Sustainability Challenges and Delivering Practical Engineering Solutions: Resources, Materials, Energy, and Buildings

Dr. Gasim Hayder is a MIET and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) from the Engineering Council (UK), and he is a senior lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He teaches, conducts research and provides short courses and consultancy services to industry, especially in the fieldof water and wastewater assessment and monitoring. He is the Head of Water & Environmental Engineering Unit at the Department of Civil Engineering, and also served as Head of Unit at the Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI); senior researcher for Sustainable Engineering Group UNITEN. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia; M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia; and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan. He has extensive practical engineering, teaching and management experience. He has written several publications, holds patents and has received national and international awards.