Dr Almajd Alhinai PhD, MSc, BEng, and MRAeS
Course Leader for Automotive Engineering and Senior Lecturer
- Department of Engineering and Mathematics
- Materials and Engineering Research Institute
- Industry and Innovation Research Institute
Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Future Transportation subject group where I teach across various courses including; Aerospace, Automotive, and Railway engineering. I am also the course leader for Automotive Engineering. My research interests include; design and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) in engineering design/analysis, and bio-inspired design.
About
- PhD graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield (2016).
- Researcher assistant at the Institution of Innovation and Sustainable Engineering at Derby University (2016-2017).
- Lecturer in Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering in Chesterfield College (2017-2018)
- Guest lecturer in Automotive Engineering at Hubei University of Automotive Technology (China) (2019).
- Senior lecturer and EASA instructor in Aeronautical Engineering at the Military Technological College (Oman) (2019-2021).
- Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at Coventry University (2021-2022).
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Department of Engineering and Mathematics
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
- Individual project supervision for undergraduate (BEng) and postgraduate (MSc) students
- Supervision of the MEng group project
- Academic lead of the UAV_LAB@SHU
- Academic lead for IMechE UAS Challenge
Future Transportation
Courses taught:
- Automotive Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
Modules Taught
- Automotive Engineering Fundamentals (Level 4).
- Applied Thermodynamics, Aircraft Systems, and Manufacturing (Level 5).
- Vehicle Technology, Systems, and Performance (Level 5)
- Advanced Aerospace Engineering and Design (Level 6).
- Vehicle Design and Production (Level 6).
- Aircraft Design and Simulation (Level 6).
- Sustainable Vehicle Technologies (Level 7).
Research
- Materials and Engineering Research Institute
- Industry and Innovation Research Institute
Currently working on the design and development of bio-inspired wing design for UAV/MAV applications.
Publications
Journal articles
Lurans, E., Alhinai, A., & Viswanathan, H. (2025). Aerodynamics of Corrugated Wings: Past, Present, and Future. Aerospace, 12 (3). http://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12030262
Conference papers
Alhinai, A., & Schenkel, T. (2025). Basic understanding of the flow characteristics over a bio-inspired corrugated wing at low Reynolds Number (10’000) in gliding flight †. Materials Proceedings, 20 (1). http://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2025020007
Alhinai, A., & Nowakowski, A. (2012). Understanding the drag reduction properties of the flow over k and d -type rough surfaces. In Eberhardsteiner, J., Böhm, H.J., & Rammerstorfer, F.G. (Eds.) European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Vienna, 10 September 2012 - 14 September 2012 (pp. 1192-1208). Vienna University of Technology: https://eccomas.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ECCOMAS-CONGRESS-PROCEEDINGS-2012.pdf
Theses / Dissertations
Al Hinai, A.M.A. (2015). An investigation of classifying the flow over rough surfaces into k- and d- type in turbulent channel flow. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Nowakoski, A. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11255/
Presentations
Al Hinai, A.M.A., & Schenkel, T. (2024). Design and Development of Bio-Inspired Fixed-Wing Flying Robots. Presented at: The 1st International Online Conference on Biomimetics, Online