Dr. Vikram J. Kapoor Courtesy Professor Biomedical Nanotechnology Research Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor & Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering Past
14th President, The University of Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. |
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Dr. Kapoor |
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Major Research Interests |
Nanotechnology: Biomedical nanoelectronics and Biocomputer chips. Solid-state nanoelectronics for microwave space communications, cryogenic power/digital electronics, semiconductors, superconductors, Engineering Education and its evaluations and assessments. |
Education
& Academic Background |
A nationally recognized specialist in
microelectronics/nanoelectronics, Prof. Kapoor holds M.S. (1972) and Ph.D.
(1976) degrees from After his industrial experience, Dr. Kapoor joined
Case Western Reserve University in 1978 as an Assistant Professor and taught
electrical engineering and pioneered collaboration in space communications
with NASA-Lewis Research Center. He
joined the At present Dr. Kapoor is a Courtesy Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Graduate
Faculty Scholar in the College of Graduate Studies, both at the University of
Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal� in 1999
for his contribution to the Electrical Engineering profession. For his outstanding scientific and
technical contributions in semiconductor microelectronics, he was elected a
Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 1993 and was awarded the Thomas D.
Callinan Award in 1991 for outstanding contributions and achievement in
dielectric science and technology. Dr. Kapoor has published over 170 scientific papers in prestigious
journals and scientific conference publications. He has been a major advisor for 40 M.S. and
Ph.D. student theses/dissertations and directed 42 undergraduate student project/theses with multimillion dollar research grants from federal/state government
and industry. His students have become
faculty at U.S.A. university or have responsible positions at major
high-technology companies. He has
taught graduate and undergraduate courses for the past 30 years and his
overall student course evaluation rating have been from excellent to very
good teacher. Professor Kapoor came to the |
Professor Kapoor's Students |