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  • Phone:

    +966-13-849-8852

  • Email:

    sdernayka@pmu.edu.sa

  • Office No:

    F-003

  • Samar Dernayka

  • Job Title :

    LECTURER

  • College :

    College of Engineering


  • Department :

    Civil Engineering


Mrs. Samar Dernayka earned her Bachelor of Civil Engineering in 2006 from The Faculty of Engineering, Branch 1, in Lebanon. She started to work in the industry as a junior civil engineer for the Design of various projects in Lebanon and the Gulf Region. In 2009, she became a Research Assistant in Western University, London, Canada. She worked there at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes, a Research facility, in order to examine the effect of constant and gradient wind pressure on full-scale model of pressure equalized Rainscreen wall. Simultaneously, She got the position of a Teaching Assistant in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, while teaching Statics, Surveying and AutoCAD for Undergraduate. In 2010, she obtained a Teaching Certificate about Teaching strategies in Universities from the Teaching Support Center, UWO. In 2011, she graduated from Western University with Masters of Engineering Sciences in the field of Wind Engineering. From 2012 to 2015, she got employed as a Senior Engineer in Assystem Radicon, Al khobar. She was involved in BIM and Design of structural projects, as well as checking of (IFC) packages. Currently, she is a lecturer in PMU since January 2016 in both departments of Math and Naturel Sciences and Civil Engineering.

- Renewable Energy Expert Certificate, The renewable Energy Institute, London, UK (2020)

- Master of Sciences, the civil and Environmnetal Engineering department, the boundary Layer Wind Tunnel, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (2011)

- Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Major: Buildings, The civil Engineering department, Lebanese University, Lebanon

 

- Danish, Dernayka, Chowdhury, Asiz and Ayadat (2023), Sustainable timber building and its carbon emission analysis in the LINE-NEOM, journal of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Vol 30, Issue 23, https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2023.2262978

- Mohammad Ali Khasawneh, Samar D. Dernayka & Saidur R.Chowdhury (2023), Physical properties of crumb rubber modified asphalt binders and environmental impact consideration, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, DOI:10.1080/15376494.2023.2248969

- Dernayka S, Ahmed D, Ajmal M, Asiz A, Ayadat T (2022) Comparison of Wind Induced response of high-rise buildings with reinforced concrete and cross laminated timber. Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction, 9(1), 2022 State-of-the-art Materials and Techniques in Structural Engineering and Construction. ISSN: 2644-108X www.doi.org/10.14455/ISEC.2022.9(1).STR-21

- Andrews K, Dernayka S., Mir M., Khasawneh M. (2023), Review of the Utilization of Plastic Waste in Asphalt pavements in Hot Climate Conditions-KSA as a case study. Materials Today: Proceedings

- Tahar A, Khasawneh M, Chowdhury S, Jradi L, Ahmed D,  Dernayka S, & Asiz A (2023), Guidelines for a Vigorous Online Learning in a Civil Engineering Program, International Journal of Engineering Education, World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, WIETE Vol.21, No.2, 2023

- Dernayka S, Wuhayb FA, Zohbi GA, (2022) Assessment of Potential Nuclear in selected sites in Saudi Arabia. J Nucl Ene Sci Power Generat Technol 11:8. DOI:10.4172/2325-9809.1000290

- Khasawneh, Dernayka, Chowdhury (2023), Experimental Characterization and Environmental Impact of Different Grades Of CRM-Modified Asphalt Binders, Advanced Topics in Mechanics of Materials, Structures and Construction - AToMech1-2023, Materials Research Proceedings 31 (2023) 16-28

 - Al Zohbi, G., Al Wuhayb, F. Dernayka, S. (2020) Evaluation of Wind Power Energy Potential in Four sites in Saudi  Arabia, International Journal of Renewable Energy Sources, 5, 30-46

 - Dernayka, S., Al Zohbi, G., Al Wuhayb, F.  (2020) Estimation of Along Wind- Induced structural response in Saudi Arabia: case studies on tall buildings, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research and Development (IJAERD), Vol.10, Issue 2, 15-36

 - Al Zohbi, G., Dernayka, S., Al Wuhayb, F.  , (2019) Thermodynamic Analysis of Diabatic and Adiabatic compressed air energy storage systems,   International Journal of Energy and Environmental Research (IJEER), Vol. 7, issue 3

 - Dernayka, S., (2011) Pressure Equalized Rainscreen wall: A Full- scale Experiment, Western University, London, Canada

 

 

 

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

Industrial Experience:

2006: Junior Civil Engineer at Fast Associates, Lebanon

2006 - 2008: Junior Civil Engineer at Dec Design and Construction Company, Lebanon / Unites Arabs Emirates

2010 - 2011: Research Assistant, Western University, The Three Litte pigs facility team for running Experiments, London, Ontario, Canada

2012 - 2015: Senior Structural Engineer, Assystem- Radicon, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

 

Academic Experience:

2009 - 2011 : Teaching Assistant for, Western University, The civil and Environmental Enginering, London, Ontario, Canada

2015 - 2016: Teaching Assistant at Dhahran High School, IB program

2016 - Present : Lecturer at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, College of Engineering, Math and Naturel Sciences department

- Reinforced Concrete Design

- Structural Analsysis

- Materials for Civil Engineering - Lab

- Surveying and Measurements - Lab

- Statics

- AutoCad drawings - Lab

- Physics for Engineers - I - Lab

- Physics for Engineers - II - Lab

- Introductory Physics

- Calculus for Business

- Finite Elements for Business

- Precalculus

- Introductory and Intermediate Algebra

 

Building Envelope, cladding, PER wall, Wind Engineering, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Structural Design, Seismic Design, Renewable Energy

 

 

  • Full member of the Renewable Energy Instriture , London, UK, since 2021
  • Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE since 2020
  • Member of the Global Embassdors for Sustainability since 2023
  • Member of Order of Engineers and Architects, Lebanon, since 2006
  • Student Member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers since 2010