MAIN ADMIN ROLES

Beside serving on various committees and taskforces at the University of Southampton and University of Nottingham, I served as Head of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Previously known as the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering) at Qatar University from January 2017 to August 2023. The main activities and achievements, on the top of running the routine business of the department, are highlighted below:

• Initiation and Major role in the development of new programs in the department (Minor in Engineering Project Management and Concentration in Environmental Engineering) beside leadership in initiating and proposing the change of name of department to include Environmental Engineering.
• High quality dedicated effort in outreach of home students including the initiation and development of innovative Winter Camp and THE Award Winning Program of Engineer of the Future that won the Times Higher Education (THE) MENA Awards – Student Recruitment Campaign of the Year in November 2023. This is one of total 10 awards in various categories in Higher education from 270 entries submitted by higher institutions from 17 different countries in the region. Leadership and initiation of a unique comprehensive marketing campaign to attract home students to study Civil Engineering including the development of high quality video materials of short interviews with students and alumni for the use in communications with schools, presentations and in social media.
• Major role and effort in securing the 2023 ABET accreditation for the Civil Engineering undergraduate program beside major role and effort in the preceding internal reviews for undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
• Leadership and initiation of proposal of ISO-certification submitted to the Office of Research Planning and Quality at Qatar University. High contribution to the follow-up effort leading to the ISO-certification and recent re-certification as the first teaching department in QU pursuing such exercise.
• Initiation of the successful series of international conference in Civil Infrastructure and Construction, leading the communications for the first version in 2020, and chairing the organizing committee for the second version in 2023. Both attracted large number of audience, keynote speakers, executive speakers, government and local organizations, and professional institutions. Both conferences received the patronage of Prime Minister who attended the last version in 2023.
• Development of strong industrial interaction including the initiation and proposal to develop Ashghal Chair in the Department. Attracting of over 5.0M QAR to departmental activities.
• Maintaining of high level of interaction with media to disseminate outcomes of activities (including 2 interviews with Qatar TV and over 10 interviews/statements for local newspapers).
• Supporting the development of processes in the department to improve effectiveness and leading strong interaction with alumni and stakeholders that contributed positively to departmental progress in QS and Shanghai subject rankings.

I served in other roles and committees in Qatar University such as the Senior Design Project coordination of the Civil Engineering Program (August 2023- current), membership of the Civil Engineering program’s Curriculum Committee (September 2015- December 2016), and membership of Qatar University Senate (August 2016- December 2016).

I served in the following main roles before joining Qatar University:  

• Undergraduate Admissions Tutor of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, July 2010 – May 2013.
• Postgraduate Research Admissions Tutor for the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, January 2008 – August 2010.

MAIN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Chair of organizing committee, the International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2023), April 2022-Februrary 2023.
• Member of the Editorial Board for Transportation Geotechnics Journal, from February 2021-current.
• Member of organizing committee, the International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2020), February 2019-Februrary 2020.
• Director for the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), from July 2015- July 2019.
• Co-organiser of a conference session in ICSV on Road & Rail Traffic Noise & Vibration, held in UK from 23-27 July 2017.
• Co-organiser of a conference session in COMPDYN on Vibration induced by rail and road traffic, held in Greece from 15-17 June 2017.
• Co-organiser of a conference session in the EuroRegio 2016 congress, held in Portugal from 13-15 June 2016.
• Member of panel for Qatar’s underground infrastructure and deep foundation summit, 31 May – 3 June 2015, Doha, Qatar.
• Co-organiser of a conference session in COMPDYN on Vibration induced by rail and road traffic, Greece from 25-27 May 2015.
• Member of the railway vibration expert panel for the IOA branch meeting on the 13th of May 2013 in Nottingham.
• Co-organiser of a conference session in the 11th Biennial International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP-2013) in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 9 – 12, 2013.
• Organiser of a conference session in the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Nottingham from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July 2010.
• Member of the organising committee of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Nottingham from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July 2010.
• Chairman of sessions for the 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN) in July 2011.
• Chairman of sessions for the 16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration in July 2009.
• Chairman of sessions for the 14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration in July 2007.
• Reviewer for the following high-quality journals including:
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Engineering Structures
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
  • Applied Mathematical Modelling
  • Applied Acoustics