About Instructor

Prof. M. Enamul Hossain

CEO & President, and

NSRIC Chair in Sustainable Energy

Prof. Mohammed Enamul Hossain is the founder, CEO & President of NSRIC Group. He is also the NSRIC Chair Professor in sustainable energy at the Engineering (ENG) Unit of OE Division. In addition to his current affiliation with NSRIC, he holds adjunct Professor positions in some other universities. Prof. Hossain is the founder and the Chairman of NSRIC International School in Toronto (NIST), NSRIC International College in Toronto (NICT), Canada and the World Association of Nature Science, Education and Engineering (WANSEE), Canada. He is also CEO of NSRIC Green Supplies Inc., Canada, and the founder of International Conferences on Nature Science and Engineering Applications (ICNSEA), Canada, a conference series. Prof. Hossain was the managing director and director of Aziza Consulting and Construction Ltd. in Bangladesh and BrightCoral, Canada, respectively. He was the President of ANS Research and Development Inc., Canada. Prof. Hossain has been the Founder and Chairman of a Charitable organization, Aziza Trust, since 2009, through which he is serving mankind and established NSRIC Education City in Chattogram, Bangladesh, to offer education to unprivileged students. Prof. Hossain also worked in different administrative and technical positions in the oil industry for about ten years. He is an internationally recognized scientist and expert in sustainability and environmental science. Furthermore, he has been recognized as a renowned petroleum engineering consultant in the oil and gas industry, aiming to promote the greening of the petroleum industry. Prof. Hossain offered many training programs and courses at different organizations globally, such as Saudi Aramco, ONGE, Kuwait Oil, BPI, Qatar Petroleum, Petronas and ADNOC through different training organizations.  

              In 29+ years of professional career, Dr. Hossain has a diversified and very rich record of leadership, management, business development, teaching, research, and technical achievements. Prof. Hossain is an expert and scientist well-known for his work on environmental and sustainability related to petroleum engineering and energy. Prior to his current position, Prof. Hossain was the first Statoil Chair Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He held different academic and administrative positions at MUN, Canada; Ryerson University, Canada; King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia; Dalhousie University, Canada; Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman; American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt; Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Bangladesh; and Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Moreover, he served as an adjunct Professor at many universities worldwide and worked at different universities. He is recognized as one of the most successful entrepreneurs and academic leaders. He also established his high research skills in petroleum engineering and sustainable energy, securing over US$16.9 million in research funding. The funding agencies include Statoil, Saudi Aramco, NSTIP, NSERC, RDC, KFUM, MUN, and AUC. Prof. Hossain’s main contribution to the industry is introducing the first-time memory concept for a petroleum application and US patents.

              Prof. Hossain earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1995 and an MSc in Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering from a collaboration between the University of Alberta and BUET in 2001. Dr. Hossain was awarded PhD in sustainable Petroleum Engineering in 2008 and an MBA degree in 2009, both from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

              This philanthropist scholar and philosopher authored ten books on different areas of sustainability and petroleum engineering with Elsevier and Wiley and Scrivener Publishing, USA. He authored/co-authored over 200+ scientific articles. In addition, Prof. Hossain has 11 US patents, some of which are in the commercialization process.