Proceedings of the 4^th World Congress
on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'18)

Dr. Jalel Azaiez
The University of Calgary, Canada
HTFF Keynote Speaker

Jalel Azaiez is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the University of Calgary (Canada). He is also Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. He holds a Dilôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Centrale de Paris (France) and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Stanford University (U.S.A.) both in Chemical Engineering. His recent research focuses on modelling fluid flow instabilities and in particular those involving complex flows in porous media. These include non-isothermal flows with or without chemical reactions, involving Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids with a particular focus on nanofluids in micro-geometries. His research team has developed a number of software and mathematical algorithms to analyze flow instabilities under a wide variety of conditions that have applications in the fields of oil recovery, soil remediation and materials processing. He holds a number of awards on his research and teaching accomplishments. He serves on the editorial board of three Journals and has presented invited talks and seminars in numerous worldwide forums (Belgium, France, Japan, USA, etc.).

Topic of Keynote:
Active Control of Viscous Fingering Instabilities in Porous Media Flows

Dr. Mohamed Hamed
McMaster University, Canada
HTFF Keynote Speaker

Mohamed Hamed is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Founding Director of the Thermal Processing Laboratory (TPL) at The Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. His research interests are in modelling fluid flow, heat transfer, and materials processes of various thermofluid systems. His research involves laboratory scale experiments and numerical modelling techniques. His research contributions have been disseminated in more than 100 scientific publications. Dr. Hamed has taught several undergraduate and graduate courses: Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Modeling of Thermal Processes, Advanced Fluid Mechanics. He has developed a number of technical courses for practicing engineers in the areas of Optimization of Energy Efficiencies in Industrial Processes, Advanced Energy Management, Renewable Energy Systems, and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Sustems. Dr. Hamed is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada and a Member of different professional societies such as: CSME, ASME, ASM Heat Treating Society, SME, ASHRAE, and CFD Society of Canada. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering and an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of various National and International journals: Transactions of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), The International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties (IJMMP), The International Journal of Computational Thermal Sciences, Journal of Materials Performance and Characterization, and The International Journal of Electronics Cooling and Thermal Control. He is also a technical reviewer in more than thirty technical international journals and funding agencies.

Topic of Keynote:
Jet Impingement Boiling Heat Transfer-A Complex and Effective Phenomenon

Dr. Chamil Abeykoonv
The University of Manchester, UK
HTFF'18 Keynote Speaker

Chamil received his BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with the award of best performance in Mechanical Engineering in 2007. Then, he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from the Queens University Belfast, UK with several publications where one of his publications was awarded with a young author best paper award from the IEEE in 2011. After having a few academic positions, Chamil joined the Faculty of Science and Engineering of University of Manchester (UoM) as an Assistant Professor in October 2015. Currently Chamil is working mainly with the Northwest Composts Centre and the Aerospace Research Institute of the UoM. So far, he has authored 35+ peer-reviewed journal/conference papers. Moreover, he is the author of the monograph Polymer Extrusion: A Study on Thermal Monitoring Techniques and Melting Issues. His research interests include: Process Monitoring, Modelling and Control; Soft Sensors and Soft Sensing; Process Instrumentation; Energy Efficiency; and Heat Transfer. At present, he is mainly researching in the areas such as melt flow behaviour in polymer processing, 3D printing, development of inferential (soft) sensors for processing applications, heat transfer (heat flow and cooling) in gas turbine applications. He is an associate member of the IESL, IMechE, ICPM and also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.

Topic of Keynote:
Investigation of Thermal Stability of Non-Newtonian Melt Flows

Dr. Patrick Fairclough
The University of Sheffield, UK
ICMIE Keynote Speaker

Professor Patrick Fairclough completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a PhD in Neutron Scattering in 1995. He spent a short period in industry developing bespoke scientific equipment before returning to academia, focusing on scattering techniques applied to Polymers and Soft Condensed Matter. He took an academic position, in Chemistry, at the University of Sheffield in 1997, and moved to a chair in manufacturing within Mechanical Engineering in 2013.

Dr. Fairclough research covers a range of polymers, common in the coatings and composites industries. His team has interests in the manufacturing of coatings and composites ranging from synthetic polymer chemistry, phase separation, networks and diffusion, to novel manufacturing technologies. He works with a wide variety of scientist and engineers from academic, industry and health care.

Topic of Keynote:
Natural Material Short Fibre Composites via Additive Manufacturing

Dr. Peter Folkow
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
ICMIE Keynote Speaker

Peter D. Folkow is Associate Professor at Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He received his PhD degree in Mechanics studying inverse wave propagation problems in beams and plates. His research interest has developed towards studying various direct wave propagation and structural dynamics problems; both of applied nature, e.g. energy harvesting, and of more basic oriented nature. Among the latter, he has for 20 years participated in the development of more accurate theories for structural elements (beams, plates, shells) applicable to all sorts of materials such as sandwich, anisotropic, poroelastic, functionally graded, piezoelectric and micromechanic materials.

Dr Folkow is since 2015 head of the Division of Dynamics at Chalmers. The division’s research covers several fields within solid dynamics such as modal analyses, multibody dynamics, wave propagation and fatigue phenomena. In addition the division is host for the National Centre of Excellence in Railway Mechanics (CHARMEC).

Topic of Keynote:
A Systematic Approach to Develop a Family of Theories for Structural Elements

Dr. Emmanuel De Moor
Colorado School of Mines, USA
MMME Keynote Speaker

Emmanuel De Moor is Assistant Professor with the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Materials Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium. His research interests pertain to physical metallurgy of ferrous alloys and understanding interrelationships between properties, microstructure, alloying and processing history. He is involved in advanced high strength sheet, plate, wire, rail and forging steel research at the advanced steel processing and products research center, an industry-university cooperative research center at Colorado School of Mines. He currently teaches metallurgical and materials thermodynamics and iron and steelmaking. He is a recipient of the AIST Kent D. Peaslee junior faculty award, the SAE/AISI Sydney H. Melbourne Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Automotive Sheet Steel and the 2016 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.

Topic of Keynote:
Tempering Response of Martensitic and Bainitic Microstructures

Dr. Hani Mitri
McGill University, Canada
MMME Keynote Speaker

Dr. Hani Mitri is Professor and Director of Mining Engineering at McGill University, and founder of McGill Mine Design & Numerical Modelling Laboratory in 1988. In his career, he has made technical and scientific contributions as an educator, researcher, and consultant in the mining engineering discipline in the areas of rock engineering, ground control safety, mine design, and ore transportation. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience, and published more than 220 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He supervised to completion more than 50 Master's and PhD students. He is the recipient of CIM Fellowship from the Canadian Institute of Mining in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the mining community in Canada. He is also the recipient of the J.A. Franklin Award by the Canadian Geotechnical Society for his contributions in rock mechanics. He is Co-Editor of International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, and editorial board member of several other journals.

Topic of Keynote:
Destress Blasting – From Theory to Practice

Dr. Hendrik Heinz
University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
ICCPE Keynote Speaker

Hendrik Heinz is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on the simulation of biomaterials and nanomaterials at the nanometer scale. He develops the Interface force field for the simulation of all compounds across the periodic table in a uniform platform in high precision, with applications to alloys, biomaterials, catalysis, aqueous corrosion, mineralization, hydrogels, and polymer materials. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Material Science and Engineering as well as a M.S. degree in chemistry from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and completed postdoctoral work at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio. He is an Associate Editor for the CNRS-owned New Journal of Chemistry, and earlier served on the faculty of the University of Akron, Ohio, from 2006 to 2015 and as an Associate Editor of RSC Advances. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and held several guest professorships. He won the Special Creativity and Career Awards from the U. S. National Science Foundation, the Sandmeyer Award from the Swiss Chemical Society, the Max Hey Medal from the Mineralogical Society, the Giovanni Novelli Prize from the Italian Clay Minerals Society, as well as a Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society.

Topic of Keynote:
Design of Composites, Catalysts, and Building Materials Using Insights from Simulation and Experiment

Dr. Dimitrios Sidiras
University of Piraeus, Greece
ICCPE Keynote Speaker

Studies: Diploma, Chemical Engineer, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1984 Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.), School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1990

Academic Position: Professor, Department of Industrial Management and Technology, School of Maritime and Industrial Studies, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Scientific Activities: Research interests include experimental and computational simulation of industrial/chemical processes; economo-technical analysis of industrial branches/organic chemical industry; renewable energy sources; biomass; natural resources management; GIS based management; environmental management; manufacturing of agricultural product/byproducts; teaching methodology; distance learning. Scopus: Documents: 48. Citations: 766 total citations by 650 documents. h Index: 12. Google scholar: Documents: 98. Citations: 1249. h-index: 14.

Topic of Keynote:
Modified Biomass for Pollution Cleaning under the Frames of Biorefinery and Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy