiatives for

Improving Operating and Energy Efficiency at Qatar Electricity and Water Company

Dr. Farayi Musharavati, UREP Grant 9th Cycle , UREP 09-078-2-021 Sustainability of Natural Gas

Processing Operations and Facilities Through Cleaner Production, Process Optimization and

Optimal Production Operation Strategies

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Dr. Aroussi and Dr. Saud Ghani, Qatar Gas, Experimental Investigation of the effect of

thermodynamic and kinetic inhibitors, performance for Qatari Natural Gas, $300,000


Dr. El-Sadig Mahdi, NPRP 5 - 1425 - 2 - 607 Development and surface interaction study of Low-

Fouling Nano-filtration Membranes for Desalination $1,000 000

Dr. El-Sadig Mahdi, High-Performance Biodegradable Composites From Qatari Date Palm Waste,

NPRP 5 - 068 - 2 – 024, $927,742.34.

Dr. El-Sadig Mahdi, Novel Multi-Functional Composite Sandwich Panel, NPRP 5 - 1298 - 2 – 560,

$1,009,921.00.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Lead-PI for Research Grant valued at USD 742,000 for “Development of a

comprehensive analytical logistics model for planning and management of disaster related

emergency situations” (NPRP 5 - 200 - 5 – 027) (PI-Prof. Jose Holguin-Veras- RPI/USA, PI – Dr.

Fatih Mutlu/Qatar University, Co-PI – Dr. Dinesh Seth/Qatar University) September 2012-June

2015.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Lead PI for Research Grant valued at USD 726,000 for “Analysis and

design of closed loop low carbon supply chains” (NPRP 5 - 1284 - 5 – 198) (PI-Saif Benjafaar-

SUTD/Singapore, PI-Dr. Fatih Mutlu-Qatar University, Dr. Adel Elomri- Qatar University)

September 2012-June 2015.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Co-Lead PI for Research Grant valued at USD 512,000 for “Cutting-Edge

Optimization for Modern, Consumer-Focused Retailing” (NPRP 5 - 591 - 5 – 082) (Lead PI- Bacel

Maddah—American University of Lebanon, PI—Ahmed Ghoneim – University of

Massachusetts/Amherst/USA) September 2012-June 2015.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, PI for Research Grant valued at USD 991,440 for “Development of

Design and Operation Support System For Risk-Based Energy Conservation and Supply

Management of Industrial and Societal Facilities” (NPRP 5 - 209 - 2 – 071) (Lead PI- Prof. Hossam

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Gaber—University of Ontario Institute of Technology/Canada, Co-Lead PI- Dr. Farayi

Musharavati—Qatar University) September 2012-June 2015.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Co-PI for Research grant valued at USD 629,000 for “A Framework for

Upstream Natural Gas Supply Chain Design: LNG Distribution Network” (NPRP 4 - 453 - 5 – 059)

(Lead PI- Dr. Fatih Mutlu and other Co-PIs: Dr. Hakan Yildiz/Michigan State University, Prof.

Ramamoorthi Ravi/Carnegie Mellon University): April 2012-May 2015. Funded by Qatar National

Research Fund.

Dr Fatih Mutlu, NPRP 4-453-5-059: A Framework for Upstream LNG Supply Chain (ongoing from

4th cycle) - co-LPI, LPI

Dr Fatih Mutlu , NPRP 4-631-2-233: Center for Quality, Reliability, and Maintainability

Engineering - (on going from 4th cycle) - co-PI

Dr Fatih Mutlu , NPRP 5-1284-5-198: Analysis and Design of Closed Loop Low Carbon Supply

Chains - PI

Dr Fatih Mutlu, NPRP 5-200-5-027: Development of a comprehensive analytical logistics model

for planning and management of disaster related emergency situations - PI

Dr Fatih Mutlu , NPRP 5-364-2-142: Integration of Statistical Process Control and Automatic

Process Control for Multistage Processes -co-PI

Dr Jong Woon, Lead PI, “Integrated Bio-Sensors And Automated Instrumentation For Early

Stomach Cancer Detection Using Flexible Capsule Endoscope”, NPRP 4 - 049 - 2 - 021, US

$1,035,523

Dr Jong Woon, Co-Lead PI, “Development Of Smart Minimum Invasive Surgery Tools With Tactile

Sensing Capabilities For Telerobot Surgery System”, NPRP 4-368-2-135, US $1,018,554

Dr Jong Woon, Co-Lead PI, “Blindness In Eastern Arabia: An Engineering Solution” NPRP 5 - 457 -

2 – 181, US $ 1,039,176

Dr Farayi Musharavati, NPRP 5th Cycle NPRP 5 - 209 - 2 – 071 Development of Design and

Operation Support System For Risk-Based Energy Conservation and Supply Management of

Industrial and Societal Facilities

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Dr Farayi Musharavati, NPRP 5th Cycle NPRP 5 ‐ 423 ‐ 2 ‐ 167 Advanced ultra‐hard

Nanostructured coatings for innovative applications in mechanical and chemical industries

Dr Farayi Musharavati, NPRP 5th Cycle NPRP 5-161-2-053 Application of Innovative

Geometric Patterns in Solar Water Desalination

Dr Farayi Musharavati, NPRP 4th Cycle NPRP 4 - 631 - 2 - 233 Center for Quality, Reliability

and Maintainability Engineering

Startup Grants

Dr. Adel Al Omri (50,000 QAR)

Dr. Samer Fikri (50,000 QAR)

University Internal Student’s Grants

Dr. Dinesh Seth, university grant project in the areas of lean management applications. The

value of the proposal is 10,000 QAR ( QUST-CENG-SPR 12 – 19).

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, Repair To Offshore Steel Risers With Fiber Reinforced Composites.

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, Design and Development of a QU formula student Racing Car.

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Lead PI for Research grant valued at Qatar Riyal 115,000 for “Analysis

and Modeling of Energy Consumption in Commercial Sector”, QUUG-CENG-DIE-11/12-4 (June

2012- May 2014). (Co-investigators: Dr. Fatih Mutlu, Dr. Dinesh Seth, Dr. Adel Elomri, Dr. Farayi

Musharvati.)

Dr. Shaligram Pokharel, Lead PI for Research grant valued at Qatar Riyal 88,900 for “Investigation

of information technology and systems use for business service in logistics companies in Qatar”,

QUUG-ENG-MIE-10/11-11 (April 2011- March 2012). (Co-investigators: Dr. Fatih Mutlu and Dr.

Farbod Zorriassatine.)

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Dr Fatih Mutlu, . QUUG-ENG-DCE-10/11-15: Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Contract Design

Mechanisms Between Shippers and Carriers in a Business-to-Business Setting and Benchmarking

the Industry Practices in Qatar, Key PI.

Dr Fatih Mutlu, QUUG-CENG-DIE-11/12-4: Analysis and Modeling of Energy Consumption in

Commercial Sector, PI.

Dr Jong Woon, “Design and Development of an Arabic Speech-Controlled Multifunction Toilet-

friendly Wheelchair “, QUST-ENG-MIE-10/11-21, QR 32,400

Dr Farayi Musharavati, QU Student Grant QUST-ENG-MIE-10/11-24 Design and

development of an Optimal LPG Distribution Network for the State of Qatar

Dr Farayi Musharavati, QU Student Grant, QUST-ENG-MIE-10/11-25 Analysis, Assessment

and Evaluation of Wave Energy Resource Potential for Qatar

Dr Farayi Musharavati, QU Research Grant, QUUG-ENG-MIE-10/11/17, Dynamic Analysis of lean

Systems and their Applications in the Oil and Gas Industry

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E. Publications


Park, M., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Elsayed, E. A., “Economic Cost

Models of Integrated APC Controlled SPC Charts.” International Journal of Production Research,

Vol. 50, No. 14, 3936–3955, July 2012. Impact Factor (0.83)

KS Tun, NJ Minh, QB Nguyen, AM Hamouda, M Gupta, Investigation on the Mechanical

Properties of Mg-Al Alloys (AZ41 and AZ51) and Its Composites, Metals 2 (3), 313-328, 2012.

E. Mahdi, A.M.S. Hamouda, Energy absorption capability of composite hexagonal ring systems,

Materials & Design, Volume 34, February 2012, Pages 201-210. Impact Factor (2.20)

S Seetharaman, J Subramanian, M Gupta, AS Hamouda, Influence of Micron-Ti and Nano-Cu

Additions on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Pure Magnesium, Metals 2 (3),

274-291, 2012.

J Subramanian, Z Loh, S Seetharaman, AS Hamouda, M Gupta, Microstructure and Mechanical

Properties of Mg-5Nb Metal-Metal Composite Reinforced with Nano SiC Ceramic Particles,

Metals 2 (2), 178-194, 2012.

E. Mahdi and A.M.S. Hamouda. Crushing Behavior of Composite Hexagonal Ring System. Applied

Mechanics and Materials Vols. 110-116 (2012) pp 444-450.

MK Habibi, H Pouriayevali, AMS Hamouda, M Gupta, Differentiating the mechanical response of

hybridized Mg nano-composites as a function of strain rate, Materials Science and Engineering:

A, 545, 2012, 51-60. Impact Factor: 2.23

Habibi, M.K., Qian, M., Hamouda, A.S., Gupta, M. Differentiating the mechanical response of

hierarchical magnesium nano-composites as a function of temperature, Materials and Design,

42, 2012, 102-110. . Impact Factor: 2.20

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Mohamed, A.S., Sapuan, S.M., Megat Ahmad, M.M.H., Hamouda, A.M.S., Hang Tuah Bin

Baharudin, B.T., Modeling the technology transfer process in the petroleum industry: Evidence

from Libya, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 55, 2012, 451-470. Impact Factor: 1.346

Musharavati, F., Hamouda, A.M.S., Simulated annealing with auxiliary knowledge for process

planning optimization in reconfigurable manufacturing, Robotics and Computer-Integrated

Manufacturing, 28, 2012, 113-131. Impact Factor: 1.173

Musharavati, F., Hamouda, A.M.S., Enhanced simulated-annealing-based algorithms and their

applications to process planning in reconfigurable manufacturing systems, Advances in

Engineering Software, 45, 2012, 80-90. Impact Factor: 1.092

Habibi, M.K., Hamouda, A.M.S., Gupta, M. Enhancing tensile and compressive strength of

magnesium using ball milled Al+CNT reinforcement, Composites Science and Technology, 72,

2012, 290-298. Impact Factor (3.144)

M.A. Badie, E. Mahdi, A.M.S. Hamouda. An investigation into hybrid carbon/glass fiber

reinforced epoxy composite automotive drive shaft. Materials & Design, Volume 32, Issue 3,

March 2011, Pages 1485-1500. Impact Factor (2.20)

Pan, Y., Weng, G.J., Meguid, S.A., Bao, W.S., Zhu, Z.-H., Hamouda, A.M.S.: Percolation threshold

and electrical conductivity of a two-phase composite containing randomly oriented ellipsoidal

inclusions, Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 2011, 123715-1. Impact Factor 2.168 (2nd most

highly citied journal in physics).

Alam, M.E., Han, S., Nguyen, Q.B., Salem Hamouda, A.M., Gupta, M. Development of new

magnesium based alloys and their nanocomposites, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509,

2011, Impact Factor (2.289)

M. K. Habibi, M. Paramsothy, A.M.S. Hamouda and M. Gupta, "Using Integrated Hybrid (Al+CNT)

Reinforcement to Simultaneously Enhance Strength and Ductility of Magnesium", Composite

Science and Technology, Vol. 71, Issue 5, 734-741, 2011. Impact Factor (3.144)

M. K. Habibi, M. Paramsothy, A.M.S. Hamouda and M. Gupta, "Enhanced Compressive Response

of Hybrid Mg-CNT Nano-Composites", Journal of Material Science, Vol. 46, Issue 13, 4588-4597,

2011. Impact Factor (2.015)

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A.B. Ibitoye, A. M. S. Hamouda, R. S. Radin, and S. V. Wong, Developing an Alternative Guardrail

System for Exclusive Motorcycle Lanes, Epistemics in Science, Engineering and Technology Vol.1,

2011, 32- 43.

S Eslamian, B B Sahari, Aidy Ali, El-Sadiq Mahdi and A M Hamouda, Microscopic Study of 5083-

H321 Aluminium Alloy Under Fretting Fatigue Condition, Mater. Sci. Eng. 17, 1-11, 2011.

Y. J. Yin and T. I. Khan, “Effect of bonding time on microstructure and mechanical properties of

transient liquid phase bonded magnesium AZ31 alloy, Materials and Design, Vol.38, 2012, pp32-

37

R. Bakhtiari, A. Ekrami and T. I. Khan, “The effect of TLP bonding temperature on microstructural

and mechanical property of joints made using FSX-414 superalloy”, Materials Science &

Engineering A, Vol. 546, 2012, pp 291-300.

K. O. Cooke and T. I. Khan, “Transient liquid phase diffusion bonding Al-6061 using nano-

dispersed Ni coatings”, Materials & Design, Vol. 33, 2012, pp469-475

A. Mateen, F. A. Khalid, T. I. Khan and G. C. Saha, “Wear behaviour of HVOF sprayed WC-Co

coatings”, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 326, 2011, pp144-150.

A.Mateen, G. C. Saha, T. I. Khan and F. A. Khalid, “Tribological performance of HVOF sprayed

near nanocrystructured and microstructured WC-17%Co coatings, Surface & Coatings

Technology, Vol. 206, 2011, pp1077-1084.

K. O. Cooke and T. I. Khan, “Nanostructure particle-reinforced transient liquid phase diffusion

bonding, a comparative study”, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, Vol. 42, No.8, 2011,

pp2271-2277.

G. C. Saha, T. I. Khan and G. A. Zhang, “Erosion-corrosion resistance of microcrystalline and near-

nanocrystalline WC-17Co high velocity oxy-fuel thermal spray coatings”, Corrosion Science,

Vol.53, 2011, pp2106-2114

W. M. Elthalabawy, T. I. Khan, “Liquid phase bonding of 316L stainless steel to AZ31 magnesium

alloy”, Journal of Materials Science & Technol. Vol. 27 No. 1, 2011.



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U. Haq and T. I. Khan, “Tribological behavior of electrodeposited Ni-SnO2 nanocomposite

coatings on steel”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 205, 2011, pp2871-2875.

Al-Khawaja, Mohammed J., 2011, “Highly accurate solutions of a MFM square duct flow with

heat transfer”, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, ISBN: 978-3-639-31353-6, Saarbrucken, Deutschland.

M.A. Badie, E. Mahdi, A.M.S. Hamouda. An investigation into hybrid carbon/glass fiber

reinforced epoxy composite automotive drive shaft. Materials & Design, Volume 32, Issue 3,

March 2011, Pages 1485-1500.

E. Mahdi, A.M.S. Hamouda, Energy absorption capability of composite hexagonal ring systems,

Materials & Design, Volume 34, February 2012, Pages 201-210.

E. Mahdi and A.M.S. Hamouda. Crushing behavior of composite Hexagonal Ring System. Applied

Mechanics and Materials Vols. 110-116 (2012) pp 444-450.

A. Rauf, W.F. Bogaerts and E. Mahdi. Implementation of Electrochemical Frequency Modulation

to Analyze Stress Corrosion Cracking, CORROSION—Vol. 68, No. 3.

Faysal Fayez Eliyan , El-Sadig Mahdi and Akram Alfantazi, Electrochemical evaluation of the

corrosion behaviour of API-X100 pipeline steel in aerated bicarbonate solutions. Corrosion

Science 58 (2012) 181–191.

Rauf and E. Mahdi, Evaluating Corrosion Inhibitors with the Help of Electrochemical

Measurements Including Electrochemical Frequency Modulation, Int. J. Electrochem. Sci.,

7(2012)4673-4685.

A. Rauf and E. Mahdi, Comparison Between Electrochemical Noise and Electrochemical

Frequency Modulation Measurements during Pitting Corrosion. J. New Materials for

Electrochemical Systems. Volume 15 (2012) Number 2 107-112.

Liu, X., Li, J., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Hamouda, A. S., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Condition-based

Maintenance for Continuously Monitored Degrading Systems with Multiple Failure Modes,” IIE

Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, in print.

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Park, M., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Elsayed, E. A., “Economic Cost

Models of Integrated APC Controlled SPC Charts.” International Journal of Production Research,

Vol. 50, No. 14, 3936–3955, July 2012.

Park, M., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Elsayed, E. A., “Integrated

Process Control for Processes with APC Damping Controllers and SPC Charts,” revised and under

second review, International Journal of Production research.

Kim, J., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Park, M., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Elsayed, E. A., “ACUSUM

Charts with Adaptive Runs Rule,” submitted to the International Journal of Production Research,

June 2012.

Kim, J., Al-Khalifa, K. N., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Elsayed, E. A., “Multivariate Statistical

Process Control Charts based on the Approximate Sequential 2χ Test,” draft ready for

submission in Sept 2012.

Shaligram Pokharel, Yijiong Liang, 2012, A model to evaluate acquisition price and quantity of

used products for remanufacturing, International Journal of Production Economics, July, 138 (1):

170-176. IF: 1.76

A.M. Caunhye, Xiaofeng Nie, Shaligram Pokharel, 2012, Optimization models in emergency

logistics: A literature review, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, 46(1)4-13. (ISSN: 0038-

0121). IF: 0.279

Shaligram Pokharel, 2011, Stakeholders’ roles in virtual project environment: A case study,

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. 8 (2), 201-214. (ISSN: 0923-4748). IF: 1.032

The development of commercial wind towers for natural ventilation: A review Review Article

Applied Energy, Volume 92, April 2012, Pages 606-627, Ben Richard Hughes, John Kaiser Calautit,

Saud Abdul Ghani

A review of sustainable cooling technologies in buildings Review Article, Renewable and

Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 15, Issue 6, August 2011, Pages 3112-3120, Ben Richard

Hughes, Hassam Nasarullah Chaudhry, Saud Abdul Ghani

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Comparison between evaporative cooling and a heat pipe assisted thermal loop for a

commercial wind tower in hot and dry climatic conditions Original Research Article, Applied

Energy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 August 2012, John Kaiser Calautit, Hassam

Nasarullah Chaudhry, Ben Richard Hughes, Saud Abdul Ghani

A review of heat pipe systems for heat recovery and renewable energy applications Review

Article, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 16, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 2249-

2259, Hassam Nasarullah Chaudhry, Ben Richard Hughes, Saud Abdul Ghani

W. Jong Yoon, Matthew A. Brown, Per. G. Reinhall, Sangtae Park, and Eric J. Seibel, Design and

Preliminary Study of Custom Laser Scanning Cystoscope for Automated Bladder Surveillance,

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies (MITAT), 2012. DOI:

10.3109/13645706.2011.653374. (Impact Factor: 1.33)

Dr Adel Almori, Coalition Formation and Cost Allocation for Joint Replenishment Systems,

Production and Operations Management, April, 2012, 1.301

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Modeling Correlations in Age Hardenable Aluminum

Alloys, Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Volume 41(1-2) pp.

140-146, 2010

Modified Genetic Algorithms for Manufacturing Process Planning in Multiple Parts

Manufacturing Lines”, Expert Systems with Applications: an International Journal, Volume 38 (9),

pp.10770 – 10779, April 2011

Enhanced Simulated-Annealing-Based Algorithms and their Applications to Process Planning in

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems” Journal of Advances in Engineering Software, Volume

45(1) pp. 80-90, November 2011

Simulated Annealing with Auxiliary Knowledge for Process Planning Optimization in

Reconfigurable Manufacturing, Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing,

Volume 28 (2) pp. 113-131, March 2012

Advancing Service Operations: The Changing Role of Industrial Engineering, Industrial

Engineering and Management Journal, 1:102. doi:10.4172/2169-0316.1000102, September,

2012

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M. S. H AMOUDA; R. M. S OHAIMI, A. M. A. Z AIDI and S. A BDULLAH.: Materials and design

issues for military helmets; in Advances in military textiles and personal equipment, Edited by E.

Sparks, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2012.

Abdelwahab Aroussi and Farid Benyahia (2012), Proceedings of the 3rd Gas Processing ,

Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology ; ISBN-10: 0444594965; ISBN-13: 978-

Conference Papers

Liu, X., Hua, D., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Criticality for

Components with Multi-Dimensional Degradation,” 20th Industrial Engineering Research

Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-23, 2012.

Kim, J. Al-Khalifa, N. K., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. S. and Elsayed, E. A. “A LASSO-based

Multivariate Control Chart for Process Monitoring and Diagnosis,” 20th Industrial Engineering

Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-23, 2012.

Liu, X., Li, J., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “A Framework for

Condition-Based Maintenance Scheduling,” The Annual Reliability and Maintainability

Symposium, Reno, Nevada, January 23-26, 2012

G. Xu and A.M.S. Hamouda, Time-Domain Simulation of Second-Order Wave Diffraction in

Irregular Wave, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean,

Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2012 July 1-6, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

M. E. Alam, R. A. Rima, Q. B. Nguyen, A. M. S. Hamouda, and M. Gupta, “Effect of Ca addition on

the Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of AZ51/1.5 Al2O3 Magnesium Nanocomposite”,

141th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 11 March-15 March, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA.

K. Ahmed, A.M.S. Hamouda and M. Gadala.: Development of a Belt Conveyor Cooling System for

Concrete Aggregates, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering

Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2011).

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Liu, X., Li, J., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Availability Modeling

of Systems with Dependent Failure Modes,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC,

November 13-16, 2011.

Li, J., Liu, X., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Reliability Importance

Measures for Continuum System Structure with Correlated Degrading Components,” INFORMS

Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, November 13-16, 2011.

Kim, J., Park, M. , Jeong, M .K., Hamouda , A. M. S., K. N. Al-Khalifa , K. N., Elsayed, E. A.,

“Detecting the Time and the Magnitude of a Step Change on Univariate Process,” INFORMS


Liu, X.., Li, J.., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Condition-Based

Maintenance for Systems with Dependent Failure Modes,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research

Forum, Doha, Qatar, Nov 20-22, 2011.

Kim, J., Park, M., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A.,

“Multivariate Two-stage Scheme for Mean Shift Detection,” Nineteenth Industrial Engineering

Research Conference, Reno, Nevada, May 21-25, 2011.

Park, M., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A., “Integration

of SPC and APC for Shift Detection and Control,” Nineteenth Industrial Engineering Research

Conference, Reno, Nevada, May 21-25, 2011.

Kim, J., Park, M., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A., “Two-stage

Model for Small Mean Shifts Detection,” Qualita 2011, Angers, France, March 23-25, 2011.

M. S. Hamouda and M. Gupta, “Development of High Performance and Light Weight Magnesium

based Nanocomposites”, IIUM Engineering Congress (IEC’11), 17-19 May, 2011, Malaysia

(Keynote Speaker: A. M. S. Hamouda).

M. E. Alam, A. M. S. Hamouda, S. Han, Q. B. Nguyen and M. Gupta, “Development of New AZ51

Magnesium alloy and its Al2O3 Nanocomposite”, International Conference on Advances in

Materials & Processing Technologies (AMPT’ 11), 13-16 July, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

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M.E Alam; S. Han; A.M.S. Hamouda; Q. Nguyen; M. Gupta, Development and Characterization of

New AZ41 and AZ51 Magnesium Alloys, Magnesium Technology, Book Editors, Wim H. Sillekens,

Sean R. Agnew, Neale R. Neelameggham, and Suveen N. Mathaudhu, Wiley, April 2011.

G. Xu, A.M.S. Hamouda, and B.C. Khoo.: Numerical simulation of fully nonlinear sloshing waves

in 3D tank under random excitation, The 2011 World Congress on Advances in Structural

Engineering and Mechanics, 18-22, September, 2011, 3957-3975.

G. Xu, A.M.S. Hamouda, and B.C. Khoo.: Wave Propagation in a 3D Fully Nonlinear Numerical

Wave Tank Based on MTF+DZ Method, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on

Ship Hydrodynamics, 16-19, September, 2011, 250-254.

M. Park, J. Kim, M.K. Jeong, A.M.S. Hamouda, K.N. Al-Khalifa, E.A. Elsayed Two-stage Model for

Small Mean Shifts Detection Proceedings of QUALITA 2011 Conference, Angers, France, March

2011

M. Park, J. Kim, M.K. Jeong, A.M.S. Hamouda, K.N. Al-Khalifa, E.A. Elsayed Integration of

Statistical Process Control and Automatic Process Control Proceedings of QUALITA 2011

Conference, Angers, France, March 2011

A Aroussi (2011), Development of a portable Low Power Desalination System, 1st International

Conference on Desalination and Environment, October 2011 Abu Dhabi UAE

C Flesia and A Aroussi (2012), Accuracy of alert systems to detect environmental disasters based

on remote sensing satellite observations., Third International Gas Processing Symposium, March

2012 , Qatar.

A Benamor, A Baharun, U Z M. Noor, M K Aroua, and A Aroussi, (2012), Absorption of Carbon

Dioxide into Piperazine Activated Diethanolamine Solutions, Third International Gas Processing

Symposium, March 2012 , Qatar.

A Benamor, M K Aroua, and A Aroussi, (2012), Kinetics of CO2 Absorption Into Aqueous Blends

of Diethanolamine and Methyldiethanolamine, Third International Gas Processing Symposium,

March 2012 , Qatar.

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A Benamor, M, A Aroussi, H Abdesslem and H. H. Masjuki , (2012), Performance of a Solar

Assisted Heat Pump Using Different Refrigerants, International Conference on Applications And

Design In Mechanical engineering, (ICADME 2012), 27-28, February, Penang, Malaysia 2012.

A Benamor and A Aroussi , (2012), Modelling of CO2 Solubility in Aqueous Solutions of DEA,

MDEA and Their Mixtures Using Different Mathematical Models- A Comparative Study, ICEEC

2012

A Benamor and A Aroussi , (2012), Simulation and Analysis of Naphtha Catalytic Reforming

Reactor, CPRP-2012

G. C. Saha, T. B. Mahmud and T. I. Khan, “Strain hardening of heat treated nanostructured WC-

17CO coatings and their sliding wear behaviour”, To be presented at the ASME 2012

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2012), Housten, Texas, 9-15

November, 2012 [Paper No. IMECE2012-89525].

T.I.Khan, “Diffusion bonding of dissimiliar alloys” INVITED KEYNOTE, International Conference on

Welding Technologies & Exhibition, 23-25th May 2012, Ankara, Turkey.

T.I.Khan, “Nanostructured Coatings”, INVITED KEYNOTE, 24th Canadian Materials Science

Conference, University of Western Ontario, Canada, June 2012

G. C. Saha and T. I. Khan, “Study of strain hardening effect on wear resistance of microcrystalline

and nanocrystalline WC-17wt.%Co HVOF coatings”, Presented at the ASME 2011 International

Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, 11-17 November, 2011

[Paper No. IMECE2011-64118]

M. A. Farrokhzad and T. I. Khan, INVITED KEYNOTE paper, “High temperature oxidation

behaviour of nickel based electrodeposited nanostructured cermet coatings”, Conf. Proc. 12th

International Symposium on Advanced Materials, 26-30 September 2011, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Dinesh Seth and Manjeet Pandey, ““Inventory optimization for restricted capacity system with

rhythmic production and cyclic replenishment”, ICIE-2011 ( 17 –19 November,2011)

Al-Salem, F. Farhadi, M. Kharbeche, A. Ghoniem, "Multiple-Runway Aircraft Sequencing

Problems using Mixed-Integer Programming," The Industrial and Systems Engineering Research

Conference , Orlando, Florida, 2012.

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G. Rabadi, G. Hancerliogullari, M. Kharbeche, A. Al-Salem, "Meta-heuristics for Aircraft Arrival

and Departure Scheduling on Multiple Runways, " The Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research Conference , Orlando, Florida, 2012.

Al-Salem , M. Kharbeche, S. Al-Haidous, F. Aansari, A. Ahmade, M. Daneshvar, "Linear Ordering

Formulations for the Arrival-departure Aircraft Scheduling Problem," 13th International

Conference on Project Management and Scheduling, Leuven, Belgium, pp 77–81, 2012.

M. Kharbeche, A. Ghoniem, H. Sherali, A. Al-Salem, "Enhanced Formulations for Aircraft

Sequencing over Multiple Runways, "INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2011

M. Kharseh, F. Hassani, M. Al Khawaja, "Ground Source Heat Pump and Energy Saving in Hot

Climate'', International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection, June 5-8,

2012, Dublin, Ireland.

M. Ghomshei1, F. Hassani1, M. Alkhawaja, A. Ghoreishi, M. Selmi, "Extraction of usable

geothermal energy from oil and gas wells: an environmental and economical analysis of deep

wells in Qatar'', BIT’s 2nd New Energy Forum, October 19-21, 2012, China.

M. Kharseh, F. Hassani, M. Al Khawaja, "The Feasibility of Shallow Geothermal Systems in Hot

Region'', ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 19-

15, 2012, Houston, Texas

Rauf and E. Mahdi. Surface damage caused by erosion-enhanced pitting corrosion of API-X52

steel used as oil and gas transportation pipeline material, Proceedings of the 3rd International

Gas Processing Symposium, March 5 - 7 2012 , Qatar.

Rauf and E. Mahdi. Comparison between API X-52 and X-100 steels for erosion-corrosion

degradation, NACE, August 17, 2011.

M. S. Gadala and Elsadig Mahdi, Inverse Heat Conduction Analysis of Cooling on Runout Tables –

Assessment of Recent Techniques, ICMIME 2012 : International Conference on Mechanical,

Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Switzerland in July 5, 2012.

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lslam, M., Farhat, Z. and Mahdi, E.(2012) Erosion and Corrosion of API Pipeline Steels in CO2 and

Saline Slurry Medium, Third Int. Symp. on Tribo-Corrosion, Atlanta, Georgia USA, April.

Islam, M., Farhat, Z. and Mahdi, E. (2012) Erosion-Corrosion and Synergistic Effects of API

Pipeline Steel under Jet Impingement, Third Int. Symp. on Tribo-Corr., Atlanta, Georgia USA,

April.

Islam, M., Farhat, Z. and Mahdi, E. (2012) A Study of Erosion by Solid Particle Impingement on

API Pipeline Steel, 3rd International Gas Proc. Symp., Qatar, March.

Islam, M., Farhat, Z. and Mahdi, E. (2012) Effect of Attach Angle and Velocity on Material

Removal in Wet Erosion of API Gas Pipelines, 3rd Int. Gas Proc. Symp., Qatar, March.

F. Hemmati, M. Y. Alqaradawi and M. S. Gadala, “Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Acoustic

Emission Technique and Wavelet Packet Transform”, International Conference on Electrical and

Computer Systems, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 August 2012

Liu, X., Hua, D., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Criticality for

Components with Multi-Dimensional Degradation,” 20th Industrial Engineering Research

Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-23, 2012.

Kim, J. Al-Khalifa, N. K., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. S. and Elsayed, E. A. “A LASSO-based

Multivariate Control Chart for Process Monitoring and Diagnosis,” 20th Industrial Engineering

Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-23, 2012.

Liu, X., Li, J., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “A Framework for

Condition-Based Maintenance Scheduling,” The Annual Reliability and Maintainability

Symposium, Reno, Nevada, January 23-26, 2012

Liu, X., Li, J., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Availability Modeling

of Systems with Dependent Failure Modes,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC,

November 13-16, 2011.

Li, J., Liu, X., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Reliability Importance

Measures for Continuum System Structure with Correlated Degrading Components,” INFORMS


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Kim, J., Park, M. , Jeong, M .K., Hamouda , A. M. S., K. N. Al-Khalifa , K. N., Elsayed, E. A.,

“Detecting the Time and the Magnitude of a Step Change on Univariate Process,” INFORMS


Liu, X.., Li, J.., Al-Khalifa, K., Hamouda, A. M., Coit, D. W. and Elsayed, E. A., “Condition-Based

Maintenance for Systems with Dependent Failure Modes,” Qatar Foundation Annual Research

Forum, Doha, Qatar, Nov 20-22, 2011.

Kim, J., Park, M., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A.,

“Multivariate Two-stage Scheme for Mean Shift Detection,” Nineteenth Industrial Engineering


Park, M., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A.,

“Integration of SPC and APC for Shift Detection and Control,” Nineteenth Industrial Engineering


Kim, J., Park, M., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A., “Two-

stage Model for Small Mean Shifts Detection,” Qualita 2011, Angers, France, March 23-25, 2011.

Park, M., Kim, J., Jeong, M. K., Hamouda, A. M. S., Al-Khalifa, K. N. and Elsayed, E. A.,

“Integration of Statistical Process Control and Automatic Process Control,” Qualita 2011, Angers,

France, March 23-25, 2011.

M. Park, J. Kim, M.K. Jeong, K.N. Al-Khalifa, A.M. Hamouda and E.A. Elsayed “An economic model

of the integrated process control” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November, 2010

Shaligram Pokharel, Aalieh A. Ahmade, Fajr A. Al-Ansari, Hana Al Allaf, Mina S. Daneshvar, A. M.

AbdelQadir (2012). Energy econometric modeling for policy analysis. Proceedings of the 6th

International Ege Energy Symposium & Exhibition June 28-30, 2012 Izmir, Turkey in CD, Qatar.

Fatih Mutlu, Shaligram Pokharel, Noura Gamel, Deema Bassem, Zena Fadel, Lama Al-Sarraj,

Fatima AlMadhoun (2012). Using Lean Principles and Process Analysis Techniques to Reduce

Congestion in Out Patient Departments, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference of the

European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI), June 24-27, 2012 in İstanbul, Turkey.

http://www.iese.edu/en/events/OtrosEventos/EDSI/Home/Home.asp

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Shaligram Pokharel, Aalieh A. Ahmade, Fajr A. Al-Ansari, Hana Al Allaf, Mina S. Daneshvar, A. M.

AbdelQadir (2012). Energy modeling for policy analysis. Proceedings of the 3rd International Gas

Processing Symposium, Eds. Abdelwahab Aroussi and Farid Benyahia. Doha: Gas Processing

Center, Qatar University, March 5 – 7 –in CD, Qatar.

Shaligram Pokharel and Liang, Y. (2011). Analysis of pricing of used products. INFORMS

Conference, Charlotte, NC, USA (November 2011)—Abstract produced.

A Method for Optimizing the Reconfiguration Design Task in Manufacturing Systems,

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations

Management Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 22 – 24 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9808251-0-7, pp. 603-

609

Cleaner Production Opportunities for Natural-Gas-Liquids Operations That Implement BATs

Within an Environmental Management Framework In Proceedngs of the 3rd International Gas

Processing Symposium, Volume 3 pp.50-57, Mrach 2012, Qatar.

Options for Excess Gas from LNG Operations and Facilities: Perspectives and Prospects Based on

a Case Study of an LNG Plant, In Proceedngs of the 3rd International Gas Processing Symposium,

Volume 3 pp. 358-365, Mrach 2012, Qatar.

A Neural Network Method for Managing an Integrated Water Resource, in International

Conference Proceedings of the Planetary Scientific Research Centre, ISBN: 978-93-82242-04-8,

pp. 131-134, July 2012, Thailand.

Process Planning with Embedded Scheduling for Multi-Parts Production in Reconfigurable

Manufacturing Systems, In International Conference Proceedings of the Planetary Scientific

Research Centre, ISBN: 978-93-82242-04-8, pp. 167-170, , July 2012, Thailand.

Simulation Modeling and Analysis of Water/Power Ratios for a Dual Purpose Water and Power

Production Plant, 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, (SET-

2012), ISBN: 0-9781236-1-2, pp. 1530-1540, September, 2012, Vancouver, Canada.

Perspectives on Sustainability in Natural-Gas-Liquids Operations Through a Cleaner Production

Framework”, 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, (SET-2012),

ISBN: 0-9781236-1-2, pp. 1541-1552, September, 2012, September, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

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Energy Savings Through Applications of Lean Manufacturing Principles, 11th International

Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET-2012), ISBN: 0-9781236-1-2, pp. 1553-

1564, September, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

Improving Operating Efficiency of Installed Capacity in a Power and Water Cogeneration Plant,

11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET-2012), ISBN: 0-9781236-

1-2, pp. 1520-1529, September, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

Towards an Integrated Value Optimizing Ecosystem in Natural Gas Liquids Operations and

Related Facilities, Poster presentation at the 11th International Conference on Sustainable

Energy Technologies (SET-2012), September, 2012, Vancouver, Canada.

Shaligram Pokharel and Mutha, A.K. (2011). Network modeling with uncertainty in returned

products. INFORMS Northeastern Regional Conference, Amherst, MA, USA (May 2011) –

Abstract produced.

Dr Fatih Mutlu, 1. "A Framework for Upstream Natural Gas Supply Chain Design: LNG

Distribution Network", Informs Annual Meeting 2011,November, 2011, Charlotte, NC, USA

Dr Fatih Mutlu, Using Lean Principles and Process Analysis Techniques to Reduce Congestion in

Out Patient Departments", EDSI Annual Meeting, June, 2012, Istanbul, TURKEY

Xianming Ye, W. Jong Yoon; Design of An Automated Cystoscope For Bladder Cancer

Surveillance, The Engineering & Urology Society, May 19, 2012, Georgia World Congress Center,

Atlanta, GA, Top 10 Abstracts Award.

Xianming Ye and W. Jong Yoon, Preliminary Design of a Bending Mechanism for Automated

Cystoscope, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

(CASE 2012), August 20-24, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

Carlos A. Velasquez, H. Hawkeye King, Blake Hannaford and W. Jong Yoon, Development of a

Flexible Imaging Probe integrated to a Surgical Telerobot System: Preliminary Remote Control

Test and Probe Design, Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics

and Biomechatronics. June 24-27, 2012 Roma, Italy

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Eric J. Seibel, Timothy D. Soper, Matthew R. Burkhardt, Michael P. Porter, W. Jong Yoon,

Multimodal flexible cystoscopy for creating co-registered panoramas of the bladder urothelium,

Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics VIII, edited by Nikiforos Kollias, et al., Proc. of SPIE Vol.

8207, 82071A (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.909035, presented on 21 – 26, January 2012

Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Carlos A Velasquez, Xianming Ye and, and W. Jong Yoon. Design of a Flexible Imaging Probe for

Robotics Surgery. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings: Vol. 2011, BMP9. DOI:

10.5339/qfarf.2011.bmp9

Xianming Ye, Carlos Velasquez and, and W. Jong Yoon. Design of Steering Mechanism for

Automated Cystoscopy. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings: Vol. 2011,

BMP3. DOI: 10.5339/qfarf.2011.bmp3

Adel Al Omri, Hedonic Coalition Structures In Supply Chain Games, MSOM, June, 2012, New York

USA

Gharib M. and Saud A. (2012) A Novel Impact Damper Consists of A Linear Chain of Particle.

Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

(IMECE2012), November 19–25, Houston, TX, Paper No. IMECE2012-86749

http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.909035

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Dr. Denish Seth, ASQC ( American society for Quality Control) local chapter,

“competitiveness with the deployment of six sigma”, 2012.

E. Mahdi, Composites for the petrochemical industry, Innovations in Materials Research for

Oil and Gas Applications, workshop organized by Mechanical and industrial Engineering

Department, Qatar University – New Library Building, 16th May 2012.

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G. Other Activities

Consultancy

Dr. Elsadig Mahadi and Saud Ghani, ORYX GTL Glass Fiber/Polyester Composite Elbow:

Failure Analysis. March 2012

Dr. Abdul Majed Hammouda and Dr. Saud Ghani, “an investigation into canopy geometry

aerodynamics”, ASPIRE

Dr. Saud Ghani, Dr Hammoda and Dr. Elsadig Mahadi, ASPIRE wind tunnel laboratory

Community Service

Dr. Saud Ghani, Dr. Elsadig Mahadi and Dr. Jong Woon all contributed to the starts of science

program (2011/2012)

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