During the 3rd CHBE boot camp, students with a group of highly qualified and experienced chemical engineering faculty and instructors.
Sameer Al-Asheh joined the AUS Department of Chemical Engineering in 2014. He is the department head since 2019. He also served as the interim Dean for the college of engineering for the period Feb – Dec 2021. He joined Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in 1997 and served as its Director of Academic Development Center from 2009 to 2014, and its Dean of Engineering for the academic year 2017/2018. Dr. Al-Asheh has taught various courses in chemical engineering at the BS and MS levels. His research interest focuses on water and wastewater treatment and adsorption.
Camp Instructors
Muhammad Qasim
Muhammad Qasim’s current lab teaching areas are Unit Operations, Process Control, Petroleum Refining and MATLAB. His research areas focus on desalination, water treatment, process optimization and fluid phase equilibria. He has over eight years of experience in laboratory instruction.
Najla Salkho
Najla Mohammad received her Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah. She is currently a lab instructor in the Chemical Engineering Department with a teaching experience of six years in topics related to MATLAB, Aspen HYSYS, Petroleum Refining, Reactions, and Unit Operations. Her main research area is drug delivery systems in biomedical applications.
Dr. Ahmed Aidan
Dr. Aidan joined AUS in 1999. He was involved in establishing all Chemical Engineering labs including unit operation, fluid flow, heat transfer, corrosion and materials science, water treatment, and process control labs. He has long experience in obtaining laboratory equipment through his collaboration with other institutions. He accomplished installation and commissioning of all equipment in these labs. In addition, he prepared, helped and developed all lab experiments’ handouts and operating manuals.
Camp Administrative Assistant
Aileen Yulay