Salah Aziz, Ph.D.

Dr. Salah Aziz has earned BS (1976) in Physics from Baghdad University, MS (1985) and PhD (1988) in Nuclear Physics from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. In 1988, he was among 45 -newly Ph.D. holders in the United States - selected for the "Young Scientists" workshop. Dr. Aziz joined (1988-98) Florida State University and Florida A&M University as Research Associate then faculty member in the physics departments, respectively. In his research, he focused on studying nuclear structure of light- and rare-nuclei during a large momentum transfer's conditions. He used proton-proton, proton- Π and multi-particles transfer reactions in the following facilities: Indiana University, Florida State University and Princeton University, respectively. Further, he cooperated with nuclear scientists from Kolone University in Germany in developing O-Ring for multi-particles experiments. He published eight papers in the American Physics Review C.

Dr. Aziz has joined the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2002 as Coordinator of Academic Programs in the Associate Dean's Office. The College has 18 engineering programs. His activities include; generating statistic reports which help in decision-making of the college affairs; and to assist the engineering programs to meet the criteria set by the State of Florida, Universities, and Regional (SACS) and Professional (ABET) accreditation agencies for insuring the quality of the engineering education. In addition, he focuses on improving quality of engineering education in the Developing countries. His latest publications are:

1. "Defining Stakeholders for Engineering Education In the Arab Countries", Salah Aziz and Kamal Tawfiq, Second Mediterranean Seminar On Engineering Education - 2MSEE - 2005, Algiers, Algeria, 29-31 May, 2005.
2. "Public Service in the State University System of Florida: Mission and Practices," Salah Aziz, 4th International Forum on Engineering Education, Sharjah, UAE, 25-27 April 2006.
3. "Engineering Education in the Arab World for the Twenty-First Century: Objectives, Assessment and Accreditation," Salah Aziz, The 24th Arab Engineers Union Conference 14-16 May 2007, Amman-Jordan.
4. "Higher Education in Iraq for the Twenty-First Century: Objectives, Assessment and Accreditation," Salah Aziz, International Conference on Higher Education in Iraq, December 11-14, 2007, Arbil-Iraq.

For his academic achievements, he earned the following awards:

1. IDEAL Scholar by Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (2008);
2. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award (2007);
3. State of Florida's Certificate of Appreciation signed by Governor Jeb Bush (2004);
4. City of Tallahassee "Letter of Thanks" signed by Mayor Scott Maddox (2003) for serving in the City's Public Relation Council.

Furthermore, Dr. Aziz was consultant in creating the Faculty of Science in the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1996-1997), Fulbright Scholar to the Mansoura University and Alexandria University in Egypt (2006) and to the University of Jordan in Amman-Jordan (2007), and consultant to the Education Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly (2006-07).

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