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Nabil Eltayeb

Nabil Eltayeb was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2020. As a fellow, Nabil Eltayeb contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.

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Nabil Eltayeb

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Country

Egypt

Year Elected

2020

Fellow Type

Fellow

Discipline

Engineering Technology & Applied Sciences

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Nabil Eltayeb

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Country

Egypt

Year Elected

2020

Fellow Type

Fellow

Discipline

Engineering Technology & Applied Sciences

Biography

Professor Nabil El-Tayeb gained his PhD from Leeds University, Leeds, UK-1986, attended MSc at Aston University in Birmingham, (1982), and received his first degree “BSc” distinction with honor from Helwan University-Cairo-1977.   Previously, he worked at Engineering Faculty (Helwan University), Technical Military collage (Defense Ministry- Cairo), Mechanical department (Leeds University), and Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Multimedia University, MMU, Malaysia), and Engineering Faculty, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).   Currently, he is a full professor at The British University in Egypt since 2010, Head of Engineering Quality assurance unit (2018-till now)  Professor Eltayeb was former director of Research & Postgraduate Studies Programme BUE/2012-2014, and Head of mechanical Engineering Department, BUE (2015-2018)  According to Stanford University published record (2020), Professor El-Tayeb was among the 2% Top Scientist of the World List   Professor El-Tayeb has over 120 Research Publications in the International journals and conferences papers at:  Journals of Wear, Tribology International, IMechE Part J: Engineering Tribology, Materials Processing Technology, Materials & Design, Tribology online, Tribology Letter, International Polymer Processing, Tribology Transaction, Applied Composite Materials, Lubrication Science, Machining Science and Technology, Applied sciences, American Journal of Applied Sciences, Surface Review and Letters. 14th Int. Colloquium Tribology, Tribology & Lubrication Eng. Stuttgart/ Ostfildern, Germany 2004, ASME World Tribology Congress III- Washington USA, 2005, Recent Advances in Mechanical & Materials Engineering (ICRAMME 2005) KL, Malaysia, 2005, 8th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering systems Design and Analysis- Italy-2006, ICOMAST, Malaysia, 2006, ASME International, Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Orlando Florid-USA 2007, Manufacturing & Electronic Technology- Johor Malaysia 2006, Engineering & ICT (ICEI 2007), Melaka-Malaysia), 8th International Conference on Production Engineering and Design for Development (PEDD8, 2010), In addition, there @50 other papers published before 2000 at National and International journals/conferences.