Meet the Volume Editors

Dr. Sayyad Zahid Qamar is a professor at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He has more than 30 years of academic and research experience and more than 6 years of industry experience. His research areas are applied materials and manufacturing, applied mechanics and design, reliability engineering, and engineering education. He has worked on funded research projects

over 4 million dollars. He has more than 230 research/technical publications (books, chapters, publications in refereed international journals and conferences, and technical reports). He is currently editing a volume (*Thermal Engineering of Steel Alloy Systems*) in the thirteen-volume series Comprehensive Materials Processing, 2nd edition, by Elsevier. He has served as an associate editor, guest editor, and editorial board member for different scientific journals.

Dr. Nasr Al Hinai is an associate professor and the head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He received his MSc from the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK, in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2011.

He joined SQU in 2001 after completing his BEng. His research interests lie in production planning and control, metaheuristics in operations research, product design and development, project management, and analysis of bio-composite development processes. He has published several research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.
