Electrical Engineering Professor
Mansoura University (MU)
Total years of experience :23 years, 5 Months
• Instructor for the undergraduate courses: Electronics Circuits 3 for fourth year students of the E&CE Dept., Fall 2021.
• Instructor for the undergraduate courses: Elective Nano-electronics course for levels 7&8 students, Electronics Circuits 2 for level 5 students, and Electronics Circuits 1 for level 4 students of the Electrical Department at IMSIU.
• Supervisor of senior undergraduate students on their graduation projects in the area of design and simulation of Single-Electron (SE) Nano circuits.
Professor of Electronics
Mansoura University
Mansoura, Egypt
• Instructor for the undergraduate courses: Electronics Circuits 2 for third year students of the E&CE Dept., Fall 2013 and Digital Circuits: for second year students of the Electrical Dept., Fall 2013.
• Supervisor of senior undergraduate students on their graduation projects in the area of design and simulation of Nano-electronics circuits.
• Co-supervisor of graduate students on their research work in the Nano-electronics area:
1. Eng. Lobna (Design of a Hybrid CMOS / Single Electron Transistor (SET) Circuits - Ph.D.).
2. Eng. Hala (Nano-adders using optimized SE inverter-based logic gates - M.Sc.).
3. Eng. M. Saad (Modelling of SET devices - M.Sc.).
4. Eng. A. Abo-Zaid (QCA design of nanocircuits - M.Sc.).
Associate Professor
Mansoura University
• Instructor for the following term courses (on-line courses are @ http://osp.mans.edu.eg/rehan ):
1. Solid State Electronics: for first year students of the C&EE Dept., Fall 2007.
2. Digital Circuits: for first year students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2007-to-2012 and for second year students of the Electrical Dept., Fall 2007- to-2011.
• Instructor for the Nano-electronics (2008/09-to- 11/12) full-year M.Sc. graduate courses at MU.
• Co-supervises graduate students on their research work in the areas of:
1. Nano-electronics:
Eng. Lobna (Design of a Hybrid CMOS / Single Electron Transistor (SET) Circuits - Ph.D.).
Eng. Abeer (Stability and power-delay measurements for SET designs - M.Sc. 2013).
Eng. Hala (Nano-adders using optimized SE inverter-based logic gates - M.Sc.).
Eng. Ghada (Sequential Digital Counters Using SE Nano-devices - M.Sc. 2013).
2. e-Learning:
Eng. Mahmoud (Animations for the analysis and design of electronic devices - M.Sc. 2011).
3. DSP:
Eng. Noha (Analyses of EEG during sleep - Ph.D. 2013).
Eng. Ahmed (Image Fusion - M.Sc. 2012).
4. Network Security:
Eng. Eman Fadl (Biometrics for network security - M.Sc. 2013).
Assistant Professor
Mansoura University
• Instructor for the following term courses (on-line courses are @ http://osp.mans.edu.eg/rehan ):
1. Artificial Neural Networks: for senior students of the C&EE Dept., Fall 2003.
2. Assembly Language (MIPS): For senior students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2004, for third year students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2005, and for third year students of the Computer Sciences Dept., Faculty of Information and Computers, MU, Winter 2005.
3. Solid State Electronics: for first year students of the C&EE Dept., Fall 2003/04/05/06/07.
4. Digital Circuits: for first year students of the C&EE Dept., Winter 2007 and for second year students of the Electrical Dept., Fall 2007.
• Instructor for the CAD (03/04 & 04/05) and Nano-electronics (05/06 & 06/07) full-year M.Sc. graduate courses at MU.
• Co-supervised graduate students on their research work in the areas of:
1. Nano-electronics:
Eng. Lobna (Design of an 8-bit ADC using Single Electron Transistor (SET) - M.Sc. 2007).
Eng. Iman (Design of a full-adder using Single Electron Transistor (SET) - M.Sc. 2007).
2. DSP:
Eng. Hossam (Application of registration techniques to biomedical images - Ph.D. 2007).
• Supervises students working on their final full-year graduation projects (6 students in 2004/05 & 10 students in both 05/06 and 06/07) in the area of e-Learning (Development of Electronics e-courses).
Physical IC Design Consultant, Wireless and Audio R&D Division - Gennum Corporation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
• Conducted the physical design activities (floor-planning, P&R, layout, DRC, LVS, and tape out) of two DSP HIP products using UMC 0.18um CMOS process. This work was done (using Gennum’s design tools) remotely from Egypt through high-speed Internet connection.
Physical IC Design Team Leader, Hearing Instrument Products (HIP) R&D Division
Gennum Corporation
December 2000 - August 2003 (2 years 9 months)Burlington, Ontario, Canada
• Managed the activities of the physical design team of the HIP R&D division to achieve the tape out of:
1. 7 chips for 5 hearing aid systems using CSM 0.25um / UMC 0.18um CMOS processes and
2. 6 test chips for future products using UMC 0.18um CMOS process.
• Supervised the physical design activities (floor-planning, P&R, layout, DRC, and LVS) and approved the sign-off of all DSP HIP products and test chips using CSM and UMC CMOS processes.
• Supervised and trained new hires to do physical design using PDP, SE, Virtuoso, and Calibre CAD tools.
• Supervised & approved of product physical design documentation for 2 hearing aid chips and 5 test chips.
University of Waterloo Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), VLSI (Electronics) 1989 – 1995 Department of Electrical Engineering, VLSI group, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Thesis: A Mixed-Mode Analog/Digital VLSI Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for Character Recognition. Graduate Courses: Advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Computer Aided Circuit Analysis and Design Topics in Artificial Intelligence: computational linguistics Design of VLSI MOS Integrated Circuits (ICs) Analog VLSI Systems ANNs Activities and Societies: middle east soccer team (1 year-player), international graduate student association (1 year-member), Egyptian student association (3 years-president), graduate student association (1 year-member), Muslim study group (4 years-member). Also I served as the media and science officer for the North American Egyptian student associations for two years
