Hanadi Salem | The American University in Cairo

Brief Biography

Hanadi A. G. Salem is a professor of materials and manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Engineering. She resumed her duties as chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department in July 1, 2020. She is the University senate vice-chair and a formal senate chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee. She is the founder of the Nanotechnology Master’s Program at AUC, 2009-2010, and has served as the director of the program for five years since September 2010. She is a co-founder of the Egyptian National Nanotechnology Network (ENNN) and the University representative. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in materials science and engineering at AUC and received her PhD in mechanical engineering in the materials field from Texas A&M University 1997. She joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AUC as an assistant professor in 1999.

Salem was the associate chair of Mechanical Engineering Department 2016. She is one of the four founders of the Yousef Jameel Science and technology research center (YJSTRC) since 2002 and was the Associate Director for Fund Raising and External Funding at the center of November 2007. She is a co-founder of the PhD program in Applied Sciences and Engineering fall 2011 and a co-founder of the master’s program in biotechnology, 2008.

Salem has vast experience in program accreditation at the graduate and undergraduate levels, nationally (supreme council for higher education) and internationally (ABET), and the Middle States at the institutional level. Salem chaired the Department Accreditation Committee (DAC) from Fall 2012 to Fall 2015 for the Mechanical Engineering Program ABET accreditation cycle of Fall 2014. She served as a steering committee member and a co-chair in the Middle States (MSCHE) 2008 accreditation cycle and is currently serving as a co-chair and a member of the MSCHE steering committee fall 2015-Fall 2017. She is currently a member of the University Strategic Planning Steering Committee. Salem is chairing the University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) since July 2017.

Salem was a visiting professor at Functional Materials Center at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden; a visiting professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department of North Carolina State University, NC USA; a research associate in the Department of Materials Science of the Georgia Institute of Technology, GA and at the University of South Carolina, Colombia, SC USA. She has collaborated on research both nationally and internationally in the US, Canada, and UK. Salem supervised a large number of MSc and PhD students at AUC, national universities, regionally and internationally.

Salem’s research currently focuses on powder and wire-feed additive manufacturing using selective laser manufacturing. She is the founder and director of the Additive Manufacturing Centennial Lab (AMCL). She established the first Wire Arc Additive/Subtrative Manufacturing (WAAM) integrated Robotic System in Egypt and the Middle East. WAAM integrated system manufactures and repairs net shaped metallic medium-to-large industrial parts. Salem’s also has vast expertise in the processing of Bulk nanostructured materials (BNSM) via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. A combination of powder metallurgy technique and Sever plastic deformation was employed in her research for the production of nanostructured bulk products with superior properties for tribological and high-temperature lightweight applications. In Fall 2010, Salem was awarded the Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors at the AUC level and SSE Service Achievement for the establishment of the NT program. She has more than 100 international journal and conference publications and has received many national and institutional awards and grants. She is a pioneer in the Friction Stir Welding and Processing (FSW/P) and Intense Plastic deformation for joining of the ultrafine recrystallized ultrahigh strength/tough Aluminum alloys.

Research Interest

Wire Arc Additive Re-Manufacturing and Repair
Fabrication and Characterization of Cellular structures using Selective Laser Melting
Synthesis and characterization of composite metallic and ceramic nanopowders and nanostructured powders
Consolidation Behavior of Micro and Nanostructure Metallic, intermetallic Bulk materials
Metal and Ceramic Matrix Nanocomposites Fabrication and Characterization.
Self-Lubricating metal based-graphene nanocomposites
Bulk Nanostructure Material Fabrication Via
1. Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS);
2. Additive layer Manufacturing (ALM), wire and powder based;
3. Sever Plastic Straining (ECAP, HPT, TMP)
Friction Stir Processing (FSP)
Ceramic Coatings and Thin Films Processing and Characterization.
Fabricated via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches

Teaching interests

Salem has had the honor of serving as a full-time faculty member in the field of materials and manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AUC. Working at AUC for the past 17 years has helped her gain an ineffable amount of experience in teaching and course and program development. This section highlights her teaching activities and accomplishments, starting September 1999 to present.

Note: Salem, similar to many of the MENG faculty, has been teaching between 11 to 13 credit hours per semester throughout her years of service. Salem taught a wide spectrum of courses: eight undergraduate courses ranging from 100-400 level, six graduate 500 level MENG and NANO courses; in addition to senior project courses (as a coordinator and project supervisor) and seminar courses.

Education

PhD Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX, USA, Dec. 1997
MSc Materials Science and Engineering, American University in Cairo, June 1987
BSc Materials Science and Engineering, American University in Cairo, June 1983

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