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Ahmad Basrawi Dr. Mohsen Issa, SE, PE SE, Kazkaz Issa, Ghaffar Mohsen Dr. Dr. PE Basrawi Bou-Saab, PE Al Gholeh, Hasan Ahmad Jamil PE SE, Dasoqi, John PE Dr. Sam Elmoursi, PE Suheil Nammari, PE Ayoub Talhami, Chairman Peoria Chapter: SE, PE Dr. Ahmad Hammad, Dr. Soliman Khudeira, SE, PE President Vice President AAAEA 2007 AAAEA 2007 AAAEA 2007 Jamal Grainawi, SE, PE President Vice SE, PE Raghad Adeis-Dahhan, Secretary Treasurer Kleit, SE Mohammad PE Elqaq, Ehab IT Officer Dr. Hiba Abdalla PE SE, A. Issa, Dr. Moussa Education Committee Safi Nasser Grainawi/Ahmad CommitteePublication A. Khattab Mohammed Nabeel Aldrees, PE PE Ayoub Talhami, GM Sadat, PE By-Law Committee Membership Ahmad Basrawi Nomination / Election Career Enhancement Committee Activity Committee PE Jamil Bou-Saab , Scholarship Dr. Soliman Khudeira, SE, PE AAAEA BOARD OF TRUST AAAEA BOARD OF TRUST AAAEA BOARD OF TRUST Mahamid, PE Dr. Mustafa - Past Presidents Dr. Hiba Abdalla E-Week Contest & Essay/Poster Members
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Arab American Association of November 2, 2007 Engineers and Architects Dear Members and Guests: Welcome to the 2007 AAAEA Semi-Annual Meeting. We are glad that you could join us. We are Sponsors delighted to have Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer / Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Solutions, Yahoo! Inc. as our keynote speaker. We are also happy to have Dr. Munir H. AAAEA greatly appreciates the contributions of many Nayfeh, Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, as the recipient of the AAAEA Achieve- ment Award; Mr. Ayoub Talhami, PE, as the recipient of the AAAEA Honorary Lifetime Member- companies and individuals in support of the Semi- ship Award; and our honoree, Mr. Hanie Miri, as the recipient of the AAAEA Award of Apprecia- Annual Meeting and AAAEA programs. tion.
We also have four exceptional students with us tonight who will be presented with $2000 each for Scholarship Fund winning the AAAEA Scholarship Award. Congratulations.
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Master of Ceremonies Moosa Matariyeh Mr. Meeting Committee Semi-Annual PE, SE, President Jamal Grainawi, By Mr. GM Sadat, PE, Career Enhancement Committee By Mr. Chairman Ghouleh, Chairman of the Board Abder Rahman By Mr. Trustees Peoria Chapter Chapter President PE, Peoria Ghareeb, George By Mr. Mahamid, NOC Chairman/ Mustafa By Dr. Munir Nayfeh Presented to Dr.
Services by AAAEA of the Association State Chapters Student Award Achievement National Outreach Effort AAAEA Hiba Abdalla, Vice President / Chairman of the By Dr. Chairman National Steering Committee UIUC of Physics, Professor 5:00 Registration/Social 6:00 Welcoming Remarks
a research assistant on on assistant a research can Association of Engi- can Association l (2006), three conference (2006), three conference l s on receiving his Bachelor power plant. This project was ity ofpast Illinoisfor the three ory) whereworked he as than thirty other projects presented on the Inter on the presented projects other thirty than SANA) and served as Vice President last year. year. last President Vice as served SANA) and the students andfamilies, and interacts and co- s, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Institute American ofs, the Chemical ed a role as a design engineer in a project led by in engineer a role as design ed Urbana-Champaign at Illinois of University of t the PCI structural journa PCI structural the t AAAEA student chapter. He is the Treasurer for He is the Treasurer chapter. student AAAEA t als engineering department, University ofdepartment, als engineering Illinois at ciety, and the Arab Ameri Arab and the ciety, ite behavior of prefabricated full-depth precast con- of prefabricated ite behavior te of Technology and plan and te of Technology funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation. of Transportation. Department Illinois by the funded esentatives on the Graduateonesentatives the Committee Affairs in the eer for anIndianapolis-based company named Enerdel jective was to design a geothermal a design to was jective Ranked as Excellent at the Univers as Excellent Ranked
AAAEA Scholarship Awards AAAEA Scholarship Awards two projects. He also worked as a Battery Engin a Battery as worked He also projects. two play In addition, he battery modules. he tested where ob the where Al-Hallaj Said Professor above more place in at third and came very successful engi- civil the within projects educational various in part taken had She (AAAEA). Architects neers and Engineer- and Science in Youth Worldwide the as such of engineering college and the department neering inclusion her to contributed students help to efforts Her programs. Olympiad Science Illinois the and ing List of Teachers in the Incomplete repr student one of two as served has She years. during scholar was a Fulbright She years. two for Engineering and Environmental of Civil Department the periodof 2002-2004, served and good as a ofArabic the ambassador culture during time. that El Anwar Mr. Omar in projects on engineer design a as experience vast has and Illinois of University at student PhD a He is project in a assistant research and a the Middle East first to introducethe studenwas the AAAEA to He firs of the a co-founder/Vice-President he is (UIUC); (E America North in Association Student the Egyptian service to and cultural social provides ESANA-UIUC at chapter student its and ASCE of the member a He is on campus. organizations student with operates educa- social, provides which as CIMIC such organizations community other in involved is He UIUC. tional, and spiritual services to the Urbana-Champaign community at large. Professional (IPRO) day. (IPRO) Professional Associa- Student Muslim the namely, associations and organizations few a quite of a member also He is tionpastfor the (MSA), the couple AAAEA of year of Science in Chemical Engineering in December 2007. He has had several internships throughout the the throughout internships several He has had 2007. December in Engineering Chemical in of Science Laborat National (Argonne ANL including years four last IIT International(AICHE) and the StudentOrganization (ISO). Ms. GhadirHaikal engineering civil a Epsilon, Chi of a member Currently Illinois. of University at Student PhD a is She honorPi, anTau society, engineering Beta honor so papers, and submitted four papers in ACI and ASCE Journals. This is his third year as an active member member an active as year third his is This Journals. ASCE and ACI in papers four submitted and papers, in AAAEA. Mr. Rachid Amine Illinois Institu at the Senior Undergraduate He is an The following four students are winners of the AAAEA Scholarship for 2007: are winners of the four students The following Alrousan Rajai Zuheir Mr. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the and civil materi Chicago (UIC). He published a paper about the shear strengthening of high-strength reinforced concrete concrete reinforced high-strength of strengthening shear the about paper a published He (UIC). Chicago about the compos paper He also published a beams. in girders prestressed installed on precast panels crete
Dr. Nayfeh Research Achievements PROGRAM - II (Continued) Enhancement Committee Chairman 7:00 Dinner Activities in the Arab world: Role of Arab scientists and technologists abroad (ASTA) in its development • Co-founded the Network of Arab Scientists and Technologists Abroad (ASTA) headquartered Services by AAAEA - By Mr. GM Sadat, Career in Urbana, Illinois, USA, and at the HCST (Jordan) • Co-organized congresses of ASTA in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emir- ates. AAAEA Award of Appreciation • Published on the role of ASTA in the development in the Arab World (Al Taawon (Riyadh), Arab Journal of Science (ALESCO, Tunis), Almuhandes (Jordan), AlTadrib AlTaqani (Honoree): (Riyadh), AlFuheis (Chicago) Mr. Hanie Miri, Past AAAEA Executive Board Member • Represented ASTA in the deliberations and addressed the Meeting of Arab Ministers for Re- search and Higher Education held in Algeria (1995) and in Riyadh (1998) on the role of ASTA. Honorary Lifetime Membership Award • Co-organized and participated two symposia at the Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Washington DC on the role of ASTA in the development of the Arab World. of Trustees,Presented and toBy-Law Mr. Ayoub Committee Talhami, Chairman PE, AAAEA Board • Held Arab-American community meetings (Chicago, Indiana, Orlando, Champaign, Washing- ton) • Co-founder of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) in Sharjah, UAE Scholarship Awards • Presented the role of ASTA on Arab television (Jordan, Syria, Tunis, Sharjah, Algeria, Dubai, Saudi Arabia) and on BBC and Voice of America, Nature, Al Wasat, Al Arabi, Al Yamama, Al By Mr. Jamil Bou-Saab, PE, Scholarship Committee Hayat, Al Majal, Al Ahram, Al Khalige, AlWatan, etc. Chairman • Our Scientists Abroad (featured a scientist & a technologist) in the Arab Magazine of Science (ALESCO) Sponsors & Supporters Appreciation Technical activities relevant to the Arab World • Co-organized international conferences on lasers, nanotechnology, information technology, ByBoard Mr. Bilal Almasri,of AAAEA,Trustees founder, 1st President & environment, water resources, pharmaceuticals (Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Oman, UK, Greece, Italy, India, Canada and USA). • Contributed to the Arab Science Magazine for the Youth (ALESCO) Keynote Address - Dr. Usama Fayyad, • Contributed to the Arab Science Magazine and served on its Board of Advisors (ALESCO). Chief Data Officer / Executive Vice President of Arab Contributions to modern science and technology Research & Strategic Solutions, Yahoo! Inc. • Electronic directory of ASTA (in collaboration with the Association of Arab Universities, AARU) • Documentation of the Arab contributions to modern S&T; Arab Women in S&T AAAEA Honorary Award: He published more than 150 technical papers and is presently developing writing with atoms and Presented to Dr. Usama Fayyad molecules to produce very small patterns (graffiti), electronic circuits, and devices (nanoelectronics). Dr. Nayfeh has several extracurricular activities. He was on the coaching staff and umpire in the Closing Remarks Kiwanis Little League baseball. He also coached Urbana Park District (UPD) boys and girls basket- ball . Mr. Moosa Matariyeh
AAAEA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Munir Nayfeh, Professor of Physics, UIUC Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer / Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Dr. Munir H. Nayfeh is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois. He was born in Schweikeh-Tulkarem, Palestine / Jordan Solutions, Yahoo! Inc. in 1946 and attended school in Al-Bireh / Ramalla. He received a Dr. Usama Fayyad is Yahoo!'s chief data officer and executive vice B.Sc. degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Fayyad is respon- 1968 and a PhD degree from Stanford University in 1974. He sible for Yahoo!'s global data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data held research and consulting positions at Oak Ridge National policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing Laboratory, Yale University, and Argonne National Laboratory. the Company's data analytics and data processing infrastructure. Dr. Nayfeh co-developed methods for single atom detection, the Fayyad’s groups power Yahoo!’s advertising targeting systems as ultimate in analytical analysis of material, which was reported in well as content optimization and user insights. Fayyad also founded Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook of Science & the Future, and oversees the Yahoo! Research organization that includes offices World Book Science Annual, McGraw Hill Yearbook of S&T and in Sunnyvale, Burbank and Berkeley, CA as well as New York, Washington Post. He co-developed, using lasers combined with Europe, and S. America. Yahoo! Research is building the premier scanning tunneling microscopy, a method that picks and images scientific research organization to develop the new sciences of the single molecules on surfaces at room temperature, and used it to Internet, on-line marketing, and innovative interactive applications. make some of the smallest graffiti in the world that was featured on the cover of New Scientist.
Most recently, he developed a process for dispersing bulk silicon crystals into highly glowing ul- Prior to joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX trasmall silicon nanoparticles that promise to be a wide-platform technology for electronics, Group, a data mining technology and consulting company. In early photonics, energy and lighting, and biomedicine applications. It promises to enable the next gen- 2000, he co-founded and served as CEO of Revenue Science, Inc. (digiMine Inc.), a data analysis eration of fluorescent markers for single molecule tracking in living cells, and for early detection and data mining company that built, operated and hosted data warehouses and analytics for some of and treatment of cancer disease. This was widely reported including Physics World, Nature, and the world's largest enterprises in online publishing, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and Nature biotechnology. financial services and now powers behavioral targeting technologies for the largest web publishers.
Professor Nayfeh is the author and editor of four books on electricity and magnetism and lasers. Fayyad's professional experience also includes five years spent leading the data mining and explora- He received the Industrial Research 100, the Energy 100, Beckman, and ATT prizes. He published tion group at Microsoft Research and building the data mining products for Microsoft's server divi- more than 150 journal papers, and gave more than 250 professional talks in his field of specializa- sion. From 1989 to 1996 Fayyad held a leadership role at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) tion. He is listed in Who is Who in Engineering, American Men and Women in Science, Who is where his work in the analysis and exploration of scientific databases from observatories, remote- Who in Higher Education, Who is Who in Technology Today. He established the Network of Arab sensing platforms and spacecraft garnered him the top research excellence award that Caltech awards Scientists & Technologists Abroad (ASTA), initiated cooperative programs, and published widely to JPL scientists, as well as a U.S. Government medal from NASA. on the role of ASTA in the scientific & industrial development of the Arab World. Professor Nay- feh is the founder and president of NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Inc. a US Start Up for com- Fayyad earned his Ph.D in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991), and also mercialization of silicon nanotechnology. He holds ten issued US patents on silicon nanotechnol- holds BSE’s in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); MSE in computer science and engi- ogy, and 14 pending US patents, in addition to several foreign patents. (Tel: 217 333 3774, Fax: neering (1986); and M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). As a founding figure in data mining he was 217 333 9819, [email protected], www.physics.uiuc.edu/research/nanosi); elected AAAI Fellow (2005), ACM Fellow (2006) and awarded the 2007 Innovation Award from www.nanositech.com; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). He has published over 100 technical articles in the W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801 fields of data mining and Artificial Intelligence, has edited two influential books on data mining and
launched and served as editor-in-chief of both the primary scientific journal in the field and the pri- Dr. Nayfeh Research Achievements mary newsletter in the technical community published by the ACM. He holds Adjunct Professor Commercialization activities positions in Australia & Hong Kong, is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and regularly delivers keynotes and talks at government, industry and academic conferences around the • Founded NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Inc. a US Start Up for commercialization of silicon world. nanotechnology. • Ten US patents on silicon nanotechnology issued, and 14 patents are pending
HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP AWARDS HONOREE Mr. Ayoub Talhami, PE, Mr. Hanie Miri, AAAEA Past VP AAAEA Board of Trustees
A retired civil engineer, Mr. Talhami served as Assistant Chief Engineer Hanie Miri has been a member of AAAEA since its inception and with the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. He was born, raised, and schooled in Mandate Palestine, and graduated from the Arab has served on the Executive Board for 7 years. He started out as College in Jerusalem with a diploma in liberal arts and education. He the association’s editor where he designed, edited, and published was a participant in the early Palestinian resistance movement and the AAAEA’s first newsletter and remained editor for 5 years. Dur- subsequent armed struggle in 1948-50. His education includes a B.Sc. ing those years, Hanie also served as Secretary, Vice President, from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1960, and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, 1965. and Publication Committee Chairman, and for a brief period, maintained the website. Hanie’s professional and polite de- A Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of the meanor has been his signature attitude, according to AAAEA National and the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, and the members who have served with him on the board. He never de- American Public Works Association, Mr. Talhami served his profession well throughout the years in several capacities and committees, includ- clined a request for help, and he always sought ways for improve- ing a term as President of the ISPE Chicago Chapter, 1976-77, and two ment within the association. terms as Secretary/Treasurer of ISPE. He is a member of Chi Epsilon and a recipient of the Chicago Area Public Service Award, 1989, and ASCE Government Civil Engineer of the Year, 1991. Hanie represented AAAEA as a delegate to the Illinois Engineering Council (IEC), where he also
Active in civic, charitable, human rights, peace and justice organizations since the l950’s, he served on a served as Secretary for 2 years, Vice President for 2 years and finally as IEC President for 2004- variety of committees and boards, including Organization of Arab Students, Chicago, President 1959; 2005. His tenure at IEC has put AAAEA on a pedestal amongst other engineering associations in American Friends Service Committee (Local and National) ; World Without War Council; Arab Ameri- Illinois. Hanie currently maintains the IEC website making AAAEA a valuable contributor to the can Congress for Palestine, President, 67-68; St John the Baptist Melkite Church; Palestine Human council. His volunteerism also includes work at the community level with local mosques. Rights Campaign (Co-founder 78); Boy Scouts of America (NE IL Council); Arab American Anti- Discrimination Committee (Founding Chairman, Metro Chicago Chapter 81; member National Board 82- 89); Took the lead role in the successful efforts that led to establishment of the Mayor’s Advisory Com- Hanie is an affiliate of the National Association for Surface Finishing and the American Electroplat- mittee on Arab American Affairs (currently Advisory Council) and served as its Chairman l989-90. ers and Surface Finishers Society – Chicago Branch. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1997, and started working for Precision Plating Company As an engineer, Mr. Talhami worked in the private and the public sector on major projects as project en- gineer or manager: subdivisions, water supply and distribution, sewer collection and treatment, drainage, Inc. as a process engineer and later as the Engineering Manager. His ten years of experience include flood control, highways and traffic. In the Chicago Area, he is known as having “written the the development of a data collection system, process plans, and manufacturing controls that increase book” (1970’s) on storm water detention and sewer rehabilitation. Most of the major flood control reser- efficiency. As attested by his own colleagues, Hanie’s technical competence, integrity, and passion voirs in Cook County were planned and designed under his supervision (‘80’s), so were major segments encompasses the attributes of a great leader. These traits were equally displayed during his service of the Deep Tunnel (‘90’s). He is the author of several technical articles and papers, and he is a regis- tered Professional Engineer in Illinois and Wisconsin. terms, both with AAAEA and IEC. Hanie was recently promoted to the position of General Man- ager. Mr. Talhami was one of the early participants in the discussions that lead to the establishment of AAAEA Hanie has 3 brothers, Mahdi, Omar and Marwan, and one sister, Hanna. Most of his siblings, along in which he remained active since 1996, having served on the Board of Trustees since its inception and with his parents, Fouad and Fatimah live in Streamwood, IL. continues to serve on the Bylaws and the Scholarship Committees. He authored three documents (99, 01, 07) covering the early vision, action plan, and alternative organizational structure. He continues to be a strong advocate of active and viable Chapters as a pre-requisite for National Organization.
Mr. Talhami and his wife, Ghada, live in Evanston, IL and have three grown children, Yousef, Lamees and Ghassan.