Mohammad Ameen Al-Jarrah, Professor and Department Head
PhD., Stanford University, USA, 1989

Address:
American University of Sharjah
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: ER 107
Office: +(971) 6 515 2464
Fax: +(971) 6 515 2979
E-mail:mjarrah@aus.edu

Research Interests

Autonomous vehicles with emphasis on UAVs,  Mechatronics systems design,  modeling and simulation of physical systems, applied aerodynamics.

Courses

Mohammad Ameen Al-Jarrah received Diplom Engineer in Mashine design and Manufacturing in 1980 from the Byelorussian Polytechnic in USSR, MSc in Applied Mechanics from Yarmouk University (1983), and MSc and PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Sharjah in 2000, where he is presently a full professor. He has served as the founding  director of the AUS mechatronics graduate program since it was founded in 2001 until August of 2007.  He is currently the head of the mechanical engineering department at AUS. He has also authored or coauthored more than 70 papers that have appeared in various journals and conference proceedings.

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

1. Ashley, H., Katz, J., Jarrah, M.A., and Vaneck, T., “Survey of Research on Unsteady Aerodynamic Loading of Delta Wings.” Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 5, pp. 363-369, 1991.
2. Jarrah, M.A., Aldoss, T.K., and Al-Sarkhi, A.M., “Interaction of Two Opposite Conical Wall Jets.” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 17., no. 4, pp. 397-402, August 1996.
3. Jarrah, M. A., “Prediction of Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on Maneuvering Delta Wing.” Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol., no. 9, pp. 925-936, 1995.
4. Duwairi, H.M, Aldoss, T.K., Jarrah, M.A., “Nonsimilarity Solutions for Non-Darcy Mixed Convection from Horizontal Surfaces in a Porous Medium.” Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 33, pp. 149-156, 1997.
5. Jarrah M.A., Qassem, W., Othman, M., and Gdeisat, M., “Human Body Model Response to Mechanical Impulse.” Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol. 19, June 1997.
6. Sahout, A., and Jarrah M.A., “Cruise Control Technology Review.” Accepted for publication, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 259-271, 1997.
7. Qassem, W., Jarrah, M.A., and Othman, M., “Heart Response to Horizontal Impulse.” Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 22, pp. 82-90, 1998.
8. Jarrah, M. A., and Hoa, S., “Characteristics of the Interface between Originally Cured and Added Laminates Subjected to Variations in the Pressure Cycle.” Journal of Reinforced Plastics & Composites, Vol. 17, no. 6, 1998.
9. Masoud, S., Jarrah, M.A., and Al-Maamory, M., “Effect of Crack Depth on the Natural Frequency of Prestressed Fixed-Fixed Beam.” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 214 (2), pp. 201-212, Article no. sv860430, 1998.
10. Jarrah, M.A., and Shaout, A., “Automatic Breaking System Using Fuzzy Logic.” Accepted for publication in Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 7, 1999, pp 47-54.
11. Alata M., Jarrah M., Demirli K., and Bulgak A., “Fuzzy Gain Scheduling for Position Control of A Robot Manipulator.” Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000.
12. Qassem, W., Jarrah, M.A.., and Othman, M., “ Nonlinear Human Body Model Subjected to Vertical Vibrations.” Accepted for publication in Abhath Al-Yarmouk Journal (2000).
13. Kodah, Z., Jarrah, M., and Al-Jamal, K., “Heat Transfer on A/C Humidifier Operating by Solar Energy.” Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.36, No.1, pp.51-55, 2000.
14. Jarrah, M.A., Al-Assaf, Y., and El-Kadi, H., “Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling of Fatigue Life Prediction of Unidirectional Glass Fiber/Epoxy Composite Laminates.” Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 36, No. 06/2002.
15. Jarrah, M.A., Tahat, M.S.M, and Hoa, S.V., “Mode-II Fracture at the Interface between a Base and a Repair graphite/epoxy Laminates." Accepted for publication in the Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 963-981, 2002.
16. M.A. Jarrah, and A. Shaout, "Fuzzy Modular Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control (AICC) System.” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 11, pp. 121–134, 2002.
17. Dweiri F., Al-Jarrah, M., Al-Wedyan H., “Fuzzy Surface Roughness Modeling of CNC Down Milling of Alumic-79.” Journal of Material Processing Technology, Vol. 133, pp. 266-275, 2003.
18. S.N. Akour, M.A. Jarrah, 2005, “Experimental and numerical analysis of natural convection for Al-5.5%Cu alloy”, Accepted for publication, Journal of Material Processing Technology.
19. Hasan M M, and Jarrah M.A., 2005, “ Hardware in the Loop Simulator for AUS-UAV System”,  International Journal Automation Austria, Special Issue.
20. Alsaleem F M, and Jarrah M. A., 2005, “ Evaluation and Comparison Study of Shooting Ball Algorithm”,  International Journal Automation Austria, Special Issue.
21. Tachwali Y., Jarrah M.A., 2005, “Continuous  Gains Scheduling for Underactuated Systems”, International Journal Automation Austria, Special Issue.
22. Al-Ali A.R., Jarrah M.A., Dhaouadi R., “Microcontrollers-Operated Anthropomorphic Manipulator with Haptic Feedback” Accepted Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Oct., 2005.

Proceedings and Conferences

1. Jarrah, M.A., “Low-Speed Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Flow about Delta Wings, Oscillating in Pitch to very High Angle of Attack.” AIAA Paper 89-0205, AIAA, January 1989.
2. Jarrah, M.A., and Ashley, H.,” Impact of Flow Unsteadiness on Maneuvers and Loads of Agile Aircraft.” AIAA Paper 89-1282, April 1989
3. Jarrah, M.A., “Visualization of the Flow about Delta Wing, Maneuvering in Pitch to Very High Angle of Attack.” International Symposium on Nonsteady Fluid Dynamics. FED Vol. 92, June 1990.
4. Ashley, H., Katz, J., Jarrah, M.A., and Vaneck, T., “Unsteady Aerodynamic Loading of Delta Wings for Low and High Angles of Attack.” International Symposium on Nonsteady Fluid Dynamics. FED Vol. 92, June 1990.
5. Jarrah M. and Al-Jarrah O., “Position Control of a Robot Manipulator Using Continuous Gain Scheduling.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Detroit, Michigan, 1999.
6. Jarrah, M.A., and Al-Widyan, K. "Fuzzy Logic Based Autopilots for UAVs." International NAISO Congress on Information Science Innovation, ISI'2001, March 17-21, 2001.
7. Al-Assaf, Y., Al-Ali, A.R., and Jarrah, M.A. "Continuing Education Program in Mechatronics Engineering at American University of Sharjah." Millennium Dawn in Training and Continuing Education, University of Bahrain, April 24-26, 2001.
8. Jarrah, M.A., Al-Assaf, Y., and El-Kadi, H. "Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling of Fatigue Life Prediction of Unidirectional Glass Fiber/Epoxy Composite Laminates." CANCOM 2001, Montreal, August 2001.
9. Jarrah, M., Al-Bahi, A., “Neuro-Fuzzy Logic Modeling of High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics.” International Conference on Multidisciplinary Design in Engineering CSME-MDE, Montreal, Canada, November 2001.
10. Abdul-Rahman, Al-Ali, Al-Jarrah, Mohammed, and Bettayeb, Maamar, “Remote Laboratories for Distant Engineering Education.” International E-Learning Symposium, Dubai, May 2002.
11. Al-Ali, A.R., and Jarrah, M.A., “Intelligent Embedded Irrigation System.” Mechatronics 2002, Eighth Mechatronics Forum International Conference University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, June 24-26, 2002.
12. Jarrah, M.A., and Al-Ali, A.R., “Teaching Embedded Systems for Mechatronics Engineers.” AMTE 2002 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Education in the 21st Century, Taiwan, August 2002.
13. Jarrah, M.A., and Al-Ali, A.R., “Web-Based Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics of Machinery.” IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics 2004, Turkey, June 2004.
14. Jarrah, M.A., and Al-Khader M., “Controller Design of the Locomotion System for an Autonomous Cleaning System,” EEE International Conference on Mechatronics 2004, Turkey, June 2004.
15. Jarrah, M.A., and Qassem, W., "Vibration Effects on the Human Eye." Summer Computer Simulation Conference, San Jose, July 2004.
16. S.N. Akour, M.A. Jarrah “EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF NATURAL CONVECTION FOR AL-5.5%CU ALLOY”, The Worldwide Congress on Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology COMMENT'2005, Poland, May, 2005
17. M. A. Jarrah,, “Teaching Mechatronics Design Course for Engineers” IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its social impact, Nagoya, Japan, 2005
18. M. Hasan,  M. A. Jarrah,  UAE, ” HILS Setup of Dynamic Flight Path Planning in 3D environment with Flexible Mission Planning using Ground Stations”, AUS-ISM06, April, 2006.
19. O. Al-Dabbas, M. Hasan, S. Islam, and M. A. Jarrah, “Low-cost-IMU Calibration for UAV  Applications”, AUS-ISM06, April, 2006.
20. I. Younis, Awadi, M.A. Jarrah, “Autonomous Cleaning System for Dubai Airport”, AUS-ISM06, April, 2006.
21. M.A Jarrah, and F.M Al-Saleem, ”Bondgraph Robot Soccer Simulation for Minimum Time Attacker Maneuvers”, IV-IEEE Conference, Istanbul, June 12-15, 2007.
22. Hussein Sedjadi, and M.A. Jarrah, “Autonomous Cleaning System for Dubai Airport”, ISMA07, Sharjah, UAE, March 2007.
23. M.A. Jarrah, Judeh Yasin, “Control of underactuated manipulator”, ISMA07, Sharjah, UAE, March 2007