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Abdella Simegnaw PhD, Assistant Professor)
Department of Textile Engineering
Email: abda0515@gmail.com
Phone:+251918207914 / +251913469755
P.O. Box: 1037
Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology
Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Work experience
♦ From February 14 to now: Assistant professor and lecturer at BDU EiTEX
♦ From September 9, 2012 to February 12, 2018: Lecturer on textile engineering. Teaching qualitative education, doing community service and research activities at Bahir Dar University, EiTEX, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
♦ From June 30, 2015, to September 30, 2018: Textile Engineering program head. Planning, coordinating, curriculum revising, and managing different activities in textile engineering.
♦ From January 10, 2009 to September 9, 2012: Textile product developer and shift leader at spinning section. A spinning shift leader is a middle-level manager to manages, supervises, and leads different types of spinning Machinery personnel from blow room to cone winding. And in this Section was doing developments of different textile products.
Education and Training
♦ 14 February 2023: Assistant professor of textile technology, PhD in textile technology at Bahir Dar University and Ghent University, Belgium.
♦ 30 June 2015: MSc in textile manufacturing at Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
ü Training of trainer in quality management system (QMS (ESA) from 26/1/2012 to 06/02/2012
ü Environmental management system(ems)
ü Implementation of kaizen by Bahir Dar University
ü Implementation of lean manufacturing tools
ü Training of trainer in textile testing laboratory equipment given by Mesidan lab (evenness tester, count analyzer. Count lab, color Spector meter, and
ü Certify a trainer on USTER quality (HVI 1000 and tenshiorapid).
ü Certify on data analyzing SPSS software
ü Certify training of trainer ISO 9001 and ISO /IEC 17025 general requirements for the competence of laboratory testing.
ü Certify training of trainer ISO 9001:2008 TQM system developments and general requirements
Communication skills
♦ Good communication skill gained through my experience as my teaching experience.
Language: Mother tongue: Amharic
♦ Other language: English
Organizational/ managerial skills
♦ Leadership (currently responsible for a a student of 2000 and of 40 other managerial officers)
♦ Industrial job, sales, teaching, laboratory examiners or technicians, driving and transportation (supply chain)
Computer and other skills
♦ Excellent in all Microsoft, data analyzing SPSS software
♦ Mechanic (auto mechanic) basic electrician, soldering
♦ Ethiopian driving license, international recognized.
Publications
1. Design and development of single end sizing machine for traditional weavers
2. Study of the effects of number of sliver doubling in draw frame sliver, roving and carded yarn quality
4. In-depth analysis and defect reduction for Ethiopian cotton spinning industry based on TQM approach
5. Review on the integration of microelectronics for e-textile
6. Study the electrical properties of surface mount device integrated silver coated vectran yarn
7. Development of stainless steel yarn with embedded surface mounted light emitting diodes
8. Smart shirt for measuring trunk orientation
9. Design of quality parameters for Ethiopian cotton spinning industry based on TQM approach
10. Investigation the electrical resistance and thermal behaviour of surface mount device integrated stainless steel electronic yarn
11. Electro conductive textile yarn and their possible application in wearable heating textile
12. Study the effect of laundry on the electrical resistance of silver coated vectran conductive yarn for the application of e-textile
13. Connecting electronic surface mounted devices with conductive yarns by reflow soldering
14. Thermal behavior of SMD resistor integrated hybrid conductive yarn
Community Service
♦ Give a practical training for female teachers organised by EiTEX gender office
♦ Training the importance of total quality managements for quality assurance and quality controllers
♦ Give training based on life skill for Bahir Dar youth associations members
♦ Community support activity and gives training based on youth peer education
♦ Community support activity ad gives a training based on operation of new spinning quality laboratories for BDTSC spinning section quality experts
♦ Community support activity based on preparing manual and moguls valuable for giving practical and theoretical training for SSE for Akasta poly technical collage
♦ Spinning quality laboratories training for BDTSC workers
♦ Plantation at Besawit park which organised by BDU and Society for ecotourism and bio diversity conservation (2011)
♦ Plantation at Besawit park which organised by BDU and Society for ecotourism and bio diversity conservation (2012)
♦ Waste cleaning activities at Besawit park which organised by BDU and Society for ecotourism and bio diversity conservation (2011)
