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BEA Seminar 2007 Dear BEA members and friends,Bangladesh Engineers’ Association will be hosting a seminar by the title “Cranking up research driven economic engine”.
We are pleased to inform you that this seminar will held on 31 October, 2007 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.Our distinguish speaker is a renown Bangladeshi, Dr. Mohammad A. Karim, (Ph.D.) who is the Vice President for Research at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA.Please find below summary information about our distinguish speaker. In order to make the event more effective, we invite your feedback, constructive comments and cooperation.The venue and further details will be announced very soon. Engr. Nezam ----------------------------------------------- Mohammad Ataul KarimMohammad Karim is Vice-President for Research at the Old Dominion University in Virginia. He is responsible for managing ODU’s research portfolio that incurs over $65M in annual R&D expenditures and involves six colleges, over 700 faculty members, and over 7000 graduate students. Prior to his current position, Karim served as Dean of Engineering at the City University of New York. He is author of 10 text and reference books, over 325 research papers, 6 book chapters, 10 book reviews, 2 US patents, and of numerous technical reports. Karim is North American Editor of Optics and Laser Technology, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Education, a Member of the Editorial Boards of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, and International Journal of Science and Technology. Professor Karim served as guest editor of 16 journal special issues and as research mentor of over 55 MS/PhD. students. He is an elected fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering & Technology, and Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, and a distinguished fellow of the University of Alabama and the Independent University of Bangladesh. VP Karim received his BS in physics from Dhaka University in 1976, and MS in physics, MS in electrical engineering, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama respectively in 1978, 1979, and 1981. |