Enxia Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
Talk Title
UCF-NASA Partnership in Engineering Education
Description of Talk
Skilled electronics workforce needed for design, manufacturing, testing, and use of these robust electronics, as well as parts evaluation engineers (EEE). UCF-NEPP partnership of the EEE engineer education meets the needs of our graduates and of the industrial workforce.
Biography
Dr. Enxia Zhang, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida, serves as program coordinator for the graduate Electronic Parts Engineering certificate program at UCF, partnering with the NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging School. Before joining UCF in August 2023, Enxia was Research Associate Professor (6 years), Research Assistant Professor (7 years) and Postdoctoral Research Associate (~2 years) at Vanderbilt University. Enxia has performed extensive research in radiation effects and reliability in advanced materials and devices, with a leading role in experimental research on total-ionizing-dose effects and single-event effects (SEE) and charge collection in advanced devices including nanoscale Si CMOS, CMOS/SOI, compound and wide bandgap semiconductors, and MOS devices based on a wide variety of 2D/3D materials. Enxia has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS), IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and IEEE Electron Device Letters. Her publications have been cited nearly 6000 times, with and h-index of 40 and i10-index of 169 (Google Scholar). She is an associate editor of the IEEE TNS and has served in several volunteer positions for the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference. In recognition of her significant contributions to mentorship of women and under-represented minority-student education, she received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society’s Women in Engineering Leadership Travel Award in 2022.