Faisal Mukhtar

Faisal Mukhtar, PhD

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering  ·  Director, ATLAS Lab
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, KSA

FRP Composites Fracture Mechanics 3D Concrete Printing Structural Repair Smart Materials Computational Mechanics

Education

2015

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering — Structures & Mechanics

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, KSA

2012

M.S. in Civil Engineering — Structures & Mechanics

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, KSA

2008

B.Eng. in Civil Engineering — 1st Class Honours

Bayero University Kano, Nigeria

Additional Training

2018

CEE 598 Special Topics — Generalized FEM

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

2021

ICS 557 Advanced Machine Learning

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, KSA

Experience

  • Associate Professor — KFUPM, KSA 2020 – Present
  • Assistant Professor — KFUPM, KSA 2015 – 2020
  • Visiting Scholar — University of Pennsylvania, USA Jun. – Jul. 2023
  • Visiting Scholar — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Aug. 2019; Jul.–Aug. 2023; Jul.–Aug. 2025
  • Lecturer-B — KFUPM, KSA 2012 – 2015
  • Research Assistant — KFUPM, KSA 2009 – 2012
  • Assistant Lecturer — Federal Polytechnic Idah, Nigeria  (One Year National Youth Service) 2008 – 2009

Membership in Professional Organizations

American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committees
  • ACI Committee 440 — Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement
  • ACI/ASCE Committee 447 — Finite Element Analysis of RC Structures
  • ACI Committee 564 — 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials
Saudi Council of Engineers
Nigerian Society of Engineers

Professional Service

Departmental Services

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KFUPM

Graduate Coordinator

2021 – Present

Chairman, Graduate Committee

2021 – Present

Chairman, Teaching and Advising Awards Committee

Ad hoc

2022 & 2023

Chairman, Laboratory & Safety Committee

2019 – 2021

Coordinator, International Student Exchange Program

2018 – Present

Member, Programs' Development and Revision Committee

2023 – Present

Member, Cooperative Education Committee

2018 – 2020

Member, Program Assessment Committee

2017 – 2018

Member, Undergraduate Committee

2017 – 2022

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee

2015 – 2018

Member, Course Offering and Textbook Committee

2015 – 2021

Member, Department Assessment Committee

2015 – 2016

Chairman, Administrative Committee on CEE Graduate Curriculum Review

2013

College Level Services

College of Design and Built Environments, KFUPM

Member, Teaching and Advising Awards Committee

Ad hoc, College of Design and Built Environments

2022 & 2023

University Services

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)

Member, KFUPM Graduate Council

Deanship of Graduate Studies

2022 – Present

Member, Environment, Health, Safety and Security Committee

2019 – 2020

Member, Ad hoc Committee for Part-Time Employment and Criteria for Assigning Graders

2015 – 2016

Member, KFUPM Website Management Committee

2013 – 2014

International Services

Reviewer for 20+ International Journals

Including Engineering Structures, Composite Structures, Computers and Structures, Journal of Composites for Construction, Construction and Building Materials, and others

Ongoing

Editorial Board Member

Knowledge-Based Engineering and Sciences

Ongoing

Minisymposium Chair — #MS807

Numerical Simulation of Engineering and Sciences · World Congress in Computational Mechanics · New York City, USA · Jul 22–27, 2018

Jul 2018

Conference Scientific Committee Member

Youth for Science & Engineering (MDT2015) · Warsaw University of Technology – Branch in Plock, Poland

2015

External Project Reviewer

National Center for Transportation Infrastructure Durability & Life-Extension (TriDurLE) · Washington State University, USA

2022

Reviewer — Tariq Al-Qasabi Award for Research / Innovation Excellence in Civil Engineering

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 & 2022

Awards & Recognition

2025

Bronze Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland.

2025

Excellence in Innovation Award for four inventions at KFUPM.

2025

University Service Award for distinguished service of 10 years at KFUPM.

2024

Excellence in Innovation Award for two inventions at KFUPM.

2023

KFUPM Excellence Award in Students' Advising.