Tarek Sobh

Tarek M. Sobh is an Egyptian-American professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was the former Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education of the University of Bridgeport and he is the current president of Lawrence Technological University.

Education He obtained his first degree, B.Sc. in Engineering in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991.

Career He is currently the President and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, MI. He is Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

He was the Provost at Lawrence Technological University (2020 - 2021) and has served at the University of Bridgeport (UB) Executive Vice President, Research and Economic Development and the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education (2018 - 2020). He was the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) Laboratory (1995-2020), the Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTech IncUBator) (2010 - 2011) and the Founding Director of the UB Innovation Center (2019 - 2020). From 1992-1995 he was a research Assistant Professor of Computer at the University of Utah. He was an associate professor at the University of Bridgeport between 1995-1999. In 2000 he became a professor at the same institution. (1999-2018), Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Technology Management. He also served as a Professor of Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (2000-2010) and an Associate professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering (1995-1999). At the University of Utah, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Sciences, College of Engineering (1992-1995) and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania (1989-1991).

Fellowship and membership He is a fellow of Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), the Bridgeport Discovery Museum, the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP), and the International E-Learning Association (IELA).

Research Interests Reverse engineering and industrial inspection, CAD/CAM, active sensing under uncertainty, robot and electromechanical system prototyping, sensor-based distributed control schemes, unifying tolerances across sensing, design, and manufacturing, hybrid and discrete event control, modeling, and applications, and autonomous mobile robotic manipulation are some of Dr. Sobh's current research interests. In addition to 27 books, he has produced over 250 papers in these and other fields that have been peer-reviewed in journals, conferences, and publications. He is also interested in the creation of theoretical and experimental tools to assist in the performance of adaptive goal-directed robotic sensing for modeling, observing, and commanding interacting autonomous agents in unstructured settings.

He currently serves or has previously served on the editorial boards of 18 journals, as well as on the program committees of over 300 international conferences and workshops in the fields of engineering education, robotics, automation, sensing, computing, systems, and control.