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Dr. Nazmul Islam is serving
as a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Islam is also serving as an
associate dean in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has
served as an associate professor and assistant professor in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the University
of Texas Brownsville. Before joining UTRGV he also worked as an assistant
professor at Northern Arizona University. He received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He
worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the biomedical engineering
department at the University of Tennessee. Dr.
Islam finished his M.Sc
in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2002. Dr. Islam earned his
B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also worked at the Oak
Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, as a research associate.
Dr. Islam is
leading the research efforts of MEMS/BioMicrofluidics
Research Group at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His current
research concentrates in the areas of Micro/Nano-fluidics, Bio-sensors and MEMS/NEMS devices. He organizes numerous symposiums, sessions at ASME Summer conferences
and IMECE. Currently, he is a Senior IEEE member and was
elected as an ASME Fellow.
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NSF REU Site: Material Science and Engineering Director, 2024
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Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), April 2023
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Texas Academic Leadership Academy (TALA) Fellow; 2022 – 23.
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First Prize award poster presentation at CEE-E3 Symposium,
South Padre Island, TX March 23rd, 2023.
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The R&D Award; 60th Anniversary 2022 and 61st
anniversary 2023 Judging.
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Faculty Fellow for the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Endowed Chair in
Engineering, UTRGV, 2018-19 and 2019-20.
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Faculty Fellow at Research Triad Mentorship
Program, ESL, UTRGV, 2017, Spring 2018.
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Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Engineering (JFE), under ASME;
April 2019 -March 2022.
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Guest Editor, Biomicrofluidics issue, JFE,
ASME, 2018 - present
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NSF panelist, Washington DC, March 2016.
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Elevated to Senior IEEE member position, 2014
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Nominated for UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award 2014
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Recognition for Excellence in Research by College of Science,
Mathematics and Technology, CSMT 2014, UTB
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First Prize award for student’s poster presentation at UTB Research
Symposium, April 2013.
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NSF Summer Institute Fellowship Award, 2012.
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Olegario Vasquez Rana Faculty Fellow FY 2011-12, the University of
Texas at Brownsville.
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Recipient of NSF Summer Fellowship Award, 2010.
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Marquis Who’s Who in America 2009 - 2012.
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Science
Foundation Arizona (SFAz) Fellowship award for
recruiting graduate student, 2008.
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Post Doctoral
Fellowship award, 2007, Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee.
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University
Travel Award for joining Virginia Tech Symposium,
June 2004.
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Summer internship
award, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, 2003
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