Bahgat Sammakia
,Sammakia is director of Binghamton’s Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC), and The Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging Center (S3IP) and professor of mechanical engineering.
If you're thinking about where you want to go, to be able to seek knowledge and to do outstanding research, to work with the world's best faculty and in an environment that's very conducive to intellectual freedom and seeking knowledge, then Binghamton University is the place to be. I feel very strongly that Binghamton University encourages people to think outside of the box, and to pursue new areas, and in particular when I think about our strategic targets and strategic plan, I think of things like excellence in everything that we do. I think in terms of attracting the world's best faculty and students and retaining them. I think in terms of reaching out, and partnering with our community and working with them closely, and I think in terms of outstanding research growth. None of these things can happen if everyone continues to do what they're doing, what they're comfortable doing and not really reach out, and take risks, and work in new areas. So I think the excitement that you need for success requires you to do hard things, new things and things that take a risk.
