Dr. Hazim Jamali is a faculty member of the college of engineering at the University of Karbala, Iraq; he studied mechanical engineering at the University of Baghdad, where he was awarded B.S. and M.Sc. degrees. He recently completed his doctoral studies at the Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University where he was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis "Analysis of Helical Gear Performance Under Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication." Jamali's principal research interest is in gear technology and numerical analysis, and he has in fact authored several papers in this area of study.