KFUPM Seminar on Blast Loading
December 2025 Seminar

Seminar on Blast Loading & CFRP-Strengthened RC Structures at KFUPM

Delivered a seminar on our recent study of blast loading and CFRP-strengthened RC structures at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) on December 10, 2025.

KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
University of North Dakota
July 24, 2025 Invited Talk

Invited Talk at the University of North Dakota, USA

Delivered an invited talk titled "Smart and Sustainable Structural Systems: Innovations in Experimentation, Modeling, and Digital Construction" at the University of North Dakota, USA.

University of North Dakota, USA
Geneva Exhibition Participation
Geneva Bronze Medal
Geneva Certificate
May 2025 Award

Bronze Medal at the 2025 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions

Faisal Mukhtar received a Bronze Medal at the 2025 International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva for his work titled "Universal Debonding Test Apparatus for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer-Concrete System and Method for Sequential Multi-Testing."

Geneva, Switzerland
ABAAD 3D Concrete Printing
May 13, 2025 Invited Talk

Invited Talk at ABAAD 3D Concrete Printing, Bahrain

Delivered an invited talk titled "Sustainable Structural Engineering" to the ABAAD 3D Concrete Printing team, Bahrain.

ABAAD 3D Concrete Printing, Bahrain
Prainsa Industry Visit
Prainsa Industry Visit 2
May 2025 Industry Visit

Industry Visit: Prainsa Saudi Arabia for Precast Concrete

Graduate students in CE 522 visited Prainsa Saudi Arabia to observe the production of precast and prestressed concrete components.

Prainsa Saudi Arabia
EMPA Zurich
April 14, 2025 Invited Talk

Invited Talk at EMPA — Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology, Zurich

Delivered an invited talk titled "Sustainable Structures, Materials, and Computations" at the Structural Engineering Research Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA), Zurich, Switzerland.

EMPA, Zurich, Switzerland
Polyhedral Structures Laboratory University of Pennsylvania
June 23, 2023 Invited Talk

Invited Talk at the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

Delivered an invited talk titled "KFUPM ATLAS Lab and Research Initiatives: Past, Present, and the Future" to the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA