(4/2010) “Comsol” training workshop, KAUST, Saudi Arabia. • ( 1/2010 ) “
Technology Entrepreneurship” training course, by Prof. Hirsch, KAUST,. Saudi
Arabia.
Amjad Al-Sha’arawi Mechanical Engineering Reactive Flow Modeling Laboratory King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) PhD student Phone: (+966) 2 - 802 2776 Mobile: (+966) 50 337 9952 e-mail:
[email protected] Education:
M. Sc, Mechanical Engineering, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2010.
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Jordan, January, 2009.
Experience:
( 2/2010 – present ) Clear Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
(6/2010 – 8/2010) Research internship, Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory, MIT, Massachusetts, USA.
( 6/2008 – 7/2008 and 4/2009 – 8/2009 ) Research internships, Chair of Gas and Heat Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. With Prof. Trimis’s research group.
( 1/2008 – 3/2009 ) Research engineer, King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau, Jordan. On “Gyrotronica I” project: Design and construction of a vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle driven by a single jet engine.
Training:
(4/2010) “Comsol” training workshop, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
( 1/2010 ) “Technology Entrepreneurship” training course, by Prof. Hirsch, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
( 26 – 28 May, 2009 ) 7th ANSYS & FZD Short Course and Workshop: Multiphase Flows Simulation, Experiment and Application. Dresden, Germany.
( 6/2007 ) “CFD simulation Using Fluent” Training course, Energy Center, JUST, Jordan.
Areas of interest:
Combustion, Energy, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Laden Flows, and Porous media flows.
Computer skills:
Good using Linux, Mac, and Windows OS.
ANSYS FluentTM: advanced skills using User Defined Functions (UDF), good in GambitTM mesh generator.
Excellent in Matlab programming, very good using C++, Mathematica, FORTRAN and Maple.
Excellent experience in Pro/Engineer for CAD and FEA, good in Mechanical Desktop and AutoCAD.
Good in ComsolTM.
Good experience using NGA (prof. Pitsch’s CFD software) and FlameMaster.
Honors and awards:
Provost Award, Kind Abdullah University of Science and Technology, twice for the academic years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.
Discovery Scholarship, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2008.
Honored student for the whole studying period in Jordan University of Science and Technology 2004-2009.
Publications:
B. Stelzner, A. Al-Zoubi, A. Al-Sha’arawi, C. Löbel, S. Ray and D. Trimis. Development of Ethanol-Fuel Porous Burner for Application in a High Temperature PEM Fuel Cell System. 10th Conference on Energy for a Clean Environment, 7-10 July 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
Languages:
Arabic: Mother Tongue.
English: excellent spoken and written.
References: Upon request.
