Shahriar Shams

PhD

Department of Civil Engineering

The University of Manchester, M13 9PL Oxford Road

E-mail:shahriarshams@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Dr. Daoyi Chen

Research Interest	GIS Environmental Modelling, Ground water pollution, Non-point Source Pollutant loads
Obtained PhD	5 February 2008

Award

ORS(Overseas Resaerch Scholarship), Faculty of Engineering & School of Civil Engineering

M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering & Sustainable from Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, 2002

Awarded Scholarship from Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Sweden

M.Sc. in Civil & Structural Engineering from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), 2001

Research Assistantship: awarded under IRPA: 08-02-020025 project of Malaysian Government from Feb, 1999 to August, 2000

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Rajshahi, Bangladesh

First in order of merit and has been awarded with a Gold Medal

Pulications	Educational Qualification	Work Experience	Computer Literacy
Courses Attended	Extra Curricular Activities	Personal Information	Personal Web Page

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Paper
· Shams, S. and Ibrahimu, C. (2003). Household waste recovery and recycling: a case study of Kigoma-Ujiji Tanzania. Int. J. Environment and Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, No. 4. pp.412-424

· Shams, S., Bhattacharya, P., Langaas, S., Jacks, G., Ahmed, K.M., Anders, G., Chen, D. and Granlund, A. (2006) Mapping and Interpretation of field data for Evaluation and Mitigation of Groundwater Contamination: The Case of Arsenic in Bangladesh. J. of Hydroinformatics vol 7 pp 25-36.

· Leone, A., Shams, S. and Chen, D. (2006) An Object-Oriented and OpenGIS Supported Hydro Information System (30-HIS) for Upper Mersey River Basin Management. Journal of River Basin Management vol 4 issue 2 pp 1-9.

· Shams, S., Zakzok, E., Chen, D. and Huang. J. (2008) Estimation and monitoring non-point source pollutant loads: an object oriented hydro information approach. J. Environmental Technology and Management. Conference Paper

S. Shams, S. Langaas and P. Bhattacharya (2004). "A Prototype Spatial Expert System for Evaluation and Mitigation of Groundwater Contamination: the Case of Arsenic in Bangladesh" Proceedings from the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics & 14th Congress of the Asia & Pacific Division of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research 15-18 December 2004, Hong Kong.

T. Honda & S. Shams (2004).”Problems and issues in achieving sustainability: a case study of the ger area in Ulaanbaator, Mogolia”. Proceedings from the International Conference: Future Vision and Challenges for Urban Development, 20-22 December 2004, Cairo, Egypt.

A paper entitled "Intergrated Expert System for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Siting" has been published in the Sixteenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering, Widener University1 University Place, Chester, PA 19013-5792 U.S.A. to be held on December 10-13, 2000, Session 9C.

A paper entitled "Evaluating a Potential Landfill Site" has been published in the International conference ICAST 2000 organised by University Kebangsaan Malaysia on 15-17^th August 2000, Vol. II, pp. 1273-1282.

Presented a paper entitled "Problems and Issues of Hazardous Waste Management" at a seminar in University Brunei Darussalam on 4^th April, 2000 jointly organised by University Brunei Darussalam and University Kebangsaan Malaysia.

A paper entitled "Java: A Fast Growing Programming Language With Tremendous Potential" has been presented at the Inter University Symposium, 17^th to 18^th July 2000 Malaysia.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Name of Exam	From where degree obtained	Yearof Passing	Division/Class	Marks Obtained
PhD	University of Manchester, UK	Continuing from Jan. 2003		Civil Engineering (Awarded ORS, Faculty & School Award) Topic: GIS Environmental Modelling
M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering & Sustainable Infrastructure	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden	Dec. 2002	Grade above 4	Awarded Scholarship from Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) 2000-2001
M.Sc. in Civil & Structural Engineering	University Kebangsaan Malaysia	August 2001	Fully by Research	Topic: Intergrated Expert System for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Siting in Developing Countries
B.Sc. Engineering (Civil)	Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Rajshahi	1997	1st	CGPA=3.58 (71.6%) First in order of merit and has been awarded with a Gold Medal
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)	Rajshahi College, Bangladesh	1990	1st	78.8%
Secondary School Certificate (SSC)	Rajshahi University School, Bangladesh	1988	1st	78.6%

WORK EXPERIENCE

Working as a Student Demonstrator, Civil and Construction Engineering, UMIST from September 2003 to onwards
Job responsibility is to demonstrate laboratory class for Hydraulics 2 (2nd Year Civil Engineering course).

Worked as a Research Assistant, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, University
Kebangsaan Malaysia from February 1999 to August 2001.

        Job responsibility is to carry out research on Integrated Solid Waste
        Management and landfill siting to develop an expert system, taking Demo. class for
        the under-graduates.

Worked as an Assistant Engineer Growth Centre Connecting Road Project (GCCR) in Local
Government Engineering Department (LGED) from 14-6-98 to 25-1-99.

Worked as a Design Engineer in Sthapati Sangsad Ltd. ( A Private sector firm) from
3-12-97 to 4-5-98 and designed the following:

i) Sewerage System of Institute of Childcare and Mother Hospital (ICMH)
ii) Rest house & a school
iii) Incinerator house of Institute of Childcare and Mother Hospital (ICMH)

COMPUTER LITERACY

Programming languages	:	FORTRAN, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSL, SQL
Operating systems	:	MS-DOS, Windows95
Application Packages	:	GIS ArcView, IDRISI, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office 97

COURSES ATTENDED

i)            Participated in project attachment for 15 days in Military Engineering Service(MES) .
ii)           Participated in project attachment for 15 days in Local Government EngineeringDepartment
              (LGED).
iii)          Participated in a course on Water Supply and Waste Management, sponsored by ITN
              Bangladesh .
iv)          Participated in project management workshop on Work Norms and Wages Pilot Scheme
              jointly organized by WFP and LGED.
v)           Participated in workshop on Disposal of Solid Waste Through Sanitary Landfill-Mechanisms,
              Processes, Potential Impacts and Post-Closure Management.
vi)          Completed an Online course ‘Introduction to GIS ArcView 3.x’ conducted by ESRI and awarded certificate
vii)         Completed a M.Sc. course on GIS Environmental Monitoring and Networking at the Geography Dept., University of Manchester

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVIES

   Worked as a Volunteer at Community Action Programme, UMIST for Elder People’s X-mas Party & Day Out Trip with Elder People, 2003.
   Worked as a Volunteer for Go Manchester & took part in gardening in Platt field Park at Fallowfield, 2003
    Favourite sports: football, tennis and cricket. Favourite club: Manchester United
    Like to Travel: I have been to Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Dubai, Paris, Helsinki, Barcelona, Poland, Sweden and Ireland
    General Secretary, Bangladesh Student Society (BSS), The University of Manchester, 2003-2004.

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Father`s Name	:	Dr. M. Shamsur Rahman
Date of Birth	:	9th May, 1973
Marital Status	:	Single
Sex	:	Male
Height	:	5'8" (172 cm)
Weight	:	66 Kg
Eye Colour	:	Brown
Nationality	:	Bangladeshi
Language Known	:	Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu and Malay-u