All BEA members including their families are invited to attend, BEA annual picnic that will held on February 6, 2009. Attendance will be at 8:30AM. Guests are allowed; but to be confirmed three days before Picnic day.

Please find below the picnic spot. 

Thanks and regards,

Executive Committee

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All BEA members including their families are invited to attend, BEA annual picnic that will held on February 29, 2008. Attendance will be at 8:30AM. Guests are allowed; but to be confirmed three days before Picnic day.

Please find below the picnic spot. 

Thanks and regards,

Executive Committee

Mohammad Ataul Karim

Mohammad 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.