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Maher Shakir Mahmood Faraj (Lecturer)

PhD in Roads and Airports Engineering
Lecturer
Civil - Engineering
maher.mahmood@uoanbar.edu.iq

Biography

Position: Lecturer in Highway Engineering

Affiliation: Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Anbar.

Address: Ramadi, Anbar, Iraq.

E-mail: maher.mahmood@uoanbar.edu.iq, maher78_2004@yahoo.com.

Education

Ph.D.

(Highway Engineering)

Nottingham Trent University

School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment

2011-2015

PGDip.

(Professional Research Practice)

Nottingham Trent University

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2011-2014

M.Sc.

(Transportation Planning)

University of Anbar

Engineering

2000-2003

B.Sc.

(Civil Engineering)

University of Anbar

Engineering

1996-2000

Career

No.

Career

Workplace

From -To

1.

Assistant Engineer

Faculty of Engineering, University of Anbar

2001 to 2003

2.

Assistant Lecturer

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Anbar

2003-2016

3.

Assistant head of Civil Engineering Department

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Anbar

2004-2010

4.

Lecturer

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Anbar

2016-until now

Research Area(s) :-

  • Pavement Management System.
  • Transportation Planning.
  • Traffic and Highway Engineering.
  • Surveying Engineering.
  • Optimization.
  • Artificial Intelligence Techniques.

Publication

Journal Articles

Mahmood, M. Sh., and Abid, A. N., 2004. Building of mathematical model for forecasting of future Land Use – case study Ramadi city. Iraqi Journal for Civil Engineering, 5.

Mahmood, M. Sh., 2007. “Building of mathematical model for forecasting of Production Trips – case study Ramadi city”. Iraqi Journal for Civil Engineering, 9, pp. 32-44.

Mahmood, M. Sh., Abid, A. N., and Mehdi, W., 2008. Building Mathematical Model of mode choice for Attracted Trips to Ramadi City. Iraqi Journal for Civil Engineering, 11, pp. 17-26.

Mahmood, M., Rahman, M., Nolle, L., and Mathavan, S., 2013. A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Pavement Section Classification. International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 6(5), pp. 620-626.

Mahmood, M., Rahman, M., and Mathavan, S., 2017. A multi-input deterioration-prediction model for asphalt road networks. Transport, DOI:10.1680/jtran.16.00170.

Ahmed, K., Al-Khateeb, B., Mahmood, M., 2018. A chaos with discrete multi-objective particle swarm optimization for pavement maintenance. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 96(8), pp. 2317-2326.

Mahmood, M., Mathavan, S., Rahman, M., 2018. A parameter-free discrete particle swarm algorithm and its application to multi-objective pavement maintenance schemes. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, DOI:10.1016/j.swevo.2018.03.013.

Ahmed, K., Al-Khateeb, B., Mahmood, M., 2018. Application of chaos discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm on pavement maintenance scheduling problem. Cluster Computing, DOI:10.1007/s10586-018-2239-3.

Conference Proceedings

Mahmood, M., 2013. Pavement Section Classification by Using Fuzzy Rule-Based System. Research and the Researcher, Fifth Annual Research Practice Course Conference, Nottingham Trent University, pp. 58-63.

Mahmood, M., 2014. Cross Validation of Multi Input Deterioration Prediction Model (MID-PM) for Network Level Pavement Management. Proceedings of the Inaugural College of Art, Design & Built Environment Doctoral Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 9th-10th June, Nottingham, UK.

Mahmood, M., Rahman, M., and Mathavan, S., 2015. Pavement Management: Data Centric Rules and Uncertainty Management in Section Classification by a Fuzzy Inference System. 6th International Conference Bituminous Mixtures and Pavements, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mahmood, M., Mathavan, S., and Rahman, M., 2016. Pavement Maintenance Decision Optimisation Using A Novel Discrete Bare-Bones Particle Swarm Algorithm. In: 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington, D.C.

Mahmood, M., Rahman, M., and Mathavan, S., 2016. Distress Based Pavement Performance Prediction Models. 8th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV8), Singapore.

Lectures


No. Subjects Lectures Stage File Video
1 CalCulus III Rectangular Coordinate Systems In 3-Space, Vectors Second
2 CalCulus III Rectangular Coordinate Systems In 3-Space, Vectors Second
3 CalCulus III Dot product Second
4 CalCulus III Cross Product Second
5 CalCulus III Planes In 3-Space, Quadric Surfaces Second
6 CalCulus III Quadric Surfaces, Cylindrical and Spherical Coordi Second
7 CalCulus III Vector-Valued Functions Second
8 CalCulus III calculus of Vector-Valued Functions Second
9 CalCulus III Change of Parameter; Arc Length Second
10 CalCulus III Curvature, Motion along a Curve Second
11 CalCulus III Partial Derivatives, Functions of Two or More Vari Second
12 CalCulu Partial Derivatives, Differentiability, Differenti Second
13 CalCulus III Directional Derivatives and Gradients, Maxima and Second
14 CalCulus III Lagrange Multipliers, Double Integrals Second
15 CalCulus III Double Integrals Second
16 Calculus 3 References (text book) Second

Other

Training Courses

  • Participated in Remote sensing course, GORS, 2006, Syria.
  • Participated in OJT on Road Construction Technology training program, KOICA and Korea Expressway Corporation (EX), 2008, South Korea.
  • Participated in Effective Researcher workshops, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2011.
  • Participated in Initial Teaching Professional Development Programme, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2013.
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  • Membership:-
  • Member of Iraqi Engineers Union, 2000, Iraq. 
  • Member of Iraqi Teachers Union, 2001, Iraq. 
  • Member of the Chartered of Institution of Highways and Transportation CIHT, 2011, UK. 
  • Member of Transportation Planning Society TPS, 2015, UK.