Associate Professor Kazem Abhary

Kazem Abhary obtained his Bachelor and Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran University, and Masters by Research and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, England. Since then he has been continuously engaged in tertiary education and has acted as a consulting engineer to variety of industries. His publications, exceeding 200, include numerous international journal and conference papers, two handbook chapters, 13 book chapters, five books, and a bi-lingual (English-Persian) Mechanical Engineering Lexicon. He has also published two books and a number of non-technical articles on social, spiritual  and literary issues. He has undertaken and supervised over 140 engineering projects in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Iran, has educated a few thousand engineers and supervised many post-graduate students (Masters and PhD). He has been on the international advisory board of a number of international engineering conferences and engineering journals; associate editor of an engineering journal; reviewer to a number of international engineering journals and conferences, and keynote speaker to international engineering conferences and engineering graduation ceremonies. His publications include eight new methods in Design of Machinery (Mechanical Design, Mechanisms and Vibrations) some of which have won awards and downgraded project-type design-problems to the level of classroom tutorials. He is also a co-inventor of a machine. He was on the Council of the University of South Australia as the representative of academics for two terms (2001-2004) and has been a member of Standards-Australia/Standards-New Zealand since 1994. His biography is listed in a few international Who’s Who dictionaries. It is now close to three decades that he has persistently and ceaselessly committed himself to “the enhancement of engineers’ awareness on social and environmental impacts of the Engineering Profession” as a major mission in his teaching, research and also national and international seminars. He has rendered extensive services to the community in Australia, including over 50 talks on SBS Radio and Radio Adelaide on Language, Culture, Literature, and Social Affairs since 1993. He is a winner of nine university and national academic awards.

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE)
• Engineers without Borders Australia

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Manchester University

Work history

• Tertiary teaching and research since 1971
• Industry consultant since 1980