Prof. Essam Wahba is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Alexandria University. He currently serves as acting dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University. He also serves as Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. Prof. Wahba previously served in other administrative positions such as Director of the International Relations Office, Director of the Engineering Center, and Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. He also served as Acting Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Prof. Wahba received his PhD in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, turbomachinery, and numerical methods. He is the author and coauthor of more than 60 papers published in various international journals and conference proceedings. His research areas of interest include computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, pipeline engineering, turbomachinery, multiphase flows, and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. Prof. Wahba is also an editorial board member for the international journal CFD Letters. He was the principal investigator in several industry-related research projects, including projects funded by General Electric and John Crane. Prof. Wahba is also a consultant in the field of applied computational fluid dynamics and pipeline engineering, where he has carried out consulting work for several oil and gas companies in the Middle East region. He also delivered various professional training courses for pumps, piping, valves, and flanges based on ASME and API codes and standards.

Prof. Wahba received several awards during his career, such as the Joseph Steger Award for excellence in computational fluid dynamics from the University of California, Davis, and the Outstanding Technical Paper Award from the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division. He was an invited visiting scholar at the University of Perugia in Italy and served as a special graduate faculty at the University of Guelph in Canada.