Alaa Attar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Vice Dean

King Abdulaziz University

Faculty of Engineering at Rabigh Branch  

• Alaa Attar,HoSung Lee,Sean Weera,Optimal Design of Automotive Thermoelectric Air Conditioner (TEAC),Journal of Electronic Materials,Volume 43, Issue 6, pp 2179-2187.

• Alaa Attar, HoSung Lee, and Sean Weera,Experimental validation of the optimum design of automotive air-to-air thermoelectric air conditioner (TEAC),Journal of Electronic Materials,Volume 44, Issue 6, pp 2177-2185.

• HoSung Lee, Alaa Attar, and Sean Weera,Performance Prediction of Commercial Thermoelectric Cooler Modules Using the Effective Material Properties,Journal of Electronic Materials,Volume 44, Issue 6, pp 2157-2165.

• Alaa Attar and HoSung Lee,Designing and testing the optimum design of automotive air-to-air thermoelectric air conditioner (TEAC) system,Journal of Energy Conversion and Management,10.1016/j.enconman.2016.01.029

• AbdulmunaemH.Elarus, HassanFagehi, HoSungLee, and AlaaAttar,Theoretical Approach to Predict the Performance of Thermoelectric Generator Modules,Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-016-4948-9.

• AbdulmunaemH.Elarus, Alaa Attar, and HoSung Lee,Optimal Design of a Thermoelectric Cooling/Heating System for Car Seat Climate Control (CSCC),Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-016-5043-y.

• AbdulmunaemH.Elarus, Alaa Attar, and HoSung Lee,Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Optimum Design of Thermoelectric Cooling/Heating System for Car Seat Climate Control (CSCC),Journal of Electronic Materials,doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5854-5

• Hassan Fagehi, Alaa Attar, and HoSung Lee, Optimal Design of an Automotive Exhaust Thermoelectric Generator, Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-018-6282-x.

• Sean Weera, Alaa Attar, and HoSung Lee,Utilizing effective material properties to validate the performance of thermoelectric cooler and generator modules,Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, DOI:10.1016/j.enconman.2019.112427

• Alaa Attar, HoSung Lee, and G. Je Jeffrey Snyder,Optimum load resistance for a thermoelectric generator system,Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113490

• Alaa Attar,HoSung Lee,Sean Weera,AUTOMOTIVE THERMOELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER (TEAC), The 32ndInternational Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2013), Cube, Japan, 30 June – 4 July, 2013.

• Alaa Attar, HoSung Lee, and Sean Weera,EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE OPTIMUM DESIGN OF AUTOMOTIVE AIR-TO-AIR THERMOELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER, The 33rdInternational Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2014), Nashville, TN, USA, 6 – 10 July, 2014.

• Alaa Attar and HoSung Lee,DESIGNING AND TESTING THE OPTIMUM DESIGN OF AUTOMOTIVE AIR-TO-AIR THERMOELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER, The 34thInternational Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2015), Dresden, Germany, 28 June – 2 July, 2015.

• Alaa Attar and HoSung Lee,STUDYING THE OPTIMUM LOAD RESISTANCE OF THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR SYSTEM, The 35thInternational Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2016), Wuhan, China, 29 May – 2 June, 2016.

• Alaa Attar, PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION OF THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR SYSTEM USED EXHAUST WASTE HEAT RECOVERY, Seventh Saudi Arabian Section of the Combustion Institute Annual Meeting, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 21 – 22 May, 2017.

• Alaa Attar, Ahmed Mater Alraeqi, Khaled Faisal Alghanmi, andAhmad Abdulrahim Alshaikh, DESIGN OF A THERMOELECTRIC COOLING SYSTEM FOR A WEARABLE VEST, The 36th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2017), Pasadena, CA, USA , 31 July – 3 August, 2017.

• Alaa Attar, Mohammed Balrabeah, Fahad Alzobedi, Abdulrahman Almur, OPTIMUM DESIGN OF THERMOELECTRIC COOLER USE FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATION, The 37th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2018), Caen, France , 1– 5 July, 2018.

• Alaa Attar (Invited), DESIGNING AND OPTIMIZING THERMOELECTRIC SYSTEM, Thermoelectrics Seminar,Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD), Northwestern University, IL, USA, 2 August, 2018.

• Alaa Attar and Mohammed Balrabeah, VALIDATION OF THE OPTIMUM DESIGN OF THE THERMOELECTRIC COOLER USED FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS, The 38th International Conference on Thermoelectrics and / the 4th Asian Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT/ACT 2019), Gyeongju, Korea, 30 June – 4 July, 2019.