Seminars

The National Science Foundation Programs for Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly

Abstract

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.8 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. This talk will provide an insight into NSF’s organization and the programs it offers to support research and education in electrical and computer engineering. Programs of interest to undergraduate and graduate students will be included also.

Speaker Biography

Samir M. El-Ghazaly is a Distinguished Professor and Head of Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Arkansas. He also holds the Twenty-First Century Leadership endowed Chair in Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988 from The University of Texas at Austin. He joined Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he became Associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 1998. From August 2002 to July 2007, he was with The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as Professor and the Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He trained and worked at several universities and research centers including Cairo University; the Centre Hyperfrequences et Semiconducteurs at Université de Lille I in France; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California; CST-Motorola, Inc.; iemn, Université de Lille, France; and the Swiss Federal Research Institute (ETH). His research interests include microwave and millimeter-wave semiconductor devices and circuits, semiconductor device simulations, electromagnetics, antennas, and numerical techniques applied to monolithic microwave integrated circuits.

Dr. El-Ghazaly is a Fellow of IEEE. He was the chairman of Commissions A and D of the US National Committee of URSI. He is an elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. He was the chairman of MTT-15 Committee on Field Theory. He was the General Chairman of the IEEE MTT-S 2001 International Microwave Symposium, which was held in Phoenix, Arizona, May 2001. He is the Chairman of the IEEE MTT-S Publications Committee.