Rate My Professor Nayeb Md. Golam Zakaria

Dr. Nayeb Md. Golam Zakaria is a Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he has served since November 5, 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 2006, after which he joined BUET as a faculty member. From February 29, 2020, to March 2, 2022, he headed the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He currently holds the additional charge of Registrar at BUET. Dr. Zakaria serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University (BSMRMU). He has been a Visiting Professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, during May-June 2014 and June 2017, and at the Institute of Maritime Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Türkiye, in July 2025. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has provided technical consultancy for national and foreign projects in shipbuilding and related fields.

His academic interests encompass sea keeping, stability, ship design, ship building, and green ship recycling, alongside shipbuilding and maritime economics, ocean-wave mechanics, hydrodynamics, motion and stability of floating bodies, ship recycling, marine pollution, energy efficiency design, fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, hydrostatics and stability, maritime economics and transportation, and marine renewable energy. Key publications include 'Underlying problems of ship recycling industries in Bangladesh' (Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 2012), 'Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for Inland Vessels in Bangladesh' (Procedia Engineering, 2017), 'Ship recycling prospects in Bangladesh' (2010), 'Development of an Energy Efficiency Design Index for Inland Vessels of Bangladesh' (Journal of Marine Science and Application, 2020), and 'SWOT analysis of the shipbuilding industry of Bangladesh in international perspective' (2023). These works address vital challenges in Bangladesh's shipbuilding and recycling sectors, contributing to academic discourse and industry development.