Sabah Salim Al Rawahi

P.O Box: 2389, Code 111, Seeb CPO, Oman | House# 5654, Way# 3754, South Ghubra, Boushar, Muscat
Oman | +968 96436311 | sabah.alrawahi@yahoo.com | www.linkedin.com/in/sabah-al-rawahi-01 |

Professional Experience

• Project Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Research Engineer. Development of tool

that can extract excess pressure or liquid from infant’s scalp to be used in the emergency room.
• Output Medical Company under the Insight Product Development LLC in Chicago, Illinois.
Quality Engineer. Develop technical features of a urine flow meter that detects acute kidney
injury disease. Device became FDA approved during internship at company.
• Nanomaterials Researcher, University of Alabama at Birmingham. From January 2016 to
April 2019. Research on the non-destructive evaluation of graphene for yielding the highest
quality of graphene using different methods.
• Desiccant Dehumidification System for a greenhouse environment as a Senior design project. In
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Project funded by Southern Company.

Skills

• Material characterization devices: optical microscope, SEM, the FT-IR (Fourier-transform

infrared spectroscopy), DSC (Differential Scanning calorimetry) and the Atomic Force
Microscopy (AFM), etc.
• Test of Material’s strength and hardness properties: Charpy, Izod, Brinell and Rockwell.
• Python programming language software.
• Raspberry Pi hardware.
• STELLA (Systems Thinking for Education and Research; from isee Systems) modeling
software.
• Wolfram Mathematica technical computing software.
• Excel, Words and all Microsoft Office software.
• Engineering problem solving.
• Writing and oral communications.
• Casting: Shaping tools - Shapeoko and CNC (Computer numerical control).
• Solid modeling computer-aided design softwares (CAD) – TinkerCAD, SolidWorks, OnShape
KiriMoto (g-code) and MAGMA.
• Ability to work well in a diverse culture/environment.
• Interested in Environmental, Thermal Sciences and Nanomaterial fields and technologies.
• Trilingual.

Education

• University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Alabama).

• Undergraduate, Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering.
• Graduated: Spring 2019 (April 2019).
• Grade Point Average as of Spring 2019: 3.73/4.00

Volunteer Experience

• Grader for 2019 Alabama Statewide High School Mathematics Contest.

• Breast Cancer Awareness marathon event by Oman Cancer Association in Muscat, Oman.
December 13, 2015. Helped raise money for the cancer association – 270,000 in USD.
• Dar El Ata’a in Muscat, Oman. January to June 2015. Organization to bring students together to
help raise charity for the orphans.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kids in Engineering Day.
• The International Office at University of Alabama at Brimingham. Volunteered in the
arrangement of multiple events held by the International Office including The International
Festival and Friday Coffee Hours.

Honors, Awards and Activities

• Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE).

• Full scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman to attend the University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
• Several writing competition awards.
 • A member of the American Foundry Society (AFS). A monthly meeting held for
discussions about events and conferences around the U.S. Member since November
2016.
• A member of the Materials Advantage (MA). Monthly meetings held for discussions
about conferences revolving materials science and engineering. Member since
November 2016.
• FEF (Foundry Educational Foundation) Scholarship.

References

Professional:

• Mr. Jay K. Joshi, E-mail: j_joshi@outputmed.com, Phone number: +1(630)430-8024

Educational:

• Dr. Vinoy Thomas , E-mail: vthomas@uab.edu, Phone number: (205) 975-4098.

• Dr. Charles A. Monroe, E-mail: camonroe@uab.edu, Phone number: (205) 975-4128.

Personal:

• Dr. Daneesh Simien, E-mail: dsimien@uab.edu, Phone number: +1(832)651-3686.