Fulbright Scholar Program
2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar Directory
Engineering Back
Abdel Hameed, Wael
Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, South Valley University, Sohag, Egypt
Research: Developing a New Approach of Computer Use for Mass Suggestion of Architectural Design and Ideas: Three-Dimensional Implied Shape Recognition in Intial Design Phases
Arizona State University, School of Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Tempe, AZ, c/o Dr. Yoshihiro Kobayashi
October 2006 - May 2007

Al-Shabibi, Abdullah
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Research: Transient Behavior of Automotive Brakes and Clutches
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. James R. Barber
June 2007 - August 2007

Ale, Bhakta
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Research: Development of a Low-Cost Hydrogen Plant in Nepal
Western Michigan University, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Kalamazoo, MI, c/o Dr. Shiva Om Bade Shrestha
November 2006 - April 2007

Ali Hassanein, Ashraf
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Design and Production, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
Lecturing and Research: Creating Nano Fibril Composite Structures by Electro Spinning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Gregory C. Rutledge
September 2006 - June 2007

Antos, Dorota
Professor, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland
Research: Designing and Optimizing the Process Chromatographic Separation of Biopharmaceuticals
University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Chemical Engineering Department, Charlottesville, VA, c/o Dr. Giorgio Carta
August 2006 - December 2006

Ayyaz, Muhammad Naeem
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Research: Distributed Querying of Data and Services in Cooperative Service-Oriented Architectures Based on Native XML Data Stores
Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, c/o Dr. Arif Ghafoor
September 2006 - June 2007

Balog, Miroslav
Scientist, Department of Ceramics, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Research: The Role of Nanoscale Grain Boundary Structure and Chemistry in Macroscale Properties of Advanced Ceramic Composites
Michigan State University, School of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, East Lansing, MI, c/o Dr. Martin Crimp
February 2007 - August 2007

Bamaga, Omar
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Egineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
Research: Critical Assessment and Analysis of Integrated Renewable Energy and Small Size Desalinization Plants
Oregon State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Corvallis, OR, c/o Dr. Alexandre Yokochi
August 2007 - April 2008

Barral, Jorge
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto, Argentina
Research: Polymeric Materials for Integral Collector Storage Systems With Low Concentration for Solar Domestic Hot Water Applications in the Central Region of Argentina
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, c/o Dr. Jane H. Davidson
June 2007 - July 2007

Batayneh, Malek
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan
Research: Improving the Serviceability of Structures Exposed to Severe Environmental Conditions
North Carolina State University, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction, Constructed Facilities Laboratory, Raleigh, NC, c/o Dr. Sami Rizkalla
September 2006 - May 2007

Ben Ouezdou, Mongi
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National School of Engineering, Tunis, Tunisia
Research: Rehabilitation of Old Bridges Using Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
University of Missouri--Rolla, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Rolla, MO, c/o Dr. Abdeldjelil Belarbi
February 2007 - August 2007

Bisagni, Chiara
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Milan, Italy
Research: Failure of Composite Structures in Aerospace and Automotive Applications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Tomasz Wierzbicki
October 2006 - April 2007

Cano Banos, Maria Dolores
Associate Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain
Research: New Quality of Service Techniques for Wireless Environments
Columbia University, Department of Electrical Engineering, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Nicholas Maxemchuk
August 2006 - November 2006

Chang, Tien-Sheng
Professor, Department of Industrial Management, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
Research: Upgrading the Competitive Strategies of Manufacturing Industries: The United States Versus Taiwan
University of Maryland--College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Edward Magrab
August 2006 - June 2007

De Mello, Jose Daniel
Professor, Laboratory of Tribology and Materials, College of Mechanical Engineering, University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil
Research: Effect of Tribo-Layers and Sub-Surface Events on the Tribological Behavior of Solid Lubricant Coatings and Rolling Mill Processes
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, Tribology and Microtribodynamics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Champaign, IL, c/o Dr. Andreas Polycarpou
February 2007 - June 2007

Dinh, Dung
Head, Department for New Services and Automation Development, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Organization--Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
Research: Solutions to Next Generation Network Design Problems
Polytechnic University--Brooklyn, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications, Brooklyn, NY, c/o Dr. Shivendra S. Panwar
September 2006 - May 2007

Drinkine, Jessica
Research Engineer, Department of Oenology, University of Bordeaux I, Talence, France
Research: Quantification of Ethyl-Bridged Tannins in Wine
Oregon State University, Department of Food Science and Technology, Corvallis, OR, c/o Dr. James Kennedy
August 2006 - December 2006

El Sayed Bakr, El Sayed
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Lecturing and Research: Application of New Learning Frameworks to Improve the Quality of Teaching Engineering Courses in Egyptian Universities
Virginia State University, College of Engineering, Science and Technology, Petersburg, VA, c/o Dr. Nasser Ghariban
August 2006 - May 2007

El-Gendy, Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: Phytoremediation of Soil Contaminated With Petrochemical Wastes
University of Iowa, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, c/o Dr. Jerald L. Schnoor
January 2007 - November 2007

Forghani, Alan
Scientist, Australian Center for Remote Sensing, Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Lecturing and Research: Building the Capability to Develop a Land Cover Classification Framework for Risk Assessment Modeling From Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery
University of California--Berkeley, Geographic Information Science Center, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. John Radke
September 2006 - January 2007

Genc, Ayten
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Zonguldak, Turkey
Research: Modeling of Electrokinetic Soil Remediation by Volume Averaging
University of Akron, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Akron, OH, c/o Dr. George G. Chase
July 2006 - January 2007

Guillen Gosalbez, Gonzalo
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Research: Optimization of Sustainable Supply Chains in the Enterprise-Wide Optimization of Chemical Processing Industries
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Ignacio E. Grossmann
October 2006 - September 2008

Hashlamoun, Wael
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank
Research: Modeling and Design of Energy Effecient Robust Sensor Networks
University of Maryland--College Park, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, College Park, MD, c/o Dr. Eyad Abed
September 2006 - August 2007

Hassan, Hala Abdel
Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: Fracture and Fatigue of Nano-Composite Aluminum Alloys
Case Western Reserve University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cleveland, OH, c/o Dr. John L. Lewandowski
June 2007 - March 2008

Herzet, Cedric
Research Assistant, Communication and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Research: Synchronization of Time-Varying Parameters for Next Generation Communication Systems
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Martin Wainwright
October 2006 - October 2007

Hijres, Jasim
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain
Lecturing and Research: The Performance of Land Mobile Communication Systems in the Presence of White Gaussian Noise and Alpha Stable Impulsive Noise in a Rayleigh Fading Channel
Central Michigan University, College of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Technology, Mount Pleasant, MI, c/o Dr. Daniel Chen
September 2006 - August 2007

Jimenez Gutierrez, Arturo
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, Celaya, Mexico
Research: Optimal Synthesis of Complex Distillation Systems
Carnegie Mellon University, Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Ignacio Grossmann
September 2006 - August 2007

Karlaftis, Matthaios
Assistant Professor, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Research: Models and Algorithms for Post-Earthquake Emergency Response and Evacuation
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Transportation Studies, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Samer Madanat
December 2006 - March 2007

Lecuyer, Sigolene
Researcher, Institute of Charles Sadron, Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg I), Strasbourg, France
Research: Continuous Flow Mechanochemical Assays on Cells Using a Microfluidic Differential Manometer
Harvard University, Department of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Howard Stone
January 2007 - December 2007

Massone, Juan
Professor, Materials Science and Technology Research Institute (INTEMA), School of Engineering, National University of Mar Del Plata, Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Research: Technology and Science of Bulk Metallic Glass Formation in Copper Base Binary Alloys: Development and Characterization of an Experimental Setup
Ohio State University--Columbus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Columbus, OH, c/o Dr. Doru Stefanescu
September 2006 - December 2006

Mbohwa, Charles
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Research: Development, Adaptation and Analysis of Electronic Supply Chain Models
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Logistics Institute, Atlanta, GA, c/o Dr. John Bartholdi III
October 2006 - February 2007

Nobre, Flavio
Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program, Center for Technology, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lecturing and Research: Development of New Epidemiological, Statistical and Computational Methods for Infectious Diseases Investigation and Surveillance
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Atlanta, GA, c/o Dr. Michael Kutner
January 2007 - May 2007

Okure, Mackay
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Research: Uses and Applications of Unigraphics NX Software in Product Analysis and Simulation
Tuskegee University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tuskegee, AL, c/o Dr. Kunle Harrison
October 2006 - February 2007

Pau Vizcaino, Jose Luis
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research: Next Generation of Nitride-Based Photodetectors for Nanosensing Applications
Northwestern University, Center for Quantum Devices, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Evanston, IL, c/o Dr. Manijeh Razeghi
October 2006 - September 2008

Perez Pinal, Francisco
Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Research: Integral Control of Induction Motors for Multi-Motor Applications
Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chicago, IL, c/o Dr. D. Ali Emadi
September 2006 - May 2007

Polychronopoulou, Kyriaki
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Research: Evaluating the Structure-Property-Performance Relationship of Novel Nanostructured Coatings for Tribological Applications
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Champaign, IL, c/o Dr. Andreas A. Polycarpou
January 2007 - May 2007

Pommier, Regis
Researcher, Laboratory of Rheological Wood, University of Bordeaux I, Talence, France
Research: Green Gluing of Wood
Oregon State University, Department of Wood Science and Engineering, Corvallis, OR, c/o Dr. Lech Muszynski
July 2006 - October 2006

Razykov, Takhirdjon
Head, Photoelectronics Laboratory, Physical-Technical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Research: Fabrication and Investigation of CuInS2 Films by Using the Novel Low Cost Chemical Molecular Beam Deposition Method
University of South Florida--Tampa, College of Engineering, Clean Energy Research Center, Tampa, FL, c/o Dr. Yogi Goswami
August 2006 - June 2007

Rico Ramirez, Vicente
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, Celaya, Mexico
Research: A Stochastic Programming Approach to the Optimization of Metabolic Pathways and DNA Recombination
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, c/o Dr. Ignacio Grossmann
August 2006 - February 2007

Sikola, Tomas
Professor, Institute of Physical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Brno, Czech Republic
Research: Nanoscale Plasmonic Antennas
Stanford University, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, c/o Prof. Mark L. Brongersma
August 2006 - April 2007

Simek, Milan
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Furniture, Design and Habitation, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic
Research: Furniture Strength Design: Joints and Construction
Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, c/o Dr. Carl Eckelman
February 2007 - July 2007

Ungureanu, Georgeta
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Research: EEG Feature Extraction for Motor Imagery
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Baltimore, MD, c/o Dr. Nitish Thakor
September 2006 - November 2006

Valverde Garcia, Juan Sebastian
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Research: Numerical Analysis of the Dynamics of Nonlinear Solids and Structures
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Francisco Armero
April 2007 - March 2009

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