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Hanadi Salem
- Position: Professor and MENG Chairperson
- Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Email: [email protected]
Hanadi Salem is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She resumed her duties as chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department in July 1, 2020. She is the First Elected Chair of the University Senate since Fall 2020 for four consecutive years since the establishment of the University Senate in 1993, Vice-Chair, 2019. Salem served as the Chair and member of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Senate since 2017-2020. She is the Academic lab supervisor of 13 Labs in the MENG department and was the coordinator of the Materials and Manufacturing Area 2003-2020.
She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering, AUC, 1983, 87 and received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Materials and Manufacturing, Texas A&M University, TX, 1997. Salem joined the Mechanical Engineering department at AUC as the first full time Assistant Professor, 1999 and was the first tenured female faculty in Engineering Departments at the School of Sciences and Engineering, AUC, 2005. She was promoted to a full professor rank in 2010.
She was a co-founder of the Yousef Jameel Science and Technology Research Center (YJSTRC) in 2003 and was appointed the Associate Director for Fund Raising and External Funding, November 2007-2008. She also served on its steering committee until 2022. Salem was the founder of the Nanotechnology Master’s Program at AUC, 2009-2010, and served as the Program Director for five years until 2015. She was a co-founder of the Ph.D. Program in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Fall 2011 and a co-founder of the Biotechnology Master’s Program, 2008. Salem is the Founder and Director of the Additive Manufacturing Centennial Lab (AMCL), where she established the first Wire Arc Additive/Subtractive Manufacturing (WAAM) integrated Robotic System in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East.
As a Senate member, Vice Chair and Chair, she was fully dedicated in serving the wellbeing of the AUC community. She has relentlessly endeavored to bring the voices of students, staff, faculty and the administration together, such as students related admissions, grading, and wellbeing polices and procedure, staff concerns and encountered issues, and the faculty related concerns, resolution of the AUC Board of Trustee’s Faculty Handbook contentious issues. Salem, as a senate representative has served on many university wide committees and taskforces established by the president or the provost.
Salem has vast experience in program accreditation and equivalency at the undergraduate and graduate levels, nationally (supreme council for higher education) and internationally (ABET), and the Middle States at the institutional level. Salem chaired the Mechanical Engineering Program ABET Accreditation Committee (DAC), Fall 2012 to Fall 2015. She co-chaired committees and served on the University Steering Committee for the Middle States (MSCHE) accreditation cycles of 2008 and 2017. She also served on the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (NAQAA) steering committee on the University and School levels, 2009-2012. She was among three AUC faculty members who founded the First Year Experience Program, 2005-2006. Salem also served as the AUC Focal Point, on Egyptian National Nanotechnology Network (ENNN), under the auspicious of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), AUC.
Salem has wide spectrum of national and international research and industrial partnerships including consultation, services and R&D projects, which contributes significantly to the fundraising efforts on the department and school levels. Salem was a visiting professor at Functional Materials Center at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden; a visiting professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department of North Carolina State University, NC USA; a research associate in the Department of Materials Science of the Georgia Institute of Technology, GA and at the University of South Carolina, Colombia, SC USA. She has research collaborations with large number of public and national universities as well as internationally in the US, Canada, and Europe. Salem supervised a large number of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at AUC, national universities, regionally and internationally, many of whom are prolific, highly renowned academicians and researchers, or industrial leaders worldwide.
Professor Salem has made significant contributions to the field of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies in Egypt and the region. Starting with her early efforts in the early 2000s, she integrated nanomaterials and nanocomposites into the educational framework of the Mechanical Engineering program, raising awareness through organizing the first ASME International Nanotechnology Conference in 2003. She later established the Nanotechnology Program at the School of Sciences and Engineering in 2010.
In 2017, she was a pioneer in introducing metal additive manufacturing technologies to the region. This culminated in the founding of the Additive Manufacturing Centennial Lab (AMCL) in 2019, which features an advanced Additive/Subtractive integrated robotic-controlled system, the first of its kind in the Middle East. This facility trains a new generation of engineers in cutting-edge manufacturing technologies. Professor Salem currently supervises M.Sc. and Ph.D. researchers across national and private Egyptian universities and offers services to the industry in spare parts and die manufacturing with the long-term goal of transferring critical knowledge to local industries.
She has also led global workshops through the DigitalFuture series, educating industries and researchers on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) and ensuring the accessibility of advanced manufacturing technologies to developing nations. Professor Salem's research extends to powder and wire-feed additive manufacturing using selective laser manufacturing. She founded and directs the AMCL, where WAAM technology is used to produce and repair medium-to-large industrial parts.
Beyond additive manufacturing, Professor Salem has extensive expertise in the processing of Bulk Nanostructured Materials (BNSM) using both powder metallurgy and severe plastic deformation. Her work has led to the creation of high-performance nanostructured products for tribological and high-temperature lightweight applications. Since 2000, Professor Salem has been a global leader in Friction Stir Processing (FSP), a novel technology derived from Friction Stir Welding (FSW), initially developed for joining aerospace aluminum alloys. Patented in 1991, FSP was relatively new at the time and went on to become a critical technology in the manufacture of space and aerospace structures. The global market for this technology grew to an estimated £250 million, underscoring its importance in the aerospace sector. Professor Salem's pioneering work in FSP resulted in numerous journal and conference publications, contributing significantly to the global research impact of this technology. Her research has advanced the understanding and application of FSP, and her efforts have helped establish it as a key technology in the production of high-performance aerospace components.
Salem received many awards including: the exemplary mother of AUC based on students’ services and achievements at AUC, 2009, the Achievements Award by School of Sciences and Engineering, May 2009, the AUC’s Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors, Fall 2010, Excellence in Research by the School of Sciences and Engineering, May 2011. Salem is a recipient of the ASRT Cairoinnovate “Deepening of Industry” Award, 2019. And in 2023, she was a recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Faculty Service Award.
- Wire Arc Additive Re-Manufacturing and Repair
- Fabrication and Characterization of Cellular structures using Selective Laser Melting
- Synthesis and characterization of composite metallic and ceramic nanopowders and nanostructured powders
- Consolidation Behavior of Micro and Nanostructure Metallic, intermetallic Bulk materials
- Metal and Ceramic Matrix Nanocomposites Fabrication and Characterization
- Self-Lubricating metal based-graphene nanocomposites
- Bulk Nanostructure Material Fabrication via: Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS); Additive layer Manufacturing (ALM), wire and powder based; Sever Plastic Straining (ECAP, HPT, TMP)
- Friction Stir Processing (FSP)
- Ceramic Coatings and Thin Films Processing and Characterization
- Fabricated via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches
Teaching Interests
Salem has had the honor of serving as a full-time faculty member in the field of materials and manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AUC. Working at AUC for the past 17 years has helped her gain an ineffable amount of experience in teaching and course and program development. This section highlights her teaching activities and accomplishments, starting September 1999 to the present.
Note: Salem, similar to many of the MENG faculty, has been teaching between 11 to 13 credit hours per semester throughout her years of service. Salem taught a wide spectrum of courses: eight undergraduate courses ranging from 100-400 level, six graduate 500 level MENG and NANO courses, in addition to senior project courses (as a coordinator and project supervisor) and seminar courses.
- PhD Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX, USA, Dec. 1997
- MSc Materials Science and Engineering, American University in Cairo, June 1987
- BSc Materials Science and Engineering, American University in Cairo, June 1983
Undergraduate Courses
- ENGR 101/1001 - Introduction to Engineering
- ENGR 229/2112 - Strength and Testing of Materials
- MENG 327/3227 - Engineering Materials
- MENG 426/4226 - Metals, Alloys and Composites
- MENG 427/4227 - Failure of Mechanical Components
- MENG 428/4228 - Selection of Materials and Processes for Design
- MENG 433 - Welding and Casting: Design, Maintenance and Inspection
- MENG 4229/5230 - Nanostructured Materials
- MENG 490/4980 - Senior Design I, coordinator and project supervisor
- MENG 490/4981 - Senior Design II, coordinator and project supervisor
Graduate Courses
- MENG 521/5221 - Advanced Topics in Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials
- MENG 522/5222 - Materials in Design and Manufacturing
- MENG 523/5223 - Physical Metallurgy
- MENG 529/5229 - Failure Analysis and Prevention
- NANO 531/5200 - Nanomaterials Synthesis, Processing and Applications
- NANO 532/5232 - Nanocomposites Science and Technology
- NANO 590/5980 - Graduate Thesis Seminar I