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Bahaa Elsharnouby, PhD
Dr. Elsharnouby has been a professor of harbour and marine engineering since 1995. He obtained his master's degree from McMaster University in 1980 and his PhD degree in 1984 from Western University. He has been involved in numerous marine projects dealing with harbour and coastal engineering for more than thirty years. He also participated in publishing scientific research articles and supervising many Master and PhD students. He registered for three patents related to shore protection and climate change. He handled hundreds of marine and coastal projects and specialized in planning, design, and supervision of coastal and harbour engineering. Examples of these projects include Gargoub commercial and military harbours, enhancing and development of Kuwait ports, shore protection of Alexandria shoreline , and environmentally friendly suspended breakwater for the Egyptian north coast of Egypt.
Rafik Nassif, M. Arch, OAA, AIBC, MRAIC
Rafik is a Principal Architect at Pylons Architecture, Vaughan, ON.
Rafik is a Registered Architect in both Ontario and British Columbia. He has a Master’s degree in Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering, and has over 20 years of practical experience in the field of architecture and construction in Canada and overseas, working with a number of consulting firms including Pylons Architecture, TDA design, WD Partners Inc., Design House, and ASH – CGES Inc.
Furthermore, Rafik has been running his own architectural practice for the past 5 years; working on a variety of residential, commercial and industrial projects.
In addition to his practical experience, Rafik has a long experience teaching the building code to design professionals of different backgrounds and mentoring intern architects through their licensure process.
Safwat Ramadan, PhD, PEng
Dr. Safwat Ramadan is a Geo-Structural Engineer at MHE Engineers (London, Ontario). He has over 7 years of practical experience working on a wide variety of large-scale projects in Canada, the United States, and the Middle East. He is currently a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada.
In addition to his practical experience, Dr. Ramadan served as assistant professor (LDA) and research associate at the University of Western Ontario, where he taught graduate and undergraduate level geotechnical engineering design courses. He is also a former teaching assistant in the geotechnical department at Cairo University, Egypt.
Dr. Ramadan has developed explicit design guidelines for large-span reinforced concrete culverts that have been proposed to the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code to be included in the future version of the code. He has several publications, has received several awards, and has served as a reviewer for several geotechnical journals and conferences.
S. Fitiany, PhD, PEng
Dr. Fitiany is a lead/senior civil-structural engineer at Glos Arch + Eng and an adjunct professor at Civil and Environmental Engineering department, Western University. He is licensed as a professional engineer in Canada and has 15+ years of experience in design of RC, precast/prestressed concrete, and modular steel structures. Areas of expertise also include forensic engineering, structure retrofitting, elevated tanks, and analysis of structures at elevated temperatures and extreme loading. Dr. Salah El-Fitiany is a recognized instructor and has received a number of prestigious teaching awards including the "Peter A. Rosati Award for Outstanding Teaching" and the "USC Teaching Honour Roll", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UWO).
H. Hafez, PhD, PEng, MBA
Lead AD Research & Development Engineer at Greenfield
Dr. Hafez has more than 19 years of experience in environmental engineering in the areas of anaerobic treatment of organic wastes, bioenergy production, and municipal and industrial wastewater and solid waste management. He leads Greenfield’s anaerobic digestion research and business development for biohydrogen and renewable natural gas production from lignocellulosic biomass and high strength organic municipal and industrial streams.
Dr. Hafez is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Western University, University of Windsor, and Ryerson University, where he leads multidisciplinary research groups focusing on bioenergy production from organic industrial streams.
Dr. Hafez has contributed to more than 12 patents in the field of bioenergy and biofuels production, published more than 100 refereed research articles, 2 book chapters in the “Handbook of Hydrogen Energy”, and presented his research in more than 30 international conferences. He has been invited as a keynote speaker in many conferences as recognition of his experience in the field of bioenergy production.
He serves as a technical reviewer for many international high-impact research journals and has co-chaired multiple international conference sessions.
He is a member in the Canadian Biogas Association, the International Water Association, International Association of Hydrogen Energy, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and several other international associations.
M. Semelawy PhD, PEng
Dr. Semelawy is a senior (structural) associate 30 Forensic Engineering (Toronto, Canada).
In addition to his academic and research experience, Dr. Semelawy is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 18 years of practical experience working on a variety of both large and small scale projects, including industrial oil and gas, commercial, and residential projects.
Dr. Semelawy has also extensive experience working in Codes and Standards Development. Specifically, he provided structural engineering expertise and advice to support the development, review, and revision of the Building Code Act, the NBCC, as well as other related regulations and standards, with a particular emphasis on the design, construction, inspection and rehabilitation of building structural systems
Dr. Selemawy has received several awards, has several publications, and has served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences.
M. El-Hakim PhD, PEng
Dr. El-Hakim is an assistant professor in Manhattan College - New York City campus. He is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario with 16 years of industrial and academic experience. He is also an adjunct assistant professor in University of Waterloo. He published several research papers in world-renowned academic journals and presented applied research projects in international conferences. He is an active scholar in two Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committees and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) committee.
As a consultant, he worked on several infrastructure projects, some of which included airports, highways, and municipal roads. His technical background and project experience lie within transportation infrastructure projects including in-depth knowledge of the asphalt mix design, mechanistic and Mechanistic-Empirical pavement design, nondestructive and destructive testing of pavements, pavement performance modeling and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) of Highway projects.
Haitham Aboshosha, PhD, PEng
Dr. Haitham Aboshosha, is a professor of wind engineering and the dynamics of structures at Ryerson University, Canada. Dr. Aboshosha research focuses on wind structure interaction. He conducted several wind tunnels experiments and fluid dynamics simulations to predict how structures respond to wind. His expertise has taken him all over the world to assess structures with specifications that lie outside existing building codes. For example, he has worked on the soon-to-be tallest building in the world, Dubai Creek Tower, as well as the second Samuel de Champlain Bridge in Montreal, and the Noor Power Station in Morocco. He also conducted full scale field measurements for wind-induced vibrations for buildings and bridges such as Margaret McDermott Bridge in Dallas, Tx, USA and CMA tower in Saudi Arabia.
Fady Ghobrial, PhD, PEng
Dr. Ghobrial is a current Geotechnical Engineer at Englobe Corp . He has over 10 years of experience working with several employers including Golder Associates Ltd., Geoterre Ltd., and Dar Al Handasah Consultants.
Dr.Ghobrial experience extends from small scale to mega scale projects in Canada and internationally.
His project experience includes, but not limited to, the design of bridge foundations, the stability of slopes and the evaluation of the integrity of dikes, tunneling, the design of braced and anchored deep excavations, and the design of pavement.
In addition to English and Arabic, Dr. Ghobrial is fluent in French and has an active Professional Engineering License in Quebec.
In addition to his career in industry, Dr.Ghobrial served as a teaching assistant at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) and the University of Ain Shams (Egypt) for over 10 years, where he taught graduate and undergraduate Geotechnical courses.
Dr. Ghobrial also has multiple publications, and presented at numerous international conferences.
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