Dr Zahid Qamar, Sayyad is currently working as a Professor at the Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He has over 25 years
of academic and research experience in different international universities. He has also worked as
a professional mechanical engineer in the field for over 6 years in the heavy engineering and
fabrication industry (Manager Research and Development; Deputy Manager Design; Production
Engineer; Quality Control Engineer). On top of his experience as a researcher/academician, he
has been actively involved in research and accreditation work related to engineering education.
His technical research areas are Applied materials and manufacturing; Applied mechanics and
design; Reliability engineering; and Engineering education. As part of the Applied Mechanics and
Advanced Materials Research group (AM2R) at SQU, he has been involved in different applied
research funded projects in excess of 4 million dollars. He has over 200 research/technical
publications to his credit (research monographs/books, edited book volumes, book chapters,
publications in refereed international journals and conferences, and technical reports). He has
recently edited one volume (Renewability of Synthetic Materials) for the Elsevier Encyclopedia
of Renewable and Sustainable Materials. He has served as Associate editor, Guest editor, and
Member editorial board for different research journals (including Materials and Manufacturing
Processes, Journal of Elastomers and Plastics, the Journal of Engineering Research, American
Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, etc)