Biography

Dr Jafri Bin Mohd Rohani is senior lecturer at School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. He graduated PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2014, obtained his M.Sc (Industrial Systems Engineering) from Ohio University, USA in 1995 and B.Sc (Industrial Engineering), New Mexico State University, USA 1988. He has been teaching at UTM specializing Industrial Engineering   courses for more than 30 years. He has thought a variety of courses, including Quality Engineering, Quality Management, Production and Operations Management, Quality and Metrology, Quality Systems, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, Work Design and Engineering Management and Safety.  He has successfully graduated 1 PhD student as main supervisor and 3 PhD students as co-supervisor and is currently supervising 3 PhD students. He is also successfully supervised more than 30 Master student thought course and 2 Master research student by research as co-supervisor.

He is very active in journal and conference publications with a total of 22 Web of Science Indexed Journals and 10 Scopus Indexed Journal. He has published 1 research book and 2 book chapters. The total research funding received so far is amounting more than RM 1Million. He has also received an amount of over RM 1Million in consultancy projects and services.  His scholarly achievements are evidenced by his growing number of citations and can be summarized as followings: Scopus h-Index = 14, Citations (500), Google Scholar h-Index = 19, Citations (1270). With his experience, he actively participated in various Scientific, Technical committees and Conferences. He has been invited as 2 keynote speaker at International Conferences and invited speaker at Universitas Sebelah Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia. He is appointed as Editorial Boards at one local journal and one international journal. He has also being appointed as Technical Committee at various International and Local conferences. He is also appointed as NIOSH expert consultant to assist NIOSH staffs to conduct  research and training activities.  He has also engaged with DOSH, Malaysia to carryout OSHCIM Implementation Project in Construction Industry and has involved in consultancy project of drafting  Occupational Safety and Health Master Plan 2021-2025.

He is  involve in various committees at School of Mechanical Engineering and also become resource person in Occupational and Safety Health at UTM. He is now project coordinator for 3 MOUs with NIOSH Malaysia, Sirim and Training Services  and Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.