Mahmoud Haddara
Professor
B.Sc. (honours, Ain Shams), M.S. and PhD (Berkeley), C.Eng.,
P.Eng.
I obtained an honours bachelor degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt in 1963 and a M.Sc.
and a PhD in Naval Architecture from the University of California,
Berkeley. I spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley, then
returned to Egypt to work for the Suez Canal Authority in its Port
Said Shipyard. In 1980 I moved to Kuwait to work at the Kuwait
Institute of Technology where I stayed until moving to Canada in
1986. At the Kuwait Institute of Technology I established a Marine
Division within the Department of Mechanical Technology, was head
of the Department of Mechanical Technology (1981-1983), and
Assistant Director for Academic Affairs (1983-1986).
In 1986 I joined Memorial University of Newfoundland, where I
taught in the naval and mechanical disciplines. I chaired the Ocean
and Naval Architectural Engineering discipline (1993-1998), became
an Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in 1998, Acting Dean (April
- October 2000), and Interim Dean (July 2002- October 2003).
I have also acted as a scientific adviser to a number of companies
and research centres on various projects dealing with developing
solutions to different problems in the area of ocean and naval
architectural engineering. These include:
a. Development of a Ship Predictor System
b. Development of Ship Stability Monitoring System
c. Study of reliability of offshore supply vessels
d. Study of roll damping and
e. Parametric identification of dynamic stresses in ships at
sea.
Currently, my research focuses on using reliability theory and risk
analysis to develop risk based optimum maintenance policies for
large engineering systems, and the development of continuous
monitoring systems for ship stability, stresses, and motions.
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