SHAKHAWAT CHOWDHURY, PhD, P. Eng. (Ont., Canada)
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and environmental Engineering
Water Research Group
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Phone: (+966-13)860-2560; Fax: (966-13)860-2879
Email: schowdhury@kfupm.edu.sa

      HIGHLIGHTS

 

  • Desalinated and Blended Water Quality
  • Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) in Desalinated Water, Drinking Water and Swimming Pools
  • Water Quality, Water Treatment and Emerging Pollutants
  • Human Exposure, Risk Analysis and Risk Control
  • Effects of Climate Change on Water Supplies
·  Multicriteria Decision Analysis

 

 

 
Education
 
PhD in Civil (Environmental) Engineering, 2009
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
 
Professional Position
 
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
 
Research Interest
 
  • Desalinated and Blended Water Quality
  • Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) in Desalinated Water, Drinking Water and Swimming Pools
  • Water Quality, Water Treatment and Emerging Pollutants
  • Human Exposure, Risk Analysis and Risk Control
  • Effects of Climate Change on Water Supplies
·  Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Funded Projects

  • Implications of Climatic Change on Virtual Water Content for Cattle Farms in Saudi Arabia (2015-2018: Principal Investigator)
  • Effects of water stagnation in plumbing system on human health risk from heavy metals in tap water (2015-2018: Principal Investigator)
  • Selecting dam locations for maximizing rainwater harvesting in Saudi Arabia (2013-2016: Principal Investigator)
  • Flood Modeling Using WMS Software:  A Case Study of Hafer Al-Baten City, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (2013-2016: Co-Investigator)
  • Multicriteria decision making for selecting drinking water treatment technology (2012-2014: Principal Investigator)
  • Management of water resources in Saudi Arabia (2011-2014: Principal Investigator)
  • Effects of climate change on water resources (2011-2014: Principal Investigator)
  • Model-Based Exposure and Risk Analysis for Disinfection Byproducts in Swimming Pool (2013 - 2015: Principal Investigator)
  • Power and water demand forecasting model development (2010 - 2012: Partially involved as a Co-Investigator)

Professional Memberships

  • Professional Engineers Ontario, Canada
  • The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh

Major Awards

  • NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada: (Partially availed)
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D3), The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Ontario Government, Canada (Declined)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Sci. & Technol. (OGSST), Canada
Course Teaching
  • Engineering Mechanics: Statics

  • Engineering Fluid Mechanics

  • Introduction to Environmental Engineering

  • Numerical & Statistical Methods in Civil Engineering

  • Senior Design Project Preparation

  • Environmental Engineering

  • Advanced Engineering Hydrology

  • Advanced Topics in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

  • Risk Analysis in Water Resources and Environmental Systems

  • Water Quality Modeling

 
    Research and Publications

Selected Research Projects

 

    Curriculum Vitae

 

 

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