Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Dr. Mohamed El-Tarhuni
Associate Professor and Electrical Department Head
Mohamed El-Tarhuni received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has about 10 years of industrial experience as a telecommunications engineer and manager of the communications department at the General Electric Company of Libya as well as in the wireless technology labs of Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada. His teaching and research areas include wireless and digital communications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Lutfi Albasha
Assistant Professor
Lutfi Albasha received his PhD from the University of Leeds, UK. He spent many years working for Sony Corporation and Filtronic (RFMD) Semiconductor Foundry. He received several industrial and academic awards from Sony Corporation and the IET. He has served on the boards of governmental, commercial and academic bodies, and on committees of several international conferences in wireless electronics. Dr. Albasha has authored over 30 papers, and is the editor of IET Microwaves Journal. His research interests are in microelectronic mixed-signal and RFIC systems.
Dr. Ahmed Osman Ahmed
Associate Professor
Ahmed Osman-Ahmed received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada. He has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. His areas of interest include applications of microprocessors in protection and monitoring of power systems. His work involves design, implementation and testing of protective relays, applications of artificial intelligence and signal processing of power systems.
Dr. Hasan Al-Nashash
Professor
Hasan Al-Nashash is chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS) UAE chapter. He received his PhD in Electronic Engineering from Kent University, UK. He has participated in establishing several electrical engineering departments in Jordan, Oman and the UAE. He has established the biomedical engineering specialization at Yarmouk University and at AUS. He worked closely with Johns Hopkins University and the American and Medcare Hospitals in Dubai. His research themes are in neuroengineering and analog microelectronics. He is the author of 90 papers and a book chapter, and has two US patents.
Dr. Khaled Assaleh
Professor and Director of AUS Graduate Studies
Khaled Assaleh has an 18-year career split between industry and academia. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. He has worked as a research professor at the CAIP Center of Rutgers University, and as a senior staff engineer at Motorola in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. At Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (Conexant/Skyworks) in Newport Beach, California, he was an engineering group leader. Dr. Assaleh holds 11 US patents and has published over 80 refereed articles. His research interests include bio-signal processing, biometrics, speech processing and pattern recognition.
Dr. Rached Dhaouadi
Professor and Director of Mechatronics Program
Rached Dhaouadi received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He worked as a visiting researcher with the Hitachi Research Laboratory, Japan, and later joined the Polytechnic School of Tunisia as an assistant professor. He also held visiting scholar positions at Trondheim Institute of Technology, Norway, and Rice University, Texas, USA. His research interests include motor drives, modeling and control of complex electromechanical systems, and intelligent motion control systems, with applications to rolling mill drives and mobile robots. Dr. Dhaouadi is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Industrial Electronics Society.
Dr. Ayman El-Hag
Associate Professor
Ayman El-Hag received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He worked as a quality control engineer at the Saudi Transformer Co. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo and at the University of Toronto. Dr. El-Hag’s main areas of interest are condition monitoring and diagnostics of electrical insulation and pulse power applications in biological systems.
Dr. Aly Elrefaie
Visiting Professor
Aly Elrefaie received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, USA. He was with Bellcore (now Telcordia) for ten years conducting research on DWDM network architectures and coherent optical fiber communication systems. Dr. Elrefaie joined HP and Lucent in California and was leading a technical team working on broadband wireless communication systems. He was the Vice President of Optical Systems Architectures for the startup company Gazillion Bits. He has been with the Boeing Satellite Development Center, El Segundo, California for four years conducting research on advanced inter-satellite optical links and radar systems. Dr. Elrefaie authored and co-authored 75 papers and 6 patents. Dr. Elrefaie is a Fellow of the IEEE and received Bellcore President Recognition Award
Dr. Mohamed Hassan
Associate Professor
Mohamed Hassan received a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona, USA. Dr. Hassan's research is in wireless communications and networking, with emphasis on multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming over wireless networks, optimal resource allocation and performance evaluation, and QoS routing in WSNs. Recently, he has been involved in projects related to electromagnetic shielding, antistatic flooring, and fiber optic sensors for infrastructure applications. His teaching includes circuits, signals and systems, analog and digital communications, multimedia communications, and probability and stochastic processes.
Dr. Mohammed Jaradat
Mohammed Abdel Kareem Jaradat received his PhD degree from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. A visiting professor at AUS, he is an associate professor of mechatronics at Jordan University of Science and Technology. His areas of interest are mechatronics system design, robotics, artificial intelligent systems, sensor fusion, fault diagnostics, intelligent NANO system/robotics, machine vision, and embedded control. During his integrated experience he has several research projects, prototypes, awards and publications on these areas; also he is an associate editor and reviewer for some technical journals and conferences on these areas.
Dr. Maher Bakri-Kassem
Assistant Professor
Maher Bakri-Kassem received a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2001, he joined the Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE), where he was involved with the design, optimization, and fabrication of RF/microwave circuits, RF MEMS devices, and RF MEMS/CMOS integrated circuits. He joined the R&D Department, MEMSCAP Inc., NC, USA in 2007 where he was involved in developing MEMS devices and circuitry for RF and optical application. In 2009, he joined the University of Waterloo as a post-doctoral fellow. He has a US patent in the MEMS/CMOS integration and circuits. His research interests are RF, microwave and mm-wave circuits, RF MEMS, and RF MEMS/CMOS integration.
Dr. Naser Qaddoumi
Associate Professor
Nasser N. Qaddoumi received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory at Colorado State University. His fields of interest are microwave theory, antenna theory and design, microwave nondestructive testing, biomedical applications of microwaves and ultrasound, material characterization, microwave/RF circuit design and system development.
Dr. Hasan Mir
Assistant Professor
Hasan Mir received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was the recipient of the MIT-Lincoln Laboratory PhD fellowship. He also worked in Air Defense Technology Group at the MIT-Lincoln Laboratory, where he was responsible for several projects related to adaptive radar signal processing for both airborne and maritime systems. He is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington.
Dr. Rashad Ramzan
Visiting Associate Professor
Rashad. M. Ramzan received his PhD from Linkoping University, Sweden. He has worked in industry in Pakistan, South Africa, Germany, and USA. He has more than eight years of industrial and five years of teaching experience. He has been involved in research throughout his professional carrier. He has published more than twenty five peer reviewed journals and conference papers.His teaching and research interests include Mix-signal and RF integrated circuits, Software Defined Radio, low power and bio-medical electronics, signal integrity issues at IC, package, and PCB level.
Dr. Habib-ur Rehman
Associate Professor , On leave for the 2011-12 academic year
Habib-ur Rehman received his PhD degree from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He has published 45 international publications, including 11 journal papers. He has worked as a design engineer in the Ford Research Laboratory USA and taught at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain. Dr. Rehman's primary research interests are in the areas of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based adjustable-speed drives and their application for hybrid and electric vehicles, and solar energy system design.
Dr. Aydin Yesildirek
Associate Professor , On leave for the 2011-12 academic year
Aydin Yesildirek earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA. He has taught in mechatronics programs and electrical and computer engineering departments for more than 12 years at institutions such as Idaho State University and Gannon University. His areas of research and teaching interest are nonlinear systems, intelligent control and information transmission in power grids. Prior to his academic career, he worked in industry at VGT as research and development director in Panama.
