Nabil Esmail (born January 22, 1942) is an Egyptian

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. He has been the dean of engineering at

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, the chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the

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, and the Professor of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering at

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and Concordia Universities respectively.

Biography

Esmail was born and raised in

Port Said Port Said ( ar, بورسعيد, Būrsaʿīd, ; grc, Πηλούσιον, Pēlousion) is a city that lies in northeast Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal. With an approximate population of 6 ...

, Egypt. After finishing his secondary education in Egypt, he received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees from

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1972. His advisor was Victor Shkadov. After earning his PhD, he taught for some time in the University of Ein Shams and in the Military Technical College in Egypt. He then immigrated to Canada.

Academic career

After his postdoctorate work in the

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, he was awarded a faculty position at Saskatchewan University in 1977, where he was the head of the Chemical Engineering Department until 1994, as well as a professor of chemical engineering until 1997. In 1997 he was appointed as the dean of engineering at Concordia University, where he remained the dean until 2008. He has been *The chairman of the Canadian Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science 2004-2005 *The chairman of the Grants Committee in the Research Council of Canada 1997-1998 *The chairman of board of directors of the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 1990-1996

Research and publications

He has supervised more than 13 PhD students and 11 master's degree students at the universities of McGill, Saskatchewan and Concordia. He authored 143 different publications, 82 of which are in refereed journals.

Honors and awards

Esmail is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Engineering, a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry and a fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering. April 13, 2010 he was given the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Award for Teaching Excellence at Concordia University. February 17, 2011 the Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering published a special edition to honor Dr. Nabil Esmail

References and external links

*http://www.encs.concordia.ca/resources/faculty-and-staff-directory *http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~peer/contactus.html *http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/apj.v6.1/issuetoc {{DEFAULTSORT:Esmail, Nabil Living people Egyptian expatriates in Canada Concordia University faculty People from Port Said 20th-century Egyptian engineers Moscow State University alumni 1942 births Canadian chemical engineers