Professor Mrad Lectures Abroad

Professor Fuad Mrad at the sixth American Society for Engineering Education Global Colloquium

Fouad Mrad, professor of electrical and computer engineering in AUB's Faculty of Engineering and Architecture traveled widely to international conferences in fall 2007. He gave in October the keynote speech at the National Instruments, USA sponsored Sixth American Society for Engineering Education Global Colloquium on Engineering Education in Istanbul, Turkey, entitled "Engineering Education Quality Assurance: For Positive Change."

In November he attended an Expert Group Meeting on Harnessing Technology for Enhanced Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Productivity and Competitiveness in Cairo, Egypt. During the workshop, which was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and the ASFT, Mrad presented the regional background paper entitled "Mechanisms and Models for Harnessing Technology in SMEs."

That same month Professor Mrad also attended the second seminar for Advanced Industrial Control Applications held in Madrid, Spain, and organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Industry Applications and Control System Societies. Mrad presented a paper entitled "Demand-based Control of Variable Speed Pumps in Multi-zone High-voltage Alternating Current "-coauthored with Mohannad Hakeem (ME '05) and Charbel Antonios (BE '04).