Professional Service

Academic Conference: Discussant

• 2017: International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, Dallas, Texas. The Negative Influence of Media Bias on Arab-American and Muslim Families in The United States
• 2015: The International Academy of Business Administration Disciplines, Orlando, Florida (National). The Effect of Internet Addiction Use on University Students.
• Throughout history, technological advances report to have produced a number of immense benefits to society, in general. The internet, as the principal technology of the past two decades, has been transforming the way people think, perform their daily activities, and behave. Currently, it is estimated that more than 30% of the world’s population uses the internet. Yet, does this adolescent technology comprise any side effects or shortcomings? One might ask! Could addiction in its complete medical or social postulation be one of the most severe side effect(s) of this technology? The authors of this presentation conducted a survey at a mid-sized public university, Lamar University-Texas State System, to investigate the aforementioned questions, and to uncover any factors that may lead or have led to a possible addiction that may be related to the wide use or abuse of this technology. Multi-statistical methods (e.g. correlation analysis and logistic regression) will be employed in this study for a careful exploration and examination.

Board of Directors: Substantial Involvement

• 2020: School Director, Beaumont, Texas. serve as a school director of Jamie Masjid in Beaumont
• 2017: School Director, Beaumont, Texas. Serving as a school director For the Jamie Masjid for the past ten years. I have participated in the establishment of the weekend school for young children to learn Arabic and to receive multicultural education. I have been the school principal for the past ten years.

• 2016: International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines. I have reviewed this paper and provided comments
  FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISIONS AMONG ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTS IN INDIA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY"
• 2003: First International Workshop and Conference on Resource Selections Studies, Laramie, Wyoming. Reviewed a paper for the conference to be published in the conference proceedings

Reviewer - Book / Textbook

• 2020: McGraw Hill Higher Education.
• 2016: Kendall Hunt Publishing, Beaumont, Texas (International).
• 2011: Book Review, Beaumont, Texas (International). Evaluated a book Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers Jaggia / Kelly Gave several comments about the book and recommendations

Reviewed this Book Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers 3rd Edition, Kindle Edition

• 2017: McGraw-Hill webinar demo for using Connect in BCOM course. Reviewed few Chapters for the Business Statistics Communicating with Numbers by Jaggia/ Kelly
• 2010: Book Review for Jones & Bartlett Learning. Reviewed four Chapters of this book (Understanding Clinical Statistics) for Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Chapter 1: Descriptive Statistics
  • Chapter 2: Measures of Distribution and Dispersion
  • Chapter 3: Drawing Conclusions from Two Sets of Data
  • Chapter 5: Receiver Operator Characteristic Curves
  • The book is designed as a practical guide for healthcare professionals on how to understand medical statistics as they appear in various types of medical literature.

Presentations

• 2017: The International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD), Orlando, Florida. The demand for African-American male students to be able to complete their education at Lamar University is crucial. This study seeks to identify those factors that affect retention of this at-risk group through the administration of the Student Readiness Inventory from ACT to all incoming African American male students, and to conduct focus groups and interviews to assist in developing programs to address needs unique to this challenged group. The authors plan to construct an exit interview instrument to determine factors that play a role in these students’ leaving the university before graduating.
  Low rates of retention are both a national and international problem. The number of African-American males illustrates that there is a decline at Lamar University among this group of students who remain in school. From the 2003 cohort, 42 percent dropped out by Fall 2004, a single academic year. Of those who remained, the expected rate of dropout would have reduced the 2003 cohort of 114 males to about 5 individuals by 2007.
  The authors seek to identify the underlying causes of the approximately 90% failure rate of African-American males at Lamar University. Almost three times as many African-American females graduate from the institution as do African-American males. This presentation will also cover some of the academic and non-academic factors that influence the success of African-American males at Lamar University. Several statistical techniques such as the binary choice decision model will be discussed in this presentation.
• 2013: Education Research Conference, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas (National). Presented this topic " Students' Attitudes Towards Mathematics" with Dr. Ahmed Khago
• 2012: Education Research Conference. Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas (International). Presented along with other faculty members about the media Bias topic " What Teachers need to know when Teaching the impact of Media Bias"
• 2011: Education Research Conference. Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas (National). Presented a paper with Dr. Thompson about SAS and The Efficient Portfolio
• 2011: Education Research Conference. Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas (International). Presented a paper about What Teachers Need To Know When Teaching The Impact Of Media Bias? Education Research Conference. Lamar University. Beaumont, Texas, March 24, 2011

Institutional Service

Department Assignments

Member

• 2017-2018: University Professor/University Merit Award
• 2009-2010: MIS Faculty position
• 2008-2009: College of Business Open House
• 2007-2008: Statistics position

• 2008-2009: Faculty Marshall

College Assignments

Chair

• 2016-2017 – 2017-2018: Committee on Statistics/Quantitative Analysis

Member

• 2020-2021: College of Business Strategic Plannning (task force - College Environment)
• 2019-2020: College of Business Personnel Committee
• 2019-2020: General Business Programs
• 2018-2019: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration
• 2018-2019: Committee member for the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research position at the College of Business
• 2018-2019: University Professor/University Merit Award
• 2016-2017: Student-Faculty Relations Committee
• 2016: The College of Business Scholarship Committee
• 2015-2016: Student-Faculty Relations Committee
• 2015-2016: Engagement & Innovation Committee
• 2014-2015: Accreditation and Assessment Committee Lamar University
• 2014-2015: University Professor/University Merit Award2014-2015: Majed AL-Bokhari: A DATA to Text Framework for describing of Regression Models: An optimization Approach for content Determination. Thesis / Dissertation Committee - Member. Served as a committee member for a Ph.D. student “Majed Al-Bokhari" Industrial Engineering Department. Majed has successfully defended his dissertation in August 2014. Currently working on research papers. 2011-2012 –
• 2013-2014: Assessment Committee Lamar University
• 2011-2012 – 2012-2013: Graduate Program Committee Lamar University
• 2012-2013: MIS search committee
• 2010-2011: University Professor/Merit College Committee
• 2010-2011: Member of the Accounting search committee
• 2009-2010: Ad hoc Committee on Improvement of Critical Thinking and Ethics Learning
• 2008-2009: Exit Exam committee

College Assignments

Mentoring Activities

• 2011: Marshal at the Spring Commencement
• 2011: Served as a Marshall at the 2011 Spring Commencement. Assisted in seating the students at the graduation ceremony.

Assurance of Learning - Institutional Service

• 2010: Summer 2010 Commencement
• 2009: Commencement

University Assignments

Chair

• 2016-2017 – 2017-2018: Advisor Muslim sisters at Lamar University
• 2015-2016: Advisor for Muslim sisters at Lamar University: arranged several social activities such as Eid Carnaval and Hijab day
• 2014-2015: Served as M.S.A. Advisor: Advisor for Muslim students at Lamar University
• 2008-2009: Faculty Advisor

Member

• 2016-2017: Doctoral Student Mohammad Altayeb, Industrial Engineering Department
• 2014-2015: University Professor/University Merit Award
• 2014-2015: University Professor/University Merit Award
• 2014: S. M FAJLA Rabbi
• 2007-2008 – 2008-2009: Focus Group
• 2006-2007: Faculty of Lamar Student Organization Research Organization

• 2006-2007: Advisor

Other Institutional Service Activities

• 2013-2014: Assessment report in Weave
• 2012: Have attended December 2012 Commencements

Dissertation Assignments

Member

• 2009-2010: Committee Member

Hospital/Clinic Assignments

Member

• 2020-2021: HDS Research Team: Crisis in Syria

Thesis Assignments

Member

• 2017-2018: Azhar Uddin
• 2014: S. M FAJLA Rabbi: The Design and Applications of Runge-Kutta Methods for the Simulation of Planetary Orbits. Thesis / Dissertation Committee - Member.
• Served as a committee member for Mr. S M Fajlay Rabbi in his thesis toward his Master of Science in Mathematics
• "The Design and Applications of Runge-Kutta Methods for the Simulation of Planetary Orbits." The student defended successfully and got his master's degree in May 2014.

Community Service

Chair of a Committee

• 2020: Weekend school, Help start a weekend school for the children at Jamia Masjid in Beaumont
• 2020: Advisor Muslim Student Association
• 2020: Advisor of Center For Youth Development
• 2019: Advisor Muslim Student Association, Have arranged several social Activities
• 2018: School director, It is a volunteer position to help the young kids learn Arabic and learn about their culture
• 2018: Advisor of League of International Leaders, Serve as the Advisor League of International Leaders
• 2017: Served as a Chair for the Committee on Statistics/Quantitative Analysis
• 2016 – 2017: M.S.A. Advisor
• 2015: Syrian Night, Have arranged for the Syrian Night, was very well attended by several faculty and the Provest at Lamar University. I have given a short speech about the event
• 2015: M.S.A. Advisor, Advisor for Muslim Students Association, have arranged for several social activities for the community
• 2014: Advisor to Muslim Students at Lamar University, Advisor for Muslim Students Association, have arranged for several social activities for the community
• 2013: advisor to League of International Leaders,
  Served as an Advisor to League of International Leaders and M.S.A. students. Supervised several social Activities.
• 2012: Advisor of M.S.A. (Lamar University)
• 2011: Advisor to League of International Leaders, Supervised several Activities
• 2011: Ramdan Dinner, Arranged for a social event Ramadan Dinner on Sept. 2011 at Lamar University. Even Was very well attended and organized. Received very good comments from people who attended
• 2011: Advisor To Saudi students at Lamar University, Served as an Advisor for the Saudi students at Lamar University. Helped arrange social events at Lamar University

Member of a Committee

• 2017: Serving on the Students-faculty relations committee
• 2016 – 2017: University Professor/ University Merit Award
• 2015: University Professor/University Merit Award Committee
• 2014: Accreditation and Assessment Committee
• 2014: University Professor/University Merit Award Committee, Serving as a committee member for the University Professor/University Merit Award Committee

Speech / Presentation at a Community Meeting

• 2012: Family Nights
• Have given several presentations and speeches for our community during family nights to local Muslim residents