Dr. Bassam Harb
Professor of Eectrical Engineering, Senior Member, IEEE
Vice Dean
Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology
Yarmouk University 21163
Irbid – Jordan
Tel: +962-2-7211111, Ext. 4535 (Office), Fax: +962-2-7211192 (Office)
Bassam A. Harb received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1994, the M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and applied physics from the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, in 1989 and 1990, respectively, and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1987. He joined the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at Yarmouk University in 1995, where he is now holding a Tenure-Track Full Professor. During his career at Yarmouk University he was appointed as the head of Telecommunication Engineering Department at the Hijjawi Faculty of Engineering Technology (1999-2001) and Vice Dean of the college during the periods (2006-2008) and (2012-Present). In 2008-2009 he was granted a sabbatical leave to join the Electrical Engineering Department at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST). Since 2012 he is serving as interim head of the newly established Industrial Engineering Department where he is responsible for recruiting staff and faculty. His research interests are signal processing, communication theory and systems, synchronization theory and techniques, chaos based communication systems, chaos in phase locked loops and nonlinear circuits, and chaos synchronization. He is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Circuits and Systems Society, Jordan Engineers Association.