Khbeis completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2010

Michael Khbeis completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2010. His dissertation is titled "Development of a Simplified, Mass Producible Hybridized Ambient, Low Frequency, Low Intensity Vibration Energy Scavenger (HALF-LIVES)." This dissertation presents the development of a mass producible hybrid energy scavenger system that employs both piezoelectric and electrostatic transduction on a common MEMS device. Michael is currently working as a Design/Process Engineer in the Microelectronics Integration Program at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, Maryland.