2019 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)  
Annual Conference at ISNA Con 2019, Houston, TX
Saturday -Sunday, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2018

Session 1 How Today’s American Muslim Scientist and Engineers can help raise the interest in scientific discoveries amongst Muslim youth

This panel discussion will focus on the scientific contributions by Muslim Americans and the impact of their discoveries on humanity.  Contributions made by Aziz Sancar, 2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Fazlur Khan, designer of the Willis (Sears) Tower in Chicago, and Ahmed Zewail, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry in 1999 will be discussed. Panelists will review these eminent scientists’ work and how they impacted the human society. They will also relate Quranic texts with discovering Allah’s creations of earthly and celestial objects and the rules that bound them. The panel discussion is expected to raise questions on the ways to inspire the Muslim youth to take the teachings of Quran and apply them in their endeavor to make new contributions to science, engineering, and technology.

• Fazlur Khan
• Abdullah Rahman
• Awadh A. Binhazim

Panel discussion and audience participation
Moderator: Sohel Anwar
Time & Location: Saturday, Aug 31, 2019, 2:00 – 3:30 PM, Room -340AB

2018 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)  
Annual Conference at ISNA Annual Convention 2018, Houston, TX
Saturday -Sunday, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2018

Session 1 Career and Business Career Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Data Sciences

• Abdul Wahab – Cloud Computing and Applications for Jobs of the Future: In today’s day and age, we are being mesmerized every moment with new IT technologies which is taking innovation to a whole new level. One buzz word which we cannot avoid is “CLOUD COMPUTING”. This talk will discuss:o   What is Cloud Computing?
  o   Why Cloud Computing?
  o   Is it easy to learn/Is it right for me?
  o   Different options available in the market.
  o   How do I get started?
• Mo Medwani – Artificial Intelligence with Applications in Deep Learning, Data Science: The session will focus on job opportunities in the area of artificial intelligence in a wide ranging technology landscape. The speaker will explain the scope of this field and its application to various technology areas. He will also share information about where the job opportunities are in this field. This lecture will offer the right Roadmap, Guidance for Personalized Search, and Milestones that will be helpful for job seekers in the area of AI and Data Science.

Speakers: Wasim Baig, Abdul Wahab, Mo Medwani
Moderator: Wasim Baig
Time & Location: Saturday, September 1, 2018, 11:15 – 12:45 PM, Room -340AB

Session I “AMSET Motivational Session” 

Welcome and introduction to AMSET – Dr. Sohel Anwar is AMSET President.

• Dr. Samir Iqbal – Nanotechnology for Early Cancer Diagnosis ‐ The miniaturization of computers and electronic gadgets has been a result of advances in nanotechnology. We can now reproducibly make nanoscale devices that can interface living systems at molecular scales. Many devices and approaches have emerged in recent years that utilize nanoscale features and microfluidics to interface, detect and identify molecular biomarkers and diseased cells. Such devices provide quick and dependable analysis capabilities of very minute biological samples that are important for early diagnostics. Early diagnostics of diseased cells, especially when these are very few in numbers, can mean increased survival rates and better quality of life for cancer patients. The nanotechnology-based frameworks can be used to measure viscoelastic, mechanical, electrical and chemical behaviors combinatorically to faithfully transduce important molecular and cellular anomalies to meaningful signals. This talk will share some insights about cancer diagnosis with nanoscale sensors. An overview of molecular detection, isolation and sorting of diseased cells with nanotechnologies and microfluidics will be provided.
• Hasina F. Huq – Biosensor Research and Graduate Education: This talk will focus on bio-sensor related research and graduate education in this area. Nitride composite nanomaterials are currently at the forefront of semiconductor research due to their wide variety of applications. The Nitrides (e.g. AlGaN and GaN) when used as thin films are characterized by superior performance at smaller scale, low levels of toxicity, and good atomic bonding. Therefore they are attractive to be implemented as thin-films in devices for medical monitoring, environmental awareness, telecommunication, RF systems, and optoelectronics even at quantum scale to reach wider regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. In this research, the AlGaN/GaN based devices are used as biosensors, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), and High Electron Mobility Transistors.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Dr. Samir Iqbal; Dr. Hasina Huq; Dr. Sohel Anwar;
Moderator: Sohel Anwar
Time & Location: Saturday, September 1, 2018, 2:00 – 3:30 PM, Room -340AB

Session 2. “Climate Change and Its Impact: An Islamic Perspective”

AMSET needs you – Sohel Anwar, PhD is AMSET Vice President.

• Dr. Awadh Amir Binhazim – Mitigation and Adaptation Measures for a Global Water, Food, and Energy Security under a Changing Climate: For the last few decades, engineering has produced marvelous machines and devices. With the increasing understanding of living cells, there are possibilities of developing biological machines where engineering precision meets the variability of life. Can order emerge from such variability and chaos? If so, then one can envision machines with unprecedented capabilities, including memory and learning, self‐healing, and decision making. How should such machines be viewed in light of Islamic principles?
• Dr. Abdullah Faiz Rahman  – Islamic Perspectives on Global Climate Change: Today, Intel makes more transistors per year than the number of leaves on trees in the whole world. It has been a fantastic voyage, but unfortunately, the journey is ending: We have made the transistors as small as possible, making them smaller will be hard. This is when Dr. Alam discovered bioelectronics – an emerging field that uses electronic sensors to explore biophysics and biotechnology. As he began to explore using nanobiosensors, the book of life written in DNA, the elegant complexity of a simple bacteria, the emergence of antibacterial resistance and the techniques to combat them, implantable electronics to monitor the vital signs and chronic symptoms, a new world opened before his eyes and the endless possibility have been mesmerizing. In this talk, he will tell the story of what he learned and how that has transformed his views of the world.

Speakers: Dr. Awadh Amir Binhazim, Dr. Abdullah Faiz Rahman; Dr. Syed M Shah
Moderator: Dr. Syed M. Shah
Time & Location: Sunday, September 1, 2018, 12:16 – 1:15 PM, Room -340AB

Career and Business Session 2 Resume / Interview Skills Building and Networking 

• Dawood Ahmed – IT Jobs: How to Sharpen Resumes and Interview skills: There is a great opportunity for those who are new to IT industry, fresh graduates or seniors who want to jump in IT or who are not sure which technology to choose. This talk will offer a glimpse of the most common and hot technologies in IT, help understand the roles and responsibilities in each field, answer questions and provide suggestions and tips. Also, it will explain how to find FTE in IT, plus how to deal with consulting firms and finally how to succeed in any field. The following topics will be covered: Birds-eye view of different IT fields (Business Analyst; Business Intelligence; DEVOPS; Coding; Data Science); FTE job search in IT; How to deal with consulting firms; Tips on how to succeed.
• Fawad Khan  – Networking via LinkedIn: This session will focus on networking through LinkedIn which can be used effectively by job seekers. Various aspects of this tool will be discussed to network with the prospective employers and hiring managers.

Speakers: Dawood Ahmed; Abdul Wahab; Wasim Baig
Moderator: Dawood Ahmed
Time & Location: Saturday, September 1, 2018, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, Room -340AB

Session 3 Cybersecurity: Impact on American Muslims

All About AMSET – Syed M. Shah, PhD is AMSET Past President.

• Latifur Khan – Big Data Stream Analytics for Cyber Security: Data streams are continuous flows of data. Examples of data streams include network traffic, sensor data, call center records and so on. Data streams demonstrate several unique properties that together conform to the characteristics of big data (i.e., volume, velocity, variety and veracity) and add challenges to data stream mining. In this talk we will present an organized picture on how to handle various data mining techniques in data streams. In addition, we will present a number of stream classification applications such as adaptive website fingerprinting, textual stream analytics (political actor identification over textual stream) and attack trace classification. This research was funded in part by NSF, NASA, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), NSA, IBM Research, HPE and Raytheon.
• Muneer Baig – Cybersecurity – Threat for all Ages and All Businesses: In recent days, months and years many of us have heard the news of breaches that have led to a compromise of “DATA”, to be exact “Personal or Corporate Data”. Cyber criminals are all about stealing data as that is the currency of the 21st century. Protecting our information is our responsibility, it is about our future and financial viability. Understand the threat and realizing the potential of an impact on our businesses and personal lives is the first step in the defense against it.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Dr. Latifur Khan, Muneer Baig
Moderator:
Time & Location: Sunday, September 2, 2018, 3:40 – 4:40 PM, Room -7

Career and Business Session 3 Business Development / Entrepreneur Workshop and Business Networking 

• Khurram Ali – This workshop will focus on entrepreneurship and business development. The speaker will share his experience in business development and entrepreneurship and provide guidance to those interested in starting a new business. This forum will also offer an opportunity to network with business / technology entrepreneurs at various levels.

Speakers: Khurram Ali; Wasim Baig
Moderator: Dawood Ahmed
Time & Location: Saturday, September 2, 2018, 4:45 – 5:45 PM, Room -7

2017 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)  
Annual Conference at ISNA Annual Convention 2017, Chicago, IL
Saturday -Sunday, July 1-2, 2017

Session I “Career / Business Development Session” 

Welcome and introduction to AMSET – Afzal Mohammed.

• Shafeeq Bandagi – Establishing Career and Business Development Programs at Local Mosques ‐ It is important to develop programs at every local mosque and community center that prepares its members for the highly competitive jobs and businesses in the area of technology, engineering, IT, medicine, law, education, finance, etc. This talk will discuss the need for such programs in Mosques/Islamic Centers and the practical steps to establish them successfully. The community leaders, Imams, Mosque board members, and students can take away good strategies from this session to implement in their local communities.
• Asad Mohammed – Myths and Realities of Job Search In Technology Sector: Is it better to search jobs using the tried and tested route or is it better to take the road less travelled? How does a fresh graduate make the cut, when experienced candidates are also competing? Is it possible to get a job in an area different from the education? Are there any stories in the Quran and Sunnah about finding job? The session will deal with finding the right Roadmap, Guidance for Personalized Search (GPS) and Milestones that will be helpful for job seekers
• Riyazuddin Mohammed – A Visionary Platform to Strengthen Muslim Professional Community – Introducing ALMPG: Strongly adhering to the principles of community advancement, The Muslim Professional Groups (ALMPG) aims at supporting its members through training, guidance and resources for meaningful career development. This network provides a solid platform where the members with similar interests and ideals can unite and work towards enhancing opportunities for each other by job referrals, professional guidance and extend help to one another.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Shafeeq Bandagi, Asad Mohammed, Riyazuddin Mohammed
Moderator: Afzal Mohammed
Time & Location: Saturday, July 1, 2017, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Room -7

Session 2. “Human Memory Function and Name Disambiguation”

• Dr. Taher Saif – Memory under tension: The most profound question in biology is how a cluster of neurons gives rise to memory, learning, and ultimately our consciousness and individuality. In contrast to muscles and bones, neurons are not part of any load bearing or generation system. While it has been observed that neurons generate force both in vitro and in vivo, the link between neuronal force and neuronal functionality is not clear. This talk will present evidence that this mechanical force is essential for neurotransmission which could offer a new paradigm in understanding neurological diseases.
• Muhammad Al-Hasan  – Name Disambiguation in Real-life: Challenges, and Solution: All individuals are unique, but millions of people share names. How to distinguish among, or disambiguate, people with the same names is an important real-life problem including law enforcement. Effectively solving name disambiguation requires collecting features and developing a classification model from training data. However, the feature collection process may violate the privacy laws in many countries. This talk will first discuss the challenges associated with name disambiguation and discuss ways to overcome them through data mining algorithms.

Speakers: Sohel Anwar, PhD; Dr. Taher Saif; Muhammad Al-Hasan
Moderator: Sohel Anwar, PhD
Time & Location: Saturday, July 1, 2017, 1:30 – 2:30 PM, Room -7

Session 3 “Islamic Ethical Perspective on New Technologies & Cybersecurity” 

All About AMSET – Syed M. Shah, PhD is AMSET Past President.

• Abdullah Rahman – Ethical Dilemmas of Technological and Intellectual Advancements – An Islamic Perspective: Cloning, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things – just a few of the technological miracles that have the potential of fundamentally changing the world as we know. In-depth understanding of the human brain and new explanations of personal identities are posing unprecedented questions to individuals and family structures. These technological and intellectual feats can present an enormous ethical dilemma – especially to Muslims. In this talk Dr. Rahman will discuss these issues and offer ways to approach them based on Islamic principles.
• Abu S. Mahfuz – Emerging Information Technology Addressing Quality, Information Security from Islamic perspectives: Technology and software are among the most widely used products in human history. However, it has also one of the highest failure rates and risks of any products in human history due to lack of robust security. One of the fundamental aspects in Information Security is the identity and access management. This talk will cover types of cyber crimes, security failures, international standards, and some recommendations. It will also discuss the Islamic aspects of information quality, privacy and security.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Syed M. Shah, Abdullah Rahman, Abu S. Mahfuz
Moderator: Syed M. Shah
Time & Location: Sunday, July 2, 2017, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Room -7

2016 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)  
Annual Conference at ISNA Annual Convention 2016, Chicago, IL
Saturday -Sunday, Sept 3-4, 2016

Session I “AMSET Motivational Session” 

Welcome and introduction to AMSET – M. Affan Badar, PhD is AMSET President.

• Tanvir Arfi – Uncommon Leadership ‐ Charting a Successful Career Path: This topic will cover elements of what makes a successful executive in business today, why should young professionals take a long view of their career flight plan and how they should go about doing it.
• Ghalib V. Begg – Get up and Grab the opportunities the modern economy is offering and be the leaders through modern entrepreneurship: This topic will cover elements of being a successful entrepreneur, availing the business opportunities in today’s economy and also being community leader.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: M. Affan Badar; Tanvir Arfi; Ghalib Begg
Moderator: Shafeeq Bandagi
Time & Location: Saturday, September 3, 2015, 12:15 – 1:15 PM, Room -7

Career and Business Session 1

• Shafeeq Bandagi – Practical Strategies for Breaking into any Job Market: A very detailed workshop with Tips and Tricks on Resume Preparation, Approaching Employers, Networking and Interviewing.
• Dr. Mohammad Abul Quasem – An Overview of careers in diverse fields: Useful information will be presented on the scope, qualifications and job search strategies for careers in diverse fields like IT, Engineering, Pharmacy, Law, etc.

Speakers: Shafeeq Bandagi; Omar Malik
Moderator: Asad Mohammed
Time & Location: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 3:30 – 4:30 PM, Room -7

Career and Business Session 2

• Nawaz Malik – Simple Steps to Starting, Setting Up, and Building a Business: A practical workshop on choosing a business, registering, establishing, financing and growing using vast resources available in our nation.
• Abdul Wassay, Faraz Shah, SCORE  – An Overview of  Business Development Issues: Practical Suggestions on getting into a Business; Developing an effective business plan; Securing capital to grow a business; Franchising/Buying/Building a business; Experiences of a young budding entrepreneur.

Speakers: Nawaz Malik; Abdul Wassay; Chicago Small Business Administration- SCORE Officials; Faraz Shah
Moderator: Samir Khan
Time & Location: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 4:45 – 5:45 PM, Room -7

Session 2. “Connecting the science of evolutionary biology and the teachings of Islam”

AMSET needs you – Sohel Anwar, PhD is AMSET Vice President.

• Dr. Taher Saif – Engineered Living Machines: For the last few decades, engineering has produced marvelous machines and devices. With the increasing understanding of living cells, there are possibilities of developing biological machines where engineering precision meets the variability of life. Can order emerge from such variability and chaos? If so, then one can envision machines with unprecedented capabilities, including memory and learning, self‐healing, and decision making. How should such machines be viewed in light of Islamic principles?
• Dr. Muhammad A. Alam  – How a Synthesis of Biology and Electronics may Transform the World As we Know It: Today, Intel makes more transistors per year than the number of leaves on trees in the whole world. It has been a fantastic voyage, but unfortunately, the journey is ending: We have made the transistors as small as possible, making them smaller will be hard. This is when Dr. Alam discovered bioelectronics – an emerging field that uses electronic sensors to explore biophysics and biotechnology. As he began to explore using nanobiosensors, the book of life written in DNA, the elegant complexity of a simple bacteria, the emergence of antibacterial resistance and the techniques to combat them, implantable electronics to monitor the vital signs and chronic symptoms, a new world opened before his eyes and the endless possibility have been mesmerizing. In this talk, he will tell the story of what he learned and how that has transformed his views of the world.

Speakers: Sohel Anwar, PhD; Dr. Muhammad A. Alam; Dr. Taher Saif
Moderator: Sohel Anwar, PhD
Time & Location: Sunday, September 4, 2015, 12:16 – 1:15 PM, Room -7

Session 3 “Cyber-security and Muslim Contribution to Science” 

All About AMSET – Syed M. Shah, PhD is AMSET Past President.

• Rasheed Rabbi – Connecting Muslims on Cyberspace: The global impact of Internet in the Muslim world is easily noticeable, but the trend is unpredictable. Academia also admires the emerging cyber culture, but calls it scatter within the believers. Muslims are increasingly associating in the virtual sphere, but the collaboration between Internet and Islam looms unclear. Therefore, this presentation provides a roadmap of comprehensive cyber integration to dismiss the apparent deviation. It sketches a cohesive infrastructure to encompass the disperse initiatives and incorporate them into a shared objective. It lays out a framework based on “Diffusion of Innovation” to realize the latent possibilities in personal sphere, social matters and global affairs, and put them together towards our potential future.
• Dr. Mohammad Abul Quasem – Higher Education, Scientific Development and Civilization: The Quran mentions the term ilm (knowledge) 750 times, third after Allah and Rab (Lord), which are repeated 2800 times. The importance of knowledge and education in Islam is underlined in the very first word revealed to the Prophet (pbuh) – “read.” Thus as Islam spread throughout the world, the world also saw significant discoveries and growth in science, mathematics, engineering, art, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and social science. The contributions from centuries of Islamic scholarship and civilization are still seen and recognized today. This paper will present the role of Muslims in the development of education and scholarship, with a particular look at the role of Muslims in scientific research and discovery and the history of the growth of this brilliant and outstanding civilization.

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Syed M. Shah, Rasheed Rabbi, Mohammad Quasem
Moderator: Syed M. Shah
Time & Location: Sunday, September 4, 2016, 3:40 – 4:40 PM, Room -7

2015 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)
Annual Conference at ISNA Annual Convention 2015, Chicago, IL
Sessions on “Muslims and Biological Evolution”
Saturday -Sunday, Sept 5- 6, 2015
 

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Dr. T. O. Shanavasis was at the Podium,
and Dr. Razi Nalim was the Moderator.

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From Left, Br. M. Affan Badar, Sr. Huda Alkaff
and Sr. Nana Firman.

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From Left, Br. M. Affan Badar, Sr. Huda Alkaff
and Sr. Nana Firman.

Program Organizer: Dr. Razi Nalim, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Session I “Sustainability and Islamic Perspective” 

Welcome and introduction to AMSET – Saiyid Masroor Shah, Interim President AMSET

• Session Chair, M. Affan Badar – Introduction Our Common Future: Sustainable Development in Islamic Perspective
• Nana Firman: specializes in sustainable urban development; Muslim Coordinator for OurVoices, a global faith and spiritual climate action network, GreenFaith Fellow Connecting Faith and Sustainability: Water Stewardship and Climate Justice. Slides are available here.
• Huda Alkaff: Founder and Director of Wisconsin Islamic Environmental Group; Founding member of the Interfaith Network

Panel discussion and audience participation
Speakers: Saiyid Masroor Shah, Nana Firman, Huda Alkaff

Moderator: M. Affan Badar

Time & Location: Saturday, September 5, 2015, 12:15 – 1:15 PM, Room -7

Session 2 “Muslim viewpoints on biology and evolution, past and present”

AMSET needs you – M. Affan Badar

• Session Chair, Razi Nalim – Introductions. Evolution as discussed by pre-Darwin Muslim scientists and philosophers
• Dr. T.O. Shanavas, Pediatrician, Adrian, Michigan. Writer on evolution and Islam. Currently held view of creation among Muslims and their reasoning against evolution
• Prof. Salman Hameed. Director, Center for Study of Science in Muslim Societies, Hampshire College

Panel and audience discussion  –> Video Archival of Session-2, AMSET Conference 2015

Speakers: M. Affan Badar, T.O. Shanavas, Salman Hameed

Moderator: Razi Nalim

Time & Location: Sunday, September 6, 2015, 12:15 – 1:15 PM, Room -7

Session 3. “Connecting the science of evolutionary biology and the teachings of Islam”

AMSET needs you – Iqbal Unus, Interim Secretary/Treasurer

• Session Chair Dr. Iqbal Unus – Introductions. Modern theory of the origin of species and a review of factual evidence for evolution
• Prof. Ehab Abouheif. Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, McGill University. Founder, McGill Center on Islam and Science. President, Pan-American Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Macro-evolution and micro-evolution, the evolution of humans out of Africa
• Prof. Fatima Jackson, Director, W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory, Howard University.

• Full panel and audience discussion [40 min]  Video Archival of of Session-3, AMSET Conference  2015
  – Reconciliation of Islam teaching and scientific discovery of the origin of species
  – Interpretation of the Quran on Adam and Eve in the light of human evolutionary history

Time & Location: Sunday, September 6, 2015, 2:30 – 3:30  PM, Room -7

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2014 Annual Conference Program

Association of Muslim Scientists, Engineers and Technology Professionals (AMSET)

Co-located with 2014 ISNA Annual Convention, Detroit, MI

TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

AMSET Introduction

Session I: An Islamic Model of Technology-based Entrepreneurship: What does it look like?

Speakers: Yaqub Mirza, Miles Davis 

This session will explore the Islamic constructs around Islam’s support for entrepreneurial behavior with particular reference to technology-based initiatives. Leveraging information from the life of the Prophet (saw), Qur’an, and hadiths the speaker will explore an Islamic perspective on entrepreneurial behavior and how we can do good while doing well. Slide Details ..

Session II: Robotics/Artificial Intelligence: What does the future look like?

Speakers: Hossaine Waled, Mona Orady

This session deals with the socio-economic effects of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). As more and more tasks are performed by robots, will robots cause more joblessness or allow Humans to pursue more challenging endeavors? In many countries the population is growing rapidly old and robots are used increasingly to assist the elderly. What will the effects be on society from the increased use of household robots? AI has seen tremendous progress in the last decade. This session discusses its benefits to society as well as its potential dangers. Slide Details ..

Session III: Information superhighway:

Speakers: Mohammed N. Islam, Zahed Haq

This session will touch upon issues vital to a successful information superhighway: Connectivity/E-Learning & Education/Future Technologies/Networking in the Academia Area. Exciting New Technologies/Networking within Current Corporate Environment/Careers. Slide Details..

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2013 Annual Conference Program

SESSION-1
Networking, Professionalism and AMSE Business Meeting
9/01/12, Saturday, 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM
Room 159AB

The importance of networking for professional development will be discussed followed by the annual AMSE Business Meeting

Moderator: Dr. M. S. Alam, University of South Alabama
Speakers:
Dr. O. Shinaishin, National Science Foundation
Dr. S. Jeelani, Tuskegee University
Dr. I. Unus, George Washington University
Dr. M. A. Karim, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

SESSION-2
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development: A Global Perspective
9/01/12, Saturday, 11:30 am – 12:45 PM
Room 159AB

Energy is the key ingredient for the modern economy, but the world is too heavily dependent on limited resources based on fossil fuels.  In this session we will discuss renewable and sustainable energy development in global context, followed by current practices in both industrialized and developing economies. The prospects and problems of the various energy resources will also be highlighted.

Moderator: Dr. K. K. Afridi, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Speakers:
-> Renewable/Sustainable Energy Development in Industrialized and Developing Countries.
Dr. Sadrul Ula, University of California, Riverside, California
-> Solar PV Energy Deployment to Alleviate Electricity Crisis in a Developing Country – Bangladesh Case Study
Dr. Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

SESSION-3
Enhancing STEM and Higher Educational Opportunities in Developing Countries
9/01/12, Saturday, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Room 159AB

This panel will focus on the growing disparity between the quality of science and technology education in the developed and developing countries, and possible ways to bridge this gap.

Moderator: Dr. M. A. Karim, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Speakers:
Dr. Osman Shinaishin, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
Dr. clash royale hack 2017 Khurram Khan Afridi, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

AMSE 2012 Speakers’ Brief Bio

2012 Annual Conference Program

SESSION-1
Networking, Professionalism and AMSE Business Meeting
9/01/12, Saturday, 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM
Room 159AB

The importance of networking for professional development will be discussed followed by the annual AMSE Business Meeting

Moderator: Dr. M. S. Alam, University of South Alabama
Speakers:
Dr. O. Shinaishin, National Science Foundation
Dr. S. Jeelani, Tuskegee University
Dr. I. Unus, George Washington University
Dr. M. A. Karim, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

SESSION-2
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development: A Global Perspective
9/01/12, Saturday, 11:30 am – 12:45 PM
Room 159AB

Energy is the key ingredient for the modern economy, but the world is too heavily dependent on limited resources based on fossil fuels.  In this session we will discuss renewable and sustainable energy development in global context, followed by current practices in both industrialized and developing economies. The prospects and problems of the various energy resources will also be highlighted.

Moderator: Dr. K. K. Afridi, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Speakers:
-> Renewable/Sustainable Energy Development in Industrialized and Developing Countries.
Dr. Sadrul Ula, University of California, Riverside, California
-> Solar PV Energy Deployment to Alleviate Electricity Crisis in a Developing Country – Bangladesh Case Study
Dr. Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

SESSION-3
Enhancing STEM and Higher Educational Opportunities in Developing Countries
9/01/12, Saturday, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Room 159AB

This panel will focus on the growing disparity between the quality of science and technology education in the developed and developing countries, and possible ways to bridge this gap.

Moderator: Dr. M. A. Karim, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Speakers:
Dr. Osman Shinaishin, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
Dr. Khurram Khan Afridi, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

AMSE 2012 Speakers’ Brief Bio

2011 Annual Conference Program