Northern Illinois University
Department of Engineering Technology
College of Engineering and Engineering Technology

Editorial Responsibilities

• Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Online Engineering, period 2010-2022;
• Associate editor, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, period 2007-current;
• Associate editor, International Journal of Online Engineering Education, period 2009-current;
• Associate editor, Journal of Engineering, Computing and Architecture, Scientific Journals International, period 2006-current;
• Associate editor-in-chief, International Journal of Online Engineering, period 2010-2011;
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Online Engineering, period 2009-2010;
• Member of the International Board of Reviewers, International Journal of Modern Engineering, period 2004-2008;
• Executive peer-reviewer for the Journal of International Forum of Educational Technology & Society, period 1997-2002.

Professional Leaderships

• Member of the Project team on Robots in personal care (PT2), International Organization for Standardization, ISO/TC 184/SC2/PT2, period 2007-2016;
• Member of the Advisory Group on Service Robots (AG1), International Organization for Standardization, ISO/TC 184/SC2/AG1, period 2007-2016;
• Board member of the CLAWAR Ltd (US Activities Liaison), period 2005-2015;
• Member of Board of Trustees of the CLAWAR Association, period 2006-2015;
• Member of the Executive Board of the ASEE Information System Division, period 2003-2014;
• European Commission expert in the Fifth and Sixth Research Framework Programme, period 2005-current;
• Review research and development proposals for National Science Foundation, period 2005-current;
• IEEE nominated ABET, Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) Program Evaluator, period 2005-2011;
• Chair, Information Systems Division, American Society for Engineering Education, period 2009-2011;
• Program chair of the ASEE Information System Division, period 2007-2009;
• Treasurer of the ASEE Information System Division, period 2007-2009;
• Board member (Section Campus Representative) of the ASEE IL/IN Section, period 2005-2007;
• TEST advisory panel member for the Socratic Technologies, period-1999-2001;
• Member of the Solent Area Committee, Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK), period-1998-2001.

Conference/Workshop Organization

• Chair, International Advisory Committee: 16th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 03-06 February 2019, BMS College of engineering, Bengaluru, India,  http://www.rev-conference.org/current/
• Chair, International Advisory Committee: 15th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 21-23 March 2018, University of applied Sciences Duesseldorf, Germany, http://www.rev-conference.org/REV2018/
• Co-chair, 14th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 15-17 March 2017, Columbia University, New York, US;
• Co-chair Sunday Workshop: Remote Laboratories- Learning from Successful Initiatives, June 26, During the ASEE Annual Conference 2016, New Orleans, US;
• Co-chair Sunday Workshop: Internet Accessible Remote Experimentation Laboratories of Next Generation, June 14, During the ASEE Annual Conference 2015, Seattle, US;
• Program co-chair, 12th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, February 25-27, 2015, Novotel-Bangkok-Ploenchit, Bangkok, Thailand;
• Conference co-chair, 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, July 16-19, 2012, John Hopkins University, US;
• Co-chair for the ASEE IL/IN Section Conference, April 1-2, 2005, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, US;
• Special Session, 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 13-15, 2005, London, United Kingdom;
• Program chair, Information Systems Division, American Society for Engineering Education, period 2007-2009;
• Co-chair for ASEE IL/IN Sectional Conference 2005, April 1-2, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, US;
• Co-chair for the student poster competition, 2004 ASEE IL/IN Sectional Conference, March 26-27, East Peoria, Illinois, US.

Conference/Workshop Committees

• Member, Technical Program Committee, 7^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Science (CSECS 2025), 1-2 January 2025, Taicang, China. https://www.csecs2025.net/index.html
• Member, Technical Committee, 14^th International Conference on Software Information Engineering (ICSIE 2024), 2-4 December 2024, Derby, UK. https://www.icsie.org/
• Member, Technical Committee, International Conference On Electrical And Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2024), 22-24 April 2024, Marmaris, Turkey. http://www.iceee.org/index.html
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, (DPPR 2023), 25-26 November 2023, London, United Kingdom.  https://www.cndc2023.org/dppr/index
• Member, Technical Committee, International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Signal Processing (EESP 2023), 21-23 November 2023, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. http://www.eesp.net/index.html
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (ICML), 09-10 November 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece. https://imcl-conference.org/current/index.php
• Member, International Program, ASIA Simulation Conference 2023, 25-26 October, University of Technology, Malaysia.  https://www.asiasim2023.cmedutm.com/
• Member, International Advisory Board, International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 01-03 March 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece. https://www.rev-conference.org/current/index.php
• Member, Advisory Committee, International conference on IoT, 6G, Automation, and Automotive Electronics, May-June 2023, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India.
• Member, International Advisory Board, International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 28 Feb – 2 March 2022, British University Egypt, Cairo, Egypt. http://rev-conference.org/REV2022/
• Member, Technical Committee, International conference on Energy Control Computing and Electronic Systems, 29-31 December 2022, Tirupati, India. https://www.mbu.asia/ICECCES_22.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS’22), 25-28 July, Las Vegas, US, http://himscsce.org/hims22/
• Member, Technical Committee, 3rd International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Signal Processing, 28-30 August 2022, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.eesp.net/
• Member, International Advisor Committee, 3rd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronic Engineering, 30-31 March, 2022, (Virtual) https://www.cmedutm.com/cim2022/
• Member, International Advisory Board, International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, Feb 24^th – Feb 26^th, 2021, Virtual Platform, http://rev-conference.org/REV2021/
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Novelties in Intelligent Digital Systems (NiDS), Sept 30^th-Oct 1^st, 2021, Athens, Greece; https://nids2021.iis-international.org/
• Member, International Advisory and Scientific Board, WEEF/GEDC 2021- World Engineering Education Forum, November 15-18, Madrid, Spain; https://weefgedc2021.org/index.php
• Member, Technical Committee, ICFL- 2021 4th International Conference on Future Learning, December 17-19, 2021, Tokyo, Japan; http://icfl18.com/index.html
• Member, International Advisory Committee, CIM2022- International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronics, March 2-3, University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Baru, Malaysia; https://www.cmedutm.com/cim2022/
• Member, Scientific Committee, EDUCON 2020, 27-30 April, Porto, Portugal. http://educon-conference.org/educon2020/index.php
• Member, International Scientific Committee, CLAWAR 2019- International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, August 26-28, Kualalumpur, Malaysia; https://clawar.org/clawar2019/
• Member, Program Committee, CLAWAR 2018- International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 10-12, Panama City, Panama; https://clawar.org/?event=clawar-2018
• Member, International Advisory Committee, ICSSA 2018- 2nd International Conference on Smart Sensors and Applications, July 24-26, Kuching, Malaysia; http://razakschool.utm.my/icssa2018/
• Member, Program Committee, EDUCON 2018- IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, 17-20 April, Canary Islands, Spain; http://www.educon-conference.org/
• Member, Program Committee, Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning, November 11-12, 2018, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; http://www.imcl-conference.org/current/committees.php
• Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ICEEE-2018), July 26-27, Bercelona, Spain; http://www.scientificfederation.com/electrical-engineering-2018/index.php
• Member, Program Committee, Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning, November 30- December 1, 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece; http://www.imcl-conference.org/imcl2017/index.php
• Member, International Scientific Board, Tetuan International Conference on Education and Technology, November 20-22, 2017, Tetuan, Morocco; http://www.asrit.org/ticet/
• Member, International Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision, September 1-3, 2017, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan; http://cennser.org/ICIEV/
• Member, International Program Committee, AsiaSim 2017- 17th Asia Simulation Conference, August 27-29, Melaka, Malaysia; http://asiasim2017.fke.utm.my/home
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 11-13, 2017, School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic, Portugal;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, February 24-26, 2016, UNED, Madrid, Spain;
• Member of the Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12-14, 2016, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, 17th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, July 21-23, 2014, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland;
• Member of the International Program Committee, International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management, and Applications (SKIMA), December 18-20, 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh;
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, 16th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, July 14-17, 2013, University of Technology Sydney, Australia;
• Member of the International Program Committee, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision 2012 (ICIEV12), May 18-19, 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Technology enhanced Education (ICTEE 2012), January 3-5, 2012, Kerala, India;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 16th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, June 1-3, 2011, Vancouver, Canada;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 6-8, 2011, Paris, France;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, August 31- September 3, 2010, Japan;
• Member of the International Program Committee, Internation Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management, and Applications (SKIMA), 21-23 October 2009, Fes, Morocco;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 14th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, 4-6 November 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US;
• Program Chair, Information Systems Division, American Society for Engineering Education, period 2007-2009;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines 2009, September 9-11, Istanbul, Turkey;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems 2008, London, United Kingdom;
• Member of the International Program Committee, International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management, and Applications (SKIMA), 18-21 March 2008, Katmandu, Nepal;
• Systems 2008, September 9-10, 2008, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 11th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 8-10, 2008 – Coimbra, Portugal;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, July 16-18, 2007, Singapore;
• Co-Chair for ASEE IL/IN Sectional Conference 2005, April 1-2, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12-14, 2006 – Brussels, Belgium;
• Member of the International Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 13-15, 2005 - London, United Kingdom;
• Special Session organizer (flexible manipulators) for the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 13-15, 2005 - London, United Kingdom;
• Member of the International Program Committee, First International Conference – Environmentally Sustainable Development, ESDev – 2005, Abbottabad, Pakistan, June 2005;
• Session moderator for a number of technical sessions for the ASEE National Conferences and ASEE IL/IN Regional Conferences, 2002, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US;
• Member of local organizing committee, CLAWAR-99: International Workshop and Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, September, Portsmouth, UK, 1999.

Memberships and Citations

• Senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE);
• Senior member International Society of Automation (ISA);
• Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Epsilon Pi Tau (EPT), and International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE);
• Citation in Marquis' "Who's Who in the World", period 1998- 2008.

Technical Paper and Book Reviews

• IMechE Proceedings, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, and Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, Institute of Mechanical Engineers;
• The International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration;
• IET Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, Institute of Electrical Engineers;
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics;
• Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems;
• International Journal of Modelling and Simulation;
• Robotica; 
• Regularly review technical papers for various conferences;
• McGraw-Hill Publications;
• Thomson Delmar Learning.

Within the Institution (Northern Illinois University)

• Member, Anti-bullying Working Group, period 2023-current
• Member, Faculty Senate Personnel Committee, period 2023-current;
• Member, Strategic Enrollment Management, period 2018-21;
• Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, period 2009-17;
• Member, Faculty Senate, peroid 2009-17;
• Member, Academic Affairs Subcommittee, period 2009-17;
• Member, Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Subcommittee, period 2009-12;
• Member, Policies and Procedure Subcommittee, period 2012-13;
• Member, Undergraduate Coordinating Council, period 2005-11;
• Member, Committe for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, period 2007-12;
• Member, Adhoc Committee, Illinois Race to the Top (RTTT) Applicaiton, 2010;
• Member, University Press Board, period 2011-12;
• Member, Graduate Council Curriculum committee (GCCC), period 2007-08;
• Member, Graduate School Appeal Committee, period 2007-08;
• Member, Campus Parking Committee, period 2001-06;
• Mentor, Student Faculty Links and first year student advocate, period 2002-05;
• Judge, 51st Annual Northern Illinois Regional History Fair, February 2012;
• Faculty co-advisor, NECA Student Section of NIU, period 2011-current;
• Founder advisor, ISA Student Chapter of NIU, period 2001-09;
• Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, period 2009-current;
• Member, Appeal Committee, period 2005-08;
• Member, College Council (College of Engineering and Engineering Technology), period 2007-08;
• Member, Electrical Engineering Technology Faculty Search Committee, 07;
• Member, Faculty Executive Committee, period 2002-06;
• Member, Curriculum Committee, period 2002-05.