Khalil Rabiei, P.E. is the President of Optimum Engineering Solutions, a Registered Professional Engineer, and a part-time instructor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where he teaches graduate level design and analysis courses.

Before forming Optimum Engineering Solutions, he was the Engineering Manager for Nooter Consulting Services in St. Louis, Missouri. Khalil is a member of American Petroleum Institute (API) where he serves as a member of the Design and Fitness For Service (FFS) committees.

Khalil has published several papers in the area of deterministic and random vibrations. His last paper, "Comparison of static to dynamic nozzle loads on a brick-lined oxygen reactor", was presented on April 2001 at the World Congress for Finite Element Analyses in Como, Italy. He has performed and managed numerous multi-million dollar projects for companies such as, DuPont, Exxon, BP Amoco, Samsung, ABB Lummus, and Boeing.

Khalil's expertise includes but is not limited to FFS, ASME Section VIII Division 1,2 & 3, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Fatigue, Creep, Buckling and vibration in both linear and non-linear analyses.

 

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