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Services

EDITORIAL REVIEW

·         Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Engineering (JFE),  ASME; April, 2019 –  March, 2022.

·         Guest Editor for organizing special issue on, “Biomicrofluidics” under JFE, ASME; 2018-19.

 

Journals

·         Electrophoresis Journal, 2015 – present;

·         Measurement Science and Technology, 2013 – present.

·         Electrochimica Acta, Elsevier, 2012 – present.

·         Journal of Fluids Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012 – present.

·         Numerical Heat Transfer, International journal of Computation and Methodology, 2012.

·         Journal of Biomicrofluidics (American Institute of Physics, AIP), Springer Verlag, 2011- present.

·    Journal of Selected Areas in Microelectronics (JSAM), 2011– present.

·    International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2007 – present

 

Conferences

·         International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Microfluidics Conference 2013.

·         ASME  Microfluidics Conference 2012.

·         Green and Biocompatible Nanocomposite, International Mechanical Engineering Congress 2012

·         119th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 10 – 13, 2012, San Antonio, TX.

·         ASME 2011 Microfluidics Conference, reviewed paper for microfluidics session.

·         Energy-Water Nexus Symposium, International Mechanical Engineering Congress 2012

·         AiChE 2008 Conference 2008.

·         ASME  Microfluidics Conference 2008.

·    IEEE Midwest Conference, 2008, 2009

·         IEEE South-East Conference, 2005, 2006, 2007.

 

Grant proposal reviewer

·         External grant proposal reviewer/evaluator for Office of Research and Grants, University of Central Oklahoma, OK, 2013-2014.

·         Review proposal for Louisiana Board of Regents, EPSCoR Program, 2013

·         Review proposal  for Internal Fund, Northern Arizona University, 2008

 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES

 

Professional Affiliations

·    Senior Member of IEEE (August 2014 – present).

·    IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Member 2001 – present

·    IEEE Communication Society Member 2010 – 2012.

·    ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Member 2008 - present

·         AiChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineering) Member 2007-2009

·         ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Member 2008

 

Professional Service

·         Track Chair, MNFDTC, 2020; Fluid Engineering Summer Meeting 2020, Orlando, FL

·         Track Chair, AJKFluids 2019; ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluid Engineering Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA

·         Elected Chair, MNFD Technical Committee under the Fluid Engineering Division at ASME, 2018- 2020.

·         Track Chair, Microfluidics 2018 Summer Meeting, FEDSM, Montreal, Canada

·         Elected Vice-Chair, MNFD Technical Committee under the Fluid Engineering Division at ASME, 2016- 2018.

·         Organizer, Application of Micro and Nano system in Medicine and Biology, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2016, Phoenix, AZ.

·         Co-organizer, Applications of Micro and Nano Systems in Medicine and Biology in MEMS 2015 at IMECE 2015, Houston, TX.

·         Organizer, Microfluidics 2014 Symposium, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2014, Montreal, Canada.

·         Session Chair, “Devices, Experimental Investigation of Micro/Nanofluidics”, Session 8-9-7 in Microfluidics 2014.

·         Best paper award committee co-chair, Microfluidics Symposium, 2014

·         Session Chair, “Devices, Experimental Investigation of Micro/Nanofluidics”, Session 8-9-7 in Microfluidics 2013.

·         Best paper award committee co-chair, Microfluidics Symposium, 2013

·         Session Co-Chair, “Flows in Microfluidic Systems”, Session 11-12-2, in Track 11; Micro- and Nano-systems Engineering and Packaging, IMECE 2013.

·         Topics Co-Organizer, Green and Biocompatible Nanocomposite, 2013

·         Session Organizer, Symposium on Energy-Water Nexus Session; ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2012.

·         Topic Co-Organizer, Mechanics of Composite Materials, ASME IMECE 2012, November 9 – 15; Houston, TX.

·         Reviewer, ASME  Microfluidics Conference 2012.

·         Reviewer, Journal of Biomicrofluidics (American Institute of Physics, AIP), Springer Verlag, 2011- present.

·         Chair, Keynote subcommittee, micro/nano fluidics technical committee, Microfluidics Symposium, IMECE 2012, Houston, TX

·         Reviewer, 119th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 10 – 13, 2012, San Antonio, TX.

·         Session Chair, Session 5-3-3, Sensors and Lab-on-a-Chip Applications, Microfluidics 2011

·         Session Co-Chair, Session 11-4-6, Microscale and Nanoscale Flow Phenomena, Microfluidics 2011

·         Session Co-Chair, Session 12-12-1, Durability and Life Prediction of Advanced Materials-1, ASME-IMECE 2011.

·     ASME IMECE2011 Energy-Water Nexus Roundtable – Invited.  

·     Session Organizer and Chair, Desalination under Energy Water Nexus Track, Session 1-1-2 and 1-1-3; Nov. 11-17, 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.

·    Topic Co-Organizer, “Track 12-13: Green and Biocompatible Nanocomposite”, IMECE 2011

·         Session Co-Chair, Session 12-12-2, Durability and Life Prediction of Advanced Materials-2, Technical Session, ASME-IMECE 2011.

·    Reviewer, Journal of Selected Areas in Microelectronics (JSAM), 2011– present.

·         Reviewer, ASME 2011 Microfluidics Conference, reviewed paper for microfluidics session.

·         Judge, FTC (First Tech Challenge) robotics competition, May 7th 2011, ITEC campus at UTB, Brownsville, TX

·         Session Chair, Droplet based Microfluidics, IMECE 2010, Nov. 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

·         Committee Member, “Energy-Water Nexus Interdisciplinary Council (IC)” for organizing Energy-Water Nexus track at 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.

·         Session Chair, Microfluidics Session, ASME Annual Conference, October 31- November 6 2008, Boston, MA.

·         Publication Chair, IEEE MWSCAS Conference, August 10-13 2008, Knoxville, TN

·    Session Chair, IEEE Southeast Conference, April 3-6 2008, Huntsville, AL

·         ASEE PSW 2008 Conference, March 27 – 29, Flagstaff, AZ;

·         Reviewer, ASME  Microfluidics Conference 2008.

·    Reviewer, International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2007 – present

·    Reviewer, IEEE Midwest Conference, 2008, 2009

·         Reviewer, IEEE South-East Conference, 2005, 2006, 2007.

·         Organize the Tour to Medtronic microelectronic facility at Phoenix, AZ, March 2007.

·    Mentoring Capstone design project, sponsored by Wulfsburg Electronics and Medtronics, 2007 – 2008 at Northern Arizona University (NAU)

·    Participate in Mentorship program at NAU, 2007 – 08.

·    IEEE Communication Society Member 2010 – Present.

·    IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Member 2001 - present

·    ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Member 2008 - present

·         AiChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineering) Member 2007-2009

·         ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Member 2008

·         Supervise a group of graduate students at Electromechanics and Transducer Research Group, the University of Tennessee, 2005 – 07.

·         Team Leader, Electronics Laboratory, Fall 2003 – Spring 2006, ECE Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

·         Member of ABS (Association of Bangladeshi Students) and MECA (Mirzapur Ex-Cadet Association).

 

University Service

·        Co-Chair CECS Workload task force to develop the workload policy, January 2019

·        MSBME planning authority member at CECS

·        CECS College Council chair, 2018-19.

·        Judge, Engaged Scholar Symposium (ES2), April 2018

·        Served in CECS College Council to develop College by-laws, 2016-17.

·        Served as a Judge in Engaged Scholar Symposium (ES2), April 2017

·        Served as a member in Department Assessment committee for ABET courses, 2015-16.  

·        Faculty Fellow at UTRGV Research Triad Mentorship Program, Office of Engaged Scholarship and Learning, UTRGV, 2017.

·        HESTEC volunteers, COEC, UTRGV on Educator Day, October 7th 2016

·        Committee Member, PhD. Task Force, Electrical Engineering, UTRGV, 2015 – 16.

·        Committee Member, Electrical Engineering Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2015-16.

·        Committee Member, Electrical Engineering Annual Evaluation Committee, 2015-16

·        Member, Electrical Engineering Administrative Assistant Search Committee, 2015-16.

·        Member, Electrical Engineering Lecturer Search Committee, 2015-16.

·        Member, College Travel Committee, College of Science, Math and Technology - CSMT, 2014-15

·        IEEE advisor, UTB student section, 2013 – Present

·        Member, School of Engineering and Computational Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2014-Present.

·        Chair, Faculty Recognition Committee, College of Science, Math and Technology - CSMT, 2014

·        Member, Program Review Committee for Criminal Justice, 2013

·        Judge, Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 3301), 2012

·         National Institute of Health (NiH) MBRS RISE Faculty mentor 2012.

·         Member, CSMT Journal Editorial Board, 2012 – present.

·         Graduate committee chair, representing Engineering department, 2012–13. 

·         Member, Engineering department review committee appointed by the provost, 2012

·         Departmental ABET assessment committee member, 2011 – present.

·         Hosted CSMT Career Exploration day at NEMS/MEMS lab, October 31, 2011

·         Member, New Faculty Orientation committee at UTB, 2011.

·         Mentors for MBRS-RISE program at UTB/TSC, 2010.

·         Chair, Department Software Committee, 2009 – present.

·         Member, Department Scholarship Committee, 2010 – present.

·         Senator, University Academic Senate, UTB, 2009 – 11.

·         Member, University Academic Standards and Student Records Committee, 2009 – 10.

·         ABET assessment committee member, Engieering Dept. at UTB, 2007 – 09.

·         Member, Engineering Search Committee, 2008-09, Hired Dr. Davood Askari.

·         Member, Engineering Search Committee, 2008-09, Hired Dr. Yingchen Yang.

·         Chair, Recruitment committee, Engineering Department, 2008 – 09.

·         Committee member in Curriculum Committee, Engineering, 2007 – Present.

·         Graduate Student Advisor (supervised 2 grad students), Northern Arizona University 2007 – 08. 

·         ABET Assessment Committee for EE department at NAU, 2007 – 08.

·        EE Curriculum Committee member, NAU, 2007 – 08.

·        EE ABET committee member, NAU, 2007 – 08.

·        EE Graduate Committee member, NAU, 2007 – 08.

·        Committee member of NAU-CED (Commission on Ethnic Diversity), 2007 – 08.

·         Committee member in Health Institute Research, NAU, 2007 – 08.

 

Public Service

·        Scientific Judge at U.S. Department of Energy Regional Science Bowl, February 16, 2019; Also attended two of their training sessions.

·         Jury Duty, US Federal District Court, selected. Served from January 22nd – 23rd , 2018

·         Judge, Engineering Design and Development, Science Academy of South Texas, April 27, 2018.

·         TIEC (Texas International Education Consortium) curriculum reviewer for PMU (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia), ABET recommendation 2018.

·        Scientific Judge at U.S. Department of Energy Regional Science Bowl, February 4, 2017

·        Judge, The Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), Brownsville, Texas, February 21, 2015

·         Judge, The Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), Brownsville, Texas, February 16, 2013

·         Judge, Harmony Science Academy, Brownsville 5th Annual Science Fair, December 8, 2012

·         Judge, The Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), Brownsville, Texas, March 3, 2012

·         Judge, FTC (First Tech Challenge) robotics competition, February 18th 2012 ITEC campus at UTB.

·         Career day outreach at James Pace high school, November 30th, 2011

·         High school recruiting at Mercedes High School and Weslaco High School, October 20th, 2011.

·         College Outreach Session, Porter High School, Brownsville, TX, April 21st, 2011.

·         Judge, 13th Annual UTB/TSC Research Symposium, Brownsville, Texas, March 25, 2011

·         Judge, The Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), Brownsville, Texas, March 5, 2011

·         Recruiting events: MEMS/NEMS lab visit for the students in Gateway to Graduation Academy, San Benito, 26th October, 2010.

·         Judge, The Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair (RGV RSEF), Brownsville, Texas, Mar. 7, 2009

·         Visited Porter and Hanna high school to recruit students for Engineering, 2008 – 09.

·         Volunteered for Education and Career Expo at TSTC, Harlingen and put the exhibition of the Engineering department to recruit student, March 2009.

·         BISD (Brownsville Independent School District) event attendant of recruiting college student at Brownsville Convention Center, September 2008

·         Organized Mountain Campus Science and Engineering day on 22nd September 2007.

·         Judge, Science Fair for Pine Forest Charter School, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2007.

·         Organize and Participate in International cultural program at University of Tennessee, 2004 – 05.

·         Organize and Participate in Street Fair at Virginia Tech, 2000 – 02.

 

Miscellaneous

·         Served as External Reviewer on promotion and tenure for Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, 2018

·         Travel Grant for attending IMECE conference under ASME, UTRGV Academic Affairs, 2015-2018;

·         Served as External Reviewer on promotion and tenure for Electrical Engineering at University of Washington, Bothell, 2017

·         TIEC (Texas International Education Consortium) curriculum reviewer for PMU (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia), 2018.

·         Attendee at High-Impact Practices (HIP) in higher education conference, March 31, 2017, Memorial Student Union Building, Texas A&M Kingsville.

·         TIEC (Texas International Education Consortium) curriculum reviewer for PMU (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia), 2011 – 2012.

·         Committee Member, ASME microfluidics, 2010 – present.

·         Committee Member, ASME nano-composites, Materials Division, 2010 – present.

·         Committee Member, ASME interdisciplinary Council, Water-Nexus track, 2011 – present.

·         Awarded travel fund for research presentation at ASME – NEMB 2010 conference from President’s Circle Fund and Dean’s Travel fund.

·         Committee Member, ASME microfluidics, 2008.

·         Access to Arizona State University, ASU-NanoFab lab for cleanroom micro-fabrication, 2007 – 08.

·         Completed FERPA and Sexual Harassment Prevention training

·         Awarded travel fund for AiChE 2007 conference from Provost and Dean’s office.

·         Awarded travel fund from Arizona Water Institute – AWI for attending research meeting at Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of Tennessee, December 2007.

·         Access and trained to Oak Ridge National Lab Cleanroom for micro-fabrication, 2005 – 07.

·         Teaching Assistant training at The University of Tennessee, 2003, 2004.

·         Invited guest in International cultural program at The University of Tennessee, 2003- 2005.

·         Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dean’s List, 1996, 1997.

·         Assistant House Leader at Mirzapur Cadet College, 1991 – 1992. 

·         Bangladesh Government Merit Scholarship, 1985 – 1992.

 

Workshop Attended

·         “NSF-ADVANCE Associate to Full Program” Fall 2016, Spring 2017 semester, at UTRGV, Edinburg and Brownsville, TX

·         International Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum Conference – Embassy Suites by Hilton McAllen Convention Center, May 19th – 20th 2017

·         UTRGV CBI (Challenged Base Instruction) symposium, Fall 2016

·          “NSF-ADVANCE leadership institute” Spring 2015 semester, 27th January – 28th April 2015, at Edinburg, TX

·         “The Intentional Mentor:  Effective Mentorship of Undergraduate Science Students”- 27th January 2014 at Salon Cassia, UTB.

·         UTB Grant writing workshop sponsored by the Office of VPR, 8th November 2013, Salon Cassia, EDBC, UTB

·         Program Review Panel Training for BSCJ, Institutional Research, Planning & Effective Office, UTB, September 27, 2013.

·         TIME (Transformation In Medical Education) Workshop on Problem Based Learning (PBL), BHRP, UTB, December 14, 2012

·         NSF Workshop on grant writing, organized by ASME, Denver, CO, November 15, 2011

·         NSF-MRI Workshop organized by Quality Education for Minorities, QEM, November 3 – 5, 2011, Las Vegas, NV.

·         2011 NSF Regional Workshop, University of Texas at Brownsville, August 2, 2011.  

·         Professional Grant Writing Workshop, University of Houston, June 6 – 8, 2011.

·         UTB Summer Institute 2011. 20th May at EDBC for CPR – Calibrated Peer Review training.

·         NiH Regional Seminar, Program funding and grants administration, April 28 – 29, 2011, Scottsdale, AZ

·         eRA (Electronic Research Training) Workshop, NiH, April, 27, 2011, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

·         “Educational Energy Conference at UTB”, Go Green Center, International Innovation Center, ITEC, February 21st 2011.

·         “VOLT (Volunteer Orientation and Leadership Training) leadership Workshop”, Vancouver Convention Center, November 14th 2010.

·         “Writing Winning Grants”, Grant writing Workshop, EDBC, Salon Cassia, August 19, 2010.

·         NiH sponsored, “Kentucky Grant Writing Workshop”, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, May 10 – 12, 2010.

·         NSF Career Workshop sponsored by QEM/CAREER, Las Vegas, NV, February 19 – 20, 2010.

·         UTPA Gear Up Conference, McAllen Convention Center, November 4, 2009.

·         7th Annual BioSafety Workshop, UTB in collaboration with UT Health Science Center Houston, October 9, 2009

·         Professional Development Workshop, “Writing Assignments, Rubrics, and Assessment”, EDBC, UTB/TSC, December 3, 2008

·         Workshop on Student Learning Objective (SLO), by School of Education, UTB/TSC, 2008.

·         Professional Development Workshop, “Addressing Sentence Level Errors in Student Writing”, Benito Longoria conference room, UTB/TSC, October 30, 2008.

·         Attended faculty development program on Teaching, “Exploring Opportunities for International Research/Teaching”, 2008.

·         Attended Faculty Development Workshop on, “Planning  for an Intramural Grant Submission”, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, October 2007.

·         Participate in professional development workshop on research development, co-ordinate by office of vice president of research (OVPR), NAU, Flagstaff, AZ, 2007.

·          “Hands on Computer Workshop: Using E-Portfolios in the Classroom”, Distance Learning Center, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, September, 2007.

·         Grant Writing Workshop, U.S. Department of Defense, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, TX. October 26, 2006, http://research.tamucc.edu/workshops.htm

·         Cleanroom Training Workshop, CNMS, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN March 2005.

·         COMSOL Multiphysics Workshop, Knoxville Convention Center, TN, April 2005.

 

University Training

·         State mandated Texas Hazard Communication Act and federally mandated OSHA Blood Borne Pathogens Standard Training, 2013

·         TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center): Scientific Visualization, October 6, 2011, UTB.

·         State mandated Texas Hazard Communication Act and federally mandated OSHA Blood Borne Pathogens Standard Training, July 12th, 2011

·         Seminar and training on “Microsoft Outlook 2010”, 22nd February, 2011

·         Completed UTB/TSC mandated online training.

·         Computer security training, 2010.

·         Training on Microsoft Office 2010.

·         Professional development workshop at UTB/TSC, 2009