Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Environmental Engineering, Computational Methods and Urban Water Infrastructure Management
Research areas
Water Distribution systems, Water Treatment, Recycling of Solid Waste Management, Water Quality Management in Coastal Water, and Water Infrastructure Management
Education
PhD, Civil Engineering/ Environmental Engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada
MS, Civil Engineering/ Hydraulic Modeling, Dalhousie University, Canada
BS, Civil Engineering/Environmental Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Professional experience
Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2018 - Present)
Associate Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2012 - 2018)
Adjunct Professor at University of Regina(2008 - 2013)
Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2008 - 2012)
Researcher at National Research Council of Canada, Canada(2006 - 2008)
Sessional Lecturer III at University of Regina, Canada(2007 - 2007)
Memberships
International Water Association, 2011 - present
Contact
+971 6 515 2648
Dr. Md. Mortula
Professor
PhD in Civil Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Md. Maruf Mortula has taught environmental engineering courses in civil engineering and environmental systems engineering departments for many years at AUS and the University of Regina, Canada. His areas of research and teaching interest are water distribution systems, water treatment, water infrastructure management, and water quality management in coastal areas and computational methods in environmental engineering applications. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a visiting researcher for the National Research Council of Canada.
Publications
Mohamed Yahia, Md. Mortula, Lutfi Albasha, Ameen Awwad, Tarig Ali, Ultrasound Water Leakage Image Denoising by the Iterative MMSE Filter, Published, 2020
Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh, Sami ElMahdy, Polarimetric SAR Speckle Reduction by Hybrid Iterative Filtering, Accepted, IEEE Access, 2020
Mohamed Yahia, Ameen Awwad, Md. Mortula, Lutfi Albasha, Tarig Ali, Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Evaluation of Plastic Water Pipes using Change Detection Techniques , Submitted, Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 2020
Fatiima Iqbal, Kazi Fattah, Md. Mortula, Comparative Evaluation of Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Activated Carbon for Treatment of Organic Matter and Solids from Residential Greywater, Accepted, International Association of Chemical, Biological, and Medical Sciences Researchers, 2020
Mayada Farah, Esraa, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Evaluation of Microplastic and Other Contaminants in the Leachates of Plastic Waste, Accepted, 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems, 2020
Ameen Awwad, Mohamed Yahia, Lutfi Albasha, Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Remote Thermal Water Leakage Sensor with a Laser Communication System, Submitted, IEEE ACCESS, 2020
Ameen Awwad, Mohamed Yahia, Lutfi Albasha, Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Remote Thermal Water Leakage Sensor with a Laser Communication System, Submitted, IEEE Access, 2020
Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riadh Abdelfattah, N Arampola, Sami ElMahdy, Multitemporal SAR Image Despeckling Based on IMMSE Filtering, Accepted, IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Sysmposium , 2020
Md. Mortula, Md Ahmed, Arif Sadri, Tarig Ali, Irtishad Ahmad, Alaeldinne Idris, Improving Resiliency of Water Supply System in Arid Regions: Integrating Centrality and Hydraulic Vulnerability, Accepted, Journal of Management in Engineering, 2020
Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Ahmed Elaksher, Municipal Wastewater Treatment using Different Coagulants, Published, Desalination and Water Treatment, 2020
Kazi Fattah, Md. Mortula, Leaching of Organic Material in Polymeric Pipes Distributing Desalinated Water, Published, International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 10, 2, pp. 210, 2020
Ameen Awwad, Mohammad Yahia, Lutfi Albasha, Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Communication Network for Ultrasonic Acoustic Water Leakage Detectors, Published, IEEE Access, 2020
Mohammad Yahia, Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Riad Abdelfatteh, Sami El Mahdi, N. S. Arampola, Enhancement of SAR Speckle Denoising Using the Improved Iterative Filter, Published, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2020
Mahsa Hashemi, Serter Atabay, Abdullah Yilmaz, Md. Mortula, Prediction of stage-discharge relationship in two-stage channels, Accepted, International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2020
Huda Aslam, Tarig Ali, Md Mortula, Atta Attaelmanan, Evaluation of microplastics in beach sediments along the coast of Dubai, UAE, Published, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 150, 2020
Md. Mortula, Kazi Fattah, Tarig Ali, Alaeldine Idris, Mayada Albardan, Spatiotemporal Assessment of Water Quality in the Distribution Network of City of Sharjah, UAE, Published, International Journal of Information and Decision System, 2019
Huda Aslam, Md. Mortula, Sherif Ahmed, Tarig Ali, Manreet Kaur, Evaluation of the Factors Impacting the Water Pipe Leak Detection Ability of NonDestructive Techniques, Submitted, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2019
Huda Aslam, Md. Mortula, Sherif Yehia, Tarig Ali, Manreet Kaur, Evaluation of the Factors Impacting Water Pipe Leak Detection ability of GPR, Infrared and Spectrometer, Submitted, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2019
Md. Mortula, Malak Abdelrahman, Comparative Evaluation of Pollutant Removal from Secondary Effluent using Reverse Osmosis, Nanofiltration and Converntional Filtration, Accepted, WEF-EESS Conference on Advancement in Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, AWWTR 2019, 2019
Md. Mortula, Irtishad Ahmad, Rehan Sadiq, Salwa Beheiry, A Conceptual Unified Model for Assessing Improvements in Sustainability and Resilience in Water Distribution Systems, Submitted, Hydrological Sustainability and Resilience Handbook, 2019
Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Haifa Ismail, Nour Aljafari, Assessment of Factors Affecting Bromate Formation in Drinking Water Bottles, Accepted, International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2019
Amina Hammodat, Md. Mortula, Evaluation of Water Quality in PPR Pipes, Published, 6th International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment, Sharjah, UAE, 2019
Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Rehan Sadiq, Ala Idris, Asam Al Mulla, Impacts of Water Quality on the Spatiotemporal Susceptibility of Water Distribution Systems, Published, Clean - Soil, Air, Water, 2019
H. Aslam, M. Kaur, S. Sasi, Md. Mortula, Sherif Ahmed, Tarig Ali, Detection of Leaks in Water Distribution System using Non-Destructive Techniques, Published, 150, 1, 2018
Huda Aslam, Manreet Kaur, Sneha Sasi, Md. Mortula, Sherif Ahmed, Tarig Ali, Detection of Leaks in Water Distribution System using Non-Destructive Techniques, Published, 2018
Heba Hussein, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula, Tarig Ali, Investigation of Water Quality Parameters for Coastal Lagoon, Published, Pollution Research, 37, 1, pp. 25-31, 2018
Mousa Attom, Md. Mortula, Munjed Alsharif, Shear strength stabilization using burned sludge ash, Published, 2017
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Monitoring and assessment of water quality of a coastal lake using high resolution imagery and GIS, Published, Pollution Research, 36, 1, pp. 8-17, 2017
Md. Mortula, Kazi Fattah, Tarig Ali, Study the Variability of Water Quality in a Large Water Distribution Network, Published, 2016
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, Ehsan Navadeh, A GIS-based spatiotemporal study of the variability of water quality in the Dubai creek, UAE, Published, Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 51, 3, pp. 219-232, 2016
Tarig Ali, Md. Mortula, Serter Atabay, GIS-based study on the susceptibility of dubai creek (UAE) to eutrophication, Published, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 25, 6, pp. 2275-2282, 2016
Tarig Ali, Serter Atabay, Md. Mortula, Ruijin Ma, Semiautomatic extraction of the shoreline from high-resolution satellite imagery and coastal terrain model, Published, Surveying and Land Information Science, 74, 1, pp. 15-21, 2015
Salwa Beheiry, Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, Md. Mortula, Adil Al-Tamimi, Integrating Sustainability Education in a Classical Civil Engineering Program: The Case of Transportation and Construction Courses, Published, Advanced Materials Research, 347, 353, pp. 2921-2932, 2011
Adil Al-Tamimi, Md. Mortula, Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, Salwa Beheiry, Evaluations of Sustainable Concepts in Civil Engineering Program., Published, The Built and Human Environment Review, 4, 1, pp. 1, 2011
Md. Mortula, Saifur Rahaman, A Computer Based Design of RWHS, Published, 2002
Conference Presentations
Md. Mortula, Issues related to water bottle, 1st Engineering Sustainability Competition for High School Students, April, 2019
Md Mortula, Evaluation of Water Quality in PPR Pipes, 6th International Conference on Energy, Water and Environment, Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March, 2019
Grants and sponsorships
Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution Network, Local
Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution Network, State
Performance of Concrete Pipes Exposed to Wastewater Flow, Private
mm-Wave Vector Network Analyzer On Wafer System, American University of Sharjah
Use of Electrocoagulation/Advanced Oxidation - Membrane Process for Greywater Treatment and Reuse, Federal
Improving Sustainability and Resilience in Water Distribution Systems; A Lifecycle Thinking Approach, American University of Sharjah
Study of Microplastics Contamination in Beach Sediment and Surface Water , American University of Sharjah
Development of Smart Leak Detection Technologies for Water Distribution, American University of Sharjah
Experimental Assessment of Leakage in Water Distribution Network, Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority
Assessment of Chemical and Biological Stability of Water within Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority Distribution Network, American University of Sharjah
Awards and Honors
Gulf Environment Research Grant (Beeah) 2015
Smart City Research Institute, American University of Sharjah, 2018
Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015
Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellowship, administered by NSERC, 2006-2008
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Grant, PGSD-2, 2004-2006
Other creative/research
Mortula, M. 2008. Phosphorus Treatment Using Alum Residual. Published by VDM Publishing, ISBN 978-3-639-06818-4
Mortula, M., Salam, A., and Gagnon, G.A. 2009. Surface Characterization of Oven-Dried Alum Residuals for Understanding the Adsorption Behavior of Orthophosphate. Poster presented at 5th Pacific Basin Conference on Adsorption Science and Technology.
