Dr. Ahmed Fathy Omran
University of Sherbrooke,Civil Engineering and Building Engineering,Research associate, Canada
Dr. Ahmed Omran is an Assistant Research Professor at the School of Civil and Construction Engineering – College of Engineering – Oregon State University (OSU) in USA starting 2018, full-professor at Hunan University in China through 100 Talent Program, and adjunct professor at the University of Minoufia (UofM) in Egypt. He earned his BSc in Civil Engineering (ranked 1st of the class and received 3 prizes) and MSc in Structural Engineering (ranked 3rd of the class) from the UM, and his PhD and Post-Doc in Concrete Technology and Materials from the University of Sherbrooke (UofS) in Canada. Currently, he is studying Engineering Management at UofS. He is licensed a P.Eng. from the PEO in Canada.
Dr. Omran’s main research interests are the development of sustainable infrastructural materials for construction and rehabilitation of civil engineering structures. He is specialist in concrete rheology and formwork pressure, material characterization, durability and shrinkage of concrete. He carries out experimental-based research on lab. scale, among which ≥ 90% end up in-situ large-scale applications with industrial partners’ collaboration (technology transfer). He aware of in-situ monitoring of concrete structures using NDT methods and sensors. He designs his experiments using statistical design approach. The concerned materials include supplementary cementing materials; admixtures; recycled, by-products, and bio-based materials; normal and lightweight aggregates; natural, synthetic, and steel fibers (including Nano-filament). He is familiar with durability aspects including, permeability, chloride ingress, moisture content, alkali-aggregate reaction, de-icer salt scaling, and corrosion. He is experienced in designing specialty concrete types such as self-consolidating concrete (SCC), roller-compacted concrete (RCC), ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), fiber-reinforced composites (FRC) and others. Recently, he has been involved in modeling of concrete behaviors.
He is concerned with standards and specifications performance of concrete, and has been actively involved in the ACI 237 (SCC), ACI 238 (workability of concrete), ACI 347 (formwork), ACI 555 (concrete with recycled materials), ACI E703 (concrete construction practices), CSA S269.1/S269.3 (formwork/falsework for construction purposes), CSA A3000 (cementitious materials compendium), RILEM FPC 233 (formwork pressure of concrete), ASTM C09.24 (supplementary cementitious materials), and ASTM C09 (concrete and concrete aggregates).
He is a reviewer of many International Journals and Conferences, such as ASTM J of Test & Eval, Elsevier J of Const & Build Mat., Elsevier J of Eng Struct, RILEM Mat & Struct, ACI Mat J, ASCE J of Mat in Civil Eng, and others.
Dr. Ahmed has taught courses in the area of Engineering Materials, Rheology, Concrete Technology, Durability and Repair of Structures, Structural Design, Engineering Introduction, Engineering drawing, Statistics.
Dr. Omran’s innovative research over years in Canada, USA, Sweden, and Egypt has resulted in more than 100 publications and co-advised more than 30 students. He honored with the ACI Wason Medal for most Meritorious Paper (2017) and Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing & Recognized reviewer from Elsevier J. of Constr. & Build. Materials (2017). He awarded Best Presentation from the International Conference on Concrete, Structural, and Geotechnical Engineering (ICCSGE 2018) held in Dubai–UAE (2018), and Best Paper for the work of “Green Ultra-High-Performance Glass Concrete” from the 1st Int. Interactive Symp. on UHPC held in Des Moines-Iowa-USA (2016).