Department of
HEALTH, SAFETY and ENVIRONMENT
"Make Safety, Health and Protecting the Environment a Way of Life"

Team HSE

Dr. Clarence Rodrigues Manager – Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Habshan Building, Room 5334 Office: +971 2 607 5931 Email: crodrigues@pi.ac.ae

Clarence C. Rodrigues, Ph.D., PE, CSP, CPE, is currently the Manager for Health, Safety and Environment and is also an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before joining the Petroleum Institute, Dr. Rodrigues was a tenured full-professor in the college of aviation and was also the program chair for the BS in Safety degree at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Daytona Beach, Florida. Before joining ERAU, Dr. Rodrigues was on the safety sciences’ faculty at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and was also an OSHA consultant for the State of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining IUP, Dr. Rodrigues was a worldwide engineering manager at the Campbell Soup Company for seven years. While at Campbell Soup, he also held an adjunct faculty appointment at The University of Pennsylvania’s systems engineering department. Dr. Rodrigues has consulted for industry and for government, has made several national and international presentations, and has authored or co-authored numerous technical publications, including a text book titled Commercial Aviation Safety. Dr. Rodrigues holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and his master’s degree is in environmental engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. Dr. Rodrigues’ areas of teaching and research interests include systems safety, ergonomics, HSE management systems, teaching and training pedagogies, and security.