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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
Education
1. PhD in Textile Technology: A German Bank sponsored homegrown research conducted at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, and Ghent Centre for Textile Science and Engineering Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
2. MSc in Textile Manufacturing: Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, 30 June 2015.
3. BSc in Textile Engineering: Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, July 01, 2009.
Interest Area
¨ Wearable electronics, conductive materials, and electronic Textiles
¨ Smart and functional textiles, health care functional textile
¨ Textile materials and process; textile fibers to fashion
¨ Materials testing and characterization techniques
¨ Nanomaterials, Nanostructured, Nanocellulose
¨ Supercapacitor, Semiconductor Devices, Thin films
¨ Sustainable materials
¨ Circular economy
¨ Recycling, upcycling, and remanufacturing of materials
¨ Green energy
Awards
¨ Best MSc student thesis in 2015 GC academic Calendar entitled “Design and development of a single-end sizing machine for Ethiopian local weavers.
Research Experiences
1. “Integration of surface-mounted electronic devices into conductive yarns for wearable e-textile” (Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Textile Technology) (2018- 2023)
2. “Minimize the Defect Rate in Spinning Section by Implementation of Lean Six Sigma: The Case of Three Selected Ethiopian Textile Companies” (2023-now).
3. Study and Manufacturing of Recycled Polyester Fiber from waste PET Bottles: the potential recycling polyester sources in Ethiopia (December 2024 to now).
4. “Design and manufacturing of composite eco-bricks from waste LDPE plastics and luffa cylindrica” (2019).
5. “Defect reduction for Ethiopian cotton spinning industry based on TQM approach (2017/2018)
6. “Designing and manufacturing of single end sizing machine for Ethiopian traditional Weaver” (A Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Textile Manufacturing (2014/15)
7. “Processability enhancement of false banana fiber” (A project for fulfilling the requirements for the degree of BSc in Textile Engineering) (2009/10)
Professional Positions Held (Administrative Skills)
1. April 16, 2023 to now: Vice dean for Textile faculty research and postgraduate coordinator at Ethiopian institute of textile and Fashion Technology Institute, Bahir Dar University.
2. 08, September, 2017 -Feb. 12, 2018: Textile testing, quality control and management, Learning research implementation head, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
3. Oct. 12, 2015-Sept. 07, 2017: Textile Engineering program Head, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
4. 10 Dec. 2009- 02, Sept. 2012 Textile engineer and Spinning section shift leader, Bahir Dar Textile Share company
Teaching Experiences
¨ From March, 16, 2023-Now: Assistant Professor (PhD) in Textile Technology; technical textiles, textile composites, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
¨ From Feb.,12, 2018 to March 16, 2023: PhD student
¨ 30 Jun. 2015 -12 Feb 2018: Lecturer, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
¨ 03 Sept. 2012 -29 Jun. 2015: Assistant Lecturer, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
¨ From January 10,2009 to September 3,2012: Textile Product Developer and Shift Leader at Bahir Dar Textile Share Company Spinning Section (from blow room to cone winding).
Bahir Dar textile share company tel-+251-582-200-104 fax-+251-582-202-012 e-mail-bdrtex@ethionet.
Publications
Published Articles and conference papers:
1. Firew Adamu, M., Tesfaye, T., Berhanu, B., & Simegnaw, A. (2025). Electronic textiles. Textile Progress, 57(1), 1–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405167.2025.2468595.
2. Gudayu, AD.*, Getahun, DE., Mekuriya, DM., Walelign, FT., Ahmmed, AS., Natural fiber reinforced cementitious composites; materials, compatibility issues and future perspectives, Composite Interfaces, 32(3), 363–397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09276440.2024.2417162, Sage Publications.
3. Nuru AM, Ahmmed AS, Gudayu AD. Eco-Friendly Thickening Agent for Cotton Fabric Reactive Dye Printing. AATCC Journal of Research. 2025;12(1). doi:10.1177/24723444241288285.
4. Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed* (2024): Impact of hot air gun soldering process parameters on the electromechanical properties of electronic yarn, The Journal of The Textile Institute, DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2024.2359177, https://doi.org/10.1080/00405000.2024.2359177
5. Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed*, Adane Dagnaw Gudayu and Melkie Getnet Tadesse (2024): Electrical and electrothermal, characterization of silver-coated Vectran and Amber strand yarns for wearable heating. Textile Research Journal DOI: 10.1177/00405175241228524,
6. Simegnaw, A.A*.; Malengier, G.; Tadesse, M.G.; Van Langenhove, L. Connecting Surface Mounted Electronic Elements with Amber Strand Metal Clad Conductive Fibers by Reflow Soldering. Textile research journal.
7. Biruk Abate Fenta*, Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed & Mulugeta Admasu Delele (2024), Evaluation of water flow in cotton yarn and fabric assemblies for capillary evaporative cooling, Cogent Engineering, MATERIAL ENGINEERING, 11:1, 2328825, DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2024.2328825.
8. BA Fenta, BB Yilma, TA Dessie, AS Ahmmed, AK Kabish, BT Admasu, Design, construction and performance evaluation of cotton fabric layer materials in micro-capillary absorptive evaporative cooling, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 18, 101534.
9. Melkie GT*.; Simegnaw AA. and Jörn FL. Conductive polymer and composites for super capacitor applications. Journal of Composites Science.
10. Simegnaw, A.A*.; Malengier, B.; Yetanawork Teyeme.; Tamrat Tesfaye, Hundessa Daba, Kaledawit Esmelealem.; Van Langenhove, L. Design and prototyping smart shirt for measuring trunk orientation. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/23/9090.
11. Simegnaw, A.A. *; Malengier, B.; Tadesse, M.G.; Van Langenhove, L. Development of Stainless-Steel Yarn with Embedded Surface Mounted Light Emitting Diodes. Materials 2022, 15, 2892. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/8/2892.
12. Simegnaw, A.A. *; Malengier, B.; Tadesse, M.G.; Rotich, G.; Van Langenhove, L. Study the Electrical Properties of Surface Mount Device Integrated Silver Coated Vectran Yarn. Materials 2022, 15, 272. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/1/272.
13. Simegnaw, A.A.*; Malengier, B.; Rotich, G.; Tadesse, M.G.; Van Langenhove, L. Review on the Integration of Microelectronics for E-textile. Materials 2021, 14, 5113. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/17/5113.
14. Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed* and Million Ayele, In-Depth Analysis and Defect Reduction for Ethiopian Cotton Spinning Industry Based on TQM Approach. Journal of Engineering. 2020,1-8 Article ID 5792434, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5792434.
15. Abdella Simegnaw *, Addisu Ferede and Rotech Gideon, Design and development of single end sizing machine for traditional weavers, International Journal on Textile Engineering and Processes ISSN 2395-3578 Vol. 5, Issue 1 January 2019.
16. Abdella Simegnaw *, Study of the Effects of Number of Sliver Doubling in Draw Frame Sliver, Roving and Carded Yarn Quality, International Journal on Textile Engineering and Processes ISSN 2395-3578 Vol. 5, Issue 3 July 2019.
17. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse, and Lieva Van Langenhove (2022): Investigation of the electrical resistance and thermal behavior of surface mount device integrated stainless steel electronic yarn. (AUTEX 2022 international conference). https://www.autex.org/conference.
18. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse, and Lieva Van Langenhove (2021): Connecting Electronic Surface Mounted Devices with Conductive Yarns by Reflow Soldering (Smart TecStyle conference 2021, Bielefeld UAS, Germany) https://idwonline.de/en/event70057.
19. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse, and Lieva Van Langenhove (2021): Study on the effect of laundry on the electrical resistance of Silver Coated Vectran conductive yarn for E-textiles ICM CN 2021: International Conference on Materials: Advanced and Emerging Materials, November 22-24, 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/2765.
20. Biruk Abate Fenta*, Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed, Mulugeta Admasu Delele (2024): Analysis of Water wicking in cotton Yarn bundles for cold air production (12th international conference on cotton textile, apparel value chain in Africa CTA 2023. Bahir Dar university, Ethiopian institute of textile and fashion technology).
21. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse, Adane Dagnaw Gudayu and Lieva Van Langenhove (2023): Factors affecting the thermo-electrical behaviors of a resistive heating textile based on surface mount resistor integrated e-yarn (11th international conference on cotton textile, apparel value chain in Africa CTA 2023. Bahir Dar university, Ethiopian institute of textile and fashion technology).
22. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse, And Lieva Van Langenhove (2022): Electroconductive hybrid textile yarn and their possible application on wearable textile. (10th international conference on cotton textile, apparel value chain in Africa CTA 2022. Bahir Dar university, Ethiopian institute of textile and fashion technology).
23. Abdella Ahmmed Simegnaw *, Benny Malengier, Malkie Getnet Tadesse and Lieva Van Langenhove (2022): Thermal behavior of SMD resistor integrated hybrid conductive yarn (The first annual national conference on textile, apparel, and fashion, Dire Dawa university, 2022.)
Ongoing publications:
¨ Abdella Simegnaw, Mulat Alubel, Melkie Getenet and Shahood “Sensor-embedded and electronics textiles: A review on advanced materials, manufacturing, and applications” Textile research journal.
¨ Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed*, Melkie Getnet Tadesse and Jörn Felix Lübben (2024): Market Insights of Nanocellulose, Taylor and Francis group.
¨ Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed*, Melkie Getnet Tadesse and Jörn Felix Lübben (2024) Uses of nanocellulose in electronics and electrical industry, Taylor and Francis group.
¨ Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed*,Wendosen Seife Haile, Biruk Fenta Abate, Adane Dagnaw Gudayu (2024): Preparation and characterizations of bioplastic from banana Pseudo-Stem: a sustainable approach for an alternative to plastic packaging.
¨ Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed, Bekinew Kitaw, Adane Dagnaw Gudayu “Evaluating Lean Six Sigma's Effectiveness in Yarn Manufacturing: Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Process OptimizationTEKSTİL VE KONFEKSİYON.
Activities
- Trainings
¨ Give training entitled Performance-based Assessment and Evaluation to Bahir Dar University instructors.
¨ Master Class Training (Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online) trained by the Ministry of Education (MOE), and in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, Arizona State University (ASU).
¨ Peace Education Training: delivered by British Embassy collaboration with Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia (Certified April 12-16 2024)
¨ Higher Diploma as a certified professional teacher educator, College of educational and behavioral sciences, Bahir Dar University, (Certified 26 November 2014)
¨ Introduction and Implementation of quality laboratory management system based on ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025 (Certified Oct. 21-22, 2013)
¨ CFT TricordFex. Winder station (SIMET), PC Station maintenance and operation training: TEXTECHNO Herbert Stein GmbH &CO KG (Certified 26 October 2013)
¨ Quality management system development and implementation based on Iso 9001:2008: Ethiopian standard agency (certified Jan 30- Feb 03.2012)
Committee memberships:
¨ Chairperson of curriculum development committee: BSc in Textile Marketing and Management, MSc in Fashion marketing and merchandising (May 2024 to now)
¨ Article Reviewer on journal of tekstilec and in international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa which prepared by Bahir Dar university.
¨ Publication and documentation committee: 13th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2024) held during May 31 and June 1, 2024. (Certified)
¨ Publication committee: 12th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2024) held during May 31 and June 1, 2024. (Certified)
¨ Publication committee organizer: 11th International conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2023) held during May 25-27, 2023. (Certified)
¨ Member, publication committee:10th International conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2022) held during May 20-22, 2022. (Certified)
¨ Member, publication committee: 8th International conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2019) held during June 7-8, 2019. (Certified).
¨ Member, Fund rising committee:8th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2019) held during June 7-8, 2019. (Certified)
¨ Member, Public relation committee: 6th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2017) held during June 2-3, 2017. (Certified)
¨ Member, Public relation committee:5th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2016) held during June 3-4, 2016. (Certified)
¨ Member, Public relation committee: 4th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2015) held during May 1-2, 2015. (Certified)
¨ Member, Exhibition committee:3rd international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2014) held during June 2-3, 2014. (Certified)
¨ Member, organizing committee: 3rd international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2014) held during June 2-3, 2014. (Certified)
¨ Member, organizing committee:3rd international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2013hy) held during May 10-11, 2013. (Certified)
¨ Member, curriculum committee for BSc in Textile Engineering at Ethiopian September 27, 2017- September 2018:
¨ Member, kaizen committee at EiTEX, textile production research and implementation center October 25, 2011- October 24 2012.
Community Engagement:
¨ Community service and community support activities: give a training on Remanufacturing of used textiles for small scale Enterprise (Certified).
¨ Community service and community support activities: give a training on implementation and use of evidence-based guideline for youth peer education (Certified).
¨ Community service and community support activities: Training on the quality and quality management system in textile industry (Certified).
¨ Community service and community support activities: Give a practical training for female teachers organized by EiTEX gender office.
¨ Community service and community support activities: training the importance of total quality managements for quality assurance and quality controllers in Bahir Dar Textile Share company
¨ Community service and community support activities: give training based on life skill for the Bahir Dar youth associations members
¨ Community service and community support activities: give a training based on operation of new spinning machinery 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
¨ Plantation and protection of deforestation in Besawit park, Bahir Dar city which organized by Bahir Dar University collaboration with Society for ecotourism (2018-2019).
Student thesis (dissertation) supervision:
¨ 2022 to now: batch advisor for MSc students
¨ 2023 to now supervised as a co- advisor for two PhD students
¨ 2024 -now Six MSc student thesis advisor
Theses Examination:
¨ 2024 (Now): Internal examiner for four MSC in Textile Manufacturing students.
¨ 2023 to now: a progress examiner for ten PhD students
Courses Handled:
¨ Functional and smart textile (for MSc Textile chemistry students)
¨ Structural mechanics of textile structures (for MSc Textile Manufacturing students),
¨ Quality management and control (for BSc student)
Workshops And International Conferences (Presentations And Technical Sessions)
¨ Jun 7-10, 2022: online oral presenter entitled “Investigation of the electrical resistance and thermal behavior of surface mount device integrated stainless steel electronic yarn” (AUTEX 2022 international conference). (Certified)
¨ December 15, 2021: online oral presenter entitled “Connecting Electronic Surface Mounted Devices with Conductive Yarns by Reflow Soldering” (Smart tecStyle conference 2021, Bielefeld UAS, Germany) (Certified)
¨ May 25-27, 2023: oral presenter in the 11th international conference on Cotton, Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Africa (CTA 2019) entitled “Factor affecting the thermoelectrical behavior of a resistive heating textile based on surface mount resistor integrated E-yarn” (Certified)
¨ June 04, 2022 oral presenter in the 1st national conference on Textile, apparel and fashion design organized by dire Dawa University (Certified)
¨ August 2017: preparation of technical manual of Textile testing machinery, EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (Certified)
¨ August 2019, preparation of technical manual and constitutional article of medical textile research center of EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (Certified)
¨ August 2019, preparation of technical manual and constitutional article for learning and research implementation (LRI) guide line for EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (Certified)
¨ August 2019, Preparation of recording manual entitled “maintenance, calibration history, spare part consumption and materials of textile testing lab” for EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (Certified)
Seminars
¨April 27, 2023, a seminar presentation entitled “Edible electronics and its amazing innovations” EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (Certified).
¨December 2019, a seminar presentation entitled “Eco fabric, strange and amazing innovation in 2018” EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (Certified).
¨ January 2018: A seminar presentation on “Production of fancy yarn by ring spinning machine” EiTEX, Bahir Dar University, BDU, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (Certified)
Language
¨ Amharic-Mother tongue
¨ English- Language of education
Link to EiTEX-BDU staff profile: https://eitex.bdu.edu.et/node/1095
Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ACL-6116-2022
Link to Google scholar link: Abdella Simegnaw Ahmmed (PhD) - Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7XAkT04AAAAJ&hl=en
ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4828-1764
References
1. Dr. Melkie Getenet Tadesse: Researcher, PhD student mentor at Sustainable Engineering (STE), Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, 72458 Albstadt, Germany. melkiegetnet23@gmail.com,
2. Dr. Benny Malengier: Researcher, Post Doc and PhD student advisor, at Centre for Textile Science and Engineering Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium. 
benny.malengier@ugent.be,
3. Professor Jörn Felix Lübben:(full professor), project coordinator, Post doc and PhD student promotor, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, 72458 Albstadt, Germany.
4. Dr. Rotich Gideon, Senior Lecturer at South Eastern Kenya University, Kitui, Kenya, PhD student advisor, rotichgideon2016@gmail.com.
5. Professor Lieva Van Langenhove: (full professor), project coordinator, PhD student promotor, department head at Centre for Textile Science and Engineering Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium benny.malengier@ugent.be lieva.vanlangenhove@ugent.be.
