Dr. Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, Ph.D., PE, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Microelectronics Laboratory at Northern Illinois University. He served as the chair of the department from 2008-2015. He served also as the director of the biomedical engineering program. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Physics from Cairo University. He received his MS degree in Physics from the University of Manitoba, Canada and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His areas of expertise are in (a) Fabrication, characterization, and modeling of nano/micro electronic devices, integrated circuits, and 3D ICs, (b) nano/electronic material growth and characterization, (c) MEMS design and fabrication, and (d) biomedical engineering instrumentation. He published more than 100 refereed articles and received hundreds of thousands of research fund. He advised more than 5 PhD students and about 45 MS students. Dr. Ibrahim can be reached at ibrahim@niu.edu