Reem Roufail, PEng

Reem Roufail, PEng
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Location: E7 6312
Phone: 519-888-4567 x46892

Research Interests

  • Precious metal and material reclamation

  • Material selection\/substitution for design

  • Advanced Manufacturing

  • Smart material (memory alloys and polymers)

  • Design for energy efficiency (heavy industry as comminution in mining)

  • Renewable energy

Scholarly Research

Education

  • 2011, Doctorate Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • 1997, Master of Applied Science Environmental Engineering - Material Science, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

  • 1992, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mechanical Engineering - Material Specialization, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Teaching*

  • BME 101 - Communications in Biomedical Engineering-Written and Oral
    • Taught in 2020
  • BME 361 - Biomedical Engineering Design
    • Taught in 2022, 2023
  • SYDE 101 - Communications in Systems Design Engineering-Written and Oral
    • Taught in 2020
  • SYDE 285 - Materials Chemistry
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • SYDE 286 - Mechanics of Deformable Solids
    • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
  • SYDE 361 - Systems Design Methods 1: Needs Analysis and Prototyping
    • Taught in 2024
  • SYDE 461 - Systems Design Capstone Project 1
    • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • SYDE 462 - Systems Design Capstone Project 2
    • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
  • SYDE 599 - Special Topics in Systems Design Engineering
    • Taught in 2021
  • SYDE 780 - Selected Topics in Engineering Sciences
    • Taught in 2021

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

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Roufail, Reem and Klein, Bern, Morphology Study of Particle Breakage Mechanisms in a Horizontal Stirred Mill: Automated and Manual Point Counting Approaches, Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 528, 2021

  • Li, Genzhuang and Roufail, Reem and Klein, Bern and Nordell, Lawrence and Kumar, Amit and Sun, Chunbao and Kou, Jue, Experimental evaluation of the conjugate anvil hammer mill--Comparison of semi-confined to confined particle breakage, Minerals Engineering, 34, 2019

  • Mishani, Siamak and Evans, Brian and Rasouli, Vamegh and Roufail, Reem and Soe, Soren and Jaensch, Peter, Interlaminar modelling to predict composite coiled tube failure, The APPEA Journal, 361, 2015

  • Roufail, R and Rasouli, V, Material substitution of coil tubes in CT drilling technology for hard rocks, WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, 133, 2012

  • Roufail, R and Klein, B, Mineral liberation and particle breakage in stirred mills, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 419, 2010

  • Reem, Adel Roufail, The effect of stirred mill operation on particles breakage mechanism and their morphological features, Thesis, , 2011

Graduate studies