Region 10 Governor Official Nominee

 

Vision statement

As a longtime professor, administrator and consulting civil engineer in the Middle East region, I plan to make use of my multifaceted experiences in the profession, in both aspects of academia and practice, to distribute information regarding latest developments and practices to civil engineers all over the world. I will utilize the huge information capacity of the ASCE to reach out to engineers everywhere and provide the necessary topics for them to make use of in everyday practice. I plan to use the ASCE platform to start collaborations among member sections and groups and to arrange for professional lectures to be given to them by experts on the tackled subjects. I have found that the best way of doing that is to reach directly to section and group presidents and through them to civil engineers at large, and especially young ones, to serve them with their everyday requirements and support them with faced engineering challenges whether at the office or construction site. Finally, bringing civil engineers from all over the world together and making them registered members at the ASCE will be a prime focus during my service.

Biographical statement

Education

  • BSc Civil Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1978
  • MSc Geotechnical Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1982
  • PhD Geotechnical Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1994

Certification and licenses

  • American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow.
  • Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), Fellow.

Work experience

  • Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Baghdad, 2000-2004
  • Minister, Ministry of Construction and Housing of Iraq, 2004-2005
  • Structural Design Manager, Parsons International Ltd. United Arab Emirates, 2009-2012
  • Project Director, AECOM, United Arab Emirates, 2012-2015

ASCE involvement

Society level

  • Key Speaker, ASCE National Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2004
  • ASCE Region 10 Conference, Intercontinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi, March 2015

Awards

  • Outstanding ASCE Reviewer, Practice Periodical of Structural Design and Construction 2021.

Publications

  • al-Damluji, O.F., al-Shakarchi, Y.J. and Albusoda, B.S., ‘Bounding Surface Plasticity Model Parameters for Baghdad Soils’, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, France, Page 305, September, 2013
  • Omar al-Damluji, O.F., Husain, H.M., and Abbas, R.M., ‘A Nonlinear Dynamic Interaction Algorithm of Elasto-Viscoplastic Concrete Structures with Coupled Saturated Soils’, Workshop of Technical Committee 207 on Soil-Structure Interaction, ISSMGE, Paris, France, Pages 26-37, September, 2013