Professor Greg Nordin received his BS degree in Physics from Brigham Young University in 1984, his MS degree in Physics from UCLA in 1986, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1992. From 1984 to 1992 he worked at Hughes Aircraft Company, first in the Radar Systems Group, then in the Electro-optical and Data Systems Group, and finally in the Hughes Research Laboratory.
From 1992 to 2005 Prof. Nordin worked at The University of Alabama in Huntsville in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, where he founded and directed the university's Nano and Micro Devices Center, which the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees created as an independent research center. While director of the center, he led a group of 10-15 PhD students and 5-8 full-time staff. He also created a 7,600 sq. ft. cleanroom facility for nano and microfabricated devices to pursue research in photonics, MEMS, microfluidics, and sensors. He joined the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University as Full Professor in 2005.
Prof. Nordin has led numerous large research programs, and has been principal investigator on research grants from government and industry totaling $18M. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for promising young faculty in 1996 and the UAH Outstanding Researcher Award for 1998-1999 and 1999-2000, and the UAH Foundation Award for Research and Creative Achievement in 2000.
Professional
Prof. Nordin was General Co-Chair of the Optical Society of America's (OSA's) 2006 Nanophotonics Topical Meeting and from 2002 to 2007 was Co-Chair of the Micromachining Technology for Microoptics and Nanooptics Conference held at SPIE's Photonics West.
Awards & Honors
- Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society
- Best Paper Award for 3D Printing, SPIE Photonics West 2019.
- 2019 Excellence in Scholarship Award, BYU Engineering College.
- Best Paper Award, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Expo, 2019
- Top 5% of highly cited authors in Lab on a Chip journal, 2018.
- Highly cited author in Biomicrofluidics journal, 2017
- UAH Foundation Award for Research and Creative Achievement, 2000
- UAH Outstanding Researcher Award, 1999-2000
- UAH Outstanding Researcher Award, 1998-1999
- NSF Career Award, 1996
- Hughes Aircraft Company Masters Degree Fellowship (graduate student)
- Doctoral Fellowship (graduate student)
Links
- LinkedIn Profile
- Personal Blog (2009 - 2011)
- For GitHub links, visit his research page here
PhD - Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (1992)
Area of Study: Optics & Photonics
MS - Physics
University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (1986)
BS - Physics
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (1984)
Currently Teaching
- EC EN 301 - Elements of Electrical Engineering
- EC EN 360 - Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
- EC EN 191 - New Student Seminar
Formerly Taught
- EngT 231 - Moral Leadership in a Technological World (2009 - 2010)
- ECEn 360/361 - Electromagnetics (2006 - 2017)
- ECEn 362 - Transmission Lines (2011 - 2013)
- ECEn 462 - Electromagnetic Radiation and Propagation (2008)
- ECEn 466 - Introduction to Optical Engineering (2008, 2014)
- ECEn 490 - Senior Project – 3D Printing of PEG Microfluidics (2013)
- ECEn 490 - Senior Project – Miniaturization of Microfluidics Analysis System (2013 - 2015)
- ECEn 490 - Senior Project – Patent experimental implementation for local company (2016)
- ECEn 490 - Senior Project – Superresolution imaging for 3D printer development (2016)
- ECEn 662R - Physical Optics (2007 - 2016)
- ECEn 690 Professional Writing for ECEn (2011 - 2015)
- Rel A 121 - Book of Mormon (2011 - 2015)