Afef Fekih, Ph.D.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

 

 

Professional activities

 

·            Service to the Profession

Session Chair and Co-chair

IEEE American Control Conference ACC, (2006-2008).

Reviewer Technical Papers:

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2007-present),

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2004-present),

Control Engineering Practice (2007-present),

IET Control Theory & Applications (2007-present),

Journal of Control science and Engineering (2007-present),

IEEE American Control Conference ACC (2004-present),

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC (2004-present),

IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, Safeprocess (2005-present),

ASEE GSW conference (2006),

Steering Committee Member

Southeastern Symposium on System Theory SSST, (2005-present).

Proposal Review Panelist

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Department of Defense (DoD)

·            Service to the University

Faculty Senate Representative, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2007-2009)

Member, EECE Department Head Search Chair (2008)

Member, College of Engineering PhD committee (2008)

Member, College of Engineering Faculty Advisory Council (2008)

Member, Telecom Graduate Faculty committee (2005-present),

Member, Departmental Committee Review of Graduate Student Applications (2006-present)

Faculty Advisor, Society of Women Engineers, UL section (2008)

Judge, Region VI Science Fair (2005-2007)

·            Professional Society Memberships

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2001-present),

Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) (2004-present),

Member, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC) (2001-2006),

Member, IEEE Women in Control Society (WIC) (2005-present),

Member, Community of Science (2006-present).

·            Broadening the Participation of Underrepresented Groups

Research Advisor, The L.A.M.P.S. Program, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2005-present)

Faculty Advisor, Society of Women Engineers, UL section (2008)

·            Professional Honors

Harold Callais Memorial/ BORSF Professorship in Electrical & Computer Engineering, (2008-present).

Outstanding Advising Award, UL Lafayette, 2008

Elevation to Senior Member IEEE, 2007

Favorite teacher award in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (based on students vote), 2007

Who is who in America,2007

Graduate Faculty, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (2005-present)