Department of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

• M.Sc.: United Arab Emirates University(UAEU),2011

• B.Sc.: United Arab Emirates University(UAEU),2003

Mrs.Omkalthoum El-Bashir obtained Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in  Electrical Engineering from UEAU, UAE. After B.Sc she has worked as an Academic Assistant in UAEU, where her main job was to teach/develop undergraduate Engineering Labs, Programming courses, Engineering Applied mathematics and deliver tutorial sessions for Engineering courses.  She used to assist undergraduate students in their gradation projects. She also has some publications to her credit. She was awarded the Golden card for Excellence for most of her undergraduate semesters. She graduated with excellence from her Master degree. She joined The Petroleum Institute as a Lab Engineer in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2011.

HONORS and AWARDS

• Received Graduate Assistantship at UAEU.

• Received Research Assistantship at UAEU

• Received Honor Certificate for her contribution in ENGEX exhibition in UAEU for demonstrating Electrical Engineering projects.

• Received Golden Cards for Excellence for many semesters at UAEU.

• Gold medal on securing Excellent GPA in Master Program.

Memberships:

• IEEE student member.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 

• Wireless Networks.

• Cognitive Radio.

• Microcontroller based systems.

• Data Acquisition projects.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Omkalthoum El-Bashir, Mohammed Abdel-Hafez, "Opportunistic Spectrum Access Using Collaborative Sensing in Nakagami-m Fading Channel with Real Fading Parameter" ,IEEE IWCM Conference 2011, p472-476, July 5-8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Omkalthoum El-Bashir, Mohammed Abdel-Hafez, "Fading Severity Effects of Collaborative Sensing for Opportunistic Spectrum Access", submitted to the European Transaction on Telecommunications Journal.