Dr. Hisham Massoud

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Biography

Hisham Z. Massoud joined the Duke University Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department in 1983 and currently serves as a Professor and founding director of the Semiconductor Research Laboratory. He has extensive experience in his field, having worked as a research scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1977 to 1980, and has held positions at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Hewlett-Packard's Integrated Circuits Business Division, and the Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics. He has also served as a visiting professor in the ECE department at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Professor Massoud has received honors such as being named a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Lifetime Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. He received the Electronics and Photonics Division Award from the Electrochemical Society in 2006 for his work on ultrathin MOS gate dielectric films.

Research Interests

Courses

ECE 529: Digital Integrated Circuits ECE 330L: Fundamentals of Microelectronic Devices ECE 110L: Fundamentals of Electrical Computer Engineering ECE 110L9: Fundamentals of Electrical Computer Engineering - Lab

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)