Instructors
EPIC’s instructors have multiple years of both academic and industrial experience. They know what is required to succeed and what the critical concepts are that students should understand.
Program Director:
Ossama El Badawy, received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1994. From 1994 to 1997 he worked as a software developer. He started his M.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1997 and finished it in 2000 while working at the Advanced Development Group at NCR Canada. He started his Ph.D. in 2000 and expects to graduate in 2004.
Contact: obadawy@epic-edu.com
Instructors:
Lamya Amleh, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., P.Eng. is Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair at Civil Engineering Department of Ryerson University. She specializes in the behaviour and design of structures. Her research includes corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete, durability of structures, rehabilitation of concrete structures, service life prediction, structural optimization design for durability, and preservation and rehabilitation of infrastructure, with particular emphasis on highway bridges. She has undertaken a very elaborate program including studying the deterioration of bond at the steel-concrete interface at four different stages of corrosion.
Sherief Farid, graduated 1991 with B.SC Accounting from Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Completed his Masters of Business Administartion 2002 from Ecole Superieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquees, Paris, France. During the last 16 years his experience included Governmental organizations, multinational manufacturing companies, and Banking. Currently Sherief is the Manager of Finance with CIBC.
Mohamed Lachemi, Ph.D., is an expert in the use of high performance materials to improve the built infrastructure. He has significantly contributed to research during his association with the Network of Centres of Excellence and Ryerson University. He has been involved in collaborative projects with industry, including an international project leading to the construction of the world’s first reactive powder concrete structure. This project won several worldwide awards for the use of the latest innovative technologies. In recognition of his contributions to research advancement in his field, Dr. Lachemi has recently been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Construction.
Khaled Sennah, Ph.D., P.Eng., P.E., Associate Professor with Ryerson University. He has over 18 years of research, teaching and industrial experience in the area of structural engineering. He designed and shared in design of major multimillion-dollar projects in United States of America, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. His core area of expertise is design, evaluation, retrofit and rehabilitation of bridge infrastructure on which he published more than 60 publications. Recently, he received the 2002 state-of-the-art of Civil Engineering Award and the 1999 Arthur Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE and the 1997 P. L. Pratley Award from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, CSCE for best journal papers on Bridge Engineering.
Yoassry Elzohairy, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Senior Research Advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s Head Office in Downsview. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Elzohairy is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), an associate member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), and a member of the US National Safety Council’s Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP). Dr. Elzohairy has authored several papers in professional literature. His publications have appeared in peer reviewed journals including Transportation Research Record, and Journal of Transportation Engineering. He received a number of prestigious awards from various organizations including, the 2003 Canadian Extraordinary Special People Recognized in Transportation (esprit) award in the category of “Focus on Innovation & Improvement”.
Ashraf Dabayeh, Ph.D., is currently a staff specialist with L-3 Aviation Services. Dr. Dabayeh received his B.Sc. degree from Ain-Shams University, Egypt, and received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Waterloo, Canada. His specific areas of expertise are: Fatigue and crack growth analysis of metallic materials, Structural analysis and design of steel structures, Stress analysis using finite element method, Multiple-site damage analysis, and Composite and metallic repairs of aging aircraft materials. He has full time job experience with IMP Aerospace, Bombardier Aerospace, and L-3 for 7 years, from 1998 – 2005. Dr. Dabayeh has authored scientific publications and delivered papers at different scientific conferences in North America and Europe on topics related to fatigue and fracture mechanics of metallic and composite structures. He has also contributed in the publication of scientific textbooks in the same field. He has been involved in the design and repair of metallic structures in the aerospace and automotive industries for almost a decade.
Rashid Kohan obtained his Ph.D. and M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in July 2001 and Sept. 1994, respectively. He has been with Gemprint Corporation as a consultant since July 2002. From Jan. 2000 to July 2001 he was with Electronic Integrated Systems Inc. (EIS), Toronto, where he worked as a researcher to apply advanced control theory to highway traffic systems. Since June 2002, he has been with Gemprint Corporation as a researcher to develop high efficiency algorithms for gemstone registration. Currently, he holds numerous teaching positions at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Professional Development Centre at the University of Toronto, and the School of Electronics & Computer at Seneca College.
Ahmed Zaghlol, Ph.D., is Director of Engineering of R-Theta Inc. He developed and launched new product lines such as copper heatsinks, Mixed Metal heatsinks, heatpipe embedding in heatsinks and dual baseplate heatsink. He manages R&D efforts for new products, development and implementation of R-Tools, on-Line thermal modeling of heatsinks software. Dr. Zaghlol authored and co-authored several technical papers and articles on thermal characterization of heat sinks and high performance heatsinks for Microwave RF amplifiers. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Alexandria University, in Egypt. After receiving his Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario, he joined the Microelectronic Heat Transfer Laboratory (MHTL) at the University of Waterloo as postdoctoral Fellow. A registered Professional Engineer in Ontario (PEO), Dr. Zaghlol is a member of ASME, and IEEE.
M.S. Hamed has a PhD in Materials and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario. Currently, he is a faculty member and director of the Thermal Processing Laboratory (TPL) at McMaster University. Before joining academia, Dr. Hamed has worked in the industry where he has gained a significant industrial experience in the design and operation of thermal systems.
Mohamed Khalil, MASc., Ph.D., He has over 12 years experience in concrete design, fatigue analysis and structural design in Canada and abroad. Dr. Khalil has a hands- on experience as a specialist in an the Aerospace industry in the design of critical rotating structure under HCF and LCF loadings. He got involved in designing many projects using the preliminary structure, fatigue and fracture analysis for aircraft and automotive industries. He has also taught many engineering and lab courses for undergrads at Lakehead University and the University of Waterloo.
Soha Eid Moussa holds both a B. A. Sc. and a M. A. Sc. in Industrial Engineering and completed her Ph. D. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She has been a registered Professional Engineer since 2005. In addition, Dr. Moussa has over 7 years teaching experience at Wilfrid Laurier University where she consistently received letters from the Dean’s Office commending excellence in teaching.
Yasser Ebrahim obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Guelph in 2006. He also holds a Master’s in Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo (2003) besides a Master’s degree from DePaul University (1995) in Computer Science and Information Systems. Dr. Ebrahim has an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems and a graduate diploma in Business Administration.
For the past six years, Dr. Ebrahim has taught in Conestoga College, Wilfrid Laurier University, and most recently in McMaster University. He taught a wide variety of courses including programming in C/C++, object oriented programming in Java, data structures, operating systems, database systems, and computer graphics. Earlier in his career, Dr. Ebrahim worked as a software engineer in a number of organizations including Inco and the bank of Nova Scotia.
Nasreddin Elmezaini, Ph.D., P. Eng., is an Associated Prof. of civil engineering with more than 23 years of academic and professional experience in the area of structural and geotechnical engineering. His academic experience includes research and teaching for graduate and post-graduate students. His professional experience covers wide variety of projects in, Canada and overseas, including water and wastewater treatment plants; industrial and residential buildings, low rise and multistory buildings, schools, hotels and conference centers.
Ahmed El Refai earned his Ph. D. in Civil Engineering in 2007 at the University of Waterloo. Graduated in 1991, Dr. El Refai has over 14 years of experience in teaching univesrity level students. He holds a Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Waterloo. He is currently working as a Structural Engineer for Halcrow Yolles Inc. located in Toronto. His research interests include the use of advanced composite materials in construction applications.