IEEC - Bahgat Sammakia

Bahgat Sammakia is Director of the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center.
Bahgat Sammakia received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1977, from the University of Alexandria in Egypt. He received the masters and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering in 1980 and 82 respectively from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research work was in the areas of natural convection heat transfer. After graduating from SUNY, Bahgat worked at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow.

Bahgat joined IBM in 1984 as an engineer in the thermal management area. In 1985 he was promoted to manager of the thermal management department. Bahgat continued to work in IBM until 1998, in various management positions, including managing the thermal and mechanical analysis groups, the surface science group, the chemical lab, the site technical assurance group, and his last position in IBM was manager of development for organic packaging in the IBM Microelectronics division.

Bahgat holds seven US patents and twelve IBM technical disclosures; he has published over 50 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Bahgat has contributed to three books on natural convection heat transfer and electronic packaging.