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Bala Maheswaran

 

Publications

 

Courses

 

ASEE

 

TASME

 

ATINER

 

ASEE2015 NE Section Conference

 

ASEE2016 NE Section Conference

 

ASEE2017 NE Section Conference

 

ASEE- NE Section

 

ASEE-Zone1 Conference 2019

 

DOC2018 Silicon Valley

 

Future Activities

 

 

 

Bala Maheswaran, Ph.D.

367 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373 - 5905

mahes@coe.neu.edu

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Biography

Bala Maheswaran received his M.S. and Ph.D. in experimental solid state Physics, and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. He worked as a research associate and lecturer in the department physics, Northeastern University, and then joined the college of engineering. He is currently a senior faculty in the First-Year Engineering Program.  He has contributed and authored over fifty publications consisting of original research and education related papers, and conference proceedings. He also has been a part of paper presentations, workshops and panel discussions in several national and international conferences. He has over twenty years of experience in teaching at Northeastern University. He is the Program Chair of Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE; campus rep chair, secretary and executive board member, ASEE NE Section; the co-chair of TASME Conference (Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering), and Academic Member of Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), and the Unit Head, Electrical Engineering, ATHINER.


Research areas

·         Current research: Engineering Education and Energy System Innovation.

·         Past research: High temperature Superconductors, two-dimensional electron gas and Engineering Physics Education.


Selected Professional Activities

·         Chair-elect, American Society for Engineering Education - Northeast Section, 2018-2020

·         Chair, American Society for Engineering Education - Northeast Section, 2020-2022

·         Academic member responsible for the 2nd Annual International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ATINER 2018

·         Academic member responsible for a Panel on Engineering Physics as part of the 6th Annual International Conference on Physics, ATINER 2018

·         Academic member responsible for an Annual International Symposium on the Future of STEAM (sciences, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) Education, ATINER 2018

·         Division Chair, Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE 2017-2019

·         Program Chair, Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE 2013-2017

·         Secretary and executive board member, ASEE-NE Section 2017 – present.

·         Campus Rep Chair and executive board member, ASEE-NE Section 2016 – present.

·         Executive board member, ASEE-Zone1 2016 – present.

·         Membership Co-Chair and executive board member, ASEE NE Section 2015-2016

·         Poster-Chair, ASEE 2015 NE Section conference

·         Graduate Students Poster-Chair, ASEE 2017 NE Section conference

·         Secretary, Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE 2011-2013

·         Award Committee, Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE 2011-2013

·         Selection Committee, Best Paper, PIC III (Professional Interest Council III), ASEE 2012-2013 and 2015-2016.

·         COE Faculty Council elected member 2015-2017, Vice-Chair 2017-2018

·         The COE Academic and Research Infrastructure Committee 2015-2018.

·         FYELC Promotion Committee 2016

·         FYELC Merit Review Committee 2014 and 2016

·         Co-Chair, Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering Conference (TASME) 2011-2017


Selected Awards/Honors

·         Outstanding Teacher Award, American Society of Engineering Education, 2018

·         Head, Electrical Engineering Unit, ATINER 2017–2020.

·         Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)

·         Nominated by the ASEE President to serve in the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award Committee (nationwide) for three years, 2015-2018.

·         ASEE2014-2016 Engineering Physics and Physics Division, “ABET Panelist Certificate of Recognition”.

·         First place in the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2016 ASEE Northeast Conference.

·         Personally invited by the Northeastern University President for the year 2014 State of the University gathering, and was recognized “as someone who is making difference our community”.

·         Distinguished Educator and Service Award, The Engineering Physics and Physics Division, ASEE 2013

·         Outstanding Teacher of First Year Engineering Students, College of Engineering, Northeastern University 2013

·         Nominee for Northeastern University 2013 “Excellence in Teaching Award”

·         Northeastern University, “15 Year Service Award”, 2012

·         Recognition for commitment as  teacher to  College of Engineering, by the Black Engineering Student Society, the Society of Women in Engineering, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineering 2011

·         Nominee for Northeastern University 2011 “Excellence in Teaching Award”

·         Outstanding Teacher of First Year Engineering Students, College of Engineering, Northeastern University 2001

·         Invention Incentive Award, Northeastern University

·         Advance Research Award, Barnett Institute, Northeastern University

·         US Patent  # 5677265