Dr. Ali Abul-Fadl serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the NCETE NCA&T site and is coordinator for development of the engineering teaching/learning components. He presently serves as the undergraduate coordinator and the ABET leader in the ECE department at NCA&T. His area of expertise is solid-state electronics. He has published many papers on the growth and characterization of semiconductor materials. He has extensive experience in teaching (25 years) electrical engineering topics. His primary focus since 1997 applies to engineering design. He has developed and led the department capstone interdisciplinary design courses.