Associate Professor (Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering)

•          Teaching courses in Environmental Engineering modeling, Plumbing for water supply and wastewater, Hydraulics, Hydraulic structures, Water Treatment, Computer Applications in Water Resources, Sanitary Sewer Network Design.

•          Master of science programs coordinator and Environmental Engineering Laboratories manager.

•          Researcher and supervisor for four environmental engineering research projects.

•         Developed an analysis tool for numerical modeling training for graduate students in water resources and in environmental engineering.

•         As a Private Consultant:

o    Undertook the investigation of water resources usage and development projects in the Government of Southern Sudan.

o    Predicted dewatering requirements (via use of numerical modeling) for the Management of Water TableRise around Booster Station 140, Burgan Oil Field, Kuwait.

o    Evaluation of feasibility design City of Omdurman sewerage system network.

o    Evaluation of design and rehabilitation of an industrial wastewater treatment plant.

o    Evaluation of design and rehabilitation of Khartoum’s wastewater pumping stations.

o    Evaluation of design and rehabilitation of Algooz Wastewater Treatment plant (Khartoum’s First and oldest WWT).

Associate Researcher (Water Resources Division)

•          Conducted research projects and consulting in the fields of hydrology, water management, and environmental engineering.

•          Development and implementation of multiple numerical models.

•          Administering and teaching short courses and on the job training while initiating new research ideas.

•          As the principal investigator in the project developed the draft Uniform Potable-Water Plumbing Code for Kuwait (UPPCK)

•          As a Project Manager; investigated and managed the project of “leakage problem in the freshwater pipe network of the State of Kuwait” to estimate the magnitude of the problem, causes, and recommendations for enhancement of the network

•          Built a numerical model for the backbone of the pipe network of the State of Kuwait

•          Developed a numerical model for the management and interactions of the fresh water lenses in northern Kuwait (using the international code FeFlow)

•          Developed a graphical user interface FTCGUI for post-processing and analysis of output numerical models including KISR’s FTC package for groundwater flow, transport, and compaction

•          Application of the FTC package to predict the impact of Al-Atraf well field

•          Developed a treatment unit to treat groundwater polluted with hydrogen sulfide

•         Developed a treatment unit to remove ammonium polluted groundwater in the Petrochemical Industrial Complex

•          Consult on management of demand of the potable water saving project by investigating the patterns of use within residential areas in Kuwait.

                 Associate Engineer

•         Development and verification of codes that include state-of-the-art concepts in ground-water hydrology to facilitate integrated water-resources management.

•          Development and validation of Eulerian-Lagrangian finite-element code to predict contaminant transport.

•          Development of deforming grid algorithm to simulate excavation of a pit and to facilitate solution time in mine dewatering models.

•          Development and validation of code to compute pertinent statistical parameters for finite element models.

•          Development of pre-processing and post-processing codes for finite element models.

•         Modification of finite element codes to incorporate hydrogeological processes such as evapotranspiration, pit lake infilling, and ephemeral streams.

•         Investigation of design alternatives for removal of volatile organic compounds.

•          Design of subsurface horizontal drainage system to control ground-water seepage into city’s building and parking lots.

•          Design of pumping system to control ground-water contamination plume.

•          Design of small rubber dam for feasibility study.

•          Investigation of hydraulics and sediment transport in natural streams and man-made channels.

•         Modification of finite difference solute transport code (MT3D) to accommodate kinetic equilibrium of solute and solids.

•         Evaluation of pipe network connecting extraction wells relative to proposed extension and rehabilitation.

•          Development and verification of algorithm for particle tracking in finite element and finite difference models.

•          Training company’s employees in the use of numerical modeling and company’s proprietary codes. 30% of time was dedicated for research and development.

•          Teaching international courses and workshops in the implementation of numerical modeling in complex environments.

Lecturer

•  Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on urban drainage, wastewater collection and treatment, design of water supply and wastewater treatment facilities, water chemistry, and environmental modeling.

• Taught extension courses in computer application to police officers and practicing engineers.

• Supervised four M.S. and co-supervised one Ph.D. research projects.

•   Research focused on numerical modeling of drainage systems and modeling of treatment systems.

  Independent Consultant

• Water supply, surface drainage, and sanitation components of Greater Khartoum structural plan for year 2000.

•          Design of water supply and wastewater treatment facilities and pipe networks.

•          Evaluation of water supply and sanitation in rural area. Project involved collection of baseline data, identification of basic needs for water supply and sanitation, and design of plan to improve these systems.

•          Evaluation of existing water supply, fire fighting, rain-runoff drainage, and sanitary systems for two textile factories. Project included proposed rehabilitation of systems.

•         Evaluation of proposal to improve urban sanitation system

•          Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment of UNICEF’s Handpump and Sanitation program in Sudanese province.

Staff Engineer

•         Prediction of effects of irrigation pumping in the vicinity of the Arkansas river on the river’s base flow which has implications on the Arkansas river compact between the Stats of Kansas and Colorado.

•          Built an “irrigated response model” to predict amount of pumping needed for irrigation and other agricultural activities as result of changes in availability of allocated surface water and selling prices of crops.

•         Modifying HEC-6 sediment transport model to include super-critical flow.

•          Dynamic graphical presentation of output from ground-water models.

•          Developed my first finite element two-dimensional groundwater model for flow and solute transport.

•          Developed a groundwater optimizing package for water levels and solute management. Applied the optimization package to manage the groundwater levels in the San Bernardino County (South California) to solve the water rise problem in the Amphes theater in Hollywood..