Honorary Awards, Scholarships, and Merits:


  • World Automation Congress (WAC 98) Best Paper Award, for the paper entitled: ``Automated Tolerance Specification Across Sensing, Design and Manufacturing'', Alaska, May 1998.

  • AMSE Honorary Life Membership, awarded October 1999.

  • Chosen by Schlumberger Oil Company for an international summer internship in 1987 (one of two selected from among 1500 junior engineering students in Alexandria University.)

  • International Student Exchange Fellowship for Computer Research in Denmark, 1991.

  • University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowship 1988.

  • University of Pennsylvania Research Fellowship, 1989-1991.

  • Alexandria University Scholarship, for academic achievements, 5 times, 1983-1988

  • Degree of Honor, Alexandria University, 1988.

  • Member, Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society.)

  • Member, Phi Beta Delta (The International Honor Society, Alpha Omicron Chapter.)

  • Member, Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society.)

  • Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (The Honor Society for the Computing Sciences, Connecticut Delta Chapter.)

  • Certificates of Merit and Victoria College Cups from Victoria College, for academic and extracurricular achievements 1979-1983.