This fall our department welcomed Dr. Ahmed Zayan as our newest faculty member, a graduate of Tuft University’s Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program with multiple years of experience teaching at the collegiate level, ranging from introductory courses to technical graduate level curricula. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Materials Sciences from Khalifa University and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from American University of Sharjah

His industrial experience encompasses the fields of water and electricity transmission, naval safety inspection and scientific editing for peer reviewed journals. His doctoral research focused on Thallium-based solar cells, being Thallium the same material he researched during his Master’s thesis

This broad expertise in engineering & research, combined with his excellent reputation as an educator at Tufts where he developed a course on Solar Energy Harvesting, and diverse scholarly work and cited publications are just the beginning of what we are sure will be a fruitful career at BCC and the Berkshires!