Education

  Sep.1979-May 1984:   B.S. in Civil Engineering from King Fahd University of                Petroleum and Minerals
(KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

  Sep.1984-Jan.1988:     M.S. in Construction Engineering and Management, College of Environmental Design, KFUPM. M.S. Thesis: Optimization of the proposed irrigation water reservoir in Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia.  It includes data collection, modeling and sensitivity analysis..   

Feb.1988-May.1994:        Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from Civil Engineering Department at KFUPM.  Ph.D. Thesis.: The effect of signal coordination on intersection safety.  It includes data collection, development of hypothesis, regression analysis, model calibration, model modification and sensitivity analysis.