Spanish Painter, Pablo Pichrisso's 'The Mountain'

Focus On Faculty

RESIDENTIAL FACULTY

Bassam Matar - Pecos Campus
Bassam is a full-time engineering science faculty member at the Chandler-Gilbert
Community College with 17 years of teaching experience and seven years with
industry. Mr. Matar is also a lecturer faculty for the Electrical Engineering
Department at Fulton .

• TEACHING HISTORY
  Bassam started his career at Glendale Community College (GCC) teaching engineering,
  electronics and semiconductor classes. Through his eleven years of teaching
  at GCC, Bassam developed a variety of courses in these fields. He served
  on several committees, such as budget, computer technology, advanced technology
  partnership and industry advisory. Also, he served as assistant chair for
  the last 5 years before coming to CGCC.
  
  
• COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED BY MR. MATAR:
  ECE 102: Engineering Analysis Tools and Techniques
  ECE 103: Engineering Problem Solving and Design
  ECE 105: Introduction to Languages of Engineering
  ECE 106: Introduction to Computer-Aided Engineering
  ECE 201: Electrical Networks I
  CSC/EEE 120: Digital Design Fundamentals
  CSC/EEE 225: Assembly Language Programming on Motorola Microprocessors
  EEE 202: Circuits and Devices
  SMT 106: Industrial Safety
  SMT 110: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology I
  SMT 111: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology II
  
  
• AWARDS
  During the Spring of 1999, Bassam was awarded the Motorola Educator of the
  Year Award and, in the Spring of 2000, he earned the National Institute for
  Staff and Organizational Development Award.
  
  
• INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
  Bassam has worked for Intel Corporation for many summers in different departments.
  Some of his work at Intel was as follows: designing a new power distribution
  schematic for the 300XP machine; developed pneumatics and RF CBT courses;
  developed presentation on Fuzzy Logic; researched and wrote abstracts for
  a lot of Intel microcontroller devices; developed on-line documentation for
  ApBUILDER, determine the impact of rework wafers on the Microscan tool output
  in photolithography.

• COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED BY DR. LIZ CHAIN:
  ECE 211: Engineering Mechanics - Statics
  ECE 212: Engineering Mechanics - Dyanmics  
  ECE 214: Engineering Mechanics -Statics and Dynamics