water resources studies capabilities in fayoum university

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Dr. Ayman G. Awadallah

Associate Professor, Civil Eng. Dept.


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History of Fayoum University and

its Faculty of Engineering 1975Faculty of Education in Fayoum affiliated to Cairo University.

Then in 1976, Faculty of Agriculture 1981Faculty of Engineering, graduates of civil engineering in 1983 1983Fayoum branch declared as an independent branch of Cairo

University. 2005Establishment of Fayoum University as an independent

university . Now, the university includes 13 faculties; Education, Agriculture,

Engineering, social Work, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Sciences,

Tourism and Hotels, Specific Education, Archeology, Medicine, Arts,Computers and Information, Kindergarten as well as the TechnicalInstitute for Nursing. The university also includes 1800 of facultymembers and their assistants teaching 25,000 students..


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Water Resources Studies

Capabilities Fayoum University established the Fayoum Institute

for Strategic Studies and Research of Nile BasinCountries to promote multidisciplinary researchcovering geography, hydrology, medicine,

Civil engineering department has 10 staff membersand 3 assistants


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Water Resources Studies

Capabilities 3 Professors:

Prof. Dr. Magdi Ibrahim Amin

Prof. Dr. Khaled Ismail Hamza Prof. Dr. Haitham Kamal El Ghamry

1 Associate Professor

7 Assistant Professors


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Domain of Experience and

Research Interests Groundwater and especially salt water intrusion

Harbor engineering and coastal sediments

Surface hydrology Farm irrigation and irrigation scheduling

Water quality modeling

Water structure interaction


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Examples of peer-reviewed publications (with

impact factor) of water resources staff members Sherif M.M. and Hamza K.I. 2001 "Mitigation of Seawater Intrusion by Pumping

Brackish Water". Journal of Transport in Porous Media, Kluwer AcademicPublishers, Netherlands, 43(1): 29-44.

Abdelbaki, A. M., Mohamed A. Youssef, R. Wayne Skaggs, James L. Fouss, andGeorge Chescheir. 2011. Feedback Controlled Drainage Subroutine Incorporated In

DRAINMOD-N2 Model To Predict Nitrate Loss In Drainage Management System. Katopodis, C. and Ghamry, H. K., 2007 Hydrodynamic and physical assessment of

ice-covered conditions for three reaches of the Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada.Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 34 (6), pp 717-730.

Ghamry, H. K.,and P. Steffler, 2005 Two-dimensional depth-averaged modelingof flow in curved open channels. Journal of Hydraulic Research,Vol. 43 (1), pp 44-55.

Ghamry, H. K., and P. Steffler, 2002 The Effect of Applying Different DistributionShapes for Velocities and Pressure on the Simulation of Curved Open Channels.Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 128, No. 11, December, pp 969-982.

Ghamry, H. K., and P. Steffler, 2002 Two dimensional vertically averaged andmoment equations for rapidly varied flows. Journal of Hydraulic Research,Vol. 40,No. 5, May, pp 579-587.


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Examples of peer-reviewed publications (with

impact factor) of water resources staff members Awadallah, A.G. and M. Yousry, 2012 Identifying Homogeneous Water Quality Regions in the

Nile River Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis,Water Resources Management Journal.

Awadallah, A.G. and N.S. Younan 2012 Conservative design rainfall distribution forapplication in arid regions with sparse data,Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 79, pp. 66-75,2012.

Awadallah, A.G. and R. Foda 2011 Approche statistique rgionale pour lestimationdescaractristiques pluviomtriques: Etude de cas au Nord Est de lAlgrie by Canadian Journalof Civil Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1060-1071.

Awadallah A.G., H. Fahmy, and H.G. Karaman 2011 Trend Detection in Water Quality Data,using Time Series Seasonal Decomposition and Statistical Tests, Irrigation and Drainage, Vol.60, No. 2, pp. 253-262.

Awadallah A.G., and M.M. Hamed 2008 Modeling Dissolution of Multi-Component Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids Using Pareto Distributions, International Journal of Environmentand Pollution, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 291-310, 2008.

Awadallah, A.G. & Rousselle, J. 2000 Improving Forecasts of the Nile Flood using SST Inputsin a TFN model, byJournal of Hydrologic Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 371-379.

Awadallah, A.G., Rousselle, J. and Leconte, R. 1999 volution du Risque Hydrologique sur laRivire Chteauguay by Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 510-523.


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Objectives of Institute for Strategic Studies

and Research of Nile Basin Countries Promote Egypt relations with Nile basin countries

Prepare scientific programs and training courses for

Nile basin related studies Offer scientific, research and consultancy services for

Nile basin countries


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Diplomas offered by the InstituteWater and soil studies

Geomorphological and climate studies

Demographical and economic resources studies Legal and political studies

Geographical information systems studies

Transportation studies

Hospital management studies


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Examples of courses given by the

Institute (1/2) Nile basin hydrology

Nile basin demography

Nile basin geography Irrigation and drainage systems in Nile basin countries

Climate and vegetation regions of the Nile basin

Political boundaries of Nile basin countries and theirrelated problems


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Examples of courses given by the

Institute (2/2) Ethnics in the Nile basin

Inventory and evaluation of lands

Nile basin water treaties Soil classification of Nile valley

Geomorphology of Nile River

Water regulation projects of the Nile waters

Economics of Nile Basin countries

Pathologies of tropical regions


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Examples of extra courses given for

the GIS diploma GIS 1 and GIS 2

Mapping and surveying

Remote sensing 1 and Remote sensing 2 Programing and Modeling

Spatial web applications

Geo-statistics

Geographic databases


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the transportation diploma Transportation planning

Transportation engineering

Transportation economics

Transportation information systems and technologies

Transportation treaties

Financing transportation infra-structures between

Nile Basin countries Management of transportation crises

River transportation

Management of marine and air transportation


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the hospital management diploma Management of health units

Economics of health units operation

Management of

Information systems of hospital management

Health surveys preparation

Quality of health services

Human resources management Quality control of health care

Legal system of health projects

Health communication

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