Aly Owida is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), which is an ABET accredited program of study since 2010. Dr. Owida has received his PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from University of Limerick, Ireland. His research aimed to review and analyze the contracting activities for outsourcing after-sales field repair services with a specific focus on the Middle Eastern emerging markets, and to assess the potential for improving field repair services contracting through developing continuous improvement approach to support service contracting in both established and emerging markets. He has been working in the academic field of teaching and research since 2007. He has considerable experience in teaching Operations Research, Operations Management, and Supply Chain Management and adopted the use of case-based teaching in different courses along with practical term projects. He has supported administrative tasks and academic advising services at IME such as quality coordination, status report development, academic advising, website improving, department publicity, and timetabling and scheduling. Also, he has facilitated and supported the accreditation process of industrial engineering required by several accreditors such as ISO, ABET, IET, NAQAAE among others. Dr. Owida research interests lie in the modelling, analysis, and performance improvement of industrial systems and business processes within the area of operations and supply chain management, including manufacturing and service supply chains. He is interested in the use of discrete-event simulation, business process modelling and business process simulation, and optimization techniques. Other areas of interest include product-service systems, field service management, supplier selection and contracting, scheduling of projects and industrial systems, supply chain risk management, supply chain resilience, supply chain sustainability, and transportation and logistics of agri-food supply chains.
