Assistant Professor
519-253-3000 ext. 5449
polis@uwindsor.ca
Office: 3078 CEI
Education
- Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada
- M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada
- B.A.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Mosul, Iraq
Courses Taught
- Structural Analysis
- Stress Analysis
- Concrete Design
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Foundation Engineering
- Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
- Design of Structures Using Modern Tools
- Advanced Topics in Structural Analysis and Design
Professional Affiliations
- Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
- Canadian Dam Association (CDA)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Rehabilitating of concrete structures using (FRPs)
- Recyclable and Earth-Based Materials for Rapid Shelters After Disasters
- Infrastructure of Health Monitoring (SHM) employing digital image correlation (DIC)
Selected Publications
- Wafa Polies, Faouzi Ghrib, and Khalid Sennah (2010) "Rehabilitation of interior reinforced concrete slab-column connections using CFRP sheets". Journal of Construction and Building Materials, V24, Issue 7, pg 1272-1285.
- Wafa Polies (2010) "The Effect of I-Clickers in Enhancing Engineering Classrooms". Fourth Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning, Oakland University, MI, USA.
- Wafa Polies, Faouzi Ghrib, and Shaohong Cheng (2011) "An Inverse Problem Formulation for the Identification of Fracture Energy of Quasi-brittle Materials". Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Mechanics and Materials Speciality Conference (IEMM), EM-0621-1 to EM-062-10.
- Wafa Polies, Faouzi Ghrib, and Shaohong Cheng (2013) "Characterization of concrete property and the fracture process zone using digital image correlation technique"
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) 2013 Annual Conference, 3rd Specialty Conference on Engineering Mechanics and Materials.