Dr. Ahmed Atef

Firstly: - Education

• PhD in Engineering and Applied Sciences (Asphalt Materials Engineering) from the University of Massachusetts - USA - 2019.
• Master's degree in Civil Engineering (Roads and Airports Engineering) from the Department of Public Works - Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University - 2014.
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University 2009 with an excellent general grade with honors (Specialization Project: Roads and Airports Engineering).

Secondly: - Work Experience

• Director of the Roads and Airports Engineering Consultation Unit at the Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University (2021 – Present)
• Lecturer in the Department of Public Works at Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University (2019 – Present).
• Roads expert at the Engineering Consulting Office (Prof. Dr. Khaled Kandil) (2019 - Present).
• Researcher at the University of Massachusetts, USA (2015-2018).
• Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Public Works at Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University (2014-2019).
• Roads and Airports Engineer at the Engineering Consulting Office (Professor Dr. Khaled Qandil) (2010-2014)
• Teaching assistant in the Department of Public Works at Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University (2009-2014).
• Roads and Airports Engineer at the International Consulting Engineers Office (2009 - 2010).

Thirdly: -   A list of some projects which participated  

A: Road Projects in the last three years: -

• Engineering and structural design and supervision of the implementation of the expansion, raising the efficiency and construction of a service road for the Wadi Al-Natrun-Al-Alamein Road.
• Engineering and structural design and supervision of the implementation of the Abu Abu Tij axis project in Assiut Governorate.
• Engineering design for the construction of the Upper Abu Tesht Bridge - Qena Governorate.
• Engineering and structural design of the Cairo-Alexandria agricultural road upgrading project.
• Engineering design of the private universities in Egypt.
• Engineering and structural design of the project of duplication and upgrading the efficiency of the northern part and the eastern part of the Nairobi-Kenya Ring Road (Preparation of final technical studies regarding the engineering design and structural design)
• Engineering and structural design of the project to raise the efficiency of the Meroë -Nanyuki-Liwa Road, which is part of the Cairo-Cape Town-Kenya Road (Preparation of preliminary and final technical studies regarding the engineering design and structural design).
• Preparing the structural design for a road in the port of Mombasa-Kenya
• Preparing the engineering and construction designs boards for the internal roads for many factories, tourist villages and residential resorts.

B: Airport projects:

• Preparing the structural designs for the Airport of Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait.
• Preparing the executive drawings for the construction of the new corridor at Hurghada International Airport.
• Preparing the executive drawings for the project of adjusting the slopes and maintaining the pavement at Nozha International Airport.
• Preparing the executive drawings for the project of adjusting the slopes and maintaining the pavement at Taba International Airport.
• Preparing the executive drawings for the project of adjusting the slopes and maintaining the pavement at Abu Simbel Airport.
• Preparing the executive drawings for the project of adjusting the slopes and maintaining the pavement at the Khaleda Petroleum Company airport.

C: Research projects:

• NETC10-3: Studying the influence of moisture on the performance of plant produced high reclaimed asphalt pavement content mixtures incorporating warm mix asphalt technologies
• Characterizing the properties of the reclaimed asphalt pavement in the state of Massachusetts
• NCHRP 9-59: Relating asphalt binder fatigue properties to asphalt mixture fatigue performance
• Evaluating the use of engineered binder in asphalt mixtures incorporating high reclaimed asphalt pavement contents

D: Other projects:

• Engineering design and supervision of the implementation of the electric express train project from Wadi Al-Natrun to Borg El Arab, Borg El Arab to Alexandria and from Ras Al Hekma to Marsa Matrouh, with total length of about 200 km
• Training a group of engineers at the Ministry of Housing, Lafarge Company and a consulting office for the State of Kenya.

Fourthly: - A list of some published scientific researchs:

• Ahmed Soliman, Alexander J. Austerman, Walaa S. Mogawer (January 2017) “Understanding the Influence of Moisture on the Performance of Plant Produced High Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Content Mixtures Incorporating Warm Mix Asphalt Technologies”, Presentation at TRB 96th Annual Meeting
• Walaa S. Mogawer, Kevin Stuart, Alexander J. Austerman, Ahmed Soliman (January 2018) “Investigating the Performances of Plant-Produced High-Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Content Warm Mix Asphalts” Published at TRB 97th Annual Meeting
• A.Atef, H.El-sayed, K. Kandil, and S. Easa, (January 2014) “A Comparison between Egyptian Code Flexible Pavement Design Method and Layered Elastic Theory”, Civil Engineering Research Magazine, Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Engineering, Volume (36) No (1)
• Ahmed Soliman, Raymond Laoulache, Walaa S. Mogawer (2020) “Crack Propagation Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures: Weibull Distribution and Entropy Approach” ASCE journal, Volume 32 Issue 3- March 2020
• Donald Christensen, Ahmed Soliman (2020) “Relationship Between Asphalt Concrete Flexibility Index and Binder Rheological Properties” AAPT Journal
• Walaa S. Mogawer, Kevin Stuart, Alexander J. Austerman, Ahmed Soliman (2020) “Influence of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Source and Virgin Binder Source on RAP Specifications and Balanced mix Design” AAPT Journal
• Ahmed Soliman, Kevin Stuart, Walaa S. Mogawer (2021) “Effect of RAP and virgin binder source on low-temperature PG reliability” International Journal of Pavement Engineering