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Brief Biography:

Dr. Tantawi is an Assistant Professor of mechatronics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Previously, was a trainer for Siemens Technik Akademy for certifying Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certifications (level 1).  Served as the elected chair of the Engineering section of the Tennessee Academy of Science in 2017. An active academic auditor, and a member of the Tennessee Textbook Advisory Panel, and the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Association.  Dr. Tantawi has more than 30 journal and conference publications, he is the first author and major contributor on the majority of the publications.  Dr. Tantawi reviewed and judged many textbooks, scientific papers, and proposals in engineering journals and international conferences.  He is an active member of IEEE, founded and advised several student chapters such as the American Chemical Society chapter and the SkillsUSA Chapter at Motlow. He previosly was a member of AIAA, International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society, ISE, the Humboldt Kolleg for research, SPIE UAH chapter, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, and Jordan Engineers Association.

Grants and Awards:

• April 2020: Awarded a grant of $198,065 from the National Science Foundation (NSF Award number: 2000685)

• 2019: advising a R&D capstone project with a grant of  $10,000 from Kasai North America 

• July 2018: Awarded $545,000 from National Science Foundation (NSF Award number: 1801120 )

• April 2017: Awarded  the Faculty Excellence Award for Motlow College 

• Nov 2016: Awarded a grant of $2,200 from Lowe's SkillsUSA

• Feb 2016: Nominated for faculty excellence award in Motlow College April 

• 2014: Invited speaker at the Hamboldt Kolleg Jordan conference, Amman, Jordan March 

• 2014: Nominated for the Faculty Excellence Award of Motlow College 

• Feb 2013: Research results made headlines on A to Z nano, Newswise, and Science Daily news wires  

• 2009-2011: $75,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Alabama EPSCoR grant (GRSP) 

• 2005-2007: €42,000 Erasmus Mundus grant by European Commission for graduate studies 

• Apr 2012: $1000 Second place winner in Science and Technology Open House, Tuskegee, AL, April 2012 

• Oct 2011:  $1500 Fellowship by National Science Foundation (NSF)- EPSCoR program to participate in the 22nd National NSF conference, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho October 24-27, 2011  

 Peer-Reviewed Publications:   

1. Khalid Tantawi, "Literature Review: Rethinking BioMEMS in the Aftermath of CoVid-19", Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 31 (1), 2020

2. E. Mohamed, K. H. Tantawi, A. Pemberton, N. Pickard, M. Dyer, E. Hickman, K. Thompson, E. Kaplanoglu, A. Nasab, "Real Time Gesture-Controlled Mobile Robot using a Myo Armband", Proceedings of the 2nd African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Harare, Zimbabwe, December 7-10, 2020 

3. Shane Terry, Ismail Fidan, and Khalid Tantawi, " Preliminary investigation into metal-material extrusion", Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 1-9, 2020

4. M. Mohammadizadeh, H. Lu, I. Fidan, K. Tantawi, A. Gupta, S. Hasanov, Z. Zhang, F. Alifui-Segbaya, A. Rennie, "Mechanical and Thermal Analyses of Metal-PLA Components Fabricated by Metal Material Extrusion", Inventions, 5, p. 44, 2020

5. Shane Terry, Hao Lu, Ismail Fidan, Yunbo Zhang, Khalid Tantawi, Terry Guo, Bahram Asiabanpour, "The Influence of Smart Manufacturing Towards Energy Conservation: A Review", Technologies, 8, p. 31, 2020

6. Khalid Tantawi, Alexander Soklenov, and Omar Tantawi, "Advances in Industrial Robotics: From Industry 3.0 Automation to Industry 4.0 Collaboration", TIMES-iCON 2019 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019

7. S. Terry, I. Fidan, and K. Tantawi, "Dimensional Analysis of Metal Powder Infused Filament - Low Cost Metal 3D Printing" 2019 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium Proceedings, 2019

8. Y. Musa, O. Tantawi,  V. Bush, B. Johnson, N. Dixon, W. Kirk, and K. Tantawi, "Low-Cost Remote Supervisory Control System for an Industrial Process using Profibus and Profinet", IEEE Southeast Conference, Huntsille, AL 2019

9. Khalid Tantawi, Ismail Fidan, and Anwar Tantawi, "Status of Smart Manufacturing in the United States", IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL 2019

10. Khalid Tantawi, Y Musa, S Dowd, R Kamali, E Waddell, and J. Williams, "Using microstructures of gold-coated photodefinable glass as substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy", ACS National Conference, New Orleans, LA 2018

11. Vishwas Bedekar and Khalid Tantawi, “MEMS Sensors and Actuators”, Book chapter, pp. 195-216 Springer International Publishing, 2017    

12. Khalid Tantawi and Hasan Mohd Tantawi, "Bolt failure due to low-cycle fatigue", Tennessee Academy of Science 125th Conference, Murfreesboro, TN 11/20/2015

13. John Barton, Roger Martinez, Alicia Meadors, and Khalid Tantawi, " Dynamic modeling of vehicles for impact studies" , Tennessee Academy of Science 125th  Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, 11/20/2015

14. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Linear Dynamic Modeling of Satellites with Flexible Appendages, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

15. W. R. Gaillard, Khalid Tantawi,  V. Fedorov, E. Waddel, J. D. Williams, “In-plane Spectroscopy with Optical Fibers and Liquid Filled APEX Glass Microcuvettes”, J. Micromech. and MicroEng., 23, 107001, 2013.

16. Khalid Tantawi, Emanuel Waddell, and J.D. Williams, “Structural and composition analysis of Apex™ and Foturan™ photodefinable glasses”, Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 48, no. 5, pages 5316-5323, (2013).

17. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Bakhrom Berdiev, Ramon Cerro and John D. Williams, "Porous Silicon Membrane structure for Investigation of Transmembrane Proteins",  Journal of Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol. 58, pp. 72-80, March 2013, .

18. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, R. Cerro, B. Berdiev, M. Martina- Diaz, F. Montez, Darayas Patel, and J. Williams, “Investigation of Transmembrane Protein Fused in Lipid Bilayer Membranes Supported on Porous Silicon”, Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 37, pages 28-34 (2013)

19. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Porous Silicon Platform for Investigation of Transmembrane Proteins: An Artificial Cell Membrane, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

    1. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, William Gaillard, Jake Helton, Emanuel Waddell, Sergey Mirov, Vladimir Fedorov, and John D. Williams, “In-Plane Spectroscopy of Microfluidic Systems Made in Photosensitive Glass”, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, Vol. 19, pp. 173-177 (2013). DOI 10.1007/s00542-012-1626-6

    2. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, B. Berdiev, R. Cerro, and J. D. Williams, "Investigations on Transmembrane Ion Channels Suspended over Porous Silicon Membranes", Nanotech 2013 Vol. 3, pp. 198-201 (2013)

    3. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Janeczka Oates, Reza Kamali, Nathan Bergquist and John D Williams, Processing of photosensitive APEXTM glass structures with smooth and transparent sidewalls, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Vol. 21, 017001 (2011)

    4. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Daniel Alazard, and Christelle Cumer, Linear Dynamic Modeling of Spacecraft with Various Flexible Appendages, Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Vol. 41, pp. 11148-11159 (July 2008)

    5. Hasan M. Tantawi, Jabbar Ali, and Khalid Tantawi, "Investigation of Statistics of Failure Modes and Locations in Bolts", Tennessee Academy of Science Collegiate Meeting, Nashville, TN, April 18, 2015

    6. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, William Gaillard, and J. D. Williams, “Challenges of Photodefinable Glass Technology in Micromechatronics”, 124th Tennessee Academy of Science Conference, Morrisstown, TN, November 2014

    7. Khalid Tantawi, William Gaillard, and J. D. Williams, "Merits and Limitations of Photodefinable Glass in Micromechatronic Applications" Hambold Kolleg Jordan Conference, Amman, Jordan, April, 2014, accepted for publication in Jordan Journal of Physics. 

    8. Khalid Tantawi, Bakhrom Berdiev, Ramon Cerro, and John Willaims, "Investigations on Transmembrane Ion Channels Suspended over Porous Silicon Membranes", Biotech World Conference & Expo, Washington DC, May 12-16 2013

    9. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Ramon Cerro, Bakhrom Berdiev, M. Elena Diaz, Francisco Javier Montez, and John D Williams, “Investigation of Epithelial Sodium Channel Proteins Supported on Porous Silicon Using Atomic Force Microscopy”, Science and Technology Open House, Tuskegee, AL, April, 2012. (2nd place winner)

    10. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, W. Gaillard, E. Waddell, S. Mirov, V. Federov, and J. Williams, "In-plane spectroscopy of microfluidic channels using photosensitive glass" IEEE Southeast Conference 2012 Proceeding, Orlando, FL, March 12-15 2012

    11. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Ramon Cerro, Bakhrom Berdiev, Elena Diaz, Javier Gonzales, and John D. Williams, “Lipid Bilayer Membranes with Incorporated Protein on Porous Silicon”, 22nd National NSF EPSCoR Conference, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, October 24-27, 2011

    12. Khalid Hasan Tantawi and John D. Williams, “Biological membranes integrated on porous silicon technology", Alabama Composites Conference, Birmingham, Alabama (August, 2010).

    13. Khalid Hasan Tantawi, Janeszcka Oates, John Williams, “Processing of Smooth Sidewalls on Lithographically Defined Apex Glass”, IMAPS 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, Arizona USA (March 2010)

    14. Daniel Alazard, Christelle Cumer,  and Khalid Hasan Tantawi, “Linear Dynamic Modeling of Spacecraft with Various Flexible Appendages and On-board Angular Momentum”, 7th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, 01-05 Jun 2008, Tralee, Ireland (June 2008)

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (August 2012)

• M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (Spring 2011)

• Double Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy, 2007) and University of Toulouse- SupAero (Toulouse, France, 2007)

• Bachelore of Science in Electrical Engineering- Mechatronics, University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan, 2005)

Additional Certifications:

• Siemens certified trainer (since 2015)

• Siemens Mechatronics Systems Certificate-Level 2 (Berlin, Germany, August 2013)

• Siemens Mechatronics Systems Certificate-Level 1 (Charlotte, North Carolina, Jan 2013)

  My Videos  

Please refer to my youtube channel for more videos

1. Processing Photo definable Glasses: Exposure to mid UV light, followed by a two step baking stage, then etching in HF acid. and finally an annealing stage. Nano and Micro Devices Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Produced by Khalid H. Tantawi and John D. Williams.

2. Basic MEMS Fabrication: Video Taken and produced by undergraduate students Benjamin Burns, Josh Killingsworth, Roslyn Brown, and Jonathan Bradford,  starring Khalid Tantawi. Video produced in  2010.

3. Porous Silicon Processing: Producing porous silicon with hole diameters 1000 times less than the width of a human hair. Produced in Nano & Micro Devices Center. University of Alabama in Huntsville. Porous Si is biocompatible, and is used in optoelectronics due to its florescence, it is also very active chemically. Khalid Tantawi in the news article of Oakwood University: http://www.oakwood.edu/zPublic/public-relations/oakwood-magazine/OU-Magazine-Winter-14.pdf

4. Projection lithography: How to use the Projection Lithography and Stepper System in the Clean room of University of Alabama in Huntsville. Nano & Micro Devices Center. Produced by Khalid Hasan Tantawi and John D. Williams.