Faculty 

Education                          

M.S.               (Mechanical Engineering), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 1991

B.E                 (Mechanical Engineering), NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, 1984                       

Courses Taught 

  • ME 205/216                            Material Science
  • ME 210                                   Engineering Drawing and Graphics
  • ME 316                                 Thermo-fluid lab
  • ME 323                                   Manufacturing lab
  • ME 430 (lab)                           Air Conditioning lab
  • ME 431 (lab)                           Refrigeration lab
  • ME 438 (lab)                           Pumping machinary
  • ME 217                                   Material Science lab 

Research Areas

Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems 

PUBLICATIONS: 

  • M Yaqub, SM Zubair & SH Khan, “Second Law Based Thermodynamic Analysis of Hot-gas By-pass Capacity Control Schemes for Refrigeration & Air-conditioning Systems”., Energy Vol.20, No.6, pp 483 - 493, 1995. 
  • M Yaqub and SM Zubair, “Thermodynamic Analysis of Capacity Control Schemes for Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Systems”., Energy Vol.21, No.6, pp 463 - 472, 1996. 
  • SM Zubair, MYaqub, SH Khan, “Second Law Based Thermodynamic Analysis of two stage and Mechanical Sub-cooling Refrigeration System”., Int. J. Refrig. Vol.9, No.8, pp 506 - 516, 1996. 
  • HI Abualhamayel and M Yaqub, “Prediction of species and Temperature profile in Methanol Oxygen and Argon Flame”., AJSE, Vol. 21, No. 4A, pp 499 - 510, Oct 1996. 
  • M.Yaqub Syed M.Zubair, “The effect of insulation on Cooling Load for Desert Area”. Energy Conservaion in Industrial Application WEC,2000, 12-14 Feb 2000 KFUPM Dhahran Saudi . 
  • M.Yaqub, Syed M.Zubair & Jameel-ur-Rehman Khan, “Performance Evaluation of Hot-gas By-pass Capacity Control Schemes for Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Systems”. Energy – The International Journal, 25, (2000), p.543. 
  • M.Yaqub,SyedM.Zubair, “Capacity Control for Refrigeration and Air-ConditioningSystems:A Comparative Study , Transactions of the ASME Vol.123,March 2001,p.92
  • J.R. Khan, M. Yaqub, and S.M. Zubair, “Performance Characteristics of Counter Flow Wet Cooling Towers”, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 44 (13), pp. 2073-2091 (2003)

ME, KFUPM Bldg-63 Room-149 966-13-860 2520 966-13-860 2949 (ME Dept) myrahim@kfupm.edu.sa