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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering

Teaching areas

Transportation Planning, Highway Design, Traffic Engineernig, Airport Planning and Design, Public Transit Systems

Research areas

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications, dynamic traffic assignment (DTA), traffic signal design and operations, traffic flow theory, and operations research applications in transportation networks.

Education

PhD, Civil Engineering - Transportation, University of Texas at Austin, United States
MS, Civil Engineering - Transportation, Cairo University
BS, Civil Engineering, Cairo University

Professional experience

Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2018 - Present)
Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2009 - 2018)
Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States(2015 - 2015)
Visiting Scholar at University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia(2014 - 2015)
Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(1999 - 2009)
Part-Time Transportation Expert at Emirates Transportation and Traffic (ET&T), United Arab Emirates(2006 - 2008)
Part-Time Transportation Expert at ItalConsult, United Arab Emirates(2002 - 2006)
Visiting Assistant Professor at University of British Colombia, Canada(2002 - 2002)
Transportation Expert at Cairo University, Egypt(2001 - 2002)
Visiting Scholar at University of Texas, United States(2000 - 2000)
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Texas, United States(1994 - 1999)
Prat-Time Graduate Teaching Assistant at American University of Cairo, Egypt(1992 - 1993)
Part-time Graduate Research Assistant at Cairo University, Egypt(1990 - 1993)
Part-Time Highway Engineer at Egyptian Group for Engineering Consultation (EGEC), Egypt(1990 - 1993)
Teaching Assistant at Cairo University, Egypt(1988 - 1993)

Memberships

Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers, Cairo, Egypt, 1988 - present
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994 - 1999
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Austin, Tx, USA, 1994 - 1999
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) - America, 1994 - 1999

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2903

Dr. Akmal Abdelfatah

Professor
PhD in Civil Engineering (Transportation), University of Texas at Austin, USA

Akmal Abdelfatah worked as a teaching/graduate research assistant at Cairo University, American University in Cairo, and UT-Austin. He has taught several graduate and undergraduate courses in civil engineering, engineering systems management and urban planning. His areas of research and teaching interest areas are Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic operations, transportation planning and operations research. In addition to his academic experience, he has worked as a part-time transportation planning and traffic expert for companies in the UAE.

Publications

Sherif Yehia, Akmal Abdelfatah, Doaa Mansour, Effect of Aggregate Type and Specimen Configuration on Concrete Compressive Strength, Published, Crystals, 10, 625, 2020
Akmal Abdelfatah, Akmal Abdelfatah, Effect of Automated Vehicles on Freeway Performance, Published, Wulfenia Jouranl, 27, 2, pp. 83-107, 2020
Akmal Abdelfatah, Akmal Abdelfatah, Influence of Autonomous Vehicles on Freeway Traffic Performance for Undersaturated Traffic Conditions , Published, Athens Journal of Technology and Engineering , 7, 2, pp. 117-132, 2020
Akmal Abdelfatah, Akmal Abdelfatah, Estimation of Saturation Flow Rate at Signalized Intersections in UAE, Revising to Resubmit, Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020
Akmal Abdelfatah, Akmal Abdelfatah, Influence of Autonomous Vehicles on Freeway Traffic Performance for Oversaturated Traffic Conditions, Published, Road and Safety Simulation Conference (RSS2019), 2019
Akmal Abdelfatah, Mohammad Alozn, Comparing Roundabout and Metered Roundabout Performance under Different Traffic Conditions, Published, International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research , 8 , 2, pp. 178-182, 2019
Akmal Abdelfatah, Osama ElSahly, EFFECTS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON FREEWAY TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE, Submitted, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019
Sami Tabsh, Hany El-Kadi, Akmal Abdelfatah, Faculty Perception of Engineering Student Cheating and Effective Measures to Curb It, Published, EDUCON2019 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, Dubai, UAE, 2019
Sami Tabsh, Hany El-Kadi, Akmal Abdelfatah, Faculty perception of engineering student cheating and effective measures to curb it, Published, April-2019, pp. 806-810, 2019
Raafat Aburukba, Ayatollah Yehia, Jad Abdul Malak, Rami Mithalouni, Developing a Software Design for a Bridge Management System for UAE , Accepted, 2019
Akmal Abdelfatah, Mohamed Ghoneim, Sherif Ahmed, Inspection and Condition Assessment Proposal for Bridges in UAE, Published, 2019
Akmal Abdelfatah, Dynamic Traffic Assignment for ITS, Published, pp. 251-264, 2017
Sami Tabsh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Hany El Kadi, Engineering students and faculty perceptions of academic dishonesty, Published, Quality Assurance in Education, 25, 4, pp. 378-393, 2017
Akmal Abdelfatah, Eyad Trabulsi, Accessibility Density – A New Trend for Transportation Planning, Published, Int'l Journal of Research in Chemical, Metallurgical and Civil Engg. (IJRCMCE), 3, 1, pp. 151-155, 2016
Sami Tabsh, Hany El-Kadi, Akmal Abdelfatah, Engineering students' perception of academic dishonesty at an American university in the UAE, Published, 10-13-April-2016, pp. 729-732, 2016
Sami Tabsh, Hany El-Kadi, Akmal Abdelfatah, Past and Present engineering students' views on academic dishonesty at a Middle-Eastern University, Published, International Journal of Engineering Education, 31, 5, pp. 1334-1342, 2015
Sami Tabsh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Mohammad AlHamaydeh, Sherif Yehia, Comparison of civil engineering curricula in the arab world, Published, International Journal of Engineering Education, 28, 5, pp. 1213-1220, 2012
Sami Tabsh, Hany el Kadi, Akmal Abdelfatah, Faculty response to ethical issues at an American university in the Middle-East, Published, Quality Assurance in Education, 20, 4, pp. 319-340, 2012
Sherif Yehia, Mohammad Al Hamaydeh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Sami Tabsh, ABET-accredited civil engineering programmes following track system: Part I - Survey and framework development, Published, Global Journal of Engineering Education, 14, 1, pp. 57-68, 2012
Sherif Yehia, Mohammad Al Hamaydeh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Sami Tabsh, ABET-accredited civil engineering programmes following track system: Part II - Implementation of the proposed framework, Published, Global Journal of Engineering Education, 14, 1, pp. 69-76, 2012
Akmal Abdelfatah, Sami Tabsh, Review of research on and implementation of recycled concrete aggregate in the GCC, Published, Advances in Civil Engineering, 2011, 2011
Sami Tabsh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Current Research and Implementation of Recycled Concrete in the GCC Countries, Published, International Conference on Sustainable Systems and the Environment, 2011
Sami Tabsh, Akmal Abdelfatah, Influence of recycled concrete aggregates on strength properties of concrete, Published, Construction and Building Materials, 23, 2, pp. 1163-1167, 2009
Akmal Abdelfatah, Testing a traffic signal optimisation algorithm, Published, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport, 159, 1, pp. 41-49, 2006
Akmal Abdelfatah, H. Mahmassani, A simulation-based signal optimization algorithm within a dynamic traffic assignment framework, Published, pp. 428-433, 2001

Conference Presentations

Akmal Abdelfatah, Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities, KAUST Research Conference on Sustainable Urban-Environmental Future, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April, 2019
Mohammad Alozn, Comparing Roundabout and Metered Roundabout Performance under Different Traffic Conditions, 6th International Conference on Civil and Urban Engineerting, Belgium, March, 2019

Grants and sponsorships

FRG19-L-E37: Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure in UAE: planning and Operation, American University of Sharjah, 2022
OAP-1, American University of Sharjah, 2020
Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Freeway Traffic Performance, American University of Sharjah, 2019
The use of Wastewater & Recycled Demolition Wastes to Reduce Pollution in UAE; Utilization of Recycled Construction Materials Produced by CDW Unit/Beeah; and, Performance Evaluation of Recycled Crushed Concrete as Pavement Materials, Local, 2017

Awards and Honors

Member of the Malaysia Sustainable Cities: MIT-UTM International Scholars Program for academic year 2014/2015.(http://malaysiacities.mit.edu/scholars)
AUS Faculty Research Grants in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013
Elected, by students, as the best Professor in Civil Engineering, at the American University of Sharjah, for academic year 2001/2002.

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