Hamid Jahed, PEng

Hamid Jahed is a Professor, and University Research Chair in Cold Spray Technology in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department. He is the Director of the Fatigue and Stress Analysis Laboratory (FATSLab) at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Jahed’s research interests lie in the cold spray technology, durability of materials and products, multiscale mechanical characterization, development of Digital Twins, and structural life enhancement technologies.
Cold spray research focuses on application diversifications in coating, restoration and 3D printing. Areas of interest are: residual stress, fracture mechanism, printing circuits, health and environmental applications.
Work in the Fatigue and Stress Analysis Laboratory focuses on fatigue and fracture properties of materials and joints (weld/SPR) under uniaxial and multi-axial loads, development of cyclic plasticity and life prediction models, residual stress formations and measurements, EV battery pack durability, and cost-effective manufacturing of magnesium alloys for structural applications..
Professor Jahed has been invited as key note (e.g., SAE WCX 2022, 2021, and TMS2021), is the recipient of International Magnesium Association 2021 Award of Excellence, and over 10 UW Faculty of Engineering Awards including Sandford Fleming Foundation Teaching Excellence Award, and Engineering Research Excellence Award.
Dr. Jahed has established a strong research partnership with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers and is leading several large partnership projects. He has trained 100 graduate students and is currently supervising 4 postdoctoral fellow /research associate, 6 PhD and 5 MASc students.

• Cold spray additive manufacturing
• Durability of materials and structures
• Additive Manufacturing
• Residual stress measurements and predictions
• Cyclic plasticity

Editorial board of Journal of Metals

• 1997, Doctorate Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 1982, Master's Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, United States
• 1981, Bachelor's Mechanical Engineering , University of Houston , United States

• 2021 Faculty of Engineering Distinguish Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2021 International Magnesium Association Award of Excellence
• 2021 University Research Chair
• 2020 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2018 Faculty of Engineering Distinguish Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2017 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2015 Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2014 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2013 Research Excellence Award, the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 2013 Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2011 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2010 Teaching Excellence Award, the Faculty of Engineering and the Sandford Fleming Foundation, University of Waterloo
• 2005 Aali Nasab Thesis Supervision Award (MASc), Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers
• 2002 Researcher Excellence Award, Iran University of Science & Technology
• 2002 Distinguished Department Chair Award, Iran University of Science & Technology
• 1997 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo
• 1997 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
• 1996 The Sandford Fleming Foundation Teaching Assistantship Award for the Mechanical Engineering Department, Waterloo Chapter

• ME 620 - Mechanics of Continua
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• ME 627 - Fatigue Analysis and Design
  • Taught in 2020, 2024
• ME 725 - Special Topics in Advanced Stress Analysis
  • Taught in 2020
• MTE 219 - Mechanics of Deformable Solids
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Esmaeilizadeh, Reza and Keshavarzkermani, Ali and Faghih, Sasan and Behravesh, Behzad and Ali, Usman and Bonakdar, Ali and Jahed, Hamid and Toyserkani, Ehsan, Fatigue Characterization and Modeling of Additively Manufactured Hastelloy-X Superalloy, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 1, 2022
• Azqadan, Erfan and Uramowski, Jared and Roostaei, Ali A and Behravesh, Seyed Behzad and Javaid, Amjad and Williams, Bruce W and Wells, Mary A and Jahed, Hamid, The effect of cooling rate and degassing on microstructure and mechanical properties of cast AZ80 magnesium alloy, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 143176, 2022
• Marzbanrad, Bahareh and Toyserkani, Ehsan and Jahed, Hamid, Fatigue crack initiation in cold spray coated AZ31B-H24 with AA7075 powder, International Journal of Fatigue, 107084, 2022
• Zhang, J and Saha, DC and Behravesh, B and Jahed, H, Adhesion properties of plasma transferred wire arc low-carbon steel coating sprayed on diecast aluminum alloys: Experiment and simulation, Surface and Coatings Technology, 128867, 2022
• Faria, José JR and Fonseca, Luiz GA and de Faria, Alfredo R and Cantisano, Artur and Cunha, Thiago N and Jahed, Hamid and Montesano, John, Determination of the fatigue behavior of mechanical components through infrared thermography, Engineering Failure Analysis, 106018, 2022

• Profs secure millions in funding for innovative research projects
• Profs awarded chairs and funds from Canadian govt.
• Researchers awarded $4 million in federal funding