Dr. Ayman G.

Awadallah
Associate Professor, Civil Eng. Dept.
History of Fayoum University and
its Faculty of Engineering
1975 Faculty of Education in Fayoum affiliated to Cairo University.
Then in 1976, Faculty of Agriculture
1981 Faculty of Engineering, graduates of civil engineering in 1983
1983 Fayoum branch declared as an independent branch of Cairo
University.
2005 Establishment of Fayoum University as an independent
university .
Now, the university includes 13 faculties; Education, Agriculture,
Engineering, social Work, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Sciences,
Tourism and Hotels, Specific Education, Archeology, Medicine, Arts,
Computers and Information, Kindergarten as well as the Technical
Institute for Nursing. The university also includes 1800 of faculty
members and their assistants teaching 25,000 students..



Water Resources Studies
Capabilities
Fayoum University established the Fayoum Institute
for Strategic Studies and Research of Nile Basin
Countries to promote multidisciplinary research
covering geography, hydrology, medicine,
Civil engineering department has 10 staff members
and 3 assistants
Water Resources Studies
Capabilities
3 Professors:
Prof. Dr. Magdi Ibrahim Amin
Prof. Dr. Khaled Ismail Hamza
Prof. Dr. Haitham Kamal El Ghamry
1 Associate Professor
7 Assistant Professors

Domain of Experience and
Research Interests
Groundwater and especially salt water intrusion
Harbor engineering and coastal sediments
Surface hydrology
Farm irrigation and irrigation scheduling
Water quality modeling
Water structure interaction




Examples of peer-reviewed publications (with
impact factor) of water resources staff members
Sherif M.M. and Hamza K.I. 2001 "Mitigation of Seawater Intrusion by Pumping
Brackish Water". Journal of Transport in Porous Media, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Netherlands, 43(1): 29-44.
Abdelbaki, A. M., Mohamed A. Youssef, R. Wayne Skaggs, James L. Fouss, and
George Chescheir. 2011. Feedback Controlled Drainage Subroutine Incorporated In
DRAINMOD-N2 Model To Predict Nitrate Loss In Drainage Management System.
Katopodis, C. and Ghamry, H. K., 2007 Hydrodynamic and physical assessment of
ice-covered conditions for three reaches of the Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada.
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 34 (6), pp 717-730.
Ghamry, H. K., and P. Steffler, 2005 Two-dimensional depth-averaged modeling
of flow in curved open channels. Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 43 (1), pp 44-
55.
Ghamry, H. K., and P. Steffler, 2002 The Effect of Applying Different Distribution
Shapes for Velocities and Pressure on the Simulation of Curved Open Channels.
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 128, No. 11, December, pp 969-982.
Ghamry, H. K., and P. Steffler, 2002 Two dimensional vertically averaged and
moment equations for rapidly varied flows. Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 40,
No. 5, May, pp 579-587.





Examples of peer-reviewed publications (with
impact factor) of water resources staff members
Awadallah, A.G. and M. Yousry, 2012 Identifying Homogeneous Water Quality Regions in the
Nile River Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Water Resources Management Journal.
Awadallah, A.G. and N.S. Younan 2012 Conservative design rainfall distribution for
application in arid regions with sparse data, Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 79, pp. 66-75,
2012.
Awadallah, A.G. and R. Foda 2011 Approche statistique rgionale pour lestimation des
caractristiques pluviomtriques: Etude de cas au Nord Est de lAlgrie by Canadian Journal
of Civil Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1060-1071.
Awadallah A.G., H. Fahmy, and H.G. Karaman 2011 Trend Detection in Water Quality Data,
using Time Series Seasonal Decomposition and Statistical Tests, Irrigation and Drainage, Vol.
60, No. 2, pp. 253-262.
Awadallah A.G., and M.M. Hamed 2008 Modeling Dissolution of Multi-Component Non-
Aqueous Phase Liquids Using Pareto Distributions, International Journal of Environment
and Pollution, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 291-310, 2008.
Awadallah, A.G. & Rousselle, J. 2000 Improving Forecasts of the Nile Flood using SST Inputs
in a TFN model, by Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 371-379.
Awadallah, A.G., Rousselle, J. and Leconte, R. 1999 volution du Risque Hydrologique sur la
Rivire Chteauguay by Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 510-523.







Objectives of Institute for Strategic Studies
and Research of Nile Basin Countries
Promote Egypt relations with Nile basin countries
Prepare scientific programs and training courses for
Nile basin related studies
Offer scientific, research and consultancy services for
Nile basin countries

Diplomas offered by the Institute
Water and soil studies
Geomorphological and climate studies
Demographical and economic resources studies
Legal and political studies
Geographical information systems studies
Transportation studies
Hospital management studies

Examples of courses given by the
Institute (1/2)
Nile basin hydrology
Nile basin demography
Nile basin geography
Irrigation and drainage systems in Nile basin countries
Climate and vegetation regions of the Nile basin
Political boundaries of Nile basin countries and their
related problems
Examples of courses given by the
Institute (2/2)
Ethnics in the Nile basin
Inventory and evaluation of lands
Nile basin water treaties
Soil classification of Nile valley
Geomorphology of Nile River
Water regulation projects of the Nile waters
Economics of Nile Basin countries
Pathologies of tropical regions
Examples of extra courses given for
the GIS diploma
GIS 1 and GIS 2
Mapping and surveying
Remote sensing 1 and Remote sensing 2
Programing and Modeling
Spatial web applications
Geo-statistics
Geographic databases

Examples of extra courses given for
the transportation diploma
Transportation planning
Transportation engineering
Transportation economics
Transportation information systems and technologies
Transportation treaties
Financing transportation infra-structures between
Nile Basin countries
Management of transportation crises
River transportation
Management of marine and air transportation


Examples of extra courses given for
the hospital management diploma
Management of health units
Economics of health units operation
Management of
Information systems of hospital management
Health surveys preparation
Quality of health services
Human resources management
Quality control of health care
Legal system of health projects
Health communication