DR. UMAR AL-TURKI

Professional Experience
 

Dr. Umar M. Al-Turki
Dean, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering.

Phone (O): +966 3 860-2157
E-mail: alturki@kfupm.edu.sa
Postal: P.O. Box 833, KFUPM,   Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.

Other related experience

  • Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (JQME), Starting 2013. 

  • Founding member of the Saudi Society of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2004).

  • Member of the international advisory board of the 4th Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference Indonesia, Jan 7-9, 2014.

  • Member of the international advisory board of the 1st International Conference on Information, Operations Management and Statistics (IOMS 2013) will be held in September 1-3, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • Advisory Committee of the 2nd Middle East Maintenance conference (MAINTCON2012), Bahrain, 3-5 December, 2012.

  • Member of the international advisory board of the 4th Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference, Istanbul, July 2-6, 2012.

  • Chairing the “Shutdown and Turnaround maintenance workshop: 2nd Global Edition”, Doha, Qatar,11 -13 February, 2013.

  • Program Committee of the “National Seminar on Big Data Analysis – Technology and Tools ,20 May, 2013, PMU, Al-Khobar.

  • Program committee member “Advances in Cloud Computing and Business Security” , April 11th , 2012, PMU, Al-Khobar.

  • Chairing the “Production Planning and Control Session (6)” of the 2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, San Juan, PuertReco, May 18-22, 2013.

  • Refereeing papers in the journals, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (JQME), Computers and Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Applied Mathematical Modelling.

  • Refereeing projects and publications for; KFUPM, KSU, KFU.

  • Member of the scientific committee organizing the conference  <93>Quality beyond 2000: Challenges and Opportunities<94>, Bahrain 10-12, April 2000.

  • President of the Engineering Committee (Industrial Engineering Chapter) in the Eastern Province (1998-1999).
  • Vice President of the Gulf Chapter of the IIE (1997)

 

 

CONSULTING SERVICES              

 

  • Comprehensive Strategic Study on “Wheat Supply in Saudi Arabia in light of Scarcity of Water Resources”, Minister of Interior, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2013.

  • Effective Planning and Scheduling of Shutdown Maintenance, KFUPM Project, 2012-2013.

  • Developing e-Learning Strategic Plan for The Royal Saudi Naval Forces, Royal Saudi Naval Forces, 2011-2012.

  • Consultant for Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC) R&D on “Designing of Experiments”, 2007-2010.

  • Consulting for Saudi Telecom Company on “Business Forecasting”, 2007-2009

  • Developing the Strategic plan for the Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia 2006-2007.

  • Developing the Strategic plan for King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran. 2004-2005.

  • Developing a “simulation model for bus scheduling & routing during the Nafrah period”, Hajj Ministry (Team Member) Completed in July, 2000.

  • Developing a “Corporate integrated strategic plan for AMIANTIT, a leading pipe manufacturer in Middle East”, (Team member) RI Project # PN26057. Completed in 1999.

 

 

MASTER & PhD THESIS SUPERVISION              

 

  • Integrating production and maintenance scheduling under different production conditions and maintenance policies Laith Al-Hadidi, PhD, June 2010.

  • Benchmarking Maintenance Systems, Mohammed Alzobi, MS., December 2011.

  • Single machine with uncertain processing times, Khalid Al-Sharif, MS, July 2008.

  • Single machine early/Tardy scheduling problem with distinct due dates, MS, Maher Khader, April 2008.

  • A Model for Procurement Process Evaluation and Improvement at Saudi Aramco, MS, Sameer AL-Zahrani, September, 2006.

  • Job Scheduling on Single machine under various Maintenance Policies, MS, S. Asif Raza, May 2002.

 

TRAINING EXPERIENCE              

  • Quality Control 

  • @ Design of Experiments                            

  • Maintenance Management : Productivity & Work Measurement

  • Industrial Process Re-Engineering     

  • Statistical Process Control (ARRAZI, SABIC, <85>)   

  • Cost Reduction through Industrial Engineering (Kuwait).

  •  Applying SPC Tools in the Lab. (SABIC)                 

  • Skills for Measuring & Controlling Industrial Costs (Kuwait).

  • Experimental Design: Taguchi Methods (SABIC, Middle East Battery Company) 

  • Business forecasting (Saudi Aramco)  

 

PROFESSIONAL & ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP 

  • Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

  • Vice President of the Gulf Chapter of the IIE

  • Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

  • Member of the Saudi Arabian Quality Council (SAQC)

  • President of the Engineering Committee (Industrial Engineering Chapter) in the Eastern Province.

  • Founding member of the Saudi Society of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2004).

  • Scientific Committee of the The Second International Conference on Engineering Education and Training.

  • Referee for many international and regional journals

    • Journal of scheduling, International journal of quality and reliability management, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Computers and electronics in Agriculture, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of King Abdul Aziz University for Engineering Sciences.
    • Evaluater for projects submitted to : King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, King Saud University, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.

 

LANGUAGES           

  • Native Arabic Speaker

  • Fluent English Speaker

  • Fluent Turkish Speaker.

 

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