Rate My Professor Bahgat Sammakia

Bahgat G. Sammakia is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the field of Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alexandria in Egypt, followed by MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Sammakia's professional career began at IBM Corporation's Microelectronics Division, where he served from 1984 to 1998 as a Senior Technical Staff Member and manager of organic electronics packaging research and development. Joining Binghamton University in 1998, he advanced to Distinguished Professor and has held key leadership positions, including founding director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP) since 2003, director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2) since 2011, and Vice President for Research from 2011 to August 2025. Additionally, he was Interim President of SUNY Polytechnic Institute from November 2016 to June 2018.