Engineering Mechanical
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Mechanical Power Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
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Zagazig University
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Zagazig, Egypt
Yasser El-Okda
Date of Birth : May 22, 1972
Personal
Nationality : British Citizen
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Gender : Male
Languages : Fluent English and Arabic
Current Job : Assistant Professor, Mechanical Power
Engineering Dept., Zagazig Univ., Zagazig, Egypt
Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics in May 2005
Education
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Dissertation title:
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the
Effects of Turbulence on the Flow over a Surface -
Mounted Prism
M.Sc. degree in Engineering Mechanics in January 2002
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Thesis topic :
Jet/Wall Interaction: An Experimental Study with
Applications to VSTOL Aircraft Ground Effects
M.Sc. courses in May 1997
Dept. of Mech. Power Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University
B.Sc. in May 1994
Dept. of Mech. Power Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University
B.Sc. in Mechanical Power Engineering, with five-year
general estimate Very Good with Honor
Senior design project title:
Design of Water Desalination Unit
Experience April, 2005 - August 2008
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Power Engineering Department
Zagazig University
Zagazig, Egypt
Taught the following courses:
Heat Transfer I
Heat Transfer II
Mechanical Installation for Architecture Engineers
ThermoFluid Dynamics
Sept. 2008 August 2009
Visiting Consultant
Mechanical and Industrial Eng. Dept.
College of Engineering
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Taught the following courses:
Fortran Programming
Special Topics (Internal Combustion Engines)
ThermoFluids
Material Science
Computer Application in Mechanical Engineering (labView,
Matlab)
Probability and Statistics for Engineers
These were all blended courses in which both face to face
presentations as well as e-learning using Moodle interactively
were used.
April, 2005 - August 2008
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Power Engineering Department
Zagazig University
Zagazig, Egypt
Taught the following courses:
Numerical Methods for Engineers
Fluid Dynamics
Aerodynamics
ThermoFluid Dynamics
Supervised senior design (graduation) projects
Stressed on students learning of design planning, work
breakdown, validation of assumptions and decision making
Employed experimental design approaches
Lead students to develop conceptual designs via understanding
the physics of the problem
Gave the students the chance to learn about some industry
practices in design, more specifically Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
techniques with more emphasis on factorial design
Titles:
Wind Effects on Low-Rise Structures: Investigation of New
Conceptual Designs
Wind Effects on Low-Rise Structures: New Design
Optimization via Six Sigma Techniques
Design and Fabrication of a Hovercraft
August, 1999 February 2005
Graduate Teaching / Research Assistant
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Helped in teaching/grading several courses in the ESM
Dept including: statics, dynamics strength of materials and
fluid mechanics
Taught and supervised the Introduction to Fluid
Mechanics Lab for five semesters
Performed research experiments that involved the use of
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to study the flow below
V/STOL twin-jet model (M. Sc. topic) and the flow over
surface-mounted prisms (Ph. D. topic) in water tunnel
Conducted computational simulation of the flow over
surface-mounted prism using Large Eddy Simulation (Ph.
D. topic)
August,1995 1998
Graduate Teaching / Research Assistant
Zagazig University, Faculty of Engineering
Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt
Taught the following courses:
Thermodynamics
Heat Engines
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Drawing
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Conducted research in the problem of optimization of heat
transfer distribution in large capacity commercial baking
ovens
February, 1995 July, 1995
Service Engineer
Baker Oil Tools, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt.
Baker Oil Tools (BOT) is an American company based in
Houston, USA. At BOT I worked on oil well completion and
workover. My duties included:
Designing oil well completion strings and planning
completion tenders
Running down-well completion tools at inland and
off-shore drilling rigs and production platforms
Running/maintaining completion packers, liner
hangers, down-well data acquisition system
Liaison with customers
September, 1994 January, 1995
Maintenance Engineer
EMIC for drilling mud production.
Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt
Planned and performed maintenance/installation of
production lines and its auxiliary equipment, heavy duty
machinery, plant electric network and electric control panels
Mechatonics labs ToT intensive training mission,
Training
5-13 November, 2008
Mechatroincs Division
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Silesian University of Technology
Gliwice, Poland
Performed the following experiments:
a) Laboratory of Drives, Actuators & Motion Control
Pneumatic actuators, Electropneumatic actuators,
Investigation of basic properties of electrical step
motor, and Investigation of basic properties of
electrical servodrive
b) Laboratory of Robotics, Sensors & Vision Systems
Coordinate systems description, computer simulation,
2-wheel mobile robot, Implementation of digital image
processing, Simple machine vision tasks
c) Laboratory of Microprocessors and PLC
Introduction to AVR Studio and basic operations on I/O
of ATMEAGA32 microcontroller, Introduction to PLC
and PLC programming
d) Computer Laboratory for Engineering Graphics &
Simulation Technology
Rules and examples for parametric modeling, Modeling
of a simple system in 2D FEM, Modeling assemblies,
Calculation of model parameters using FEM
Six professional development training courses at Zagazig
University, Egypt focusing on improving teaching
capabilities in higher education, May 2005-Sept. 2007
A two-day workshop on e-learning held at Suez Canal
University, Ismailia, Egypt.
A one-week training on E-learning Content Design by IBM
branch Egypt, Beltez traning center, Archadia Mall, Cairo,
Egypt, November 12-16, 2006
A one-week training on the Production of E-learning
Content Using Adobe Captivate Software Package by
IBM branch Egypt, Beltez traning center, Archadia Mall,
Cairo, Egypt, November 26-30, 2006
Graduate professional development workshop,
Virginia Tech., Virginia, USA, Fall 2003
Maintenance of heavy duty machinery, Sulfur refinery
plant, Ke iborlu, Turkey, summer vacation, 1993
Software experience includes
Computer
skills DOS, Windows, Linux, Unix and Apple operating systems
Excel, PowerPoint, Visio Tech, Outlook and excellent use
of WinWord via employing structured layouts of
document format.
Latex, Adobe PageMaker
Adobe Acrobat Pro. and Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Excellent data post-processing (visualization) skills using
Tecplot, Matlab, Surfer
Good web editing skills and HTML programming
AutoCAD (2D, 3D), SolidEdge, Autodesk Inventor
3D Home, KitchenDraw
Matlab, Mathematica, Fortran
LabView
Minitab
Outstanding and in-depth usage of most of the
advanced applications provided by the Moodle course
management system and e-learning environment.
Building aerodynamics (reduction of peak vacuum pressure
Research on building roofs)
Interests Vortex dynamics
Applications of jet flow
Unsteady flows
Turbulence modeling and simulation
Pollutant dispersion
Flow instabilities
Heat transfer
Flow visualization
Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Interests and
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Related Skills
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Parallel Computing
Three-Dimensional graphical presentation of data
Mechanical Design
Product Design and Development
Mechatronics
Use of Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) and Particle Image
Velocimetry (PIV) systems, and ability to perform full
optical train installation and alignment in addition to
performing experiments and data reduction
Design for Six Sigma
Data acquisition and Digital Signal Processing
1. Y. M. Elokda, Computational and Experimental Study of
Publications
Flow over a Low-Rise Structure with on-Roof Flow
Modifiers, submitted to the ASME 10th International
Congress of Fluid Dynamics and Propulsion (ICFDP
2010), Stella Di Mare Sea Club Hotel, Ain Soukhna, Red
Sea, Egypt, December 16-19, 2010
2. M. A. K. Elsayed, Y. M. Elokda, S. A. Ragab, and M. R.
Hajj, Numerical simulation of wind loads on structures and
effects of incident turbulence, In press, accepted for
publication in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial
Aerodynamics
3. Y. M. Elokda, S. A. Ragab, M. R. Hajj, Large-eddy
simulation of flow over a surface-mounted prism using a
high-order finite-difference scheme, Journal of Wind
Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Volume 96,
Issues 6-7, June-July 2008, Pages 900-912.
4. M. A. K. Elsayed, Y. M. Elokda, S. A. Ragab, M. R. Hajj,
Numerical simulation of wind loads on structures and
effects of incident turbulence, The Fourth European-
African Conference on Wind Engineering, Prague, Czech
Republic, 11-15 July, 2005
5. Saad A. Ragab, and Yasser M. El-Okda, Applications of a
Fifth-Order Non-Centered Compact Scheme for Large
Eddy Simulation, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 10-
13 January, Reno, Nevada 2005
6. S. A. Ragab, Y. M. El-Okda, M. R. Hajj, Large-Eddy
Simulation of Flow over a Surface-Mounted Prism Using a
High-Order Finite-Difference Scheme, Fifth International
Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics & Applications,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July, 2004
7. Y. El-Okda and D. P. Telionis, Experimental Investigation
of Twin-Jet Impinging on the Ground With and Without
Free Stream, International Powered Lift Conference,
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 5-7 November, 2002
8. Y. El-Okda, P. P. Vlachos and D. P. Telionis, Twin Jet
Impinging on a Plate With and Without a Mean Stream,
International Power Lift Conference, Arlington, Virginia,
USA, October 28 November 1, 2000
Prof. Muhammad R. Hajj
References
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0219
Tel: +1-540-***-****
email: abpme3@r.postjobfree.com
Prof. Saad A. Ragab
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0219
Tel: +1-540-***-****
email: abpme3@r.postjobfree.com
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