Department

Served as Acting Chair for the ECE department for 3and ½ years.

Finalized the ABET comprehensive report that successfully extended ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation from January 31st 2000 to September 30th 2003.

Lead with the ECE Chair efforts in putting together the Computer Engineering ABET file for accreditation in 2003.

Serves as Faculty Advisor for the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society since its inception in 1992 to Present.

FIU-Wide

Limited Proposal Submissions Review Committee, 2006-2009 (3-year term)

Academic Graduate Grievance Committee, 2005.

Subcommittee Chair on Industry/Business Partnership, Florida and Local Economic Development, 2002.

Member of the Search and Screen Committee for Vice President for Research- This was the search that named Thomas Breslin as first VP for Research and Graduate Studies, 1998.

FIU Representative for the SUS research meeting exposing research at FIU 1996. (see STATE section).

College

Undergraduate Enrollment Task Force, 2006

Dean’s Award Committee, 2005

Chair of the Search Screen Committee for two faculty lines with Biomedical Engineering Dept., 2003.

COE Strategic Planning Committee, 2003

ABET Preparation Committee, 2002

State

Appointed SUS Member, and Graduate Curriculum and Research Subcommittee, State University System of Florida, Digital Media Education Coordination Group, Report to the Florida Legislature, January 1, 2001.

The CATE Center represented FIU to the Board of Regents meeting, July 11-12, 1996.

Other

Panelist, Frontiers in Education, October 2006

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1985

Member Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical Engineering Honor Society since 1992

Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, since 1997.

Member of the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education SCEEE- 1998-2000

Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1998-1999

Session Chair and Moderator for Frontiers in Education Conference FIE 2006.

Member of the Consortium of CISE-MII Funded Institutions for Initial Recommendations on Broadening Participation of Hispanics, 2005.

Member, Broadening Participation in Computing Research and Education NSF-Workshop, Oct 2004.

Session Chair, Signal Processing, IEEE Southeast conference, 1994.

Session Chair, Robot Sensing, 6th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, 1993.

Organizer/ Session Chair, Digital Imaging, IEEE Southcon 1992.