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Najib Gerges, Ph.D., P.E.

Dr. Najib Gerges  is an online PDH course provider of continuing education courses for professional engineers.
 
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICAIONS
 
Dr. Gerges has over 22 years of civil engineering experience, including water resources, environmental engineering (water and wastewater treatment plant, hydrology, hydraulics, groundwater), structural engineering (bridges), transportation engineering (traffic and geometric design of roadways, railroads, airports and harbors), and management. He has held managerial positions with various leading firms and regulatory agencies in Florida. Dr. Gerges has worked on major infrastructure and transportation projects in the Middle East and USA and is familiar with the local and international laws and regulations, mainly the American Association of States and Highways Officials (AASHTO) criteria and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Guidelines.
 
Dr. Gerges' responsibilities include feasibility studies, development of master plans, detailed design, preparation of tender documents, pre-qualification of contractors, tender analysis, supervision of work, and operation and maintenance after completion of the project.  He also has outstanding capabilities in coordinating fieldwork with design activities, establishing project concepts in conjunction with economic feasibility studies, as well as the overall management of projects. Dr. Gerges is knowledgeable of management softwares such as Primavera (with Expedition and Infomaker) and Microsoft Project, and hydrologic and hydraulic softwares such as WaterCad, KyPIPE, and KySurge, Hammer, Epanet, HECRAS, HEC1, HEC2, WSPRO, and TR20, groundwater modeling softwares such as MODFLOW, roadway geometric design softwares such as Geopak and AutoDesk Land Development, traffic design softwares such as HCS-3 (intersection design and level of service determination).
 
Currently, Dr. Gerges is teaching water resources engineering (hydraulics, hydrology, applied hydraulics), environmental courses, management courses (project management, construction management), and highway design and traffic at the University of Balamand and at the Lebanese American University.
 
EDUCATION
 
- B.Sc., Civil Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1983
- M.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, 1987
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, 1996
 
AFFILIATIONS
 
- Registered Engineer, Lebanon and Florida
- Board of Professional Engineers, Florida
- American Society of Civil Engineering
- National Society of Professional Engineering
- Syndicate of Engineers, Tripoli, Lebanon
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Authored and co-authored various paper in civil engineering journals. Most of the papers were presented in international conferences. Currently, Dr. Gerges is working on several research papers entitled 'Rigorous Mode-Matched Solution of Linearized Fluid Velocity and Temperature Equations for Flow in Czochralski Crucible'.
 
Courses provided to CED Engineering by Dr. Gerges are as follows: