Prof. Dr. Engr. Md. Sirajul Islam

Dr. Md. Sirajul Islam joined BAETE as Board member in 2025. He is presently serving as Professor, CEE and Director of CIRS at North South University. Previously, he held several important positions in NSU as Dean, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS), 2015~2017; Founder Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), 2013~2015; Chair, Department of Environmental Science & Management (ESM), 2011~2013 and Faculty Adviser of Earth Club, 2008~2011. Dr. Islam is having extensive experiences in the field of water resources and environment engineering with further concentration in climate change and disaster management. As an academic administrator, he got in-depth training on Outcome Based Education (OBE) and attended ABET symposium in USA in 2015. He is thoroughly conversant with ABET processes. He served as a Task Force Member of the BAETE, IEB in 2016-2020 on introducing OBE in the engineering education of Bangladesh through preparation of the OBE based accreditation manual and help preparing BAETE for the Washington Accord. As part of the BAETE task force, he attended a number of workshops, seminars and symposiums related to OBE, accreditation process and Washington Accord.

Dr. Islam started his career as a researcher at the Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET in 1995 under UNCRD-BUET Joint Research program. He then joined in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shajalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet in 1997 as a Lecturer. He completed Masters from NUS Singapore and PhD from The University of Tokyo, Japan. During PhD study, he was involved with the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS), an initiative among four leading universities of the world as MIT, USA; The University of Tokyo, Japan; Chalmers University, Sweden and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He attended the Summer School of AGS flagship program Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in 2001. After PhD, he conducted JST Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oki Laboratory, IIS, The University of Tokyo. He also served for some international organizations as UNFCCC, IPCC, UNCRD, UNDP, ADB, GIZ and World Bank for consultancy, research or short-term assignments.

Dr. Sirajul published widely in different international peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and wrote book chapters. He is presently serving as Editor, Journal of Water Management Modeling (JWMM), Computational Hydraulics International (CHI), Guelph, Canada (A SCOPUS Indexed International Journal). He writes popular articles regularly in newspapers, some of them to mention as Prothom Alo, Kaler Kontho, Ittefaq, Bdnews24.com, Banik Barta and Daily Star. He visited a large number of countries while attending conferences, meetings and workshops as USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, UAE, KSA, Qatar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India. Some of which to mention are attending conference at Oxford University, UK; American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly, USA; ABET Symposium, USA; Elsevier Water Security conference, Toronto, Canada; HEQEP visit to UK, Engineers for Sustainable World (ESW) meeting at UNESCO HQ in Paris, France; ICWRER, Dresden, Germany; Young Scientists Summit in Bern and YES Summit, Zurich, Switzerland; ICFEE, Malaysia; IWMI, SriLanka; and Conferences at DIT University and IGNOU, India, etc.