- 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
- Affiliated Faculty, Ocean Engineering
- Joint Faculty in: Petroleum Engineering
- Email: fikhan@tamu.edu
- Office: CHEN 246
- Linkedin: LinkedIn Page
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
Industry Experience
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- Led several strategic initiatives as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at FEAS
- Established a multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence at Memorial in the position of Director
- Facilitated research that led to new technologies as the Canadian Research Chair, Tier 1, Offshore Safety and Risk Engineering
- Developed six new courses and taught courses while holding the title of Professor in the Department of Process Engineering
Certifications & Memberships
- 2015-2017 Member of NSERC Discovery Grant Review Panel (Chemical Engineering)
- 2013 Member of National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan
- 2011-2014 Member of US think-tank on Process Safety and Risk Management
- 2009 Member (and Chair) of NSERC Strategic Grant Review Committee on Safety and Security
Awards & Honors
- 2021 Inducted as Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering
- 2018 Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada
- 2017 Fellow of Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering
- 2016 Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution in Health, Safety and Risk Engineering
- 2014 Memorial University President’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Supervision National Award – CSChE Outstanding Research Award of Process Safety Management
- 2012 Memorial University President’s Award for Outstanding Research
- 2008-2010 Expert subject advisor to Ministry of Environment, State of Qatar, on environment and risk matters
- 2002 Received Nawab Zain Bahadur Memorial Medal (for outstanding research in environmental engineering), 2002, from the Institution of Engineers (India)
Selected Publications
- Khan, F, & Amyotte, P (2019). Advance Methods in Risk Management, Academic Press
- Khan, F, & Abbassi, R (2018). Offshore Process Safety, Academic Press
- Khan, F (2017). Methods in Chemical Process Safety, Academic Press
- Yang, Y., Khan, F., Thodi, P., & Abbassi, R. (2017). Corrosion induced failure analysis of subsea pipelines. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 159, 214-222.
- Baksh, A. A., Abbassi, R., Garaniya, V., & Khan, F. (2018). Marine transportation risk assessment using Bayesian Network: Application to Arctic waters. Ocean Engineering, 159, 422-436.