Fadi Rafe Nessir Zghoul

Department of Electrical Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology
P.O.Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
Office Tel: 962-2-7201000 Ext.: 23132
Office Location: (E2-L3)
FRNessirZghoul@just.edu.jo
Fadi's Schedule

Summer 2018

EE 321 - Electronics for Non EE Students
EE 322 - Electronics Lab

Fadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Jordan University for Science and Technology in Jordan.

Past Courses

CMOS Circuit Design
Digital Electronic Circuits LAB
Electrical Circuits 1
Electrical Circuits 2
Electronics 1
Electronics 2

Electronic Circuits LAB
Electrical Circuits LAB
Introduction to Microcontrollers LAB
Numerical methods for Engineers
Digital Logic
Signals and Systems

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Education

BS, Electrical Engineering, Muta University, Karak, Jordan, 1999
MS., Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho, Idaho, USA, 2003
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho, Idaho, USA, 2007

Research Interests

Integrated Circuits, Digital and Analog Circuit Design, Mixed Signals, Techniques for Nonlinear circuits and Power Management Systems.

Teaching, Research and Administrative Experience

Oct 2001 - Dec 2003 Research Assistant, Microelectronic Research and Communication Institute (MRCI), University of Idaho, ID, USA.
Main work was on the "Development of a Charge and Control Unit for Lithium Ion Micro Batteries" the project was sponsored by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jan 2003 - May 2006 Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, ID, USA.
Fall 2007-2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Al-Hashimite University, Alzarqa, Jo.
Fall 2008-2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jo.
Fall 2009-2010, Dean Assistant, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jo.
Fall 2010-Present, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jo.
Fall 2014-2016, Dean Assistant, Professional Activities, Faculty of Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jo

Grants and Awards

Award: In Recognition for 2004 Outstanding Teaching Assistant.

Award: Certificate of Recognition for the Development of a Technical Innovation which has been approved for Publication as a NASA Tech Brief Entitled Switch Array and Power Management for Battery and other Energy Storage Elements.

Grant: Wide input range stochastic analog to digital converter.

Received several best paper presentation awards in several conferences and the last best paper presentation was received at ICCEET 2017 conference in Dubai.

Membership of Committees and Boards

External reviewer for the B.S. program in engineering technology at Community College of Qatar, Qatar.

Jordan University Science and Technology

Member: Steering Committee for the Alumni Office Affairs at Jordan University Science and Technology
Member: Technological Incubator at the Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects Committee at Jordan University Science and Technology.

Faculty of Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology

Member: Student Discipline Committee at the Faculty of Engineering

Electrical Engineering Department at Jordan University Science and Technology

Committee Chair: Social Affairs at the Electrical Engineering Department

Head of the election committee for student congress elections at the Electrical Engineering Department

Member: Information and Website Committee at the Faculty of Engineering

Professional Activities

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.
Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
Member, Jordan Engineers Association.

Reference Material

Publications

Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Suat U. Ay, Ismail Cevik, Ahmad A. Ababnah, Saher A. Albatran, and Abdallah Y. Alma'aitah. "A Novel Stochastic ADC Topology with Wide Input Range." Indian Journal of Science and Technology 9, no. S1 (2016).
Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Suat U.Ay and O.S.Saadeh "Protraction of Bartlett Bisection Theorem to Cross Coupled Circuits" 3rd International Conference on Computing, Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICCEET2017) Accepted.
Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Suat U. Ay, and Ahmad Ababneh. "Gain and offset analysis of comparator using the bisection theorem and a balanced method." International Journal of Electronics 103, no. 12 (2016): 1965-1983..
Ababneh, Ahmad A., and Fadi R. Zghoul. "A Distributed Sensor Relocation Algorithm for Target Localization Problems." Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 35 (2017).
Ababneh, Ahmad A., Fadi R. Zghoul, and Lutfa Akter. "Quantizer Design for RSSI-based Target Localization in Sensor Networks." Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 35 (2017).
Abougindia, Islam T., Ismail Cevik, Fadi N. Zghoul, and Suat U. Ay. "A precision comparator design with a new foreground offset calibration technique." Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 83, no. 2 (2015): 243-255.
Abougindia, Islam T., Ismail Cevik, Suat U. Ay, and Fadi Nessir Zghoul. "A fast two-step coarse-fine calibration (CFC) technique for precision comparator design." In Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on, pp. 153-156. IEEE, 2013.
Fadi Nessir Zghoul, and David Egolf. "Analyzing nonlinear circuits using a modified harmonic balance method." In Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2012 International Conference on, pp. 213-216. IEEE, 2012.
Sukumar Vinesh, Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Mahmoud Alahmad, Herbert Hess, Kevin Buck, Harry Li, Dave Cox et al. "MOSFET charger controller circuit for on chip power cells in aeronautical applications." In 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics. 2009.
Sukumar Vinesh, Mahmoud Alahmad, Kevin Buck, Mathew Braley, Jasper Nance, Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Herbert Hess et al. "High impedance nano charger for on-chip 50nAH rated microbatteries." In Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on, vol. 4, pp. 2719-2723. IEEE, 2006.
Sukumar Vinesh, Mahmoud Alahmad, Kevin Buck, Herbert Hess, Harry Li, Dave Cox, Fadi Nessir Zghoul et al. "High Voltage MOSFET Gate/Bulk Driver Controller for a Microbattery Switch Matrix in a 0.35μm Microwave SOI Technology." Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 44, no. 3 (2005): 203-211.
Sukumar Vinesh, Mahmoud Alahmad, Kevin Buck, Herbert Hess, Harry Li, Dave Cox, Fadi Nessir Zghoul et al. "Switch array system for thin film lithium microbatteries." Journal of power sources 136, no. 2 (2004): 401-407.
Sukumar Vinesh, Mahmoud Alahmad, Kevin Buck, Herbert Hess, Harry Li, Dave Cox, Fadi Nessir Zghoul, M. Mojaradi, W. C. West, and J. F. Whitacre. "Nano current charging algorithms for thin film lithium microbatteries." In Proc. 11th NASA Symposium on VLSI Design, Coeur dalene. 2003.

Patents

Mahmoud Alahmad, Sukumar Vinesh, Fadi Nessir Zghoul, Kevin Buck, Herbert Hess, Harry Li, Dave Cox et al. "Switch array and power management system for batteries and other energy storage elements 2006.