Published on
October1, 2011

Appointment of Dr. Hassan Kashoob Acting Vice Chancellor of Dhofar University and New Deans for the Colleges

Ali Al Maalam wrote:

The Board of Trustees of Dhofar University approved recently the appointment of Dr. Hassan Said Mahad Kashoob, Acting Vice Chancellor of Dhofar University.  Dr. Kashoob is the first Omani Acting Vice Chancellor and he has a distinguished record in teaching and research in addition to twelve years of experience in the administration of institutions of technical teaching.  He completed his postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom where he received a Ph.D. in translation from the University of Glasgow in 1995 and since that time until his appointment as Acting Vice Chancellor of Dhofar University he served as Dean in four Colleges of Technology in the Sultanate: Ibra, Salalah, Almasnaa and Shnas.  He is as an active member in many committees and in professional associations including the Association of GCC Deans where he is Oman’s Representative and the Oman Accreditation Council (OAC).  He participated in numerous seminars for professional training and presented papers in many International Conferences on various aspects of teaching and management.

 Dr. Bilal Akash Dean of the College of Engineering at Dhofar University

The Board of Trustees of Dhofar University also approved the appointment of Dr. Bilal Akash Dean of the College of Engineering at Dhofar University. Dr. Akash obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Illinois University in 1992. He was promoted to full professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. During his 19 years of academic experience he worked in various universities; they are King Faisal University (Saudi Arabia), Hashemite University (Jordan), University of Qatar (Qatar), and Applied Science University (Jordan). Dr. Akash is the author and coauthor of more than 90 papers in international journals and conferences with a Scopus h-index of 15. His work includes thermodynamic analysis of internal combustion engines, combustion, pyrolysis, liquefaction of solid fossil fuels, heat transfer, energy analysis and engineering systems, solar distillation, renewable and alternative energy desalination. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Thermal and Environmental Engineering. Also, he is an editorial board member of International Journal of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Jordan Journal of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering.

Dr. Manuchehr Eirandoust Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration

The Board of Trustees appointed Manuchehr Eirandoust Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration.  Dr. Eirandoust is a Swedish national of Azerbaijani origin. He gained his MA and Ph.D degrees in Economics from Uppsala University and Gothenburg University, Sweden. He was appointed to the post of full professor at Örebro University, Sweden.  After living for 30 years in Sweden, he accepted a full professorship position and the headship of the Department of Economics and Finance at the UAE University in 2007. Dr. Eirandoust also served as an acting dean for the college of Business and Economics at UAEU for a short period. He received two pedagogical prizes in Sweden: one was a pedagogical scholarship awarded by Örebro University and the other was awarded by the student federation at Örebro University.  He has published around 40 articles in high-ranked international refereed journals. Professor Eirandoust has been the World Bank consultant and a senior economic advisor to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs in the UAE.  He was a visiting scholar at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Dr. Fouad Chedid Dean of the College of Arts and Applied Sciences

The appointment of Dr. Fouad Chedid was also approved by the Board of Trustees of Dhofar University. Dr. Chedid received his B.S. degree in Physics from the Lebanese University in 1982, M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1990. In Sept. 1990, he joined Temple University (Tokyo campus) as an assistant professor of computer science and became an associate professor in May 1996. In Oct. 1996, he joined the department of computer science at Notre Dame University (NDU) in Lebanon where he was promoted to a full professor in Oct. 2003. At NDU, he served as Chair of the Department (1997-2001, 2008-2010), Associate Director of the NDU Shouf Campus (2001-2003), and Chair of the Sciences and Engineering Programs (2003-2008). His current research interests are in parallel and distributed computing and systems and algorithmic information theory. He served on the program committees of many international conferences and on the editorial boards of a number of international journals. Dr. Chedid has co-authored five textbooks in computer science and has published over 40 single-author journal and conference papers. This year, Dr. Chedid is on the very prestigious program committee of Ray Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference.

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