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Mehran received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in 1984, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1990, he was a consultant to the Robotic Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was a key contributor to ground-breaking research in MEMS. In 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Nord Assistant Professorship in 1991, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 1994, and was promoted to Full Professor in July 1997. He was awarded the George S. Dively Professor of Engineering Endowed Chair in January 1998. In July 2000, he was appointed the BF Goodrich Professor of Engineering Innovation, and in January 2003 he was appointed Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has been serving as the Director of the MEMS Research Center at CWRU since July 1995. Mehran is known nationally and internationally for his research in the area of MEMS, and his work has been widely covered by domestic and foreign press. He has over 200 publications describing his work, holds a number of U.S. patents, and is the recipient of a number of awards/honors. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering from January 1996 to December 1997, and is Assistant-to-the-President of the Transducers Research Foundation. He was the Founder and served as the President of Advanced Micromachines Inc. (AMMI), which was acquired by The BF Goodrich Corporation in March 1999. | 