Sample of Other Professional Activities, Memberships and Certifications:


  • Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1988-1991 (Student Member), 1991-1997 (Member), 1997-present (Senior Member).

  • Senior Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 1996-present.

  • Senior Member of the American Society of Quality Control (ASQC), 1995-1997 (Member), 1997-present (Senior Member).

  • Reviewer for many Journals and Conferences on AI, Computer Vision, Robotics, Control and Automation.

  • Reviewer for IEEE and ACM Multimedia Journals and Conferences.

  • Reviewer for IEEE Press Books.

  • Reviewer for The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS).

  • Founding Member, Society for Industrial Computing.

  • Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1988-present.

  • Member of the IEEE Computer Society, 1988-present.

  • Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1988-present.

  • Member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

  • Member, the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Computer-Aided Control Systems Design (CACSD) Technical Committee (TC) for investigating emerging languages, algorithms, tools, standards and processes to support industrial control systems engineering.

  • Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 1988-present.

  • Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer, State of Utah, License Number 190683, February 1994, Passed Engineer-in-training Examination in April 1993, score 84%, Professional Electrical Engineering Examination in October 1993, score 81 %, and the Utah Engineering Law Examination in February 1994, score 92 %.

  • Certified Professional Manager, Institute of Certified Professional Managers, James Madison University, passed the personal, interpersonal, and administrative skills examinations in May 1996, Certification Number 06391.

  • Certified Reliability Engineer, American Society of Quality Control, Passed the C.R.E. Examination in October 1996, Certification Number 4320.

  • Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Passed the CMfgE Examination in January 1997, Certification Number 4100224.

  • Member of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), 1995-present.

  • Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1995-present

  • Member of the American Society of Engineering Education, 1995-present.

  • Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996-present.

  • Surveyed the Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS) area for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on DEDS.

  • Exploring funding possibilities with the DOW Chemical Company through the Dow/University Partnership in Discovery Cooperative Research Program.

  • Cooperating with the Consulting Office for Integrated Systems (COINS) in defining a system for rapid prototyping for manufacturing and automation applications.

  • Cooperating with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Polytechnic University (New York), to determine a pursue joint funding and research opportunities in the interdisciplinary field of Robotics and Automation in support of Construction and Geotechnical Engineering Research.

  • Participating in the annual IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ad com meeting and the technical committee board meeting in Atlanta, May 1993.

  • Participating in the annual IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ad com meeting and the technical committee board meeting in San Diego, May 1994.

  • Surveyed and established electronic sites for Bibliographic information on:
    · Reverse Engineering.
    · Sensing for recognition and reconstruction of objects.
    · Prototyping robotics and robot modules (kinematics, dynamics, control,etc)
    · Hardware and architectures for robots and their applications.
    · Discrete event systems.
    · Tolerancing for geometric representation and manufacturing.

  • Initiating the efforts to establish an internet-based WWW URL sites for an M.S. program in Computer Science via distance learning at the University of Bridgeport.

  • Tau Beta Beta Utah Chapter (Utah Alpha) Advisor.

  • Coordinating with the Science and Technology Satellite News agency in New York to broadcast a program on the Utah Robot Kit (URK) development.

  • Participating in the annual IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ad com meeting and the technical committee board meeting in Nagoya, Japan, May 1995.

  • Participating in the IEEE Workshop on Sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Las Vegas, October 1994.

  • Participating in the Workshop on Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection, California, January 1996.

  • Participating in the Workshop on Dimensional Measurement and Gaging for Manufacturing, California, January 1996.

  • Participating in the EUROTECH International Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium, May 1996.

  • Participating in the Second World Automation Congress, WAC 96, Montpellier, France, May 1996.

  • Participating in the First International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI 96), Montpellier, France, May 1996.

  • Participating in the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 96), Dearborn, Michigan, September 1996.

  • Participating in the IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD 96), Dearborn, Michigan, September 1996.

  • Organizing and developing a session for the 1997 Measurement Science Conference, Pasadena, California, January 1997.

  • Organizing and developing a session (by invitation) for the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 97), October 1997, Tucson, Arizona.

  • Organizing and developing a session (by invitation) for the 1998 World Automation Congress (WAC 98), Alaska, May 1998.

  • Proposing to organize an interdisciplinary engineering and computational conference titled ``Computer-Aided Prototyping''. New York academy of Science, 1997.

  • Participating in the International Robots and Vision Show, Detroit, Michigan, May 1999.

  • Participating in the NEASC outcome assessment workshop, Storrs, Connecticut, October 1998.

  • Participating in the IEEE Frontiers in Education 98 Conference (FIE 98), Tempe, Arizona, November 1998.

  • Participating in the World Traffic Safety Symposium Smart Technology and Safe Design, New York, April 1999.

  • Participating in the Learning Factory: Implementing the ABET 2000 Criteria Workshop, Worcester, MA, March 2000.

  • Participating in the Annual Engineering Deans Meeting. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, March 2000.

  • Participating in the Annual Engineering Deans Public Policy Forum, Washington, D.C., February 2001.

  • Participating in the Visiting Deans Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, May 2001.

  • Attending a seminar on Telecommunications and Data Transmission, Hartford, CT, March 2000.

  • Reviewer for the quarterly Journal Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES).

  • Life Member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.

  • Licensed Engineer, Egyptian Engineers Association.