Dr. Yahia Alsmadi

Dr. Yahia M. Al-Smadi has over 23 years of experience in engineering analysis, condition assessment, rehabilitation and construction design, and support services for a wide range of facilities, including heavy movable structures and heavy mobile platforms. With the combination of his mechanical and manufacturing engineering experience, Dr. Al-Smadi advances his career to embrace the design and management of projects with an emphasis on future capacity and growth. Several techniques such as DFMA, DOE, Lean Construction and Value Stream have been implemented in advancing the design of protective systems of major public authorities. Projects in which he participated as a finite element specialist range from cardiovascular biomechanics applications, geotechnical applications, reinforced concrete and masonry structures, and aerospace structures. He has established Advanced Simulation and Automation Laboratory at TAMUK and served as a director of the Javelina Innovation Lab in 2014. He joined King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) and served as Principal Research Advisor.. He joined Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in 2018 and established the current lab, “Autonomous Platforms Lab”, which produced several electrical platforms which can carry mid-size range loads and issued many patents accordingly. Finally, He, recently, joined Abu Dhabi Polytechnic Spring 2024 as Head of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering Technology.