Dr Sayyad Zahid Qamar is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He has over 30 years of academic and research experience and over 6 years in the. He has also been actively involved in research and accreditation work related to engineering education. His research areas are applied materials and manufacturing, applied mechanics and design, reliability engineering, and engineering education. He has worked on applied research projects funded in excess of USD 4 million. He has over 225 research/technical publications (books, edited books, book chapters, publications in refereed international journals and conferences, and technical reports). He is currently editing one volume (Thermal Engineering of Steel Alloy Systems) in the 13-volume series Comprehensive Materials Processing, Second Edition, by Elsevier, and a book on Quality Assurance and Control and another book on Extrusion and Drawing of Metals and Nonmetals by Intech Open. He has served as an associate editor, guest editor, and member editorial board for different research journals (including Materials and Manufacturing Processes, the Journal of Elastomers and Plastics, the Journal of Engineering Research, and the American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering).