Mohammed Abdul Hannan

Ph.D., P.Eng., MASME, MSNAME, MIEB, AMRINA

Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Coordinator, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
The University of British Columbia

Trying to understand how fluids interact with engineered and living systems, and to put that understanding to good use.

I am an engineering educator, researcher and consultant in naval architecture, with over fifteen years of work across Bangladesh, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Canada. My research is in fluid mechanics and fluid–structure interaction, with applications in ship hydrodynamics, renewable energy and biofluid mechanics, and now uses machine learning and generative AI to design better hulls and floating structures. At UBC I coordinate the undergraduate Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering specialization. Before that I was Assistant Professor and Degree Programme Director at Newcastle University (Singapore campus), a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a Lecturer at BUET, where my career began.