Elie OTAYEK, PhD, P.E, M.

ASCE
Saint Joseph Street, Keserwan, Lebanon
Tel: 961 3 272087 – oee@cyberia.net.lb – oee5@hotmail.com

Date: Jan 2018

Dear Sir,
It is my pleasure to get chance to submit this letter attached to my curriculum vitae for your
review and consideration in order to be evaluated and assessed.
I have a very strong interest in pursuing a teaching career. With many years of experience
working both in the engineering design field as well as construction management, coupled with
academic experience, I have a diverse background with much to offer.
I have earned a B.Eng degree (which is equivalent to a master degree) in structural engineering
and later on graduated with a Master degree and then a Ph.D of building engineering in construction
management. All degrees allowed me to collect an extensive knowledge combining the structural design
field and the construction management domain. Appendix A
Getting my Master from Concordia University – Montreal - Canada under Courses option
allowed me to enhance my knowledge into the two areas mentioned here above within the 11 courses
that have been covered during my Master program; five of them were in structural design field and the
other six courses in construction management area covering many projects and case studies. Appendix A
Moreover, I have passed the exams, tests and experience requirements for the “OIQ - Ordre des
Ingénieurs de Quebec” to earn the “Professional Engineer” title. I am a member in this association
since 2008. In addition to “OIQ –Quebec” membership, I am also a member of “OEA-Beirut” since
1995 and “7 Gardients” since 2010. Appendix A
Further to my academic and professional experience, I’ve attended numerous trainings focused
on classroom education, course preparation and other activities. These allowed me to establish my own
teaching strategy focusing three main objectives: How to draw student attention to the class material,
how to understand student level of learning and how to structure the lecture to fit in the student brain
model with the diversity that may exist in class group. Therefore, student attention, student
understanding and student knowledge testing are the main focus points during any class or lecture I
deliver. Affiliated to many associations (ASCE, CSCE, AISC, Golden key, Sept Gardients, OIQ, OEA)
illustrates the level on knowledge and academic level based on scientific criterion.
As for the delivery methodology I rely on “Courses outline (Syllabus)”, “Lesson Plan” and “Map
Concept” that are very well structured and aimed to provide the full comprehensive introduction of the
course itself. Teaching technologies as PowerPoint presentation, lecture notes posting through student
university Moodle and others can also be used as needed further to more advanced technology like
portable touch screen and smart white board.
To this End, taking into consideration what have been listed previously, and with my current
academic activities as well as my hands on experience in the engineering field both Design and
Construction, I would like to be considered to become a member of your esteemed teaching crew,
clarifying my ability to instruct courses covering the civil engineering and construction management
areas.

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Here under is listed some of courses that I have already thought:
Civil Engineering (Structure Area):
- Statics, Strength of Materials, and Structure I & II (RDM & “Ossatures)
- Steel and mixed Structures
- Soil Mechanics & Foundation Design
- Reinforced Concrete, under ACI2005, BAEL91 Rev 99, EC & CSA23 -04 codes
- Seismic and Wind Design (PS92, UBC 97, IBC 2006, NBCC05)
- Bridge Design
- Construction Materials
- Maintenance, Rehabilitation and retrofitting
- Etc…
Building Engineering (Construction Management Area):
- Construction Management. (Project Management)
- Building Economics, Project cost Estimating and Value Engineering
- Heavy Equipment management.
- Scheduling, Planning & Cost Control.
- Etc…
Here below some of attended training sessions and workshops:
- Introduction to ABET Accreditation, USEK
- 3rd Teaching Workshop in Pavement Analysis, design and Maintenance, Catania, It
- Engineering Professional Skills Assessment, USEK
- «Securité et Santé des chantiers » - CSST – Montreal, Qc, Ca
- Graduate Seminar in University Teaching, CTLS, Montreal, Qc, Ca
- “Attestation de Formation Professionnalisme”, OIQ, Qc Ca.
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Affiliate to:
- Order of Engineers and Architects, Beirut,Leb.
- “Ordre des Ingenieurs du Québec, OIQ”, Québec, Canada – P.E. (professional Engineer)
- American Society of civil Engineers, ASCE, USA
- Canadian Society IRU&ivil EngineeULQJ, CSCE, Ca
- American Institute of Steel Construction, INC – AISC, USA
- Société des Sept Gardiens, Québec, Ca.
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Evaluation Comparative des études effectuées hors Québec, ca
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I am fully confident that my bilingual teaching ability (French & English), qualification and
experience meet the requirements of the opened position, and I do trust the fact that I will be an asset for
your institution. Respectfully,
Elie OTAYEK, PhD, P.E., MASCE
Engineering Consultancy & CM

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 Elie OTAYEK, PhD, P.E., MASCE
Saint Joseph Street, Al Bouar, Keserwan, Lebanon
Tel: 961 3 272087 – 961 9 444 123
E-mails: oee5@hotmail.com / oee1973@yahoo.ca / oee1973@gmail.com
Holding Armenian Citizenship
Holding a Canadian Permanent Resident Card

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Ph.D. of Building Engineering in Construction Management
Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Qc, Ca. (GPA 4.0)

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«Introduction to ABET Accreditation” Seminar for 2 days (15 hours)

Certificate of Attendance – at USEK University conducted by Prof. Joseph L. Sussman &
Prof. Winston F. Erevelles, Oct. 2017 “University of Catania”, Sicilia, It.

«Pavement Analysis, design and maintenance» 3rd Teaching Workshop (32 hours)
Certificate of Attendance – TEMPUS & HiT 4Med Highway and Traffic Engineering,
Nov. 2014 “University of Catania”, Sicilia, It.

«Engineering Professional Skills Assessment» certificate by Global Professional Skills Assessment,

LLC & USEK Quality Assurance and Institutional Effectiveness Office, three Hours Training,
Oct. 21-2014, kaslik,. Leb.

«Securité et Santé des chantiers» Certificate of Attendance – CSST, May 2011

“Ecole des métiers de la construction”, Montreal, Ca.

Certificate of Achievement – CTLS, Oct 2011

Graduate Seminar in University Teaching Concordia University, Montreal, Ca.

Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Building Engineering – Construction Management,

Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Qc, Ca. (GPA 3.77)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) Civil Engineering – Structure & Public Works,

Civil Engineering, Lebanese University Engineering Faculty II, Roumieh, Lebanon
(Equivalent to a Master of Civil Engineering) (GPA 82/100)

INTRODUCTION LETTER
A Master in Civil Engineering since 1995, from the ULFG II (Univertité Libanaise Faculté de Genie,
branche II), coupled to another Master of Building engineering in Construction Management acquired from
Concordia University, Montreal, Ca and then a PhD degree in construction management, further to many
training programs in management and safety were the back ground of more than Twenty years of experience
in the professional engineering fields. Wide professional experiences in structure design and project
management are conducted and made me able to achieve the tasks listed hereunder with a high level of the
professionalism, expertise and accuracy with a remarkable capacity to manage the works and its related
problems and to lead team members further to high ability to support the work stresses:

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Management Field: (on many simple and complex projects from small to medium sizes)

x Coordinating with the site team (engineers, draftsman…etc.)

x Create the infrastructure for site personnel
x Set the document control system (ISO 9001:2005) and Contracts
x Equipment deployment and management
x Technical submittals and tracking
x Company safety rules & regulations
x Method statement preparation
x Quality and Quantity Control
x Cost control & cash flows
x Variation orders preparation
x Claims and contract correspondences
x Value engineering solutions
x Preparation of periodic report of work progress
x Cost Estimation and LCCA (Life-cycle Cost Analysis)

Consultancy in design Field: (Senior Civil Engineer)

x Owner Rep
x Site Supervision and Control
x Reinforced Concrete and steel structure design with Seismic/Wind analysis (under ACI/UMC &
IBC, EC, BAEL/PS, CSA/NBCC, …)
x Preparation of the Execution drawings and conducting the coordination task for the different trades.
x Shop Drawings, Quantities and Specifications (BOQ & Specs)
x Preparation of the inspection reports
x Technical Supports and control
x Engineering judgment analysis, and proposing alternative solutions with economically analyzed

Furthermore, and taking into consideration that I am a membership at the OEA (Ordre des Ingenieurs et
Architectes Liban) and at OIQ (Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec – P.Eng), I am conducting continuously
researches concerning the structure design and construction management as a member of ASCE and through
the position of Head of the Civil Engineering Department at Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - USEK
(Université de Saint-Esprit – Kaslik) University. As chair, I have conducted a team work to achieve the
needed works for ABET Accreditation lead to a break my experience to higher professional levels.

ACADEMIC & TEACHING EXPERIENCES

USEK University (Head of the Civil Engineering Department) Since 2013

GMC310 – « Statique » - Statics

GMC330 – « Mecanique des Solides » - Solids Mechanics (Dynamics of Rigid Bodies )
GMC360 – « Dessin Industriel » - Technical Drawings (Civil)
GMC440 – « Resistance Des Materiaux » - Strength of Materials
GMC472 – « Laboratoire RDM » - Lab. Strengthening of Materials
GCV310 – « Beton Armé I » - Reinforced Concrete I
GCV320 – « Dessin Technique » - Technical Drawings
GCV401 – « Analyse des Structures » - Structural Analysis
GCV405 – « Beton Armé II » - Reinforced Concrete II
GCV460 – « Gestion des Projets » – Management and Site Organisation

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 GCV462 – « Règlementation des Bâtiments » – Building Legislation
GCV514 – « Dallages » – Pavement Analysis, Design and Maintenance
GCV521 – « Constructions Métalliques » – Steel and Mixed Structures
GCV525 – Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Buildings
GCV526 – « Projet de batement » – Building Project
GCV596/597 – Final Year Project – Bachelor of Engineering
CVE691/692 – Thesis I & II – Master Degree

Concordia University 2008-2011

Teaching Assistant TA for many courses

BLDG 6851 - Project Cost Estimating – Dr. A. Jrade
BLDG 7871 – Construction Equipment Mgt – Dr. A. Jrade
Research for a project and report:
“Seismic Modeling Analysis” – Dr. K. Galal

Training & Working out 2004-2006

Robot Soft: Design & Structure Design

AutoCAD: Application for 2D and 3D design and drafting
Civil Engineering Technical Drawings & Details

Services

Served as session’s chair (ENG_1CCE: Engineering I) in the Iaas15 conference

USJ 2015 Apr 15-17
Member at ASCE Lebanon Section Committee
USEK-ASCE Student Chapter Advisor

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed

Otayek Elie, Jrade Ahmad and AlKass Sabah, 2012 “Integrated Decision Support System for
Bridges at Conceptual Design Stage”, CIB W78-2012 Conference, the 29th International
Conference on Applications of IT in the AEC Industry Beirut, Lebanon 17-19 October 2012.

Otayek Elie, Jrade Ahmad and AlKass Sabah, 2013 “Integrating the Artificial Intelligence
techniques into Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM)”, CSCE 2013 Annual Conference,
Montreal, Canada May 29 – June 1, 2013.

Otayek Elie and Jrade Ahmad, 2015 “Optimization for Bridge Type Selection Using Artificial
Neural Network”, ICSC2015, 5th International/11th Construction Specialty Conference,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 8-10, 2015.

Otayek Elie, 201 “Integrated Decision Support System for Bridges at Conceptual
Design Stage”, Final Thesis Report for Ph.D. of Building Engineering, ENCS, BCEE,
Concordia University, Quebec, Canada 2017.

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 Wehbe Rania, Otayek Elie M. and Massaad Zaher, 2017 “Using Intelligent Transportation
Systems to Enhance Pedestrian Safety at Beirut Signalized Intersection”, IEEE, MTS 2017
Napoli, 26-29 Jun 2017.

Choueiri Elias M., Aoun Joelle and Otayek Elie M., 2017 “Effectiveness of the newly
introduced Variable Message Signs in Lebanon on driver behavior”, IEEE, MTS 2017 Napoli,
26-29 Jun 2017.

Choueiri Elias M., Saroufim Alain and Otayek Elie M., 2017 “Effectiveness of the newly
introduced Variable Message Signs in Lebanon on road safety”, IEEE, MTS 2017 Napoli, 26-29
Jun 2017

In Progress

Wehbe Rania, Massaad Zaher and Otayek Elie, 2018 “Autonomous Vehicle Implementation
in Lebanon: Challenges and Opportunities”, Publisher Not defined yet.

Ghannam Jad, Serhal Jamil and Otayek Elie, 2018 “Behavior of walls subjected to flexural
stress - small scaled tests”, Engineering structures, not submitted Yet.

Choueiri Elia, Aoun Joelle and Otayek Elie, 2018 “Alleviating Traffic Congestion on the
Axes to the Capital Beirut - Lebanon”, Publisher Not defined yet.

Choueiri Elia, Saroufim Alain and Otayek Elie, 2018 “Costs Associated with Road Traffic
Accidents in Lebanon”, Publisher Not defined yet.

Otayek Elie, Jrade Ahmad and Zhenhua Zhu, 2018 “Directing a Decision’s Subjectivity at a
Conceptual Design Phase for Bridge Type Selection”, Publisher Not defined yet.

INDUSTRIAL & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Design Experience

Otayek Engineering for Construction - OEC - Al Bouar – Lebanon 2008-Present

Consultancy & Construction Management Services
Design & Supervision – Covering Projects in Lebanon, Africa, Europe, North Amarica & UAE
Commitments with many companies (MH&A, Asmar Group, etc…)

Civil Design Co. – Longueil – Qc, Canada 2007-2008

As Structural Engineer – Cold Formed Steel – Racking, Industrial Shelving.

Serhal Consultant Office - Hamra – Lebanon 2002-2005

As Civil Engineer, Structural Designer & Supervision on many projects
Shop drawings, BOQ and Specs

L.D.C. - Broummana – Lebanon 1999-2002

As Civil Engineer, Structural Designer, Coordinator Engineer

S.C.I.E.M.M.A. (Office of Sleiman Haddad eng.)- Jel al dib - 1997-1999

As Civil Engineer – Structural Designer
“Lebanese University, Engineering Facult project – Hadath Campus. “

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 MODEX - Jounieh - Lebanon 1995-1997
As Civil Engineer – Structural Designer & Site Engineer (Execution & Supervision)
Plans & Reports

E.S.E.C. Beyrouth - Sin EL Fil - Lebanon 1995

As Civil Engineer – Site Engineer, Concrete Work at “CAP SUR VILLE”
Quantity reports for executed parts.

Construction Management Experience

Otayek Engineering for Construction OEC - Al Bouar – Lebanon 2008-Present

Consultancy & Construction Management Services
Construction Management & Owner Rep.

STRATUM s.a.l. – Jounieh – Lebanon 2005-2007

As project manager on “Convivium V project “– Jemmayzeh

MODEX - Jounieh - Lebanon 1999-2005

As Project Engineer – Supervision and Managing construction works
Coordinator, Owner Rep, General Manager.

CODES & SOFTWARE

Codes
Practice & Familiar with ACI, BAEL, CSA, NBCC, UBC, IBC, PS, ASCE, EC codes.

Software
Set of software of typing, planning, structure and drafting programs:
Ms Office, Autocad, PCA, Staadpro, Robot, Ms Project & Primavera, etc…

LANGUAGES
Arabic, French, English.

REFEREES
Prof. Marwan Al Rassy, Ex-Chair Dr. Ahmad Jrade, Ph.D., MASCE,
Department of Civil Engineering Associate Professor
Main Building, Engineering Faculty II Department of Civil & Construction
ULFG II, Roumieh, Lebanon Engineering
Tel: 961 4 821 063 – 961 3 772 632 Ottawa University
E-mail: mrassy@hotmail.com Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tel: 613 897 2290
E-mail: ajrade@gmail.com

Prof. Khaled Galal, Ph.D., Ass. Chair Eng. Sleiman Serhal

Department of Building,Civil &
Environmental Engineering, Concordia
University, H3G 2W1
EV 6.167, 1515 St. Catherine W., Qc,Ca.
Tel : 514-848-2424 Ext 3196
E-mail : galal@bcee.concordia.ca
Serhal Consultancy Office - Owner
Hamra, Makdiseh Street
Tel: 961 1 345 003 – 961 3 327 100
E-mail: moni@serhal.net

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