Lutfi Al-Sharif

Lutfi Al-Sharif is currently the dean of Engineering Technology and professor of electrical engineering at Al-Hussein Technical University in Amman/Jordan and jointly professor of Building Transportation Systems at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at The University of Jordan. He received his Ph.D. in elevator traffic analysis in 1992 from the University of Manchester, U.K. He worked for 10 years for London Underground, London, U.K., in the area of elevators and escalators. He has more than 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the area of vertical-transportation systems, and is co-inventor of four patents, co-author of the 2nd edition of the Elevator Traffic Handbook, and author of the “indoor transportation” chapter in the Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Transportation.