Faculty

College / Department

Teaching areas

Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Advanced Water Resources Engineering, Statics

Research areas

River engineering, catchment flood management plans, Strategic Flood Risk Management, Channel resistance, boundary shear stress distributions, Overbank flow, flood hydraulics, Sediment mechanics, Hydraulic structures at high flow, e.g. bridges and Environmental Hydrology and Modelling.

Education

PhD, Open Channel Hydraulics, Water Resources, The University of Birmingham

Professional experience

Senior Engineer, Project Manager(2006 - 2008)

Senior Engineer(2002 - 2006)

Research Assistant(2001 - 2002)

Memberships

The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, 2001 - present

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2998

Website

https://www.aus.edu/faculty/dr-serter-atabay

Dr. Serter Atabay

Professor

PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

Serter Atabay has more than seven years of professional experience with the UK's leading specialists in flood risk and environmental management. He has taught a variety of courses for undergraduate students, including fluid mechanics, water resources engineering, coastal engineering and statics. His general area of specialization is open channel hydraulics, and his research interests span over a few sub-areas of research including compound channel flow mechanism and boundary shear stress distributions, and hydraulic structures such us bridges and culverts.

Publications

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

Mohammed Yamin, Mousa Attom, Serter Atabay, Ramesh Vandanapu, THE EFFECT OF COMPACTION EFFORT ON SHEAR STRENGTH PARAMETERS OF LOW/HIGH PLASTICITY CLAY SOILS, Submitted, Applied Clay Science, 2019

Khalid Kaddoura, Tarek Zayed, Serter Atabay, Alaa Hawari, Automated Detection Tool for Deformed Buried Conduits, Published, 2019

Khalid Kaddoura, Tarek Zayed, Zhi Chen, Altayeb Qasem, Serter Atabay, Optimized Maintenance Model for Wastewater Treatment Plants, Submitted, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019

Abdullah Yilmaz, Abdallah Shanableh, Tarek Merabtene, serter atabay, Naseraldin Kayemah, Rainfall Trends and Intensity-Frequency-Duration Relationships in Sharjah City, UAE, Accepted, the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2019

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

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

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

Conference Presentations

Serter Atabay, Climate oscillation factors controlling hydrodynamic variability in urban lagoons under extreme environmental conditions in the southern Arabian Gulf, United Arab Emirates, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020, San Diego, California, United States, February, 2020

Grants and sponsorships

FRG19-Medium : Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change., American University of Sharjah, 2021

Assessment of coastal processes in the nearshore areas of Sharjah: : Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change, State, 2020

Lagoon Dynamics and Vulnerability Assessment on the Sharjah coast—Impacts of Climate Change., American University of Sharjah

Improving Sustainability and Resilience in Water Distribution Systems; A Lifecycle Thinking Approach, American University of Sharjah

Assessment of Chemical and Biological Stability of Water within Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority Distribution Network, American University of Sharjah

Awards and Honors

, Featured Researcher of the month, AUS library in a newly launched library series, 2018

, Best technical note of 2018, The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2018

, Best Paper Award, 18th International Conference on Agricultural, Environmental, Ecological and Ecosystems Sciences which was held in Rome, September 15~16, 2016, 2016

, Analysing of experimental data from SERC flood Channel facility (Skew flow experiments, CEN-Seed Research Grant, 2008