Faisal Ahammed

Research Interests

Climate change impacts and adaptation Water policy (incl. water allocation) Water Resources Engineering

Teaching Strengths

Project-based teaching
Industry driven teaching
Water engineering software

Dr Faisal Ahammed

Program Director

UniSA STEM

Teaching Enterprise

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Faisal is a Senior Lecturer and teaching focussed academic of Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia (UniSA). He completed BSc Civil Engineering and Master of Engineering Management degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2002 and 2009 respectively. He obtained Australian Commonwealth Scholarship (Endeavour Award) to perform his PhD research at UniSA in 2010 and his PhD degree was conferred in 2014. He was the recipient of UniSA’s Early Career Development Fellowship during the period of 2013 - 2015. He performed a short spell research at National University of Singapore in 2015. He also worked as a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University in 2018.
Faisal currently works as a Program Director for Master of Engineering (Civil & Infrastructure, and, Water Resources Management) program at UniSA. He teaches Civil and Water Engineering related courses in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His current research focuses on infrastructure compliant stormwater management strategies for developed and developing countries.
Faisal is a member of Engineers Australia, affiliated member of American Society of Civil Engineers, editorial board member of Water Conservation Science and Engineering Journal (by Springer), associate editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities Journal, topic editor for Sustainability Journal (by MDPI) and program directors' representative at UniSA STEM Unit Academic Board.

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Effectiveness of teaching-research nexus
  • Water sensitive urban design
  • Engineering economics

Date Position Institution name
2020 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of South Australia
2014 - 2019 Lecturer University of South Australia
2006 - 2009 Lecturer Southeast University

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Recognition Editorial Contribution Award Springer Nature Singapore -
2024 Teaching Award Mid-Career Teacher Award University of South Australia Australia -
2018 Award Visiting Scholar National Taiwan University Taiwan, Province of China -
2015 Award Visiting Scholar National University of Singapore Singapore -
2013 Award Endeavour Award University of South Australia Australia -
2013 Fellowship Early Career Development Fellowship University of South Australia Australia -

Language Competency
Bengali Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2010 - 2014 University of South Australia Australia PhD
2007 - 2009 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh Master of Engineering
1997 - 2002 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh BSc Engineering

Date Title Institution name Country
— Certificate University of Technology Sydney Australia
— Certificate Open Universities Australia Australia
— Certificate Registered Engineers in Disaster Reliefs India
— Certificate Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh

Year Citation
2025 Yammala, J. K., Poriya, R. J., Patel, N., Ahammed, F. A., & de Guzman, F. B. (2025). Techno-economic evaluation of vegetated swales for urban stormwater management in South Australia. Hydroecology and Engineering, 2(3), 1-21.
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2025 Armando Camargo Sandoval, E., & Ahammed, F. (2025). Performance impacts of rainwater tanks on stormwater drainage systems. Hydroecology and Engineering, 2(1, article no. 10002), 1-19.
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2025 Yang, C., Ahammed, F., Cameron, D., & Chow, C. W. K. (2025). Review of root intrusions by street trees and utilising predictive analytics to improve water utility maintenance strategies. Sustainability, 17(12, article no. 5263), 1-20.
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2024 Chao Guerbatin, A., & Ahammed, F. (2024). Climate change impacts on water sensitive urban design technologies. Sustainability, 16(4, article no. 1568), 1-14.
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2024 Hossen, M. A., Connor, J., & Ahammed, F. (2024). Valuation of the Teesta River water by Hydro Economic Model. Water Conservation Science and Engineering, 9(1), 21 pages.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2023 Hossen, M. A., Connor, J., & Ahammed, F. (2023). How to Resolve Transboundary River Water Sharing Disputes. WATER, 15(14), 10 pages.
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2021 Hossen, M. A., Connor, J., & Ahammed, F. (2021). Review of hydro-economic models (HEMs) which focus on transboundary river water sharing disputes. Water Policy, 23(6), 1359-1374.
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2021 Do, P., Gorjian Jolfaei, N., Gorjian, N., van der Linden, L., Ahammed, F., Rameezdeen, R., . . . Chow, C. W. K. (2021). Smart Scheduling of Pump Control in Wastewater Networks Based on Electricity Spot Market Prices. Water Conservation Science and Engineering, 6(2), 79-94.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2021 Ahammed, F., George, R. S., Kai, H. P., & Yan, L. (2021). Optimum numbering and sizing of infiltration-based water sensitive urban design technologies in South Australia. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 14(1), 79-86.
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2020 Ye, Q., & Ahammed, F. (2020). Quantification of relationship between annual daily maximum temperature and annual daily maximum rainfall in South Australia. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 13(4), 286-293.
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2020 Akhter, F., Hewa, G. A., Ahammed, F., Myers, B., & Argue, J. R. (2020). Performance evaluation of stormwater management systems and its impact on development costing. Water, 12(2, article no. 375), 1-20.
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2019 Ahammed, F., & Smith, E. (2019). Prediction of students' performances using course analytics data: a case of water engineering course at the University of South Australia. Education sciences, 9(3, article no. 245), 1-15.
DOI Scopus11 WoS9
2017 Rahman, S. M. S., Azeem, A., & Ahammed, F. (2017). Selection of an appropriate waste-to-energy conversion technology for Dhaka City, Bangladesh. International journal of sustainable engineering, 10(2), 99-104.
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2017 Ahammed, F. (2017). A review of water-sensitive urban design technologies and practices for sustainable stormwater management. Sustainable water resources management, 3(3), 269-282.
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2016 Nasrin, S., & Ahammed, F. (2016). Improving maternal, neonatal and child health through Manoshi Project in Bangladesh. Universal Journal of Public Health, 4(2), 103-107.
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2014 Ahammed, F., Hewa, G. A., & Argue, J. R. (2014). Variability of annual daily maximum rainfall of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Atmospheric research, 137, 176-182.
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2013 Ahammed, F. (2013). Interactive comment on 'development of IDF-curves for tropical India by random cascade modeling' by A. Rana et al.. Hydrology and Earth system sciences, 10, 1386-1390.
2013 Ahammed, F., & Azeem, A. (2013). Selection of the most appropriate package of solar home system using Analytic Hierarchy Process model in rural areas of Bangladesh. Renewable energy, 55, 6-11.
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2012 Ahammed, F., & Hewa, G. A. (2012). Development of hydrological tools using extreme rainfall events for Dhaka, Bangladesh. Water International, 37(1), 43-52.
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2012 Ahammed, F., Hewa, G. A., & Argue, J. R. (2012). Introducing leaky-well concept for stormwater quantity control in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Applied water science, 3(1), 115-123.
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2012 Ahammed, F., Hewa, G. A., & Argue, J. R. (2012). Applying multi-criteria decision analysis to select WSUD and LID technologies. Water science and technology: water supply, 12(6), 844-853.
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2008 Ahmed, N., Ahammed, F., & van, B. M. (2008). An economic analysis of freshwater prawn, macrobrachium rosenbergii, farming in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 39(1), 37-50.
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Year Citation
2025 Ahammed, F. (2025). Climate change adaptation of drainage systems using WSUD technologies. In CSE 2025: Climate Smart Engineering Conference (pp. 91-95). Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2021 Akhter, F., Hewa, G., Ahammed, F., Myers, B., & Argue, J. (2021). Performance evaluation of event-based designs of WSUD technologies using continuous simulation modelling. In HWRS 2021: Digital Water: Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2021 (pp. 56-70). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2021 Hossen, M. A., Connor, J., & Ahammed, F. (2021). Water diversion and groundwater inflow to the Teesta River during the dry season. In HWRS 2021: Digital Water: Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2021 (pp. 570-583). Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2020 Ahammed, F. (2020). Peer assessment using SPARKPLUS for engineering students. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Information, Media and Engineering (IJCIME) (pp. 112-115). US: IEEE.
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2019 Ahammed, F., Hewa Alankarage, G., Argue, J. R., & Tsai, C. W. (2019). ICSM: a new stormwater management strategy to support the urban growth of developing countries in Asia. In G. F. Scott, & W. Hamilton (Eds.), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater; Urban Water Resources and Municipal Water Infrastructure (pp. 80-92). United States: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2018 Akhter, F., Argue, J., Hewa, G., Ahammed, F., & Myers, B. (2018). Selection of appropriate water-sensitive systems for stormwater quantity control in South Australia. In 2018 Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Hwrs 2018 Water and Communities (pp. 1-15). Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2018 Ahammed, F., Hassanli, R., Iqbal, A., & Corcoran, P. (2018). Effectiveness of teaching research nexus to enhance students' learnings. In Proceedings of the 7th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF 2017) (pp. 434-438). US: IEEE.
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2016 Argue, J. R., Ahammed, F., Hewa, G., Myers, B., & Pezzaniti, D. (2016). ICSM: a strategy to manage flooding in urban catchments experiencing regrowth. In Proceedings of Novatech 2016 9th International Conference on planning and technologies for sustainable management of Water in the City (pp. 1-8). France: GRAIE.
2015 Ahammed, F. (2015). Stormwater quantity control using rainwater harvesting systems in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 2015 Ozwater Conference (pp. 1-8). Australia: Australian Water Association.
2014 Ahammed, F., Hewa, A. G., & Argue, J. R. (2014). Flood management using 'stormwater source control' principles in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2014 / Engineers Australia and National Committee on Water Engineering (pp. 413-420). Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia.
2012 Ahammed, F., Hewa, A. G., & Argue, J. R. (2012). Hydraulic designs of WSUD technologies for stormwater management in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In N. Chileshe (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th International conference and workshop on the built environment in developing countries (pp. 826-837). Adelaide, Australia: ICBEDC.
2012 Ahammed, F., Hewa, G. A., & Argue, J. R. (2012). Applying WSUD principles to manage stormwater in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In Conference proceedings : technical papers and posters for presentation at Ozwater'12, Australia's National Water Conference and Exhibition (pp. 1-8). Australia: Australian Water Association.
2011 Ahammed, F., Hewa, A. G., & Argue, J. R. (2011). An overview of water sensitive urban design for sustainable stormwater management in South Australia. In Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on water and flood management (pp. 487-496). Bangladesh: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
2011 Ahammed, F., & Hewa, A. G. (2011). Adaptation to climate change on water resources in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the 34th IAHR world congress and 33rd hydrology and water resources symposium (pp. 718-725). Australia: Engineers Australia.

Courses I teach

  • CIVE 3010 Water Resources Systems Design (2025)
  • CIVE 5015 Research Data Analysis (2025)
  • CIVE 5091 Engineering and Environmental Masters Design Project (2025)
  • CIVE 3010 Water Resources Systems Design (2024)
  • CIVE 5015 Research Data Analysis (2024)
  • CIVE 5091 Engineering and Environmental Masters Design Project (2024)

Programs I'm associated with

  • LMCL - Master of Engineering

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 External Supervisor Development off Flash Flooding Adaptation Strategy under Climate Change for Jeddah City Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Obaid Mohammad O Alharbi

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2021 - 2025 Member UniSA STEM Academic Unit Board University of South Australia Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2018 - ongoing Member The Institution of Engineers Australia -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2023 - ongoing Editor Sustainability Journal MDPI Switzerland
2022 - ongoing Editor Water Conservation Science and Engineering Journal Springer Nature Singapore

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