Vice Chancellor
Dr. Ebrahim Al-Hajri is currently the Vice Chancellor of the Emirates College of Advanced Education. He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Khalifa of Science and Technology with ten years of experience in higher education.
Prior to joining the ECAE, Dr. Alhajri has held several key managerial positions in the former Petroleum Institute where he was the Director of External Relations and Collaborations, looking after the institutes’ partnerships, student exchange programs, alumni relations, community outreach and continuing education.
He has also led the establishment of the Committee on Committees efforts where he has led a team to identify the required institutional committees and drafted their bylaws. He has chaired a number of key committees and helped establish the research office operations and plans.He is a researcher himself where his research interests are in Advance Energy Systems, Micro Heat/Mass Exchangers, HVAC, Waste Heat Recovery and Absorption Cooling utilization Micro-channels.
Dr. Alhajri has organized several national and international events and conferences and is an active professional in his fields. He is the past president of the local ASHRAE Falcon Chapter and currently is the Sub-Region Chair for chapters in the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and Turkey. He is a very active member in many local and international professional societies such as: ASME, SPE, and AIChE where he service as a chair and member of number of technical committees. He has received a number of awards and published a good number of journals and conference papers.
He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Denver and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Special Education, and Neuroscience Division
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Dr. El Zein is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Special Education, and Neuroscience Division and brings with her over ten years of experience as a Special Education teacher in the United States serving students with a wide range of disabilities in special and inclusive classrooms. She also delivered ABA services for children with autism spectrum disorder in clinical and home-based settings for almost three years and has held professional positions with renowned academic instutions in Cleveland, London and Beirut.
Prior to joining ECAE in August 2020, Dr. El Zein was an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Haigazian University in Beirut. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Cleveland State University and a Lecturer in the Psychology Department at Brescia University College, London Ontario.
Dr. El Zein’s research interests focus on developing behavioral interventions to improve reading performance and reduce challenging behaviors in children with ASD. Dr. El Zein was involved in multiple federally funded research projects in the United States that aimed to identify evidence-based practices for educating students with ASD in the inclusive setting. She is currently conducting a synthesis of research to analyze existing randomized control trials that examined the effectiveness of behavioral and academic interventions for children with ASD.
Dr. El Zein serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Exceptional Children, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Journal of Behavioral Education, and Behavior Modification. She also served as a reviewer for the NPDC 2015 report on evidence-based practices for educating students with ASD.
Dr. El Zein holds Texas State Certificates in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD)/ Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS), Learning Disabilities (LD)/ Inclusion, and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/ Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). She was granted the 2011 Researcher of the Year Award from Texas State University- San Marcos.
Dr. Farah El Zein completed her Ph.D. in Secial Education in 2014 from The University of Texas at Austin with two emphases: Autism and Developmental Disabilities, and Learning Disabilities and Inclusion. Her dissertation entitled “An Examination of Collaborative Strategic Reading-High School (CSR-HS) Intervention for Students with ASD” investigated the effects of a modified version of CSR intervention on reading comprehension and challenging behaviors in high school students with ASD. She earned her M.Ed. in Special Education in 2011 from Texas State University and her B.A. in Early Childhood Education in 2005 from the Lebanese University in Beirut.
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