Shalemu Sharew (PhD, Associate Professor)

Department of Fashion Engineering

Mobile Phone: +251 944 202339

Email:Shalemu.Sharew@bdu.edu.et or shalemu14@gmail.com

P.O.Box: 1037

Bahir Dar University; Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Work Experience

¨ Associate Professor, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (May 28, 2024 up to now)

Responsibility on advising, teaching, and examination of postgraduate (master's and PhD) students; Conducting research and community services, providing consultancy services in feasibility studies and Technology selection for garment manufacturing businesses around Bahir Dar.

¨ Assistant Professor, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (From June 2019 up to May 27, 2024) 

Responsibility for advising, teaching, and examination of postgraduate (master's) students, conducting research and community services, providing consultancy services in feasibility study and Technology selection for garment manufacturing businesses around Bahir Dar.

¨ Lecturer, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (May 2010 up to June 2019)

Responsibility for advising, teaching, and examination of postgraduate 

¨ Assistant Lecturer, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (July 2007-May 2010)

Responsibility for advising and teaching, undergraduate students 

¨ Graduate assistant, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (July 2006- July 2007)

Responsibility for advising and teaching undergraduate students 

Leadership Experience 

¨ Institute registrar director from May 2011 to August 2015

¨ Deputy Scientific Director from October 2019 to November 2023 

Education and Training 

¨ PhD in Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan (2016-2019)

¨ Master of Fashion Technology (M.F. Tech), National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi, India (2008-2010)

¨ Bachelor of Science in Textile Engineering (Finishing), Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (2002-2006)

Research focus areas

¨ Quality management

¨ Ergonomics

¨ Production management systems\

¨ Sustainability 

Courses 

¨ Ergonomics and workplace engineering

¨ Production management 

¨ Design of experiments

¨ Sustainability 

Personal skills: ¨ Basic skills on computers; R programming and other application software such as Minitab, SPSS, Design Expert 

Communication skills: Very good in Amharic and English. I also have very good interpersonal communication skills and teamwork. 

Technical skills: I have taken different teaching methodology and assessment courses, and research and grant writing training to support my teaching, research, and community service activities under my current employer (Bahir Dar University). I have participated in industrial internships and externship programs, and visits to relate my academic work with industry needs

Publications 

1. Asmare, T., & Hailemariam, S. S. (2025). Ergonomics implementation barriers in Ethiopian garment manufacturing industries. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 1-12.

2. Minbale, E., Bizuneh, B., Seife Haile, W., Sharew, S., Asfaw, T., Mekonnen, S., ... & Bitew, K. (2024). Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practice of Ethiopian Textile and Apparel Manufacturing Industry. Journal of Engineering, 2024(1), 2137463.

3. Minbale, E., Bizuneh, B., Seife, W., Eyasu, A., Asfaw, T., & Sharew, S. (2024). Ethiopian Consumer’s Behavior Towards Purchasing Locally Produced Apparel Products: An Extended Model of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Complexity, 2024(1), 8745919.

4. Shalemu Sharew Hailemariam & Firaol Tadese Gonfa (2024). Production Process Performance for Small-Scale Garment Enterprises in Ethiopia, Vol 23, No 1, March 2024, pp.1-16. https://doi.org/10.7232/iems.2024.23.1.001

5. Agazhie, T., & Hailemariam, S. S. (2024). Application of fuzzy failure mode and effect analysis to investigate lean wastes in the sewing section. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-12-2023-0407

6. Natinael Kokeb, Tamrat Tesfaye, Shalemu Sharew, Gemeda Gebino, &Tinsaye Asfaw (2023). Color Adsorption Performance of Bone Biocomponent for Textile Dyeing Effluent Treatment in Ethiopia, Journal of Engineering, vol. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4964194

7. Redeate E.Z., & Hailemariam S. S. (2023). "Drivers for Sustainable Supply Chain Management and the Practices in Ethiopian Apparel Industries", Journal of Engineering, vol. 2023, page: 1-15. (DOI: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/je/2023/2625998/)

8. Abate, A. E., & Hailemariam, S. S. (2022). Improving work-related musculoskeletal disorders for sewing machine operators in Ethiopia. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2022.2058747)

9. Ebabu, W., Israil Hossain, M., El-Naggar, M. E., Kechi, A., Hailemariam, S. S., & Ahmed, F. E. (2022). Exploration of functional polymers for a cleaner leather industry. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials (DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2022.2058747)

10. Bizuneh, B., Hailemariam, S. S., & Tsegaye, S. (2021). A study of consumers’ pre-purchase evaluation of apparel products in Ethiopia. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal. (DOI 10.1108/JFMM-08-2020-0162)

11. FK Wang, SS Hailemariam (2018) Sampling plans for the zero-inflated Poisson distribution in the food industry.  Food Control 85, 359-368.

12. FK Wang, SS Hailemariam(2018) Sampling plans for the zero‐inflated negative binomial distribution in the food industry. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 34 (6), 1174-1184

13. SS Hailemariam (2018) Study on Export Competitiveness Factors for Ethiopian Clothing Industries. Journal of textile and apparel, technology and management 10 (4).

Membership

¨ Members of the Textile and Apparel Professionals’ association; EiTEX international conference organizing committee member

¨ Alumni Coordinator at EiTEX for Poly BDU Alumni Association

Referees 

¨ Professor Fu-Kwun Wang, Distinguished Professor in quality and reliability, Taiwan

¨ Professor Tamrat Tesfaye, Professor of Biorefinery Engineering, Ethiopia 

¨ Prof. Murugesh Babu, Professor in Textile Chemistry, India