• Department Head, Chemical Engineering
  • Professor, Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering
  • Mike O'Connor Chair II
  • Director, MKO Process Safety Center
  • Director, Ocean Energy Safety Institute
  • Affiliated Faculty, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Multidisciplinary Engineering and Ocean Engineering
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Dr. Faisal Khan

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Pondicherry University – 1998
  • M.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Roorkee, India – 1994
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India – 1992

Research Interests

    • Offshore safety and risk engineering
    • Offshore asset integrity assessment and management
    • Process modeling and system design
    • Offshore environment system modeling and management

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering – 2021
  • Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada – 2018
  • Fellow, Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering – 2017
  • Member, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan – 2013

Awards & Honors

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Health, Safety, and Environment Award, Canadian Region – 2016
  • Member, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant Review Panel (Chemical Engineering) – 2015-2017
  • President’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Supervision National Award – CSChE Outstanding Research Award of Process Safety Management, Memorial University – 2014
  • President’s Award for Outstanding Research, Memorial University – 2012
  • Member, U.S. think-tank on Process Safety and Risk Management – 2011-2014
  • Expert subject advisor, Ministry of Environment, State of Qatar – 2008-2010
  • Member (and Chair), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Grant Review Committee on Safety and Security – 2009
  • Nawab Zain Bahadur Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers (India) – 2002

Selected Publications

  • Khan, F., and Amyotte, P. (2019) Advance Methods in Risk Management, Academic Press
  • Baksh, A.A., Abbassi, R., Garaniya, V., and Khan, F. (2018). Marine transportation risk assessment using Bayesian Network: Application to Arctic waters. Ocean Engineering, 159, 422-436.
  • Khan, F., and Abbassi, R. (2018) Offshore Process Safety, Academic Press
  • Khan, F. (2017) Methods in Chemical Process Safety, Academic Press
  • Yang, Y., Khan, F., Thodi, P., and Abbassi, R. (2017) Corrosion induced failure analysis of subsea pipelines. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 159, 214-222.
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