Experience
Assistant Professor
(July 2010 – present)
Mechanical Engineering Department, KFUPM, Dhahran 31261, SA.
Chairman of the ME Dept. Faculty Search Committee.
Member of the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM.
Member of the ME Dept. Promoting & Industrial Relations Committee.
Member of the ME Dept. Strategic Planning Committee.
Graduate Research Assistant (Aug 2001 – May 2010)
Rotor Dynamics Laboratory, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA.
Member of the Rotor Dynamics Lab & Industry Affiliates Group
Authored, co-authored, and presented a number of research papers in the
field of Dynamics and Vibrations in Rotating Machinery.
Graduate Assistant (Aug 2000 – July 2010)
Mechanical Engineering Department, KFUPM, Dhahran 31261, SA.
Member of the Advanced Dynamics Laboratory
Member of the ME Dept. Public Relations Committee.
Vibrations Engineer Trainee (Dec 2000 – Feb 2001)
Engineering Equipment Est., Al-Khobar, SA.
Training includes marketing and servicing vibration measurement
equipment such as analyzers and sensors for several brands including CSI
and Matrix.
Engineer Trainee (Summer 1999)
Anadrill – Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Al-Khobar, SA.
Training includes operation and maintenance of
Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD), Logging-While-Drilling (LWD), and
Directional Drilling (DD) technologies for on-shore oilfield.