Dr. Ayman M Alneamy

Associate Professor     

Contact Information

• email: [email protected]
• phone: 017-3295000
• office: G-228
• research accounts: Google Scholar, Research Gate, ORCID 

Education:

• 2016-2020 Ph.D. Degree Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo, Canada Thesis: Electrostatic Micro-Tweezers
• 2014–2016 master’s degree: Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo, Canada Thesis: Combined Electrostatic/Electromagnetic MEMS Actuators
• 2008–2012 bachelor’s degree: Mechanical Engineering Department Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

Academic experience:

• 2020-Current: Graduate Students advisor: collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome
• 2020-Now Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Department
• 2017-18 University of Waterloo, Canada Teaching Assistant Systems Design Engineering
• 2012-14 Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Research Assistant Mechanical Engineering Department

Non-academic experience:

• Summer 2008: Saudi Aramco, trainee engineer, reliability and maintenance unit, Berri Gas Plant, Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
• 2016-2017: Saudi Students Association at Waterloo, Canada, member.

Current membership in professional organizations:

• Journal of Sound and Vibration, Elsevier
• Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, ASME
• Journal of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Elsevier
• Review Instructions for Review of Scientific Instruments, AIP
• Microsystem Technologies, Springer

Honors and Awards:

• 2019 University of Waterloo, Canada Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Nanofellowship Winner
• Winter-2020 Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Canada Excellence Research Award
• Winter-2019 Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Canada Excellence Research Award
• Fall-2019 Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Canada Excellence Research Award
• Winter-2018 Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Canada Excellence Research Award
• Summer-2017Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Canada Excellence Research Award
• 2016-20 Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Scholarship Scholarship for Ph.D. Degree
• 2014-16 Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Scholarship Scholarship for Master Degree
• 2012 Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Second Class Honors in the Mechanical Engineering Department

Courses*:

• EngM 373 – Mechanical Vibration (taught in summer 2021)
• EngM 474 – Automatic Control (taught in summer 2021)
• EngC 111 – Statics (taught in winter 2021)
• EngM 251 – Engineering Production and Workshops (taught in summer 2021)
• EngM 131 – Engineering Drawing (taught in Fall 2020)
• EngM 314 – Design of Machine Elements I (taught in Fall 2020)
• EngM 315 – Mechanical Measurements and Instrumentation (taught in Fall 2020)
• EngM 414 – Mechanical Measurements (taught in Fall 2020)
• EngM 516 – Design of Machining and Forming Machines (taught in Fall 2020)

* Only courses taught in the past 2 years are displayed.

Graduate Programs Supervised:

• Navid Heidari (MSc), Structural Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2020. (Co-advisor with Prof. Walter Lacarbonara)

Patent:

• Ayman M Alneamy, Eihab M Abdel-Rahman, Glenn R Heppler & Mahmoud E Khater. Electrostatic arch micro-tweezers. U.S. Provisional Patent. No: 62/895,493. 26 Sep. 2019.

Publications and Presentations:

• Alneamy, A.M. Chaos Prediction and Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of a Dimple-Equipped Electrostatically Excited Microbeam. Mathematics 2025, 13, 2925. https://doi.org/10.3390/math13182925
• Alneamy, A., Ouakad, H. Softening and hardening effects of an electrostatically actuated curved microbeam bounded by two thin PZT layers. Int J Mech Mater Des (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10999-025-09801-4
• Alneamy, A.M. Symmetry breaking in an initially arch micro-resonator excited by a skewed electrostatic field. Microsyst Technol 31, 2517–2527 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-025-05871-8
• Guha, S., Alneamy, A. The Influence of Flexible Support on the Material Properties of Piezothermoelastic Fiber-Reinforced Composite Beam. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 13, 191 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-025-01770-4
• Alneamy, A.M.; Ouakad, H.M. Modeling and Structural Analysis of MEMS Shallow Arch Assuming Multimodal Initial Curvature Profiles. Mathematics 2024, 12, 970. https://doi.org/10.3390/math12070970
• A. Alneamy, H. Samaali and F. Najar, "Electrostatic Energy Harvesting of Kinetic Motions Using a MEMS Device and a Bennet Doubler Conditioning Circuit," in IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 14-20, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10121408. 
• Ouakad, H.M.; Alneamy, A.M. Static and Eigenvalue Analysis of Electrostatically Coupled and Tunable Shallow Micro-Arches for Sensing-Based Applications. Micromachines 2023, 14, 903. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14050903
• Alneamy, A.M.; Ouakad, H.M. Investigation into Mode Localization of Electrostatically Coupled Shallow Microbeams for Potential Sensing Applications. Micromachines 2022, 13, 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13070989
• Alneamy, A. M., Heppler, G. R., Abdel-Rahman, E. M., and Khater, M. E. (October 5, 2020). "On Design and Analysis of Electrostatic Arch Micro-Tweezers." ASME. J. Vib. Acoust. June 2021; 143(3): 031001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048298
• Alneamy, A. M., Heppler, G. R., Abdel-Rahman, E. M., & Khater, M. E. (September 2, 2020). ”On Design and Analysis of Electrostatic Arch Micro-Tweezers.” ASME. J. Vib. Acoust. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048298)
• Alneamy, A. M., Khater, M. E., Al-Ghamdi, M. S., Abdel-Aziz, A. K., Heppler, G. R., & Abdel-Rahman, E. M..”Large Oscillation of Electrostatically Actuated Curved Beams”. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 30, no. 9 (2020): 095005. (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6439/ab94d1/meta)
• Alneamy, A. M., Khater, M. E., Abdel-Aziz, A. K., Heppler, G. R., & Abdel-Rahman, E. M. (2020). Electrostatic arch micro-tweezers. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 118, 103298. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0020746219301878)
• Alneamy, A., M. Al-Ghamdi, S. Park, M. Khater, E. Abdel-Rahman, and G. Heppler. ”Dimpled electrostatic MEMS actuators.” Journal of Applied Physics 125, no. 2 (2019): 024304. (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5053597)
• Alneamy, A., M., M. E. Khater, M. S. Al-Ghamdi, S. Park, G. R. Heppler, and E. M. Abdel-Rahman. ”Dual actuation micro-mirrors.” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 28, no. 7 (2018): 075014. (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/ 10.1088/1361-6439/aaba3f/meta)
• Al-Ghamdi, Majed S., Ayman M Alneamy, Sangtak Park, Beichen Li, Mahmoud E. Khater, Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman, Glenn R. Heppler, and Mustafa Yavuz. ”Nonlinear Parameter Identification of a Resonant Electrostatic MEMS Actuator.” Sensors 17, no. 5 (2017): 1121. (https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/5/1121/htm)
• Al-Ghamdi, M. S., M. E. Khater, K. M. E. Stewart, Alneamy, A., E. M. Abdel-Rahman, and A. Penlidis. ”Dynamic bifurcation MEMS gas sensors.” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 29, no. 1 (2018): 015005. (https://iopscience.iop. org/article/10.1088/1361-6439/aaedf9/meta)
• Ayman M Alneamy, Eihab M Abdel-Rahman & Glenn R Heppler. Reduced Order Model of Electrostatic Micro-Tweezers. European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Lyon, France, July 5-10, 2020, pp. 305967. (Postpone to July 2021)
• Ayman Alneamy, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, Glenn Heppler, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, and Mahmoud Khater“ Chaos in Electrostatically Actuated Arch Beams,” International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Rome, Italy, February 2019, p.312
• Ayman Alneamy, Mahmoud Khater, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Glenn Heppler, Eihab Abdel- Rahman, “ Electrostatic Arch Micro-Tweezers,” Euromech 603: Dynamics of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems, Porto, Portugal, September 2018, pp.88-91. H. Nafissi, A. M. Alneamy, E. M. Abdel-Rahman, and R. Mansour, “Toward Electrostatic Atomic Force Microscopy,” Euromech 603: Dynamics of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems, Porto, Portugal, September 2018, pp. 124–128.
• Ayman Alneamy, Mahmoud Khater, Sangtak Park, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, & Glenn Heppler. Electrostatic versus Electromagnetic Micromirrors Actuation. International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, August (21-26) 2016, paper # 130082.
•  AM Alneamy, MS Al-Ghamdi, M Khater, B Li, RS Almikhlafi, S Park, EM Abdel- Rahman, GR Heppler. On the Dynamics of Dimpled Electrostatic MEMS Actuators. European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 25-30, 2017, paper # 399.
• MS Alghamdi, AM Alneamy, M. Khater, and E. M. Abdel-Rahman, “Low-Frequency Tapping in Electrostatic MEMS Actuators,” invited, Conference on Theory and Modern Applications of Non- linear Dynamics: In Memory of Professor Ali H. Nayfeh, Abu Dhabi, January 28-29, 2018.
•  MS Alghamdi, M. Khater, AM Alneamy, and E. M. Abdel-Rahman, “Sensitivity Analysis of Cantilever-Based Bifurcation MEMS Sensors,” Conference on Structural Nonlinear Dynamics and Diagnosis: In memoriam: Ali H. Nayfeh, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of nonlinear dynamics (1933-2017), Tangier, June 25-27, 2018.
• MS Al-Ghamdi, M Khater, KME Stewart, A Alneamy, R Almikhlafi, S Park, EM Abdel- Rahman, A Penlidis. Demonstration of Electrostatic MEMS Bifurcation Sensors. European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 25-30, 2017, paper # 378.