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Dr. Tarek Sobh presented a number of invited talks and seminars in 2017
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a. Series of seminars in Vizag, Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai, India, on: “The Future of Interdisciplinary Engineering and Science: Education and Research for Careers That Do Not Exist Yet,” March 2017.
a. Undergraduate students: Mr. Youssef Agiez and Ms. Rigel Mahmood b. Graduate Students: Mr. Zuhair Adbuljabbar, Mr. Phaneendra Atmakuru, Mr. Krishna Sagar Biradawada, Mr. Abdi Biru, Mr. Kislay Jha, Mr. Murali Krishnan, Mr. Muthuraman Palaniappan, Mr. Darshankumar Patel, Mr. SivaNaga Venkata DurgaBai Ramanadham, Mr. Kunyuan Xiao
b. 14th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2017), New York, USA, March, 2017. c. 3rd Annual International Conference on Modern Education and Social Science (MESS 2017), Nanjing, China, April 21-23, 2017. d. 3rd World Congress on Automation and Robotics (Automation & Robotics 2017), San Diego, June, 2017.
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The UPE Chapter of the University of Bridgeport inducted two undergraduate students and 10 graduate students as part of the 28th initiation ceremonies:
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In January 2017, the University of Bridgeport chapter of UPE submitted material for the UPE 50th Year Commemorative eBook.
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Dr. Khaled Elleithy served as a Panelist for 2017-2018 American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships. AAUW’s International Fellowship program has been in existence since 1917. The program provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Mohamed Ali, MS Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Khaled Elleithy filed a provisional patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with the title “A System for Electrical Vehicle Battery Swapping”.
School of Engineering / Annual Report 2017
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