Dr. Abdulsalam Mahmood

Ph.D., P.Eng.

#***-*** **** ****** **** Moody. BC, V3H 0H4 Canada

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Nationality: Canadian

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QUALIFICATIONS

Ryerson University

Toronto Canada

PhD

Mechanical Engineering

Major: Nanotechnology

GPA: 4.00 / 4.33

2012

University of Technology

Baghdad Iraq

M.Sc

Metallurgy & Production Engineering

Major: Production Engineering

1985

University of Technology

Baghdad Iraq

B.Eng

Metallurgy & Production Engineering

Major: Production Engineering

1981

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience

1)The Inspection Technology and Quality Assurance National Institute (ITQAN)

Lincoln International College/ Campus Saudi Arabia

Position: Senior Academic / Advisor / Trainer (December 1st 2020- September1st 2021)

With delivered high quality courses:

Visual Inspection

Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Material Testing

Read Technical Drawings for Mechanical Inspectors

Welding Codes and Qualifications.

2)Applied Engineering College, Mechanical Engineering Department, Lincoln International College Riyadh Campus Saudi Arabia

Position: Senior Academic/ Trainer (October 22nd 2017 – July 31st 2020)

Delivered high quality courses:

Non-Destructive test of Engineering Material and Pipe Inspection

Maintenance Engineering and safety (Risk Management)

Piping design, Welding design, Quality assurance and Safety

Elective course (Nanotechnology & Nanoscience)

Advance Material & Engineering Testing,

CNC machining (G-code program) AutoCAD & Inventor Design,

Mechatronics and Pneumatic & Automation,

Workshop Technology, Training,

System Engineering Management

Final year project (thesis)

Vocational Discipline program and Engineering Management

Senior member of the following committees:

Modules & Curriculum Advisor for Mechanical Technology

Examination & test committee

Lab. and CAD development committee

3) College of Engineering, Mechanical Department, Wasit University, Kut, Iraq,

Position: Assistant professor (March 2015 –August 2017)

Delivered the following courses:

Advance Manufacturing,

Fundamental of Basic Manufacturing,

Mechanical Assembly drawing,

Descriptive Geometry,

Machine Design,

Calculus,

Static and Dynamic and

Supervised many final year projects

4)Faculty of Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Position: Instructor and Researcher (2009 – 2013)

Delivered the following courses:

Integrated Manufacturing & Machine Design

Measurements

Sensors and Instruments

Fundamentals of Graphic Communication

Control Systems

Advanced Manufacturing

5)Mechanical and Electrical Department, High Vocational Institute, Derna-Libya

Position: Senior Lecturer (1998-2000)

Delivered the following courses:

Manufacturing Fundamental, Machine Design, Automation and Control, Engineering Drawing, Metrology and Mechanical Measurement’s

6)Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Omar AL-Mukhtar, Al-Beida-Libya

Position: Lecturer (1994-1998)

Delivered the following courses:

Manufacturing Process and Design

Industrial engineering

Engineering Drawing & Descriptive Geometry

Supervisor of the final year students.

Appointed as examiner on many final student projects. Served as trainer of materials laboratory and workshop technicians

7)Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University Baghdad, Iraq

Position: Lecturer (1990-1994)

Delivered the following courses:

Manufacturing Process and Design

Engineering Materials

Operation Management

Ethic and Rules for Industrial Engineers

Other tasks: Praised by the College’s dean for Active Participation in Estimating, Budgeting, and Scheduling of New Materials Laboratories Establishment.

Member of many scientific board and committees.

8)Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Army Technical, Baghdad, Iraq

Position: Lecturer (1986-1990)

Delivered the following courses:

Manufacturing and Work Shop Technology

Machine Design, Mathematics

Mechanical Drawing & Mechanical Assembly

Final year project

9)Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University Baghdad, Iraq

Position: Instructor (1984-1986)

Delivered the following courses:

Industrial Engineering

Operation and Material Management

Optimization and Engineering Management.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

1)Ultrabase Solutions Ltd. Mississauga, ON, Canada

Position: Project Engineer (2002-2007)

Achievements and Roles:

Planned, monitored and completed project assignments within schedule and in compliance with defined standards and guidelines. Provided a technical support, maintenance and production solutions accordingly. Preparation of bill of materials, BOQ and cost estimate for projects. Components and negotiating with contractors and suppliers.

2)Alfa Bureau for Water Treatment Consultation, Baghdad, Iraq

Position: Mechanical Engineering Designer (1985-1990)

Achievements and Roles:

Alfa is a private based consulting and construction with about 25 staff, performing civil engineering, surveying, construction management, and infrastructure and project land development throughout Iraq. Involved in the construction supervision of M&E works including the pumping and piping, control valve surge tanks and pipe fittings, Equipment, overall supervision and inspection of mechanical works, liaise with contractors to deliver scheduled works Site supervision for mechanical installation, testing and commissioning of pump stations including, waste water pump station capacity of 3 million GPD, consisting of 4 Nos. fixed speed submersible pumps and 16” force main, Azizyia, Iraq.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Area of Expertise and Research Interest

Wireless body area network, patient monitoring, and medical sensors, e-Health, and Cloud Computing,

Application of nanofiberous material (silicon & titanium nanofiberous) for nano sensor & achieve improved probe–target recognition to rapidly functionalized out the shape of red blood cells (RBCs) in diluted whole blood

Developed nanofibrous DNA biosensor which characterized by cyclic voltammetry with the

use of ferrocyanide as an electrochemical redox indicator.

Full knowledge of design, fabrication and testing of organic-no organic photovoltaic.

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials using femtosecond laser technique.

Work experiences by using Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) of thin films by electron beam and thermal excitation, Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) of silicon oxides and nitrides, and Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) by oxygen and carbon tetra fluoride plasma.

Worked experience with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Electron diffraction X-ray (EDX) and Raman spectrometer.

Full knowledge and work experience with femtosecond laser technique

Developed and improved of the solar cell based on nanomaterials structure using femtosecond laser technique

Build prototypes for product and process development

Biomaterials and MEMS

Research Posts

1)Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada,

Laser Nano Manufacturing Facility

Position: Lecture / Research Fellow (April 2013 – December 2015)

Achievements:

Perform standard research in the field of nanomaterial as well as experimental and computational of synthesis of different material using femtosecond laser technique.

Updating and exploring a new nanomaterial using different femtosecond laser ablation setup.

Involves working in the construction and testing of experimental prototypes related of the third-generation solar cell.

Developed approaches for using different martial for sandwich solar cell

Preparing reports to the research sponsor, writing journal and conference papers, and presenting in conference and other open forums

Taught the following course:

Calculus, Linear algebra Static and Dynamic, Manufacturing, Measurements and equipments.

2)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Department of Engineering Science

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May 2012 – March 2013)

Achievements:

Developed working in the construction and testing of polymer solar cell.

Improved stability of poly (3-hexylthiopene) (P3HT) and [6, 6]-phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester bulk heterojunction solar cell.

Developed and improved of top contact consisting of melted in foil (In-OPV) instead of other evaporated Al (Al-OPV).

Used of lithography and electroforming technique for developing new pattern.

Writing and preparing reports to the research sponsor, writing proposal and other open forums.

3)Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Position: Graduate Research Assistant (September 2008 – October 2012)

Supervisors: Dr. Venkat Krishnan, Dr. Bo Tan.

“Synthesis of nanomaterials using femtosecond laser ablation, and their application in solar cell”

Achievements:

Connected chain experimental test for using a laser technique (femtosecond laser) for synthesis of nanofiber materials.

Developed approaches for new mechanism for generation of Nano fibrous material (Silicon, Titanium, Aluminum, Glass, Gold, other) using laser ablation.

Developed approaches for using nanofiber layer in single crystal solar cell.

Investigated connecting of Nano features with application of photovoltaic.

Devised a new concept of sandwich solar cell based on nanomaterial

4)AMPEL (Advanced Material and Process Engineering Laboratory) at UBC. This mission was sponsored by CMC Microsystems.

Position: Visiting Researcher (July 2010– September 2011)

Supervisor: Dr. Kulpa, Alina.

Involved with different training programs and orientation of using clean room and the most micro-Nano equipment’s. Worked in clean room and their facilities to build my prototype of photovoltaic-based nanomaterials

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journals

1.Abdul Salam Mahmood, M. Sivakumar Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, and Bo Tan “Enhancement in optical absorption of silicon fibrous nanostructure produced using femtosecond laser ablation” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 95, Issue 3 (2010)

2.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and M. Alubaidy, “Effect of laser parameters and assist gas on spectral response of silicon fibrous nanostructure” J. Appl. Phys, Volume 108, Issue 094327 (2010)

* This article was selected by Virtual Journal Science to be published in Virtual. J. Ultrafast Sic. Volume 9, Issue 12/ Condensed Matter Physic, as “Edge fast technology”.

3.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and M. Alubaidy, “Synthesis of visible light-active Nanostructured TiO2 via femtosecond laser irradiation in air” International Journal of Green Nanotechnology: Materials Science & Engineering. Volume 2, Issue 2, (2010).

4.M. Alubaidy, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and Abdul Salam Mahmood, “Nanofiber Plasmon Enhancement of Two-Photon Polymerization Induced by Femtosecond Laser” J. Nanotechnology. Eng. Med (ASMI) Volume 1, Issue 4, (2010)

5.M. Alubaidy, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan1, Bo Tan, and Abdul Salam Mahmood, “Mechanical Property Enhancement of Nanocomposite Microstructures Generated by Two Photon Polymerization” J. Nanotechnology. Eng. Med (ASMI) Volume 1, Issue 4 (2010).

6.M. Alubaidy, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan1, Bo Tan, and Abdul Salam Mahmood, “Femtosecond laser material processing of electrically femtosecond laser processing of conductive reinforced polymer” Journal of Nanostructured Polymers and composites, Volume 6, Issue 4 (2010).

7.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan and Bo Tan “Silicon Nano network P-N sandwich solar cell,” Journal of solar energy Material and solar cell, Volume 115, pp 58-63 (2013)

8.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, and Bo Tan, “Enhancement of spectral response of visible light absorption of TiO2 synthesis by femtosecond laser ablation” Proc. SPIE 8065, 80650H (2011)

9.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, and Bo Tan “3D Aluminum nanostructure with micro hole array synthesized by femtosecond laser radiation for enhanced light extinction” Journal of Nanoscale Research Letters, Volume 8, issue 1 (2013)

10. Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, and Bo Tan “Gold-silicon nanofiber synthesized by femtosecond laser radiation for enhanced light absorptance” submitted for Journal of Nanoscale Research Letters Volume 9, Issue 225 (2014)

Book Contribution

Writing a chapter of “Manufacturing Nanostructures” (Processing & synthesis of nanomaterials) hand book, has provisionally been accepted for publication. One Central Park, Northampton Road, Manchester M40 5BP United Kingdom

Conference Proceedings

1.A M. Alubaidy, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and Abdul Salam Mahmood “Synthesis of Titanium nanofibers, Nano-sphere and Nano-disc using femtosecond laser material processing, The X International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Oral Abstract acceptance ID T06-8, Septmber13-17 ( 2010) Rome, Italy.

2.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and M. Alubaidy “Enhancement of spectral response of visible light absorption of TiO2 synthesis by femtosecond laser ablation” Oral Abstract acceptance, SPIE Eco-Photonic 28-30 March (2011) Strasbourg, France.

3.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Bo Tan, and M. Alubaidy “The effect of laser fluency in gold-silicon nanoparticles aggregate produced by femtosecond laser radiation under ambient conditions” Oral Abstract acceptance, SPIE Micro technologies 18-20 April (2011) Prague, Czech Republic.

4.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, and Bo Tan “The Application of nanomaterials in Solar cell” TEXPO by CMC Microsystems Award 19-20 October (2011) Québec, Canada

5.Abdul Salam Mahmood, Essa Jafer, Sattar Hussain, Xavier Fernando “Wireless Body Area Network Development for Remote Patient Health Observing” 2017 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) Toronto, Canada

Thesis

1.AbdulSalam Mahmood, Fibrous Nanomaterials for Enhanced Light Absorption and Its Application in Photovoltaic Conversion, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Supervisors: Dr. Venkat Krishnan, Dr. Bo Tan.

2.AbdulSalam Mahmood, The effect of Roll Pass Design on the Mechanical Properties Aluminum Alloy 3003-AL, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Metallurgy and Production Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Supervisor: Dr. Walid Kheder.

3.AbdulSalam Mahmood, Study the Cutting Condition that affect the Surface Finish, B.Sc. Dissertation, Department of Metallurgy and Production Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Supervisor: Dr. Ismail Al Mandalywi.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

1)Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS): awarded by The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities of Ontario for the period of 2011/ 2012, on the amount of 15,000 $ CAD. The scholarship is awarded for academic excellence on competitive basis.

2)Ryerson Graduate Scholarship: awarded by Ryerson University for the periods of 09. 2010/ 09. 2011, 09. 2009/ 09. 2010 and 03. 2009/ 09. 2010, on the amount of 7,000 $ CAD per year. The scholarship is awarded for academic excellence on competitive basis.

3)Micro-Nano Technology (MNT) financial award at (AMPL) (Advanced Material and Process Engineering Laboratory) UBC, this award was sponsored by CMC Microsystems for the periods of 2010 and 2011, on the amount of 6,000 $ CAD per year. The scholarship is awarded for winning Nano project and excellence performance on competitive basis.

MEMBERSHIP

1)Licensing with The Professional Engineers of British Columbia APEGBC

2)American Nano Society

3)Reviewer of “Micro & Nano Letters”

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