- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Bryan Research and Engineering Chair in Chemical Engineering
- Managing Director, TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center
- Phone: 979-845-3484
- FAX: 979-845-6446
- Email: el-halwagi@tamu.edu
- Office: 229 CHEN
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles - 1990
- M.S., Cairo University - 1986
- B.S., Cairo University - 1984
Research Interests
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- Process synthesis, simulation, design, operation, integration, optimization and product design.
- Development of systematic methodologies that enable chemical engineers to identify optimum, sustainable and creative strategies that lead to productivity enhancement, yield improvement, debottlenecking, pollution prevention and energy conservation.
- Sustainable design of integrated biorefineries, oil and gas processes, and chemical process industries.
Awards & Honors
- Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Computing and Systems Technology Division (AIChE CAST) (2020)
- Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2014
- Celanese Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013
- Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching University Level, the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University (2012)
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Faculty Fellow Research Award (2012) Excellence and Service Award (as Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology Division), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2011)
- Faculty of the Year Award, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Chapter, Texas A&M University (2011)
- AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF) Research Excellence Award (2009)
- Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), 2009
- The Fluor Distinguished teaching Award (2008)
- Texas A&M's Association of Former Students- College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award (2007-2008)
- Named Honorary Professor at Zagazig University, Egypt, 2003
- The McFerrin Professorship, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, 2002
- The Walker Superior Teaching Award, School of Engineering, Auburn University, 2002
- The Outstanding Faculty Member Award, School of Engineering, Auburn University, 2002, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1991
- Auburn University Senior Faculty Research Award, 2001
- Favorite Educator of the Year, The Mortar Board National Society, 2000
- National Science Foundation, National Young Investigator Award, 1994
Selected Publications
- El-Halwagi, M. M., Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier (2012)
- Foo, D. C. Y., M. M. El-Halwagi, and R. R. Tan (Editors),Recent Advances in Sustainable Process Design and Optimization, Series on Advances in Process Systems Engineering, World Scientific Publishing Company (2012)
- Stuart, P. and M. M. El-Halwagi (Editors), Integrated Biorefineries: Design, Analysis, and Optimization, Taylor and Francis/CRC (2012)
- Pham, V. and M. M. El-Halwagi, Process Synthesis and Optimization of Biorefinery Configurations, AIChE J.,58(4), 1212-1221 (2012)
- Noureldin, M. M. B. and M. M. El-Halwagi,Synthesis of C-H-O Symbiosis Networks, AIChE J., 64(4), 1242-1262 (2015)
- Gabriel, K. J., P. Linke, A. Jiménez-Gutiérrez, D. Y. Martínez, M. M. B. Noureldin, and M. M. El-Halwagi, Targeting of the Water-Energy Nexus in Gas-to-Liquid Processes: A Comparison of Syngas Technologies, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 53 (17), pp 70877102 (2014)