Dr. Hisham Massoud

Professor

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Biography

Hisham Z. Massoud joined the Duke University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1983 and has since served as a Professor and founding director of the Semiconductor Research Laboratory. His prior experience includes work as a research scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1977 to 1981, and a position at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina in 1987. Additionally, he worked with Hewlett-Packard's Integrated Circuits Business Division in 1992 and was a visiting professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Dr. Massoud is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Lifetime Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, reflecting his significant contributions to the field, particularly in ultrathin MOS gate dielectric films, for which he received the Electronics Photonics Division Award from ECS in 2006.

Research Interests

Courses

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