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Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, Ph.D.,

Title: Professor
Department: Electrical Engineering
Office Location: EB 200
Office Phone: 815-753-8570
Email: ibrahim@niu.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia (1986)
  • M.S., Physics, University of Manitoba, (1982)
  • B.S., Physics, Cairo University, Egypt (1979)
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt (1976)

Research Interests

  • Medical Instrumentations (ballisocardiography, wireless diagnostic systems)
  • Sensors (DNA sensors, fabrication of micro-pump, fabrication and testing of diamond field emission devices, design and simulation of MEMS gas sensor)
  • Nanotechnology (growth of high dielectric materials (BaSrTiO) for RF MEMS applications, material growth and characterization of ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films using microwave plasma enhance chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique, DNA sensors)
  • Material growth and characterization (growth of BaSrTiO using Pulsed Laser Deposition technique (PLD), growth of Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) technique, growth of diamond using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition, characterization of Gallium Nitride materials, characterization of semi-insulating and ion-implanted GaAs materials, silicon technology)
  • Device fabrication and characterization (GaAs MESFETs and IGFETS, ZnSe/Ge p-n junction diodes, ZnSe/GaAs p-n junction diodes, Metal/BaSrTiO/p-Si MOS diodes, ITO/Diamond hetero-structure diodes, Diamond Field Emission Devices, characterization of Magnesium Oxide MOS devices)
  • Integrated circuit fabrication (GaAs digital logic gates, GaAs MESFET Digital to Analog Converter)
  • Design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) (micro pump design and fabrication, design of pressure, strain, pH, and temperature MEMES sensors for dental implant evaluations and teeth grinding behavior studies)
  • Modeling and simulation (modeling for GaAlAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for circuit simulation CAD tools, modeling for ZnSe/Ge Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for circuit simulation CAD tools, modeling of n and p type GaAlAs Quantum Well MODFETs, non-quasi-static modeling of GaAs MESFETs, GaN MESFETs, SiC MESFETs, GaAlAs MODFETs, and GaN MODFETs, HBTs, modeling using Multiphysics software, COMSOL and Ansys)

Selected Projects

  • Argonne National Laboratory, Device Parameter Extraction and Modeling (current)
  • Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp, Design and Testing a Microchip for Testing Liquid Cooling of 3D ICs (current)
  • Reforming Power Semiconductor Education, National Science Foundation (current)
  • DARPA, Modular Interchip Cooling, March 2013- September 2016 (30 months), PI.
  • Sun Electronic System Inc., New capital equipment, July 2012- July 2013.
  • Texas Instrument, MEMS reliability studies, Study of Product failure, 2011.
  • iLight Technology, Consulting, 2011.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (SURF-NIST), Undergraduate Research, Summer 2010.

Selected Refereed Publications

  • Martin Kocanda and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb "Development of a DNA probe using barium strontium titanate," Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, January 1, 2010.
  • Martin Kocanda and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, “DNA detection using a CMOS ring oscillator circuit,” J. Applied Physics, p. 76103, 2010.
  • Mark Austin and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, Integrated Ballisto-Cardio-Diagnostic System for Doctor’s Office, American Medical Association-IEEE conference, March 21-23, Washington DC, 2010.
  • Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, Neeraj Shetty, Kevin Leedy, and Rebecca Cortez “Investigation of the Drain Current Shift in ZnO Thin Film Transistors,” Journal of Applied Physics, p. 014503, 2011.
  • Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, B. S. Akula, K. Leedy, and R. Cortez , "Investigation of the Behavior of Barium Strontium Titanate Capacitors," Proceedings of the 35th Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits (CSDICE-2011) Catania, Italy, May 29-June 1, 2011. pp217-28.
  • Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, "Rethinking the MS program in Engineering," ECEDHA Source Newsletter, January 2012. http://www.ecedha.org/newsletter/issue8/pdfs/rethinkingms_programs_engineering.pdf
  • Rohit Akula and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, "Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Heart Disease Diagnosis using Phonocardiogram Signals" the 2012 IEEE EIT conference, Indianapolis, In, USA.
  • Syed Farhan Mohiudin, Martin Kocanda, and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, "Optical Properties of PLD-Deposited Barium Strontium Titanate (BaxSr1-xTiO3) Thin Films" the 2012 IEEE EIT conference, Indianapolis, In, USA.
  • Venkat Sambaraju and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, "Development of wireless diagnostic systems for the heart," the 2012 IEEE EIT conference, Indianapolis, In, USA
  • Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, Kamran Ravanasa, and Karl-John Soderholm, " Design of a Pressure Sensor to monitor Teeth Grinding," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.
  • Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb and Kriten Allen " RFID-Enabled Temperature Sensor," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.
  • Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb and Justin Lavrencik" Wireless RF Digital System for Mouth-Embedded Multi-Sensor Communication," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.
  • Syed Farhan, Martin Kocanda, and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, "An Investigation of PLD-Deposited Barium Strontium Titanate (BaxSr1-xTiO3) Thin Film Optical Properties" Crystal Structure Theory and Applications, 1, pp 17-20 (2012).
  • Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, B. S. Akula, K. Leedy, and R. Cortez , "Oxygen effects on barium strontium titanate morphology and MOS device performance, ELSEVIER, Materials Letters, accepted.
  • Muneer Shaik and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, "Effect of Substrate Temperature on PLD grown thin film Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3," in preparation for IEEE, EIT conference.
  • Muneer Shaik and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, "Investigation of the Electrical properties of PLD grown thin film Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3," in preparation for IEEE, EIT conference.
  • Muneer Shaik and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, "Investigation of the Optical properties of PLD grown thin film Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3," in preparation for IEEE, EIT conference.
  • Harsha Vardhan Reddy Aleti and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, "Finite Element Investigation of stress on Human Spine using Multi-Physics Analysis," in preparation.
  • Kiran Vemula and Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, "Investigation of Imaging Using Ultrasound Shadow Moire Technique,” in preparation.

Selected Presentations

  • Martin Kocanda and Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, “DNA detection using a CMOS ring oscillator circuit,” J. Applied Physics, p. 76103, 2010.
  • "Integrated Ballisto-Cardio-Diagnostic System for Doctor’s Office," American Medical Association-IEEE conference, March 21-23, Washington DC, 2010.
  • "Investigation of the Behavior of Barium Strontium Titanate Capacitors," Proceedings of the 35th Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits (CSDICE-2011) Catania, Italy, May 29-June 1, 2011. pp217-28.
  • "Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Heart Disease Diagnosis using Phonocardiogram Signals" the 2012 IEEE EIT conference, Indianapolis, In, USA.
  • "Development of wireless diagnostic systems for the Heart, the 2012 IEEE EIT conference, Indianapolis, In, USA
  • " Design of a Pressure Sensor to monitor Teeth Grinding," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.
  • " RFID-Enabled Temperature Sensor," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.
  • " Wireless RF Digital System for Mouth-Embedded Multi-Sensor Communication," COMSOL Conference, Boston MA, October 3-6, 2012.

Selected Review Activities

  • Reviewer of research proposals for the Ministry of Education of Quebec
  • Reviewed papers for the solid-state Electronics Journal
  • Reviewed for the IEEE ED transactions
  • Reviewed for the IEEE ED letters
  • Reviewed for International Journal for VLSI
  • Reviewed for the Journal of Applied Physics
  • Reviewed for ASEE
  • Reviewed for the Journal of Vacuum Society
  • Reviewed for the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal
  • Reviewed proposals for NSF, NSERC of Canada, and Canada Foundation for Innovation.
  • Reviewed for the SBIR program since August 1998

Professional Societies and Activities

  • Registered Professional Engineer (PE)
  • Senior Member of the IEEE
  • Member of the IEEE Regions & Chapters Committee (2010-Present)
  • Regional Editor for IEEE EDS News Letters, Regions 1, 2 and 3, (2005-2011)
  • Member of the American Society for Engineering Education
  • Member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA)
  • Advisor to the Egyptian Prime Minster on Microelectronics (2000)
  • Expert witness in courts of law
  • ABET reviewer

Honors and Awards

  • Listed in Who's Who in Education, 1991 and 1995
  • Listed in Who's Who in the World, 1995

Work Experience

Academic Employment

Visiting Positions

  • Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Wright-Patterson Air Face Base Research Laboratory, Sensor Directorate (2007)
  • Visiting Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory (2001-2002)
  • Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, (1999-2000)

Graduate School Memberships

  • Senior member of the graduate school, Northern Illinois University
  • Full member of the graduate school, Northwestern University (1988-1991)

Industrial Employment

  • Consultant at S&N Manufacturing Incorporated, Geneva, IL
  • Consulting for SKS Technologies (1988-1989)
  • Consulting Engineer for Techicool consulting firm. Worked on the design of the electrical system and control of 250,000-ton refrigerator in Egypt (1979-1981)
  • President of Civil-Electric Inc., Egypt (1977-1981)

Administrative Experience

Dr. Abdel-Motaleb has extensive administrative experience in academia, where he chaired or served on almost every committee at the department, college and university levels.

  • Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering
    • Oversaw faculty development, laboratory development, curriculum development, assessment, recruitment, retention, budget, industrial contacts, purchasing, personnel, tenure and promotion, sabbatical leave, advising, hiring, and running the day-to-day affairs of the department
  • Director of the Microelectronic Research and Development Laboratory (MRDL)
    • Manage a multimillion-dollar laboratory where an advanced design, fabrication, and characterization facility is housed. The facility contains material growth systems, diffusion furnaces, oxidation furnaces, mask generation, photolithography, Atom Force Microscope (AFM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), electron beam deposition, ion milling, plasma etching and deposition, sputtering, thick film, packaging, and analytical analysis systems.
  • Director of the Biomedical Engineering program
    • Recruitment, laboratory development, course development, and interaction with industry.
  • Served as the president of a construction company for civil and electrical construction works with more than 40 employees.

Committee Service

  • Department committees
    • Department Personnel Committee (chair)
    • Department Curriculum Committee (chair)
    • Department Assessment Committee (chair)
    • Department Strategic Plan Committee (chair)
  • College Councils and Committees
    • College Council (chair)
    • College Senate
    • College Curriculum Committee
  • Graduate School Council and Committees
    • Graduate Council
    • Graduate Curriculum Committee
    • Honorary Degree Committee
    • Criminal Disclosure Review Committee
    • Graduate Standard Committee
  • University Councils, Senate, Committees and Boards
    • University Council (UC)
    • University Senate
    • Academic Planning Council (APC)
    • University Council Personnel Committee (UCPC)
    • Rules and Governance Committee
    • Undergraduate Coordinating Council (UCC)
    • University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
    • Holmes Student Center Board
    • NIU Press Board

Achievements as a Department Chair

  • Increased enrollment by 121 percent over two years
  • Increased external funding from $89,448 to $1,026,334 over two years
  • Obtained in-kind equipment grant of about $3M over two years
    • Similar grants over the previous eight years totaled $3.3M
  • Faculty publication in journals and refereed conferences rose to 4 papers per year from 1.4 papers previously
  • Rate of journal publication per faculty per year increased to 1.5, 158 percent the required rate for tenure
  • Faculty published two textbooks and three book chapters in two years
  • Increased the rate of external funding per faculty per year from 74.5 percent to 427 percent
  • In 2011, with the retirement of 20 percent of the faculty, the department still:
    • Published 12 journal papers
    • Published 12 refereed conference papers
    • Received $296.5K of external funding
    • Increased enrollment from 293 to 317 students
  • Developed the biomedical engineering emphasis
  • Developed minors in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering
  • Developed a concurrent B.S./M.S. program later adopted by all departments in the college
  • Spearheaded the development of a new undergraduate program in electrical engineering
  • Participated in a proposal to develop a doctorate program in systems engineering
Ibrahim Abdel Motaleb

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