Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University (Pullman) (USA) in 1985. M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Combustion & Energy) from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wales (Cardiff), United Kingdom .He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1995 and worked as Engineering sector Advisor at Higher council for science and technology. He was acting dean of engineering at the University of Jordan (1997-2001), and acting dean of engineering at Hashemite University (2001-2003).
He was on unpaid leave from University of Jordan and worked as acting Dean of Engineering at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan (2009- 2014). Starting from September of 2014, he is back Currently to University of Jordan. He published over 115 in international journals and conferences most of which in the field of renewable energy. His research interests are renewable energy, alternative fuels, combustion and pollution and heat transfer.
Since 1985, Prof. M. Hamdan has been involved (in addition to teaching energy courses) in research in the field of renewable energy publishing numerous articles, most of which on energy. He has also been involved into Tempus projects in the field of renewable energy, environment and climate change. He is also involved in a project with DLR on CSP. He was recently selected as team member to take part in a workshop organized by the company First Solar to evaluate their work on thin film PV.
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