Engineering

American University of Beirut · P. O .Box 11-0236/1533, Beirut, Lebanon. · Tel 1: 00961-1-323365 (Beirut)

· Tel 2: 0096311-6820300 (Damascus) · e-mail: abc@aub.edu.lb

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Objective: To secure a promising position that offers both a challenge and a good opportunity for growth.

Personal Data:
Date of Birth: March 26, 1975
Place of Birth: Qatana, Syria
Nationality: Syrian & Lebanese
Marital Status: Single Male

Education:
Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, Concentration of Telecommunication Engineering (2000), Damascus University. Damascus, Syria.
Note: Ranked second among the graduates of the academic year 1999 -2000.

Master of Engineering, Computer and Communications Engineering (CCE). Thesis in Digital Image Processing. Date of graduation: June 2004, American University of Beirut A.U.B. Beirut, Lebanon.

Related Skills:

Hardware: Z80 Microprocessor, Intel 8085 Microprocessor, Analog Design, Digital Design, RF Design, Digital signal processing, Digital image processing.

Design Tools: Function generator, oscilloscope, Digital voltmeters, and logic analyzer.

Computer:
Operating System: MSDOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT.
Design: PSPICE, MATLAB, and MATHEMATICA
Programming Language: FORTRAN, PASCAL, Assembly
General:Visio Technical

Language:
Fluent in Arabic and English.

Undergraduate Projects:

Function generator design: Generating sinusoidal, triangular and rectangular small signals using digital techniques.

Ultrasonic guiding device for the Blind: The device used ultrasonic transmitters and receivers aided with the 8031 Intel processor to perform a desired algorithm. The program was written in assembly language and stored in an external EPROM chip. The project provided a clear path for the user by producing an audible signal.

Graduate Projects:

Digital signal processing: Musical sound processing: Designing filters and doing all the needed simulations using MATLAB to see the frequency response, gain response and the pole-zero plot of these filters. The aim of this project is to design filters able to generate single echo, multiple echoes or infinite number of echoes for the original direct sound (input of the filter). The project included also all the needed simulations for designing comb filters, teeth filters, first order filters and shelving filters, second order filters and equalizers and high order equalizers.

Digital Image Processing: Designed an algorithm to trace the boundary of an object in a digital image, using MATLAB and then displaying the contour

Thesis: Boundary Extraction Methods for Segmentation, Representation and Description in Digital Image Processing. The research concentrated on showing the advantages of the four-neighbor connectivity approach, which is used to trace the contour of objects, over the eight-neighbor connectivity approach in terms of the chain code's efficiency and the compression ratio that can be achieved. Another boundary extraction method using morphological operations was developed in the research.

Experience:

Graduate Assistant	American University of Beirut	Beirut, Lebanon	2003 - 2004
· Assisted a professor in the computer simulation of digital circuits (RC Integrators) using both PSPICE and MATLAB. · Assisted an instructor in the area of electromagnetic fields and radar systems. · Worked as an instructor in the Microprocessor Lab: Duties included teaching the students, correcting their reports and assisting in the assembly of electronic circuits. · Programmed microprocessors based on the Z80 and the Intel 8085 using Assembly language. Worked as an instructor in the physics dept/AUB (Electricity and Magnetism Lab.) Working as a research assistant with a professor in the area of digital image processing: The work includes investigating the properties of a new edge detecting technique with a smoothing effect.

Teaching	American University of Beirut	Beirut, Lebanon	2002 - 2003
Worked as an instructor in the physics dept/AUB (Electricity and Magnetism Lab.) Worked as an instructor in the physics dept/AUB (Electronics Lab.)

Hardware/Software Engineer	Allied System Group	Beirut, Lebanon	2000 - 2002
Duties included the installation and maintenance of software and hardware related products.

Maintenance engineer	Arabic Computer Center	Damascus, Syria.	1999 - 2000
Provided computer related hardware/software maintenance and support to employees throughout the company. Thanks:jobsearch.about