CURRICULUM VITAE (2007)
MOHAMED A. EL-ZEIR Permanent Address:
Civil Engineering Department,
Faculty of Engineering,
El-Minia University,
El-Minia,
Egypt,
Tel: +20-50-253.62.76
Fax: +20-50-233.19.11
E-mail: elzeir@mans.edu.eg
Private e-mail: melzeir@yahoo.com
http://www.oocities.org/melzeir/
Ph.D. Civil Engineering
M.Sc. Irrigation Engineering
B.Sc. Civil Engineering
Birth: 23.07.1963, Egypt
Mother tongue: Arabic
Second language: English
Marital status: married, three children
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Civil Engineering (1991-1996), Hydraulic Laboratory, Civil Engineering Department,
Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Thesis:
"Modeling Flow in Compound Channels".
The Ph.D. research consisted of two major stages. In
the first stage, coastal hydrodynamics was numerically modeled with the aid of
POM (Princeton Oceanographic Model). As the LIPII project was approved by the
EU, the first stage was stopped to participate in the new project. The topic discussed
in the dissertation was the physical phenomenon of secondary circulation in
compound channels. It, also, included a numerical simulation of secondary
circulation using ASM (Algebraic Stress Model) to simulate Reynolds stresses. A
useful comparison was held between POM and the secondary-circulation model.
M.Sc.
Irrigation Engineering (1989-1991). Center for Irrigation Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium. Thesis: "Pipe Network Optimization: an heuristic
approach".
An heuristic approach was applied for the design of
both branched and looped pipe networks. A program written in Pascal was
developed. The algorithm is that suggested by Rasmusen, H. J. A bug was
detected in the algorithm. It was corrected in the paper published jointly with
Monbaliu and Berlamont (1992)
B.Sc.
Civil Engineering (1981-1986). Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engieering,
El-Mansoura University, Egypt. Graduation Project: "Design of an
Irrigation Project in Upper Egypt"
TEACHING
Associate Professor (2002-now): Civil
Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia University, Egypt. For the promotion purpose, a review article was prepared on the following topic:
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) (1997-2002): Civil
Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia University, Egypt.
Instructor (1993): Center for
Irrigation Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Summer courses
in CAD (Computer Aided Design).
Assistant
Lecturer
(1987-1989): Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia
University, Egypt.
Undergraduate courses: Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering, Civil
Engineering Drawings, Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage, Design of Irrigation Structures, Sanitary Engineering.
Postgraduate courses: Advanced Hydraulics.
Fluid Mechanics: fluid properties, fluid at rest (hydrostatic pressure, manometers,…), Kinematics of fluid motion, energy equation and its application, momentum equation and its application, pipes and pipe networks.
Hydraulic Engineering: open
channel hydraulics (uniform flow, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow),
hydraulic machinery (turbines and pumps).
Civil Engineering Drawing: irrigation drawing (earth works, water structures, and main views of complete structure and earth work), steel structures.
Hydrology: Complete hydrologic cycle of water (evaporation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff), the hydrograph and the unit hydrograph, mass curve, river and reservoir routing, confined and unconfined aquifers, steady and unsteady study of aquifers, statistical principles used in hydrology.
Irrigation and Drainage:
design of irrigation infrastructures (canals and drains), field-level
irrigation (basin, boarder, furrow irrigation), advanced irrigation systems
(sprinkler and trickle irrigation), groundwater exploitation, saline land
reclamation.
Design of Irrigation Structures:
crossing structures (short span steel, concrete and masonry bridges, culverts,
siphons, aqueducts, intermediate and tail scapes) and heading-up structures (weirs, regulators, dams, besides locks).
Advanced Hydraulics: introduction to Navier-Stokes equations, introduction to numerical modeling.
Instructor
(2001-2002): Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, El-Minia Directorate, Egypt. Annual Short Course on "Flash Flood and its impact on development". The course is arranged for two weeks in January.
RESEARCH
Jury
member
(2007). Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia University,
Egypt. Evaluation of the master thesis: "Analysis of Traffic Operations through Locks in Egypt: the Case of Assuit Barrage Lock" by Asmaa Yousef Ahmed.
Postdoctoral research fellow
(2003-2005) in the EUROGEL (http://www.ifm.uib.no/eurogel/) project. Basic task is numerical modeling to simulate and eventually forecast the likelihood of jellyplankton outbreaks. Both the hydrodynamic model HYCOM and the DHI’s MIKE3 model were tried to simulate the area of interest. DHI has offered me training on MIKE3 from 19 April to 25 June 2004. For the particle tracking modeling, I modified and used the program DROG3D originally written in the University of North Carolina. Among software packages used as pre- and post-processing are SURFER, and MATLAB.
Supervisor
(2005) for a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, Egypt. Thesis title: “Modeling Flow in the Suez Canal” by Hala Mahmoud Ragaei Mohamed.
Participant
(2001) in
the Watson International Scholars of the Environment (WISE) convened by the
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, in collaboration
with the UNEP. The target of the program is advanced training in environmental
sciences, to provide tools that advance the sustainable development capacity. Two
basic courses were conducted: Conflict Resolution and Global Environment Management.
Supervisor (1999) for a master degree
in Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia University,
Egypt. Thesis title: "Flash Floods Studies in the Wadis of Minia Governorate
to the East of River Nile and their Effect on the Development" by Usama
Hamid.
Post-doctoral Fellow (1997-1999) in Port and Harbor Research Institute, Japan. Research: was on flow pattern in narrow passages connecting two large open seas. The study involved analysis of field measurements and construction of a two-dimensional finite element model. The model was used to simulate currents in the domain under consideration. Two case studies were investigated: The Suez Canal in Egypt and Kanmon Strait in Japan. Among software packages used for pre- and post-processing is AVS.
LIPII (1994) Delft Hydraulics,
Delft, the Netherlands. Experiment on shearing mechanisms and mixing processes
in a stratified compound estuary.
The study was conducted on the tidal flume of Delft Hydraulics. The rectangular cross section of the flume was reshaped to an asymmetric section with a main channel on the right side and one flood plain on the left side. Four flow conditions were studied; one homogeneous case and three stratified cases with different salinity stratification and different relative velocities.
Jury
member
(1993). Center for Irrigation Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium. Evaluation of the master thesis: "Inter-Comparison of Programs
for Pipe Network Optimization" by Essam El-Samanoudi.
CONFERENCES
·
June 7-9, 2005, attended and presented a paper in ASCE IV International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, Sheraton Heliopolis Hotel, Cairo, Egypt.
· June 25-27, 2002, attended the third workshop of the International Discourse on Development in the Nile River Basin , co-convened by IUCN and World Bank, Cairo, Egypt.
· April 8-10, 2002, attended and presented a paper in ASCE-EGS III Regional Conference on Civil Engineering Technology and III International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, Sheraton Heliopolis Hotel, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt.
· April 20-21, 2001, attended Workshop
on Global Governance of Technology, Meeting the Needs of Developing Countries,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the USA.
· September 1-4, 2000,
attended and presented a paper in Al-Azhar Engineering Sixth International
Conference (AEIC2000), Cairo, Egypt.
· March 15-17, 1999, attended
and presented a paper in the 43rd Hydraulic Engineering Meeting of the JSCE,
Kusatsu, Japan.
· March 17-20, 1998, attended
the First Joint Meeting of the Coastal Environment Science and Technology (CEST)
Panel of the United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources,
Hayama, Japan.
· September 11-15, 1995,
attended and presented a paper in HYDRA2000, the XXVIth IAHR Congress,
London, UK.
· September 14-17, 1992,
attended and presented a paper in the International Conference on Advances
in Planning, Design and Management of Irrigation Systems as Related to
Sustainable Land Use, Leuven, Belgium.
PUBLICATIONS
M. A. Elzeir, Steve J. Hay (2005) "DROG3D: a Particle-Tracking Model Applied to the Waters around Shetlands", Proceedings, ASCE-EGS IV International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, 7-9 June 2005, Cairo, Egypt (on CD).
M. A. Elzeir, Ian Sehested Hansen, and Steve J. Hay (2005) "Predicting Jellyfish Outbreaks around Shetland Using MIKE3", Proceedings, Coastal Engineering 2005, 13-15 April 2005, Algarve, Portugal, pp 81-89.
M. A. Elzeir and Bakenaz A. Zeydan (2005) "Student Quality or Teaching Strategy?", Conference on Human Resources in the 3rd Millennium, Organized by Friends of Egyptian Scholars Abroad in the series of "Egypt in the 3rd Millennium", 29-31 December, Centre of Information and Technology, Council of Ministers, Giza, Egypt.
M. A. Elzeir (2002) "Effect of Bitter Lakes on the Suez Canal Current", ASCE-EGS III International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, Cairo, Egypt, 8-10 April, 2002.(on CD)
M. A. Elzeir (2002) "Effect of Bitter Lakes on Flow in the Suez Canal", Mansoura Engineering Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp C14-C21.
M. A. Elzeir and Amr El-Feki (2002) "Use of a Numerical Wave Model to Study the Environmental Impact of the Development of a Resort at El-Ain El-Sukhna", ", Mansoura Engineering Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp C1-C12.
M. A. Elzeir (2001) "A Numerical Simulation for the Circulation on a Beach of Resort in El-Ain El-Sukhna", Mansoura J. Engineering, Vol. 28, no. 4, pp. C1-C9
T. Abdel-Latif, M. El-Manadili, M. A. Elzeir,
and O. Hamid (2000) "Effect of Flash Flood on the Development to the East of
the Nile River in Minia Governorate, Egypt", International Conference on
Wadi Hydrology, Sharm El-Shikh, Egypt, 21-23 Nov., 2000.
M. A. Elzeir and T. Hibino (2000) "Investigation of Flow
Characteristics in the Suez Canal", Al-Azhar University Engineering Journal
special issue: proceedings of AEIC2000, Vol. 4, pp 232-238.
M. A. Elzeir, T. Hibino, and K. Nakayama (2000) "
Simulation of Kanmon Strait; a Channel between Two Seas",
Proceedings: Coastal Engineering 2000, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 4, pp. 3861-3869.
M. A. Elzeir, and T. Hibino (1999) "Hydrodynamic Simulation
of the Suez Canal; a Water Body Connecting Two Open Seas", Annual Journal
of Hydraulic Engineering, JSCE, Vol. 43, pp 827-832.
M. A. Elzeir (1997) "Minimum-Node Path Problem",
proceedings, Al-Azhar Engineering Fifth International Conference (AEIC'97),
Cairo, Egypt, Vol. 5, pp 13-24.
M. A. Elzeir, and J. Berlamont (1996) "A First Step in
Building a Generalized Hydrodynamic Model", proceedings, the sixth
International Conference HYDROSOFT'96, Hydraulic Engineering Software, Penang,
Malaysia, September 10-12, pp 299-307.
K. Shiono, R. A. Falconer, J. Berlamont, M. A.
Elzeir, and M. Karelse (1995) "A Note on Stratified Flow in a Compound
Channel", proceedings, the XXVIth IAHR Congress HYDRA2000, London, the UK,
September 11-15, Vol. 3, pp 134-139.
M. A. Elzeir, J. Monbaliu, and J. Berlamont (1992) "A
Comment on an Heuristic Approach for Pipe Network Design Optimization",
proceedings, International Conference on Advances in Planning, Design and
Management of Irrigation Systems as Related to Sustainable Land Use, Leuven,
Belgium, September 14-17, pp 297-306.
AWARDS
· Honorary Research Fellow (November 1, 2005 to February 28, 2006) Zoology Department, University of Aberdeen, the UK.
· Fellowship (July 14, 2003- October 31, 2005) from University of Aberdeen, the UK for postdoctoral research on the project of EUROGEL (http://www.ifm.uib.no/eurogel/). The basic task is numerical modeling of water hydrodynamics and its effect on jellyfish transport.
· Fellowship (January 23-May
8, 2001) from Luce Foundation, the USA for participating in the WISE program.
· Fellowship (December
1997-December 1999) from the Science and Technology Agency (STA) of Japan for
postdoctoral research in the field of coastal engineering at Port and Harbor
Research Institute (PHRI), Yokosuka, Japan.
· Research: study of flow
pattern in narrow passages connecting two large open seas. The study involved
analysis of field measurements and construction of a two-dimensional finite
element model. The model was used to simulate currents in the domain under
consideration. Two case studies were investigated: The Suez Canal in Egypt and
Kanmon Strait in Japan.
· Scholarship (October
1991-December 1995) from ABOS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Belgium to obtain
Ph.D. degree. The scholarship was an extension of the master scholarship. ABOS
used to award only one Ph.D. scholarship to the best candidate from among those
who were awarded masters scholarship.
· Scholarship (September 1989-September
1991) from ABOS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Belgium to obtain M.Sc. degree.
AFFILIATIONS
Member in the syndicate of Egyptian Engineers since
July 1986.
Member in the American Geophysical Union since July
1999.
Member in the Nile Basin Society since May
2001.
Visiting scholar, Watson Institute, Brown University, USA, since July 1, 2005.
PRACTICES
· Design of Irrigation project in El-Minia El-Gadida, Egypt (July 2002-April 2003).
· The project was part of the activities of the consultant office of El-Minia University. 900 feddans were to be surveyed and an irrigation pipe network was to be designed. The water source was treated wastewater of El-Minia El-Gadida city discharged from oxidation ponds.
· Field measurements for water
quality in Tokyo Bay (December 1997-December 1999) within the continuous
monitoring campaign planned by Port and Harbor Research Institute (PHRI),
Japan.
· Instrumentation included:
acoustic depth sounder, CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) meter, ACM
(Electromagnetic Current Meter), Hydrotech to measure turbidity, salinity, pH,
DO, Chlorophyll.
· Project engineer (March
1987-September 1987) at El-Behera Co., Egypt. Land reclamation project in
El-Manzala Lake, Egypt (part of El-Salam Canal project).
· The project took place in
El-Manzala Lake, south to El-Salam Canal to dry up and reclaim 250000 Feddans.
Surveying and earth works of the main canals and drains were executed in muddy
soil with an average water depth of 25-60 cm. The work team consisted of 60
engineers and workers. Machinery consisted of five mechanical digging units.
· Project engineer (September
1986-March 1987) at a private engineering consultant office, Egypt. Main task
was design and construction of residential units.