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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

A. Teaching

Preparation and teaching of 19 different courses at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA), American University of Beirut (AUB) in the following subjects. Over my entire academic career, I taught 13 courses (68%) in my area of specialty in computer engineering. The average class size of all the courses I taught during 1985-2004 was around 55 students with 70% of the 75 courses taught during that period including more than 40 students and sometimes reaching as high as 158 students. 

Graduate Courses (6):

q       Advanced Computer Architecture.

q       Computer Graphics.

q       Modeling and Simulation.

q       Computer System Analysis.

q       Special Topics

q       Special Project. Given several times in the following topics:

Ø  Morphosys Implementation of MD5 Hashing Algorithm.

Ø  Design & Implementation of A Synchronization Architecture between Handheld Devices

and Computers.

Ø  Mapping And Performance Analysis Of "Serpent" Encryption Algorithm On "Morphosys" Reconfigurable System.

 

Undergraduate Courses (13):

·         Computer Networks (4th year).

·         Computer Graphics (4th year).

·         Computer Devices and Peripherals (4th year).

·         Computer Architecture (3rd year).

·         Operating Systems (3rd year).

·         Systems Software (3rd year).

·         Rotating Machinery (3rd year).

·         Microprocessor Systems (2nd year).

·         Electronic Devices (2nd year).

·         Numerical Analysis and Computer Applications (2nd year).

·         Computer Literacy (1st year).

·         Basic Electronics (1st year).

·         Electronic Circuits (1st year).

 

Design, development, and implementation of four web sites for the following courses:

·         Microprocessor Systems: http://people.aub.edu.lb/~webfea/courses/ee059/index.html

·         Computer Architecture:  http://people.aub.edu.lb/~webfea/courses/ee079c/

·         Computer Graphics:  http://people.aub.edu.lb/~webfea/courses/ee709c/index.html

·         Advanced Computer Architecture: http://people.aub.edu.lb/~webfea/courses/ee710c/index.html

 

These courses are currently being updated and designed for on-line availability to students through WebCT at http://webfaculty.aub.edu.lb/~acc/.

 

 

B. Laboratory Supervision

 

Preparation and supervision of the following laboratory courses at the Department of ECE, FEA, AUB:

 

·        Electronics Laboratory (1987-1989).

·        Microprocessor Systems Laboratory (1990-2002).

 

C. Coordinator

 

·        Coordinator for the final year projects for a period of 11 years of the final-year Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer and Communications Engineering (CCE) students (1985-1996), and the supervision of 42 final-year undergraduate projects and 12 Masters theses in the ECE Department. Proposed new rules and regulations for the evaluation of final-year projects and implemented (1992-1998).

 

·        Coordinator for the EECE 321 (Microprocessor Systems) and EECE 421 (Computer Organization) courses since the Fall 2002-2003 Term.

 

D. Student Advising

 

Advising during the period 1987 until 2003. On average, I have been the advisor of around 68 students per year during the period 1987-2003.

·        During 1987-1991, I was the advisor of the CCE class of 1991, which started out (1987-1988) with 95 students, out of which 54 graduated in 1991.

·        During 1991-1995, I was the advisor of the CCE class of 1995, which started out (1991-1992) with 100 students, out of which 84 graduated in 1995.

·        During 1995-1996, I was the advisor of the EDS 1 and EPE 2 graduate programs (30 students).

·        During 1996-1998, I was the advisor of the EE class of 2000 (32 students).

·        During 2000-2001, I was the advisor of the EE class of 2002 (57 students).

·        During 2001-2002 (Fall), I was the advisor of the CCE class of 2005 (90 students).

·        During 2001-2002 (Spring), I was the advisor of the EE class of 2002 (57 students).

·        During 2002-2003, I was the advisor of the EE graduate program (12 students).

·        During 2003-2004, I was the advisor of ECE students:

o   EE & CCE class of 2005: students that will undergo summer training during summer 2004 (149 students), and

o   EE & CCE class of 2004: students that completed their summer training during summer 2003 (136 students) in handling the correction of their reports.

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

 

Parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures, real-time systems and applications, heterogeneous computing, reconfigurable computing, and scientific computing.

 

¨       Performance evaluation of parallel processing systems and parallel applications.

¨       High performance reconfigurable computing for cryptographic algorithms.

¨       Efficient implementations of cryptography on reconfigurable systems

¨       Performance analysis of reconfigurable architectures.

¨       Application-specific parallel architectures.

¨       Multiprocessor and multi-computer architectures.

¨       System simulation using fuzzy logic control.

¨       Application of simulation to engineering education.

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1.      EDS: Electronics, Devices, and Systems.

2.      EPE: Electric Power Engineering.            

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND HONORS

Received (during 1979-2002), 10 national, regional and international awards, 4 research scholarships, as well as 36 international honors (invited).