Ahmed Abu Hanieh

Ahmed Abu Hanieh

Associate Professor
Faculty Member - Department Of Mechanical And Mechatronics Engineering
PhD
Université libre de Bruxelles
ahanieh@birzeit.edu
Office: 
Aggad312

Ahmed M. Abu Hanieh, 

Associate professor works in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Birzeit University since 2004 and worked as the department chairman for three years. Participated in more than seventeen research and capacity building projects. Worked on international projects like Tempus projects where one of them aims at establishing a new Master program in sustainable engineering in Birzeit University (ME-Eng) and another Tempus project in the field of modern car maintenance (CODE). He also participated in Erasmus Mundus (Avempace II and Avempace III) and Erasmus plus credit mobility projects with different EU universities like University of Barcelona in Spain and Sapienza University in Italy. Has very tight relationships in research and capacity building with Technical University of Berlin (TUBerlin), Free University of Brussels (ULB), University of Ljubljana (UL), University of L’aquila (UNIVAQ) and University of California – Davis (UCDAvis).

Acts as a Palestinian Higher Education Reforms Expert (HERE) since 2015 till now. Involved in Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) projects funded by the International Bank. Supervised two Doctorate students in European Universities. Supervised several Bachelor graduation projects and Master theses. He is a board member in the Higher Council for Innovation and Excellence in Palestine. He participated in the judgement of severallocal and international innovation competitions like Made in Palestine, Intel Science competition and First Lego League. Founder of specialized associations like the Palestinian Solar and Sustainable Energy Society (PSSES) and active member in similar associations. The author of two books, seventeen journal articles and 32 conference papers. Volunteer reviewer for more than 17 international specialized journals and conferences. Teaching interests in Mechanical Vibrations, Fluid Power Control, Dynamics, Measurements and Sustainable Engineering courses.

Publications:

 

Books

 


  • Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Fluid Power Control, Hydraulics and Pneumatics, Cambridge International Scientific Publishers, UK, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-907343-14-8).

 


  • Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Active Isolation and Control of Vibrations, via Stewart platform, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Germany, 2009  (ISBN 970-3-639-13671-5).

 

Journal articles

 

1-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Sadiq AbdElall and Afif Hasan, Sustainable Development of Stone and Marble Sector in Palestine, Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLEPRO), Accepted for publication in October 2013.

 

2-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Vibration Isolation Pad for Medical Purposes: Modelling and Simulation, Journal of Vibration and Control, SAGE, Volume 18, number 13, pp 2031 - 2038, November 2012.

 

3-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh and Andre Preumont, Multi axis vibration isolation using different active techniques of frequency reduction, Journal of Vibration and Control, SAGE, Volume 17, Number 5, pp 759-768, April 2011.

 

4-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Orientation of Solar Photovoltaic Panels in Desert Regions, International Review of Automatic Control (IREACO), Praise Worthy Prize, Volume 1, Number 3, pp 347-354, September 2008.

 

5-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Vibration Isolation of Hand-Held Tools to Prevent Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome, International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME) , Praise Worthy Prize, Volume 2, Number 2, pp 290-295, March 2008.

 

6-    A. Preumont, M. Horodinca, I. Romanescu, B. de Marneffe, M. Avraam, A. Deraemeker, F. Bossens and  A. Abu Hanieh, A six-axis single stage active vibration isolator based on stewart platform, Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol 300, pp 644-661, 2007.

 

7-     A. Abu-Hanieh, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, Six-degrees-of-freedom parallel hexapods for active damping and active isolation of vibrations,  Journal de Phisique IV, vol 12, Pr11-41, December 2002.

 

8-     A. Preumont, A. Francois, F. Bossens and A. Abu-Hanieh, “Force feedback versus acceleration feedback in active vibration isolation”, Journal of sound and vibration, vol. 257 no. 4, pp 605-613, October 2002.

 

Conference proceedings

 

1-    Afif Hasan and Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: Case of Palestine, 9th World Congress on Engineering Education, 24-25 October 2013, Beirut, Lebanon.

 

2-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Afif Hasan, Sadiq AbdElall and Peter Krajnik, Role of Resource Efficiency in Engineering Education, 11th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2013, CIRP, 24-26 October 2013, Berlin, Germany.

 

3-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Sadiq AbdElall and Afif Hasan, Stone and Marble Sector in Palestine, Model for Sustainability, 10th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2012, CIRP, 31 October – 2 November 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

4-    S. AbdElall, A. Abu Hanieh, M. Amer, H. Arman, I. Hammad, A. Hasan, A. Ramahi, Shaping the Engineering Qualifications for Improving Living Standards and Resources Efficiency, 10th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2012, CIRP, 31 October – 2 November 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

5-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh and Afif Hasan, Cooperation of Faculty of Engineering at Birzeit University with Local Industry, Cultivating Innovation in Strategic Public-Private Sector Partnerships, October 15, 2011, Birzeit, Palestine.

 

6-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh,New Experience in Education, Cases of Excellence in Higher Education, Ibn Rush unit, Birzeit University, 11 October 2011, Birzeit, Palestine.

 

7-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Amelioration de l’efficacite de l’energie solaire, Seminaire National de Lancement du Projet, Eau, Environnment, Energie et Climat, Agence Universiatire de la Francophonie (AUF),  18 – 20 April, 2011, Beirut, Lebanon.

 

8-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh and Jamal Siam, Sun Tracking Smart System, The 4th international conference on advanced concepts in Mechanical Engineering ACME 2010, Iasi, Romania, 17-18 June, 2010.

 

9-    Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Solar Photovoltaic Panels Tracking System, Proceedings of Advances in Dynamical Systems and Control, Sfax, Tunisia, 3-6 May, 2010.

 

10- Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Automatic Orientation of Solar Photovoltaic Panels to increase efficiency, Cairo International Conference on Energy and Environment (ee11), 15-18 March, 2009, Hurgada, Egypt.

 

11- Ahmed M. Abu Hanieh, Vibration Isolation of Hand-Held Tool, The 6th Jordanian International Mechanical Engineering Conference (JIMEC’6), University of Jordan, Amman-Jordan,  22-24 October 2007.

 

12- Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Active-Passive Vibration Isolation of Rotating Hand-Held Tools, 11th International Conference on Hand-Arm Vibrations (HAV 2007), Associazone Italiana di Acoustica, AIA, Bologna, Italy, 3-7 June 2007.

 

13- Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Mechatronics in Palestinian Birzeit University, Scientific Research Outlook & Technology Development in the Arab World (SRO4), Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), Damascus, Syria, 11-14 December 2006.

 

14- Ahmed Abu Hanieh and Andre Preumont, Frequency reduction for the purpose of vibration isolation, Robotica 2006, Iasi, Romania, 7-9 September 2006.

 

15- Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Andre Preumont, Frequency reduction for the purpose of vibration isolation, 3rd IEEE international conference on mechatronics ICM 2006, Budapest, Hungary 3-5 July 2006.

 

16- A. Abu Hanieh, M. Horodinca, B. de Marneffe, I. Romanescu,  A. Preumont, Université and F. Bossens, Actuator Design for a Six-Axis Active vibration Isolator for Space Applications, Actuator 2004, Bremen Germany, 14–16 June 2004.

 

17- A. Abu Hanieh and A. Preumont, Microgravity test of a 6 d.o.f. active vibration isolator, In 6th National Congres on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (NCTAM), Gent, Belgium, May 2003.

 

18- Mihaita Horodinca, Ahmed Abu Hanieh and Andre Preumont, Passive damping of local modes on soft six-axis vibration isolator, International Conference of Manufaturing systems (ICMS 2003), Iasi, Romania, September 2003.

 

19- Ahmed Abu Hanieh, Mihaita Horodinca and Andre Preumont, Zero-G test of active vibration isolator based on Stewart platform, 22nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, March 2003.

 

20- N. Loix, A. Abu Hanieh and A. Preumont, Piezoelectric Stewart Platform for General Purpose Active Damping Interface and Precision Control, Sponsoring and exhibitor packages for the 3 e International Conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Euspen, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2002.

 

21- A. Abu-Hanieh, M. Horodinca, A. Preumont N. Loix and J.Ph. Verschueren, Stiff and Soft Stewart Platforms for Active Damping and Active Isolation of Vibrations, Actuator 2002, Bremen, Germany, June 2002.

 

22- M. Horodinca, A. Abu-Hanieh and A. Preumont, A soft Six Degrees of Freedom Active Vibration Isolator Based on Stewart Platform, International Symposium on Active Control of Sound and Vibration, Active 2002, ISVR, Southampton, UK, July 2002.

 

23- A. Abu-Hanieh, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, Six-degrees-of-freedom parallel robots for active damping and active isolation of vibrations,  1st Conference: Model-Experiment Interactions in Solid Mechanics, IME,  Besancon, France, July 2002.

 

24- A. Abu-Hanieh, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, A soft-Actuator Active Hexapod for the Purpose of Vibration Isolation,  International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, Belgium, September 2002.

 

25- A. Abu Hanieh, A. Preumont and N. Loix, piezoelectric Stewart platform for General purpose Active damping and precision control, 9th European Space Mechanism and Tribology Symposium, Liege , Belgium, September, 2001.

 

26- A. Abu Hanieh, A. Preumont and N. Loix, Six-axis Active damping and precision pointing interface based on Stewart platform, Inter-Active 2001 on-line conference (Active control of sound and vibration), Southampton, UK, November 2001.

 

27- Ir. A. Abu Hanieh, Prof. A. Preumont and Dr. N. Loix, “Piezoelectric Stewart platform for general purpose active damping interface and precision control”, European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP , Issue 480, pp 331-334, 2001.