Sabbaticals Awarded for 2014–2015

President Walter Harrison and Provost Sharon L. Vasquez are pleased to announce that the following faculty members have been awarded sabbaticals for the 2014–15 academic year. 

Professor Abiodun Ilumoka (Fall Semester 2014)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Ilumoka will use her sabbatical in collaboration with the Connecticut Science Center, to exploit synergies between the two institutions to establish a powerful cluster of innovative and dynamic STEM workforce development programs. Project components will include a range of activities from after-school enrichment programs to summer programs, Saturday workshops, field trips and mentoring/shadowing experiences provided by industry-based STEM professionals.  


Associate Professor Saeid Moslehpour (Fall Semester 2014)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Moslehpour will use his sabbatical to write his second book of electronic system design using electronic design automation titled Computer Aided Digital Circuit Analysis Using Cadence. He will also be a visiting professor at Power and Water University of Technology teaching and learning about distance learning (eLearning). 

Associate Professor David Pines (Spring Semester 2015)
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Pines will use his sabbatical to strengthen and deepen the humanitarian service learning projects in India and Kenya in which he and others have been engaged for the last seven years. These cross-cultural experiences have emphasized the importance of listening and understanding so that relationships can be developed to address the basic needs facing the residents of Abheypur, India and Western Kenya. The humanitarian projects exemplify the University’s mission statement which stresses the importance of engaging our students to contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Professor Chittaranjan Sahay (Fall Semester 2014)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Sahay will use his sabbatical to pursue research in the area of Machining of Titanium Alloys, and prepare material for a handbook in manufacturing metrology. During the last year, the University of Hartford has established a Center for Manufacturing and Metrology. The laboratory facilities for the Center consist of a manufacturing metrology lab in D 102 and at the Advanced Manufacturing Center of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology. A graduate certificate program in manufacturing metrology has been established to meet the needs of the industry. There is however a lack of textbooks in this fast developing area.