Sheikh A. Akbar
Dr. Sheikh A. Akbar, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), was born in Faridpur in 1955. He briefly studied Physics at Dhaka University and then went to Bulgaria and later to the USA. He received his higher degrees at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and Purdue University in Indiana. He is also the Founder of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM) at OSU; one of four national centers of excellence founded in 1996.
In 2004, he was invited to give a series of lectures at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Taejon (Korea) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM, Dahran) in Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Akbar is the recipient of the 2002 W.E. Cramer Award of the Central Ohio Section of the American Ceramic Society, 2002 Tan Chin Tuan Fellow of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, 2001 Fulrath Award (one of two national awards) of the American Ceramic Society, the 1999 Outstanding Materials Engineer (OMSE) Award from Purdue University and the 1993 B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award for the development of a rugged and durable CO/H2 sensor (one of three national awards). He was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001.
Dr. Akbar served on several professional committees in Bangladesh and other parts of the world. In 2003, Dr. Akbar served as the Guest Editor for two special sections of the Journal of Materials Science, "Chemical Sensors for Pollution Monitoring and Control" and "Chemical and Bioceramics". Dr. Akbar is on the Editorial Board of Ceramics Inter-national, Sensor Letters and Encyclopedia of Sensors. He has published more than 140 technical papers and holds 4 patents.
