- 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
- Email: fikhan@tamu.edu
- Office: CHEN 246
- Linkedin: 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
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- 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.