Professor Tarek M. Sobh, Ph.D., P.E., at a board memberships event.

Board Memberships

Consulting, Adjunct Positions, Industrial Collaborations and Board Memberships

American University of Iraq—Baghdad (AUIB)

2024 – Present

Board of Trustees Member

Michigan College Access Network (MCAN)

2023 – Present

Board Member

Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities (MICU)

2023 – Present

Executive Board Member

Detroit Economic Club (DEC)

2022 – Present

Board Member

Association of Independent Technological Universities (AITU)

2022 – Present

Board Member

Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC)

2022 – Present

Board Member

Automation Alley

2021 – Present

Board Member

MDPI Publishers

2021 – Present

Board Member

Centrepolis Accelerator, City of Southfield, Michigan

2020 – Present

Board Member

Michigan Independent Colleges and Universities Association [MICU]

2020 – 2022

Chair, Provosts and Chief Academic Officers Working Group

Shelton High School Business Advisory Council

2020 – Present

Advisory Board Member

University of Bridgeport Innovation Center Advisory Council

2018 – 2020

Board Member

International Scientific Advisor for the Government of Kazakhstan

June 2018

Invited to develop the curricula in Mechanics in English for Kazakhstan Public Universities

University of Bridgeport Cyber security Advisory Board

2017 – 2020

Board Member

STE(A)M Strategic Planning Committee, Shelton School District

2016 – Present

Committee Member

CT Energy Workforce Development Consortium

2015 – 2020

Board Member

Aquaculture School Advisory Board

2014 – 2020

Board Member

Fairchild Wheeler's School Governance Council

2014 – 2020

Board Member

Find-Face, LLC

2013 – Present

Co-Founder and CEO

The Foundation of Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE)

2013 – Present

Board Member

Faculty Awards, Inc.

2012 – Present

Co-Founder and Board Member

Facechecks, Inc.

2012 – Present

Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) Workforce Study Committee

2012 – 2021

Committee Member

State of Connecticut Governor Task Force on Global Business Innovation

2011 – 2020

Task Force Member

Virtual incubator for science-based business (VISB)

2011 – 2020

Board Member, OIC standing Committee on Scientific Technology Cooperation

Connecticut Technology Council

2010 – 2020

Board Member

Discovery Museum

2010 – Present

Life trustee

Advisory Board, the CTech IncUBator, Fairfield County High-Tech Business Incubator at UB

2010 – 2020

Board Member and Founder

Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

June 2010

Amman, Jordan, Invited Workshop Presenter: National Conference for the Development of Study Plans, Teaching, Learning and Scientific Research

Egyptian National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

March 2010

Cairo, Egypt, Invited Workshop Presenter: University and Disciplinary Accreditation for Egyptian Universities

Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH)

2010

Member, Virtual Incubator for Science-Based Business Board

U.S. Department of Energy

2010

Technical Merit Reviewer for Workforce Training for the Electric Power Sector

New England Association of Schools & Colleges, Inc. (NEASC)

2009

Team Member for Evaluation of Bryant University, 2010

Stratford, CT Public Schools

2007 – Present

Partnership Team Advisory Board Member

International e-Learning Association (IELA)

2007 – Present

Founding Member

Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT

2007 – 2009

Board Member

Scientific Advisory Board, the International Association of Online Engineering

2006 – Present

Board Member and Founding Co-Chair

Standard and Poor's Society of Industry Leaders

2006 – 2019

Board Member

Nitron Advisors, LLC.

2006 – Present

Board Member, Circle of Experts

Automated Exchange Networks, Inc.

2005 – Present

Founding President and CEO

The Northeast Center for Computers and Information Systems Security (NECCISS)

2004 – 2019

Board Member

Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP)

2004 – 2020

Board Member

Real-Time Modeling (RTM) Technologies

2004 – 2008

Founder and President

IQ Inc.

2002 – 2015

Developing EX Match and Faces Identification software tools

Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen Pokotilow, Ltd., Law Offices

2002

Expert Consultant

Merit International Institute of Technology

2001 – 2002

Chair, Institute Advisory Board (India)

Tennessee Board of Regents

2001

External Reviewer, Master of Science in Computer Science program, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee

Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys (TASA)

2000 – Present

Expert Consultant

Gerson Lehrman Group

2000 – Present

Member, Council of Advisors

Arnold and Porter, Attorneys at Law

2000 – 2001

Expert Consultant

Merit International Institute of Technology

2000 – 2002

Developing accreditation and program requirements for eight engineering programs (India)

Data Solutions, Inc.

1998

Team leader (Led a team of 40 programmers), Y2K compliance project, 20+ New York Hospitals, approximately 20,000 compute platforms (in networked environments) were checked, prepared, and certified for Y2k compliance.

The World Bank and Purdue University

1997 – 1998

Setting up infrastructure to support Robotics and Automation programs in Malaysia (funded by the world bank).

MultiDisciplinary Research, Inc.

1996 – 1997

Work on Multi-agent intelligent hybrid software components, for multimedia and automation applications

Digital Communications, Inc.

1996

Developing an Internet service provider site, to support general Internet browsing, in addition to making special software packages, multilingual publications and search engines, and multilingual printed character recognition, audio and video, and other services available to subscribers.

Fairfield University

1995 – 1996

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, teaching Computer Science classes

Universal Trade Promoters, Ltd.

1995 – 1996

Specifying a center for the design, remote manufacture, and precise inspection of mechanical parts

Optimum Plus International

1994 – 1995

Manufacturing and Reverse Engineering of machine parts and sculpted models (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Future Engineering Systems

1994 – 1995

Working on implementing and designing tolerance measures for inspection and assembly of machine parts

Central Michigan University

1994 – 1997

Associate Graduate Faculty (Adjunct Professor), Classes in Computer Science and Software Engineering classes in the Extended Degree Program (EDP) for graduate students

Micro Images, Inc.

1992 – 1993

Design and Implementation of a Microfilm Labeling Computer System