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Osama Awadelkarim

UNESCO Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization

Affiliation(s):

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization

309E Earth and Engineering Sciences Building

ooa1@psu.edu

814-863-1773

Research Areas:

Advanced Materials and Devices; Emerging Manufacturing Processes for Materials, Tissues, and Devices; Nanoscience, Bionanoscience and Engineering

Interest Areas:

Nano-fabrication; microelectronics materials/devices; power electronic devices; IC Processing; Defects in crystalline/polycrystalline semiconductor materials; Thin film transistors - active matrix liquid crystal display application; MEMS/nanofabrication.

Education

Ph D, J. J. Thomson Physical Laboratory, Reading University, United Kingdom

Publications

Books

Julian W. Gardner, Vivjay K. Varadan and Osama O Awadelkarim, 2001, Microsensors, MEMS, and Smart Devices, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

Fellowship of the International Seminars in Physics and Chemistry (SWEDEN), July 1984 - May 1986

UNESCO Chair on “Building Innovation and Manufacturing Capacities through Advanced Technology Education” at the Pennsylvania State University, UNESCO, August 2018

Jefferson Science Fellow, The United States Department of State, July 2006

Service

Service to Penn State:

Academic Leadership and Support Work, Director, • Director, the Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU) & the NSF Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Network, the Pennsylvania State University., January 2015

Service to External Organizations:

Service to Public and Private Organizations, Other, Vice President, • Vice President of the International Commission for Development of UNESCO’s Encyclopedia Of Life Support Systems (UNESCO/EOLSS) Theme on Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, (http://www.eolss.net), UNESCO, September 2009

Service to Governmental Agencies, Advisor, • Senior Science and Technology Advisor, U. S. Department of State, since 2006., September 2006

About

The Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) is an internationally distinguished department that is recognized for its globally competitive excellence in engineering and scientific accomplishments, research, and educational leadership.

Our Engineering Science program is the official undergraduate honors program of the College of Engineering, attracting the University’s brightest engineering students. We also offer graduate degrees in ESM, engineering mechanics, engineering at the nano-scale, and an integrated undergraduate/graduate program.