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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

Publications

Books

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

Research Projects

September 2022 - August 2026, "Microelectronics and Nanomanufacturing Partnership for Veterans," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

September 2023 - August 2026, "Northeast Consortia for Advanced Integrated Silicon Technologies," (Sponsor: SUNY Polytechnic Institute).

October 2023 - September 2026, "Collaborative Research: Development of a Nanofabrication Lab Manual Featuring a Suite of Low-Cost Experiments to Enable Hands-On Training at Community and Technical Colleges," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

April 2024 - August 2026, "Supplement: Microelectronics and Nanomanufacturing for Veterans Partnership," (Sponsor: NSF).

September 2020 - August 2025, "The Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Resource Center: Request for Renewal," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

2024 - , "Nanotechnology Manufacturing Technology (NMT) Capstone Semester," (Sponsor: None).

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.